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

Curious all the details but glad the CBA is done.

How is it possible they got a deal done even though Ambrosie was in Mexico on a non-negotiating day?

Can't wait till we can close this thread and start the regular season thread.  No work stoppage, rookie camp is coming up and this team feels like it's loaded with talent.   

9 minutes ago, Colin Unger said:

How is it possible they got a deal done even though Ambrosie was in Mexico on a non-negotiating day?

Magic!

12 hours ago, lyin' guy said:

Where? 

Defence and depth are massive question marks for you guys this year. Reminds me a lot of the 2018 Eskimos. I think you will finish anywhere from 2nd to 4th in the West. I do like your team more than the Riders or Eskimos right now.

Edited May 15, 20196 yr by gcn11

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19 hours ago, Bomber_fanaddict said:

And weren't we ridiculed for signing Medlock to a large contract? A guy who actually puts up a ton of points on the board?

If Ryan could punt and kick field goals on top of being Canadian he would be worth $100k.

If Ryan could kick FGs even at 80-85%... he'd be worth 200k...

18 hours ago, Booch said:

Thing with Medlock is he is absorbing two salaries with his one salary being able to do all 3 facets of the kicking game..and as being one of the best at it...he is making basically a very modest salary at each when you break it down, so really we are saving money when you look at it

I believe it was reported he was making around 175k... so the way I always look at it is we're paying around 75k for an average punter and around 100k for the most accurate FG kicker in the league... seems like a good deal to me...

5 minutes ago, bearpants said:

If Ryan could kick FGs even at 80-85%... he'd be worth 200k...

I believe it was reported he was making around 175k... so the way I always look at it is we're paying around 75k for an average punter and around 100k for the most accurate FG kicker in the league... seems like a good deal to me...

I think you are referring to numbers in his original contract...he took a shave last year and I believe for this year he is under 160k...either way though...good value none the less for a guy who is tiops in his league at his position taking 2 jobs

10 hours ago, Atomic said:

Essentially the entire defence, IMO. Definitely got some talent on offence but I don't see anything at DE or LB worth getting excited about. Your secondary is a who's who of "who?"

We play you first. I guess we will see soon enough. 

1 hour ago, gcn11 said:

Defence and depth are massive question marks for you guys this year. Reminds me a lot of the 2018 Eskimos. I think you will finish anywhere from 2nd to 4th in the West. I do like your team more than the Riders or Eskimos right now.

They are massive question marks about depth everywhere for every team in May 

10 minutes ago, lyin' guy said:

They are massive question marks about depth everywhere for every team in May 

You also have a mostly new coaching staff.

8 minutes ago, Geebrr said:

You also have a mostly new coaching staff.

I'm not sure that's got much to do with anything. ClayBrooks and Stubler are not rookies. I'm not keen on Jarious Jackson, but I'll give him 1 more year with a solid offence to see what he can do  

 

1 minute ago, lyin' guy said:

I'm not sure that's got much to do with anything. ClayBrooks and Stubler are not rookies. I'm not keen on Jarious Jackson, but I'll give him 1 more year with a solid offence to see what he can do  

 

I don't see what an unproven Head Coach and a journey man DC screams instant success for, either.

 

1 hour ago, lyin' guy said:

They are massive question marks about depth everywhere for every team in May 

I've said from the day the Lions went on a FA spending spree... their season will be made or broken by their rookies... They have a ton of top end talent... it's a matter of how well their rookies/bottom end players perform... If they can find a few good rookie gems, no reason they can't compete for 1st in the west along with Calgary and Winnipeg... and Sask (haha, just kidding)... 

if there's one thing this site has been missing, it's Matty Geebrr telling people why they're morons.......

I wouldn't say a ton of top end talent...I'll give them Burnham and Reilly as top end...Chungh in the top teir...but after that...nothing too spectacular...

1 hour ago, lyin' guy said:

We play you first. I guess we will see soon enough. 

Meh, the first 4 games of the season are basically pre season. CFL is such a long road....1st game mean absolutely nothing in the grand scheme.

3 minutes ago, Noeller said:

if there's one thing this site has been missing, it's Matty Geebrr telling people why they're morons.......

Haha...I am just too dumb to  understand things.

3 minutes ago, Booch said:

I wouldn't say a ton of top end talent...I'll give them Burnham and Reilly as top end...Chungh in the top teir...but after that...nothing too spectacular...

fair enough... I suppose I meant 4 or 5 players... which doesn't necessarily qualify as "a ton"...

 

 

 

Jamie Nye@jamienye

It'll be interesting to see Ed Hervey, John Hufnagel figure out how to make their QB salaries fit in a cap that hasn't moved and minimum salaries going up by 10k. Have fun! #CFL

 

yep. good luck!

Edited May 15, 20196 yr by M.O.A.B.

 

 I guess that's how.

Edited May 15, 20196 yr by Fred C Dobbs

 

6 minutes ago, M.O.A.B. said:

Jamie Nye@jamienye

It'll be interesting to see Ed Hervey, John Hufnagel figure out how to make their QB salaries fit in a cap that hasn't moved and minimum salaries going up by 10k. Have fun! #CFL

yep. good luck!

The problem is that the next batch of FA QBs will want the same deals...  I could see Sask paying big for a QB... or teams will start hiding 'incentives'

4 minutes ago, Mr Dee said:

 

Now includes Germans and Mexicans...?