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January is a B- guy for an import, B if he was Canuck. Greaves is still learning - should be a B+ canuck but in current dismal system he's only a B, Morley is reallly bad (too slow), a C- canadian at best, Pencer & Swiston remain un-graded due to lack of action - if only one of them could be a solid B to B+ starter. Neufeld was seen as a B to B+ guy in waiting in Sask'n but injuries have riddled him. If he's all healed up and top shape lets hope he's better than C+, perhaps B to B+ starter. Biggest problem for O'Shea - we ain't got no A o-linemen; not even an A- guy. how much of that because of coaching though ?

We have 4 import OLs Jones, Knapp, Richards and Saulsberry aside from January. If we dont have an NI good enough to be the 4th starter we can still go with 2-import OL even if January is not around..

Jones is capable to replace January, more than capable.

under 100k = $ for $ fine + down 1 spot for first pick 100k and over = $ for $ fine + lose first pick. that make sense to me

You have to give up good value to acquire good value.

I don't mind trading January (and his buddy Morley) if can get something for him (them). Jones have shown brilliance in short amount of time. Plus he can play either end of the OLine. Ditto Knapp. It seems Richards is in the same mould of Jones. While Saulsberry, as pointed out earlier, can play any position in the OLine which is a good thing. Jones could be a cheaper/younger alternative for January.

I don't mind Foucault if the Bombers is planning to go to 5-NI OLs with but with the amount of import OLs we have at the moment (5) I am not sure if that's the direction we are going.

You can never have enough non import tackle prospects. If Lavertu is off the board, Foucault should be the guy. If Foucault is for sure going to be that starting tackle, make the pick. If he's going to be an interior convert, we're just burning a hole in the rest of our roster by continuing to pick these types of players, of which we already have 3 (Swiston, Pencer, Neufeld who is essentially our 2nd round pick in this draft) plus Morley, a good football player who took two full seasons to become an average guard. IMO there's a strong bias for the NI tackle body types, and very few of them end up actually playing tackle, and most of them stink at playing inside when they ultimately have to because they can't handle edge rushers who are twice as quick as anything they see in CIS. Everyone, including seasoned football people, are in awe of a 6'8 guy who can move and looks great relative to CIS competition, and dream of the NI tackle, but in reality it isn't happening all that much. Now that's tying a general bias to Foucault, probably unfair to him until he proves otherwise. The best OL in this draft class could very well end up being a guy like Kyle Paterson, who doesn't draw ooohs and ahhhhs because he's 6'2 280, not 6'8 320. From a Bomber perspective, we have too many holes in the roster to just keep cramming guys in the pipeline for a position we end up using an import at anyways. that is my concern, actually.

My expectation for the Bombers this 2014 is to win the Grey Cup, just like every single year. How will they do that? It's not my problem. It's for them to figure it out. As for me, I'll be behind the team no matter what.

OL Lavertu is no brainer for us, unfortunately he's a no brainer for Ottawa too OL Foucault doesn't fill our need at the moment which is a Center and we have RG/RT hopefuls - Swiston, Penser and Neufeld. OL Tardif is definitely a future pick which we can't afford right now DL Smith is interesting based on what he shown in the combine plus he also shown he will not be out of place playing Guard which I guess added to his stock. Picking him, definitely help our ratio especially if he can start right away plus an emergency 7th OL on the 42. DL Gill is the highest rated DL prior to the combine, and he maintain his stock upto this point. He will be a sentimental pick for the hometown Bombers for sure. Just like Smith, he can help the ratio if he can start right away. Is he the next Doug Brown? That remains to be seen. WR Bailey - I dont think we are going with a receiver for our 1st pick. We may not have a backup for Watson and Kohlert at the moment but their are intersting receivers available in the latter rounds. DE Ainsworth is interesting too since he may fill the 'rover' spot on Ech's D which inturn will save us 1 DI spot. Question is, Is he a stretch to pick at #2? RB Coombs, will not fill a need for the Bombers since we dont really make NI RBs as our feature backs. Unless the Bombers will go 3 NI on the receiving core and convert him to a SB that may help but I'm not sure they wanna do that. I think BC will take him on the 5th if they dont move up. OL Goosen will be an off the board pick at this point based on the Final Draft ranking. I dont think Walters will go with the same route that Mack has taken during the draft. My guess... Bombers will pick either Smith or Gill (I'm going with Gill) and trading down with any of these teams - Montreal, BC and Toronto - is one of the possible options.

can anyone recall if any CFL team (in the past) fielded 3 import OLs for most of the season and not just for 1-2 games? i recall EDM did, i think last year but for just one (or two) game(s) only.

i'll mostly agree with this... except West: CGY, SSK, BC, EDM and WPG East: TO, HAM , MTL and OTT I'll put HAM ahead of MTL. Both teams have a young guns at QBs (Smith/Marsh and Collaros/Lefevour). Montreal will be having a new Offense with Worman while it will be the same Austin Offense for HAM with Lefevour have 1 year playing it which is an advantage. As far as I recall, Collaros was not declared as starter yet. I can certainly see why you think that way. How bout Ham and Mtl battling for #2 spot all season like BC and SKN? *toss*

I think your D will be fine with Burke, yeah he's not a HC material but he's a very good DC. Plus Emry should be famillar with Burke D. The real big question with your team is your special teams with Jim Daley.

i'll mostly agree with this... except West: CGY, SSK, BC, EDM and WPG East: TO, HAM , MTL and OTT I'll put HAM ahead of MTL. Both teams have a young guns at QBs (Smith/Marsh and Collaros/Lefevour). Montreal will be having a new Offense with Worman while it will be the same Austin Offense for HAM with Lefevour have 1 year playing it which is an advantage. As far as I recall, Collaros was not declared as starter yet.

i'll take a shot of doing a mock draft but i'll wait for the final rankings to be released tomorrow.

here's mine, starters only QB: Willy OL: January , Greaves , Kowalczuk , Penser, Neufeld REC: Moore, Denmark, Watson, Kohlert, Urrutia RB: Ford DL: Vega, Bryant, Anderson, McAdoo LB: Wild, McRath, Banks DB: Randle, Washington, Sears, Suber, S: Alexander

.and Dan West why? you need guys to play special teams also and west has got some special team skills. I wouldnt release him. Theres plenty of other guys id release ahead of west right now. namely who?

any trades looming ?

.and Dan West

Tested but found not good enough.

Why you don't want Glenn here?

if Walters can provide Ech's system witht the right people, I think this D will have a chance. And of course, O'shea and Tracey should have throw their 2 cents to Ech also. Afte all, O'shea played the D in his entire CFL career while Tracey authored one of the top D in CIS.

if he utilize a balance amount of his 'unorthodox D' and a 'conventional D' i think it will work to our advantage. as they say his 'unothodox D' creates confusion on the QB if they can keep the QB guessing when will the D use the conventional and unorthodox, i think will be an added advantage. ..just like im confuse of what im saying now...

thanks Mike and B_f

can you explain a bit that 'rover' position in Etch's D? is it the same to the 'jack' position in Burke's D?