NorthernSkunk

I'm going to focus on the fact that we having our starting QB, we're paying about the same $ as last year for our starting QB and that the guy played well for us.

I'm SURE both teams are hoping to land Arbuckle, and figure that Nichols will be their fall back plan. Nobody's gonna trade for him....it just doesn't make sense.

This would appear to be a "market rate" deal.   Puts him behind Reilly and BLM, but in line or better than everyone else.   I think it's a fair deal.
 
 

This offence will look pretty different with Buck and Collaros instead of LaPo and Nichols. Looking forward to some medium and deep routes and less checkdowns. 

who’s gonna trade for him when he is a pending free agent and the free agency is in essence is like a week away?

Let me know when your life no longer revolves around me. Getting more than a little creepy. 

Good move. Now can we trade Nichols to Toronto for MBT and get him locked up as our backup? 

You might want to archive those comments for a giant ITODASO later on....

Arbuckle is asking for 450K, he likely gets more. Fajardo is around 450K IIRC. This is the standard market rate for a good but not great starting QB. 
 
Not to mention that Collaros is a big upgrade over Nichols. 

Call it the 'Once wore a blue jersey' syndrome.

Not sure if he's done, but, I think the Bombers and their medical staff are likely a bit less optimistic about his post surgery throwing shoulder than Nichols and his agent are. I like Nichols. And he played well for the Bombers. Thanks for that. But, Collaros is a better QB right now. He proved it in the Grey Cup run. And peak Collaros was always better than peak Nichols. 

Nichols is done. Bombers probably feel hes done physically. 

How is McGuire suppose to get experience if he's never given a chance to be the back up.
Great move by the Blue....   depends on the contract but we may have enough room to sign Nichols also.   I'm sure he's loyal enough to take a 200k 

I doubt there's enough room in the QB budget to for Collaros @ $500K plus Nichols.

If the BB still want him, this has got to be an incentive for Darvin to re-sign. He looked like a completely different receiver when catching passes from ZC....used much more effecctively.
 
 
 
 

Just going to go back and delete the posts where I thought he wouldn't play and if he did, he would just get injured. Then, I'll go and erase all the posts where I said he wouldn't re-sign. 
I really wasn't expecting to have to do a lot of work today. This is going to seriously impact my forum surfing. 
 

Huge signing, I’m happy to see it. I wish Strev wasn’t NFL bound as Collaros and Streveler are a lethal duo. 

Aaand......fare thee well to Mr. Nichols. Sad, in a way, but sempre avanti!

Yowza!.......and there was GREAT rejoicing among the assembled faithful.

Yes. ;=)

If every nut ball was shunned from the cfl (or any sport and league) youd end up with the better half of the league gone. 

Haha like Matt Nichols? That worked out okay

Giant no thank you to MBT and the voices in his head.... 

Or no one really knew/knows what was/is happening other than the people directly involved the day we signed Collaros.

I find it interesting that some posters here claimed pretty confidently that Collaros was just a rental and he was good as gone to the Argoblows at season end. 
My guess is Collaros has a warm spot for our organization in giving him the shot he needed that is competing with Pinball's smile and motivational speeches.