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5 minutes ago, Pete said:
Hutchings would be this years Orimilade, but were busy signing guys like this https://3downnation.com/2025/12/08/winnipeg-blue-bombers-sign-well-traveled-offensive-lineman-tairiq-stewart/
Not sure what one has to do with the other? We can't go after Hutchings yet (if ever) so why shouldn't they look at other players, especially at other positions that we need help at?
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2 hours ago, wbbfan said:
That’s pretty interesting. Kinda lazy on their end imo. Hamilton is gonna end up filling the spot with a guy no one else would have doing that job otherwise.
Yeah I was surprised by that. He was completely out of the league for a few years before we brought him back to scout. Toronto and Hamilton both throwing **** at the wall and seeing what sticks so he winds up getting a look for a GM position.
Toronto I get, but what's happening in Hamilton that they can't get anyone decent?
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4 minutes ago, 17to85 said:
Ugh, Kian Schaefer baker is probably the most over rated receiver out there.
I'd take a flyer on Gittens with a bounce back year though.
I don't even know I'd say Gittens needs abounce back year as much as a change of scenery. The L's just sucked and if he doesn't have Ford cosplaying as a legitimate QB, maybe he cracks 1k yards?
He was still their 2nd leading receiver (50 yards behind Julien-Grant with one less game played) so he was performing as well as one could on that team.
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1 hour ago, Bigblue204 said:
Both KsB and Gittens seem to miss time pretty regularly.
Not sure that's true of Gittens. He only missed one game this year (and only one last year as well). He did miss half of the 2023 season but played all 18 games in 2022.
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On 2025-12-05 at 2:35 PM, blue85gold said:
He talks about it but there's no number in that article.
Doesn't want to be top 3, so all the means is less than $600K.
Big difference between $450K and $590K
And now the numbers are out: $455,300 in hard money & maxes out at $509,300 so yeah I'd say he did the team a favour.
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4 hours ago, rebusrankin said:
He took less last year and talked about taking less so they could afford others.
He talks about it again this year with his newest contract.
Quote“My aim is not to make as much money as I possibly can. It never has been, and that’s not really what I’m concerned about. I want this team to do right, and I’ve been on record, I told Jeremy that if it ever comes down to a small amount of us getting a guy that’s going to change our trajectory, I’m always willing to discuss and help out.”
"I just thought about what would be fair in terms of what I feel like I’ve accomplished in what we just did, and also making sure that we can get guys back. That’s really where I’m at right now."
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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?
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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....
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).
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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.
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It's not just this year though - he disappeared for the last third of the season in 2024 before having himself a hell of a GC. Is a team going to spend big money based on one great game 2 seasons ago?
There are only 2 ways I can see him get that kind of money at this point of his career - a bonus heavy contract or one loaded with marketing money.
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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.
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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.
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32 minutes ago, Brandon said:
The Blue can dress Jake Thomas up like Homer and do skits where everyone on this board is Grimes being baffled at how JT still has his job.
I heard the Bombers had a contest to redo the jerseys and JT won by adding racing stripes to the helmets. MOS was quite impressed.
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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).
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8 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:
It’s weird but the first part of your sentence where it ends at sister automatically gets me thinking of Roughrider fans for some reason.
Oh the whole thing got me thinking of Ride fans! 😂
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1 hour ago, Gail said:
Maybe they told Hogan that they will be looking for a new OC and that if he wanted to stay with the Bombers he could have his old job back. His decision.
His old position isn't vacant though - Andre Bolduc was hired as his replacement so what do you say to him? Sorry, you're out of a job because Hogan sucked at his?
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https://3downnation.com/2025/11/26/3downnations-top-50-pending-2026-cfl-free-agents/
Anyone got KW's email? Need to send him this so he can start a shopping list. 😂
Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
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Yeah officially we can't - and even if they get a jump on things like the other teams do, we wouldn't be able to announce anything until February anyway.