TrueBlue4ever

I always thought the Boulevard could be re-named “Dennis Strongquill Memorial Parkway” Maybe the trail could be “Jack Jacobs Pass” and the street “Tommy Prince Drive” if us anglophones are too upset to embrace an Indigenous-sounding name.

And Cockburn Street would like to say…….on second thought, never mind.

At $3.5 million x 6 years I don’t.

So I don’t like calling for trading players for extended poor play because you never know what might be underlying (like when everyone slagged Morrissey two year ago before learning he played through his dad’s cancer), but there are more than few key struggling Jets right now (Ehlers, DuBois, Pionk, Lowry stand out) and in cases of Ehlers and Dubois who have been injured and playing through it or come back slowly, at what point are these players better off sitting than playing hurt ineffectively? Best this club showed was when their Moose call-ups were in and working hard. Since the regulars returned they should be better based on talent but results are not there. Is it just attitude or is there something more, and is a 100% Gustaffson better in the lineup than a 60% DuBois?

This. It’s not hard to see his logic. Highest paid CFL kicker made $150,000 and average is around $100,000, lowest paid NFL kicker made $660,000 and average is $2.5 million. And Lirim says kicking in the CFL closes the door on a mid-season call-up to the NFL, given the season overlap and rules about NFL and CFL contract windows. Which is why he will see what the XFL or USFL has to offer so he could jump straight into the NFL season. His 4 game stint in 2021 in the NFL probably paid him more than a full CFL season would. It may be a pipe dream, but the money logic is sound if he even gets just a mid-season sniff.

Don’t expect you back then for more complaining the next game, or if they turn it around later.

Try less Botox next time.

Cuz Alouettes is so Anglophile?

Not looking to defend the Leads at all here, hope they crash and burn again. Will say though that I don’t think any other team has as tough a road (if things play out as expected) to get the Cup. Tampa first round, Boston second round, one of Carolina, NJ, or NYR 3rd round, Colorado 4th round (if the predicted results occur). So if they do go on a run they can’t say they had an easy path (yet - we’ll see how it plays out).

I agree. We are likely hooped from being a Stanley Cup winner. Suppose we had traded for Timo Meier and Chychrun. Arizona for something from Ottawa for Chychryn we could not offer given our respective positions I. The standings, a chance at a top 10 draft pick this year. So to say we were sleeping when Ottawa made the deal is disingenuous. The assets available were different. Arizona apparently wanted two guaranteed first rounders if one was not top 10. Plus other assets given what other draft choices Ottawa gave up. For Timo, Jets would give up another first, second (which we already traded for Neittereider) and 7th plus 4 players. Already now talking about dealing g more 1st rounders than we have to give away. And to acquire a higher first round pick, most obvious way is to move PLD to Montreal for their extra 1st rounder. So move Dubois, probably assets like Heinola, Lucius, Gustafson, and 3 1sts, 3 2nds (one of which could become another 1st), a 6th and a 7th to land 2 more years of Chychrun and one year of Meier at $10 million since has already ensured through his agent he won’t consider signing with Winnipeg long-term. Is that really strengthening your club by doing everything you can now? The only way the answer is yes is if those moves GUARANTEE a Cup win this year, and of course no one can guarantee that. Otherwise this definitely weakens the team. Especially since we can’t rebuild on the fly like Vegas who can attract big name free agents, and have to build through the draft, which we just mortgaged with these proposed trades. Sucks but Winnipeg just can’t compete with some other cities, and it’s not the GM so much as it is the market and the current CBA which allows no-move clauses.

That’s not comparing apples to oranges, that’s comparing a fruit basket to a sack of door knobs. Or to paraphrase Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction: “It ain't no f***in' ballpark either. It ain't the same ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same f***in sport!” Convincing a CFL player to spend summer in Winnipeg vs in Toronto or Montreal or BC has no comparison to convincing an NHL player to spend winters in Winnipeg vs Vegas or Tampa for tax purposes, or LA or Dallas for weather, or New York for nightlife. And last I checked, CFL players don’t get a no-movement clause. Hope has nothing to do with the reality that the NHL team in Winnipeg is playing against a stacked deck, and the only way to attract talent is by having an already Stanley Cup contending team on hand, and the only way to get that here is a draft/develop/ hopefully retain system, and not by trading for talent.

No, but we could trade Lowry for $1 to a team that needs a future Selke winner.

Another “final” tour. This makes the 10th rendition of “final” for them. Just wait a couple of years, they’ll be back again.

Shootout!

Free hockey!

Someone might want to cover Kopitar.

Stenlund with the shorty. Does he feel lucky? And break out the Andrea! With a laser like that, how does Stenlund only have 5 goals this year?

Nino not afraid to play a heavy game. Josh with 4 points already. Connor and Stenlund hit the twine and Andrea is on standby before the 3rd period after 2 goals in the last 3 games.

Still Chychrun.

Tait does write the standard pro-Bomber patter for the website, but still does so without the fanboy gushing. It’s par for the course for club-hired guns across sports. Plus, the club’s recent success makes it easier for him to appear even-handed in his praise. But I still like that when on CJOB he can be objective and call a spade a spade, especially on game day if the performance is lacking.

@Bubba ZanettiThanks for the personal notification, and I’m flattered by your interest in me to let me know about your present state of arousal, but I prefer women. (Not that there’s a nothing wrong with that).

Hey, if you and your MBB Alberta crew want to sit around and circle jerk your manscaped stiffies all day, fill your boots. Just don’t post cartoons about it here. OK, Millennial? 😁

Why is it that the most ridiculous Simpsons jokes become the ones that actually come true?

The first of 3 MBB questions noted, although thankfully the “erection” reference replaced by “excitement” (on that note, way too much “hard on” meme-ing going on when discussing player signings. We’re all happy with the off-season, but there are other ways to express it than like being a bunch of 14 year olds in math class getting random woodies and announcing it to the teacher. That’s just weird). Anyway, Zach was looking forward to playing with this group but noted that you forgot to mention Agudosi, Grant, and O’Leary-Orange as well. Kenny Lawler agreed that this was going to be a “light ‘em up” year, called for Zach to throw 50 TDs. Also admitted the Elks signing last year was all about the money, but no regrets and was happy to re-set the bar for receiver salaries league-wide. Basically said no, he doesn’t budget per group, because it is unclear how the market will price itself each year. Only focussing on this year right now because they are in the Grey Cup window, so not thinking about how expensive a Schoen re-signing will be in the future. Admits in past years when the club was re-building he would take a longer term approach. Also says (when asked by DT if receiver is now the 2nd most important position in the CFL) besides the QB, the left tackle and rush ends are the key pieces since it is a throwing league and you need to protect your QB and get after the opposing QB, but acknowledges the importance of receivers and sees why prices are going up for them. Also said when making money decisions on who to re-sign or not, looks at the depth on hand that can step up and replace the more expensive existing veteran players (cited Tui and Kolankowski as examples as to why Couture was not re-signed). Says the cap was spent on keeping the core, when in other years with less depth or talent they would spend more in free agency to bring in new guys. There were other things I might have missed, skimmed through it on the CJOB audio vault.