Jesse

Hefney is my unquestioned #1 here. I’m going to need others to talk me into my #2 pick.

They are heading back now, I think he just had some non-football things to take of before they go through the moving process (or just wanted to get their moneys worth out of the place they were renting). Actually, I bet they sublet their place in BC through November, now they can head back. That makes sense.

Remember when the Jets came back and the Bombers got a spike in season tickets sold? Sometimes these things just get people excited.

Going by stats (because I never saw him play) you have to go with Rod Hill as #1. 5 seasons, a couple of Grey Cup wins. Ridiculous numbers. I have a hard time going with Browne or Bennett because i believe they only played for 3 seasons with the Blue and that takes something off for me as an all time great. So I’m going to go with the young guy pick of Jovon Johnson. For those years, he was part of an exciting group of Bombers that kept me going to games when our offence wasn’t worth turning on the TV for. Six years in blue and gold. A four time all star and defensive player of the year award ( even though Hefney should have won it). Don’t @ me.

Can’t see it. Not after missing the play offs. Some guys will vote elsewhere purely for that reason.

When after multiple years of seeing one thing, there is a sudden change. It makes me suspicious that Hall just figured it out.

And the West can't be 4-0 if we lost.

He certainly won't be the only one.

That was completely made up by Hamilton to get us to offer something for him.

He did not take kindly to the fact that we did not offer him a contract (or gave him some paltry offer) under the guise of not having money to spend on a vet back up, but then signed Durant.

Streveler to the rescue! Best rookie season since Ricky Ray himself (but without stupid Jason Maas in the way)!

You've never gone to a party with nothing but a six-pack of Lucky or a 2-litre of Stone Cold? Geeze. Must be nice to come from money.

I don't think he is really there to be evaluated. If one of the other guys get injured, we need another arm around to take a few reps during practice so no one gets dead arm during TC.

I was hoping Reilly would play a bit. Love watching him. Oh well. Ill echo some statements here, want to see what Alex Ross can bring as #2, perhaps see the first steps in Streveler’s (hopefully successful) development with our team. Every new QB brings hope, right guys? im going to reserve judgment on our DBs. I’m sure the preseason isn’t going to make them look great. But I would like to see something out of our receiving depth. I think we’re going to be using a lot of them over the course of the year.

I don’t care that Nichols is at 20, I hate when these lists prop up QBs ahead of other positions. IF - and I’m speaking hypothetically - Nichols is in the second tier of QBs and Carter is in the first tier of receivers, then Carter should be ranked ahead of Nichols. However, I think that Carter is a few years into his CFL career and the media is still talking about his potential. After a certain point, you shouldn’t get ranked about what you might do if you put it all together. And I couldn’t care less if he plays both ways, that seems like more of a stunt then actually adding value. He should be behind several other receivers on this list. Nichols was probably ranked fairly, IMO. I don’t have him ahead of the big three yet (Ray is obviously only good when healthy at this point, but gets the nod because of his total career).

I haven't heard much of Sanchez, so I'll reserve judgement. I usually liked Shultz - not so much when he tried to go X's and O's, but just his persona meshed well with the original panel. I never used to like CLimie, but he's grown on me. I think most Bomber fans are way too sensitive regarding him. Most of the time when he was criticizing us, we were a really terrible team. Can't stand Burris. He may improve, but right now he doesn't add anything to the discussion. The sole reason he is on the panel is because of the drama he created late in his playing career and they think having him on will be a ratings boost.

Not to mention Dress and Bowman are getting pretty old. Why not sit them for a down or a series now and then? Throw some fresh legs against a tired DB late in the game? It's not like they're going to play every down all year.

Nothing has changed since we let him go...

I hate the idea of losing Flanders. but, I think the double RB set was a luxury we knew wouldn’t last and was also based off the weakness of our receiver depth last year. Hopefully, we get production out of Demski that makes the role of Flanders irrelevant.

This might be my newborn's first game!

I'm very glad we picked up Ross. He has his first year and snaps in his back pocket already. This year, it seems likely he will receive the #2 reps in practice and continue in his development.

True enough.

Obviously Walters isn;t one to disparage people publicly, but he has said that financially it wasn't going to work out, even before they called and kicked the tires. I mean, we did offer him a contract. I think we wanted him, warts and all.

The only issue I have with that is one that TBurg raised, if salary is part of the equation ( and it is obviously a consideration), are we expecting money to come off of the books after this season to be able to afford another 2 first round picks? Both the cost and the roster spot?

I would like to see one year where there were not a bunch of changes. Maybe see if officiating gets better if they're not spending time learning new rules?