Blue Bombers sign Redha Kramdi to two-year contract extension

[theaardvark]

We'll never know for sure. Yes he's a ratio breaker but most teams have excellent SAM's and don't need to change the ratio at that position.

Yes the SMS increased but that's nearly $100K spent on just Oliveria and Kramdi. Demski and Lawson got more as well.

Regardless I'm glad we're re-signing our top Canadian starters before free agency tampering window.

The big question is how much was 2025 SMS or 2026 marketing money and the end 2026 SMS hit.

I guess we will have to defer to Walters on these issues.  He knows who he has to sign, what resources he has to sign them with, what 2025 $SMS he had left, what marketing money is available.

If we had Ed Hervey or Chris Jones, I'd be worried they'd hit a wall having overspent.  But not so much with Walters.  And this year, there's no Dobson or Lawler that's going to be a tough decision to match.  Those players have been re-upped already.

We might see a few crapshoot guys, like Dillon Mitchell, still signed, but I think we will re-sign most of the guys that actually played last year, and we will still have depth behind them to compete.

[Blue In BC]

I guess we will have to defer to Walters on these issues.  He knows who he has to sign, what resources he has to sign them with, what 2025 $SMS he had left, what marketing money is available.

If we had Ed Hervey or Chris Jones, I'd be worried they'd hit a wall having overspent.  But not so much with Walters.  And this year, there's no Dobson or Lawler that's going to be a tough decision to match.  Those players have been re-upped already.

We might see a few crapshoot guys, like Dillon Mitchell, still signed, but I think we will re-sign most of the guys that actually played last year, and we will still have depth behind them to compete.

I'm thinking Marketing Money will be from the 2026 spending. In theory the 2025 amount will have been used.

D Mitchell was arrested for traffic violations and resisting arrest. That likely makes him a felon and not eligible to enter Canada. Depending on court date and conviction, that is a pending issue. However from a PR point of view I'd expect the team to release him.

[blue_gold_84]

D Mitchell was arrested for traffic violations and resisting arrest. That likely makes him a felon and not eligible to enter Canada. Depending on court date and conviction, that is a pending issue. However from a PR point of view I'd expect the team to release him.

The optics alone should be reason enough to show him the door; he's not FIFO material.

Then there the fact he's facing a lengthy list of charges, which means he'll more than likely be ineligible for entry into Canada for the foreseeable future.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

I'm thinking Marketing Money will be from the 2026 spending. In theory the 2025 amount will have been used.

D Mitchell was arrested for traffic violations and resisting arrest. That likely makes him a felon and not eligible to enter Canada. Depending on court date and conviction, that is a pending issue. However from a PR point of view I'd expect the team to release him.

No mention of any action taken regarding Mitchell, maybe they're waiting till he is charged or convicted, the fact his name is still listed on the roster is baffling. Did they intend to invite him back to TC to try again?

[Sir Blue and Gold]

No mention of any action taken regarding Mitchell, maybe they're waiting till he is charged or convicted, the fact his name is still listed on the roster is baffling. Did they intend to invite him back to TC to try again?

He only signed a one year deal so it's safer and less risk from a liability perspective to say and do nothing and simply not resign him.

[Tecno]

I'm thinking Marketing Money will be from the 2026 spending. In theory the 2025 amount will have been used.

We only care about SMS $, and from an SMS perspective MMM has nothing to do with anything.  It's ALL off the SMS.  (We've gone over this before!)

Ya, I guess if you want to get into the actual real money accounting you can guess at what FY they are using, but to us fans it means nothing.  WFC is rich rich rich with real $, so who cares.  SMS is our alpha and omega.

[Tecno]

We might see a few crapshoot guys, like Dillon Mitchell, still signed

D.Mitchell was so not coming back, even before he got arrested.  He couldn't even break the AR for the ESF!  He did nothing all season.  Hot garbage complete waste of time & space.  A guy with great raw talent but lacking everything else.

The "crapshoot" guy this FA will be To Schoen Or Not To Schoen.

[Jesse]

We only care about SMS $, and from an SMS perspective MMM has nothing to do with anything.  It's ALL off the SMS.  (We've gone over this before!)

Ya, I guess if you want to get into the actual real money accounting you can guess at what FY they are using, but to us fans it means nothing.  WFC is rich rich rich with real $, so who cares.  SMS is our alpha and omega.

It matters because the higher the MM, the less the SC$. So you want to know how much and in what years he's receiving the money so we're not getting 300k hits each year.

I'm assuming he got some sort of signing bonus which he gets now (and comes off the 2025 cap), but they split up across the 3 years of his contract. Like Blue in BC said, no "new" marketing money will be given to him now, as he was paid out from his previous contract for 2025. But hopefully he has a a nice, healthy MM cheque paid out in each of the 3 years that will take another bump from that 300k total.

[Blue In BC]

We only care about SMS $, and from an SMS perspective MMM has nothing to do with anything.  It's ALL off the SMS.  (We've gone over this before!)

Ya, I guess if you want to get into the actual real money accounting you can guess at what FY they are using, but to us fans it means nothing.  WFC is rich rich rich with real $, so who cares.  SMS is our alpha and omega.

That's the point. We don't know the SMS amount for 2026 which is why I mentioned Marketing Money. Whether the team is rich or not is irrelevant. The expectation is to not exceed the SMS by much if at all so it has bearing on SMS remaining for other players.

It's also been discussed that most don't encourage just free wheeling and spending excessively more than the SMS because we are a rich team. That's why an SMS was introduced to protect against rich private owners spending whatever they wanted in the past.