Mike

Because this is a Grey Cup season and I don’t want somebody learning on the fly while his much-more-qualified assistant waits in the wings. Not the kind of structure I want, this doesn’t feel like the Younger promotion at all.

because you’re giving the keys to the offense to a guy who has only ever had the keys to a high school offense and one of his assistants was the key figure in a major offensive turnaround just last season … I can’t imagine that goes well

this is the worst decision the Bombers have made with a Hogan since they banned the Section S one

I mean you can’t really dress this up to look good, we’re getting picked pretty clean in a few areas … if only we had some of that depth a few of us have been complaining about for years. This is exactly why the practice roster is so important and exactly why it’s so frustrating we don’t use it properly we’ve lost a receiver, a middle linebacker (good riddance), a left guard, a safety (hopefully) and a corner and we genuinely have maybe at best, a sort of educated guess as to who will replace two of them.

Hollins or Dunbar … I mean, there are definitely worse options. there are definitely some negatives to what is happening right now but let’s not lose sight of the positives. At least we haven’t signed Alexander yet

I’m definitely not as bent out of shape as a few others are about this off-season, but “nothing the team does is good enough for a few of you” is a real false way to categorize the complaints. Why not “nothing the team does has been good enough to win a championship the past three years” instead?

Geno Lewis to Ottawa

I forgot Hollins is out there … JBR was right, he definitely is a Wilson type. Not super high on him, but it fits the mold of what we might be looking for.

Yeah, losing Lawler definitely hurts if that ends up being the case. That being said, we haven’t won the Grey Cup with him the last two years either so I’m willing to try something different. it can go one of many ways, but with our front office shake up, I’m hoping maybe we can see some talent brought in for position groups we’ve struggled with for the past couple seasons (edge rusher, linebacker) … they’ve got the pedigree for it, that’s for sure

What is there to explain? They are adding contracts they can afford to add.

I mean, it makes sense … who was making money on that team before? Korte and Geno Lewis? they have a ton of mid pay level guys they’re moving on from … Steward, Oakman, Mayala, Kyran, Leonard, Purifoy, Moncrief, Foucault … it’s no wonder they are spending money, they had a ton of space

see what I mean

Hatcher back to BC Feels like we’re going to be the odd man out in the receiver bidding, Geno will go to Calgary after they lose out on Lawler and we’ll end up with Rhymes or Acklin

so tired of people complaining about the salary cap when they have no idea how it works we play this game literally every year “omg how can these 5? 6? teams do this does the salary cap not exist?” and then maybe 1 at most is over at the end of the season

Recovered fine last year, I thought

Yeah, I heard the same thing earlier today. Not surprising, but it hurts a bit. I do hope we pivot to Hatcher or Geno.

Really good call by both of you, I like Nield

I mean you can say this all you want, but it has lol this legal tampering period is such a farce, all the deals will be done

I’m not sure why people are even remotely worried about our work in free agency … Dillon Mitchell and Jonathan Jones are both real big pieces in my eyes, Schoen brought back is a huge win, almost every valuable OL is still out there for now and we’re doing a decent job of picking up some depth where we need it.

Man, Booch … I gotta say lol you’ve lost me so far this off-season You’re literally letting JT and Kyrie dictate your mood on every move we make and it’s showing BIG TIME ”for such a preferred destination we sure are missing on guys” lol you know we can’t sign everyone right? and not every signing is an “at all costs” signing … who’s to say there hasn’t been interest in some guys and then our FO says “oh, at that price? No thanks” just relax sheesh

I like that Cobb signing. Good depth piece.

He’s signing in Hamilton, I believe this does feel like the off-season where Booch has jumped the shark a bit though lol

I couldn’t have less interest in Diontae Spencer, that would have about as much impact as the Tevaughn Campbell signing in Sask just now

This feels like something you of all people are literally not allowed to be upset about You (just like me) have been shouting that we need to make room for some younger guys to have opportunities to become impact players and you’ve been talking up one in particular for quite some time This is a move to replace a fairly average player and your guy you’ve been talking up will potentially have a fair shot to fill that spot I’m not mad at all, Garbutt wasn’t anywhere near what we thought he would be

He’s literally the youngest of the three between Lawler, him and Geno