TrueBlue4ever

If the cap is $5 million for 45 players this year, and then $5 million for 44 players next year, then sure next year you will have an extra $600,000 for those 44 players with your marquee player rule removing that one salary. And teams will still spend to that $5 million for those 44 players next year. The problem then surfaces again in two years time when you need to give raises, you are at the $5 million cap for your 44 players, have already assigned the marquee exemption to a player, and there is no extra money for raises. Your marquee rule only defers the problem for one season, then you are back where you started. Your extra $600,000 is only a one season correction, it won’t give you an extra $600,000 every year.

This thinking is fundamentally flawed in that you aren’t projecting past the immediate change this year. We free up $600,000 by making Collaros a marquee player. Same difference if we increase the salary cap $600,000. Suddenly we have enough to give Schoen a $230,000 raise to 300K, Brady a $100,000 raise to 200K, maybe we would have added $20K to Wolitarsky because Canadians are a premium. Maybe Bailey goes up to $160K (if he got offered $140K last year). Maybe Bryant stays at last year’s salary rather than a reduction since we’d have the extra room. Etc etc. That works fine for this year, but then next year when comes time for free agency, we are short cash again because we are already up against the “new” cap (or the 44 player cap as opposed to the 45 player cap if you want to insist that the marquee rule is totally different than a matching increase in cap space - it is not) It is ridiculous to say GMs will stay within a budget and wages won’t increase. If the cap is $5 million GMs will spend that $5 million. If it jumps to $5.5 million the GMs en masse are not going to agree to keep spending to $5 million and not go any higher because “that’s our budget” to keep wages from climbing. That is called collusion and it was already tried in baseball to control salaries and they lost a lawsuit because of it. And if one GM like Kyle Walters decided to only spend to $5million to keep within his pre-set budget, I can guarantee you 8 other GMs would happily spend to $5.5 and take Brady, Dalton, Streveler, Kolankowski, Eli, and anyone else off our hands, and the fans here would have a fit if we said our excuse for not bidding was “but we are keeping wages from increasing irresponsibly, so give us credit for that”. The cap goes up $600,000 than Brady’s price probably jumps to $250K easily simply because the GMs have the extra cash, and someone will look at the Canadian RB who is a ratio breaker and who put up the best CFL season in a decade, and will say “if the top end price for an American RB was $170K last year, and this Canadian outperformed him by 50%, then a market re-set is in order, and we have the money to spend, so we will spend it”. So a $200K offer is easy to swallow, because hey an extra $500K in our budget. Then another team looking to help its ratio issue jumps in and a bidding war starts. Suddenly $250K doesn’t seem so implausible, because teams will spend what they have to get a top end player, and now we have a new established market price for running backs. If that sounds ridiculous, remember when receivers’ top end was maybe $225K, and Lawler getting $300K from Edmonton seemed outrageous. Then the Bombers matched that amount, and now we throw that out for Schoen as the accepted going rate. The market shifted because one team overpaid, but instead of correcting back to the previous level, a new top end has been established and is the accepted going rate. If the cap jumps, it will become accepted that you pay $600,000 for two receivers, or you pay $200,000+ for an MOP running back, or $300K instead of $250K for a top end defender, or $150-180 K for a game-changing kicker like Medlock instead of $130K. Getting a bonus $600,000 this year will simply defer the problem of being up against the cap to next year and beyond, and every team’s profit margin suddenly shrinks by over $500,000 in a league where most teams are not running in the black if recent financial reports are to be believed. Unless you are prepared to add a player to the marquee list every year (and if you do that, then you might as well scrap the cap altogether right now), your one-time cap circumvention has not solved the problem at all for next year, you still won’t be able to pay all your pending free agents come Feb. 2025, and team profits have shrunk across the board.

Looks like my original response got me filtered and demerited all at the same time, gosh darn it all.

I’d go again, but it feels like piling on. Hey, any idea when Booch and TBurg get here?

If my dog had your face, I’d shave his butt and teach him to walk backwards.

Show me on the doll where Mike O’Shea hurt you.

Yep, Lawler plays on the offence.

Store open 10am-5pm Feb. 3 Buzz and Boomer visit the store 11am-2pm Autographs Kenny Lawler and Adam Bighill 10am-12pm Willie Jefferson and Tanner Cadwaller 1pm-3pm Winter jackets 25% off all day (excludes other discounts), in store offer only.

Were you thinking of Rita Moreno?

There is a whole Netflix documentary on this very thing called “Dude, where’s my jet?”

Worked in 2021.

Main Bomber store has been undergoing renovations, scheduled to re-open Feb. 1.

And some fans on a football forum will excuse away any ranking system that rates him highly as being fundamentally flawed, and tell you they know better than the coaches and that the top running game, second fewest sacks against, another great win-loss record and top ranked OL in the league all mean nothing because, results be damned, they know better then our staff paid to put the best product out there to win games and keep their jobs, based on their own eye test.

Jets are going nowhere in the playoffs if they can’t sort out the special teams. Injuries or not, a half season of futility should tell you that the system and/or the players used to implement it is broken.

Oops! Bad typing on my part. I blame my father. I inherited a condition called stubbiness.

Edmonton just hit 15 straight wins, and while that stat is always impressive regardless, I took a look at their opponents and they only played 4 playoff level teams on that stretch of 15. They beat the Rangers and Toronto, but they beat Philly before the Flyers went on their recent heater, beat the Kings who have been in free fall, and the rest are teams like Columbus, Chicago twice, Sharks, Ducks, Flames, Devils when they were outside the playoff line, Habs, Sens, Wongs and Kraken. Now you have to beat who you play, but maybe they are not as good as a 15 game heater suggests (just like they weren’t as bad as a 5-12-1 start suggested) but it seems like they have again been anointed as Cup favorites by the media based on beating up on weak competition. Let’s see how they do against the likes of the Canucks, Avs, Stars, Jets, Bruins Panthers and Canes, or even mid-range teams before bowing down to them.

If you told me the Jets would score 3 goals in 3 road games (plus an extra 8 minutes) and come away with a .500 record, I’d gladly take that. The all-star break can’t come soon enough, this team looks worn down and beaten up offensively.

Should we read anything into the fact that the club has added 6 receivers but only one running back to the roster in the off season?

I brought up Schoen because that IS the debate. Who is more valuable and what is the walk-away point for each? People say they are not turning on Brady, but then say he isn’t FIFO and slapping his teammates in the face with his desire to make bank, and have drawn a clear line in the sand with what he is worth, but no one is questioning Schoen and what he will cost us. And I am not so sure that replacing the MOC and easily top RB in the CFL is easier than a top receiver (mindful that we already have a #1 in Lawler). And Schoen hasn’t shown any more or less commitment to re-signing here than Brady. But I sense people are disgruntled with Brady more so when they say he can walk and we will be fine or better? Is it purely that folks think any player can be a running back, or is it something more - like maybe his tweet that got noses out of joint? And is the cost of Schoen not more prohibitive in building the rest of the team? (To be clear I am not leaning one way or another, but it appears others certainly are, and I am wondering why the difference?)

Well, just start another one. No better place than Toronto.

That shorty is a back breaker. Schmidt and Samberg having their worst game in a while.

If people think going over $200k is too much for Brady (and I would agree - although did I miss where it has been clearly stated what he in fact is asking for, or is this just fan speculation and guessing at numbers?), then what is too much for Schoen?

Jets just hanging around, throw greasy stuff to the net and maybe this game can be stolen.

First time in 15 games we have given up more than one goal in a period.

Methinks the “3 or less” streak ends tonight.