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Yea...I don't think SAM is a position a team needs to spend big money on especially teams like us that use it almost exclusively as an extra DB. I know there are tons of Stove fans in our fan base but I still maintain we will be just fine with Sayles and Wicker/Walker.

DB?...Hells no....Chris Jones looks at him and all he sees is DE. Wouldn't surprise me that there were multiple teams in on Ellingson. He was top 7 in the league last year. I imagine after the fiasco he played in last year the stability of a team like the Bombers was very appealing to him.

Not surprised they would want a 35 year old, who reportedly did not show up to camp the year before at 100%, to take a physical before considering giving him a contract. If he came cheap enough sure. However, there are reports he is considering retirement. I think Harris has priced himself out of the market.

For sure. If I were a good kicker in the CFL I would be waiting until the eve of camp to sign. NFL kicking is at an all time low right now.

BC is rolling the dice that's for sure. Boom or bust. I hope Harris does go East if he doesn't sign with us. Toronto would be a good landing spot for him. Man...they must feel snake bitten by their strategy of signing a high priced QB and want to go 180.

Moreno could be a good one....if he wasn't so undisciplined and stupid.....but he is. There is a reason they sat him out in the playoffs.

Meh....we will go out and get a kicker if/when we need to do so. Mourtado has had a full offseason to work on his craft and adjust to the CFL. I'm willing to bring him to camp and see what he's got before blowing dough on another kicker. There will be other kickers available if/when we need one.

Robertson Leonard Moreno....not exactly a trio I would consider championship calibre that's for sure....but hey...they signed St. John...lmao

Don't know. Not too worried about it though.

Yea they just lost another cog in their DL as well in Makana Henry. They might be going with the CFL's first 2-5 defence at this rate. They might not have enough DL under contract to field anything more...lol. But LBers....hey they got Lbers.

Riderfans really crowing up a storm about Sankey and Moncrief, some proclaiming that their defence will be better than the Bombers last year. Here are the facts as I see them... Gainey, Purifoy, Micah, Woodard, Lacey, Henry > Sankey, Moncrief

Sure they can. They can't cut him during the season for injury reasons. In camp guys get cut for being injured all the time, they just have to pay for his medical is all.

Really bad move by Lawler to not secure some of that money. At 300k if he gets off to a slow start he could be toast at that salary and be in a position where he has to take scraps because no one has any money left. Or worse, an injury in camp and he gets nothing.

Your not replacing Adams or Lawler with Bailey but Bailey came a long way in 2021 and if his trajectory is still rising, he along with Ellingson getting those touches may provide the production we need.

What I like about Bailey is that he got better and better as the season went on.

It's possible he might not be, but one thing about the CFL, there are always DBs available on the cheap.

I honestly don't see McKnight winning that job.

I don't see Adams as a loss on the field really. I think replacing his production with a rookie will be very doable. Lawler is a really good receiver and Ellingson is step back from him but I could also see Ellingson going over a 1000.

I agree. Desjarlais was the one that hurts the most. Honestly, I could see Ellingson being a top 5 receiver this year. It makes a huge difference when your QB has time to deliver you the ball.

We are still seeing some of the fruits of RIgmaiden too.

We had 80% of the divisional all star team on our roster last year. Something had to give. It was inevitable. The fact we retained about 80% of that 80% puts us in a great position to three-peat.

Blake Jackson, Carlton Adugosi are guys that were on the cusp last year and I expect one of them to replace Darvin. Harris in all honestly is not a huge loss to our ability to win and that was proved last year. Stove is a loss, but DTs are not a tough find imo. Lawler and Desjarlais are our two big losses this year and I don't see their losses as being ones that bring us back to the pack in the CFL.

For sure. We retained our dominance in the trenches. I look at our D front 7, and our OL, and I don't see a team even close to our level of talent and that's how champions are built.

I look up and down our lineup and I still see the best team in the CFL. Don't get caught up in the hype of what other teams are doing, they were so far behind us that the question is whether they can realistically catch up.

Lawler had 300,000 reasons to leave, Stove will get top DT money, and we simply moved on from Harris and Adams due to cost vs diminishing returns. The guys we really NEEDED back all signed back at below market value. We didn't have to get better, we just had to stay ahead. If we don't rest guys and take the last couple weeks off we are basically a one loss team in 2021. We were so much better than anyone else that we could afford to lose a couple guys. Look at the all star team, it was all Bombers...lol.