2025 SMS increase

Started by Blue In BC, February 05, 2025, 01:42:54 PM

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theaardvark

Quote from: Blue In BC on February 10, 2025, 12:54:38 PMBig difference if they use him in 2 QB sets which is allowed. Making him a FB that is not on the roster as a Qb takes a spot from a DI. Not many teams have used the 2 QB idea often or well. It's more of an emergency when a receiver is hurt.

Streveler is not exactly a good receiver and putting him in as a QB with Collaros going out wide is not effective either.

He played college ball as a Rec when he couldn't get a QB spot. He has decent hands, and has the ability to block.  Not saying he's my #1 choice as a backup SB, but it is intriguing.  And adds a layer of trickery... lateral pass deep shot..
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Quote from: DM83 on February 10, 2025, 05:39:07 PMI doubt he can walk normally at this point. That would be his immediate goal.  Having people take shots at a reconstructed knee seems unrealistic. Like I said, I think his re-signing is for administrative, covering his medical bills. I don't expect to see him compete in the CFL again, as a player.

As mentioned, he doesn't have to be on the roster to cover rehab and medical expenses. I guess we'll see if he's able to compete again. His re-signing was still a surprise so it's a wait and see issue right now.

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Throw Long Bannatyne

Quote from: Blue In BC on February 10, 2025, 05:46:59 PMAs mentioned, he doesn't have to be on the roster to cover rehab and medical expenses. I guess we'll see if he's able to compete again. His re-signing was still a surprise so it's a wait and see issue right now.

It makes sense that Strev. might not be ready for TC, why else would they sign Patterson?  Really hard to figure what they're attempting to do with the QB room this year and it's a struggle to have a good feeling about any of it.

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Hearing the Bombers have some interest in Global LB Tyron Vrede. Interesting, he played with BO20, Holm, and Mason Bennett, in North Dakota.
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Quote from: DM83 on February 10, 2025, 05:39:07 PMI doubt he can walk normally at this point. That would be his immediate goal.  Having people take shots at a reconstructed knee seems unrealistic. Like I said, I think his re-signing is for administrative, covering his medical bills. I don't expect to see him compete in the CFL again, as a player.

Strev? He's doing a lot more than walking.

He post videos of him doing jumping and running. I don't know when he'll be cleared for contact but he certainly seems to expect to play again.
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Blue In BC

Quote from: Throw Long Bannatyne on February 10, 2025, 06:40:33 PMIt makes sense that Strev. might not be ready for TC, why else would they sign Patterson?  Really hard to figure what they're attempting to do with the QB room this year and it's a struggle to have a good feeling about any of it.

It may be that they feel he's an upgrade over Dolegala, Wilson or both. There are more questions than answers at this point but I'd expect they will look at some rookie QB's in mini camps.

Nothing is fixed in stone at the moment.
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dd

Patterson is definitely an upgrade from Dolegala and Wilson. The fact the Bombers had zero faith in Dolegala when Collaros was hurt in the GC and put Wilson is, makes me question why are we even handing onto this guy??

I don't think Strevy passes the physical so Wilson will be SY Qb, Patterson our #2 Qb and Dolegala get demoted to PR and if he doesn't like that, is released. But training camp will sort all of this out.

TecnoGenius

Quote from: theaardvark on February 09, 2025, 09:47:10 PMHe was utilized in 2 QB sets.  Rather than calling him FB, how about SB?  There are only 3 AR QB spots, we could keep Paterson and Wilson on the AR for development, and use Strevy in SY like Litre...

That's an interesting thought...

Wilson might still be allowed to compete as the SY QB.  Wilson may already have lost the #2 spot.

So it could be this scenario in TC:

SY competition: Strev, Wilson
#2 competition: Dolegala, Patterson (maybe add Wilson in here, esp if he wins SY)
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TecnoGenius

Quote from: Sir Blue and Gold on February 10, 2025, 01:00:03 PMA few things though: The Bombers treat their players the right way. They have the money to help a guy like Streveler and if anyone legitimately deserves marketing money it's him. So the thinking may be, most of his salary this year is going to be sheltered with him on the IR, he's great at fan/sponsorship stuff and while he collects a paycheck, he gets to be around the team during the rehab and will absolutely mentor and help the young QBs.

That's also a great idea and interesting thought.  However, that's not very "WFC-like".  They wouldn't do it just for that.  But it could be an idea if they legitimately think he'll make the AR this season.

There's also the aspect that you really want to spew out the "magic marketing money" (MMM tm) for the top tier players who you need to entice with extra $$ and can't fit it into the SMS (see: BC).  Then again, since there's no limit: spew it out to everyone!  Yay!
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Quote from: Pigskin on February 10, 2025, 06:48:04 PMHearing the Bombers have some interest in Global LB Tyron Vrede. Interesting, he played with BO20, Holm, and Mason Bennett, in North Dakota.

The extra global comes at the cost of another Canadian on the AR. Most of the time we only had our global punter on the AR. When injuries to Canadian depth added up we switched to a 2nd global as the only other option.

At times we had 3 globals on the PR. Another two will be drafted in the upcoming draft.

I can't see much point in adding a global from another team at this point.
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blue_gold_84

Quote from: Jesse on February 10, 2025, 08:41:22 PMStrev? He's doing a lot more than walking.

He post videos of him doing jumping and running. I don't know when he'll be cleared for contact but he certainly seems to expect to play again.

Remarkable progress from a pretty devastating injury.

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