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This debate about Willy and Evans has drilled home to me that the next 3 months can't elapse fast enough.

Another local kid to keep an eye on over the next few years. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/featured/2023/03/17/manitoba-nose-tackle-turning-ncaa-heads

I'm taking Gray over Judge if the draft was re-done with the benefit of hindsight. Not a knock on Judge but he's been on 3 teams in 5 seasons so Gray would be the better long-term pick for the Bombers (imo). To be fair, there are a number of top guys from that draft class who never came north - Justin Senior, Eli Ankou & Antony Auclair were all ranked top 10 but have yet to play a snap in the CFL.

1st overall draft pick, 3rd round pick, and TJ Heath is what we got for Willy. Doesn't matter how those draft picks turned out. The fact we had 1st overall allowed us to take a flyer at 8 and get Gray who is now part of our league best OL. Petey gave us excellent depth, and played some good football for us. Heath was an all star. Compared to what we gave up.....yea...a king's ransom in return for a broken QB.

Still one of my favourites.

I can't say I even remember seeing those ads, but you're not alone in your thinking: "The Manitoba Nurses Union is accusing the province of laying a guilt trip on the public for backed-up Winnipeg emergency rooms when government austerity is to blame. Since last year, government ads saying close to 40 per cent of such patients could get the care they need sooner at a family doctor’s office or walk-in clinic have been running online. This week, the nurses union is pointing to Canadian Institute for Health Information data that show there were many more low-acuity patients going to the ER in 2016-17 (48 per cent), while wait times were shorter. Five years later, with fewer lower-acuity patients and a lower volume of visits, ER waits are worse — and the nurses blame Tory belt-tightening for it. “I think it has a lot to do with the austerity agenda of this government,” said MNU president Darlene Jackson. When the Progressive Conservatives took power in 2016, they embarked on a hospital consolidation plan to streamline services. The massive reform resulted in the closure of three of Winnipeg’s six emergency rooms. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, there was no fat left to trim and ERs and ICUs were overwhelmed, the MNU said. Emergency rooms remain backed up with long waits, although Shared Health released data Thursday showing a drop in ER visits and waits in the month of December. In 2016-2017, there were 329,910 Manitoba ER visits. In 2021-22, there were 273,384. In the first nine months of fiscal 2022-23, there were 193,352. In April 2016, ER wait times were five hours; in October 2022, waits were nearly eight hours. Lengths of stay are up in the ER, as well, as patients wait for a staffed medicine bed on a ward or a personal care home bed to become available. Longer ER stays contribute to illness and death, according to Manitoba’s 2017 wait time reduction task force report. In 2016-17, the average length of stay in an ER was 11.9 hours. In 2021-22, it was 20.6 hours — the longest in Canada among the eight provinces and territories that participated in a CIHI study. The average was 12.4 hours. Such data show the root of the ER problem began before the pandemic, MNU said, and it wants the PC government to acknowledge that and the fact patients seeking non-urgent care are not the root cause. “What I’m taking exception to is patient-blaming,” Jackson said of the push for Winnipeggers to go to a walk-in clinic or a family doctor for non-urgent issues rather than a hospital ER. Jackson said she is especially concerned about inner-city residents, for whom the Health Sciences Centre emergency room may be their only or best primary care option. “A lot of these patients don’t have a family doctor… and the ability to get to a different facility doesn’t happen,” Jackson said. “You can’t close the door on options for these individuals and not provide a different, reasonable option, in a place they can access it, and then turn around and blame the patients.” Health Minister Audrey Gordon did not respond to a request for comment. The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority defended the ads launched in October. “It’s important to note this campaign was never intended to be a cure-all for emergency and urgent care wait times,” a WRHA spokesperson said in an email. The WRHA hasn’t tracked how many patients have heeded the message. However, the Walk-In Connected Care and Walk-In Clinic websites have received more than 320,000 page views combined, and the MyRightCare.ca site had 1.3 million views since it launched in October. The government campaign nudging patients to seek non-urgent care at a clinic or doctor’s office is a “disingenuous” tactic that’s been used before by provinces to divert attention from deeper, more complex problems that need to be addressed, a MNU statement said. A position paper by the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (cited in the 2017 wait time reduction task force report) acknowledged “inappropriate use of the (emergency department) across Canada” was getting a lot of media attention. However, “the primary cause” was hospital crowding — or “access block” — the inability of patients in the ER to access inpatient beds when they need to be admitted to hospital." https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/01/27/nurses-take-issue-with-tories-patient-blaming

Poor guy has been lacking topics since 2019.

No, technically they are. I even think they'll make it into the playoffs. My point is that they are far from where most fans would want them to be. In the lasat 15 to 17 games they have one of the worst records in the NHL. Anything can happen I guess, but frustration with this is perfectly reasonable ...

That defense worked for the knob at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge standoff. https://katu.com/news/local/prosecutors-move-to-dismiss-case-against-pete-santilli-in-refuge-standoff

FTFY

America deserves everything that comes their way in the coming weeks, the Republican Senate had a chance to get rid of Trump once and for all but protected him, now he wants to come back to burn everything to the ground.

Well and good, that Trump is staring down at the barrel of an indictment. But more serious charges are looming, for the Don - racketeering and conspiracy charges for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. Turns out that there is another recorded phone call, this time to David Ralston, Georgia House Speaker, where Trump was dialing for votes. What will be interesting is watching what will happen to all the people who participated in the fake electors scheme.....that includes Lindsay Graham and a number of GOP House members. If they lay the RICO down on Trump, you can be sure it won't stop there

woof what a garbage draft year: https://www.cfl.ca/draft-tracker/2017/

FWIW, I'd have taken Cam Judge first overall (with the gift of hindsight, to be clear).

National Combine this weekend in Edmonton.....

love love love that......

MoneyPuck just clownin' Reimer. LOL

yeah that was a mistake I thought. Get a few fresh guys into the lineup.

55 - 26 - 81 line doesn't know how to play defense. We saw that script last year. Bowness shouldn't be putting them together.

Musk's ditchweed consumption has had its predictable effect.

Willy was one tough quarterback. He took a lot of **** from an inferior line, Maybe the worst all time in the CFL when he started here. As well as **** from the Bomber fanbase. It was a brutal gig for the guy to play here & yet he did. Evans? He'd get smacked around a bit & fall apart blaming everyone but himself. There's no comparison between the two. Seeing just how good our OL has become, I wonder how he'd have done if he played today. Evans is soft.

since Binnington is serving a suspension "Cousin Joel" is going to start for the Blues

But as a draft pick, how much value is he when he's having that impact for another team? Sask only got two full seasons out of him and his best play has been for Calgary and Toronto. Gray is also just starting to come into his own so his true value has yet to be determined.

And within the next few days, we will see how broken it is.

To better understand how confident Jet fans are in them making the playoffs this year with 11 games to play what percentage would people give them out of 100%? My nervous nelly response is 50%.

That’s what I would’ve done back then. However the two other guys I liked almost as much ended up being turrible. Way she goes.

Outside of moving teams a couple times....I'd take Judge. He's had more impact imo.

For a broken Willy? Huge return which did provide some key steps along the way unto building what the team eventually became.

Heath alone made the Bombers the winners of that trade. He was fantastic for his entire tenure with the Bombers and 2017 was the best season of his career by far. Shame he chose to chase money instead of stability because he'd probably have two rings now. Trying to dismiss his career accomplishments comes across as a bit petty.

The assests they got and the assest they got rid of certainly was. Willy was a high salary bench warmer at that point. Bombers needed to shore up the D that year and build depth moving forward. This also cemented Nichols as the starting QB. We didn't win a cup BECASUE of this trade, but it was absolutely a fundamental part of getting the team to the place it needed to get to.

Poland's ambassador to France says that his country will intervene in the War if it sees that Ukraine is losing !

Honestly I'd never thought of the deal as anything that amounted to much. Certainly for us, but I really didn't see a great profit for the Bombers in it. We had to pay a price for a guy who some thought may have become our next starting QB after Ricky finished. He absolutely did not. Bombers have the most wins in the league and 2 'Ships since then. Was the trade a fundamental part of building that run? I'd say not. People are welcome to disagree.

I'd argue TJ heath had more impact in his CFL career than Drew Willy. Petermann was a very very solid backup CDN and provided depth where we needed it badly. Feel free to mock that trade, but it was part of the foundation that started the current reign of domination you're under now. Yes I know, Argos got one on them. But no team has won more games than the Bombers since 2016. And that trade was part of it.

**** me, this team is infuriating.

I think that's the biggest issue. The team has no leader, and they are all searching for someone to look up to.

Stanley? No thanks. Would changing somebody on the 4th line or a 6th defenseman really make a difference?

Why no fresh legs tonight? AJF, Kuhlman, Capo, even Stanley.

and therefore neither will this team, and that's the rub ...

Not the whole team, just a few so called key individuals ... the GM can pack his bags as well IMO ...

Blow this ******* team up already. Just a pathetic showing. Time to rebuild.

Fox Host Desperately Tries to Connect the Dots Between Biden and Trump Investigations -Mike Segar/Reuters Rep. James Comer (R-KY) seems eager to believe a potential decision by the Manhattan District Attorney to indict Donald Trump has something to do with his quest to unearth documents tangentially related to Joe Biden’s family. Comer appeared on Maria Baritromo’s Sunday Morning Futures, where Bartiromo led her one-person crusade on tying a House GOP memo detailing a payment made to Beau Biden’s widow Hallie to a potential indictment of Trump next week. She initially tried to play it straight, asking if Comer had a comment on a Trump indictment, before Comer helped launch right into it. “It’s very odd that this would come out just the very next day after I revealed bank records which showed that the Biden family, the president in particular, hasn’t been truthful with respect to his family receiving payments directly from the Chinese communist party,” Comer said. “So it almost looks like it’s an effort to detract.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/maria-bartiromo-desperately-tries-to-connect-the-dots-between-biden-investigation-and-trump-indictment?ref=home

A riveting and scary article about the US QAnon movement from a reporter who has been following it for decades: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/will-sommer-trust-the-plan-qanon-interview_n_641098b7e4b00c3e607036ca

The difference between Evans and Willy is that Evans actually played some decent football last year. Once Willy got rattled it was a complete disaster. Both men got shell-shocked but Evans hasn't rolled as far down the hill as Willy did. I think Evans behind a good OL can save his career. I never thought that about Willy.

Sequel: The Curse of the 13th Man

It depends. If the new guy is equally as good as Prukop in SY, then yea they will stay with the new guy. If not, I can see the Bombers bringing back Dakota. That was the point of my post. The new guy, or guys, need to leave no doubt by the middle of June. I don't think that at all. It was about money. We offered him 3rd string money, and Prukop was looking at ways of making more.

The QB is going to have to impress because I am almost certain Prukop's plan is to come back to the CFL immediately after the USFL season.

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Otterly shocking.