Mike

Yeah, that Friesen tweet is ridiculous on so many levels. The optics of announcing it now for the CFL are truly bad though

Cap went up 400k, I would like to know when teams were made aware of this

Crazy how that comes up now, but you didn’t mention it at all in all of the discussions we’ve all been having (that you’ve been very active in) about OC options

Yeah that is a wild number to pay.

I had a weird feeling we’d get this guy … RWJ is alright … weird trajectory … think I would’ve rather had Hollins, but at the same time this also feels like it could be a Darvin Adams type move for us pretty excited about that Vaval signing, I think he’s gonna be a good one

Yeah I definitely would’ve preferred that

Bombers sign Josh Hagerty, seems like a decent ST add

Agreed he wasn’t an all-star by traditional means but … I still don’t understand how anyone could even suggest our OL is “better”

How is the OL “the same if not better” when we have literally only subtracted one player (a Canadian and a division all-star) and added zero players.

I hope he turns out to be amazing, this is just not the kind of question mark I wanted this year.

Lol agreed then Goalie just yelling at everyone and Iso yelling at a cloud

I don’t care about JT anywhere near as much as Booch but can we at least be honest and just admit you’re in favour of everything our team does no matter what? Because that’s the stance you’ve taken all year.

I was going to mention that, especially because there’s one guy in particular in here who loves our hire but **** all over Mueller.

Like I said … that’s not the structure I would want. Do you typically let the more qualified people take a background role unless it’s a situation where they’ve got one foot in the grave already or something?

Because this is a Grey Cup season and I don’t want somebody learning on the fly while his much-more-qualified assistant waits in the wings. Not the kind of structure I want, this doesn’t feel like the Younger promotion at all.

because you’re giving the keys to the offense to a guy who has only ever had the keys to a high school offense and one of his assistants was the key figure in a major offensive turnaround just last season … I can’t imagine that goes well

this is the worst decision the Bombers have made with a Hogan since they banned the Section S one

I mean you can’t really dress this up to look good, we’re getting picked pretty clean in a few areas … if only we had some of that depth a few of us have been complaining about for years. This is exactly why the practice roster is so important and exactly why it’s so frustrating we don’t use it properly we’ve lost a receiver, a middle linebacker (good riddance), a left guard, a safety (hopefully) and a corner and we genuinely have maybe at best, a sort of educated guess as to who will replace two of them.

Hollins or Dunbar … I mean, there are definitely worse options. there are definitely some negatives to what is happening right now but let’s not lose sight of the positives. At least we haven’t signed Alexander yet

I’m definitely not as bent out of shape as a few others are about this off-season, but “nothing the team does is good enough for a few of you” is a real false way to categorize the complaints. Why not “nothing the team does has been good enough to win a championship the past three years” instead?

Geno Lewis to Ottawa

I forgot Hollins is out there … JBR was right, he definitely is a Wilson type. Not super high on him, but it fits the mold of what we might be looking for.

Yeah, losing Lawler definitely hurts if that ends up being the case. That being said, we haven’t won the Grey Cup with him the last two years either so I’m willing to try something different. it can go one of many ways, but with our front office shake up, I’m hoping maybe we can see some talent brought in for position groups we’ve struggled with for the past couple seasons (edge rusher, linebacker) … they’ve got the pedigree for it, that’s for sure

What is there to explain? They are adding contracts they can afford to add.

I mean, it makes sense … who was making money on that team before? Korte and Geno Lewis? they have a ton of mid pay level guys they’re moving on from … Steward, Oakman, Mayala, Kyran, Leonard, Purifoy, Moncrief, Foucault … it’s no wonder they are spending money, they had a ton of space