Dressler and Smith feels like the same situation as Burris and Willy in 2014.  We needed a QB desperately enough that we threw coin at whoever was available at the moment, and good on us for doing it.

I'd be over the moon to get either of them, they would both be serious upgrades for our team. Both of them would have led the Bombers last year in receiving, and both had to play with Bomber-level quarterbacking for long stretches of last season.

As Jim Barker says, you can overpay and roll the dice on FA ( case in point Moore) or you can go out and actually find players. The players may have thought they hit the mother load when the option year was abolished but the challenge now is they are all flooding the market and competeing against each other for the money.

 

 

 

 

 

20 hours ago, Stickem said:

 BIG told ya so rider fans.

we would all be much less sour on the Taman regime if 2007 had finished the way it should have...

VETERAN OFFENSIVE LINEMAN DOMINIC PICARD JOINS ALOUETTES:  http://en.montrealalouettes.com/2016/01/19/veteran-offensive-lineman-dominic-picard-joins-alouettes/

Guessing Picard won't be making what he made here last season.

Don't get me wrong, I want Dressler for the Bombers, but part of me would really enjoy watching Riderfans implode watching him play for the Stamps LOL  ...

Edited January 19, 20169 yr by IC Khari

I guess we should all get ready to hear, Holding/ Procedure /Unnecessary Roughness Montreal number 68

Signings are starting to heat up. Hoping to hear something from the Bombers

1 hour ago, M.O.A.B. said:

Signings are starting to heat up. Hoping to hear something from the Bombers

Bombers signed somebody named Ricky Collins 3 weeks ago.  How much excitement can your heart handle?  Yahoooowahhhhhaaaahahaahaaaaaaaazzzz.....

Guessing Mtl signed Picard as a utility guy. Simply for depth. 7th or 8 th guy. Low base and bonuses if he plays . A cheap guy to injure and have around.

Super curious to see what Picard brings to the Als next year. Is he another Sorenson / Greaves who couldn't play for us but is a starter elsewhere?

Picard will be better, Als are allowed to hold like the Riders.

1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:

Picard will be better, Als are allowed to hold like the Riders.

... and the Lions. 

and the Stamps, Esks, Argos, and REDBLACKS

Darian Durant signs new contract: http://620ckrm.com/ckrm-on-air/ckrm-local-sports/15044-darian-durant-signs-new-contract

what's the over/under he makes it to LDC? I understand a players passion and desire not to give up the game, but when you get taken out in game 1 without being touched and cant come back for the year, I might not be a doctor, but common sense says whoa fella, 2 years, 2 season ending injuries, and one caused by a hop... maybe i should rethink things

Kirk penton is saying it was renegotiated to 450K/1 year *whistles* 

 

sounds like nothing but a PR move cuz they done gone riled up the hillbillies recently. I would have zero faith in DD's health, and whether or not after like a year and a half of not playing  at age 33, he comes back the player he was.  My guess is they were handcuffed, couldnt trade him with no interest across the board, and cant cut him cuz he was injured

Edited January 20, 20169 yr by Taynted_Fayth

probably gave him an incentive laden contract, and given how Jones has shown a willingness to cut players popularity be damned I'm thinking Durant didn't have a leg to stand on in the negotiations 

15 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

probably gave him an incentive laden contract, and given how Jones has shown a willingness to cut players popularity be damned I'm thinking Durant didn't have a leg to stand on in the negotiations 

His one weakness. Achilles Heel even.

 

 

And ditto on the restructuring. Total amount is probably very close to the same, but we all know Tamen loved to have up front money in his contracts. Word on the street was close to 50% of that $450 on the old contract could have been paid out before week 1, meaning if/when DD goes on IR again, the riders get very little cap relief. With the new deal, any time spent on the long term IR for DD means the stubble jumpers will have money to pay his replacement. 

On 1/19/2016 at 10:35 AM, BrandonBlue&Gold said:

Guessing Picard won't be making what he made here last season.

Not to mention that him making the team is guaranteed.

On 1/19/2016 at 0:00 AM, johnzo said:

Dressler and Smith feels like the same situation as Burris and Willy in 2014.  We needed a QB desperately enough that we threw coin at whoever was available at the moment, and good on us for doing it.

I'd be over the moon to get either of them, they would both be serious upgrades for our team. Both of them would have led the Bombers last year in receiving, and both had to play with Bomber-level quarterbacking for long stretches of last season.

It's same in the sense that the Bombers brass preferred Burris to Willy and now Dressler to Smith but I won't beat that dead horse.

1 hour ago, Chaosmonkey said:

His one weakness. Achilles Heel even.

 

 

And ditto on the restructuring. Total amount is probably very close to the same, but we all know Tamen loved to have up front money in his contracts. Word on the street was close to 50% of that $450 on the old contract could have been paid out before week 1, meaning if/when DD goes on IR again, the riders get very little cap relief. With the new deal, any time spent on the long term IR for DD means the stubble jumpers will have money to pay his replacement. 

I believe the Riders already had to pay Durant a $150,000 bonus for this season, there was no way to avoid it as he was injured and can't be cut.