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The group that does those videos is called Midnight Edge, they do it for the clicks. They do summarize some of the news and rumors but always with a super negative slant. According to the, Discovery sucks, CBS is mad and the Picard series is meant to replace it. But when we apply common sense to this, we see that networks never have a show they hate and keep funding it while also funding a second expensive show just in case they want to replace the original. Viacom (Paramount's parent company) does have issues with CBS insofar as they are suing each other. Its complicated but the simple version is a company called National Amusements, owned by the Redstone's (Patriarch Sumner Redstone, but now controlled by his daughter Shari Redstone) owns controlling interest in both Viacom and CBS but they are two separate companies. It was Sumner Redstone that split the two up years ago. Now, Shari wants to merge the two back together feeling that it provides leverage in an eventual sale to another tech giant (like Disney buying Fox). Viacom is weak, especially Paramount and Shari wants to combine Viacom and CBS to create more value. How this impacts Star Trek is that when CBS and Viacom were split, Paramount maintained ownership over the film libraries while CBS maintained ownership over the core trademarks and TV rights. It was an awful decision which has hamstrung Star Trek ever since. Redstone gave Paramount a drop dead date to produce a new Trek film or lose the rights. Thats why Paramount hired JJ Abrams and Bad Robot to produce a new Trek movie. But Paramount had to license the underlying trademarks to Star Trek from CBS. Part of that deal was CBS would not develop any new Trek on TV for a given time, which was fine with CBS because they saw Star Trek on TV as a dead issue. The reason Bad Robot created the Kelvin time line is because they wanted to own their own version of Star Trek. Whereas all merchandise etc that flows from CBS' original Star Trek license is controlled by CBS, merchandise flowing from new original content created under the new limited license flowing from Bad Robot/Paramount's "new" Star Trek universe is theirs. Bad Robot desperately wanted to create all new merch, comics, animated TV etc and create a Star Trek Universe that they would control. But CBS refused to play ball and kept Bad Robot operating within the narrow allowances they had. One famous squabble was that Bad Robot wanted CBS to stop selling toys featuring the TOS likenesses. Those TOS toys out-sold the Kelvin toys and Bad Robot claimed market confuses and wanted CBS to stop so they could have complete control of the toy market. CBS refused, of course, as merchandise sales for their Star Trek brand still generated millions of dollars in profits even though it was completely unsupported by new Trek tv. Bad Robot got annoyed and JJ began losing interest which is partially why he went to Star Wars. When CBS decided to bring Star Trek back it was because they were approached by other networks, most notably Netflix, who wanted to license Star Trek and create new programming. Netflix has all the Trek shows on their service and has intricate data on what fans want to see. This made CBS realize that there was stronger interest in Star Trek than they thought. And they realized they could leverage Star Trek to support All Access. But due to their agreement with Paramount, they had to wait until X amount of time (I think it was six months) after Beyond was released, before they could do Discovery. Now it's full steam ahead. Discovery had a bit of a troubled history but not lack of support from CBS. They hired Bryan Fuller and he began developing the series. He was a former Star Trek writer so people thought he'd be good. His original pitch was to start the series ten years before TOS and every season would feature a time jump, working its way through every era up to and beyond TNG. CBS liked the concept but would only agree to one season to test it out (doing an anthology would be very expensive). Most of the things fans disliked were Fuller ideas (re-designed Klingons, design of the USS Discovery, era it takes place in, uniforms, look of the environment and tech etc). Reportedly Les Moonves, head of CBS became disenchanted with Fuller because he kept missing deadlines, the budget was ballooning and Les hated the quality of the SFX. Fuller was fired, a new SFX and creative team was brought in. But they had to work mostly with what Fuller had created because there wasnt time to go back to the drawing board. If you notice, in later episodes of Discovery, legacy aliens (such as Tellerites and Andorians) look much more like they did traditionally than the radical departure of the look of the Klingons under Fuller. One change that might not have been good, was Nick Meyer being moved away from Discovery. Fuller had brought him in but when Fuller was canned, Meyer was seemingly moved down as well. But it came out that Meyer was moved to a new project, supposedly based on Khan and focused on Khan and his people stranded on Ceti Alpha (before being accidentally discovered in Wrath of Khan). That project was most directly impacted by the Viacom/CBS lawsuit because even though CBS owns the rights to Khan (from the TOS episode Space Seed), they can't feature anything related to the films without licensing that from Paramount. In a world where CBS and Paramount gladly made licensing deals that was no problem. But with a lawsuit, not as easy. Another area it could be a problem is the Picard series. CBS owns the rights to Picard and the TNG universe, but everything that happened in Star Trek 2009 with Spock trying to save Romulus unsuccessfully etc, they cant use or reference without licensing from Paramount. Midnight Edge takes this truth and adds a conspiracy slant to it. They say Discovery is actually being run under Paramount's Limited License and thats why Discovery looks more like the films than the TV shows. But this makes no sense because why would CBS, who completely owns the license to make Trek on TV, choose to develop programming that requires paying Paramount and then not even creatively expressing on the show that its the Paramount Universe (Kelvin)? They make this connection due to the updated SFX and the fact Alex Kurtzman worked for Bad Robot and wrote the first two JJ films and is the head of Star Trek for CBS. They further push the idea that Discovery is a disappointment to CBS and Netflix and they are developing Picard series to replace it. They said the same thing about Meyer's Khan series. The big take away is, Star Trek would benefit from Viacom being owned by CBS because they could then have complete creative synergy across the brand.

TSN was saying before the garbage time outburst that the Bombers had 58 yards on offense in the 2nd half. That is all kinds of awful and should automatically shift a hell of a lot of focus off the defense who kept the team in as long as they could against one of the top qbs in the league.

Luckily, on my way to Vancouver I got this shot as we were flying over regina.

What? The game was still a one-score game with 9 minutes left in the 4th (15-22) and with 2 minutes left in the 4th (18-25)... certainly giving up +500 yards isn't ideal, but up until that point the D had pretty much solely kept the Bombers in that game. I'm not saying our D is good by any stretch, but they did a kept the Stamps off the scoreboard for close to 50 minutes of the game. If the offense responds when it is 15-22 with a major, or even just a sustained drive - maybe they get the breaks they needed. Please don't try to make this nickname a thing... just... don't.

Why would people think a guy who didn't start for one team and was dealt and then cut by a second team, that is a national would be a good fit at tackle? Nationals in the CFL that can start and play OT are like gold, they don't end up as the 6th OL or cut mid season.

This should put an end to the "throwing under the bus" talk.

Some of this reminds me of when we kept giving Grigsby carries and had two upgrades over him in Cotton and Volny. Mike O'Shea's long history of playing favorites.

Well, sort of: https://globalnews.ca/news/4413881/milt-stegall-apologizes-to-winnipeg-blue-bombers-qb-matt-nichols/?utm_medium=Twitter&utm_source=%40globalwinnipeg

Regardless what or how he said it...he should have just said that things weren't working and he was just missing on some plays/throws If I was to hear that as a teamate it would raise my eyebrows..as I am sure as others...and is a good way to start a crack in fracturing team chemistry and dividing a room....also..I can bet that there were some receivers..possibly others who under their breathes..or in private convo's most likely said...well..how bout you make some of them damn throws when we "are" open

Who signed Kavis?

Tburg feeding the trolls

When it comes to talking about how much the NDP sucks I will never shut up. That being said if we had to have the NDP I would take Notley over the unelected dumpster fire of a government we have here in BC, that's for sure. We have the Montreal Alouettes front office of governments right now.

Good grief... it's all up like RF in here. Holy smokes Guys, take a step back from the edge. There are issues with this team and I totally understand people's frustrations, but let's not go full riderfans....

You’ve got the value backwards. The linemen are worth way more.

Guarantee Milt got a talking to from Wade Miller about those comments.

I don't really see him bouncing finding a new home in the NFL at this time. He was cut a week early and every year there's a new college crop fighting it out for roster spots. Would be great to have a guy like this actually come to the bombers after having been drafted. Typically we never see the players we draft who go to the NFL.

Well, that’s better Milt.. “I want to apologize to Matt Nichols. Nowhere in his interview did he outright say that he was throwing his receivers under the bus. So I don’t want to put words in his mouth, so I want to apologize for that.” - Milt Stegall

You’re bringing up a dead issue. As they say - “drop it.”

Ummmmm , I seem to recall a past wager that went unpaid

On offense, I'd say O-line is the least of the team's problems right now.

you could see the game changing because of the lack of offense but it was still within reach, and at that point all it takes is one play from the offense to be right back in the thick of things so yes the D did hold them in until late in the 4th quarter. The offense just never did their part.

I would disagree... I thought he's had lots of time. But when he stands still, and the pocket starts collapsing around him, he's gotta be able to move. If he can't, or isn't seeing the collapse around him, come on, that's a huge red flag for what he's seeing out there.

I just got back from a flat earth convention. The Bombers need to get it together or we’re all dead.

So obviously Nichols didn't have a particularly stellar game against Calgary. That said, how bad was it? After the Stamps went up 32-18, this is what Nichols did in garbage time: 1st & 10 on WPG 19: 7 yard pass 2nd & 3 on WPG 26: 14 yard pass *** Pick 6 *** 1st & 10 on WPG 39: 11 yard pass 1st & 10 on WPG 50: 30 yard pass 1st & 10 on CGY 30: Incomplete pass 2nd & 10 on CGY 30: 4 yard pass 1st & 10 on CGY 13: Incomplete pass 2nd & 10 on CGY 13: 8 yard pass 1st & 3 on CGY 3: 3 yard TD to Adams So in total - 77 yards in the final 100ish seconds of trash time. His game total was 258 yards - 1 TD - 2 INTs... take garbage time away, and his already pedestrian stats slink down to 181 yards - 0 TDs - 1 INT. If that doesn't paint an ugly picture, I don't know what does.

Plus if the logic is a guy who plays tight end can play tackle, why wouldn't we just use Couture?

Ummmm Starbucks?

TE is basically never isolated in pass protection against a rush end. Tackles are almost every down. Huge difference.

Honestly forget the 500 yards and 250 for Jorden, look at how long the D kept that game in reach despite the offense doing jack squat after the first quarter. No defense is going to come out looking good on the stats sheet with that kind of useless offense. If Lankford hadn't taken that ball to the house the game would have been over a lot sooner.

I don't think Trestman has that level of vision. He will do what the lower level coaches would do and just play him at WR

Once again, here’s the transcript (from Ed Tait) of what Nichols actually said as opposed to what people are saying he said: Irving: “Their defence is the best in the league statistically. What did they do today, Matt? Did they do anything that you weren’t expecting?” Nichols: “No. Nothing we weren’t expecting. They just do their jobs very well. When they’re in zone and I’m going through four and five reads and finding no one open, they’re doing a good job. There were times where I felt like we were moving the ball well against them, we hit some stuff. We just kept kind of stalling out, were just a little short and we didn’t do a good enough job of getting some chunk plays as an offence which, in my opinion, is not an offence in the CFL. If you don’t have two or three of those in a game that flip the field, you don’t have a good chance of winning. We just need to find a way to make some of those bigger plays. It felt like we were right there all game, we just didn’t quite make that one play to change the game.”

If you could GTFO here with garbage comments like this, that'd be great.

Well we know he has a knee injury. I think it's also worth noting how teams have been defending the Bombers and blanketing Harris. Nichols stats have always been helped by basically a historic level of play by Harris as a receiver. A 2 yard throw becomes a 12 yard pass on Nichols stat line. His numbers downfield have always been dreadful. They are just a touch more dreadful this year. Contain Harris, beat the Bombers. Has been the way since 2016. If Lapolice can't figure out how to make teams defend the whole field or at least more of it (I don't think the deep ball will be a consistent threat with this group of players) this offense is sunk.

I really can't help but have this nagging feeling he's playing injured, even if assertions are being made to the contrary. Don't feel like QBs just lose their accuracy without being hampered by something. Has he gone the Willy way? Sure, it's possible, but from what? I don't feel he's taken any more hits or sacks than Willy did, in fact probably way less so. He's struggled to get in a rhythm when Lapolice isn't using his up tempo offense. Somehow when this is all said and done I got a feeling some kind of injury will be revealed.

Should, but this is Winnipeg, the mob has turned on Nichols there is no hope for him now.

I like couture and Spooner better...heck even actually Speller

I can't wait to see Carter line-up against Roosevelt. Should make for a good match-up (of words). Unless, of course, Trestman is going to play him at WR? Surely, Trestman is as smart as Jones and sees the untapped DB potential there?

What are you going on about.

I agree too. When a defense is struggling, there is nothing better than to play people out of their positions because there's no way that anything could possibly go wrong with that strategy.

Landon Rice is of no help...30 yr old who has never really started anywhere...we'd be better off with Neuf at tackle and Couture at guard if we wanted to go that silly route

I guarantee you 90% of the players tuned him out half way through the speech, and they all laughed at him in private after the game. That is clown behavior and nobody takes that seriously anymore.

Moe Leggett’s worst game as a Bomber. And he knows it..

No he won't. Walters is weak, possibly the biggest problem the Bombers org has. There is a reason he was also a big part of the Joe Mack era. Miller is disingenuous from shaking fan's hands and promising a competitive product several years ago. He basically is a big liar, settling for Walters and O'Shea knowing that at best they are mediocre.

They schemed to stop the run and the short passing game. 20 carries to gain 25 yards would have been the result.

I heard the interview. I agree with Bob..

I love how innocent and pure Bob is, he usually ends up being wrong but I have to admire him for being so optimistic.