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It really is hard to believe he doesnt want to come sit on the bench for 80k a year, compared to sitting on the bench for 960k.

Willie and Yosh were riders? GTFOH! Never happened. no way. nah huh. you high.
 

This week on MBB, Posters battle over who hates the Riders the most.

Listen I'm the guy here mostly likely to have a beef with any former Rider, just based on hyper anti-Sask mentality... And, to my knowledge, I have ALWAYS said on here, once a guy left there to come here: "Get the Riders stink off him and we're good to go"...
And just last week I was begging for AJ Allen to come here... And there's nobody that hates Sask more than I do. Nobody. 
 
And in other news, please God, let this happen....
 
 

Personally I enjoyed watching Dressler when he played for us. Doesn’t really bother me if a player comes from the Riders or any other team (we wash the stink off real quick) unless there are huge mitigating factors of said player where they have compromised the values they espouse as a club and as a community.

Dressler was never fully accepted. 
I would. 

Winnipeg fans would love Emilus if he was here.

And who the actual Eff U C K cares who he played before????

Nic Demski. And fans like that need to get over themselves.

One hit to the knees & both guys are done. Again. Bringing them back even after a 2 year absence is madness. Time to let them go. Rehab whatever they are entitled to & then cut them. 
Nield would be a welcome addition here. He can run downfield & make contested catches. Clercius is a tank. And runs like one. 
Can any former Rider receivers ever find happiness in the Blue & Gold? Would we Bomber fans accept Emilus or Nield? Look how hard it was for both Ryan Smith & Weston Dressler to play here. There was always a small group of Bomber fans who never forgave them for being former Riders. 

Love it! I love that Wilson and Lawson are the first two guys signed. I think it means we’re prioritizing the youth. There was so many times I saw Lawson double and tripled teamed and he still got to the quarterback. He’s a beast and will only look even better next once we get some help beside him. 

Walter’s who brought us two extremely strong draft classes back to back, a couple great canadian talent trades, and a bumper crop of rookies like vaval, allen, woodbey, and the rookie ends who dominated in their one game. The same who already has us with the next group of high end imp ol in rando, who would’ve been an acclaimed all star on any other play off team maybe gotten nfl looks, and vanterpool who barely played but was our best ol when he did. 
The huge majority of the problem lays at the feet of mos. Walters hasn’t been perfect by any means, but we’ve seen him have the best free agent periods in the league while here when he has money to spend. He’s handed out some over pays for sure. And we’ve lost guys. But the team from top to bottom was in a maintain stage. If we are really in a re tool phase and it sure looks like we are, I wouldn’t pick any other gm in the league to do the job over him. 

I'd take him. But I like Nield better.

He has good escapability.   The mobility can be a weapon if they avoid using him as a battering ram like Strev. 

thank god we needed that

Not really a natural centre, but proficient enough at C that it doesn’t matter imo. He could easily be a starter in this league sooner rather than later at either g spot or c. 
I’d add, no guard has looked terribly great next to kola. 
Eli has excelled in heavy sets on the edge including in pass pro and inside. 
I have no question that eli, and any ar ni C in the league would be an upgrade over kola. he’s that bad. 
It is very hard to properly identify how good an ol is/can be when next to a turn style. The insertion of bond at G and hardrick kicking out to rt took us from a team giving up among the most hits/pressures/sacks to the best ol in the league. 
Id sure like to see how wallace, neuf, eli, vibert and/or vanterpool play with out kola giving up instant disruption and pressure as fast as the qb gets the ball. I mean the Ts will play better too.  Rando and vanterpool are serious contenders for all kinds of awards if c is fixed. 

I am not qualified to judge OL issues, but it sure seemed to me last year that Brady was getting the holes he needed at the point of attack and that we were getting OL into the second level often enough. 
The ugly OL moments happened in pass pro, Zach dropping back against teams rushing 3-4 -- sometimes Zach wouldn't even get a steamboat before he had to start scrambling, he'd have a DT in his lap or an DE coming round the horn.  Which makes me hopeful that if we get pass pro sorted out, Zach will return to form.

It's wild for the Jets to have fallen right off the edge of a cliff after how good they looked last year. Like it wasn't as gradual as the Bombers. 

And, as has been mentioned a million times every year, just because we don't know about something doesn't mean it didn't happen. Professionalism means keeping things behind closed doors. No airing of negativity. Tons of decisions could have already been made and just not made public. And I'm more than fine with that. 

He waited until February last time. Its only been 2 weeks, calm down. Knowing O'Shea he's not gonna rush it, because the fans want it.

Koala. I like that. Cuz he plays like one. 
 

At one point very recently, wasn't JT leading the league in faceoff win percentage? That's, IMO, the biggest reason they brought him in. 

I'm hoping they're gone and we can discuss replacements.

Are you guys really going to whine about Kolo and Jake all off season? There's nothing new to say folks.

Too much pressure on Toews after being out so long...move namesy back to second line center and move Jt back to fourth line,give him time to find his game again.