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I wouldn't be shocked to see them use a Canadian at DT.

You want depth or a couple stars? That's what it comes down to.

aww the waiting game sucks, let's play hungry hungry hippos.

To be fair the Riders are always the biggest losers, but yeah in terms of teams that have lost out Ottawa has had a real ***** of a day.

In the CFL you need both offense and defense to win. It's why Calgary has been the top team the last few years.

What if Ottawa is a dark horse there?

Non issue, handled internally, next question.

and, as other teams blow their wads on the big ticket items it means there's less money to go around to the ones who are left standing so their price goes down. Honestly it's smart by Walters. To me the best FA deals are the ones that aren't the premium ones.

BC and Edmonton were the bottom teams in the west last year, had the most reason to make moves.

They're trying their best...

so the Chris Jones Riders approach?

in those days we didn't have 4 starters anyone else would want. It's taken a long time to build up this depth. even 2 years ago it would have been hard, but the past few drafts have treated the bombers really really well.

No one is downplaying it, just saying it may not be the end of the world because Kyle Walters stocked the cupboards well at the position knowing how important it is.

We talked a lot about having the best OL in the league the last few years AND having depth on it. When you have the best group in the league everyone else will look to poach players when they can. We have depth, see if Walters is earning his pay by having good enough depth to replace the losses.

Walters invested heavily in drafting OL, if he can't replace guys then why make the picks in the first place? It happens to every team, you lose guys and need to have people who can step in and replace them. Gray is a pretty high potential guy, no reason to think he can't do it and Couture has been groomed for a long time. Still got rock solid tackles, see if the depth is as good as we thought it was.

you know there's a free agency thread you could post all this stuff in rather than cramming non bomber stuff into the bomber news thread right?

but given that Simonise and Peterman were rookies, should we be shocked if they do progress? I mean they have the physical tools, the pedigree and they've had a year as backups.... This is how it generally works in sports. Young guys step up and replace older guys. I mean christ, that's how Santos-Knox wound up being a player for us. He was Ian Wilds backup at one point and Wild was a damned good player, but we didn't lose anything having his backup take over the spot. It's sports, guys get an opportunity and it is up to them to make the most of said opportunity.

yeah dbs aren't the sexy pick ups, but honestly there's tons of deals to be had in free agency. Lots of times it's the big handful of names that people go nuts trying to sign who take all the cash and everyone else is signed to value deals and to me those are the ones that really make free agency worthwhile.

Hey the Esks still have Kevin Glenn.

So fair is different betwee players and gms. Interested to see what he settles on.

Lots of movement in qbs eh... so happy we've got our guys locked up.

***** football won't sell anywhere.

Uhhhhhh he was pretty ******* outstanding last year......

Bob Cameron. Close the poll.