For some teams, the CFL Offseason is here. Rather than lose all the coaching movement discussions to the Regular season thread, I thought we could start putting it here.

Those teams currently lost in the wilderness:

Ottawa

Toronto

BC

Montreal

Calgary

Edmonton

Saskatchewan

Hamilton

The champs are here.. the champs are here... Winnipeg*

 

*Grey Cup Champions

On 2020-02-02 at 8:06 PM, Bigblue204 said:

Argos are just as tied up as him. Nichols doesnt HAVE to play. Argos do. Neither really has an advantage, but if anything has an edge in negotiations I'd give it to Nichols.

Nichols does have to play if he wants to make a living. He won't be making no 300k/year with his Sports Management degree, I can guarantee that

Edited February 3, 20206 yr by Dr Zaius

Riders get Judge back. $190,000 in hard $, chance for it to be $210,000. I think they overpaid.

38 minutes ago, Dr Zaius said:

Nichols does have to play if he wants to make a living. He won't be making no 300k/year with his Sports Management degree, I can guarantee that

I'm sure he can get a job if he really wanted to. Or he could tell the Argos, no thanks I'll wait and see how things unfold. Someone is gonna get hurt.

27 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

Riders get Judge back. $190,000 in hard $, chance for it to be $210,000. I think they overpaid.

way over payed for a 61 tackle guy who is basically your average linebacker...If wasn't for his bogus National designation would be a fringe player...Wilson for us has pretty much same stats, and I think is more impactful...so that be like us paying him 200k....fools

They extended an average American O-Tackle too...way to go Oday!!

Seems like an overpay for judge  - ackie will get 250 plus now

Dave Campbell@Dave_CHED

Quality signing by the Argo and Natey gets to play at home.

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5 hours ago, Booch said:

way over payed for a 61 tackle guy who is basically your average linebacker...If wasn't for his bogus National designation would be a fringe player...Wilson for us has pretty much same stats, and I think is more impactful...so that be like us paying him 200k....fools

They extended an average American O-Tackle too...way to go Oday!!

Wait till the sacks and turnovers go down this year too.

And they will.

On 2020-02-03 at 7:39 AM, rebusrankin said:

Riders get Judge back. $190,000 in hard $, chance for it to be $210,000. I think they overpaid.

If you knocked 90k off that deal itd be a good one. I like judge, I still havent seen that he has what it takes to take his game to that level though. I dont see how he lives up to the contract unless he becomes a premiere defensive ni / lb. 

I feel like every year the riders have a resigning/pick up that makes you go "They gave how much to who?"

Not sure what the panic would be for Nichols.  Unless someone pays him starter money, he should wait for June/July.  He will have lots of time to prove he is 100% and someone will break the bank for him to come in and save their season.  Starting QB's will go down and someone will get anxious.  He will be offered a 2 or 3 year deal (to get the signing bonus under the cap) and be paid good money.  Last summer Kevin Glenn was fielding multiple offers to get off the couch.  The Bombers were looking for him and Drew Willy.

Nichols just needs patience. 

'Bethel-Thompson did lead the league in 4Q attempts when trailing by 15+ (50). 26/50, 308 yds, 3 TD, 1 INT Down by 9 or more it's still just 75 of his almost 500 attempts'. - DT on Sports Cage

I'm not sure being the league leader in 4Q attempts makes your case to be the starter.  

27 minutes ago, MC said:

Not sure what the panic would be for Nichols.  Unless someone pays him starter money, he should wait for June/July.  He will have lots of time to prove he is 100% and someone will break the bank for him to come in and save their season.  Starting QB's will go down and someone will get anxious.  He will be offered a 2 or 3 year deal (to get the signing bonus under the cap) and be paid good money.  Last summer Kevin Glenn was fielding multiple offers to get off the couch.  The Bombers were looking for him and Drew Willy.

Nichols just needs patience. 

Which raises the question, was winning the G.C. an amazing fluke of circumstances?  If either Glenn or Willy would have accepted the job offer earlier, Collaros would never have been brought in and I doubt they would have gotten by Calgary in the playoffs.

2 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

'Bethel-Thompson did lead the league in 4Q attempts when trailing by 15+ (50). 26/50, 308 yds, 3 TD, 1 INT Down by 9 or more it's still just 75 of his almost 500 attempts'. - DT on Sports Cage

I'm not sure being the league leader in 4Q attempts makes your case to be the starter.  

Stat that shows he played from behind a lot on a bad team. 3rd in passing yards and 1st in tds. Which considering he wasnt the starter for the whole year is pretty good. 

Come from behind win on the worst team in the league vs the eventual grey cup champions is worth some thing too. By no means is he an elite starter. But imo he is cemented as a starting caliber qb in this league. Atleast going into TC, any thing can change during the season. 

1 minute ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

Which raises the question, was winning the G.C. an amazing fluke of circumstances?  If either Glenn or Willy would have accepted the job offer earlier, Collaros would never have been brought in and I doubt they would have gotten by Calgary in the playoffs.

Yeah we forget collaros was our third choice if you include streveler 

the entire Collaros run was an insane fluke of circumstance to end the season, but after 28+ years, I'm going to take it...

2 minutes ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

Which raises the question, was winning the G.C. an amazing fluke of circumstances?  If either Glenn or Willy would have accepted the job offer earlier, Collaros would never have been brought in and I doubt they would have gotten by Calgary in the playoffs.

Luck is the residue of hard work. Never know what woulda coulda shoulda happened. But with how our D played, its hard to imagine us not winning. 

15 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

Stat that shows he played from behind a lot on a bad team. 3rd in passing yards and 1st in tds. Which considering he wasnt the starter for the whole year is pretty good. 

Come from behind win on the worst team in the league vs the eventual grey cup champions is worth some thing too. By no means is he an elite starter. But imo he is cemented as a starting caliber qb in this league. Atleast going into TC, any thing can change during the season. 

Fair enough, one way to look at it for sure.

However, playing from behind when he was active suggests he was part (not all) of the reason this team was bad.  I'm guessing the Argo's will pull the trigger quite quickly if he falters out of the gate.  

 

11 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

 

But that other QB is James Franklin...

2 hours ago, wbbfan said:

If you knocked 90k off that deal itd be a good one.

Lol. I know he's a Rider, so we hate him, but he's a pretty good player. How many Canadians on the defensive side of the ball are better than him/worth more? Muamba, Laurent...anybody else?

9 minutes ago, Floyd said:

But that other QB is James Franklin...

Franklin isn't under contract. He's a free agent. https://www.cfl.ca/fa20/#ARGOS

44 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

Franklin isn't under contract. He's a free agent. https://www.cfl.ca/fa20/#ARGOS

Well that's my point.

1 hour ago, blue_gold_84 said:

 

On the cheap. Lots of room to add Nichols at 300Kish and let them battle it out.

 

Just now, Jpan85 said:

 

Good for Matt...glad he's got another shot at things. That team, tho, is a ******* mess....soooooo....best of luck with that.

7 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:

 

Plus, I am sure, a comprehensive health and dismemberment  insurance policy.

Edited February 5, 20206 yr by Tracker