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You have to show you are as good or better than the man in front of you. Period. You don't get why we would bring in one of the top WIL Lbers in the league?

That's where I see Ceresna in the 30. Will be interesting for sure.

The question of who will MOS roster is legit. I am pretty stoked that Walters is bringing in guys that are legit enough to make him look foolish if he doesn't utilize them. No offense to J.Jones last year but JSK is a guy that if you keep him out of the lineup, then the HC has to draw some legit fire. If anything, it demonstrates that Walters is in control of who is getting signed again.

We have signed a bunch of NT candidates this offseason through recruitment. I disagree on Corney/Kongbo/and Waggoner. All 3 got extensive playing time early in their careers and that was playing behind Westerman/jeffcoat.

I think we will see a lot of Ceresna at DE in a 30 front.

So a 2 game segment is your basis of 3 QBs? You can disagree if you want but the proof is in the pudding overall. Check out all 3 guys average completion yardage and it is dink and dunk numbers. Did they have moments where they didn't look overwhelmed? Sure. We got much better outings from Dru Brown than any of those 3 ever had.

I would have agreed with you but I think that returning to more 30 front is why we paid big for Ceresna and now brought in JSK. At least that seems to be the most logical reason for what we've done in FA...and I don't mind it because we had great success with it in 2024. What you are stating is definitely possible too because JSK can be an effective blitzer. I just look at our personnel right now tho, and it just screams 30.

Wilson is here now. Let's see if he makes it through camp. Shay and Smith need to earn playing time, not be given it based on passport/draft status. We play a ton of 3-4. There is ample opportunity to get them on the field even with the IMPs we have. In a 3-4 you need guys like JSK that are sound in every situation. I could see JSK playing a lot of MIKE this year.

They will have to earn their on field reps. If they are good enough to get field time what are the odds that MOS sits NAT players that deserve to play. Never happened yet. Everyone is looking at this addition in terms of a traditional 4-3 defence. I love that we brought in a guy that will solidify a 4 man LBer unit for us. He is a great fit for that. That might or might not be true. JSK being better is undeniable. Glad to get JSK, I was starting to worry that he may end up a RIder.

I am thinking that JSK will be used in a hybrid situational role rotating between WIL and MIKE. Let's not forget that we run a ton of 3-4 so he can be very effective tool for us there.

Absolutely no world exists where JSK is backing up Wilson, at this point of their careers he is a MUCH better LBer.

Wilson is quite likely in jeopardy of being relegated to teams now. I would think we didn't sign him to a very high contract. More likely in at MIKE quite a bit.

Yes he did, and he could certainly move there on passing downs platooning with T.Jones. He is an extremely versatile guy. I really like this move.

JSK is an excellent WIL. I am not sure why people are unhappy about this? This literally guarantees that Wilson will be a teamer. This upgrades our LBer corps big time.

If a guy is jumping off the page in practice, like Alexander was for a long time before they made the move to him, then the coaches will certainly give him a look. Like I said, if your number 2 is truly looking better than your number 1, he will get playing time. You don't need to force it. It is a fallacy that you don't know what you got until you see him in live fire. Live fire will confirm what you have seen in practice but if you are not seeing it there, there is very little chance you have some untapped potential hidden that will surprise the coaches. So no, you don't play guys based on salary, but you also don't play them just for the sake of giving them game time either...or at least not until the stakes are meaningless. If your QB1 is struggling, not seeing it that day, or for whatever reason is struggling then you can make a case for giving them the hook. However you never do that until you give QB1 a chance to try play through it. That is enormously important to the psyche of a QB.

Patterson/Dolegala/Fine is not a very high standard of coming right in and playing. All 3 of them lost a lot more than they won, and had pretty pedestrian numbers. Sure they went in, but your recollection of no dink and dunk is not accurate. They were almost exclusively a dink and dunk offence almost to the point of it being comedic. The only time they would open up the offence is when they were down multiple scores and with a very low success rate.

The biggest problem is that the NFL is in the same boat down their depth charts and are now stashing more QBs on PR for longer. I think that some of the play style/systems of the NCAA offences just doesn't lend itself well to the professional game afterwards.

The biggest and most universal fallacy in all of pro football fandom is the belief that QB2 or QB3 are somehow a better option than QB1. 95% of the time it simply isn't true. I will leave a 5% because maybe QB1 is just having a really bad day, but all things being equal if your QB2 is better than your QB1 it won't take a coach much time to switch those depth chart positions around. Coaches don't coach to lose. We had nothing behind Collaros the past 2 years that would have even remotely been a better option at any point and time.

Yea...and I am of the opinion that unless a game is completely out of reach you play your starter. It's why he's paid the big bucks. In the CFL we have watched teams come back from double digit deficits in the last 2 mins of a game on many occasions. This isn't the NFL where that would be insurmountable. I don't want my coach to ever throw in the towel on a game for the sake of getting QB2 or QB3 some reps. Just my opinion.

For sure, our #2 reps are going to have to be paramount if we go with a rookie, last year they were paramount with Strev because he was struggling and that unfortunately probably kept Wilson off the field.

Thanks Wbb, so what we are seeing is that the Bombers QB 3rd string usage, except for QBs playing up the depth chart due to injury, is actually right on pace with the rest of the league. A couple of outliers in Walker and Morgan who both ended up in 2nd string and made starts prior to any drop back snaps so it really was more a case of a couple guys who either weren't really third string (Walker) and another who was on a team with a rash of QB injuries. Rest of the numbers are all within the same relative range as Wilson.

Then please compare to every other 3rd string QB, while in 3rd QB status, across the league for context. Just drop backs not SY.

Wilson got reps, Wilson sucked when given them. Surprised he is still here. Hard to get your 3rd string reps when for the past two seasons we have not been in very many games that is traditional put in your 3rd string guy time. Gotta remember that Streveler also need the reps. Lotsa, he should have got reps posts but very little thought expressed as to when we could have given them.

Most of these guys will be available just before TC in reality. We can spend the next couple months seeing if Elgersma shakes loose and if so evlauating him and the other rookies/backups out in our rookie camps etc, if we decide that we need an experienced back up at that point sign one of the experienced guys. Really no need to do so right now. If there was one, for instance, like Powell who jumps off the page compared to the others then I would think differently. However, at this point the top 3-4 of what`s left are both unlikely to catch on somewhere and are all of similar ability.

What bonus? He wouldn't have any bonus until he signed a new contract. That doesn't happen until he is either released or he reaches FA. Team never put in an after the season roster bonus in the final year of a contract. The only time we see the roster bonuses are on the first years of a multi-year deal and most are timed for about the middle of January. It would be epically stupid if 3-4 days before FA, Ceresna had a bonus due on an expiring contract. If that were the case no team would have offered him anything until that bonus was paid. But like I said, there is almost zero chance that Ceresna had not cashed in on every dollar of his expiring contract prior to the window.