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More weirdness though. I get why they let Yoshi go, but I don't get why others were kept.

Eleven years is a lifetime in the CFL. Other than Cal Murphy I don't know anyone, even Bud Grant, who hung around that long with the Bombers and who had so much success. But it's clear that it's time to move on for Mike. We all knew this day was coming. Now, will we pull a major boner and replace O'Shea with a Reinebold kind of fool like we did with old Cal in 1997, and wallow in sadness and mediocrity for two years, or will we find someone who can carry on the tradition of winning? I do like the FIFO mentally that O'Shea brought to the locker room. That's something I hope we can keep going. FIFO is very important. We lose that and we're back to the dark days of 2013 again very quickly.

To be fair, yoshi has back slid into carrying far too much weight, couldn’t stay healthy and wasn’t fairing well when healthy here. He put in tremendous work to get back down in weight, get healthy and stayed pretty healthy. With lawler we did have to get away from 300k for a wr, but we didn’t do a near good enough job of replacing him. once the cap went up, we should’ve gone up to retain him though.

and yet another 9 pm start on TSN 3 how many more of these are there? two?

Per 3downnation, these are our free agents ... basically everyone but Zach, Vaval, Peterson, Clercius, Randolph, Wallace, Pokey Wilson, MCI, Allen, T. Jones, and Leroux the longsnapper. Quarterback Chris Streveler (A) Running back Brady Oliveira (N) Receiver Kody Case (A) Nic Demski (N) Dillon Mitchell (A) Dalton Schoen (A) Jerreth Sterns (A) Keric Wheatfall (A) OL Stanley Bryant (A) Tui Eli (N) Chris Kolankowski (N) Eric Lofton (A) Patrick Neufeld (N) Defensive line Willie Jefferson (A) Cameron Lawson (N) Tanner Schmekel (N) Jake Thomas (N) James Vaughters (A) Jamal Woods (A) Linebacker Tanner Cadwallader (N) Shayne Gauthier (N) Kyrie Wilson (A) Defensive back Terrell Bonds (A) Michael Griffin II (A) Nick Hallett (N) Evan Holm (A) Demerio Houston (A) Redha Kramdi (N) Enock Makonzo (N) Deatrick Nichols (A) Jamal Parker (A) Specialist Sergio Castillo (A) Jamieson Sheahan (G)

I hear Bill and his girlfriend might be available soon , maybe she can fill in as OC while Bill is HC and GM

The Bombers are a strange organization. They seemingly let Hardrick and Lawler go when they wanted to stay. They underutilized Brady O and I think he will bolt. They seem to have an arrogance at the most inopportune times. I guess it is easier to let him make the decision to go than the other way round

I think this is directly related to next season. Do you think if he leaves that the Bombers will be worse off next year?

might be time for someone bold to put a fork in this weird season and fire up the 2025-2026 Blue Bomber Offseason Thread.

I don't know that they offer him the GM role. Dinwiddie left because they (MSLE) are pretty happy having Pinball in that role and he has no desire to give it up right now. That could change if they feel it's necessary to lure MOS away but I also don't know if that's something MOS wants? I've never gotten the impression he has any interest in a GM role but who knows.

Was on the Argos neg list earlier in the year but we added him to ours a few days ago.

What I was trying to say in my clumsy way was that if the Bombers wanted O'Shea to stay they would of re signed him already but by letting the Argos talk to him at this early stage they wouldn't mind if the Argos offered him a GM/HC role with money that the Bombers would not be inclined to give him.

That would give me Bill Belichick vibes .. great coaches but abysmal personnel guys.

Bombers have routinely said they'll never stand in anyone's way so this permission means nothing other than the bombers continue to do the right thing as an organization....

Not like they had a real choice. His contract is ending so they could delay it temporarily or allow it. It would probably ruffle some feathers if they deny the permission.

Giving the Argos permission to talk to O'Shea maybe signal that the Bombers are okay with him moving on.

I think he is already gone and they're just waiting til after the Grey Cup to announce it.

Shoot up with BPC 157...TB 500...only a week but if just a minor lil twinge could make all the difference Guys use this alot pre/post surgery and for a lot of muscle/lig strains..pulls etc Id be all over that if I was on Als staff...but im not 😆

of course the Billion dollar question is going to be how the hell did Woody get back to Bonnie? seriously you can't say the last one didn't happen because there's the fork and he was a knifey girlfriend now

Osh as a g.m woukd drag us back to the depths of reinbold...Mack...hell to the no

Maybe if we can stop being favored to win in the game day analytics we will curb this three game losing streak. So I hereby put the Canucks as favorites today.

Stay...or go...we be fine...and there are a lot of good younger up and comers in the league...joe fan tho isnt acutely aware of tho What was Osh when we signed him..a name as a player...as a couch.. pretty much zero experience...was given a st coordinator role but had zero positional coaching experience or any other for that matter...most will agree that turned out well...started bad..almost ended before the good occurred.. and is reverting to bad..stale..redundant...and that's what happens...especially after 12 seasons..and easily predictable...Ossh showed he was stubborn...bordered on arrogant and at times oblivious to the team... He valued some things over talent...but unlike Ritchie who had a similar trait..albeit more vet over whatever it was Osh sees but Coach Ritchie also valued talent...and had the x and o acumen to facilitate things...Osh lacks that and history shows us without top notch coordinator around him..hes a bit of a dud with his bad traits compound it Miller is a smart guy and knows what kind of guy to hire..Inhave no worries..If Osh wants to poach a coach have at er..some need to go..the ones that need to stay...they will stay..u can bet on it...we don't need a house clean..Just a few key spots need to be expunged... I heard a few interesting things the other day...if i able to substantiate it I will share Yeah in several instances we kept the wrong vets...and valued others where that should have went to some who walked

AND has under ten fans so that helps.

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You have a good point, but veteran and great leader don’t go hand in hand. Big stan for instance, is known to be a pretty quiet guy. Yoshi was the primary leader of the team, offence, and ol. He was a massive culture setter. Sheed as well. Other guys like hansen, kongbo, biggie, and ba were the leaders on and off field. The fact we’ve seen zach soo frustrated with play call, time to relay plays in, wrs, etc as soon as the leaders left says zach is a stoic on field leader type and easy going guy off. but that balance depends on guys who will hold other accountable. Tldr, it takes multiple leaders of various types to make teams work together well. We have guys, but not the right ones in the right places imo.