1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

They had an identity. Tough & physical. Bully Ball & FIFO. Then, they just went away from both. I think Walters & Osh started reading their own press clippings. I think they got fat & sassy. Now, a full rebuild will have to be done. They don't want to do it but I think it's inevitable now. They blew it.

I agree with a full gutting being inevitable now.

They blew their chance to reload and keep it going with several years of mediocre-bad drafting and poor American scouting, exacerbated by extremely foolish roster building decisions.

Hiring/keeping the wrong staff (McManus, Hogan, Condell, Younger) Letting the wrong staff depart (Penn, Bourgoin to name a couple)

O’Shea can’t level up a team through coaching. If he doesn’t have all-star talent and great coordinators running the room he’s useless. FIFO doesn’t work when you’re fitting in to complacency and incompetency.

At this point, everybody in charge has had a hand in buggering the whole thing up.

32 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

MOS is way too fixated on days of practice, days between games for both his team and the next opponent.

Once everyone's dressed and on the field it does not matter. Get back to 1-0 this week thinking.

Agreed. 2 practices in 5 days isn’t going to destroy them physically. A shorter week between 2 home games isn’t a huge deal.

That’s probably game

Pathetic

Holding on Willie not called yet again

Don’t show it again or anything

Just now, Booch said:

Smith again

He needs to be the starter

Gatkuoth really coming along

That was marginal. Defensive player was grabbing around his shoulder pads

16 minutes ago, Booch said:

again...the conversation was the spot we have decided to run the 3rd Canadian....not the other spots....And really to date Neild hasnt impressed much or been this big factor for us

He costs more and he has basically identical stats with Wheatfall having a bit better YPC avg...so if it was a one or the other argument it can be called a wash really

He’s had some really bad drops and hasn’t really been as physical as you’d expect given his size.

For had far from a great game, finally makes an amazing play and it gets blown by 3 receivers who can’t figure out someone needs to be on the line. Stupid, stupid penalty.

1 hour ago, Noeller said:

The biggest thing I think I put on the coaches is the slow starts... How they're not motivated and fired up and constantly playing from behind mystiifes me...

It seems like a lackadaisical mentality has trickled down from the top.

48 minutes ago, BomberFanInSask said:

There’s talk of BC starting Kaidon Salter in their next game. He’s a 23 year old up and coming QB. I find it strange that there’s little to no talk of giving the ball to Taylor Elgersma for the Bombers. He can’t do any worse than Dru Brown, in fact I think he can perform much better. He has a more accurate arm, a better frame, is just as mobile, and brings more confidence to the QB role.

That Salter has something. I hope they don’t start him this week.

4 hours ago, Booch said:

Thing is tho...in a camp you can and still should be able to assess God given talent..and obviously ability...and yes some certain intangibles...I have my doubts we have the ability to do so. And some the intangibles we covet or look for..dont translate on the field..and I think our coaching staff passes this on to our scouts and effects who..what we bring in..this regime is now flawed on many levels

Save for a few random finds..Schoen..Alford..early Nichols..Wilson originally..most our successful guys were know imports brought in via fa

Add Vaval to that list, the only great find from the states in the last 3-4 years.

Major Williams may get there.

Agree the talent brought in by the scouting dept has been way sub-par since Rigmaiden left.

Even before that at WR. 12 years they’ve found 1 good receiver outside of FA. 2 if you count Lawler who was a relatively unknown BC cut.

5 minutes ago, Goalie said:

O? They weren’t as awful prior to broxton getting hurt and having to completely reshuffle the line but, weren’t great. Play calling is suspect. 40 passes a game. Sending Brady out wide all the time, the MCI run thing. It’s just change of pace? Brady had 3 carries at that point, change of pace my ass.

It’s all just so stupid. Our D literally gives up TDS after we score a TD every time. Our American kicker is one of the worst in the league, Bryant is finished. Eli isn’t a starter, no receiver over 6 3.

No aggression on D. Bombers historically known for aggressive D are now the cucks of the CFL.

For MCI’s size, he doesn’t really run with much power albeit his opportunities are limited.

Eli’s run blocking was ok, I didn’t really notice a difference at C. It was the edges that were getting destroyed.

Lack of aggression on D agree 100%. Probably the least physical group of DBs we’ve seen since 2005.

Aside from injuries, I don’t think the OL would look so bad if we ran concepts that made sense.

Eugene Lewis is 33 years old. He’s be a short term upgrade. If it was a hypothetical fire sale type deal I’d take it.

The only real fix is longer term. The way we recruit American receivers, the way the ratio is used, the poor offensive scheme we run all need to be changed.

They could start by seeing if the Americans on our PR can bring in a contested football.

Using Clercius in Neild’s spot would probably help too.

I know that football is cyclical, I get that. Nevertheless watching the team this year is a huge burn because they built a top-tier football club and let it go to mediocrity (at best)

Scouting, front office personnel, coaching. It’s all been frittered away.

Brown wasn’t great but I mean come on, dude’s trying to make a steak dinner out of a **** sandwich.

2 minutes ago, Goalie said:

Doug brown pretty much agreeing that Condell sucks.

As he should. Never mind any of the other issues the usage of Brady on it’s own is inexcusable.

1 minute ago, Goalie said:

Nah. Ottawa. Hamilton. BC.

lol fire Younger.

BC with Chase Brice maybe. Rourke would put up 500 yards on this secondary.

This is just a bottom 3 team this season, no way to sugarcoat it.

Put in Perkins, at least if he has to run for his life he might make it to the sticks.

Just now, JuranBoldenRules said:

Ceresna barely plays.

He had one standout quarter, but compared to the other 3 we signed he’s been the least disappointing.

I was never thrilled about Tim White, I don’t care what he’s on pace for, we simply didn’t need that type of WR.

Neild looks like Tarzan, plays like Jane.

Moxey is just all around bad.

Outside of Ceresna (and even then he’s been somewhat mild) that lauded FA period turned out to be a pretty big bust.

1 minute ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

We're missing the Derick Armstrong, Darvin Adams type boundary WR who can make plays at all 3 levels and open up space for the 5'10 180 pound guys.

You can't run a CFL offense without that guy.

Hell in the start of this regime we had a shitty version in Aaron Kelly. Still better than what we're running out there now.

Yeah our only bigger WR plays like he’s 5’8. It’s like they saw us beat up Hamilton in the 2019 GC and slowly turned the club into the Our Compliments version of those Ticat teams.

1 minute ago, wbbfan said:

whole team is soft and gets beat physically save for brady and some of the dl

I’d add Griffin but yeah.