about time to start this thread, and we'll give the first word to Our Man Tait: 
 

 

On 2023-11-25 at 12:19 PM, SpeedFlex27 said:

No, check out Farhan Lalji & Dave Naylor's discussion on TSN during GC week. It isn't pretty & not all 3 will be back. In the meantime, work to sign veteran free agents has already started with other CFL teams but not us. There's no one there who can do the work, according to Naylor & Lalji. So. I didn't make it up. The info comes from TSN. 

Listen to sources. 

Ton of time left to sign pending FAs. Good gravy it's November.

On 2023-11-25 at 1:35 PM, 17to85 said:

Except for those times he doesn't get rid of the ball. He uses his legs to move around the pocket so it's not like he's late stage calvillo, teams are just not letting him escape like he used to. Which is where actually running for some yards would help. He wants to pass, someone needs to tell him sometimes running helps the passing long term.

Just a matter of a QB trying to do too much sometimes. Easily correctable.

Edited November 26, 20232 yr by GCn20

4 minutes ago, GCn20 said:

Ton of time left to sign pending FAs. Good gravy it's November.

Just a matter of a QB trying to do too much sometimes. Easily correctable.

Exactly. Every year they come out with these huge “FA” lists the day after the Grey cup like 70% of those guys aren’t going to re-sign by February. 

15 hours ago, JohnnyAbonny said:

Exactly. Every year they come out with these huge “FA” lists the day after the Grey cup like 70% of those guys aren’t going to re-sign by February. 

For sure. A couple years ago we had like 35 FA's after the season and by February we were down to 6.

1 hour ago, GCn20 said:

For sure. A couple years ago we had like 35 FA's after the season and by February we were down to 6.

Each team can only slice the pie so many ways

The vast majority of these guys will not make much more money signing elsewhere

And going to a non-contender = lost playoff $$

I don't bother looking at the FA lists until a week before the end of FA season. Most of them will be re-signed by their own clubs. 

1 hour ago, Mark H. said:

Each team can only slice the pie so many ways

The vast majority of these guys will not make much more money signing elsewhere

And going to a non-contender = lost playoff $$

Despite a lot of people thinking we are somehow not attractive anymore and our team is falling apart, basically every marquee guy interviewed stated they want to be back,

11 minutes ago, TBURGESS said:

I don't bother looking at the FA lists until a week before the end of FA season. Most of them will be re-signed by their own clubs. 

Exactly. The ones who aren't are the break out guys that are gonna get HUGE raises because they are now top tier players or players we are willing to risk to FA.  No team let's their reasonable priced high end talent walk out the door if they can avoid it.

4 hours ago, GCn20 said:

For sure. A couple years ago we had like 35 FA's after the season and by February we were down to 6.

We had an actual GM back then. 

32 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

We had an actual GM back then. 

We will have a GM in the very near future I would think.

7 minutes ago, GCn20 said:

We will have a GM in the very near future I would think.

One way or the other, lol. 

It's not like we'll go into the New Year without one. 

Just now, Jesse said:

One way or the other, lol. 

It's not like we'll go into the New Year without one. 

I suspect this week we will be hearing noise on that front.

1 minute ago, GCn20 said:

I suspect this week we will be hearing noise on that front.

I agree.

4 hours ago, TBURGESS said:

I don't bother looking at the FA lists until a week before the end of FA season. Most of them will be re-signed by their own clubs. 

yup...all ado about nothing right now....some deals are already in the books...have been a while

Just now, Booch said:

yup...all ado about nothing right now....some deals are already in the books...have been a while

Bombers like spread out signing announcements throughout the off-season to keep fan engagement somewhat alive.

Anyone know if Bomber Bob Cameron had his own line of football helmets made by Cooper Weeks?

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1003118184095180/

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/225739946196

Maybe the name is just a coincidence, as they look quite primitive.

 

He did it. That crazy son of a ***** actually did it. 

10 minutes ago, Jesse said:

He did it. That crazy son of a ***** actually did it. 

Sources say the management team will all be making league minimum, as their salaries are being offset by a generous donation from previously unknown local business man "Made Willer".

Edited November 28, 20232 yr by Super Duper Negatron

I'll just say this, thank ******* God. I couldn't imagine the team without these guys

Whew.... I still respect you JBR, but I'm really glad you were wrong about this.

I’m glad the Walters news is finally out. I knew weeks ago it was going to happen but couldn’t say anything lol. Kyle does NOT want to go anywhere. If he’s not with the Bombers he likely steps away from football. I didn’t know about the other 2 which is great news! 

Not only did he stay, he must have taken a bit of a shave. Because MOS reportedly got a hefty raise and they didn't cut one of the assistants the way I thought they'd need to in order to fit a Walters extension.

1 minute ago, Bomber_fanaddict said:

I’m glad the Walters news is finally out. I knew weeks ago it was going to happen but couldn’t say anything lol. Kyle does NOT want to go anywhere. If he’s not with the Bombers he likely steps away from football. I didn’t know about the other 2 which is great news! 

Everyone did except JBR. What an idiot. 

I'm very glad Walters and company are back.

Retaining Walters was single handedly the most important move of the of season. 

Good, these guys are good but hopefully 2 Grey Cup losses will light a fire under them to find some impact players

On 11/27/2023 at 7:52 AM, GCn20 said:

For sure. A couple years ago we had like 35 FA's after the season and by February we were down to 6.

I do expect more uncertainty this year though just from guys on the retirement fringe even. 
 

I think the early keys to the off season involve possibly replacing buck, doing the most to bring back lawler, schoen, Brady, and brown, and getting a real punter ideally a Canadian who can kick off too.