SpeedFlex27

He's one guy we'll miss. I always said he was the heart & soul of our receiving corps. I hoe that when Bailey retires, it's as a Bomber & not as a member of another team.

We had Bailey on a pretty cheap deal so anyone who replaces him would be the same or more expensive. Then why get rid of him? I'm really trying to figure out what is going on with the Bombers & free agancy. In the recent history of free agency going back ten years, I don't think I've ever seen a team sign no one.

I'm just mellowing in my advanced age. I really don't want to fight with anyone here anymore but I'll still stand my ground if need be but perhaps do so in a more respectful way. I used to think I knew it all but now I find as I get older that I'm forgetful with player names & circumstances that I used to rattle off so I'm not as smart as I thought I was.

I think that'll be wishful thinking.

Lighten up. People are just commenting. Nobody cares if you're butthurt. Better be careful who you're calling"assholes"!

Yep, their fans are *******

Whew!!!

Next year, it'll be Demski. Lawler & Schoen in free agency... If we can't reload this season then how will we reload next year with those 3 set to be free agents? One year deals (Schoen) just complicate everything.

Ploen deserves his own statue at Princess Auto Stadium.

I'm not a salary cap guru. I just put it down to basic math. Subtracting players salaries that are now gone should open some money up. However, Schoen & Brady have cost us around $460,000 next season. We do have Lawler at around $275,000 & Collaros at $500,000 so I guess pickings are slim. Like I said, I'm no salary cap guru, so I'd appreciate not being attacked over this. If I need to have someone explain it, please do.

Defensively, there are holes to fill. We are going to get run on with whom we have now playing the Front 7.

One injury on the OL with the lack of depth we have & we're in deep doo doo. The DL & linebackers don't look much better. I'm worried.

Well, we sign Schoen & Brady & we're paupers? Maybe that wasn't the right thing to do. Maybe we should have let one go. They both even signed on the cheap to help the Bombers out. . We should have money & yet we don't. I'm scratching my head about this.

I don't get how we can be in such salary cap hell because of two players? You l;ook around the league & other teams seem to have the money to find players. We've lost a bunch of players so wouldn't that create more cap space??

You create space by releasing some older backup or special teams players. Maybe a couple of older starting veterans. I don't feel that we';ve done enough of that. There has to be some older deadwood we can prune to sign players. Besides, why can't we just go over the cap? Is living within an insanely small salary cap & trying to make it wor really worth it if we start losing games & attendance starts to drop? That'll hurt way more if we are a million dollars or more down in revenue instead of paying the fine up to $100 grand before losing a first round draft pick. So, I feel Walters should just do it.

Losing Gray really hurts. I don't get signing Kolo but not Gray...

Gerry James was a true super athlete. The media made a big thing about Bo Jackson & Deion Sanders playing MLB & football the same season. Think of pro football then followed by pro hockey with the Leafs in the same season. Perhaps even the same day. I believe I read a story somewhere that the Bombers won the 1961 GC in OT at CNE Stadium in Toronto. That night, James was in a Maple Leafs uniform playing defense at Maple Leaf Gardens. Back when the NHL only had 6 teams. Leafs Coach Punch Imlach liked him so much that he kept a spot open for him. I read Gerry James book. In it, he described his dislike for Bud Grant. How he felt he disrespected Canadians on the Bombers by his treatment of them. How Americans made more money than the Canadians & how cheap Grant was. James left the Bombers in a contract dispute & finished his career with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. For decades, the relationship between the Bombers & James was scarred. I think things were better after Wade Miller took over as President & really wanting him back as a Bomber alumni but I don't think things were ever totally repaired.

And Tom Dimitroff thinks Mike O'Shea should leave the CFL for that pressure cooker???? He'd last a season, maybe.

What do you mean? That we should have played games overseas in Europe?

Get it done, Kyle.

Two teams? Very interesting.

Mexico City will be in a US conference because of the time zone & travel distance. having a Euro Division won't be easy. I think it's a ways away from expansion.

Yeah, now he has Frank Rigney blocking for him. Leo Lewis running the ball as well as Farrell Funston & Ernie Pitts to catch it.

Hey, he was a Lady Bynger before. Give him a break...