Uguak is the guy I’m praying we get back. Sutherland plays a position where we’re loaded, and we have effectively replaced Mack in combined production as well as role (Philpot is now the #1 guy). Also, Mack returning would force some impossible choices on us when Snead and KJG are healthy.
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À de l’importance des joueurs N dans la CFL, je suis d’accord que la priorité est le retour des choix numéro 5 et 7 en première ronde en 2023, s’ils deviennent disponibles.
À cause de la situation des ailiers défensifs, le retour L. Uguak qui a joué en 2023 avec les Alouettes serait la priorité première. Il est une force contre la course ce qui est présentement le talon d’Achille de la défensive des Alouettes.
J. Sutherland aurait à apprendre le système défensif de N. Thorpe et se réhabituer au football canadien mais il deviendrait un élément important au niveau de la profondeur en joueur N du club, demi défensif, secondeur, unités spéciales et éventuellement comme joueur régulier pouvant changer le ratio N/A.
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I don’t think we can count on Richards at all. I don’t see how the team can offer him a contract. This is the third year, he will have spent more time on the six game than playing. Getting Sutherland might actually motivate Maciocia to focus his draft efforts on Offensive linesmen…
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If he can play, Thorpe will make him part of the rotation, like he is doing with Cantin-Arku.
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I agree that Richards’s time with us might be coming to an end. The amount of time he’s spent on the 6-game is getting to be untenable. But even without Richards, where do you play Sutherland? We have all-stars at Will, Mike, and safety, and Cantin-Arku has done very well in 3-4 alignments. I suppose you could platoon GCA and Sutherland but making two first-round picks split reps isn’t desirable in the long term.
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Nathan Rourke have been cut
I would call if he wants to return in the CFL
Avant ou apres les Elks, Bombers, Argos, Cats … 
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We disrupt our entire quarterback structure for Rourke? No. Makes no sense to me. Fajardo is our starter, and now it certainly looks like Davis Alexander is the QB of the future. Both QBs know our offence and are trusted by the team. Cutting guys just because a new shiny becomes available doesn’t breed trust and it doesn’t encourage free agents to sign here.
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I am very curious what happens next for Rourke. He’s still young but it feels like his window down there is closing. He hasn’t been given a real shot, it looks like, but that’s the NFL for you. If I were Toronto, I’d make a serious play for him and be done with the gift that keeps giving in Kelly.
Because you’re getting the best player in the league ? Kansas City had Alex Smith who was a good QB but they didn’t shy away to bring Patrick Mahomes. Free agents gonna wants to play with Rourke
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NFL isn’t the same as CFL and putting Rourke, who hasn’t proven much yet, in the same breath as Patrick Mahomes, is a huge stretch.
You sign Rourke, you immediately have to cut Fajardo for cap reasons. Would you do that the year after Fajardo helped bring us a Grey Cup? I wouldn’t.
Rourke will certainly attract CFL interest, but not from every team, and anyway it may well be moot if he tries to catch on with another NFL team.
Yes would be the Mahomes of the CFL… He was dominating the league like no other QB have done in the past 5 years when he was only 24… the other you were saying to be patient with Evans because he was only 26.
If Rouke wants to sign him ? I’m cutting/trading Fajardo and I’m even driving him to the airport. I respect Fajardo for what he did but if the Superstar U30 QB that’s gonna make me contender for the 8 years wants to sign here, it’s a no brainer
LOL. Rourke had half a great season two years ago and didn’t even get his team to the Grey Cup game, but he’s suddenly the best player in the league? That’s pure hyperbole and not based on any robust evidence, so if that’s the lynchpin of your argument, it falls to the ground.
(Have zero idea how Evans is relevant to this conversation. I have never said I think Caleb Evans is the best player in the CFL.)
I know your wish is to sign every big-name player who might be available in free agency. But in the actual world of the CFL, you build a winner by building a team. Not by cutting your Grey Cup MVP the year after he leads you to a championship, in a season where he has stepped up and elevated himself into the upper echelon of the league’s quarterbacks. No sane GM would do that.
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Je ne sais quelle équipe de la ligue remportera la loterie Rourke si celui-ci décide de revenir dans la LCF peu importe l’équipe qui le signera devra remplir certaines conditions : masse salariale suffisante, besoin d’un quart de partant et attractivité aux yeux de Rourke. Entre autre conditions.
Les Alouettes risqueraient ils de briser et de un leur hiérarchie salariale ( Fajardo a accepté de restructurer son contrat. Rourke accepterait il de le faire d’entrée de jeu? J’en doute. ). Et au final le signer serait risqué pour l’esprit d’équipe.
Je vois Toronto et BC comme potentiel destination. Edmonton cela serait surprenant à mes yeux.
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I think it will be moot because Rourke will try his best to catch on with another NFL team for 2024. In 2025, who knows?
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Great QB, HOF potential but he’s going to want 600k and someone will give it to him. or there about. The only purpose to get in this bidding war is to drive up the price for another team.
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My comment was tongue in cheek.
I do not expect the Als to be in on Rourke.
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Il serait un candidat idéal pour Toronto, à mon avis. Les Argonauts pourraient ainsi se débarrasser de deux problèmes : le harceleur et le mauvais perdant.
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Might be a bit rash to throw everything away for a QB who’s great year consisted of only 10 games. There’s been a ton of one year wonders, and perhaps him not cracking an NFL roster are signs that he isn’t as great as everyone thinks he is. Great QBs prove it year after year, sure he had a great year, but can he do it again and again and again? You would expect that of him if you’re going to gut your team to be able to afford him.
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Son entraîneur à Boston n’avait que des bons mots pour lui. Rourke n’a pas survécu au départ de ce dernier. Oui, il y a eu plusieurs feux de paille (le dernier en lice qui me vient à l’esprit est Jonathon Jennings), mais je pense que Rourke ne serait pas un feu de paille s’il est en santé. Ce qui me faire croire ça, c’est que Rourke faisait déjà d’excellentes lectures avant la remise. Il avait déjà une bonne vision du jeu. C’est la qualité essentielle pour devenir un partant.