Mike

We’re not broke. Walters always says this. So does Hufnagel. Nobody needs to know we have money to spend until we spend it.

I mean, let’s just call it what it is. Harris didn’t just develop this chip on his shoulder when he became a Bomber, he’s been like that his entire career and for the most part, it’s served to work for him and not against him. In this case, it may have worked against him. There’s nothing wrong with expressing some doubt in a 35 year old who plays a position 35 year olds don’t play, especially when you’ve seen a history of ongoing issues related to your concerns. He wasn’t coming to camp in shape, the team was a bit put off because they expected more and they asked to try and meet in a middle ground. “If you’re telling us your commitment to staying in shape isn’t going to be an issue, show us” isn’t an unreasonable request. Quite honestly, this isn’t meant to shine negatively upon anyone but we all know if this was anyone BUT Harris, we’d all be in the corner of Walters and O’Shea. Wade is in the business of promoting the team. Walters and O’Shea are not. Hometown kid or not, they’re in the business of winning football games and while I may or may not agree with their choice, I understand the thought process that went into it.

Harris got 165k, 40k of it upfront. Not an astronomical amount but I can’t see a way we could’ve made that fit, to be honest.

Guys deserve more than one year to develop if the coaching staff believes in them

Think it’s impossible to say any team is the best team on paper at this point, too much turnover and changing of key people in key spots. Not to say it won’t get fixed up, but we’ve currently got major kicking questions (which were a massive issue prior to Sergio last year), no returner and some issues in the defensive secondary plus our Canadian depth took a hit. On the bright side, we have some good pieces in the pipeline in Dobson (to replace Eli) and Patrice Rene (to replace some Canadian D depth) but they’ve gotta sign.

They can’t cut him in camp if he’s hurt.

I haven’t heard anything to suggest they wanted Ellingson. They got Acklin.

You literally were talking yesterday about how production isn’t everything when I said Duke was on a 1200 yard pace last year.

No thanks lol slow plodder with injury issues

My point is Bailey was already better than Adams and used more frequently than Adams last year. Bailey, to me, has been our WR2 for an entire year now. The question is really whether he can elevate to a WR1 and I’m hopeful he can but that doesn’t mean that it’s an upgrade over Lawler. While I had no interest in paying it, there’s a reason he got 300k - he’s the best receiver in the league.

I don’t really understand the comparison in any format because the premise suggests we are replacing our American WR3 with our American WR2. Adams is being replaced by a rookie, it’s more or less a straight swap Ellingson for Lawler and that’s a downgrade period. You can say Bailey would be an upgrade, but what does that matter if he was here either way.

Let’s be honest, saying Ellingson/Bailey is an upgrade over Lawler/Adams is a bunch of homer nonsense no matter how you slice it lol you literally said yesterday you weren’t happy with the idea of Ellingson Not even accounting for that, there’s still the obvious that in that equation, we’ve now replaced Bailey with ?????????

Pipe dream, man. Think about it. They’ve already got rings. No ring chasers here and the truth is, some guys want the money or the opportunity they can’t have here. Lets just call it what it is. No American player grows up wanting to win a Grey Cup. The whole idea of passing on money is great in theory but no way is every single player going to think like that.

Can’t find the next Stove or Mike Jones or Darby or Lawler if you just ride the ones you have until the wheels fall off. We’re going to find players. There’s a reason Danny Mac and Goveia were both sought after as GMs this off-season.

Because money

They’re not going to cut a guy they just resigned right now, but yeah I could see him being a TC cut

CFL’s leading tackler in 2021, LB Darnell Sankey agrees to terms with Saskatchewan Roughriders as per Dunk

Lawler is awesome and I’m very sad to see him go, but we also shouldn’t be competing with those kinds of offers. He’ll probably have a great year and I hope he does. We can’t replace him, but maybe we luck out and find a solid receiver in camp and sign an Ellingson type to bridge the gap a bit.

Let’s just say there is some truth to what he is saying. Would none of this potentially fall on Harris? If he asks for too much, when everyone else is giving up a little here and there, the Bombers what? Owe it to him to give in? Why?

Of course it’s the media making a mountain out of a molehill

250k for Deon Lacey LMAOOOOOO Zero interest in Nevis whatsoever

Doesn’t really say a whole lot given that the legal tampering period is over

Agreed. They still need to make some noise in other areas, but that’s a lot of good talent coming in. I’m really bummed we couldn’t make a play for Acklin.

Hearing some word that Harris may be headed to the worst place imaginable

Who needs elite DBs when you can have Duron Carter