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I'd be shocked if Eli plays this year... I'm still looking at him like a bonus if he ever works out. But the potential is certainly there.

Yeah that roster is far from impressive. But if anyone can make it work, it's Mike Reilly. Lots of holes though.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if they go import at safety. Derek Jones has been a backup for 4 years and now he is suddenly going to become a starter after a bad injury ended his year last year? It's possible but there is some obvious risk there. And I don't see any other Canadian on the roster who should be starting at safety. So if Jones isn't performing, I could see an American winning that spot.

I am not talking about Hawaii, I'm talking about SMU. They play in the FBS and their current head coach makes over 2 million per season.

June Jones doesn't need money. As someone else mentioned he donated his entire Ticats salary to charity. He spent almost a decade as a NCAA head coach making over a million per season and willingly stepped aside as HC of the Ticats. Highly doubt this is about money.

Having trouble finding the two active threads?

Frankly aside from the community owned teams we have no idea how much money the others are making. It's easy to look at struggling attendance in BC and Toronto and assume they are losing money but we don't know the numbers.

QB: Nichols (Streveler, Bennett) RB: Harris (Oliveira) FB: Miller (Rush) WR: Matthews, Wolitarsky (Simonise) SB: Adams, Hazel, Demski (Whitehead*, Petermann) OL: Bryant, Neufeld, Couture, Gray, Hardrick (Foketi, Speller, Desjarlais) DL: Jeffcoat, Bryant, Nevis, Jefferson (Roh*, Thomas, Griffiths) LB: Wilson, Bighill, Gaitor (Briggs, Miles, Gauthier) CB: Sayles, Rose HB: Alexander, Fenner (Humes*) S: Jones (Hecht, Hallett) ST: Medlock*, Rempel * for DI, Bold for National starters, Italics for 2-man reserve

I agree that Burris is miles behind the other two when talking about the best QBs.... but he is also one of the greatest players and personalities ever to play in the CFL. I wish we'd got him instead of Willy in 2014... we wouldn't be talking about a Grey Cup drought anymore if we had.

Adams to the slot is the only move that makes sense. Matthews has to take the boundary WR spot and you're not putting Adams at field WR... that would be ridiculous.

Can't be overstated how important this signing is. Absolutely huge. I am so pumped. All Nichols has to do is put it in the general area and Matthews will go up and get it. This is exactly what we needed.

I heard Scheifele was pissed when he found out Kane signed for more than he makes.... can't blame him really!

Burris, Ray, Calvillo... that was the heyday of the CFL. CFL football was never more popular than it was during that era and hasn't been as popular since.

Hackney was 260+ pounds but damn what an arm. I don't think he actually made it to main training camp. That was 2009 with Mike Kelly.

We traded Kamau to Hamilton for Brazzell. Then Kamau went to Edmonton and became a superstar catching passes from Ricky Ray.

Had great numbers at the NFL combine

To be fair, Robertson blew out his ACL before camp. He healed up and came to camp the next year but got cut. You're right, he did get drafted too high purely based on his 40. But he was also a good DB in college, just a little undersized. Sometimes picks just don't work out. If he hadn't had the knee injury we might be telling a different story.

Missed that one. The roster on the Bombers' website is totally out-of-date.

Rookie American receivers... we need someone to step up. The receiving corps was sub-par last year and they haven't done anything to improve on paper. I have little faith in Thompkins or Washington becoming star receivers. So it's going to have to be one of the rookies. Dom Williams, Josh Stewart, and Matt Hazel all look legit and come with decent resumes outside the CFL. Kenneth Walker is another interesting one. Smaller receiver but blazing fast speed (ran a 4.26 40 at UCLA pro day)... has a little bit of return experience so he might get involved there as well.

So basically every player that doesn't spend a decade as a starter for the Bombers is a bad pick.... got it

I heard a rumour that Bomber ticket sales are extremely sluggish so far this year... the lowest season ticket numbers since moving to IGF. Not sure how true that is but I have no reason to doubt it.

People shouldn't count out our two OL picks from last year either... Matthew Ouellet de Carlo and Ben Koczwara. This season, De Carlo was an AUS allstar at tackle and Koczwara was a first team OUA allstar at guard. Both players should legitimately compete for spots at camp along with Neufeld, Couture, Gray, Speller and Desjarlais.

Theoretically if you are not afraid of taking futures in terms of players who drop due to injuries or NFL interest, then you can stock your pipeline with first round talent acquired in later rounds of the draft. The risk being that they might not ever play for your team. That's a risk you can afford to take if your Canadian talent is already strong. Calgary has been doing it for years and it keeps paying off.

I wonder if Shai Ross could be the next pick for the Bombers

Their QB situation is so bad that I kinda like the pick. Not that he will start this year but I think there is real potential there.