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We have no idea how they came to that arrangement though - that could have been something they (Miller, MOS & Walters) sat down and discussed when negotiating a new deal. Toronto is reportedly offering MOS significant control over personnel if he goes there and Dinwiddie also said he was doing some GM duties for the Argos so this may not be as abnormal as you think.

If MOS has equal say to Walters then that is Walters failing. He is the GM, if he lets other people call the shots on his job, despite reservations he has, is he really doing his job well? I wouldn't think so. I'm not suggesting that MOS didn't have roster input, all coaches do. However, any GM that lets their HC have the final say on matters of contract and roster build that they disagree with should be fired. Simple as that. You or I, if we had a boss, could go to this person and make personell decisions? Nope. Not the way it works. We have no proof anyone else was better. None at all. Also, yes, sometimes a GM needs to save a coach from himself as part of the job. Just as MOS will/should drag his coordinators over the coals if their decisions are poor. Everyone here acting like poor Kyle did such a bang up job only to have MOS play inferior players and there was nothing he could do about it. What a crock that is. Lots he could have done about it and did not. When a coach screws up or is in the beginning of a pattern of screwing up that's on the coach. When the coaches boss allows it to happen over an extended period of time and even contributes to it by providing the personnel then it's more on him than the employee. KW has the final say, he is the GM. This nonsense going on as long as it did was a result of KW not doing his job. I'm not defending MOS here, I am simply stating that KW facilitated and allowed all of this to go on. He is every bit as guilty as MOS for Jake Thomas still playing. Every bit. All coaches have players they tend to live in the past with, most competent GMs make that player go away to save the coach from himself. The coach can only play the players the GM provides. Don't want JT playing, don't sign JT. That was always KW's choice to make.

I Kyle walters puts 4 DTs on the training camp roster and oshea sticks with Jake Thomas over other guys even if the other guys are more skilled who's the issue there? This whole stupid argument comes down to the insistence from one poster that our coach just always plays the best guys and if they are on the roster it's because no one is better.

Stanley Bryant? I don't think it is a case of people wanting to cast him aside so much as the fact that he's old and there was a slip last year and the question is when is it totally going to fall apart? Sooner or later Bryant is going to retire or be too old to be effective.

https://cflpa.com/cflpa-announces-the-official-2025-cflpa-all-star-team Interesting that a certain OL made this list via his peers yet people are ready to cast him aside!

Could be. It's been happening in other cities for years - Winnipeg may just behind the times as usual. 2023 article from Montreal experiencing similar issues: 'Probably organized crime': Montreal police probe wave of arsons, extortion attempts

Yet almost every other team has their rookies taking snaps and, in some cases, starting. Veresuk in Hamilton was runner up as rookie of the year and took over the starting MLB role after 2 games - he would never have gotten a sniff of that here.

Show your work - please provide sources for this, just as you ask others to back up their claims. You've used media reports to back-up other statements but you seem to be ignoring the media reports that say MOS has just about as much say in personnel as Walters. They are both at fault for how this team is composed so it's not 100% on either guy but, IMO, MOS gets more heat as he's more visible of the two and he does get the blame for the gameday decisions. Where Walters can carry more of the blame is the amount being paid to certain players (ZC, I'm looking at you) and how that may have hamstrung us in other areas. Also ZC only signed a 1 year extension, not 2. His 3 year deal already included the 2025 season but he was extended through 2026.

People got talking to some players at the TD MB event yesterday and a few of them thought MOS was as good as gone.

nope. Likely never will

What is going on this city, is their some kind of mafia that is hitting on places that are not paying up? Several convenience stores and now a few restaurants... all non chain places.

I want to say a few years back O'Shea addressed on why he doesn't play guys in their first year. I can't remember the exact reason but it is intentional on his part. I want to say something about shielding them or having them learn from the sidelines.

Exactly! Smith and Shay should've gotten reps.

I was hoping part of his speech would be a call to not have the rules changed. Would have been a nice public f**k you to Johnson.

It’s definitely not good. Some poor defending by the Jets and a couple ridiculous calls by the refs… Results in another L.

Has an OL ever won that?

Rourke turning me into a fan. Seeing Vaval highlights of plays that won't happen in two years was a nice touch...

La Roca up in flames. Smashed windows. Yup.

HC has final say on how talent is assembled, GM has final say on what talent is available to the HC. That's how it works on our team, and every other team out there. Our lack of talent is 100% on the GM. We sit here and grouse about guys like Jake Thomas, but it is Kyle Walters that keeps putting contracts in front of him. Every offseason is an opportunity for the GM to get rid of or keep talent. The HC does not have any form of final say on the roster in that time. It is 100% the GM's job and responsibility as to who will be out there come June. If you know you have a player that you should move on from, even if he is a coaches favorite, it is 100% (and this can't even be disputed) up to the GM to have a tough conversation with a player and the coach who loves him and then swing the axe. It amazes me that you would think otherwise. During the season, it is tougher on the GM to do that for sure, but at the end of the day he is the boss and the HC is the employee. If that is not the way it works in Winnipeg then Walters isn't doing his job properly. This isn't some new phenomenon, for crissakes Walters signed Collaros to a 2 year extension the year after he clearly looked cooked. Is that on MOS? Not a chance. We've been talking about Thomas for the better part of 3 years now. Walters re-upped him twice. Walters hands out the contracts not MOS.

When was the last time the CFL had back to back Canadian MOPs?

I find these awards fire up the team that gets shut out or doesn't get as many awards as the other. Remember the cockiness of the Ti Cats in 2019? They acted like they were going to wipe the floor with the Bombers. I know our players used that as motivation to put Hamilton in its place. The East being shut out should get Montreal going to prove the voters wrong.

4 goals on 17 shots. Just brutal

Also thought it interesting that the East didn't get a single player nod tonight. Not even Pate or Gaudaur.

Very deservedly so. Betts wins modp and rourke mop. How often has both those awards gone to canadians and not the same person? Happy for yoshi wining a mol award. It’s interesting that the rider bias in the media along with a gc birth didn’t get them much for awards. Als get no major awards and riders get one major one minor. Pretty odd for the cfl. That said I think they got the awards pretty right

Our problem isn't drafting good Canadians. The problem is we don't keep them. Either we undervalue them going into free agency or just let them walk. That's an organizational thing that falls on Walters shoulders & it makes no sense.