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He'll be 29 when his contract is up. Dave Dickenson was roughly the same age when he went down but there's a lot of great young guns coming out of the NCAA so it's tough for a "rookie" at that age to make it. For 2 seasons, Dickenson bounced around before deciding to come back as he could see the writing on the wall.

Black has to go. He just has to go.

Maas needs to learn humility. He has a huge chip on his shoulder.

Kinda nice to see Maas & his team go down today in the snow.

Remember Jet Packs? I think you could buy 10 & 15 games when the Jets 1.0 played out of the Winnipeg Arena. They weren't season tickets but it guaranteed your seat for those games. Don't know if it included the playoffs. Anyone remember? No need for that this time round.

Women's hockey is a tough sell. Canadians only care during the Olympics as it means we'll win a gold or silver.

Richards, well not so great a pick. Loffler OTOH a great pick. Win some, lose some.

Even if 6,000 people are added on to the old season ticket base of about 8,000 the team is in better shape than it was in the 90's with the new building as it sells out at 15,000. Team merchandising ,marketing & tv deals are astronomical compared to what it was when Jets 1.0 were here. More sources of revenue than before.

Here are some stats.. Winnipeg's population has grown by 100,000 since 1996. That's quite significant as it's almost the City of Regina. http://www.winnipeg.ca/cao/pdfs/population.pdf

They're sure getting hammered just a couple of hundred miles east in NW Ontario like Dryden & Sioux Lookout. Thirty to 40 cms of snow have fallen. Winter is there to stay.

Coaches are always smart when they have talent. When they don't their IQ seems to go down 20 points or however IQ is measured. Milanovich looked like a loser this year with the talent he had to work with. Looking frustrated & confused as to why things didn't work out on the field. Plus, he's the guy who thinks Drew Willy will become an elite CFL qb.

I was angry with the FG call as I believe it wasn't the right one. Some people agree & some don't saying that was the only call he could have made. I think had we gone on 3rd & 4 & made it we'd have won that game. That's my opinion for what it's worth. What's done is done. However you don't pile on him or fire him for that unless he had a long list of gaffes that cost us wins. He won 5 more games this year than in 2015 & we got into the semi final. You reward success. You don't punish it. He'll be back if he wants to be back. It'll be his choice.

Does anyone really know if NAFTA & these other international trade deals have made our lives better or worse? I just see jobs going to Mexico or China & the Phiullipines. Meanwhile you can't ship beer from one province to another among other things. I wish we'd take care of our own country first before trying to be wunderkinds on the world stage all the time & have everybody like us.

If O'Shea leaves then Walters will deal with it. Why worry about it? Mike is an adult & he can come & go as he chooses as his contract is expiring in the next few weeks. We know the Bombers want him back so it's not something the Bombers have done to slight him. If he chooses to go elsewhere it's his choice. I fail to see the angst you show about trying to somehow read between some blurred lines. I assume that if The Coach does leave then you'll be very happy. Then you look at a guy like Lawless. He hasn't tweeted a single thing that O'Shea is rumoured to be looking elsewhere or that a team wants him. He'd have heard something. I'd be absolutely shocked if he didn't come back.

I'd rate Nichols with Tom Burgess or even Sean Salisbury. I think he's better than the other 2 though. Nichols excels as a game manager. He prevents turnovers & picks other than the last regular season game where he threw 3 but that was just him having a bad game. All qbs have games like that. If we develop a dominant defense to help him we can win. That's the key to this team. It's our defense. It has to be better. It's dragging the team down. Changes have to be made. Perhaps starting at DC. We'll see. I just hope Mike O'Shea sees that.

I believe Wild's play was injury related. He'll come back next year & hopefully stay healthy & will have a much better season. Wild's a very good player.

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I was thinking about our team today & doesn't it feel like we've emerged from some Dark Age? That there are better times ahead. Like a warm day in late March. You know better days are ahead.

J5V, I've been reading your posts about Mike O'Shea. The simple truth of the matter is that you just don't fire a head coach who took a team from 6-12 to 11-7 in a single season & the WDSF then toss him. It just isn't done. The Bombers organization would look like a Ship Of Fools if they did that. Certainly it'd be sending out a lot of negative vibes to all the other coaches in the CFL about the state of the team, the people who run it & the kind of business they'd be doing. It would make no sense. Who'd want to come here knowing that being 2 games over .500 & making the playoffs isn't good enough to keep their job? O'Shea deserves a new contract. The guy's earned it. Other than Marc Trestman who would you want as head coach? Start naming names instead of using vague terms like, "Bring in an experienced coach". Who? Experience doesn't mean anything. Don Matthews went 0-9 in Toronto when he was given the Argos HC job in the middle of the season. George Cortez was a very good OC & turned out to be a very bad head coach. Both had plenty of experience but it didn't matter. Matthews is the second winningest head coach in the CFL all time with over 200 wins behind Wally Buono. The Bombers won't fire O'Shea & they'd be crazy to do it. He deserves to be here.

If Mike O'Shea did leave on his own accord to say, Toronto (if there was a head coaching opportunity there) then it's his decision to go. No one asked him to leave, he would have been offered a contract but turned it down. If he wants to go then he'll go. If he wants to stay then he'll stay. The Bombers will offer him a contract. If he left, I believe that there's no way Walters will bring in a head coach who'll tear everything down. This team is on the way up & hasn't reached its potential yet, Toronto is on the way down. I think it would be difficult for O'Shea to leave a job unfinished in Winnipeg so I think he'll be back.

I really like Marc Trestman. It may have sounded like I didn't but I really do. The CFL needs more guys like him & less of Jason Maas & Chris jones & their shenanigans. I was hoping he'd be back in some capacity with a CFL team like the Argos or the Als. The man is just a class act all around.

Trestman isn't in the NFL. He was fired. He never would have become the Bears head coach had he not have had the success in Montreal that he had. Okay, stupid was the wrong word. I guess puzzling may have been the better term as the Argos would have opened the vaults to sign him.

I don't care how good the pass catchers are, if the qb is looking at the sky when he throws the ball it doesn't matter. We just went through a very dark era in Blue Bomber history where we had the worst OL for years. Now that we finally put together an OL we can actually win with some fans want to dismantle it to play 5 Ints at receivers? No thanks.

Marc Trestman "not too interested" in coming back to the CFL? I guess he likes bouncing around the NFL like a rubber ball becoming more & more irrelevant with every bounce. The CFL saved his career once & it could again. Up to him I guess. You can't teach stupid. It just is.

Nichols played with confidence. Willy played with very little confidence out there. The hits & injuries really took their toll on the man. He looked the same in Toronto as he did here. He didn't look comfortable when he played. His facial expressions & body language just gave everything away. Willy's teammates could see that & I'm sure that is why his teammates didn't play as hard for him as they did for Nichols. Nichols had some gruesome injuries as well to deal with but to his enormous credit he was able to put that in the back of his mind & not let it get to him. That's a quality a lot of us wouldn't have to be honest. To face your fears, come back from adversity like that & play well. I feel bad for Drew Willy but even coming back the way he did took guts on his part. At the same time, I admire Nichols for what he's done. He's courageous.