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It's boring...let's discuss roster management.

The fact that making 5 straight Grey cups hasn't happened since the edmonton dynasty of the late 70s/early 80s.... that's something especially in this day and age... is this team a dynasty? I don't know and I don't really care... this is a ridiculously special run and we will be old timers sitting around reminiscing about these days.

I’m not a betting man but I’ll speculate they plan to use a QB

At BC Place, the site of this year’s Grey Cup Zach Collaros is a career 5-1, with 12 TDs to 4 INTs, averages 321 passing yards, a completion percentage of 71%, and has a QB rating of 111.74. Pretty gaudy numbers in the dome.

I think he just meant sometimes Arbuckle does take no for an answer

Easily the best era of Bombers football in my lifetime. Who cares what you call it.

I think the dynasty thing is being skewed by winning the first two and losing the last two. People act like we haven't won at all because they've forgotten about 19/21. This team is without question a dynasty regardless of what happens next weekend.

My son can't remember a time when the Bombers didn't make the grey cup! Lol that's just wild to me

It's a generational team...all time great 2 grey cup wins..2 in a row...5 straight appearance...it's certainly a dynasty team. It's hard in a SMS era to do that, and you have to look at for majority of the run 80 percent of roster was part of it We win Sunday...3 outta 5...2 losses being under 1 score and for most part last minute losses would cement it...and if we lose but show up again in 2025...it will have to be considered a legit dynasty team...none of us will ever see a run right it again in our life. Atlanta braves...of 90s one just the one world series.. but what..11 straight pennants..they were called a dynasty..

Toronto QB is irrelevant. They win or lose based on their defense destroying our offense.

It's always fun to see Lapo break down a Bomber beatdown!

Same, there hasn’t been a Grey Cup game in my daughter’s life without the Bombers in it. She’s only 3, but she was as into the west final as much as any kid that age could possibly be, including insisting on wearing a Bomber shirt and asking me “We don’t like the green guys, right Dad?”

aside from the game plan... if we have choice of jerseys (which I believe we do as the West team and the team with the better regular season record)... can we finally go with Blue this time?... I think we've seen the superstition with the white jerseys is over...

Right after it was decided, instead of congratulating the Bombers and Toronto in getting to the game, the first thing out of his mouth is will the Bombers lose three straight GC’s. Nice.

They're terrible. Nielsen doesn't belong on TV and Suitor hasn't belonged for many years. No insight and terrible homer-ism. He barely watches the game. Nielsen gets so worked up over nothing. He has a face for radio and voice for print.

It will be 1) Arbuckle, and 2) basically the same Offence that we ran with Kelly*. Dukes can't make all of the throws that Kelly can so we won't change everything for him with less than 1 week till the game. Arbuckle can make them. If anything, he's kinda like Kelly Lite. *plus whatever wrinkles Coach Din has been saving all year, and there'll definitely be a few, that's just who Coach is.

Dynasty... Disappointment... or is it Destiny: There's a sense of fate here for me and it is just weird, man. 2007 Bombers won the East final against the Argos but lost starting QB Kevin Glenn after he was tackled by LB Kevin Eiben who is now the Argos Co-DC. Glenn was not available for the Grey Cup to play against their hated rivals the Riders where they lost. They had to start their inexperienced backup QB Ryan Dinwiddie, who now coaches the Argos against the Bombers who will be coached by the guy who was the 07 Argos team captain for that game, Mike O'Shea. And now they meet a team who is without their star QB and they have a chance to not only claim a 3rd Grey Cup in 5 years... but to finally beat a team who owns them in the big game where the historical record is 7-0 Argos. However it ends, it'll be epic.

******* COVID. We would have won 2020 bigly.

Dammit. Now @White Out is going to have to jack off like 15 racoons.

Worst thing is stuff like the Milligan hype. Yeah good player. Nothing extraordinary. There's DB's in the CFL each year like that. So they run a bit about Milligan when Sask is already down 7-0 on a TD he had a nice view of. And then drop it as the Bombers torch their secondary repeatedly. So if you're going to use Milligan as a talking point....show us where he is. Explain to us what the Bombers are doing to beat him and the Sask secondary if they are worthy of that hype.

Our average punt return against is best in the league, 9.6 yards. Montreal was second at 10.5, Toronto was worst at 13.6. We tied for lead on kickoff return average against at 20.0 yards. We're 5th in average kickoff distance but 2-5 are within 0.5 yards. Us and BC are the only teams to not have a return TD against. Net punt was 6th but 2-7 are within 1 yard, 3-7 within 0.4 yards. Edmonton was highest by almost 3 yards. Calgary worst by a couple yards. We're 3rd in average opponent field position...but the entire league is between the 36-39 yard line on average. The disappointing thing with Sergio is the depth of kicks he's missing. Way too many 30-50 range. Lowest in penalties by 8 over the season on D and ST. Montreal, Calgary and Edmonton almost doubled us. Over 18 games our opponents took 12 fewer penalties against than any other teams opponents too...refs take the night off for us I guess. Overall across the league special teams in terms of kicking and coverage is remarkably solid. Shocking when someone makes a mistake these days.

Kind of crazy that we're about to go to our 5th straight Grey Cup and people are full of excuses rather than just praising MOS. Must be a miserable life to always have to degrade what he's accomplished.

we had a Mike Reilly....who was awesome.....A coach Ritchie who got a raw deal....we had a Bud Grant who was...well Bud Grant...Cal Murphy as well..... Mike Oshea dont get me wrong.....has been as good as it gets too....but life will go on as well...It's management and who ran the team that brought us to the dark ages....Avoid that...we be fine Every great coach....runs his course...it\s ineviteable

Take care of business this weekend then keep it rolling for another 5 years please and thank you.

I said before game..coaching was gonna win or lose it for us...they stepped up and was a key reason...hope they have more for Sunday

To do what this team has done iover the past 5 years is absolutely worthy of being called a dynasty. It's unprecedented in the salary cap era and we've already set an all-time mark that will be extremely hard to beat. No team had ever been to 4 consecutive GC's with the same starting QB and now Zach is about to add his 5th.

I don’t think arbuckle can carry a team to a win against our D. He’s had two starts vs us, one bad game one good game. 300 yards 1 td no ints in the good game. But we beat them easily in that game. Grant is the major X factor against us. The Argos dl gave us all we could handle last time. Kelly wasn’t great, Kadeem had one big run. It’s gonna come down to how our ol plays vs their front. Folorian and ceresna whupped us last time. I would seriously consider starting Randolph at guard. Though last time we had the 6 ol with out both fbs. So maybe 7 ol and the 2 fbs makes the difference. Randolph though imo would put us in a great position. If we get Cole back on too that’d be huge. Yeah. I think it comes down to the difference of 1 extra ol on the bench and 1 extra fb, or flipping ratio to have Randolph as well. We might be good enough on the front with Wallace and feltmate. Especially with better adjustments like we saw vs ssk. With Randolph an extra ol body and an extra fb I think we have the advantage.

I hear you guys but there was a play in the 2019 WF I believe where we had a goal-line stand against the Riders and Hansen stopped the Rider runningback cold on the one yard line. I can't find the video online but I remember him stepping up. He was an unsung hero and "glue guy" on this team. Anyway, it doesn't matter now. Kramdi hopefully will be that guy for many years to come.

Nowhere did I say they were absolutely going to do that. Their DL has eaten our OLs lunch when we've played them, so I'm saying IF they do that again, that's going to be the difference in the game. The QB is really not important to their success. You guys actually think Sex Pest is a good QB? I sure don't. He's just a cog in the machine. If our OL finds a way to dictate the game, we absolutely win.

Waaaay ahead of you.

Someone should start a GoFundMe for Trevor Harris to go to the Grey Cup.

This is probably not for this thread, but I've always felt, those veterans sacrificed their lives for our right to choose and not be told what to do. The freedom to choose not to stand for a moment of silence is freedom of choice.... That's what they sacrificed for.

I expect their fanbase to have an abnormal of non-reality based confidence, no surprise. The Rider players and media though, Christ almighty. I don’t remember an underdog team saying so many stupid things in the media before a playoff game. Trevor Harris publicly buying his parents plane tickets to the GC and Mr. November AJ Ouelette being 2 examples. They were a slightly above average team that got lucky with a boatload of turnovers, kind of like the 2016 Bombers minus an actual All-star RB.

If it's a nice day in Vancouver I hope they keep the roof open. Much nicer football atmosphere, in my opinion.

Yawn.. the Grey Cup again? 😄😉

That's brutal. Another demonstration of the type of person the Riders seem to like.We had a couple of 25 year olds sitting beside wife and I early in the season. both didn't stand for the anthem. I expressed my thought to them about this. Might've used a few bad words.

I just want a punter who is a traditional two step punter. Someone who has a straight release. Doesn't waste time trying to kick it side ways. Someone who can flip the field if necessary. No idea why we have to go to Australia to find one who isn't even that good.

Thanks for doing this Rich. It has been a fun season, not missing a week for the first time is a big step for me, lol.

Lawler...................this guy is just unreal.....the most damgerous receiver in the league Brady.......................got to go with the best back in the league.......and he's for all intense purposes what makes this club tick Zack.........................found his game awhile back and the winner continues

To be fair the fans in that endzone are really brutal. I know because my nephew is in that crew and they give it hard to the opposing players every game when they go in and out of that tunnel lol! Some pretty classic chirping going on.

Right at Holm: Bombers defence is money

pretty sure we said that last year about Cody Fajardo lol...

That’s a shitty enough action to lose him his job imo.

Should send them some Bomber jerseys to wear. I could not believe the unearned and over the top cockiness of their players and fans leading up to the game. Makes it that much sweeter. Never change asshats.

Sidewinder...

Not to worry, our punter can't kick the ball that high.

You can think it, but don’t say it. We thought the same thing about Faj.

Kicking myself for missing week 5 but you snooze you lose.

If any one picks the Argos ban their ass! Even bluto 🤪