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41 minutes ago, Pete Catan's Ghost said:
If these comments piss you off, I can’t imagine that there is a lot on this board that makes you happy.
As a fan I can be pissed off about anything. You reacted negatively to my comments so that means you didn't like them.
It's just the same old typical **** from fans who have become spoiled & are never satisfied. One guy plays well in a few games as a rookie. Then he becomes the Next One that fans love. Just get rid of the old vet standing in his way because he's starting to suck. Meanwhile the old vet threw for something like 4300 yards on a team that went 14-4 in 2023 & 40-10 since the CFL resumed play in 2021. It's ridiculous.
1 hour ago, 17to85 said:Zachs processing may or may notnbe slower but he was slower getting the ball away and took some hits he didn't have to.
Guy was looking a bit gun shy with the OL taking step back last season.
I can understand that with his injury history but we'll see how he fares this season with the changes on the line. Hopefully, he does fine.
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1 minute ago, Doublezero said:
What's the point in getting personal about it? You can't prove my observations are invalid. This is a fan forum and I have an opinion about who gets the ball off quicker, Collaros or Brown. It is a valid opinion based on what my eyes are telling me. And you are welcome to disagree. If you did disagree I would respect your opinion rather than resort to an ad hominem argument. I guess we could run a stopwatch off game tape and test my observation. No, I have not played QB or coached at the pro level. I would describe myself as just a fan. Although I have lined up as a player in the CFL. In the backfield. And I know how to run a route. And that's all I'm gonna say. Since you asked.
It's not personal. You say he's slower processing. Okay well, I just want you to prove your point. And just saying, "Well, I noticed he seems slower".... Slower, what? It pisses me off as a fan with so many experts ready to write the guy off for a qb who didn't even have 5 CFL starts to his name. Let Dru make his money & get beat up in Ottawa. We'll see how he does.
Well, if you played as a running back in the CFL then tell us why Zach is processing slower & I'll take it all back & say sorry.
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4 hours ago, Doublezero said:
Conjecture. For sure both Collaros and Brown have benefitted from Winnipeg's development of a solid Oline and a scheme that offered pretty dang good QB protection. But how Brown might fare elsewhere is irrelevant to the opinion that we should have kept him here. The size difference between the 2 QBs is also irrelevant. After all, Doug Flutie was 5'!0 180lbs - bigger does not equate to more success or durability. For sure Zach is a warrior who, as you say, has had to sit out for extended periods due to serious injuries. The fact that he has suffered so many injuries - especially hits to the head - underscores my basic concern about him. After all, Collaros missed games in 2015 and 2016 with the torn ACL - not clear he ever recovered from that 100%. In 2018 he was sidelined for several games due to a head injury and he did not play for most of 2019 due to head injury. We have a valiant QB who is 35 and needs to avoid hits at all costs as they could be career ending. To me, it appears that is taking him longer to process things out there post-snap. Brown definitely got the ball away quicker than Zach and was more accurate and threw with velocity. That's how it appeared. Plus Brown knew Buck's offence. That's why I'd have kept him. But we didn't. Glad we've got Strevy though.
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On 2024-03-05 at 5:40 PM, wbbfan said:
6’2 240 strong athlete good gap filling tackle box lber.
How can a guy who's already attended an NFL camp & played for the Seahawks be considered a Canadian college draft prospect? Shouldn't he be Neg Listed?
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44 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:
Brown has not been hit yet, that's about to change shortly. We'll see how his game evolves in time after a couple of rounds on the 6 game recuperating from serious injuries like Zach has. One thing to note, Brown and Collaros are right around 6'-0", difference is Zach weighs 218 lbs. and Brown is a slender 191 lbs., the difference is muscle mass which has served him well the past 4 years.
Dru Brown is playing behind a bad OL. Yeah, they've signed some veterans but we'll see. Ottawa has always signed free agents but have never amounted to much. I expect Brown is this year's version of Nick Arbuckle.
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1 hour ago, WBBFanWest said:
that's three things
Two.
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On 2024-03-05 at 8:59 PM, GCn20 said:
Last year he was convinced the Stamps were turning the corner and about to make a run at 1st in the West and this was around game 12. In his opinion Winnipeg and BC were about to tumble down the standings and Calgary was going to "realize it's talent"...is the term I believe he used. He is the Stamps version of Migs..just delusional.
i remember a couple of years ago he was crying because there were no Stamps OL named to the Western Conference All Star team. He was convinced the Stamps line was better than the Bomber line. I called him out on X & he wasn't happy being criticized.
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12 hours ago, johnzo said:
yeah, the main changes I see are in the formations -- shotgun was very rare back then and most teams were lining up with two backs. Calgary started using five and six receiver sets in 1990 and it was Hufnagel who pioneered that, according to cfl.ca: https://www.cfl.ca/2007/12/02/offences_can_thank__huff__for_six_pack_air_attack/
It's kind of nice to watch the old game without replay reviews. Official makes the call and the game moves on, no delays.
I think it was George Cortez of the Stamps who bamboozled the Esks in the 2001 Western Final coming out with the five & six pack receiver set for the first time as well. The Eskimo D had no idea how to stop it. You look at how innovative the Stamps were back then as well as the qb factory they had & look at them now. Just a shell...
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8 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:
Prukop with Jackson lead blocking would have scored that TD.
You can see the necessity of a short yardage team & why it came to be in the CFL. Even with the one yard off the LOS on the goal line, we couldn't score. It looks like Willard Reaves was out of the lineup so they had FB Sean Kehoe #35 & HB Pat Cantner #33 in the backfield. Cantner would have been replacing Reaves.
Kehoe was Reaves blocking back all season. Neither had any speed to go outside. All they could do was run straight ahead thru the A & B gaps & BC shut that down. With the receivers they had, the Bombers should have thrown the ball. Those 2 Canadian backs couldn't get the job done. What brutal playcalling by whoever was the Bombers OC at the time.
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On 2024-03-05 at 4:32 PM, iHeart said:
I bought this album in 1971 when I was in Grade 9. I played it over & over until I wore out the grooves on the album & it started popping & skipping.
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11 hours ago, bryan35 said:
It nice with no reviews until you lose a game because of a bad call. Lol.
Did the ball cross the goal line on Kehoe's fumble? It was pretty close.
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11 minutes ago, johnzo said:
That game was a heartbreaker. I really wanted to see Hufnagel start in a Grey Cup -- he was a good soldier backup all those years.
In 1986, our three qbs were Tom Clements, John Hufnagel, Jim Zorn & on the PR Tom Muecke. I see Muecke was dressed & on the sidelines. Clements was out of the lineup with an injury so he was elevated to #3 qb position.
The game itself hasn't changed that much since 1986. I know Rich was talking about that if they went back 40 years from this game shown it would be 1946 but the same basic stuff is still going on. The equipment (helmets) are better & we have video replays. That fumble may have been overturned for a TD today if it touched the white end zone line. The game really changed from 1946-86 & not so much from 1986-2024.
I just remember being so pissed at Kehoe after that game. He had two jobs.... Find a hole & score & then PROTECT THE ******* BALL!!!!!!!
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59 minutes ago, johnzo said:
Watching games from back in the day, it's astonishing the big hits that a QB was expected to absorb ... especially a guy like Hufnagel who played from the pocket a lot. Like, check this play out, Huffer gets obliterated after he throws a gorgeous deep pass to Tuttle. No penalty, he bounces right back up. Those guys were tough back then.
It's so awesome to have access to these old games, you can really see how the game has changed over the years. It seems like it was around 2004-2005 when the CFL started making rules to try to keep quarterbacks alive.
I remember that fumble. What a killer mistake by Sean Kehoe. I think that was his last game as a Blue Bomber.
7 hours ago, bearpants said:Montreal has a guy named Randy Rhino!!! RANDY RHINO!!! ... this is the greatest name I've ever heard... why have we never heard of this guy!?
YOU never heard of him...
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26 minutes ago, johnzo said:
Kicking was so bad back in the day. Kennard had a couple of seasons of <60% kicking and was always invited back. Bernie Ruoff had a 50% year and a 40% year (!) early in his career but his career survived.
I think it was around the turn of the millennium when the top kickers started regularly hitting 80%.
There was a reason for that. When football started to transition to the "soccer style" kickers in the late 60's, they had no coaches anywhere who knew how to coach these new type of kickers. It took until the first wave of new kickers retired in the mid to late 70's & started coaching themselves that the kicking game slowly began to improve.
A lot of these kickers still had to play other positions. Ted Gerela was the CFL's first soccer style kicker but was also a linebacker for the Lions when he broke into the league in 1967/68. Guys used to practice alone with no coaching. They ended up practicing their mistakes & really not improving as kickers as no one was there to help them. Considering everything they went thru, these pioneers actually did okay.
Walt McKee was the Bombers first soccer style kicker in 1972 & he was a career 52% kicker. That was actually considered pretty good back then. The change was on as the kickers revolutionized the position. There are no more straight on kickers anymore. Today, kids as young as 10 years of age can sign up for kicking camps everywhere, It's no wonder that great kickers now have stats percentages in the mid to high 80's.
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10 hours ago, JCon said:
The combine (settle down Rider fans) was on our TV quite a bit last week/end. Sure would have been nice to know which of those players were on our (or any other CFL team's) neg list. The CFL misses so often on the easy stuff.
That would require work. I get the impression that our so called Commissioner, his staff & the Board of Governors would rather not do any of that.
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9 hours ago, GCn20 said:
I don`t. I was responding to a poster who does. Thanks for chiming in.
Anytime.
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8 hours ago, GCn20 said:
Ballantyne can`t be considered media because his bias would never allow him to view the CFL realistically. Not a slam on him, I would probably have the same problem, but anything he writes is out to lunch because he so over the top of a Stamps fan. They walk on water to him and are the best team in the CFL that has been having bad luck and are victims of circumstance every game. That wouldn`t be so nauseating if every game prediction or anything else he puts up on 3DN weren`t so directly influenced by how he wants the CFL to be in relation to his Stamps season hopes, as opposed to how it really is. He will make stupid commentary like `Winnipeg Blue Bombers are due for a losing streak against the Edmonton Eskimos and Calgary Stampeders in their next two games vaulting the Stamps into a playoff spot`` and then use that reasoning to pick Edmonton as some gospel truth.
if you call him out on those takes which I have in the past then he gets pissed off.
10 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:I'll never forget how he argued that the 2021 Bombers were scared to play the stamps in the west final....yes....he was serious...and was saying the Bombers were counting their lucky stars the riders won the semi. Lol
And a couple of years ago he kept saying the Bombers OL was overrated & the Stamps were better. So then, why all the Bomber all stars on the line???
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On 2024-02-14 at 8:03 AM, JCon said:
It's a shorter flight from Boston to London, than it is Boston to Los Angeles.
Yeah but the time zone keep getting later the further east over the Atlantic into Britain & Europe. London is 8 hours ahead of LA. The time zones will be a big problem.
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12 hours ago, Mike said:
3DN is super credible as far as reporting news. Dunk and Hodge are both very well connected throughout the league, just look at how many signings they leaked prior to official announcements. They don’t miss on that front at all and it’s unfair to say they do.
The problem with them is the exact opposite of what you’re suggesting it is. When they get into actual analysis, it’s worse than your typical tan forum commentary. Hodge, JC Abbott, that guy who was on Big Brother from Calgary … they’re all lost when it actually comes to discussing football.
Ryan Ballantyne. He isn't credible because he's a Stamps Boi. He doesn't care about other teams. Just the Stamps. He believes he's a credible member of the CFL media. I disagree because he's a Stamps fan. My feeling if you want to be considered a member of the legit "media" then you can't show your biases when you're reporting stories & have to be neutral. I've occasionally had the odd run in with him online. (Surprise, surprise
).... He doesn't like it if someone questions his analysis.
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13 hours ago, 17to85 said:
It was only decent when the writer from Hamilton was there. After that lost all credibility. Fanboi bloggers now, nothing more.
Drew Edwards, the beat writer from the Ti Cats started it. He was reassigned & was never heard from again.
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15 hours ago, GCn20 said:
Get used to it. Best is to just ignore when you see him going off on one of these rants. He's a passionate guy when it comes to trying to get his point across, even though no one's debating them. No use getting caught up in this merry go round for another full season. Change the topic is about all we can do. Booch will discuss the new topic once he sees there are no takers for that discussion again. It's a valid point he raises, it's just been done to death.
I have no problem with Booch voicing his concern over the wat our roster is utilized, whether once or a thousand times. Why do you??
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Environmant Canada really scaled back the amount of snow the Winnipeg area will get. At least from the forecast I read this morning. I think the amount of rain & freezing rain will affect the amount of snow you guys get. Here in Calgary, we've got close to 20 cms of new snow on the ground. We've had 2 years of bad drought so I hope that this means we'll get more snow & rain for the remainder of March & into spring.
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And you wonder why football fans who favour the NFL laugh at the CFL?? This is a joke.
Doesn't matter. There he is pictured in a Seahawks uniform on the field playing a game. Perception is everything.