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  4. Former Bombers in NFL (and spring leagues) news

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    5 minutes ago, Noeller said:

    It makes all the sense in the world for him to try and get a shot for as long as he can and I certainly wouldn't fault him.

    Having said that, it's interesting that they seemingly told Walters that if it doesn't pan out this NFL season, that they'll be in camp come May. 

    Unless they told Walters something different, his agent didn't specify a timeline when he commented on it a month ago.  Weinrauch said he'd be happy to sign here if/when all NFL opportunities are exhausted.

    It was was Walters who said they probably won't know until after Feb 1st when NFL futures contracts are signed.  That might be something they discussed privately though.

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

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    7 minutes ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:

    All this hate being heaped on Walters... does anyone else think that he may have been a victim of our less than stellar talent scouts? I mean we lost two maybe three impactful talent scouts since 2019. I feel that may be part of the reason for our lack of talent across the board.

    Don't get me wrong- KW does deserve a good portion o the blame.

    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!

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

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    21 minutes ago, GCn20 said:

    There is a kind of loose justification every team must give the league for the marketing money. According to most reports I've read about the justification to the league it is pretty close to "trust me bro".

    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

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

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    1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:

    If there is no limit on market money, the Bombers should use it extensively. Club has been making bank the past few years.

    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.  

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

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    2 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

    It probably is. But it'll set the market for running backs like Diedrick Mills. & James Butler as well. We lose Brady what's the proability we replace him with a running back that's even close to what Oliveira does for us??? That's the problem. Replacing him. Not paying him. 

    Again, paying him isn't the problem. It's replacing him. 

    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.

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

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    7 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

    If that's the market, so be it. I believe even our tone deaf, can't read the room, sits on his ass in free agency of a GM in Kyle Walters knows he has to sign Brady. To make up for it get rid of some deadwood on the roster. Especially one entitled vet who thinks he has a job for life, in particular.

    We're all going.... WTH??? Almost every position costs more, now. QB, receiver OL... About the only position you can still sign cheap vets is defensive back. . That'll probably be changing as well. 

    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.

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

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    1 hour ago, wbbfan said:

    As far as competitive balance on that schedule, just for us, I really like that schedule. 

    No stupid short weeks, no home and away back-to-back series (other than LDC/BJB), good spread out balance of bye weeks, and we aren't ending a season series super early in the season again. 

    Best competitive balance schedule (For us) in many years. Personally, only 3 weekday games all on Thursdays, which is great. 

    Looks like there are no crazy short weeks (4 days) for any team this year but in July, we have consecutive 5 days weeks with travel in between.  Wouldn't be so bad if one of the short weeks was home & home but they aren't.  Losing extra days for travel isn't ideal and we end up playing 5 games in 27 days that month.  We have a bye right after though which is good because they'll need it!

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

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    7 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

    As far as competitive balance on that schedule, just for us, I really like that schedule. 

    No stupid short weeks, no home and away back-to-back series (other than LDC/BJB), good spread out balance of bye weeks, and we aren't ending a season series super early in the season again. 

    Best competitive balance schedule (For us) in many years. Personally, only 3 weekday games all on Thursdays, which is great. 

    Not for me.  I don't want to be stuck in the city on a Friday - I want to be at the lake.

  24. Restaurant/food thread

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    45 minutes ago, Brandon said:

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    I sure hope it is near Transcona.     

    Famous Dave's has gone from good to really bad over the last several years and the Belle's place is not our cup of tea.      I really miss the days of Loveys :(

     

    I hope so too.  At one point, Rob kicked tires on what is now Belle's Kitchen so he's definitely wanted to come to this way for a while.  Fingers crossed that he can find a place that works but either way, anywhere it the city will be better than driving out to Steinbach.  

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