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I'll admit. I'm shocked. Even without Ceresna, Walter's won theoff season. I'm hoping that the Bombers geography will also win the day as Winnipeg is closer to Ceresna's family than Ottawa.

Ohhhhhhhhh ****., C'mon Kyle. You can do this.

With the new window, this happened last year as well. Announcements by the respective teams came on the first day of free agency on February 10th. Okay, I'll say it. I'll eat crow. By far, Walters has won the off season. He's hit a home run after home run this entire off season.. He's no longer a bridesmaid but the bride. The Old Walters is back.... errr... the Young Walters. I'm lovin' it. Now, all I ask is my kingdom for a big interior DL to pay the zero & 1 technique. A run stopper. A disruptor. Someone to create chaos inside like Stove did.

I coached kids in Grade 10 & that's all they did. Couldn't read a defense. So, one read. It ain't open... run. We didn't win many games.

Great, so a high school qb playing in the CFL. Just what we need.

The DL used to be our strength when we won two Grey Cups. Since 2021, it's become a throw away position with guys who never would have made those teams in 19 & 21 becoming starters. No desire by Walters, Osh or Younger to rebuild it. Speaking of Younger, I'm actually amazed that he never started an entire defense of defensive backs.

Grumpy? Okay, Mike. Whatever you say. I'm not going to be drawn into it with you. I won't give you the satisfaction. You want to fight? Go join a boxing club.

An outside chance that will cost $150-200,000 a year. Nope. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3562044787441282 Coach Killer.

He may very well be a shitty coach too. There's always a flip side. He never earned that position. He was given it. I guess I'm tired of the entitlement this team has for Osh favourites. I'd have preferred Thomas go coach junior or CIS & gain experience. Maybe move up to DC & then come back to the CFL in 5-7 years

For me, it's nothing personal against Jake The Person. I know that he's is a nice guy. I'd probably like him if I ever met him. Unfortunately, it has everything to do with Jake The Player & now Jake The Coach. Thomas was given the starting DT position for years much to the detriment of the team. Starting Thomas blocked development for younger guys who needed to play.. When he did play, it usually was sub standard & not up to the level we needed. Now he's been given the DL coaching position by the same head coach who has been gifting him everything for years. Hard not to see the entitlement. That's on Osh for creating that stigma.

Agreed.

Ford has never played receiver. He's a natural running back. His stature fits a running back,. Not a receiver. Crum isn't a starter but he has improved a lot since he got to Ottawa a few years back. We'd have won more games with Crum than Streveler. Certainly the passing game would have been better. He'll never be a starter but he will be a coach killer. I like your comment as I agree but I just can't press like when Noeller already has. I'd feel so dirty.

the remaining three look fit for their ages are still sharp & & can work. We all get old & eventually die. It's the way life is. We have entertainers, singers, rock musicians & actors dying by the score. My only real concern is this...

That's why a guy like Lawler was so valuable & we. let. him. walk. SMH. Crum & it ain't even close. Ford? pfft. Put him as a running back with the option to throw downfield. Get him holding on field goals so he can throw out of FG situations. Use his throwing ability that way. Not as a backup qb as he can't do it.

Oh, lighten up. There's no hate there. A joke for sure, but no hate. Thomas has been handed his starting job at DT & now a coaching position by Osh. The feeling is he is entitled as he never quite earned it with his play. Especially the past 3 or 4 years. Hence the bad one liners. The fans aren't stupid. They're a lot smarter then the coaches & managers think they are. They can see what is going on. With that damned coaches cap, the Bombers can bring in Thomas with no coaching experience & not pay him what an experienced DL coach might make. CFL teams can only have up to 11 assisitants. Which means prior to the cap, Thomas could have been a defensive assistant under an experienced pro coach as we'd have had the flexibility to hire another coach. Now, he has to take it on all by himself for the Bombers to adhere to that cap with just 11 assistants. Seems we hire 10 to save more money, anyway.

How can you consider Tim White a consolation prize?

How to hold your head up in a 3 point stance? I can't see Thomas as much of an incentive for any star free agent DL to play for.

This will be the most important piece of equipment for our aging veterans...

Jake Thomas announces at training camp he has become a player-coach & will take 90% of the reps to show his players how things are done. Coaching by example.

And a meh (something like) 15th pick in the draft. A kid we may or may not see until 2030.

And we need help on the interior of the DL to shore it up. With Jake Thomas hogging the playimg time for years, I really don't know what we have. I do know that the DL played better as a unit when Thomas wasn't on the field.

We HAVE to move on from Schoen. He's cooked.

He didn 't like being Number 2 behind Lawler last year & I think it affected his performance. Eberhardt would be okay.

Thank you., He owned an auto body shop on Marion Street for 41 years after the war to 1982 & was a master repairer. It was like he was an artist. He could take a car with twisted metal from a crash & bring it back to life. He was Old School having learned his craft ion the 1930's before the War. He taught his guys how to weld like he was taught with Old School techniques. They would be fascinated with my Dad's welding techniques as they were never taught that. They were all eager to learn. I can remember guys coming up to me when I worked at the shop & saying, "You're Dad is amazing!!" Which made me proud, Generally, he'd hire young guys out of Red River College for their first job. They'd be a "Go Fer" & learn on small jobs that the more experienced guys didn't have time to do as they were busy with bigger wrecks. They would be apprentices. These kids would gain experience & move on to better paying jobs a year or so later. My father was a wiry guy about 5'9 & 160 lbs. But he was as strong as an Ox from all the physical labour he did for 4 decades in the shop. His hands were calloused like boards. To see him just wither away with Denmentia & not be able to function was very hard. Duguid is one of my boyhood sports heroes. Along with his Third, "The Arrow" Rod Hunter. I started curling because of those two. Winning two back to back Briers, Silver Brooms & being the best team on the planet those 2 years in 1970 & 71. The Duguid rink were awesome .I don't think they ever lost a game in both Briers & world championships. May a pox befall on those that make fun of people who are ill & suffering. They never asked for whatever sicknesses they have.