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I think that our new scouting staff is off to a decent start as they have found a few keepers already. You're only going to have so many rookies making an impact (especially with this HC) and they brought in Vavel, Woodbey & Allen this year. If Perkins amounts to anything up here, you can credit Sunderland for that since he's been after him since at least 2019. That said - DB & LB was not our biggest weak spot going so if, during this off-season, they want to focus on getting some stud DL's signed, that'd be much appreciated!

I imagine it was pretty close to this...

So we can yell No deal McCutcheon everytime he breaks up a play?

The league had announced a crackdown on abuse of the system last year - that was under Ambrosie though so who knows how Johnston feels about it or how hard they actually enforced the rules. CFL teams could face salary cap punishments for abuse of marketing money: Randy Ambrosie - 3DownNation

Yup, it seemed like he's been considering retirement after the last few seasons so a 2 year deal was not what I expected either.

Hamilton Tiger-Cats sign QB Bo Levi Mitchell to two-year contract extension - 3DownNation

Yep, the only limit is that the team has to be able to justify the amount of marketing money being paid to a player. If BC was allowed to give Rourke 200k, the Bombers should have no problems giving Brady a good chunk either.

Darren Becker, former Bombers equipment guy. https://www.instagram.com/p/DSEOA0DjFMU/

2 year extension for Cam Lawson.

That would be a game changer. If his cap hit was only 100-150k, I'm taking that all day.

Brady tried to reset the market for RB's last year and it only worked out for him. It did not affect the other salaries. The top RB in the league last year (Mills) made a whopping $123,450 last year - half of what Brady did. Butler (3rd overall for RB's) made slightly less at $120k. You absolutely can replace his production for a much lower price. The hit for the Bombers would be off the field - everyone loves Brady (myself included) and it would suck to see him leave.

He was already the highest paid RB by a wide margin (240k vs 160kish for Ouellette) so it's not like we were being cheapskates with him. Bumping him up another 60k is crazy.

Unless it's a contract heavily loaded with marketing money so it doesn't affect the cap - hard pass for me at that price point.