Sorry but I don't like the total silence coming out of Bomberville, but that's just me; I like action and news  like all of you.  Yes we've extended a contract or two and we are distributing the year-end money before the 2018 salary cap  comes in.

But what are the deep thinkers in our organization planning to do?

 I hope they are not thinking status quo; that never seems to work out well. Unless we are dedicated to making sharp improvements here and there, I believe we atrophy from last year.  

After the 2017 NFL cuts were made did we bring in any linebackers for a sniff? I saw other prospects up here but maybe I missed something.

We have got to fix what's broken and I think somehow management must know more than we do ... we are good prognosticators with our comments on this site but I would like management to show us up. 

We are not hearing a lot of news out of the Calgary and Edmonton football clubs so maybe our Blue Bombers are an elite club now (as we join those two in their silence). 

But man I hate twiddling my thumbs as I wait to see what our local gurus are going to do. No news is bad news, say the bored ...  Well at least were not coming off seasons like Ottawa Hamilton and Montréal had.

So maybe I should be grateful for our club and its management.

 

10 minutes ago, Floyd said:

Think he ends up as a Lion

A Lion or a Rider.  Derek Dennis was playing guard by the end of the season and if they are going to go with an American there, it would make sense to pursue Bond and release Dennis, considering Dennis is getting big money and is an obvious downgrade on Bond.

Jevaris Jones...was here late in season...pretty sure he is going to be in TC...Club was pretty high on him...seems like an intriguing prospect

Edited January 19, 20188 yr by Booch

25 minutes ago, Booch said:

Jevaris Jones...was here late in season...pretty sure he is going to be in TC...Club was pretty high on him...seems like an intriguing prospect

He's a beast, hope we see him in TC.

https://www.hudl.com/video/2/15709/586fff03b018fd2b8810bf47

1 hour ago, Atomic said:

Does this mean we can't have Bond now?

The majority here had spoken.  Nothing anyone can do now. 

1 hour ago, Atomic said:

Does this mean we can't have Bond now?

As much as I like Bond he’s gonna be pricey and it’s simply time for us to go with 3 Canadians on the offensive line.  We have Neufeld who can take the pressure off Couture but Couture should be ready.  We also have Spooner coming back as a second year guy and will likely continue to draft and develop offensive lineman.   You don’t make the comittment we made to drafting and developing offensive lineman to start 2 Canadians there long term. 

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The Bombers announce a new two year deal for Chris Randle.

4 minutes ago, Colin Unger said:

As much as I like Bond he’s gonna be pricey and it’s simply time for us to go with 3 Canadians on the offensive line.  We have Neufeld who can take the pressure off Couture but Couture should be ready.  We also have Spooner coming back as a second year guy and will likely continue to draft and develop offensive lineman.   You don’t make the comittment we made to drafting and developing offensive lineman to start 2 Canadians there long term. 

Bacon is pricey too but that doesn't mean I'm going to eat ham with my eggs like some chud

44 minutes ago, Colin Unger said:

As much as I like Bond he’s gonna be pricey and it’s simply time for us to go with 3 Canadians on the offensive line.  We have Neufeld who can take the pressure off Couture but Couture should be ready.  We also have Spooner coming back as a second year guy and will likely continue to draft and develop offensive lineman.   You don’t make the comittment we made to drafting and developing offensive lineman to start 2 Canadians there long term. 

While I agree with you it's going to be hard to give up one of the best olinemen in the league because we want a better ratio.

2 hours ago, BBlink said:

While I agree with you it's going to be hard to give up one of the best olinemen in the league because we want a better ratio.

But if it comes down to either having Bond on the O-line with Hurl at MLB, or Neufeld or another NI on the O-line with a good import MLB, I would go with option "B".

10 minutes ago, tracker said:

But if it comes down to either having Bond on the O-line with Hurl at MLB, or Neufeld or another NI on the O-line with a good import MLB, I would go with option "B".

Yes absolutely agree. We need a stud MLB and if this is the way to get there...well then....

While I like this signing  we need better play from our db's this year and I include Randle he got burned a few times last year but in general he was our best db and it's good to have him back.

1 hour ago, bustamente said:

While I like this signing  we need better play from our db's this year and I include Randle he got burned a few times last year but in general he was our best db and it's good to have him back.

Every db gets burned now and again, it happened a hell of a lot less with Randle than anyone else. To me he's the glue of the secondary and if we can get some improvements out of Walker and Alexander just being more experienced then it should bode well for the unit. 

5 hours ago, TrueBlue said:

The majority here had spoken.  Nothing anyone can do now. 

Yes - we know we can’t have nice things 

4 hours ago, bustamente said:

While I like this signing  we need better play from our db's this year and I include Randle he got burned a few times last year but in general he was our best db and it's good to have him back.

with PI as they are you cant expect much better.  We do need some better over all db play though. Happy randle will be back.

6 hours ago, tracker said:

But if it comes down to either having Bond on the O-line with Hurl at MLB, or Neufeld or another NI on the O-line with a good import MLB, I would go with option "B".

I don't disagree but who is our good import MLB? And the other downside is Bond could go to another team and make their oline that much better

What If its Wild JSK Leggett at LB. I think that would be worth the 3rd Canadian at OL.

Or JSK/Wild Sherrit Leggett

14 hours ago, BBlink said:

I don't disagree but who is our good import MLB? And the other downside is Bond could go to another team and make their oline that much better

If the Bomber bird-dogs cannot find either a good QB prospect or a good MLB prospect, the lot ought to be half-hanged. drawn, quartered and replaced with nutless monkeys

Edited January 20, 20188 yr by tracker

18 hours ago, 17to85 said:

Every db gets burned now and again, it happened a hell of a lot less with Randle than anyone else. To me he's the glue of the secondary and if we can get some improvements out of Walker and Alexander just being more experienced then it should bode well for the unit. 

Randle and Heath were an excellent shutdown tandem. It was the other side of the secondary that got exposed easily and often, but I'm not sure what anyone was expecting basically rotating rookies there.

I fully expect both Walker and Alexander to be better in their sophomore campaigns. We saw flashes from both but the consistency wasn't there. 

3 hours ago, tracker said:

If the Bomber bird-dogs cannot find either a good QB prospect or a good MLB prospect, the lot ought to be half-hanged. drawn, quartered and replaced with nutless monkeys

Where do we find the nutless monkeys? Or do we just buy wholesale monkeys and have to do the job ourselves.

6 hours ago, BBlink said:

Where do we find the nutless monkeys? Or do we just buy wholesale monkeys and have to do the job ourselves.

You could do the job yourself as the Scottish sheepherders do.

Durant is now our backup

 

2 minutes ago, Goalie said:

 

I think we can all agree we have a much better back up for the up coming season, but couldn't they put him in a Als jersey

Edited January 21, 20188 yr by bustamente

Im thinking Nichols Durant and either Straughan or the other new QB. Think Straughan is highly thought of tho. .

This is the end of The Fever.