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	  Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Threadwbbfan replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion They really nail you now for notice less than 2 weeks. I flew business class, indirect winnipeg to north carolina and back this time last year on a weeks notice. almost 4k. For two months this year my company had a price limit on trips of 500 us total expense. I told the senior manager who told me that I couldn’t go any place out side of driving range then. 2 weeks out, cheapest flights to toronto/montreal run 450. odd time might get one 350-400 but it’s rare. Bc is usually 650.
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	It really does. and the change is like to see is zach retiring. But idk how you add a real qb1 this off season. Personally, I don’t see a great fit for both ford and elgersma. Ford could run strev package and short yardage etc, but I wouldn’t want either he or elgersma to be the first guy off the bench taking over a game. He basically is full time this year. Vanterpool is better at guard, but wallace is further along than dobson was last year.
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	I don’t agree. Peterson basically came in and is today the guy he was when he arrived. And while he’s had some good backs under him, none made significant strides while with him, most had their best play after not being with him any more. Depends a lot on how and where it’s being drilled. Augustine made his strides blocking the place he did covering kicks, on teams.
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	I’d be good with that. Best case if we promote jackson to oc, is we bring in a support coach. Either some one who has been an oc a lot and can support jackson with the minutia. Or maybe younger/cfl rookie type with experience in more diverse us systems who can be developed here but also give hands on insight to specific systems we want jackson to grow into. Like some one with more spread to run zone running schemes outside of tite/izr who can diversify our run game. Or some one with more experience in spread RPO to help our guys execute reads and work options much more effectively. Like calgary did last year.
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	I’m not sure we have the staff to develop a qb any more :s Actually, I’d wager we have one of the worst offensive staffs for that. Costello is the only must keep. I’d like to keep jackson as well. But if we go in a different direction i wouldn’t be heart broken. (I’d love masoli as a qb coach). Hogan and billy jean can kick their can down the road. And bolduc I’m pretty meh on. Wouldn’t want to keep him and jackson we need heavy change. Imagine how good our secondary would look with that kind of pressure from 3-4 guys regularly? The D would be scary
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	The als are good at pressure off the edge, Rando and vanterpool were pretty close in terms of quality, I think you could make a good case for either guy. I wouldnt be surprised at all if that’s our starting tackle combo next year.
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	https://3downnation.com/2025/10/25/winnipeg-blue-bombers-beat-alouettes-but-playoff-path-remains-unclear-12-other-thoughts/ “As long as Jordan Younger is in charge of Winnipeg’s defence, the unit will always be at or near the bottom of the league in sacks. The former defensive back often rushes only three players and drops nine into coverage, forcing the opposing quarterback to navigate tight windows downfield. It’s a good scheme — the Blue Bombers will finish the season ranked first in offensive points allowed — but it’s not one that generates a lot of pressure.” Hodge has lost the plot on this one, and is refusing to admit to the reality most every one sees. The personnel we are married to on the dl can’t rush the passer reliably. Even sporadically is asking a lot of them. We just finished having 3 rookie ends in their first game as pros along with our 2nd unit dl, sack/pressure/hit clean mbt and the first/2nd string als ol 15 + times at an over 50% win rate on passing downs. We saw it again in week 9 when wj had his best game of the year, his random flip the switch throw back to when he was a modp type guy. We’ve seen JY run all manner of pressure packages, mostly succeeding with dbs as our lbers are pretty awful at pass rushing. The 30 front drop every one package evolved from our in ability to get pressure with 4-5. We’ve seen hall run all kinds of front schemes to get pressure with great success. Who maybe hodge has forgotten is still here working with jy. We’ve been dressing 5-6 dl including 1-2 canadians completely unable to win a 1on1 or disrupt, and wj who is permanently coasting looking for pass knock downs. That while the rest of the league is running 9-10 DL, with 5+ imports and focusing on heavily rotating young, athletic guys in who can create disruption. Which ironically is our old play book with hall running the D.
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	Thing is, our D has been the best in the league at giving up the fewest points, and we’ve actually been able to score a bunch out side of the offence. I’ve never seen a 10 win team that gave up soo many turnovers and scoring turn overs. If we win the turn over battle, and the offence runs clock, we really can win. 1 point in week 10, 4 in 13, 5 in 19, and a single score loss in week 14. Week 5 we gave the ball away 4 times Then week 7 in the home away series we gave up 6 turnovers. Including 3 pick 6s, which is half of the 42 combined points we lost those two games by. plus two red zone picks. Then week see what happens in a game like hamilton when the offence is run semi competently, and montreal/wjs great game and we see what happens when we don’t handicap our front. If we got rid of our two worst players for internal backups by properly using the roster rules, had gone with lapo or jackson and not hogan, and gotten just average cfl starting qb play we don’t win all 6 of those toss up/thrown away game. But we easily win half of the 6, and finish first in the cfl/west.
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	first action requires a citation imo. He’s been through 3 training camps playing in 3 years pre seasons, dressed for 36 games, and as we all know he played in last years GC, before all that he spent 2 years in the usfl and never qualified as a rookie in the cfl. He also turns 28 in january. Hes had as much professional polishing as you get before starting in the CFL. He 100% should’ve gotten a bunch more snaps this year. we wasted a lot of snaps late in one sided games where the qb or both qbs ahead of him struggled greatly. But it is extremely hard to imagine him taking a significant leap forward, and suddenly making good reads and throwing with consistent accuracy. He looks much the same as from his first pre season game. Great raw athletic tools, none of the nuance parts required to succeed as a starter.
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	2 of those 3 should be on the ar next week. 1 as the di de, and bailey for one of the 3 canadian back S/cover guys. kelly/ball/hallett. Imo, Jenkins with his first step is the better pure edge rusher. Jaworski could rush from the inside, 30 edge, or edge. And his bull rush style would greatly benefit our other linemen. We should also sign a qb to be no3. We should use kyrie as a naturalized player and rotate him with Smith, but we won’t. Also worth note, vanterpool was solid again at T. He should start next week at G though.
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	way over his head. Good positional coach, And a good scout to help cover cis.
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	he was crazy, but not broken.
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	  Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Threadwbbfan replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion ooolllddd. I have scars that have older bruises than that kid.
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	It’s been a hell of a long time since we mentally broke qb with the physical beating we put on them. It was soo great to see, especially to that nutter
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	he’s too good to sit on the bench all next year. We need to be working he and brady into the O at the same time. MCI should get extreme focus too. Use him as an h back / te / slot a lot more.
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	  Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Threadwbbfan replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion yep, that’s his kid. Crazy isn’t it? Not the most amazing arm talent, but boy he had a lot of success throwing on the roll out/scramble and he has run option packs successfully
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	He has the odd game with the yips but it never seems to become a rough streak. If any thing it makes me think he will be at his best for the play offs wanting to bounce back
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	I don’t think you can pick wrong between the two. Jaworski could play a lot of snaps as a 3t, 4i or end. He’d be deadly in cheetah fronts especially inside. Reminds me of a more versatile version of sayles, and casey sayles is a damn good football player.
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	and people said he has no st chops so we needed the extra lber kick cover canadians who only back up cover team lol
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	1 peterson / mci 2 rookie ends, jaworski, bailey, and jenkins. all played really well the entire game. 3 jaylen smith great game in cover and stepping up into the box HH the pick by jones crunch of the game is bailey on the last kick cover block of the game goes to mci on an early big peterson run
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	can’t put either imp back on the pr imo. if you don’t roster em, hide em on the ir right call would be to fire hogan
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	jaworski such a beast
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	another sack
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	mack threw a back elbow and cried for a flag lol
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	why is wilson still in? hes our only no2… we need to keep him healthy and get chase in

 
         
					
						 
					
						 
					
						 
					
						