7 hours ago, Rich said:

The arbitration system in the NHL is designed to be combative on purpose as motivation to have teams and players settle outside of it.    And for the most part it is successful in achieving that, as very few players actually get to arbitration despite filing for it.

Each side gets 90 minutes to make their case in front of the arbitrator.   The Jets will have to rip apart Trouba's game and highlight all of his deficiencies and list all the reasons on why they think he is only worth $4M and not the $7M.  Trouba gets to sit there and listen to all that.   

Teams want to avoid this as it certainly can sour the relationship with a player.

 

Nobody wants to be called a depreciating asset by their team.

And yet, we have won something like 25 games with him as OC in 16 & 17 & Matt Nichols has had two very, very good seasons as his qb.  We were the highest scoring offense last season. He had a bad game on Saturday but I think it's way too early to think he needs replacing.  Personally, I think talk like that is crazy.

3 hours ago, wbbfan said:

No you do it to keep their rights... You can revoke them from the list at no cost before that if they are ready. if they dont end up being ready it saves you a bit of cap space. 

As far as i know injured players can go to meetings still...

Why can't they go to meetings? They're part of the team. 

Just read about the passing of former Calgary Stampeder Larry Robinson. He was a mainstay on their defense from1961 to 75. The native of Calgary was an outstanding DB as well as the Stamps punter & PK. He was the CFL Western Conference Rookie Of The Year in 1961. He was runner up for the Schenley Award as the CFL's Top Canadian in 1964. He was a CFL Western Conference All Star in 1965, 1971 & 1972. As a kicker, he scored 1,033 points. His biggest FG was in the 1970 Western Final in Regina vs the Roughriders in the teeth of a raging blizzard.  He played in 3 Grey Cups in 1968, 1970 & was a Grey Cup champion in 1971. he was elected to the Canadian Football Hall Of Fame in 1998. Robinson was a great football player & I remember him very well.  That kick in the 1970 Western Final was a thing of legend.  May he RIP. 

 

4 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:

What surprises me most is that he seemingly hasn't learned that when you say things like this there's going to be backlash. It's just a lack of intelligence at the end of the day. Both because of his thoughts on the subject but also because of how he went about expressing his opinion. Unless he wanted to get fired then I suppose he played it right.

I'm not even in the public eye and I watch what I say on social media sometimes cause some tool will take it out of context or it won't come across as polite as it would had i spoke. My company has a social media clause in the contracts now, and anything I say/share on there that can be seen as offensive can potentially get me fired. So guess what? I don't post about it, whether it's for proper rights/representation of certain groups or politics or just trolling some bigot. I just don't do it. It's not worth my career and will likely create nothing but negativity at the end of the day.

His platform, his replies to DMs and his history of making stupid comments show me that he just isn't a very smart man. Smart boy, sure. Man....not quite. There's a lot of 30+ year old boys running around out there calling themselves men.

Yes, I also watch what I say on social media.  It's not worth it. 

What other way can our receiving corps improve?? Bring in guys to push the people we already have.  That's the only way we will get better.

12 hours ago, Floyd said:

Interesting to see if Herdman can step up - cheering for him

So am I.  Another former SFU teammate of my son.

Why do the Bombers never sign receivers & bring them  in? Other teams  do it & we don't.  We roll with the ones we signed in the off season & that's it.  I don't get it & never have. 

58 minutes ago, BigBlueFanatic said:

Man the last game of the regular season, I actually felt a little bad for Buckley.  It was like the Bomber D took out a season’s worth of frustration out on the poor guy.  

Sacks, fumbles, interceptions AND injury. Bo standing on the sideline while they kept limp/trotting him out there like the black knight from Monty Python  

Too bad that’ll be his last memory as a pro football player.

Oh well.  He had a career as a backup when he really wasn't good enough. So, instead of having bad memories he'll have good memories of backing up Mitchell & getting paid. He's now in Med School so I'm sure he's moved on.

8 hours ago, Tracker said:

I have heard the old ones speak of such things in hushed tones late at night around the fire.

 

3 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

lil suburb of mtl. sacre bleu i surrender to the poutine. 

Well, learn a new thing everyday. Thought Laval was in QC. Thanks.

2 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

Laval would be too close to montreal to have a franchise imo. I dont know what infrastructure QC has, but seeing some of the venues run out in the last year or two It cant be that bad can it lol. 

I always thought Laval was a suburb of Quebec City? Non? Oui?? Time for some poutine??

 

3 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

personally i dont want to see expansion until we have each franchise stable and healthy. I also dont think we should ever go that deep in teams. But than I also think QC is a better city for a team then halifax. 

 

The team in Laval has a private owner with a monopoly on Peps Stadium so he'd never allow a team to use it. That facility could easily be expanded to at least 25,000 but unfortunately it won't happen. The Quebec government won't help with a new stadium after the way Bettman has burned them.

This will only get worse when Halifax starts up.  We don't have enough universities playing football to keep up, unfortunately. Fans want to see the CFL with 12 or 14 teams but that may just be impossible to do given the amount of Nationals we'd need.

I'm 63 & drive a school bus. I honestly know that  my reflexes aren't what they used to be. Even my cognitive processes aren't the same as I was 20years ago. In the past few years, there have been a few times when I have been driving & completely forgot en route where I was going & how to get there. I look calm behind the wheel but meanwhile I'm panicking as I'm driving thinking where the hell am I going??? .Luckily, those few episodes lasted only about half a minute each time & I quickly regained my bearings but I never was like that when I was younger. However, I make up for a lot  with 46 years of driving experience. But there's no way I'd feel safe driving a 40 foot school bus with 60 kids at age 73.  I plan on putting my feet up in 10 years not wanting the responsibility for kids & teachers safety.  Talked to drivers about my memory lapses & it seems to be a common problem among older drivers as most of them have experienced the same thing. So, I'm not alone.  You guys in your 20's,30's & 40's, please believe me when I say things change as you age as a driver. I think a 73 year old commercial driver could be a safety issue.

You got to know when to hold 'em. Know when to fold 'em. Know when to walk away. Know when to run.  You never count your money when you're sitting at the table. There'll be time enough for counting when the GAME is done. 

 

6 minutes ago, Brandon said:

I've seen many seniors working fast food jobs,  construction,  retail and all sorts of jobs.   

Not many 73 year olds driving or operating heavy machinery or trucks. Working behind a till at a convenience store is a lot different than driving a dump truck. Or operating a crane.

 

 

23 minutes ago, Brandon said:

Have you guys ever been to the states? I see lots of seniors working all types of jobs. 

Just got back. Didn't notice anything different than here. 

3 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Why not?

Age, reflexes & the ability to handle cognitively dangerous situations.  I'm 63 & no way would I want to drive a commercial vehicle at that age. So safety reasons.

On ‎2018‎-‎07‎-‎12 at 12:49 PM, Rich said:

 

Why is a 73 year old working as a dump truck driver?

I think we can safely say that every Bomber player & coach contributed to that loss.  That truly was (for a change), a total team loss.

5 hours ago, Goalie said:

Saw it on twitter. One of his buddies said they were out drinking all night. Anyone ever seen Hamilton Harbour? Its like the Red River in terms of nastiness. Lets see if i can find it. Looks like that tweet was deleted so yeah.. Guess not. 

It's confirmed. Tragic. Emery was just 35. 

17 hours ago, BigBlue said:

There is no doubt in my mind, this loss is squarely on Michael O'Shea's shoulders

Kick a field goal instead of gambling .... then kick another field goal instead of gambling

Then very late in the game with the ball near centerfield and the game tied: forget to run Andrew Harris on first down

Horrible game management and don't you dare blame a coordinator .... O Shea has a gambling problem

You actually have an opinion.  Instead of asking everyone first. #stickyourneckout 

19 minutes ago, Mark H. said:

For me it began after the 2008 season. I went for into that season really believing we had a good team, had resigned some good FAs etc. I will attend some games, watch some on TV, but it doesn’t matter one way or the other. Yesterday - was just more of the same. 

I think that you probably care a lot more than you'd like to admit. After 28 years we Bomber fans have developed some pretty good defensive coping mechanisms to deal with the yearly depressing  failures we experience .  One of them is to say (think?) that we don't care when we actually do. That way, when they lose we can just say to ourselves that we knew that they would anyway just to make the hurt seem less & then get ready for Xmas a month or so away...

1 minute ago, BBRT said:

This is sort of my approach. When I lived in the Peg I lived and died each game. Died more that Lived. Now that I live in Calgary, I pick and choose which CFL games to watch. I have corporate season tickets to the Stamps but tend to give them away. I try and catch the bomber game when they come to town and maybe a Rider game but other than that give them away to clients. I am at the stage now when I at times, prefer to watch other teams play rather than a Bomber game. I hope they win and make it to the playoffs etc. but at the end of the day given what I believe is IMHO the worse CFL management group other than  the gang in Montreal, I really do not get all that down when they lose.

I live in Calgary as well but I still have that blue & gold blood in my veins. I can't give up on the Blue Bombers as I have 53 years invested in the team. I'd still be a STH if I lived in Winnipeg. This team can be frustrating at times & we all know that especially after last night. As fans, we've been waiting a long time to return victorious to The Promised Land. We know that it's our turn. We just don't know when that turn will come.