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Flanders is the better back by far. I'd like to keep him around in case of an injury to Harris, but I don't see him getting on the game day roster due to the ratio. I don't think we brought Roh in to be on the PR. Corney and especially Ekakatie are rotation guys, not starters yet.

I expect Medlock, Roh, a DB (Fogg as he's also a returner), and an LB (Wild if he's not a SMS casualty). I don't see the big need for Flanders now that we have LaFrance as an in game Harris replacement. If we use a DI on offence, I hope it's one of the new receivers who can also return.

The overunder is 70K. 😉

Manziel and Cato are similar. Athletic, talented, immature, head cases. The most likely outcome isn't good, but there's always a chance that Manziel could mature and become the player that folks thought he could be. If that happens, he'll be back to the NFL in a couple of years.

Great signing! Love having an all star quality MLB. Best signing of the offseason IMO and this is an off season that included signing Bowman. Gotta think that we will be able to stop the run this year. Heck, we should be a dominant defence with 11 NI starters and 2 or 3 DI's. Hall should look like a genius.

Manziel will be good for the CFL's name recognition in the US of A. I'm looking forward to see what he can do, but I'm not expecting much, especially in the first year while he scrapes the rust off and learns the differences in the CFL game.

Evidence? What evidence are you talking about?

I don't know anything about either of them, so I won't say they suck unless it turns out that they do.

Going forward I will always think of Darian Durant's DD as Double-Doosh.

Interesting. I guess we find out how good Walters or the Bombers are at writing contracts. Getting the money and SMS room back would be great. Not getting it back would mean not heeding the warning from league to change the phraseology.

Looks like everyone is on the same side for once. I hated the Durant signing. I hate the retirement, the timing, the loss of $70K, and the Bombers finding out thru social media. What an unprofessional piece of trash.

I was getting the same thing on Chrome. I went directly to: Https://WWW.MORNINGBIGBLUE.COM and got in. Had to log on again and change my bookmarks before they worked again.

Absolutely true. We still used 6 draft picks over the last 2 years to fill that spot.

Fixed it for you.

That changes things.

You're right. I don't like it on principle. I don't see where we have the room for 2 or 3 or 4 new NI receivers. Demski and Coates are the pencilled in starters. Woli's got the inside track as the first backup. That leaves one more NI receiver spot for our new NI receivers who are in competition with the guys we already have. If we keep them all, our PR will be full of receivers. Add in that fact that we haven't had any success in drafting receivers at least since Walters came to Winnipeg, and I don't see this ending well. Maybe we want them to fight it out among themselves so we don't have to pay all of this year draft picks for very long.

I ignore that question because it's simply a chance to change the argument from drafting 2 receivers with our first 2 picks to why this or that guy isn't as good as our choices. You think we have room for 2 or 3 more NI receivers this year?

I wasn't negative about the first receiver. I became negative about 2 with the top 2 picks. Imagine having a different opinion than the Bombers and then having to watch the cheerleaders around here complain about it. We've now got 8 NI receivers, only 2 of which have even a little bit of CFL experience. Well 3 if you include Wolo's catch. LOL

I don't mind 1. I don't like 2, especially with our first 2 picks. Not really hard to comprehend.

Our Canuck receivers now include Demski (Good when he's healthy, but not healthy often enough and very expensive), Coates (1 good game), Blazko, Henry, Thera-Plamondon, Wolitarsky (1 catch career), Simonise and Petermann for 2 starting spots, 2 backups and a PR spot.

2 receivers? Really? What a waste.

Knevel went to BC.

Simonise was likely the BPA. High upside. I like his his size and the fact that he's got a bit of NFL experience. I don't like that he hasn't played a lot of football lately, his drug tests, or his performance at the combine. A swing for the fences in the 2nd round picking a guy that wouldn't exactly be called an O'Shea or Walters kind of player. Will be interesting to see how he makes the conversion to the CFL.

I never said that I knew anything that was going on behind the scenes. Just cuz you keep pretending that it's true doesn't make it true. One might even call that an inane opinion masquerading as a fact. Let's try this another way... You are obviously saying that you do have inside information and that you do know the cap situation, so tell me all about it. Yah, I know you never said it, nor do you mean it, but if I keep saying it often enough it will become the truth.

You're obviously not reading more than the first sentence of my post then re-stating your stupid idea again. If you want to be a cheerleader, you might as well pick up the pompoms, put on the short skirt, and learn the dance routines, cuz your current routine has gotten really old.