SpeedFlex27

It's always easier to replace bottom end guys with more bottom end guys. It's the top end that's the problem. We haven't replaced anyone of note on the top end because for some reason the Bombers decided to be active in free agency by keeping the team's wallet in Walters pocket. . We have a bunch of B list receivers that we hope at least one develops into a star player at a cheap price since Kenny Lawler went to Hamilton. Our OL lost a big chunk in the off season with Liam Dobson & hasn't been replaced. The DL still needs at least one DT that makes a difference but we've been waiting for Walters to do that now since the end of 2021. We finally replaced Janarion Grant with Peyton Logan so we'll see if he is the answer on returns since Grant was inexplicably allowed to leave. It doesn't get corrected, though. That's the problem. And whenever these things do get discussed publicly by the Bombers, you get the typical Osh smirk saying he'd do it over again. That's not a sign of a coach learning from his mistakes. It's just plain stupid arrogance.

Uh-oh, the acolytes are getting stirred up tonight. Like a hornet's nest.

You're talking about the HC who in 2023 played 4 players who physically couldn't play. Then last year put Zach back in the game with an injured & bloodied finger on his throwing hand. Blind leading the blind. Both Osh & Buck let everyone down.

Lots of questions & police say little.

Our DL other than Jefferson did nothing especially our NG's Schmeckel & Thomas.

Buck's offense went off the rails at times last season. His playcalling at times left a lot to be desired. Not sorry to see him go.

Hackman dies, his wife & dog die yet no foul play suspected, No mention of a natural gas or methane leak.

I'm not a regular viewer of the show but it's sad that the dog playing Rex died.

Four or 5 years ago, a community football team lost all of it's equipment worth over a hundred thousand dollars when it was stolen. For spring league (15-18 yrs of age), bantam 13-14), Pee Wee (11 &12) & atoms (8-10). Helmets, shoulder pads, soft pads, bags, etc... Thieves broke into the shack where the equipment was stored outside of a community club & cleaned everything out. The organization had to take most of the blame as they didn't have anything insured (which I find unbelievable). I never heard one story about the Stamps stepping up & donating equipment & money to help the team get back on its feet. The club folded which affected over 120 kids as they had to play elsewhere. No doubt some kids quit. That's the way Murray Edwards runs the Stamps. Meanwhile, former Stamps owners Ted Hellard & John Forzani helped fund Shouldice Park in NW Calgary when they owned the team. They helped pay for three artificial turf fields with stands & locker room facilities. Their financial contribution helped get the $10-15 million facility over the top as fund raising for that facility took years.

Don't take this the wrong way, Tracker. I'm just clarifying a few points that have always bothered me about this, "He can't play so he coaches stuff". Some of the best coaches that exist coach high school & community sports. My AD at Centennial High School in Calgary when I worked as as an Educational Assistant there was on Canada's Olympic Volleyball Team in 1976. Also playd for a couple of years on Canada's National Volleyball team. He went to the U of Wpg & was Garth Pischke's teammate there & when they represented Canada. The HC of the senior football team at Centennial was a star linebacker at Acadia. Tore his knee up his senior year which ended his career. He turned the football program around at our high school from a team that couldn't win a game. They had maybe 30 kids at practice on a good day playing in Division 3 ball & there wa sapathy a plenty whn it came to football. He transformed his sad sack senior team into one that rose to Div 1 with 65 players wanting to play within 3 years of him taking over. He had an infectious personality & was always positive even when they struggled on the field. His players loved him. Especially on defense as he was also the DC. He also convinced the entire team to get into the weight room for off season workouts where the previous coach had failed. We had a couple of excellent basketball coaches coaching the boys & girls teams who certainly raised the profile of the sport in our school. As well as soccer & rugby, too. In community football here in Calgary, I've had the pleasure to be on the staff of coaches who were great players in their day. One in particular is a City of Calgary Police Officer who is retiring at the end of June but is still coaching into his late 60's. He won 2 Vanier Cups back to back in 1984 & 85, I believe with the U of C Dinos. From everything I heard about him, he was a tiger on the field & loved to crash & bang. He's been coaching football since the late 1990's. One of Tyler's teammates back in high school is now the HC of the University of Regina. Another friend of his who was a qb for another HS team in Calgary is now the OC at the University of Saskatchewan. A former bantam teammate is also DC at the U of C. There others I just can't remember. My response to the, "If you can't play then coach" BS is the people who say that are people who can't play OR coach. They'd have a hard time even managing a pee wee team. None of these guys should be made to feel like they're somehow faiures because they coach. It's just a natural progression for all of them.

The only thing I miss is Select A Seat. They built the new arena downtown. Now people don't feel safe walking back to their cars or taking a bus to & from the games to get home. Never felt that way with the old Arena.

What is it with you? If anyone here criticizes Osh you get all worked up because we're not being nice to him. Then when we are being nice & saying good things, you get all worked up again claiming he gets disgusted when people compliment him or say nice things about him. We know Osh is humble but you take it to the nth degree. Just enjoy it when we are being nice here.

That's why they become gym teachers. they study sports movement & performance called Kinesiology.

You'd think he'd want to have coached linebackers as he is in the CFHOF as a linebacker. When you think of everything a qb has to know it also makes sene.

Good teams find ways to win. Bad teams find ways to lose. Oh & one more thing this comment was not meant for Mike O'Shea. So, chill acolytes.

Yeah, Tyler's private qb coach was former Cal Head Coach Roger Theder. He wanted both him & us out of there as the sun was beginning to set. While we were there, the cops were arresting folks on the street around the stadium everyday for 4 days. I watched 3 or 4 arrests go down. A couple were violent take downs. I was glad when that camp was over with. I kept worrying my car would be stolen or vandalized. From what I've read & seen on the news that area is even worse than it was back then. Hard to imagine it could be any worse around that campus but I guess it is. Very sad.

My son played JUCO in Northern California. He quarterbacked his school to a California State Championship in 2012. He was working out with his private qb coach at a rival school in Oakland called Laney College. It was in a rough part of downtown Oakland. They didn't have on campus housing. Attending students had to find an apartment themselves to live. It was a dangerous area. Drug dealing, gangs, etc. The HC at Laney came on the field to talk to Tyler. I remember him saying that students there see a lot of bad things everyday in the neighbourhood around the college. There are areas of Oakland that look like a war zone.

I thought fans singing, "O'Shea, O'Shea, O'Shea" was pretty cool, actually. From what I saw, he seemed to enjoy that.

Alright, you're right that is true. I was wrong about osh being a LB coach.

I was just saying that coaches get all the credit when they win & get fired when they lose. Whether Osh accepted the platitudes & congratulations or not, he still got the credit. If Osh didn't want to accept it publicly then that's his perogative. He still got the credit. On the flip side, if he has a losing season then he'll face criticism. That's all I was trying to say. You & Noeller just calm down now...

Osh followed the same path. He started coaching linebackers & then became a STC. He was never an OC or DC.

The Head Coach of a football team is like the Captain of the Titanic. Had the luxury liner made it to New York in safety, he would have been lauded as a great leader. Instead, his ship hit an iceberg & sunk killing 85% of the passengers & crew as the most expensive passenger ship ever built at the time went to the bottom of the ocean. As Captain, that's on him as it happened when he was in command. The Bombers won 2 Grey Cups & Osh took in all the credit from fans. If Osh goes 1-17 this season, he'll be forced to take all the criticiam that comes with a losing season.

A guy like Baldwin can go back to the NCAA as seamlessly as water running from a faucet. He'll etiher be given an OC position with the Stamps or another CFL team. Otherwise, he'll just go back to college football.

Here's the Calgary Stampeders coaching staff in 1960. All older American coaches. Head Coaches were much older than they are today. Today, we have younger & less experienced coaches. The CFL was looked upon favourably. Coaches didn't think of it as a stepping stone to the NFL. Although Jerry Williams on the far left used his success as Stamps HC from 1966-68 to become an NFL HC. Winnipeg Blue Bomber Coaching Staff in 1974. Again, all American coaches & they were older than coaches on the staffs of today's CFL.

U Sport Head Coaches like Faulds, Dobie (recently retired), Wayne Harris Jr in Calgary (now also retired) & Blake Nill at UBC all have./had lecturing positions & are probably tenured. They're being paid to teach & coach. And they have benefits to go with it. As a CFL assistant, they never used to have any benefits health or retirement so to give all that up to be a lowly position coach in the CFL isn't much of an incentive. To make it more attractive, assistant coaches in the CFL need to make a lot more money as well as receive health & retirement benefits. Coaches in U Sports are under a lot less pressure than they would be as members of a CFL coaching staff. Nik Lewis is a great example. He broke into coaching with the Riders & then was let go when the coaching cap came in. On social media, he was practically begging for a job in the CFL somewhere. He finally got hired by the Stamps, his old team. Coached one or two seasons, I believe. Then left saying he had a business opportunity in Texas so he quit. Juwan Simpson was coaching linebackers with the Stamps & he suddenly quit to be a position coach with an obscure Junior College team in the eastern US somewhere. Until we actually pay these guys decent money, we won't attract or reatain quality coaches. It's just a life of low pay, long hours & obscurity until a coach become a coordinators. Then comes better money but more pressure. Even longer hours... My son had a chance for that life to coach college in the US & really wanted to do it when he was single. Then he met his wife. They bought a house in Seattle & he decided that family came first so he abandoned his plans to coach. He didn't want his future hinging upon a winning season or if his HC was fired or not.