Mike

I definitely agree

Pretty sure it’s going to be Hallett for BA, Rutledge for Maston and one of Rene/Parker for Rose

They’re gonna have to expand Woli’s role with the new hashmarks or it’s a real waste.

I’m not a big Janarion Grant in the offense supporter, personally. Would rather see us use a guy like Schoen, but I completely understand the concern that it maybe leaves us without a guy who can take the top off a D since between Ellingson, Schoen and Bailey there isn’t really a burner in the bunch. If it were up to me, I honestly just think I’d go four American receivers. We already have seven Canadians at RB, 3 OL, SB, DT and S … wouldn’t mind seeing a unit of Nic/Bailey/Ellingson/Schoen/Whop to start the year. Knowing the Bombers though, there’s almost no way that’s their plan so I’m curious to see how their O looks. If the plan is to use Janarion to stretch the field, I don’t love it.

Why did you write this and then bring up the idea of finding a rookie when someone questioned you on who these veteran QBs are? The CFL is so QB poor right now it’s unbelievable. There are no veteran QB safety nets waiting to be picked up, hell there aren’t any period. Even Streveler, who gets treated like a potential saviour, can’t throw the ball well enough to do anything other than be a change-of-pace look. His value is as a complimentary piece, not a focal point. Ottawa, Edmonton, BC, Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, Calgary, Toronto, Hamilton are literally all going with young backups. Trevor Harris is the only guy who fits this criteria you want and he’s not available. so again … WHO? And don’t babble on about USFL rookies and such.

I don’t know who ends up where but I hope we manage to hang on to Schoen (I assume he starts), Philyor, Blake Jackson, Clements, Rutledge, Thompson (I don’t think he is a week 1 starter, but he’s solid), Parker, Walker, Randall and Berner somehow.

I would’ve cut that guy the minute he dressed in a hoodie for a game in late May

I’d be more surprised if he did

Anything that gets Whop on the team, I’m a fan of

Keep on beating this dead horse

Interesting to see … Rene not going, yet Glass is. Dobson going but not Gray. Mancuso not even going to get a shot. Didn’t we cut Alfred Green

Some obvious cuts for sure but I will say, I was impressed with what I saw from Dru Brown, a few of the receivers, Jordan Berner, Malik Clements, Will Evans and I also noticed Patrice Rene looks MASSIVE out there on the corner and I don’t think his man got targeted once.

Schoen … also want to see a few under the radar guys like Philyor and Hannibal Rutledge seems earmarked to be our SAM so I’ve got some curiosity about him. Mourtada is a big one and then I guess I’d like to see the QB battle.

Behind a paywall but big yikes for Saunders

Hence why I don’t really think they’re going about it the right way. At all. Agree completely with what you said.

It’s so stupid lol why do we have to complicate it so much

While I generally agree with the premise of what you’re saying, it’s not as simple as Wolitarsky vs McKnight or a comparison such as that one. There are players right now in every single training camp who are probably cut out to be stars in this league but are going to get cut because they’re fighting for a spot earmarked for a Canadian and they either don’t get enough reps, can’t afford to sit on a practice roster to develop, just don’t fit the makeup of the roster, etc. There are players sitting at home right now in the US who got offered contracts but opted to not come up here because they know there’s (for example) only one American spot available between 20 recruits at receiver and the odds aren’t worth dropping what they’ve got going on in their life. Those are the situations the league thinks they can improve by reducing the ratio. Whether or not I agree is one thing, but that’s more in line with their theory.

How many owners do you think would be happy to walk away from ownership tomorrow

Too much of an ask. I’m not commenting on fair or not fair, I’m just saying the PA has extended their demands too far to be taken seriously at this point. Do I think it was a deal they should’ve voted in originally? Absolutely. But I don’t have a vote and that’s not up to me. I’m in a union myself and I do respect everyone’s right to choose based on what they prioritize. But to think they can go back to the bargaining table and ask for MORE when the CFL is just going to turn around and say why should we offer more when you can’t even get a proper voter turnout? It’s just poor bargaining work, which is why I say they’re very clearly out of their depths with this. The NFL had poor turnout but the CBA got voted in (barely) and that’s a huge difference. There’s no swing in leverage there. Now that it’s been voted down, the first question the league is going to ask at the bargaining table is “why was the deal good enough then but not good enough now?” and they’ll point to the poor turnout and argue that with a better turnout it would’ve passed. The tough part is that as they do it, they’re also likely right. It’s a huge swing in leverage in favour of the league, especially paired with the fan optics trending in their direction all of a sudden as well.

Then it’s a misread by the bargaining committee. It’s become fairly obvious by all the news being leaked that they needed the American voter turnout to get the deal passed and they didn’t do what they needed to do to get that turnout. I’d also argue the NFL and CFL vote is like apples and oranges because the NFL doesn’t have the passport dynamics that we have up here.

Yeah. I do know what they want. Too much. They “held strong” long enough to get a proposal that ticked off the top six financial items on their wish list, put it to a vote and clearly did not explain the importance of actually bothering to vote to their membership. They then turned around and went back to the league after a rejected proposal and said “make it better.” You think it was the PA that leaked the poor voter numbers? It absolutely wasn’t, it was 100% the league and they did it because they know there’s absolutely no reason to improve an offer for an uninvested membership. The offer the PA ends up eventually pushing through (if it happens) isn’t going to be the best offer, it’s going to be the offer they accept because the paycheques are going to be missing and the players are going to want to play. 30% of the Americans clearly don’t care about the Canadian labour issues, but they’re going to care about an empty bank account. The PA completely blew this whole thing. They’re out of their league.

You’re right, I guess they rejected it because they felt sorry for the league and wanted them to offer less.

I don’t have to read the offer to know the players have mismanaged this. They had an incredibly bad voter turnout on a deal they proposed and now they’re naive enough to think they’re going to get a better deal. That tells me all I need to know.

They won’t get the original offer again.

These players are just a total bunch of dummies. You can tell they’re not on the same level at all with the businesspeople who own these teams.