Mike

Unlucky Whitehead

Rodney Smith sucked, and he's older for a new player. No thanks. He had a couple productive starts against us and then the league figured him out and he was useless for the next half dozen games.

I'd rather pick guys that aren't gonna be here this year.

Normally, I'd call it a day and say something like "100 to Saskatchewan" or "50 to the Leafs, 50 to the Riders" but then I remember their insufferable fanbases combined with their awesome ability to have glorious self-implosions that result in me laughing at them makes me realize maybe I don't hate them so much after all. 100 to the Blues, especially Alex Steen because I really just don't like his face.

Hansen was the only guy I thought was even worth considering so ... great? But I still expect absolutely nothing.

This CFL 2.0 vision is so stupid. So rushed. Mexican draft, now a European draft? And why? None of these guys can play. How can we get fans to care when the league executives don’t even care? Sutherland called it out for what it was.

It’s not right that the league insists on having guys run drills and tests that they’ve already run, just to allow them to talk to teams.

Every team should get just one team to choose from. Or you go off birthplace. Slippery slope, this idea is.

Well there it is, Betts announces he’s not attending.

What about a kid like Oliviera? Would the dibs be based on birthplace or university location?

lmao

I honestly will be shocked if Betts shows up. He's a legit NFL prospect, I'd think he'd have many better things to do than show up to this thing. Excited to see some of these guys though ... surprised Oliviera isn't attending, but he's probably one of the guys that has NFL aspirations instead, along with Fontana and Mayala. Gittens Jr, Lenius, Savard .. good group of receivers. Absolute bunch of trash for anything on defence aside from the DL though. That'll make it tough to get a good read on these receivers. I still say we look to take Kongbo at 4/5 if we possibly can. Not sure he falls that far but hopefully injury concerns drop his stock a bit. We can afford to risk one of those first rounders. Something like Kongbo and Simba would be a good haul for us.

Interesting ... Rose was released from the AAF four days ago

He's better than Bridge, so ... yes but ... at least it's not Bridge?

I tend to think we'll eventually end up signing Ackie. One of Matthews/Toliver would be nice in the interim. Have zero interest in cry baby Hazelton. But I think our coup still ends up being whichever one of Duke/Zyl/Mitchell comes back. I don't even know which guy I'd want most, they're all insanely talented receivers. Diontae Spencer could happen too. How did Terrell Sinkfield do last year?

You're clearly missing the point of what I'm saying. But yeah.

Zylstra, Mitchell or Duke. Honestly, right now I'm disappointed with the way we tackled free agency. I'm not too bent out of shape about Chungh, since the whole point of developing a strong stable of Canadian OL is to be prepared when departures come up. That's the business. I'm not too disappointed about Loffler, because anyone willing to pay him those dollars is insane. I'm mildly disappointed about JSK, but we kept Bighill and to me that is far more important, so hey, fine. Receiver grosses me out. We needed a WR1 worse than any team in the league and we lost out on all of them.

Uhhh ... it's exactly about how much each player makes. If a guy like JSK was on a rookie deal (which he was) then we get no cap relief because he departed, since we need to actually fill the roster spot no matter what.

Winston Rose was tied for the league lead in picks last year and I don't think I've ever heard of him.

Honestly, if we strike out on Derel Walker we better not miss on Bryant Mitchell when he doesn’t make the NFL

Thank you for creating this very obviously unbiased thread for discussion with no intent to stir up trouble whatsoever

Isn't the point of free agency to make your team better any way you can? We lost Okpalaugo and his heavy money deal, so why not replace him with an elite pass rusher? Jefferson is legitimately one of the top 2 or 3 most disruptive defensive players in the league and we already employ one of the other ones. I'd love to add him.

It's gonna be Winnipeg, I'm almost sure of it. Always makes me laugh at this time of year when everyone on social media becomes a salary cap expert. No signings yet? Whine about it. Dollar amount? Too much. Nobody who knows what they're doing knows and everyone who knows nothing knows everything.

Agreed wholeheartedly. They've barely improved. They're just treading water

I don't know why people think that kind of money is crazy for a proven WR1 ... that's what the market dictates. Quarterbacks need tools to excel. Protection and targets. 250k is very very high but worth it, imo.