Jesse

I feel like it’s way more likely we keep Brady.

I think the approach is we need someone playing near the minimum contract value at that position. So while we’ll continue to scout the position, finding that impact player is difficult. In the meantime, we continue to have a top defence.

Although they're starting to, so the clock is ticking.

Exactly. There's no situation where Gray is our 6th guy. He was our starter last season over Dobson. Either he is back in that role or we let him walk and Dobson takes over.

I’m honestly getting tired of seeing Stove’s name over and over. He’s done nothing but be injured since he’s left while we’ve been the top rated defence every year. we’ve done nothing. Jesus. How can you even make that claim?

I’m sorry, but what about the coaches and operations cap makes you think that the CFL wants to increase spending?

They still need to be football players or we just need to scrap the whole thing and play flag football.

I know we're one of them. Ed Tait slipped it into one of his recent articles. Winnipeg now has 10 selections in the 2024 CFL Draft — each of its picks in every round, a bonus in the second round, 20th overall, as a reward for snaps by Canadian players in 2023 and now Ottawa’s fifth-round choice, 40th overall, secured from the Brown trade. The Blue Bombers will pick 8th, 17th, 20th, 28th, 37th, 40th, 46th, 55th, 64th and 73rd overall. https://www.bluebombers.com/2024/01/18/dru-brown-traded-to-ottawa-for-draft-pick/

I’ve been thinking BC, Sask, Winnipeg

The only thing keeping me from getting too excited is that he's an older prospect, but obviously not unusual for a CFL QB.

And we pay Kenny, and Demski, and still want to sign Schoen. Teams can afford multiple high end receiving contracts.

I said 200 just because it seems to be a milestone between BO's reported ask and what we'd reasonably want to sign him for.

And we now have 10 draft picks, so maybe there's some potential to replace some depth/STers with a few more minimum contracts.

IMO, he's a great fit. We disagree on that point. Hopefully, its a moot point and he's about to re-sign with us.

Severely. I'm talking about Montreal's desire for him - not the best place for his individual production. He's going to do his own personal cost/benefit of individual production/salary/living expenses/etc.

There is never as much saved space as people try and project.

They often do. Hasn't quite worked out for them yet.

It's a fair point. But that's also when he has Zach at QB. I can imagine him making the necessary changes to accommodate another QB.

Sure, they have lots of work to do, but premium players wont be available at every position. BC just signed 2 of their receivers for 200+ contracts and then Cottoy (didn't see that one's numbers). We have Lawler and Demski and still are trying to sign Schoen. There's nothing from keeping Ottawa from trying to sign Schoen as well.

Anything is theoretically possible until he signs, but I doubt this trade is made unless Brown and Ottawa already had some back door conversations.

Meh, it was a foregone conclusion he was going there anyway. They didn't have to send anything. But this allows them to get a contract in place before FA and move onto the next thing on their list.

Not necessarily. Do they have any other big receiver deals on the books?

I know you wouldn't (and that's fair), but I've always been pretty convinced that we'd be a top bidder. He's just more valuable to us than he'd be anywhere else and that goes both ways. He'd be a fool to leave.

That's more than I'd like to pay, but I believe that the WFC is willing to go there. It makes sense. I also believe that Brady is probably using the 250 number to try and pull us towards and over the 200 line. But that is just too much and would just hurt the team more than it would help us.

Schoen would absolutely not reach his potential, but he's the guy I think CoFaj needs. He finds open space when the QB is running around. Kenny wants to make the big play and CoFaj won't be able to get it there. Kenny would make his highlight reel catches here and there but it'd be a lot of incompletions and interceptions. Obviously any great receiver makes any QB look better. But I think Schoen's play style would be more valuable for them. If they're sitting there trying to wonder who to make a play for, Schoen or Rhymes, for example.