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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?

Maybe.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

Judging by his actions previously I think he truly believes what he says.

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. Any day is a good day when the Riders & their fanbase lose.

He knows better. So, he thinks.

I do have an education. A knee replacement in 2023 from the same injury Schoen has suffered. All you do is talk ****.

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.

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. Just like Winnipeg was in 2001. Same outcome, too.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, right. Go have another tequila.

Thanks for the article, Johnny Abony.

There's a definite pattern here as Lawler isn't the first player at free agency to feel that way.

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.

Who was the last player in the CFL to suit up & play two games on a torn ACL after he was dignosed?

Not the first veteran qb this has happened to. Won't be the last. Even the great ones miss where everybody is.

Not disagreeing. Just saying that no qb could play well behind the OL we have now. It was allowed to happen. 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...

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.

I don' think Collaros is asbad as some are saying. Look how terrible our Ol has become. They've virtually withered up & died the past 3 years. We've gone from having the best OL to the worst. All we seem to do is draft & develop for other teams. We've let Michael Couture, Drew Desjarlais, Liam Dobson go to free agency & lost them all. We never look to improve or spend the money on keeping our players after their rookie contracts expire. So, who do we have playing? Kolo, who is the absolute worst starting center in the CFL, a fading Pat Neufeld at Guard, an over the hill 39 year old Stanley Bryant at LT. This seems to be a pattern with our GM. Draft & sign players to cheap rookie deals. Develop them for 3 years & play them. Then just as they're blossoming, refuse to pay them what they're worth & watch them sign elsewhere. While our GM Walters just shrugs his shoulders while saying buh bye. In the past 2 or 3 seasons ,it seems that more than just a few free agents can't wait leave here fast enough. Which is strange for a team we've been told has a head coach every player in the CFL wants to play for. The team allowed the OL to regress the past 3 years which makes no sense. Why pay your huge starter big bucks to Collaros with a history of concusions so much $$$ then cheap out on the OL? Basically become negligent in protecting Collaros & Streveler? The way the team is run & the decisions being made are just baffling. Protecting Zach should be Job 1, No qb can survive not getting injured or playing well if the pass pro sucks which it now does.

Osh worries about players privacy & refuses to be honest about any player's injury status. Then makes it a game for the media to get any info. Yet doesn't seem to worry about playing them when injured. Makes no sense to me.