If he hadn?t broken his wrist, he would have been the leading CFL receiver. I like Lawlers game more, but when you add in Lucky?s return ability, for a franchise looking to get fans excited, it?s probably fair value.
If I was a GM, I don?t think I would have gone as high as $200k, but he is going to be the face of the franchise for the next couple of years, and maybe paying a bit of a marketing premium isn?t such bad business.
Yes, how much of this is the "fan favorite" premium? Lucky is such a perfect fit for BC... very flamboyant, always happy and smiling. That's what the Lions want as the face of the franchise. Burnham is a positive stick in the mud compared to Lucky.
However, even with that, they could have gotten him cheaper. Bad bad GM moves here.
If BC had a choice-lose burnham or whitehead, they chose the wrong guy!! Grotesquely overpaid for a bubble screen, throw it in his gut so he can catch it receiver. He caught teams flat footed and burned them, that won?t happen now. Bc now has the reciever version of mike Reilly- he?s grossly overpaid and will lay an egg this year.
You nailed it. Lucky is a great player, but they just paid $200k for a receiver who cannot catch with his hands! What's up with that? When has that ever happened before? Worst hands out of all "franchise receivers", by miles, and he gets paid the most? Yikes.
Hey, since these numbers are always "whisper" or "leaked" and not "official", what's to keep BC's GM from making up any number he wants, leaking that, to force other GMs to match those offers with their FA re-signings?? If that was possible, it would be an amazing ploy to bankrupt other teams...