Mike

This isn’t really a hot take but this draft is terrible I have the lowest of expectations for anybody making an impact on our roster

The rankings are done being useful now that teams use them as smokescreens to hide their interest.

That is wild. Very curious to see where this goes. …. but how bad do you have to be at reading to not be able to play for Alabama? Sheesh

I’ll join in: I’m looking for a Khari/Milt/Charlie era Bomber jersey … need that lightning bolt W, would prefer a game worn but I’m open to whatever is floating around. Doesn’t need to be a particular player.

O’Shea Jr was a guy I thought was really going to be a player a couple years ago but seems like he may have peaked and his pro potential seems slim at best. I would be happy to see us sign him as a UDFA or something, but I hope for both SR and JR that we don’t invest a draft pick - not fair to either one.

Bingo

So because all opinions are welcome, I’m not allowed to say someone who gets paid to express theirs is bad at doing what they do? And for the record, I don’t pay attention to the draft much anymore, but when I did, I would notice many of the mocks shared by posters here (mine included) were miles better than any of the ones the talking heads would come up with.

I swear Marshall Ferguson is the most useless CFL analyst out there. Nothing he says ever makes any sense and it reeks of a guy who has the connections to get places but no ability to do anything with what he’s seeing. Cole Tucker and Jake Maier working underneath to imitate Collaros and Schoen? Schoen led the entire league in yards per catch because he was blowing the top off the D, not working underneath in the soft spots. Michael Brodrique to Montreal, he’s French! BC traded a number 1 overall pick LB for a 9th overall pick to draft … a LB! David Dallaire to be FB4 for Montreal in the second round, he’s French!

Where I work, the Saskatchewan roster of employees has like 4 or 5 different members of the Assman family

Bombers signed an OL today - Kelvin Ateman Hope he eats a few more this season

I would certainly not

Show us on the doll where Dane Evans hurt you I would more say woof what a garbage scouting year There are more contributors in the 5th and 6th rounds than in the 1st and 2nd. Yikes.

I wouldn’t say he’s anything like Sayles, way lower point of attack and not a guy you’re going to flex out to the edge ever. He’s a bull rush Stove type tackle with a bit more athleticism but a shorter wingspan. Former wrestler collegiately, I think he’s got potential to be a good one for us.

Bombers added a few camp bodies Receivers Tre Turner and Manasseh Bailey, Canadian DB Jordan Veltri and the one I’m probably most intrigued by - DT O’Bryan Goodson Interesting note on Tre Turner: might be the first Bomber born in the 2000s, he’s only 22

I’m wondering if the Bombers look to use the global draft this year as a way to bring in any level of competition at DT. There are a couple of reasonably successful NCAA DT attending the “global” portion of the combine.

Agreed. Sayles was for sure a JAG, wasn’t sad to see him go.

I’m really curious lol why do you almost always reply to comments nobody has made?

It’s a bad take provided the Bombers find at least one new impact starter on D. There are a couple things in there I don’t really agree with (I’m pretty comfortable with the secondary as it sits) but for us to be going into 2023 with a worse DL than 2022 is scary. We can talk about being two years removed from an all-time historic D all we want, that’s irrelevant to 2023. Our studs on the DL are older and need complementary pieces that can rotate to keep them fresh. We saw that last year and another year of aging isn’t going to help. Our interior DL as it sits today is probably the worst in the entire CFL. Nobody is scared of Jake Thomas and Ricky Walker. The all-time historic D that we had in 2021 was propped up by incredible pressure from the DL and right now, we’re missing the pieces that allow us to do that. We’re not one piece away on the DL unless that piece is all-star calibre from week 1. We’re two pieces, maybe even three, from being able to have anything resembling a “great” DL in 2023. Is our front office good enough to find those pieces? Probably. Do we need them to? I’d say almost definitely.

True but I do miss him working free of the required bias

It’s easy to say this but you HAVE to bake in an expectation that we’re going to be missing key guys this year because our key guys have proven they miss games. Wilson, Jeffcoat, Alexander, Bighill … it’d be out of the ordinary if they DIDN’T miss time at this point. Nichols, Houston, Alexander are all super capable. I’m apprehensive about Rose, excited to see Parker take the next step. Not sure what the overall doubt on our secondary is stemming from.

Gee almost like I know what I’m talking about @bluto

Word is Bombers signed a punter, Devin Anctil college teammates with Dalton Schoen … should be announced soon EDIT: just looked at the CFL transactions page to see if it was official yet and it is, plus they also seem to have signed former NFL 7th round pick DB Jordan Brown

It’s a compromise. They don’t have to trade him to you, you pay that price to avoid the risk that someone else picks him up.

It's too bad Bombers can't get Dane. Either way, I predict he goes to the Argos for a fourth and a neg list player.