Brandon

https://www.cfl.ca/2025/02/11/a-team-by-team-look-at-2025-cfl-free-agency/ An easy way to see what teams have signed and what they have lost. Shiltz to Ottawa is a nice move for them.

I attribute our poor start as a result of a wasted pre season and training camp. I really hope this year the team takes it seriously and doesn't **** around a-gain.

Still a massive downgrade from Vernon Adams though.... it is a decent veteran back up option if he comes cheap.

Good luck with that U.K.

The issue with Thomas is that the numbers don't always tell the full story. Several times in the last few seasons he has had gimmie sacks where WJ has two guys hanging off of him and is driving the qb out of the pocket and chasing him down and Thomas gets the easy sack since he's at this point climbed back up after being pushed down and is the only guy on the d-line who isn't being blocked so he can make the easy tackle. I can't think of many or if any "highlights" that Jake Thomas has had in any of the games he has played in. Maybe it's just me being critical and he has made big plays that I'm ignoring... I just can't remember any of them. I don't know for any of our post game threads if anyone has had Thomas in the top 3 or has given him a HH award.

Emmitt Smith was an 8 time all star and had several great seasons, far from Jake Thomas who has never came close to leading anything. Smith is always in the top 10 all time rbs in the league, usually in the top 5 after Sanders, Payton, Brown. A better example of a crappy HOF'er is Art Monk who only had 5 - 1000 yard receiving seasons in his 16 seasons and only 3 pro bowl selections. 2 of those seasons he barely passed the 1000 yard mark. Never lead the league in yards or TD's.

I may be way off base here since I haven't bothered to go look it up... but i'd bet you a pepsi that Streveler has better NFL stats then Dukes.

I believe Dana Carvey hates Mike Myers big time for many reasons. Mainly that he stole the Dr Evil voice from Dana's impression of Lorne Michaels.

temu specials?

I met Johnny Fairplay when he was in Winnipeg 15 years or so ago... that guy was a complete pr*ck. It's definitely not a persona or character... it is him in real life. Watching the video of Danny Bonaduce breaking his jaw is always very satisfying.

Any chance that Zach is contemplating retirement and they are signing a bunch of guys as replacements?

That d-line is dominating... I miss the days when our d-line would disrupt games

Wilson was really good on short yardage for us last season, that alone is enough reason for me to keep him over Dole-banana.

Strev had no issues at all throwing the ball in the NFL and having success for the two - three years he was gone. Strev when he first played with us was able to throw the ball with no issues... it was only when LaPo got cute and designed weird plays and then once again last season where LaPierce decided to also get cute and assumed that he was the 2nd coming of Christian Okoye and would run very predictable plays which were 75% him rolling out and running into a pile of players.

I'd be concerned if I were a Hamilton fan that he's bringing many mediocre guys that way. As a Bomber fan this excites me that we have unloaded a guy who appears to be the one who recruited this C - D level talent.

Darian Durant says good bye

The guys in bold are TCF, those guys showed very little last year.

So much sourness on here... it's not out of the realm of possibility that Winnipeg could offer Lawler 50 k more and Hamilton stays firm with what they originally offered. To think it's 100% impossible is very weird. It's doubtful, but most certainly not impossible. Weird things have happened in the league before where players change their mind at the last minute.

So you are suggesting that Walters won't adjust what he will spend now that he has an increased budget? Usually when you have a higher budget, you spend more money. I'd be very surprised if now that he has an extra 400 k that he will just ignore that extra money and stick to the smaller budget.

Lots of TCF from what I can see, week in and week out we complained about most of these guys being invisible and under performing.

I don't understand how 225 000 + 400 000 = 276 000 , your math doesn't make sense. If the team has $400 000 extra play money that they didn't expect then maybe they are willing to spend an extra $50 000 to keep him around. I wouldn't be opposed to it since Lawler is a guy who is a game breaker. It's almost like the moment he said he was going to Hamilton people forgot the insane catches he made and how he would make plays while being double/triple teamed. I'm not sure who is left in free agency that would be considered a game breaker or elite, but if their is no one else on the table then why not bring him back? I'm assuming Zach is on his last year of his contract , so won't that free up lots of money for next season?

Or he has a very limited list of players that he has scouted. We've seen teams in the past where coaches/management brought in their old players with little to no success.

I think Valley Fiber is from Manitoba? I wonder if one day they will be available in Winnipeg? So far I've had them for 4 months at my cabin and have only had two outages that lasted 20 minutes or so. I will say for the ten months that I had Starlink that I never had a single outage, so it was reliable. At home I switched to Shaw and have seen far more temporary outages then when I had BellMTS before. Nothing that lasted very long but still annoying enough that the internet would drop for 30 - 60 minutes.

I don't think the accuracy/touch is the issue... it's him making bad decisions. I don't remember him throwing into double/triple coverage as much as he did in his earlier years with us.

Something something Wally Buono would get rid of players before they declined something something.....