Okay, so the off season officially begins now that the Grey Cup is over. Lots of topics for discussion in the months to come with the Bombers & the League. A new CBA needs to be negotiated sooner rather than later.  Will there be an eventual agreement or a lockout? How much will the salary cap go up? Randy Ambrosie is on record that wants the cap to significantly go up so that is a positive.  Will Bo Levi Mitchell sign with an NFL or perhaps another CFL team? What about Mike Reilly & Trevor Harris who are also free agents? There's a new start up league called the  AAFL & there are legit concerns that it'll draw star CFL players away or hamper free agent signings with CFL teams. Coaching changes in BC & Toronto. The continuing evolving story of the expansion Halifax Schooners & possible exhibition games in Mexico. 

Edited November 27, 20187 yr by SpeedFlex27

They are going to have to retain the staff I would assume since they are locked in for next. New head coach really has their hands cuffed.

Rider fans have already replaced him with Lapo.  

1 minute ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

The man has no shame, he slinks out of town leaving the team without a QB, screwing Paul Jones and sending his buddy McAdoo to the unemployment line for evermore.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. The league is better off right now.

This reminds me of nick saban sooo much. 

 

Lol

21 minutes ago, Noeller said:

As funny as it is to see the Riders in turmoil, I'm concerned that Jonesy leaving means the Riders just got better. I was kinda hoping they were going to tie themselves to his crazy for awhile longer and he could really run 'em into the ground but good...

It's too bad Montreal is still holding on to Kavis... he would make an excellent replacement for Jones.

And to think, this was just another Tuesday in January... 

 

I didn't realize Christmas would come again so soon!

Edited January 15, 20197 yr by JCon

Hoping for a trifecta today, Bighill signing, Jones leaving and BLM signing an NFL contract.

7 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

Lol

My emoji game is for ****....what am I missing........coffee frog?

But that’s none of our business

Just now, Jpan85 said:

But that’s none of our business

Know your memes...

 

Just now, Jpan85 said:

 

For one day, I'm coming around on Ambrosie. 

5 minutes ago, Noeller said:

My emoji game is for ****....what am I missing........coffee frog?

 

cue the whining out there now due to the coaching cap....a cap mind you that all teams have to abide by....but the blues will be cried out there at how they are getting screwed over...perhaps they should be beating down the door of Mosaic and addressing the remaiing management there at the stupidity of handing one guy all the keys to the jallopy...therin lies half the issues there...one guy..accountable to nobody but himself

1 minute ago, Booch said:

cue the whining out there now due to the coaching cap....a cap mind you that all teams have to abide by....but the blues will be cried out there at how they are getting screwed over...perhaps they should be beating down the door of Mosaic and addressing the remaiing management there at the stupidity of handing one guy all the keys to the jallopy...therin lies half the issues there...one guy..accountable to nobody but himself

A cap the riders basically brought on to the league.

1 minute ago, Booch said:

cue the whining out there now due to the coaching cap....a cap mind you that all teams have to abide by....but the blues will be cried out there at how they are getting screwed over...perhaps they should be beating down the door of Mosaic and addressing the remaiing management there at the stupidity of handing one guy all the keys to the jallopy...therin lies half the issues there...one guy..accountable to nobody but himself

I don't follow, how does the new coaching cap come into play?  Jones leaving frees up a lot of money to hire replacement coaches.

I wonder if Marc Trestman might be on their radar now...

he held 2 positions..and you can only have 11 coaches...so the new guy has to be a HC.DC or they hire from withing and promote someone to HC and have to find a DC

2 minutes ago, Booch said:

he held 2 positions..and you can only have 11 coaches...so the new guy has to be a HC.DC or they hire from withing and promote someone to HC and have to find a DC

Would they not be able to shed some of the lower rank coaches?  

46 minutes ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

Maybe they'll come after LaPo hard and make him an offer he can't refuse and the Bombers can't come close to matching.

They'd have to make the offer to Tina. 

 

1 minute ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

Would they not be able to shed some of the lower rank coaches?  

Those contracts would count against the cap if they were terminated for replacements.

2 minutes ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

Would they not be able to shed some of the lower rank coaches?  

SURE...but the dollar value would go against the cap if they canned them...so no point in that...they will be very limited in their staff for this year...to go along with the limited QB availability for them...and to think...earlier today they were predicting a 3 win season for us next year as an efect of the Bighill signing....now ain't that a funny dose of karma

They had to have known that Jones would bail on them. He's done that so many times. He is only about himself and his ego. 

20 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

 

Or they dump that chump OC, hire plop to HC and oc and hire a dc

It'll be Craig Dickenson...I'm sure of it. It's not ideal, but he'll be "interim" for a year...