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I see absolutely no reason we can't keep both Schoen and Brady providing other GMs don't get ridiculous and blow up the CFL pay scale to get one of them like Jones did a couple years ago with Lawler.

Pretty sure his signing bonus is what put us over.

We thought we had the game and just basically quit playing but yea Ford is not ready. Has a ton of potential but isn't seeing the field well yet.

You just got to convince him that it's what his dead ancestors want.

I highly, very highly, doubt that. We love Brady but business is business and we are SMS restrained. We will offer him 15-20k below his best offer (if that offer makes a lick of sense) and get him. He wants us more than we want him. He is a Winnipeg NAT but we will not blow up the SMS or lose Schoen to keep him. He, at the end of the day, is easy to replace.

I think in the end we say goodbye to a few vets, get discounts from Schoen and Brady to stay and go to our 5th cup in a row.

The players signed pre-January 1 likely had big portions of their salaries paid from this year's SMS.

Ford needs more development. Get MBT and set up a Ford package of plays. Use him like we did with Strev.

It is not 50k savings on Nats unless they are making 120k. What Nats making 120k should we cut and replace with raw rookies. I agree with replacing the marine but he is making league minimum. There is no savings there. What yearly bonus cap? No such thing. The SMS is the same year round.

100k salary lost is a 28k savings if we dress a rookie. We would need to cut most of our vets to get both Schoen and Brown. Yea..it's not happening without 3-4 of our highest paid players getting replaced by rookies or 6-8 of our mid tier vets. That's just the math unless we had 150-200k cap room saved from this year going against next year's cap.

Nope..and I doubt they will until they are certain Ford is committed

Yep, and that is on top of his 100k roster bonus on Jan. 15

Me neither. I would just eat the 100k and thank him for his services. The only thing I can think of is that the Esks want to make sure that Ford doesn't bolt during the NFL window which seems like a very remote of a chance to me.

I think that is almost a foregone conclusion.

Ryan also thought he would be the RIder's best choice for HC about a month of so ago, so I would take his assessment of HCes with a giant grain of salt. Dude is just trying to stay relevant by making outlandish comments every couple of months I think. Sad really.

Kyle Walters is a busy guy this past week. Great job.

Sub par offence and defence? Our defence was the best in the league and our offence was very narrowly ranked second..

He was not fired, he was simply before his time and misunderstood. He is the Nikola Tesla of the CFL. lmao.

Sure that's the fear. The question is whether that fear has any merit. 100k offseason bonus on Jan 15 and a further 100k that is guaranteed later on. If the Esks want to limit their liability to Cornelius to 100k they must turf him prior to Jan. 15.

Hard to say. Depends a lot on what other teams do as well.

Randle is a good comparable, although I think Nichols is better than Randle was.

It will absolutely be very tough to keep him. No doubt about it. If we do it would almost certainly end any hope of retaining Prukop and another veteran player and that's assuming no one offers him starter salary. Would not surprise me to see Calgary in on him, as well as Edmonton and Ottawa. I doubt anyone is giving him guaranteed money on this next contract. Failing that I definitely go one year contract as a player unless someone wants to blow their brains out in the hard money department. He, at best, will get first time starter offers of money. No way I sign for more than a year of that. I base that on my own personal assessment that Brown is an intriguing but not surefire QB solution. GMs around the league may not share my assessment and he gets a very nice hard money offer. In that case sign the multi-year deal.

We can afford whatever we decide we can afford. If the Bombers want to pay him 250k...no problem...it just means we have to sacrifice elsewhere. How much we pay our QBs depends solely on what our management feels is the cost benefit to doing so. However, should we decide that Brown is a priority sign at too far over what he is making now then people better get used to watching Schoen and/or Brady playing somewhere else. That would be the likely trade off. Worth it? Not for me to decide but I wouldn't. Not in the age of short term contracts in the CFL.

Right now, there are no situations he can walk into (unless Calgary, Toronto, Hamilton become options) where he can be fairly confident of being the starter and having even a decent OL. I only list TO in the small chance that Kelly bolted for the NFL. Edmonton, Riders, and Ottawa all have terrible offences and all mainly because their OL's suck.

Hey, I'm not saying he does have infinite time. Just saying if the contract from one of the tire fires doesn't blow me away I might wait one more year. What Brown opts to do...who knows. If the RBS or Riders offer me 400k hard money and I was Brown, I would probably take it on a one year deal.