Mike

... what's wrong with that?

You can't avoid signing a Canadian because there's a huge drop off in talent anytime he gets hurt. There's a huge drop off in talent any time anyone gets hurt, that's why the starters start and the backups don't.

You plug and play somewhere else. Let's say you start Harris, 3 NI OL, Westerman, Bucknor and Kohlert. Harris gets hurt? Put in a Canadian receiver. Easy.

I don't get this "we seem to be signing a lot of ex-Rider players and coaches" nonsense. Like who? Dressler and some training camp fodder? Not that it really matters, because EVERY team has players with connections to every other team on it, but the Riders have brought in more ex-Bombers than vice versa since Chris Jones took over. Dan West, Markus Howell, Jordan Reaves, we gave Marte Sears a look too, heck I'll even claim Shawn Lemon on that list.

Macho Harris yuck. Really like the Shayon Green signing, though.

It's easy to say "go OL in the draft" but the horses have to be there and this year, they just might not be. There are only 5 rated in the current "top 20", which doesn't necessarily mean much but there isn't a ton of talent beyond that either. It's a weak year for the OL. St. John and Vaillancourt are likely going to get NFL looks, Guy is a question mark in every aspect and Gagnon/Seguin are both question marks in terms of standalone value - they play on a fairly complete OL but are they anything better than just serviceable pros? Can they hold their own at the combine? This draft is going to be a key one - I'm calling it right now that only a couple teams are going to walk out of this thing as winners. There isn't a ton of talent out there and having taken Waggoner already is actually looking more and more like a good move every day. I can't even imagine who I would want at #1 or #2 right now, Smith/Onyemata will get NFL looks, Abdesmad is talented but a big injury risk who pushed his draft year due to health concerns - he would've maybe gone in the 10-15 range last year and is rated 3rd this year. As always, the picture will clear itself up after the combine and after we get the full scope of talent that is eligible (seems like more and more players are becoming late entries in recent years) but right now, this is not a fantastic draft. Guys I was liking in the 9/10 range originally seem more like top 5 picks (Corney/Loffler) and I think you might see us make a move like WR/DL with our first two picks ... or even package them to trade for a proven guy.

Not really - if you read the rest of Cobourne's twitter feed, it's pretty obvious the news is accurate. He's just legitimately wondering how it was leaked.

I didn't think there was ANY drop off from Randle to Leggett, personally.

Venable would be one of the last big names we should be targeting. Aside from the option to upgrade the middle by changing our ratio, our linebackers are well above average with Wild and either Randle/Leggett.

Read this in an article that was written re: his presser This seems obvious to me. You want to scout the guys who have already met the pre-requisite of being viewed as potential pro players. Isolate the ones who won't cut it in the NFL. Stop with this free agent stuff where you get every guy who caught a pass in college showing up. There's value in both - but scouting NFL camps means basically half the work is done for you.

I'd like to see us add one more, probably not Smith. Either Fuller or Stafford, preferably.

Upgrade.

Do you actually not realize what you sound like when you act "concerned"?

We do nominate board members.

Not sure what he's going to make but I don't know how anyone could say they would balk at him as "x" price that isn't well outside the normal salary landscape. You're going to pass on him over 10-15k without knowing any of our other financial details?

He's definitely taking a cut.

as per Kirk Penton and Gary Lawless. Very interesting.

100% agree. Your third option needs to be capable of 100+ yard games, but not relied upon to do it game in and game out. Adams can do that and he adds the extra benefit of being a very capable red zone target.

I wouldn't call it moping, I'd be happy to have a guy that classy on my team.

Why do you frequently do this? I swear it seems like half of your posts are you saying "I don't want to talk about this", "I don't care", "I have no opinion either way" It seems like you're spending a lot of time getting people riled up about stuff you don't really care about. If you truly don't care, don't broadcast it. You're allowed to *quietly* excuse yourself from a conversation or choose to NOT comment altogether without alerting everyone to the fact that you're not going to comment.

You crazy drunks ...

Masoli is in the top tier of backups - along with Nichols, Glenn and Tate.

Then I feel like maybe not living here has allowed you to become disengaged with the reality of what happens here. You can say it all you want, if the Bombers hosted a playoff game, we'd fill the stands. And the crowd would be insane.

I don't think everyone is jaded as you, to be honest. Most are desperate to be enthusiastic about a winner.

... who are you debating with?