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3 minutes ago, Booch said:
we good....thats why...well in the minds that are in control of this
The minds should be saying, "We need to be better" & go with that.
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On 2025-09-14 at 10:30 AM, Dreamcatcher said:
The only replacement required on the o-line is a solid center. We could do that hopefully in the off season. On the D-Line, I am not as sure. I was thinking replace Jake with a solid Canadian if one comes available, but we have solid guys for the D-Line in house that are not played. (At least in my opinion as a couch coach)* I am afraid, however, there will be very little changes in the off season if O'Shea remains Head Coach. No offense to him or those that love him, but when guys are done or not as good as the opposition, its time to make changes...most Championship teams do...I am perplexed at our lack of depth at some positions and our HC seems to be turning a blind eye to this team, despite hosting the Grey Cup this year...something they NEW well before pre-season. Its hard for me to say, but I think that it should be the end of the Canadian Mafia this season. All 3 should be let go. Not just Walters and Osh....but Miller as well. He's too cheap. He likely instructed Walters to keep salaries down....despite this being a Grey Cup Year....top that off with Osh stubbornly playing guys who are past expiry dates or that show him a lunch pail attitude in practices, as opposed to some with outstanding talent that don't always go as hard in practice but save it for game day. I am not suggesting that if you dont work hard in practice that you should be allowed to play, but its a fact alot of solid vets dont always go hard anymore in practice. This team also needs depth at all positions that can step in without the team missing a beat. In the days gone by, we had Clements and Hufnagel...2 actual QB'S...now we have Collaros, who seems to be on his last legs, and Streveler that isnt very effective this year, and a reluctance to try our back up QB'S or trade for a guy that is young, has shown talent in this league, and may be available for as little as a draft pick. Most on here are not your average fans, so I dont think that when we point out huge flaws that we are wrong. This team started 3-0 with a healthy defense...Parker at Safety, Bond was in the secondary...but we are 3-7 since, and its apparent that if you use injuries as an excuse, then we are lacking solid depth. I see some of our rookies as promising, and of course they are learning the CFL game, but I sure hope they dont go status quo next year as well. Our O-Line, D-Line, Secondary, Linebackers, Depth...all need to be addressed.
Other teams are bringing in cuts to push their players already there. Most won't sign for this year but teams have a chance to evaluate & sign them to training camp contracts next year. Except us, so far.
Why can't Osh create an atmosphere of competition at practice where only the best have a chance of playing? Push the guys already here even harder. Make the vets worry about their jobs so they practice & play eveen harder. There's a feeling of laissez faire with this team. Do you think Cal Murphy or Ray Jauch would stand pat with this team?
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On 2025-09-14 at 9:35 AM, Goalie said:
I dunno. Maybe creating rivalries will draw more fans. Maybe next time Toronto plays Edmonton more ppl will care. Who knows. MLSE don’t market them so maybe Dinwiddie is trying his way.
Maybe.
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On 2025-09-15 at 6:31 AM, Booch said:
ring of honour sure....no doubt....as soon as he can be eligible
Statue....i dunno...Bud Grant was a totally different cat
He deserves to be honoured absolutely but he also deserves to be replaced. After nearly 13 years, the same message doesn't carry the same weight.
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6 minutes ago, bryan35 said:
Is not having viable options on Osh or Walters? I would say more on Walters and the scouting staff.
Walters but Osh may be saying to him, "No we're good. We have schoen coming back & he's cheaper". I'd blame them both. Just a gross misjudgement of talent. Zach Schnitzer said that he thinks the loss of Ted Goveia to Hamilton this past off season really messed up the front office. He could be right. RIP, Ted.
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On 2025-09-14 at 10:56 PM, GCn20 said:
You had a partially torn ACL and they replaced your knee? You should have gotten a 2nd opinion
What a nice thing to say. It was completely torn as was the ACL. PCL & MCL along with torn cartillage. All told, I had 3 surgeries on that knee & while each surgery may have alleviated the symptoms, it always returned to what it was before. Pain, chronic selling & not being able to function so I had to use a cane to walk at 55. Finally, surgically repairing the knee was no longer an option.
When i went down a flight of stairs towards the end before the knee was replaced, I had to hold the handrail & walk down backward. I could no longer walk the dog or play golf. I suffered with that knee for many years. I even had to give up fishing as I was unable to get in & out of boat & risked losing my balance & falling. believe you're so cold blooded you'd say that to me but then why should I be surprised.
FYI, three surgeons all confirmed to replace the knee. The first surgeon waned me to wait until I got into my 60's as i was 55 when I was first referred to a spcialist. Eventually, he did put me on his waiting list at the Alberta Hip & Knee Clinic bit he suddenly died while I was on the waiting list.
Another surgeon took over my late surgeon's medical cases & said he was aghast at what he saw with a knee joint full of arthritis. He said the knee xray was one of the worst he ever saw in 25 years as a surgeon & he was anxious to help me. He asked me how I functioned "without a viable knee?" I just said that I I do. He was the one I decided to go with for the surgery as I trusted him. A very nice man who put me at ease right away. He was actually the third & last surgeon I saw.
In between, the second surgeon who I went to see confirmed the same diagnosos but I never liked him, He was arrogant & stand offish. He was at another orthpedic clinic. He made me feel like he was doing me a favour Just granting me an appointment. He had very little bedside manner which I didn't appreciate.
Any way, the same doctor who did my left from Alberta Hip & Knee also did my right 3 years apart. Pain now gone. Still a challenge to get around but my quality of life is so much better. Until you live with pain everyday you have no idea what it's like... There, am I educated enough for you? Or do I have to have my legs amputated to satisfy whatever naive attitudes you have about long term injuries & chronic pain? Again, many thanks for your sympathy & empathy.
33 minutes ago, Goalie said:I guess Schoen takes no responsibility what so ever cuz he’s a child right. Honestly. It’s pro sports.
Sure, Schoen has to take responsiblity. It's their life. They're wired differently than you & I & sometimes don't make great decisions. That's when the adult in the room has to say ENOUGH! & shut them down Osh ddn't do that. You don't think the coach panicked when he realized he had no viable CFL receivers besides Demski & what appears to be a marginal pro in Wheatfall against the Stamps? All that off season planning that went awry. It was a panic move.
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1 hour ago, GCn20 said:
Osh does have a history of doing that. However, in this case I think it was the right decision to play him and it turned out badly. How it goes sometimes in pro sports. A player like Schoen is a difference maker when he is in the lineup. If the AT says he's good, player says he's good, practice says he's good, then you play him and that's what we did. He put in a full practice the week before he played and they tested him on all routes to see. He must have looked good. His stat line in the game looked good as well and he made some nice plays prior to OT.
He's only a differemnce maker if he's healthy. He wasn't, Osh knew his knee was badly injured & still played him, Now, he may never recover to be close to what he was on the field. It was a stupid decision in a long line of stupid Osh personnel decisions.
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Reading that Elks HC Mark Killam Elks Asst Demetrius Maxie nearly got into fisticuffs af the end of the game with Dinwiddie. Maxie was beaking off all game, apparently at Dinwiddie who took ofefnse. Reports say that Killam charged Dinwiddie but stopped when he got close. These guys were all besties in Calgary with the Stamps. Maybe no more. Having both teams on the same sideline in the East is stupid.
1 hour ago, ShyGuy said:Riders really laid an egg at home.
Yeah the Riders were on back up corners but the Als were starting 2025 MBT... coming into the game 1/20 on passes deeper than 20 yards. I just breezed through the highlights and he must have hit on a half dozen of those tonightAny day is a good day when the Riders & their fanbase lose.
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3 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:
That’s a great point. That’s one area MOS could show a bit more willingness to flex a bit.
He knows better. So, he thinks.
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5 hours ago, wbbfan said:
you’re right. though it does take time with the same unit to get them to that point. and we see changes every other week.
On that note, big props to yoshi for pulling his career off the scrap heap for a second time. he looks worlds better than the last 2-3 years here. Dobson too. dude is finally down to where he should be weight wise and not struggling to adjust to being lighter.
We are like that bf that gets dumped then his exs become hot. The former bombers list of ol around the league would be the best ol in the league.
If we finally jettisoned kola and either started wallace or eli, then ran with the 3 imps our ol would improve a lot.
We give up on our guys too soon. Walters doesn't want to pay so they leave after their rookie deals are over. . We only pay & play them on cheap rookie deals. Yet, we pay to keep a useless Center around Like Kolankwski.
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16 hours ago, sweep the leg said:
Love Streveler, but he’s not good enough. Not sure how that can be argued. If we roll him out again next week, I might have to join the group wanting a coaching change. Find out what Wilson is now so we’ll know before the offseason. I’m not optimistic, but I’d like to see.
I'll be shocked if there's a change at qb if Zach can't play. C'mon, this is Osh we're talking about.
15 hours ago, Mark H. said:I agree that Hamilton deserves a cup. But the team's ego in 2019 was over the top.
#justdesserts
Just like Winnipeg was in 2001. Same outcome, too.
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2 hours ago, JuranBoldenRules said:
Richie Hall preached making plays on the ball and behind the LOS. Now we just watch the other team run circles around us and hope they miss a couple throws.
The aggression has been coached right out of the first two levels of this defense in the past 2 seasons.
Aggression starts on the lines. Both sides. And it goes out from there. When you have a chicken **** defensive line like we do this is what happens.
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3 hours ago, Super Duper Negatron said:
When my family isn't afraid of me after a Bombers loss, you know things are bad. At this point I am reacting to a loss like I react when my mom tells me her hairdresser's son is getting married.
Yeah... I'm starting to revert back to my pre 2019 malaise after every loss. I just watch this team play everytine & know it's not going to get any better. If anything, it'll get worse.
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2 hours ago, bigg jay said:
Nobody expects a coach, certainly not this one, to throw a player under the bus but his inaction (ie: not willing to staple some players to the bench) gives the impression he's ok with their performance. He might be the only person who watched the game and feels that way.
Most coaches look at their roster & makes changes. They move gujys around. They do what they have to do to try to win. Not Osh. He just plays the same lineup. He makes changes only if there are injuries. He just says everyone's a starter.
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16 hours ago, GCn20 said:
There have been many. Count how many players around the league suddenly turn up with knee braces on and you will find your answer. You are suggesting that a partially torn ligament is an automatic shut down and it isn't in many cases. A lot of guys have partial tears play out the season with a brace then have surgery to repair.
Yeah, right. Go have another tequila.
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Thanks for the article, Johnny Abony.
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22 minutes ago, JohnnyAbonny said:
It’s a pretty long article but it basically says he felt disrespected by Bomber management.
“For the star receiver, it boiled down to one main thing: disrespect.
“Y’all signed Dillon Mitchell before me. Who wouldn’t (feel disrespected)?” Lawler shared with the Free Press on Thursday in a one-on-one chat inside Hamilton Stadium.”
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Now a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Lawler said he didn’t receive a contract offer from the Bombers until a day before free agency opened at the start of February. His agent only had two brief conversations with Winnipeg, where the club was more focused on gauging the market value for a receiver of his calibre.
For Lawler, there was a more personal issue that needed to be addressed.
The two-time division all-star from Pomona, Calif. — who moved his family up to Winnipeg — had been doing some work on the side helping the city’s grassroots football scene before running into a roadblock.
“It’s not that (the Bombers) didn’t want me to do it — they wanted me to do it under them. They closed my work permit,” Lawler explained.
“I have my own business where I go and run camps and I was starting to do that and was getting momentum and when I had to get my work permit closed it was like, ‘hmm, why is this happening?’ You know what I want to do, I live here in Winnipeg, the full year, and if I am going to be taking a pay cut, which I was doing when I was in Winnipeg the whole time, I’m going to need something else to be able to supplement that. It’s not that I need it, it’s that I want to be able to start it so when I’m done with football I can still live where I’m at and transition right into something else and someone wasn’t seeing that.”
When asked who, specifically, wasn’t on board, Lawler responded with: “I think that’s a question you might have to ask them. And it probably wouldn’t be to anyone that you could probably get an (interview from).”
There's a definite pattern here as Lawler isn't the first player at free agency to feel that way.
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Can someone summarize the story in today's Free Press as to why Ken Lawler left the Bombers? There's a paywall so I can't read the story.
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10 hours ago, GCn20 said:
You are making a lot of assumptions about players health without having a shred of real information to back it up. You are suggesting that you know more about the Winnipeg Blue Bombers players health than MOS and his team of medical professionals? Look, you make a valid point about rolling out players that aren't 100%. No arguing that. However, player safety is an entirely different thing. Tons of players around this league and every pro football league play through injuries. This isn't something new. If you want to debate whether they should or not that's completely valid. If you want to debate whether the team rolling them out is violating their player safety...prove it. Show me the medical reports.
Who was the last player in the CFL to suit up & play two games on a torn ACL after he was dignosed?
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7 minutes ago, BomberBall. said:
Yup. For a veteran QB, I’m often surprised at how little awareness Zach seems to have pre snap. Maybe our putrid play caller doesn’t have any hot routes imbedded in his play design, but this isn’t the first season I’ve noticed this.
Not the first veteran qb this has happened to. Won't be the last. Even the great ones miss where everybody is.
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8 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
The ol has hastened Zachs down fall. But if you look at his good games the last two years, he needs to practically run into a throw to get it 30-40 yards down field and it will still end up well short. He can't get the ball out quickly or cleanly either. And if you look at his play off stats here, he had 1 good game and a whole lot of bad games.
Not disagreeing. Just saying that no qb could play well behind the OL we have now. It was allowed to happen.
4 minutes ago, Booch said:definitely noticed he has to take a bit of a run and almost heave it with all his might to get it downfield....Almost looks like the Faj and how he does similar
Where I really have noticed it is on his outs our deeper sideline passes to far side of field...awkward looking now to make those and it's cause he really needs to body English the heck out of it to get it there....
Of he wants to continue his career and evolve a bit as an older passer...he should seriously look into going to some camps, or working with a lot of the coaching now that goes into the new way of teaching passers...
Relearn how to create a new base...hip motion and lower body twist to get ball out quick and with velocity
He now needs to learn or morph into basically lower body mechanics in his throws...His smarts and experience and if he able to retrain his muscle memory...could squeeze out several more yrs
One off season with a quality coach like the guy in Vancouver (qbmotion on Instagram) would probably do it. Trevor Harris, Nick Arbuckle & Nathan Rourke all work with the guy...
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32 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:
Nope they are not making any decisions for ZC.
They won't either. Milt just lost a son so I won't say anything about him.
However, I think Osh is a freaking hypocrite saying tht he cares about player safety. Sure... Yeah, like what he did to Schoen this year. The Collaros finger injury in last year's Grey Cup. The injured he started & played in the 2023 Grey Cup. Some, like Biggie, Collaros, Alexander & Demski couldn't run. Osh needs to shut his pie hole when saying that injuries are no one's business but the team & that he cares about player safety because to me he doesn't show it. If the team announced injuries like they used to I believe this kind of bullshit wouldn't happen as questions would be asked as to why an injured player who is supposed to be 6 gamed are still playing.
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