SpeedFlex27

No Goalie is right, we avoided a huge mistake. Trotz always seems reatless. Never satisfied. I think he found the GM role a lot of work. Something he wasn't prepared for & didn't want to do.

Wheatfall was very inconsistent. He'd disappear for games only to come back, have a couple of strong game just to disappear again. For a second year receiver that's not good. Now huch of that was Zach not having any confidence or numbnuts Hogan as OC? I guess we'll find out with a new team & qb throwing to him.

Why does this bother you? If Tracker posted this here, why do you care? I know a couple of former CFL players who are struggling with CTE now that they're in their 60's. Hopefully, this will eventually be able to help them. One in particular suffers from depression & worry. At times, he feels like he's losing his mind. I have issues with my memory at times as I'm aging naturally. I'm certainly not as sharp as I used to be. Even 5 years ago... I forget things & every once in awhile I get confused. I was driving recently & forgot where I was going. There I was, driving on the freeway in Calgary at 100 kph with no clue as to why I was there or my destintion. I began to panic but after about 15 seconds my memory came back. I thought I was going crazy but apparently from talking to other seniors my age that seems to be a common occurence much to my relief. Just the aging process going on. I've suffered one concussion that I know nearly 60 years ago when I got hit in the head by a baseball during a game when I was 11 or 12. I don't remember much about the incident. Just that it happened. Without going into details, I suffered for days afterward. I remember crying & my Mother trying to comfort me. I could have had more as I've had my head rocked a couple of times after but I have no idea. Anyway, for the two former Bomber players that I know, hoping this treatment will someday help them & others.

ICE agents.

Maybe I misunderstood what you said. If I did, apologies. I thought you said the backup doesn't need the reps in modern football today because we have technology to help them get better without reps in practice. That's what I thought you meant. My response was there's nothing like reps to improve as a player. To see & understand what the defense is doing & how to attack it throwing the ball.

The more your starter plays when a game is out of reach, the more risk for injury. To me, if we're up 21 points going into the fourth quarter, I'd be pulling the starter to protect him. Also, if I was HC, i wouldn't have some clueless rookie as my backup behind Collaros, That's just plain stupid (but we're talking Osh here). I'd be screaming at Walters to sign a veteran qb who has played & has experience like MBT.

I watched O'Hara yesterday on Neflix. She played Morgan Earp's wife in the motion picture from 1993 called Wyatt Earp starring O'Hara, Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Mark Harmon & Gene Hackman.

Interesting quote...

For just 2 hockey medals I want us to stay home as I don't really care about the Olympics anymore, then. .

Yep, nothing like looking at a device to learn everything rather than actually getting real reps in practice to get the timing & chemistry down with the receivers. Are you kidding me?

OBTW, we didn't win a gold medal at the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988, either. We won 2 silvers & 3 bronze. Another huge embarrassment. The federal government changed the funding model after the 1988 Winter Olympics fiasco. I know they established a Centre Of Excellence & funding was tied into the number of medals won in each sport. It changed the way the funding model passed the money around. We also had legacy facilities ileft over from 1988 in Calgary, Canmore & Kanasaskis Country for downhill skiing. Later, we also had the Winter Olympic facilities left from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whisler. Canadian athletes didn't have to spend 6 months training for winter sports in Europe & South American Andes Mountains. Those facilities really helped. But they're getting old. They need to be replaced or upgraded. I just did some research. Our worst Winter Olympics ever was in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan. We win just a single silver medal. Karen Magnussen won the silver in Women's figure skating. That was it. One lousy stinking medal.

Not winning a gold medal in 1976 was far worse. By 1980, shitty Olympics were the norm & not the exception. I remember in the 70's sometime, they interviewed a Canadian Olympic athlete during one of the Olympic games that decade. Likely 1976 0r 80. She was over the moon that she finished 26th in some Winter Olympic sport. That it was so great to participate. I remember being angry hearing her comments considering how bad we were as a country. I'm thinking my tax dollars go to support that??? Tjhat was the attitude of a lot of Canadian athletes back then. That they had zero chance of ever winning a medal of any kind. Things had to change.

Other than curling & hockey, sometimes randomly, speed skating, downhill skiing or figure skating what sport do we dominate in the Winter Olympics? We'll win 15-20 medals, maybe 3 or 4 gold medals & that'll be it. Since 2006, that's been our medal count history. In the Winter Olys, the Euros like the Swiss, Germans, Austrians, Italians & the States are the countries that win all the medals. The Russians would clean up as well if they were allowed to compete. I think it was the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Canada won a silver & bronze & that's it. Two lousy medals for a winter country. Canadians used to make fun of both our Olympic teams as we did equally as bad in the Summer Olympics. We hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics & became the first host country not to wina single gold medal. We were embarrassing as a country.

That's an embarrassment. We should be in the medals for every curling event.