GCn20

Great. Thanks for chiming in with the identical post for the 850th time this year. No one is arguing your point and you won't change anyone's mind who disagrees. It's been a year of this. It feels pretty redundant. Give it a rest at least for the offseason. If the same issues crop up next year OK....fair enough...fire away.

He has mental health issues that are just too big a red flag for teams.

Cole improved a lot as the season went on.

I don't think anyone here sold Ford short. What I, and others, were stating is that he still needs development. I have no doubt that if developed more he has all the ability to be a very good CFL QB. Just isn't there yet and despite what some people here think playing a QB that isn't ready is NOT the way to develop them. It's how you break them

I see absolutely no reason we can't keep both Schoen and Brady providing other GMs don't get ridiculous and blow up the CFL pay scale to get one of them like Jones did a couple years ago with Lawler.

Pretty sure his signing bonus is what put us over.

We thought we had the game and just basically quit playing but yea Ford is not ready. Has a ton of potential but isn't seeing the field well yet.

You just got to convince him that it's what his dead ancestors want.

I highly, very highly, doubt that. We love Brady but business is business and we are SMS restrained. We will offer him 15-20k below his best offer (if that offer makes a lick of sense) and get him. He wants us more than we want him. He is a Winnipeg NAT but we will not blow up the SMS or lose Schoen to keep him. He, at the end of the day, is easy to replace.

I think in the end we say goodbye to a few vets, get discounts from Schoen and Brady to stay and go to our 5th cup in a row.

The players signed pre-January 1 likely had big portions of their salaries paid from this year's SMS.

Ford needs more development. Get MBT and set up a Ford package of plays. Use him like we did with Strev.

It is not 50k savings on Nats unless they are making 120k. What Nats making 120k should we cut and replace with raw rookies. I agree with replacing the marine but he is making league minimum. There is no savings there. What yearly bonus cap? No such thing. The SMS is the same year round.

100k salary lost is a 28k savings if we dress a rookie. We would need to cut most of our vets to get both Schoen and Brown. Yea..it's not happening without 3-4 of our highest paid players getting replaced by rookies or 6-8 of our mid tier vets. That's just the math unless we had 150-200k cap room saved from this year going against next year's cap.

Nope..and I doubt they will until they are certain Ford is committed

Yep, and that is on top of his 100k roster bonus on Jan. 15

Me neither. I would just eat the 100k and thank him for his services. The only thing I can think of is that the Esks want to make sure that Ford doesn't bolt during the NFL window which seems like a very remote of a chance to me.

I think that is almost a foregone conclusion.

Ryan also thought he would be the RIder's best choice for HC about a month of so ago, so I would take his assessment of HCes with a giant grain of salt. Dude is just trying to stay relevant by making outlandish comments every couple of months I think. Sad really.

Kyle Walters is a busy guy this past week. Great job.

Sub par offence and defence? Our defence was the best in the league and our offence was very narrowly ranked second..

He was not fired, he was simply before his time and misunderstood. He is the Nikola Tesla of the CFL. lmao.

Sure that's the fear. The question is whether that fear has any merit. 100k offseason bonus on Jan 15 and a further 100k that is guaranteed later on. If the Esks want to limit their liability to Cornelius to 100k they must turf him prior to Jan. 15.

Hard to say. Depends a lot on what other teams do as well.

Randle is a good comparable, although I think Nichols is better than Randle was.