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5 hours ago, Tracker said:
Fourletterword!!! Am disgusted with the game and am considering changing to the knitting channel. Probably won't.
Oh man if you didn't you missed out on a crazy finish. A slipped stitch leading to a backward yarn over in overtime for the win!
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55 minutes ago, Goalie said:
I feel they recognize or miller recognizes problems exist and I think miller O’Shea and Kyle will work hard this off season to show that yeah you know what, it is time for some changes. I don’t believe for a second that any of Wade Kyle or Osh are happy with how this season went and I’m sure will work hard to fix it. Sometimes complacency kicks in after a decade, sometimes you need the kick in the ass. I feel like this year is wade kicking Kyle and Osh in the ass a bit. You can’t get rid of all the vets but you can’t bring them all back either. And Zach is the biggest question. He’s our starter cuz he’s getting paid way 2 much to not start. Elgersma might be nice. Hopefully another Rourke.
I don't know, man...if losing three Grey Cups in a row with a chance to turn it around on the fourth...at home...isn't enough of a kick in the ass/motivator I don't know what is.
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The way I see it MOS is likely a really good guy. He's probably an excellent friend, a great father and husband and loyal to his players. If you see the game and the process in the same way he does my sense is he would go to the wall for you. Unfortunately I also get the sense he's more dedicated to the individual than the team.
On the one hand it's why players were so anxious and willing to play for him. I've used the analogy before but back in my school days often my most favourite teachers were the ones who expected the least from me. It seems like that's part of what's happening here, if you've earned his loyalty he won't bench you if you're playing poorly. He'll leave you in the rotation over and over again so long as you're making an effort even if you're coming up way short, he will be loyal to you.
As a human being I have a lotta respect for that. As the fan of a football team I can't help but wonder if it's conducive to winning. My perception is a man in that position needs to have a very acute sense of realism, bluntness and be a little cutthroat. He was able to get by without those attributes when he had a bunch of quality players but once it appeared as though some hard choices had to be made he didn't seem able to make them.
It's not true that people can't change but something a wise cousin said to me once is very true, "Think about how long it took that person to get like that. Well, that's probably how long it'll take them to change".
Time will tell if MOS can change or if he is provided more quality puzzle pieces so he doesn't have to.
Regardless I'll keep watching and hoping for the best.
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8 minutes ago, Captain Blue said:
I can somewhat agree - it's clear we are regressing, but after back to back Cup wins you can really only regress right? Nobody wins forever.
Hey I'm not saying any of this is easy and I'm certainly not the guy you'd want to hire to fix things but it's not just about regression it's the way in which they're regressing. Poor coaching decisions, roster management, apparent poor scouting, complete lack of forethought given to preparing to replace ageing vets...and my goodness the complete lack of off-season moves to try and make a serious run for the Cup in a year you're hosting is not a good look.
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1 hour ago, Childress said:
I'd be surprised if the Bombers move on from O'Shea or Walters. In the last 6 seasons, they have made the playoffs each year, they were Grey Cup Finalists 5 times and Champions twice. They finished with a winning record this year. The Bombers could and likely would do a lot worse by replacing these guys.
They have stayed loyal to some long time vets, some for maybe too long, and their play has clearly dropped off. I'm not sure if they should move on from Collaros, but he is not the player he was a few years ago. Jefferson is not a dominant defensive player anymore. Neufeld and Bryant aren't what they were. They'll add some free agents, but it is in the new recruits that sets a team up for success.
If six years ago they finished 10-8, lost out in the eastern semi then went on to make it to the next 5 Grey Cups, losing the 1st 3 then finishing off by winning the last two that's great. Reverse that scenario and it's a completely different situation. They are clearly regressing and trending downward. I'm not saying anyone's gonna be let go but let's not kid ourselves about the direction in which we're headed
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44 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
and the collective butt holes of the cfl east, national media and league, just puckered up tighter than fort knox lol
I notice Dustin Neilson's attitude has become perceptively subdued.
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1 hour ago, Captain Blue said:
Alexander is really legit good but you can tell he's high on his own fumes.
Am I the only one that sees Buzz McCallister whenever they show Alexander?
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1 hour ago, White Out said:
MOS is stupid. Not just arrogant. He's acting like the Bombers are in the NHL competing with cities like Miami, like Chevy does. He gives old and finished players way too much loyalty and the result is 3 lost Grey Cups in a row, letting Dru Brown walk, having no depth at QB, and we're being curb stomped in the east final.
**** him
He operates like he's a subscriber to the "feelings over facts" ideology that seems to have infected every aspect of society
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15 hours ago, rebusrankin said:
Jake signed a lifetime contract. He'll be here every year going forward until he is replaced by one of his kids.
Do they make studded tires for the rascal he'll be riding during those early autumn snow falls?
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16 hours ago, Goalie said:
They do less than minimum to promote the league. I see more billboards on Disraeli about the cfl or bombers than I see on tsn. Or tv in general. Tsn just doesn’t promote the league. At all.
Bell owns a bunch of channels on which they could advertise/promote the CFL. Wouldn't cost them a cent. I've never seen a CFL ad on any other channel than TSN. Granted I don't find much to watch on CTV and they have many CTV affiliates so maybe some ads appear on them, I don't know.
That's not counting all the radio stations
Actually that company should be broken up into a 100 pieces. That kind of monopoly isn't conducive to innovation
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9 hours ago, Squeakers and Skippy said:
Is this that ron Jeremy look alike guy they have on during some games ? Wouldn't want to you know put some hot women in his or hers place but then that would be marketing something tsn and the cfl know nothing about.
Ron had a better haircut
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22 minutes ago, Booch said:
Thats another thing...If the league wanted to be more visible...open up to more eyes and viewers...time to start breaking up their broadcast rights into multiple packages and market them to new stations...TSN is embarrasingly bad....and more times than not...especially with the Kate led panel cringe worthy to watch...and thats being polite...if someone was happening to be just channel surfing and stopped on some of their sctick for a moment....it ain't drawing them in...Up the production
Bring in a NFL ran broadcast entourage....graphics...camera views....pbp and panel people... how they go about producing the game....It would be likely unrecognizable to the CFL fan....and in a good way
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This guy gets it.
Obviously the on-field product needs to be worth paying for along with the entire game day experience. The former is obviously trickier. The latter can be taught by those that seem to have mastered it *nudge, nudge, wink, wink*....but the majority of fans view most of their games on a screen.As someone that has extensive experience with broadcasting and promotions don't ever discount the power of a good promotion. In radio we didn't have the benefit of visuals...or the ability to advertise on competing stations like TV can do with other channels. When's the last time, if ever, have you seen an add for the CFL on a channel other than TSN? How many channels does Bell control?
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39 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
Careful now. According to Luke Wilson if you don't like TSN you hate the CFL and want it to die.
I tried to corner him on his hypocrisy regarding the benefits of criticizing the league but the cruelty of criticizing TSN. I didn't get a response.
The truth is that TSN really is awful. From their graphics and promotion to their pre/post-game/half-time packages/crew. Absolute bush league.
At a point in time when kids can construct wild visuals using AI on their PCs the level of effort TSN puts into the CFL is actually embarrassing.
Snappy visuals and well constructed promotions only take you so far. You still need a quality product...but I think we have that (the steak). We really need some sizzle.
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18 hours ago, Sard said:
That's the big concern though, they're making these changes which will do nothing to attract new fans, while at the same time upsetting the existing ones
I think they'd get farther ahead with younger fans with a fancy pre-game hype package, souped up graphics, non-lame pre-game/half-time hosts and some insight into the game. Kids hearing stuff like WIL and SAM and all the other playcall terminology they don't understand is not ingratiating.
When I was a kid we had Howie Meeker and Peter Puck teaching us about the intricacies of hockey. NOBODY does that for football for kids. I'm not suggesting something as dated as that...but update it with someone actually charismatic with modern graphics and teach them. TSN is so incredibly awful.
The fact is we have the steak...what we're missing is the sizzle.
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2 hours ago, rebusrankin said:
Commish is a long time Bell employee
We should consider ourselves lucky...he wanted the ability to raise ticket prices in the middle of games.
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8 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
I remember when I was 55, I started to get comments from my wife who was 47 at the time after very thing I said, she'd say, "You told me that already THREE times". It got frustrating. I thought I was losing my mind. Now, she does it to me & I get to pay her back saying, "You already told me THREE times!!" Feels good. Lol.
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20 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:
I'll start. I'm in the adult entertainment business.
You convert VHS copies of The Rockford Files to DVD???
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On 2025-09-18 at 12:37 PM, wbbfan said:
these are pedantic ways to judge people
True...but they are also the cause of endless misunderstandings and arguments in a world that increasingly relies on texting/emails and has increasingly lost the ability to accurately express itself with words.
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On 2025-09-18 at 10:50 AM, Goalie said:
Who gives a crap about sentence structure. Nobody is a novelist or author here. It’s like math, we take all that math in school to never use it in adulthood. Don’t need sentence structure to drive a train or build a house or play sports. School was actually a big waste. College = good but prior = waste.
Things like grammar, punctuation, sentence structure are the difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack-off a horse
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On 2025-09-17 at 4:51 PM, Noeller said:
But there are some of us who believe we have the right people to fix it.
There's a saying in business - "The people who create a problem are rarely the ones best suited to fix it"
Albert Einstein - "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."On 2025-09-17 at 8:45 PM, SpeedFlex27 said:I'm juat grateful to remember where the bathroom is & fortunate enough to make it.
I'm grateful to be incredibly regular. Healthy bowel movement every single morning at 7:05. Unfortunately I don't wake up til 7:30
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On 2025-09-15 at 1:59 PM, HardCoreBlue said:
Well the best I can do to describe what straight fire is is have someone kick you right in the junk
While screaming in your face
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