Mr. Perfect Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 Some names still out there Neiswander McCune Torrey Davis Jamall Johnson McElveen Sanders Brooks Law Legare Lang Laurent Munoz Players I'd be interested in to varying degrees: Laurent, Sanders, McCune, and McElveen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 On 1290, Walters said they are pretty much done signing free agents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noeller Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 They must be pretty confident in their US camps unearthing some starters for this year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Dee Posted February 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 It's been pointed out that QB Levi Brown is now a FA. (Doublezero on EP) He presently does not appear on the Bomber's roster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoochylde Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 CFL Official Feed @CFL 2m OFF THE MARKET: @cfl_esks sign receiver Akeem Foster. #CFLFA14 #CFL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebusrankin Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Sanders intrigues me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotoriousBIG Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Who did we trade for Foster? Pierce? Wally won that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan007 Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Who did we trade for Foster? Pierce? Wally won that one. Oh I think we still won that one. Blue-urns and Mr Dee 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbill2004 Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Who did we trade for Foster? Pierce? Wally won that one. Oh I think we still won that one. Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17to85 Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Just a few thinking of how the ratio shakes out for us right now .. putting together a few ideas of who we might see as the 7 NIs .. thinking: Greaves Morley Swiston / Pencer / Neufeld - they'll need one of these guys to step up and take a spot Watson Kohlert Lucas / Thomas Muamba / Newman / Bucknor Depending on the package, probably see a healthy dose of Pontbriand and Fitzgerald as well .. the interior of our line makes me want to vomit .. none of Greaves, Morley or Swiston (et al.) are guys that I'd consider anchors .. I agree re: inside o-line. It's scary. Sadly, the only way it's going to get better in the forseeable future is a prospect stepping up. Guys who can anchor an o-line just don't make it to free agency frequently enough to bank on that route. They could go for a trade, but the price is going to be high. It'll be a great day when we can stop fretting over the o-line. I think Greaves has developed into a VERY solid Guard Except that all too often he still looks very much like a converted DT. He needs to elevate his game more consistently because, as it stands now, he still gets beat quite regularly. Greaves is still something of a project. What we need is to hire a damned good offensive line coach. Mack loved to draft athletic guys, so there's guys with some tools to work with on the roster, need a coach who can turn them into players. Delmonaco didn't do much of that so the only way the line is going to improve is if we hire someone who can help players improve. Blue-urns 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnzo Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Sheets gone too, eh. I'm finding it difficult to conceive of a team having a worse off-season than the Riders are having so far this season. After the way that the arrogant twerps have been slagging us for so many years, I can't help but love it. The Riders will be just fine. Their O-line is still one of the best if not the best in the league, they have and they have a good QB. Running backs are a dime a dozen as well. Yes they need to replace Butler but they still have a very good football team for 2014. It will be very interesting to see how they do without Dressler. I think he was the best receiver in the league last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotoriousBIG Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Who did we trade for Foster? Pierce? Wally won that one. Oh I think we still won that one. Agreed. Yeah, no love for Pierce either, just that our receiving corps sucks, and our NI receiving corps even more so. Surprised they let Foster bounce unless he, well, sucked too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.O.A.B. Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 From H&L this afternoon, Walters said there are no more deal are in the works as of the moment. They'll focus next on identifying what areas need to be addressed and bring guys from the US. i'm thinking they are also reserving cap room for Matthews and Laurent when those guys fail to land a gig in the NFL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Feel bad for Willy, playing behind that O line. Hope it doesn't crush the kid's confidence. Willy's confidence is the last thing he needs to worry about being crushed- his body would be first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robynjt Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 (I completely agree our OL is a disaster and clusterfuck, but FA isn't going to solve that. It's why I love seeing everyone gush over ANY qb - Collaros, Burris, Glenn, Willy, who cares - they're likely all to play like crap behind this line) You obviously never saw the turnstiles that Khari had to stand behind most of his time here. A good QB can make any Oline look half decent, especially if he has a quick release. Even turnstiles require two seconds to get past to the target on the other side. Doesn't exactly make it EASIER on a new starting qb. And I'm not exactly ready to call Willy Khari Jones... Yet ;-) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacquie Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Sheets gone too, eh. I'm finding it difficult to conceive of a team having a worse off-season than the Riders are having so far this season. After the way that the arrogant twerps have been slagging us for so many years, I can't help but love it. The Riders will be just fine. Their O-line is still one of the best if not the best in the league, they have and they have a good QB. Running backs are a dime a dozen as well. Yes they need to replace Butler but they still have a very good football team for 2014. It will be very interesting to see how they do without Dressler. I think he was the best receiver in the league last year. Even more interesting now with Sheets signing with Oakland. They lost 3 in a row when Sheets was out of the line-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbill2004 Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 @FarhanLaljiTSN: LB Jamall Johnson has agreed to terms with #BCLions. Returns to where he began his career & lives in off season. #CFLFA14 #TiCats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Perfect Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Ottawa seems to REALLY be scraping the bottom of the barrel of DB's so far... Kirk Penton @PentonKirk 35s #RedBlacks have signed DE Brandon Lang (#Eskimos) and former #Bombers DB Bo Smith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbill2004 Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Yikes...Bo Smith is terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuranBoldenRules Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Ottawa seems to REALLY be scraping the bottom of the barrel of DB's so far... Kirk Penton @PentonKirk 35s #RedBlacks have signed DE Brandon Lang (#Eskimos) and former #Bombers DB Bo Smith. Even with the favourable expansion draft to get an actual QB that can play, I don't think they'll be better than the Renegades were in their first season, 4-14. But at least Burris and Jovon have experience posing for banners that they can put on the side of the stadium, hopefully they didn't already make banners with Glenn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Redblacks will be fine... Maybe jj makes the team but I doubt that smith and lang do... Ottawa has three ni starters on D with phillips, fraser and shologan... Lots of room for new import talent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuranBoldenRules Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Redblacks will be fine... Maybe jj makes the team but I doubt that smith and lang do... Ottawa has three ni starters on D with phillips, fraser and shologan... Lots of room for new import talent I'm assuming they'll use 3 NI spots on D with Fraser, a LB spot with Pottinger and a DL spot with Shologan, Evans and to a lesser extent Phillips and Capicciotti. If Pottinger goes down they'll have to play 2 NI DL at all times. Then 3 OL and 1 receiver/tight end/fullback. Their OL isn't terrible if the guys coming off injury are all right, but it's below average, they basically got a bunch of guys that nobody wanted/are coming off serious injury other than Shologan and Eppele (who is also coming off an injury, 2 off-season surgeries). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Redblacks will be fine... Maybe jj makes the team but I doubt that smith and lang do... Ottawa has three ni starters on D with phillips, fraser and shologan... Lots of room for new import talent Ottawa has god awful NI talent. Too much potential to break down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 We need to revisit this thread August 1st. I am not sure we are going to like what we see at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbill2004 Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 We need to revisit this thread August 1st. I am not sure we are going to like what we see at that point. Looking at the schedule, I think we can realistically be at .500 come August. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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