blueandgoldguy

Bombers need to be looking at improving almost every position. We had the least amount of talent last year and our receiving core was in the lower half of the league. No true number 1 threat..and no, Denmark is not a number 1 threat..too inconsistent..a number 2 receiver at best. I would welcome Nick Moore with open arms even if we overpay him. It's Ok to overpay for receivers who are better than "good."

did you just compare Getzlaf to two of the best receivers to ever play in the league? Nope. Just making the point that players can still be at their best in their 30s. There are plenty of good receivers who can dominate in their 30s. Those two just came to mind first. It's funny that Noeller likes all your posts. Guess you two are BFFs.

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I could see Ottawa getting a decent chunk of the gate. Not sure how much though. It shouldn't some as a surprise that Ottawa would be playing their exhibition game on the road. They already made it clear to the league that they would like their first few games on the road to allow the completion of the stadium. Mid-July at earliest. Hamilton's stadium won't be ready until the fall at best. Book it.

If Ferri is at least as good as Dunn and Wild, I don't see the harm in signing him and bringing him to training camp to compete for a spot on the team. Shouldn't cost too much.

Would like to see Butler in blue and gold. Probably need to pay him at least 10, maybe 20,000 more per season than any other team to compensate for potential lost playoff money. Watkins or Emery would be a nice add as well. Too bad about Bourke. Let 's hope he doesn't sign and Winnipeg takes a run at him.

Best of luck to Cvety and Happy Retirement!

Another CFL player goes to the Colts! Congrats to Henoc! The earliest he could come back to the Bombers, assuming he doesn't pan out, would be September then, yes?

Pushing 30 doesn't mean anything. A lot of WR's in the CFL hit their prime around 30. Doubt the Riders will be disappointed starting Taj Smith, Geroy, Getzlaf, and Bagg, with some new import taking the last job; and Etienne, Sisco, and McHenry filling out the backup slots. How does it not mean anything? If Bagg goes down with another injury your left with one decent NI. How many years left does Getzlaf and Simon have left? They don't have much for Canadian depth. Etienne could be good but no one knows and sisco is terrible. All I am trying to say is Taman would be an idiot to at least not try and get an offer to Kohlert. I still see him signing in Winnipeg but likely for more then that wanted to offer him. Getzlaf has a tonne of years left. I could see him playing another 5 - 7 years and he probably still has another 2 - 3 excellent years in him. Stegall and Simon won their Most Oustanding Players awards when they were 31 or 32.

I believe a CFl team could be successful in Halifax. But the vast majority if not the entire stadium will have to be funded by taxpayers. Let's say it's a $125-$140 million stadium seating 24 - 25,000 with 1000 or so club seats and 25-30 suites. - 30 - 40 million from the city - 50 - 60 million from the province (possibly more if no federal funding) - 30 - 40 million from the feds. Halifax would have to show the stadium would be used for amatuer events on a regular basis (university) to get funding. Of course, the policies of the federal government with regards to funding pro facilities could change with a different party in power in 1.5 years. - 10 - 20 million from private owners and/or yearly lease of 1 - 2 million. Guaranteed revenues from other events at the stadium. Might not be able to even get that from a private owner unless they are allowed to construct a stadium alongside a larger development similar to Lansdowne in Ottawa. One of conditions of building a stadium in a new market like Halifax should be a minimum number of deposits on season tickets and multi-year commitments on all the suites and maybe even the club seats. I think it could be done. There isn't much competition for the entertainment dollar in Halifax.

Curious who you're talking about because my first thought is that it's me and I haven't been absent. I'm actually bummed to see Jade go. I'm curious too cause Noeller and I have been here as well... Didn't see your quotes earlier in the thread and yah, I was referring to you.

Based on what? He has a larger sample size than Reilly had coming into his new team, and Reilly was known by many around the league last year as the king of garbage time as he was wildly inconsistent and put up a lot of his numbers late in games when teams typically switch to a cover 4. Eyeball test. Better arm, quicker in his reads and more athletic which helps in evading the rush. Last point is something that worries me with Willy. He might get killed behind our O-Line.

I sure hope this happens in the next 5 - 7 years. I can't stand having an unbalanced schedule. Would be great to have more exposure in the Maritimes as it would provide higher TV ratings for the league overall.

Downside is the season is a week longer; not good for a Winnipeg Grey Cup in 2015, weather-wise. Not much of a difference in the weather for Winnipeg between Nov 23 vs. Nov 30. CFL should move the season start up to mid - June and have the Grey Cup game the second week of November and be done with it. I think there's a good chance we get 6 or even 7 home games by mid-September with Ottawa and Hamilton playing their first 3 - 4 weeks on the road due to stadium construction. That's of course, before it becomes official that Hamilton's stadium will not be finished this summer or even this year in which case they will play several home games at Guelph once again. All those warm weather games should mitigate some of the losses in the season ticket base.

Well hopefully that's not the case and this is just a ploy to lower the asking price for Glenn or any other backup in the league. I'll be a little disappointed if the Bombers go into training camp without another QB that has a little CFL experience

The eyeball test. Although they both have limited samples to draw from (Willy moreso than Collaros), Collaros just appears to be the QB with greater talent and greater upside based on in-game action. I still think Willy has the ability to be a decent QB with the proper coaching and decent O-line protection, just not as good as the likes of Collaros or Reilly. Willy becoming a pocket passer with our terrible O-Line scares me, How did that work out for Buck last year?

Glad Walters made the deal for Willy - finally we have a young QB who can seriously challenge for the starting QB position. Won't be as good as Reilly , but he has the opportunity to be a good QB. We shouldn't be satisfied with just this signing though. If Glenn is unavailable and Walters senses that Desjardins won't cut him prior to or during training camp, he needs to get out there and get another QB with some experience - Nichols should be the first choice, followed by Crompton. Heck, I would take Porter over Goltz coming back at this point. He can run and provide first down conversions just as well as Goltz and he has actually had a few decent passing games unlike Goltz. Glad Etienne is done. It's Possible that he might put up some respectable numbers in Sasky (maybe some 300 yard seasons), but somehow I doubt he lasts more than a couple years before his career is over. It's interesting that one of the biggest jade supporters over the years is absent from this thread...

Hall showed an ability to move the ball down the field..sometimes. People seem to have forgotten the last home game of the season when Hall led the team to all of 1 TD and put up something like 150 yards passing. If Hall is our starter next season he will have a few good games, the rest will be mediocre or awful. He is a capable backup and occasional starter, but in no way can the Bombers hope to get better on offense with Max Hall as a long - term starter.

You must have missed the news about the acquisition of Matt Bucknor, and the re-signing of Kowalczuk and Lucas. Right there we have the core nucleus of unparalleled NI depth. I forgive you. KBF with an aardvark moment there....

It's semantics with the whole "starting quality receivers" thing. Those guys could come in and get 250 - 300 yards each and Miller could say they are quality starting receivers. Bombers could win 4 or 5 games this year and lose over half their games by 10 points or less and Miller could argue the Bombers put out a "very competitive" product in 2014. With that said maybe the Bombers will bring in another Canadian receiver who is more proven than these two once free agency begins. Hopefully Kohlert for starters.

First part of article is damage control by Miller. Can't blame him for that. Bombers lost out on Plan A and now Plan B. Plan C I would presume is Glenn or Willy or both. Will be interesting to see what happens in the next week.... As for the three receivers - Watson, Kohlert and Parker as iso was saying. Could argue with the quality starting receiver bit with one of those, but again i don't blame Miller for trying to sell that. Backups and potential starter would be Jade I guess. Wonder how much the Bombers sign him for next season? Or will he walk?

Congrats iso. Be pretty cool to follow the career of a forum member's son.

TD place also has an arena...and a movie theatre...and a farmers market...and a whole foods store...and fountain that does amazing tricks. We can't compete with that!

At some point our run of bad luck has to end. I never thought I would see a GC in Winnipeg back in the 1980's and then all of a sudden Harold Ballard gifted us Tom Clements. You never know what might fall in your lap in this league. You just have to keep trucking. That was still a good team in Winnipeg prior to Clements coming in. Just bad luck that they ran into the greatest dynasty in CFl history in the playoffs.

What exactly were you expecting Henry Burris to win for us? And yes...Walters should be sure to sign Steve Myddleton, the mystical free agent NI OL, just give him a blank cheque. It is going to be a couple years of rebuilding in terms of NI's and QB's. That's the price we pay for relying on Buck Pierce for 4 seasons, wasting picks on Etienne's and Pencer's. If this rebuild isn't done right and we chase mediocre players like Burris to the detriment of developing better players, it will take even longer. But if the fans sit through two more years of medirocity there won't be any fans left to pay the bills... Pierce was a stop gap to help fill the void while we looked for / developed a future starting QB.. it didn't happen.. The qbs that we had failed to perform and have been cast off. If you are okay with 2 more years for 4-14 - 6-12 years you will be mightly lonely in the stands.. The major fallacy spewing from yourself and a few others is that Burris and a couple free agents in this year's market are going to change the fact that we are the worst team in our division...they won't. Need to rebuild this football team from the ground up, starting with management and coaching, now on the field. Rebuilding is a fallacy in a 9 team league where 6 make the playoffs...where all the teams are on the same level playing field fighting to recruit imports from the same talent pool down south...those perceived to be not good enough or lacking the physical makeup to be in the NFL. Reloading while building up your non-import talent base through the draft is completely feasible. There are several examples of this.