Colin Unger

From that perspective it is somewhat irresponsible. I would like to see some form of guarenteed contracts implemented to keep this from happening. In the competitive world of pro sports teams and players will make decisions that they feel will benefit themselves so long as these decisions are within the confines of the rules.

I don’t see how they can substantially raise the cap with revenues not having increased. The negotiations probably had more to do with the players locking in a desirable percentage of future new profits.

I don’t see it as being irresponsible. Each team budgets differently and paying a an that amount of money just means less money for other positions.

Charles Nelson beats out Lucky for kick return job.

I'll take that.. Gives us time to evaluate our young receivers and another potential add at mid season if things don't go well with one of the younger guys.

Just a guess. But I think he comes in with a lower salary than Walker and Ellington. Maybe 180k. Could be wrong though.

When you get cut by the Cardinals without even making it to training camp and I that would be a good indicator that it’s time to make a long term commitment to the CFL. Personally for our offense I lean towards Matthews being the best fit due to his size and physicality. I have no regrets.

Would be nice but I don’t think we will sign him. We kind of box ourselves in to starting 3 American receivers if we do. They did a lot of scouting and have signed a lot of receivers. I think they want to leave something up to training camp to decide in that area.

Im looking forward to it as well. The writing i think is on the wall for guys like Couture and Speller. If they don't earn starting jobs with the team this year they won't be starters with this club. By next season there will be more picks coming in and Gray and Desjarlais will be hitting their strides.

Would be nice if we hit a real home run with the Eli pick. If he pans out I like the long term future of him at center and Gray and Desjarlais as the guards.

Neufeld

I see him starting as a returner and being used as a gimmick guy early on with the long term potential to become more of a receiver. Similar to Brandon Banks if everything works out to the high end of his potential.

If we don’t find any defensive backs we can always play Jefferson at corner.

The key to this is depth. It accommodates for injuries a lot better if we have another legit Canadian starter. What happens is Jones gets injured out of camp and misses another season for example?

Like I've been saying it's not going to be bad. Even if they had to go with Couture, Bryant, Hardrick and Foketi as a worst case scenario it wouldn't be bad.

The only question i have about the offensive line is whether it will still be the best in the league. It could potentially be just above average but it's not an area where i'm concerned.

He may have won the small battle with Calgary but he's going to war with Winnipeg!

After this signing Brian Ramsey truely i say some teams will be at a "significant competitive advantage"!

When Tburg is happy its like the drop the mic moment in "Old School" when Will Ferrel had the perfect debate response. There's nothing more that needs to or can be said

I wonder what his salary looks like compared to receivers of similar ilk who signed during the free agent frenzy. I have a feel we got a good value on him.

That and this guy gonna make Lapo look better than he actually is right?

Bombers confirm the signing.. 3 year deal which is nice because he's only 29!

I think we get a dedicated returner even without Ackie but that would be a plus. DI's LB, K, Roh, Returner.

Yeah.. I think this team is gonna be just fine. We will have enough talent around those positions to ease the players in. 5th and field-side corner are fairly well protected positions. Not huge volume is sent to weakside / 5th WR. I say we look at going with a Canadian at WR5 and let all the kids battle it out for fieldside corner. Center.. We the offensive line didn't look out of place when Speller started and its either going to be a more experienced version of him or a better player in Couture. Playing Simonise at WR5 means that if need be we can start Foketi who i don't think is a drop off from Chung or if Gray or our 4th overall pick are ready we go with one of them and let them grow.

He's exactly what is needed in a Lapo/Nichols based offense. A guy who due to his height is always an option to throw to. A lot of the roll out and dumps can turn into deep ball attempts to matthews!