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I’d rather pay McManis 270 than pay Ford 220

I was having a pretty good morning...

S**t signing, s**t schedule. Thank God the Bacon Mushroom Melt is back or it may have been toaster bath day.

Bloody pathetic...typical osh garbage

That one makes me really mad

That's the beauty! Booch has already committed to the work pro bono.

It's greater than zero so it's too high a salary for Jake.

Looks like the presser for all of our free agents signings is about to start:

He's already hired Booch?

Walters plan "alright Osh, I'll sign Thomas if it'll keep you happy" Then first day of training camp a mystery assailant hammers Thomas in thr knee cap with a tire iron and he's on the IR all year. Everyone is happy.

Here's the thing tho.... I get that Osh is a lunatic for his vets. But why is Walters caving here and not putting his foot down. That's what I don't get.

Schedule is garbage. We play the Riders five times. Two byes in six weeks. We’re done with a divisional rival by week 3. Too many back to backs. It’s like they tried to make it suck.

He’s not just a member of the old boys club. He’s the president too.

I absolutely hate having a week one bye!!

Jake? Yuk!

Sorry that I pissed on everyone's Corn Flakes this morning

Ya... Listen... I defend our management to the death.... But I can't defend this. It's inexcusable. Even if you say that Lawson is going to take the bulk of the reps or whatever....what's the point of even bringing him to camp at this point? It's a waste of roster spot and if there was even a penny of guaranteed money, then it's a waste.

Lawler has played 62% of games the past 3 CFL seasons. Schoen has played 68%.

we lost back to back cups against Arbuckle and the Faj....let that marinate...actually back to back to back against them and MBT with a small cameo from Mr Harassment...when we had a team that was arguably the best right across the board and heavily favored in all 3....something is wrong with something

Thomas should be the guy you bring in mid season after losing 2 - 3 guys in one game. I don't see the point of wasting time with him when even if it only taking 15% of the reps... give that play time to a young guy who may in a season or two actually produce.

earn your spot....and then do enough to maintain does not apply here for some.....Then a guy like Smith...who had huge upside...did nothing wrong...had our only return T.D all yr albeit in T.C but still a nice return...was benched...never to be heard from again as we scuffled and sucked all yr after....hmmmmmm

By mixed messaging I mean work hard earn your spot only applies to some not all.

After ten years of development, Blue Origin's New Glenn flew for the first time early this morning. It put its second stage smoothly into orbit. We didn't hit our stretch goal of landing the first stage on the recovery barge, but getting into orbit on our first try has us all grinning. (I work for Blue Origin)

Must be an edict from the league. Looks like everyone has a single pairing for preseason, other than BC-EDM-CAL who have a little bit of a round robin going. I can't imagine an outdoor comedy festival in its 2nd year in the city that had an 8000 attendance across multiple days last year was on the schedule makers radar. Are we going to keep Sea Bears home game dates open as well?

When you lose three Grey Cups in a row and you can bring back the over the hill vets who couldn't get it done it's a no Brainer MOS and Walter's probably

Oct 17th game against ssk is my bday!

Waddle back Boy if we soft foot the starters through camp that first 1/3rd is gonna be worse than last year.

2 bye weeks in the first 6 weeks....that's brutal

Season schedule has been released.

‘Win’? There’s no way he could win anything. ‘Handed’ is a strong possibility. This signing is a real kick in the nuts.

JFC. They have learned nothing.

Unless it's Jake paying them to keep him around...

Dude is washed up and dry cleaned tho. I mean what is the point. Easily replaceable and not even good. I don’t get this one. I can justify the Wilson and Gauthier one but this is just mind boggling.

Honestly, you can really sell me on the move IF a few things change. The problem is, I don’t believe even a single one of these would ever be true, nevermind all of them. IF he’s a gameday backup to Lawson only, IF he takes maybe 20% of the reps he did last year, IF we adjust our ratio for a fresh week in case of a Lawson injury and IF this comes at the cost of reps for Schmekel, then I’m fine with this move. Problem is, none of that will be the case.

Doesn't make me mad (as Mike said)... but just really makes shakes my head.... I do not understand for the life of me what they see in him at this point in his career.... the team was ready to move from him when he was like 28... then he had a few good rotational seasons in him... and he's been just a waste of space for the past 2-3 seasons... I don't get it.... can't convince me a rotation of Lawson and Samson wouldn't be a significant improvement?

Whoever said Brinkman is on their wishlist, I agree Holm got 135k and Mitchell got 150k .. that tells me we’re spending in some different ways this year.

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We're literally at the point where he's taking a job away from a more suited candidate. Sends mixed messages in the locker room.

Gauthier is still a solid Special teamer though. He does bring value and can fill in at LB in emergency in game situations.

Maybe it's a 1 day so he can retire....

Honestly as I was scrolling down and saw the top of this post I immediately thought "F*** Offffffffff" and thought that this was a troll job.

You've got to be kidding me

Spend, spend, spend. Its not my $.

Grey Cup hosting year... What Budget? What's a cap?

Ford is great sure...we can survive without him just fine...and for less...it's not like we needed that Canadian starters to make ratio I'd rather lose Ford if it means we keep Dobson to go with Wallace...Eli...Neuf

Lawler and Schoen will be wearing blue and gold in 2025.

I think a lil high as well...a lot of scratch tied into him....Nichols and Kramdi now.....almost half a million so hopefully that doesnt screw us elsewhere...or we bring back some dead weight cause they will take a discount 200 for WJ....If we land a Ceresna...or similar..thats another 200k at least and if we want a guy like Mcmanus well then thats basically1 million tied into 6 guys...Basically 1/5th of your sms to just field half your defensive starters That being said that may be a good thing as it you would think eliminate Thomas...Bighill....BA who will be 6 figure guys....and even tho ScHmeck is on rookie deal....it is more than an entry level import at his position...We also have to fit Lawson's salary in there this yr too....so hopefully the decision to move on is Walters only choice if he gonna upgrade

Not even just the production either. That darvin adams play in his regular season game completely changed expectations and attitude. We went from a great team with qb health issues to team that believed they could win any kind of game, and really did. That is one of the most pivotal plays in team history. We went from a semi final team to a back to back winner on that play. they aren’t getting 3s any more. They aren’t getting 275 any more either. They will be a bit a head of dl, but not much.