johnzo

Do coordinators and assistants typically get deals that are longer than a year? Do we have any coaches on our staff that aren't free agents?

huh, yeah, that's an elegant way to put it. nice.

yeah, the Riders were both lucky and good yesterday, but I think they were more lucky. Montreal oopsies were a 3 TD swing in the game. still, a pretty entertaining game .. a B or B- on the Grey Cup curve ... and was impressed to see Alexander allllmost gut out a 3-score comeback with one leg. it's seven months until we get more CFL Dusty so I guess everyone needs to get their fix before the gloom of the offseason wrecks them.

pathetic. lol. how quickly you've forgotten how bad it can really get.

Not sure why people are eager to move on from Neuf. Wouldn't be easy to replace at the same skill level, passport, experience, and durability -- he started all 18 games last year. Of course, he's at the age where he might decide for us, or where he might suddenly break down. It astonishes me that guards can play into their late thirties. Is guard the most physically punishing position on the field? Jefferson is too expensive for the one or two games he wrecks every season. Or maybe he could still be consistently dominant if got spelled off once in awhile? I dunno. Saw Cadwallader make good plays on teams all year, so would like to see him stay. We seem to be able to dig up great DBs every year so I don't know how critical it is to retain / give raises to any of our DBs.

Per 3downnation, these are our free agents ... basically everyone but Zach, Vaval, Peterson, Clercius, Randolph, Wallace, Pokey Wilson, MCI, Allen, T. Jones, and Leroux the longsnapper. Quarterback Chris Streveler (A) Running back Brady Oliveira (N) Receiver Kody Case (A) Nic Demski (N) Dillon Mitchell (A) Dalton Schoen (A) Jerreth Sterns (A) Keric Wheatfall (A) OL Stanley Bryant (A) Tui Eli (N) Chris Kolankowski (N) Eric Lofton (A) Patrick Neufeld (N) Defensive line Willie Jefferson (A) Cameron Lawson (N) Tanner Schmekel (N) Jake Thomas (N) James Vaughters (A) Jamal Woods (A) Linebacker Tanner Cadwallader (N) Shayne Gauthier (N) Kyrie Wilson (A) Defensive back Terrell Bonds (A) Michael Griffin II (A) Nick Hallett (N) Evan Holm (A) Demerio Houston (A) Redha Kramdi (N) Enock Makonzo (N) Deatrick Nichols (A) Jamal Parker (A) Specialist Sergio Castillo (A) Jamieson Sheahan (G)

might be time for someone bold to put a fork in this weird season and fire up the 2025-2026 Blue Bomber Offseason Thread.

Ah. 💡 If I can read Wikipedia right, Mike Miller is the guy who oversaw the development of the sex pest and Arbuckle. That seems like a pretty good guy to have if you're looking at needing to develop a QB as we need to be. Jarious Jackson ran a pretty great O in Edmonton in 2024 -- he had MBT on a serious roll. Too bad for him his defense had negative clutch. Would be happy to see him get a promotion.

back in the day when he was an argos coach he did a Q&A thing on cfl.ca. I asked him how defensive plays are called and whether the D can make audibles based on what they see. Got a terrific multi-paragraph response back from him. Definitely got the sense that he cared about doing this tiny nothing gig for some fan on the internet.

nope. see https://www.argonauts.ca/2025/10/22/hogan-a-look-at-the-argos-roster-for-2026/

Arbuckle is also signed for next year.

Mike Miller? Is that guy on an OC track? (I honestly have no idea)

the pick that BLM threw early in the second quarter that killed a promising Hamilton drive -- he was staring Lawler down all the way.

Congrats bigg jay, who is not just MBB champ but also outpredicted the best of cfl.ca (Steinberg at 56) and is currently tied with the best guy at 3downnation (Abbott)

that would have been a first down if the BC lead blocker had finished his block. Rourke had a lane all the way to the first down.

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34 needs to finish that block, that Rourke draw started off as a real nice looking play with a lane all the way to the first down

kicking three there was not a great call, I don't think, but we'll see how this plays out.

Crunch time for the green. Rourke starting to roll.

Riders' secondary did not take their Ritalin this morning... these conference final games have not been track meets but they've been tense and enjoyable to watch.

BC's defence starting to regress to their squishy form of midseason.

The Teeth, coached by The Ears. $5000 is a lot of tires and oil changes.

right before his hamstring re-injury he made a nice solo run for a first down in the red zone ... and he clowned it up on the sidelines, making big eating spaghetti eating motions at the crowd. Then he got hurt on the next play. Felt a little like karma and hubris. In conclusion, needs to turn his Madden cinematics down about 25% and I bet he doesn't finish the game next week. yup. he gets the goat horns for sure.

The Litter Bowl

the prestigious MBB poll voted decisively in favour of Montreal. Would be interesting to see how the MBB predictions fare against the cfl.ca ones...