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  2. Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread

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    23 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

    Really a monster final year, first year post transfer is pretty meh. The film in that article is interesting. 

    The good, extremely successful position change, very productive final year, better runner than you’d expect, big lean interior dl, has great instincts ability to read the play and gets off the line fast, has good hands too. 

    The bad, he wins battles from the nose with finesse not power. He often used the same rip/swim into the A gap and just walked by a c and a guard. Mostly relies on shoulder check hits not good form tackles. 

    The ugly, the level of competition on those ols looks real bad. He doesn’t look explosive or use power much. He looks like a big hs senior playing a bad jv team. Even for a d3 conference, it looks bad. 

     

    I can see the fit as a guy who rushes the passer from a 3 tech spot (he’s not a cfl nose) if his slippery play and violent hands are as effective up here. 

     

    So you're saying as long as he's lined up against Kolankowski, he should be fine?

  4. Restaurant/food thread

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    6 hours ago, Brandon said:

    When I used to work downtown I would get Cookies By George,   those were always a hit.   Those were "gourmet" cookies and considered expensive at $3.00 per cookie.  Oh Doughnuts the same at around $4 per doughnut.       This is double the price and it's only a cookie.  Those cookies better be the size of a small pizza at those prices....

     

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    They are decent sized but still not for me at that price point.

    Interesting that the Winnipeg franchises have a Bombers connection.  Owners are Kristina Bighill and Paulina Coombs (Anthony's wife).

  5. 25/26 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season Thread

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    33 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

    I wonder if they are front loading parts of the contract with excess space this year. Or maybe they just intend to go over the cap again as much as they feel like. 

    They've gone over the cap the last 2 seasons (and by more than any other team) so why stop now?   They pay guys like Rourke & Betts a good chunk of their salary as marketing money and yet they still go over the cap - Doman does not seem to have an issue with that but it hasn't really paid off for them yet.

  8. Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread

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    1 hour ago, GCn20 said:

    Hey, I'd love for all of this to be settled right now too. However, it is crazy to suggest change isn't coming because it hasn't been announced Dec. 1. I completely get what you are saying, and if media reports are any indication, we are working diligently to make change in our coaching staff. For now that is a good sign. On December 1st, we should be optimistic about these reports. If nothing has happened a month from now then yea...let's assume the worst.

    They were apparently working diligently last year too but nothing got announced until February.  MOS had even claimed that they were ahead of the game last year as they had already been preparing for life after Buck when he got interviewed by other teams to be their HC. 

    That being said, there are rumors that suggest a coach turned down our offer to be the OC and they had to go back to the drawing board and that's how we ended up with Hogan.  We also interviewed Makysmic but he took the Elks job instead so we could have missed out on 2 of our top choices which would understandably delay things a bit.  Hopefully they don't run into those issue again - could be a red flag if we keep missing out on our preferred choices.

  9. 25/26 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season Thread

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    5 minutes ago, Noeller said:

    It is EXTREMELY hyperbolic to say that Jake Thomas is EVERYTHING that's wrong with this team....

    The only issue with Jake the past two years is that they gave him Prime Doug Brown snaps. Used sparingly, it would have been fine and far less glaring. He just doesn't have that much juice anymore. 

    Going forward, if much prefer to see Cam Lawson and Tanner Schmeckel if we're going to carry NI DL...

    How much juice did he have in 2018 when we tried to walk away from him? The fact that it's now 2025 and we're still talking about him and he's still playing that kind of a role, is a huge fail for this team.

  11. 25/26 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season Thread

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    1 hour ago, Brandon said:

    It was a thing... they had that one Eskimo player who went viral for a while.    

    Tik Tok is aimed at pre teens and lonely house wives... it doesn't need to be a CFL thing.      

    Print media is also completely dead, same goes with digital news media.    We are in the age that people get their news/opinions primarily by social media influencers.   Unfortunately the CFL is an old white man sport ,  so it's not going to really get any traction on social media as well.    

    Shai Ross went viral (twice) on Instagram, not Tik Tok.  He's on both platforms but has a much bigger following on IG (2.5 million vs 140k).

  18. The Airline Thread

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    1 minute ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

    I think if anyone can afford to go on a holiday to a sunny resort anywhere then they should pay for the privelidge. We, the poor Canadians who stay home in the winter, if we want to fly in order to see family in Canada, we pay for it big time. I've never travelled anywhere in the winter. We travel in the summer. Prefer to drive over flying. In 2 years when my wife retires, we're planning a road trip to Halifax. We have family & friends in New Brunswick & Ontario. I've never beem east of Toronto.  

    You can find deals though - like I said, you can fly to/from Calgary and Winnipeg for very cheap at certain times.  If you are looking to go at peak times, you pay peak prices.  Google Flights is a good way to look for affordable flights and you can set alerts to notify you when prices change.

    Halifax is beautiful but like most cities, the homeless situation makes it unappealing to explore, at least it was a couple years ago when I was there.  Only other place east of Ontario, I've been was Montreal - also beautiful but was way more expensive than Halifax.

  19. The Airline Thread

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    39 minutes ago, Brandon said:

    What is the reason for the high prices this season?  My inlaws have said that everything is ridiculously pricey and I assume it cannot be from people avoiding Jamaica and going elsewhere? 

    Have yet to see a good explanation.

    Jamaica getting hit by the hurricane has definitely increased prices but it's still been much higher than normal even prior to that.

    We book well in advance and have price match guarantees so we're always watching prices.  There were some deals to be had a couple months ago but very few these days unless you are happy with going to Cuba.

     

  20. Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread

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    8 minutes ago, GCn20 said:

    You don`t talk to other guys unless the job is open. Hogan still has a year left on his contract. It would be incredibly unprofessional to talk to other guys while your guy has a year left on his contract unless you were dumping him. I mean think about it, if your plan is to bring the guy back you show confidence in him, you don`t publically make it look like you might replace him. That sets him up to be a dead duck coach. I have ran businesses for many years and letting an employee catch wind that he might be replaced is a recipe for disaster. You NEVER do that.

    Normally I would agree if there was one media report, but there have now been several reporting the Bombers are looking for a new OC.  

    Source?  I have not seen it anywhere that he was given a 2 year deal.

  23. 25/26 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season Thread

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    13 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

    If MLSE was serious, they'd fire or reassign Pinball & Murphy. Let someone else come in & have total control of football operations. Murphy is a ****** & seems that a lot of CFL people don't like him which is why he isn't a CFL GM by now.

    Murphy had a fistfight with Hamilton fans a few years back & was indefinitely suspended. Then after Murphy returned to the Argos, he dismissed the sexual harrassment by Kelly.  Murphy even blamed the woman involved for making it all public & "opening up a can of worms" for Kelly & the Argos. Pinball knew about the sxexual harrassment as well & did nothing. Both should have been fired. Pinball & Murphy's involvement in the day to day operations is really interfering in the hiring of a new GM/HC. To the point the Argos will hire someone so low on the totem pole that he will grind the Argos into the ground.

     

    Apparently Dinwiddie wanted Murphy gone & the Argo's said no so he left.  I can't imagine sticking with a known piece of s**t like that to the detriment of your franchise - luckily for MLSE, nobody in Toronto will notice.

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    Dinwiddie took his two Grey Cup rings to Ottawa, where he will act as head coach and general manager of the Redblacks. He didn’t necessarily want the GM title in Toronto, but he did want more control over personnel. And he wanted John Murphy out as player personnel chief. The Argos said no to that and it played a significant role in Dinwiddie heading to Ottawa.

    Family comes first as Mike O'Shea spurns Argonauts | Toronto Sun

     

  24. The Airline Thread

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    11 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

    Fly from Calgary to Winnipeg it's $700 so who cares?? I'd rather domestic flights be cheaper than flights to sun destinations. 

    People who like to go south in the winter care. Besides - it's a sale price, to one specific location, not all sun destinations.  We've got a trip booked in March and our flight prices are way higher than normal ($1400 to Cancun) - on the same dates I can fly round trip to Calgary for $213 so yeah it can be way cheaper to fly domestically.

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