With Rookie Camp getting underway Wednesday morning, it's officially time to talk about the 2026 Winnipeg Blue Bombers!

18 hours ago, wbbfan said:

Yeah, you can always play a guy at the boundary. But I think it is worth while to try each rookie at slot, you never know when a guy will take to it like schoen.

For sure, some guys come in and pick up the waggle and actually exceed expectations because they are so good at it.

13 minutes ago, bigg jay said:

my first thought is, they must really love this guy to trade an imp lber for him.

11 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

my first thought is, they must really love this guy to trade an imp lber for him.

Pennington must have an extensive military background or something because we need all the LB's we can get!

Dual threat, pop gun arm otherwise he'd be making millions in FBS.

A lot like Streveler in passing style, accurate, really needs to follow through on vertical routes, good intermediate arm on the move.

Odd move...maybe he has made it known he ready to test waters up in Canada...

15 minutes ago, Booch said:

Odd move...maybe he has made it known he ready to test waters up in Canada...

Could be that both players did not want to sign with their respective teams.

19 minutes ago, Booch said:

Odd move...maybe he has made it known he ready to test waters up in Canada...

He's still in school. This was a move about a guy the Bombers covet down the road and Ottawa desperately looking for players right now. Tezino maybe not wanting to be on the PR too, and really no way to slot him in anywhere with the 4 billion LBers we already have.

Edited September 2Sep 2 by GCn20

4 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

38 minutes ago, GCn20 said:

Could be that both players did not want to sign with their respective teams.

He's still in school. This was a move about a guy the Bombers covet down the road and Ottawa desperately looking for players right now. Tezino maybe not wanting to be on the PR too, and really no way to slot him in anywhere with the 4 billion LBers we already have.

Tezino already signed here though and had to have been willing to take a PR spot in the first place. I agree that finding a spot in the line-up would be tough - not sure why they even bothered bringing him in. Here for a week and then traded away for the rights to someone who may never come north.

1 hour ago, bigg jay said:

Tezino already signed here though and had to have been willing to take a PR spot in the first place. I agree that finding a spot in the line-up would be tough - not sure why they even bothered bringing him in. Here for a week and then traded away for the rights to someone who may never come north.

Could also be they worked him out and didn't think he was any better than what we already have and did right by him in trading him.

Ottawa also could have offered him an active roster spot.

In that case, the Bombers need to activate him or let him go.

Cline was waived by the Fins. Any chance he comes up here?

4 hours ago, bigg jay said:

Tezino already signed here though and had to have been willing to take a PR spot in the first place. I agree that finding a spot in the line-up would be tough - not sure why they even bothered bringing him in. Here for a week and then traded away for the rights to someone who may never come north.

maybe we're just taking pity on Ottawa?

39 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

maybe we're just taking pity on Ottawa?

Or we're hoarding all available LB's so teams are forced to trade with us.

4 hours ago, GCn20 said:

Could also be they worked him out and didn't think he was any better than what we already have and did right by him in trading him.

I’m pretty sure you can’t keep guys on the neg list against their will. I’m guessing they told us to sign him or release him from the neg list so they could sign on with another team, so we signed him and flipped him for an asset instead of releasing him for nothing.

3 hours ago, kelownabomberfan said:

Just by a fluke I was on that flight back to Winnipeg as I had gone to the Labour Day game with my cousin who lived in Regina so I stayed the weekend at their place. I had never been on the same flight with the Bombers or any other pro sports team so it was quite interesting watching some players act like bad teenagers on the flight while the coaches seemed oblivious to the rowdy & raunchy behaviour going on around them. The 1974 season was a struggle so any win was probably just a joy for the coaches & players.

Jonas was the best player on the field that day at Taylor Field. He was the hero ripping the Rider secondary for over 300 yards passing & brought the Bombers a victory on the final series where he led the Bombers downfield & Walt McKee kicked a walk off field goal on the last play of the game to seal the win for the Bombers.

Don Jonas was not getting along with HC Bud Riley & GM Earl Lunsford. He had feuded with both & the Winnipeg media was all over it. A week or so previously Lunsford had commented that Jonas was having trouble reading defenses. Jonas, hugely insulted by that off the cuff remark angrily told Jack Matheson the sports editor of the old Winnipeg Tribune & beat writer for the Bombers that Lunsford had no idea what he was talking about. Jonas added that since Lunsford never came to any qb meetings or film sessions that he had no idea what he was talking about & should shut his mouth before critiquing him or any other player. Lunsford was furious. His huge ego just couldn't stand being criticized in the media. That was the beginning of the end for Jonas. No player could publicly insult Lunsford & get away with it even if the guy who did it was a former MOP of the CFL just 3 years earlier. And hugely popular in Winnipeg.

Lunsford wanted Jonas gone & he began working on a deal to do just that while rocking the CFL at the time. On the late night flight home, Lunsford completed a trade that sent Jonas to Hamilton for QB Chuck Ealey who has been the 1972 CFL ROTY & MOP player in the 1972 Grey Cup. I remember getting off the plane & walking by Lunsford & Jonas who were off to the side & involved in a very, very serious conversation. I didn't think much of it until I was sleepily going to work a few hours later & heard on the radio that Jonas was gone to Hamilton for Ealey. What a shock!! I can tell you that announcement woke me up for sure.

I can also say that I hated Lunsford so much after he made that trade. The guy was just a terrible GM who treated his players like ****. Yet, the Bombers BOD kept that useless .... around for 16 years until 1983.

Edited September 3Sep 3 by SpeedFlex27

Saw a couple guys get added to "future active" contracts on the transactions page:

Nicholas Lenon DL

La'Vontae Shenault WR

I guess that means they will join the team next season.

Shenault will sound familiar to NFL fans, his older brother Laviska Shenault has been in the NFL for 5 years.

Signing for the 2027 season:

Winnipeg Blue Bombers sign wide receiver La’Vontae Shenault to a future contract – BGMSportsTrax

Winnipeg Blue Bombers sign defensive lineman Nicholas Lenon to a future contract – BGMSportsTrax

Edited September 3Sep 3 by bigg jay

Smallish dline guy...Hope he for competition at end and only end...last thing we need is another undersized interior guy...or the option of playing a guy out of position like we seem to like to do of late

Maybe La'Vonte can bring his bro with him lol

38 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

Thanks for everything BA!! You were a class act and great player.

It was great seeing BA so involved with all the youth outreach the Bombers do throughout the year... Visits to schools, youth camps and everything else.

1 hour ago, ShyGuy said:

It was great seeing BA so involved with all the youth outreach the Bombers do throughout the year... Visits to schools, youth camps and everything else.

He has to move on with his life. Good for him.