Mike

Good signing for Edmonton. Wolitarsky signed in Hamilton

There’s a ton out there OL wise, it’s probably the deepest position in FA. Lots of directions you can go, too. Patch up a spot for a year? Sure, sign a guy like Foucault or Gagnon or Boyko. Hope for a bounce back from a player who still has some prime years left? Go for McEwen or Beard if the price is right. Have an idea that you can take a younger guy and mold him into what you want? Go after McKellar, Richards or Hogan-Saindon. there are a ton of options at OL

I think it was pretty obvious after signing the guys we have that we weren’t going after McManis

He just did

I’m sure that they quite probably all are I’d love this. Be a very good way to potentially shift some spending.

Rose to the Riders is such a Riders move, I honestly think Rose is pretty finished

@Bigblue204 answer Al, you coward!

Maybe it’s because a) you’re not even tagging him in your response, b) you’re getting mad at his emoji reaction to your post or maybe even c) you’re being a weirdo about it

I thought McInnis got 250k?

Absolutely massive signing at an incredible price

Yeah I mean I’m not one for the political talk but can we all just please agree Donald Trump is a ******* loser ruining the world? McInnis at 250k is interesting … sure wouldn’t expect an American to ask for more than that now

Signed former Hamilton DB Dexter Lawson, too

I think you’re probably right, I’m just hopeful … especially with a new scouting staff, they may feel like they want to spend more/less in different areas than before

Brinkman please

Honestly think this is a pretty good mix on defense, hope this is instead of Garbutt/Haba so we give a young rookie a chance in rotation with WJ/JV

Love this

Yeah touché on that one. The rest of the ones in the post above, not many of those guys in their prime which is what my point was to begin with.

Chungh, Couture, Richardson, Sayles, Lawler, Janarion are all names off the top of my head. Ford looks like he’s on his way out. Houston is another one, although I’m glad we didn’t keep him and I think that was one the team was OK with. Let me flip the question: what impactful player in their prime who isn’t from MB or ND have we kept in the past 2-3 years? Schoen is really the only one that comes to mind off the top of my head and we locked him up for one year after he strongly considered the market and quite possibly may walk this time around.

I think the Bombers will be smart and go for the unproven tier of guys who are ready to breakout, rather than paying for guys like Ceresna when it comes to the DL I would like to see them in on McManis but I’m also not discouraged by Farhan not talking about us … he’s never really been connected to our front office and only seems to get news on our (dis)interest through other teams.

I’m starting to get a weird feeling we’re going to see a bunch of guys leaving. I know people are gonna start up with the “how come we can afford Jake but can’t afford Schoen” even though that’s nowhere near how it works, my concern is that we really struggling to be retaining any prime of their career talent who literally wasn’t born within 3 hours of here. I can see teams structuring some really unique contracts for him to give him some assurances despite the low price tag he’s likely going to command this year.

oh well, sucks to lose a Canadian but let’s be realistic here, we probably would not love the price tag he’s going to command. Hopefully this allows us to keep a few more guys.

I have little to no interest in Rose. Maybe a smidge in Vaughters if he’s got something left.

Why would this even make sense? They space out the signings because it drives casual and fanatical interest in the team during the off-season. The new OC isn’t going to sell tickets. Or generate traffic.

Yeah, just look at Kramdi.

Just to speak to Wolitarsky’s character and just what a good dude he is … few years back, some friends and I went to go see him play at Earl’s on Main and we ended up chatting with him and Streveler … he found out it was my friend’s birthday coming up who loved live music and he offered to come play some songs at his birthday party. Sure enough, few weeks later, Woli was in my basement sitting around with us having some beers while he played the guitar. All-time guy. I’m sad to see him go.