Colin Unger

Alexandre can’t tackle anymore

Where’s my Kramdi haters at?

My prediction was based on Dukes not Arbuckle.

Can’t really complain about not having time to throw so far.

In his last 4 games Dukes has thrown 5 interceptions and 1 touchdown pass. Winnipeg has been highly competitive all season save for the season opener vs Montreal. After a big disappointing loss last week I'm expecting a rebound and getting back to the winning ways of the 2 previous games. This season will be going nowhere fast if we can't win a game against Dukes when we need one. Patterson is significantly better than Dukes.

As it sits right now I'm expecting a win for the bombers. They've won 2 out of 3. Dukes seems to be losing his confidence. They will be keeping Grant contained. If we can limit turnovers and contain Grant i think Dukes will hand us the victory. Toronto is good enough the run but not as good as Saskatchewan. We'll need to establish Brady offensively and control the clock.

And when is it my turn to start a GDT?

I agree his catch rate needs to increase. I don't however consider him a smaller guy. At 6 feet tall i'd say he's average at worst for a CFL receiver. He's going to have the height advantage over most CFL defensive backs.

I guess part of the calculation for having so many DB's this week is having as much speed as possible on the roster to deal with Janarian Grant.

Sign Bailey... then release lucky

Wilson is going to be a good one. He did have his struggles last week when the Riders made shutting him down a focal point. He battled through and eventually started to break free from it and made an incredible catch to give the team hope later in the game. It was a big league catch in my opinion that only the special receivers in this league make. He's going to be fine especially when we have more receivers in the lineup who will garner more attention. Agree with this. Or just keep Whitehead around for insurance. He's the new Namaan Roosevelt.

They already had Ayers and Jones on the roster in limited roles which now are likely to be expanded upon. The only other linebacker they had available to elevate would have been global Fabian Weitz. Probably more a question of why they don't have more depth in this area on the practice roster than these specific roster moves not making sense.

Can se sign Bailey now in time to gain insights into the Argos game plan for this week? Cant wait for him to sign here this week so the team can be comfortable playing him in 6 or 7 weeks.

At the pace they’re elevated his role Jones might be 30 by the time he replaces one of our 30 year olds. He’ll be 29 in a couple weeks.

According to Tait’s 48 hour primer it sounds like Tony Jones will get an expanded role this week and the bombers might be comfortable with Whiteheads knowledge of the playbook to roster him this week.

It all depends. He might take the roster spot of Jones who's 28 already. Its probably just a move to get someone who they think can play special teams and make have one role in the defense. I don't think he's being brought in to start.

I don't disagree but I also don't think our practice roster right now is filled with sure fire prospects. If we find one we could release someone of lower value to make room. Unless we're paying real money for Grymes im not going to lose any sleep over it.

I have no opinion on Grymes except he better have been cheap. With the team still mathematically within striking distance of a playoff spot we certainly shouldn't be throwing in the towel. We'll need to balance using this as a rebuilding year and trying to win as many games as possible until such a time as we are mathematically out of the playoff picture. Its not a good thing for team culture to give up while the team has won 2 out of 3 and can make a clear mathematical case for making the playoffs.

Its not an open and shut case based on just looking at what his QB rating has dropped to. When in bad situations in 2017 and 2018 his QB ratings were 81.1 and 79.5 before recovering to elite levels in a good situation. There are those who argue you can't pay top dollar for a qb who is team dependant. If that is the case you can argue that we could have let him walk a a long time ago and not paid him as the best qb in the league because that fact is that he's always been the type of QB who needs a team around him to be good. We never should have paid him top money if the logic of a top paid qb should be able to perform in a bad situation. Anthony Cavillo was similar in this regard.

I'm not convinced that many American starters need to be changed anyways. Outside of Alexander, Wilson, and Bighill who are we really looking at upgrading right now and we probably have at least a couple internal options here already to replace those guys. Between Garbutt, Fox, Woods, Bryant, and Haba I think we have what we need here already to improve the defensive line. When Wheatfall and Lawler are healthy I think we have the pieces here to have a good receiving core and that doesn't even mention Whitehead who i'm ho humm on. We have two american tackles on the practice roster already who we haven't had a chance to see. Ect. NFL cuts are definitely more about next season. I don't disagree with this at all. We should be looking at Tui at center at the very least.

He's not playing well. Even I would prefer to move on from him if there was an incredibly viable alternative option who could win immediately. Your comments sort of sound like what ticats fans would have said when he was on the way out of there. Before setting a record for consecutive appearances and winning two Grey Cups. I think he showed last year that he can win without the best OL in the league. This year he's showing that he can't win with a mediocre defence, below average receiving core and league worst pass blocking offensive line and 8th overall according to PFF. His salary certainly needs to be considered. They need to do an analysis on everything this offseason. Viable trade options. Overall QB cost to release him and replace him with someone else. Who else can we trade or release to free up money. What do we need to do better to compete next season ect. It's certainly hard to imagine he's worth what he's getting paid that's for sure. But as much as we'd like to blame one thing so we only have to fix one thing this team has a lot of issues right now.

My expectation this week was that Zach would outperform Shea and that Vernon Adams would outperform Maier. What does that have to do with the larger discussion that was being had?

How do we know that this isn't the same thing that happens to Zach whenever he's on a bad team in the past? His current offensive line grades out to be the worst in the league in pass protection this season on top of whatever receiving core issues he's dealt with. Did Zach actually blame everyone else or did you attribute the comments of a fan supporting him to Zach himself? It seems as though you're talking more about Zach in terms of value for the dollar rather then looking at where he's at as a player right now. You have expectations for him that that are influenced by how much he's getting paid. Clearly we can't pay him like this next season. He'll have to take a pay cut. I'd look him strait in the eyes and say if you don't take a paycut we're sticking with Nuefeld and Kolo and see who blinks

If the ticats miss the playoffs again I think there will be an appetite for change at QB. I personally think that with the receiving core we've fielded for most of the season and offensive line we've fielded for the whole season Bo would be doing even worse here than Hamilton. There's likely an appetite for Zach out there from losing franchises looking to bring in someone who's been to 4 out of the last 5 Grey Cups and winning 2. I just don't see us trading him to replace him with who exactly? Our only chance is Rourke coming back to the CFL and BC choosing to stick with Adams who might have a record breaking season. If BC chooses to trade Adams and go with Rourke then we're hooped.

I was just thinking about it and in the offseason its not impossible that Hamilton would take Zach off our hands. If they miss the playoffs with Bo. The question is who would be our starter?