Jesse

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Happened to Nevis, happened to Stove, happened to Sayles. We just don't pay American tackles. Here comes the next rookie.

I was thinking about this today too, there's a lot of big names leaving. Just straight up arrogance on DD's part thinking he can recruit replacements?

I think it's safe to say we have to trust in our scouting staff to find guys playing on rookie contracts for the last couple of positions.

Have you seen our receiving core? He might not see the ball until September.

It is more than I expected, but I’m sure Walters knows there’s going to be some cap room at the end of the year to do some restructuring and make a couple of these bigger contracts more palatable for 2024.

He’s gonna get 2 years in here so he can sign a deal with guarantees next time around.

That was also before the Dunbar signing. For those that didn't click the link, Dunbar is receiving 200k and up each year.

If Montreal was allowed to spend that kind of cash, they wouldn't have lost half their team.

It's between us and the Saskatchewan Overpay's.

True, but most of those weren't winning seasons. I will say that most of the bloating receiving contracts we've seen crash and burn recently have been a receiver leaving a successful situation for the big pay day and not delivering. Do we honestly think that Collaros and Lawler wouldn't do special things if they were back together?

That's why it says "agree to terms" and not "signed".

Oh, obviously that's out of the question. I said earlier that the most I see anyone offering him is in the 275 range, so like Mike said, try to get him for 250.

Yup. Lawler is not eligible for guarantees.

Get him on the roster and restructure as you go.

Intention, I believe. But obviously Lawler has a certain expectation when it comes to salary so I just don't completely buy that it was a "done deal". I am incredibly excited at the thought of another 3 year deal though.

Getting Trevor Harris is way beyond what I expected for them this off season - so that's a win. Trying to blow your wad on a receiver is the exact dumb move they did last year, but you may have needed to do that to get Harris on board. Any meaningful success still needs to come from a re-investment in the OL, which will take years of solid drafts and a couple of FA wins. It's the CFL, they can do it - I still don't that O'Day has the ability to, though.

Yeah, I never bought that it was a done deal.

Of course he's asking for it....doesn't matter if no one offers it. I don't think it's realistic to expect that anyone offers him a raise from last year. It didn't work. I think the best he can reasonable expect is 275 from some desperate team. Can we get close enough to that to make it worth it for him?

Asking for 1 million over three years....yikes, lol. But god damn do I want him on a three year deal.

No one posted this yet?

That's the problem. They're doing the exact same thing that didn't work last year.

Pickett is one guy I was looking at, but you're right, Darby eliminates that need.

Gotta save money somewhere.

Apparently that's what was said, though I'd say it's an extremely low chance he ends up in another league at this point of his career. Unless he's got an XFL team in his home city that'll pay him big bucks.