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Fact: you have expressed repeatedly how the Bombers have only found one good starting QB in the last 50 years. Conjecture: that statistic means that Danny McManus will automatically fail in finding talent because past regimes did You lament the lack of home grown QB success we have had, and now that we are going that route with McGuire you want to abandon that plan and being in a veteran. You are talking out of both sides of your mouth here. McGuire is not being handed the job, there are more than 2 QBs signed to come to camp. And he did earn a spot in competition last year, beating out incumbent Brian Bennett (and outplaying Streveler in pre-season by all metrics). Now with Streveler gone he has, temporarily at least, moved up the depth chart. You label those who believe he has skills as “only seeing the most positive outcome” where he is the next Bo Levi, which, unless you can provide an actual citation where someone said that, is not a FACT. You also say when we bring up Dane Evans as another example “congratulations, you have identified the 1 in a million case where it worked out” which is also not a FACT. And is not remotely accurate as conjecture. Your claim that you are wired to look at the most likely outcome makes the assumption that failure is the most likely outcome. That is not a FACT either, that is your perception. And it could be argued that it is comparable to saying “when a QB throws a pass, 3 things can happen, and 2 of them are bad” to suggest that there is a 67% chance of incompletion or interception, so failure there is the most likely outcome (ignoring that most QB’s have a completion percentage of over 50% at minimum). I can accept that there are concerns about the lack of experienced depth at QB behind Collaros, and with Collaros’ injury history, maybe we should have more insurance. That is fair comment and worthy of debate. But you have trouble sticking to that argument when challenged and go off on exaggerated “one in a million” claims to double down on your point, and then act surprised and get defensive (that’s my conjecture, I won’t call that a fact) when people see you as overly negative. The conjecture, not fact, is that if Collaros goes down that may thrust MCGuire into a starting role he is not ready for and we will struggle. We may be “hooped” as you say. But it does not make it a fact that this is the most likely outcome. And frankly, every team outside of Hamilton and maybe Toronto would be in the same boat if their starter went down. And Hamilton would have said that last year when Evans was untested behind Masoli. Same with the Riders and Fajardo behind Collaros. Hopefully a full year to heal in 2019 and then another bonus year without contact, coupled with a much better offensive line, will allow Collaros to have completely recovered and we won’t have to find out what happens if he goes down. Final thought - we have a salary cap and need to make choices. We have opted to spend money on keeping a strong front 7 on defence and a solid o-line and running back on offence (and until Medlock’s retirement, we spent a lot on our kicking game). That leads to shortfalls in money elsewhere, like back-up QB. I am OK with that plan if it creates a stronger overall starting group of players. This management group seems to have figured it out, to the tune of a championship team. I will give them the benefit of the doubt for now on their roster management.

I deliver the mail to the stadium every day and I keep getting more and more excited when I see the parking lot slowly filling with cars and life finally being put back into the stadium.

I’m not sure what I would do with a $100/month of weed but I am going to enter… I can’t remember who the user is but operate some food trailers and now a stand at Riding Mtn. Hopefully someone tags you or you have seen this. MB has re-opened the bridge grant program and is including seasonal businesses. Hopefully this gets you a little relief. https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/?archive=&item=51483

extremely small price to pay....good on all of you for taking the first vaccine available. It's the right thing to do.

Now THIS is incentive! https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/coronavirus/joints-for-jabs-reward-program-offers-chance-to-win-years-supply-of-weed-574681862.html

If anyone here is still searching or has family with far out appointments Safeway and Sobeys stores are booking appointments for Moderna this week. https://www.pharmacyappointments.ca/

Thank God!! We seem to have passed the critical point where the number of new cases are well under 100. We can all breathe a little easier now.

This is really great. Some time I feel that we have not really progressed that much as a society but seeing this gives me a little hope.

@CodyT I'll be there next week!

And to be even more fair, it wasn't really parody. They were really lazy and basically just transcribed the stupid **** Trump said.

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/manitoba-to-build-new-interchange-on-perimeter-highway-1.5480829

It's time for the morons of the week

Or an Erin O'Toole pep meeting.

I agree. Patterson has huge shoes to fill though. Glen Young was an oustanding front 7 coach for us.

As opposed to what, really? Your facts???

With the right coaching,our front 7 will be a monster.

Riders already wafer-thin OL takes another hit with the retirement of Braden Schram today.......also lose DL Chad Geter to retirement.

WINNIPEG, MB., June 21, 2021 – The Winnipeg Blue Bombers announce today the addition of Darrell Patterson to the 2021 coaching staff as the new defensive line coach. A Blue Bombers alumnus, Patterson played for the club from 1984-87 and was a member of the 1984 Grey Cup championship team. He brings extensive coaching experience to the Bombers staff, having most recently served as an assistant coach/defensive analyst with TCU from 2018-2020 following a long run with the Rice Owls from 2007-17. Patterson worked with the Rice linebackers for eight years and in his last six years with the program was also the assistant head coach. In addition, he spent seven years as the Rice special-teams coordinator and four as the run-game coordinator. With his connections to Canada, Patterson led the school’s recruiting efforts in this country and helped Rice land eight Canadians over a nine-year span, including long-time NFL tight end Luke Wilson and defensive end Christian Covington as well as offensive linemen Scott Mitchell and Peter Godber. Prior to his days at Rice, Patterson worked at Stanford University (2005-07), Southern Methodist (2003-04), Baylor (2002), Arkansas State (2001), Kentucky (1997-00), Temple (1995-96), Akron (1992-94). He began his coaching career as an intern with the B.C. Lions in 1991. A standout linebacker at TCU during his playing days from 1979-82, Patterson is a member of the school’s Hall of Fame and remains the school’s all-time leader in tackles. He was selected by the New York Giants in the sixth round, 151st overall, of the 1983 NFL Draft and first made his way north to Winnipeg and the Blue Bombers in 1984. He would suit up for 49 regular-season games with the Bombers from 1984-87 before moving on to the Ottawa Rough Riders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. His best season statistically came in 1987, when he finished with eight sacks, behind only Blue Bomber hall of famers Tyrone Jones and Mike Gray.

There are so many things about being a dad to an adult son and daughter that I never knew and had to puzzle out. When I think of it, my dad probably had to go through that as well. I also wish he had been around to see how his grandkidlets who he loved turned out. It's been 25 years and I still miss him sometimes , but we are given memory that we might have roses in winter.

Yesterday was my 12th Father’s Day without my dad. As the years have gone by I have said less publicly and reduced the “Facebook Tributes”. This same words over and over again just can’t express how much I miss him and am sorry he never got to meet my youngest.

Yeah we will never win with those ******* in charge. Like seriously when has walters ever sat on his hands with the qb position? Willy struggles he brings in Nichols. Nichols is hurt and streveler is young and having ups and downs he brings in collaros. I am sure there are other moves I am not remembering but walters is anything but complacent. He works harder tha any gm out there.

Fuggedabout the hole with people screaming. Christopher tells Tony & Paulie about the Hell he saw where the Italians play the Irish in poker in an Irish bar on St Patrick's Day which never ends & the Irish win every hand.

So the companies that will now legally be able to accept bets in Canada, are going to pay the CFL a LOT (15-20 million is an estimate) to allow betting on their games. Each team is expected to net around 2 million bucks from this endeavour.

couple things - that single game betting bill that's in the senate right now is about to pass in overwhelming fashion. Huge news for the CFL. Also, re: Bombers roster:

yes. 4th round. Arryn Siposs - he's a punter though. https://auburntigers.com/sports/football/roster/arryn-siposs/12896

100% agree. Not only should you get a ticket for being a moron, but you should also have your licence taken away.

In most jurisdictions, this would lead to fewer accidents and better traffic flow. However, it will inevitably be clogged up by the d-bag who stops in the merge lane and waits for all traffic to pass, just like in every other interchange or merge lane in the city. But, I know of many who travel on Hwy 3 to commute, so it will hopefully make things safer and easier for them.

Some would have us believe that our coach and GM have no ****in clue at what they are doing.

Thing is, in the minds of the gm and coaches he already won that competition. If they didn't think he could beat Jennings they'd have a guy like that in camp.

Today's RIP's * A man in his 20s from Interlake–Eastern health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 (alpha) variant of concern * A man in his 60s from the Southern Health region, linked to the alpha variant of concern * A woman in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region linked to the unspecified variant of concern * A woman in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the alpha variant of concern Health officials say there are 1,860 active cases, 52,478 people have recovered, and 123 people are in the hospital with active COVID-19 cases, including 34 in the intensive care unit. The death toll in the province is 1,129. Tuesday’s cases include: * 4 cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region * 15 cases in the Northern health region * 1 case in the Prairie Mountain Health region * 16 cases in the Southern Health region * 33 cases in the Winnipeg health region 1,243 laboratory tests were completed yesterday, bringing the total number of lab tests completed since early February 2020 to 817,797.

Today I learned a very elegant way to wrap one's head around big numbers:

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QFT. You sum it up pretty well. Im about as comfortable with mcguire as our back up as I can be in any qb with that amount of experience. I would love to have a guy who can step in and win games right away on the bench. Especially behind collaros. But right now those guys are few and far between. And we can use that cap money in better ways. If streveler becomes a real option Id be happy to have him back, but tbh im not sure if he is that guy either. He can bring a lot, and a worst case scenario of a 2 man show with him and mcguire couold be pretty good. But idk if at this point in his development if he is ready to step in and win games on his arm alone. It takes dual threat qbs longer to come around like that.

I'm so glad we're back debating the back up QB situation rather than talking about covid! Welcome back CFL! Finding a back up QB in the CFL is challenging. It's not like the NFL where you can overpay a veteran guy to hold a clip board, or basically put all your eggs into the starter basket and don't even have a capable back up (Vikings 2020). In the CFL because of the limited $, you definitely have to find and develop QB's and hope they turn into starters. But, because the O-lines are worse than the NFL, and because it's a passing league, CFL starting QB's tend to drop like flies. Rare for one to make it through an entire season, as we as Bomber fans have witnessed. Based on that, the fact is we have an unproven back up - McGuire. He may be good. And I'd have him as QB2. But, as a Grey Cup contender, I'd feel a lot better with some type of cheap vet back up QB on the roster who has played a few CFL games. If Collaros goes down, and McGuire isn't ready, we're in trouble.

My family all got 2nd Moderna on May 15th and we were all sick for about a day and a half.

Interesting article on the weaponization of "Smokescreen Trolling" (or the “authoritarian mullet”: culture wars in the front, attacks against democracy in the back.)

A friend of mine had the same reaction when he got his second Moderna shot a couple weeks back. He was a double Moderna.

Got my second Moderna yesterday at 11... basically ran a fever all night, I'm burning up rn. Definitely a sick day. Be ready for some downtime folks...

Thanks for the heads up! Was booked for Pfizer on July 2, but gladly moved it up a week for Moderna.

And yet the SOB was willing to let the COVID pandemic "just wash over the country" killing millions. That is nothing short of sociopathic. His inaction was the direct cause of the deaths of hundreds of thousands.

and former Bomber and Grey Cup champion to boot

My dad kicked the crap out of me at chess and ping pong for years and I kept coming back for more. Winning wasn't even a consideration at the start, just trying to get a good spike in once in a while or last more than ten moves. Always learning, always improving...

My dad sadly passed away a few years ago, but one of my fondest memories of him was when I turned five, he bought me my first chess set and board. The gift was nice, and anytime I asked him he would always play with me. I remember it fondly and it was a big part of growing up as a kid, he taught me the rules, and let me take moves back as a kid. He never let me win. I later found out this was a huge sticking point between him and my mom. My mom thought he should've let me win. I remember when I was about 12 I legitimately beat him for the first time... as I got older, I started to beat him more and more. I'm nowhere near as good of a player as I once was, but I still love a good game. Thanks for sticking to your guns old, you made the right call.

Building on Tait's article but isn't it possible that McGuire has the level of success we saw from the relatively untested Evans, Fajardo, Arbuckle in 2019? Going back further Ricky Ray, Khari Jones, Printers all had success despite limited reps before coming starters. As Kevin Garnett said, "Anything is possible."

I think the problems arose in the Trump administration when he told his fellow parasites, "Now, don't do anything I wouldn't do" and they took him at his word.

Yes

ok BIG NAME free agent WR don't work out for us. Adams hadn't made a big name for himself when he signed here....and yeah ok Dressler...so he worked out pretty well too....but after those two!

I miss Don Wittman so much. He was the voice of so many classic Jets and Bomber games from the 80's and 90's...