Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread

[GCn20]

39 minutes ago, Noeller said:

I could have sworn the consensus here was that Dobson, Ford and Lawler were all a wild overpayment and the Bombers were smart to not pay the asking price......?

I think that was the consensus on 2 out of the 3 for sure. However, many here lamented the Lawler loss for the piss poor GMing that it was. Ford would still be an overpay. Dobson, wasn't really considered an overpay by most, but replaceable with what we had in Wallace. That's why we are fans though. We don't get paid big dollars to make proper talent assessment . I mean read the forum for the past number of years, we still have guys that think that Kramdi isn't a good player. Walters does and therefore when we look back in retrospect, our opinions of the moves at the time don't have to have a great deal of accuracy. A CFL GM does not get to have the same level of accuracy as a fan, he must be better than Joe Blow. 

Edited 4 hours ago by GCn20

[Brandon]

43 minutes ago, Noeller said:

I could have sworn the consensus here was that Dobson, Ford and Lawler were all a wild overpayment and the Bombers were smart to not pay the asking price......?

Ford was a wild over payment amd we were good since we have depth in our secondary.

Lawler the first time he left was a wild over payment. The last time it was questionable because it seemed like we were not far away from what we offered. Also questions on Schoen coming back and lots of assumptions that we wouldn't lose much productivity since Schoen is back.

Dobson it was more like "We have Eli" who can replace him. I dont remember anything about money with Dobson.

[Stickem]

I sure am not overly optimistic about bringing the 'Miller' band back BUT now that it's a done deal, we better start working on how this is going to go down....We obviously can't make the same errors as this last season....namely roster management (that can be corrected) and the poor decision making that went on in free agency.....There's also no way to sell the re-signing of Thomas to the Bomber faithful and keeping Kola as our centre....Seeing no roster changes being made will send the signal more of the same ....This club has a chance to turn things around and making the same mistakes, that seen us 'just making the playoffs ,will not go over.....Call me a 'jaded optimist' with a touch of pessimism, about the club in general for 26' and hoping for change.... So que the 'dumb and dumber guy' with the subtitle...'so you think there's a chance'....cuz I think that's all we got

Edited 2 hours ago by Stickem

[17to85]

So walters has been trimming some old folks pretty consistently in offseasons. I'd expect that to continue. 

I think they need to get back into trying to snag some key pieces through free agency again and put some focus on the lines again.

[HardCoreBlue]

23 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

So walters has been trimming some old folks pretty consistently in offseasons. I'd expect that to continue. 

I think they need to get back into trying to snag some key pieces through free agency again and put some focus on the lines again.

With a few players (I think we know who they are) if they are invited back to training camp with no promise of making the team that still wouldn’t sit well with me. Strong messages have to be sent in what expectations are being set for 2026.