JohnnyAbonny

To me Strev is good if he gets all the 1 reps and a gameplan, like Week 1. He’s been pretty terrible whenever he’s had to come in off the bench both this year and last. It’s pretty clear his knee is still really buggered too.

Honestly, I think there’s a couple different angles that show Walter’s and co were the ones that truly ****** this up. We were good because A: The front office went balls deep in FA over 2016-19. Harris, Prime (or close to it) Bighill and Jefferson, Rose, etc Also did a good job bringing in spare parts from other teams who had value (Nick Taylor, Darby, Maston) which we don’t really do anymore. B: We had guys from the Rigmaiden/Craig Smith pipeline coming through until 2021. (Lawler, Jeffcoat, Alford, Nichols to name a few.) Not sure if it lines up exactly with Rigmaiden leaving but the American scouting started to drop a dook after 2022 and never really recovered. We just kept letting good players walk and replacing them with nothing and nobody. The DT spot is a microcosm. Let Stove walk, replace with slightly worse Sayles. Let Sayles walk, replace with slightly worse Ricky Walker, let him go and so on. Drafting has generally sucked too. No real impact players over the last 4 seasons. Now we just draft maybe 1 OL, a slower WR or 2 and a bunch of Jessie Briggs reincarnations per year.

Is Rod Rust back with the club?

If he’d agree, Anderson may be a good fit, at the very least he has the height/size they’re lacking.

That group is one of the main reasons I even go on FB anymore. Top notch.

I have a signed copy of that book. There’s also this one from 1990 but yes we need one covering then til now. https://shop.bisonbooks.ca/pages/books/095564/jack-matheson/blue-bombers-60-years-and-running-1930-1990 Both Leah and Matheson were before my time but from these books I can see they were damn good sportswriters.

Not getting Grant back was the biggest fuckup of Walters tenure here. Anyone else we lost/let go there was at least somewhat of an argument for the thought process. With Janarion, the organization just simply blew it.

I don’t know if he’s cheap like Ballard was, but you’re not wrong about this offseason and the previous one as well. Scouting (or who we chose to keep after TC) and free agency have been abysmal.

1. MOS/coaching staff. Just woefully unprepared in every aspect. The entire team had a lackadaisical mentality like the game would eventually just work itself out. From starting a guy with the flu at defensive tackle to not being able to use a challenge in the most blatantly obvious situation. Playing dink and dunk down 3 touchdowns. Just baffling decision making all around. 2. The DL, this partially falls on roster makeup but Willie is already gassed out at week 5, Vaughters was a flat-out bad signing and Jake was good depth a decade ago. 3. Collaros. 2 pick 6’s and panicked and overthrew a wide open receiver on a sure TD. Crappy Honker- Randolph takes a brutal holding penalty on the first drive of the game which more than likely took 6 off the board. Non-Bomber crappy honker- The line judge who was giving Calgary extra full yards on multiple occasions. HM Devin Adams had a good game when he actually saw the field. Brady had some nice runs when he wasn’t falling down Clercius.

I agree. I think for the rest of the year Wheatfall and Clercius need to be the 1-2, Schoen I’m afraid while not *toast* won’t ever be what he was. Demski is a good 3rd /sometimes deep threat, but again he’s never going to be healthy for a full season. It’s always going to be an ankle or something, especially with the way they beat the **** out of him with the close to LOS/RB type stuff they use him for. He just can’t be a consistent top option at this stage of his career. Mitchell is a big unknown but I have to imagine he’d be able to do more than Sterns in this kind of offence. Even as a field stretcher like they used Pokey Wilson last year. Add: Having Kody Case and Gavin Cobb as the only receivers on the PR is a catastrophic fail by the organization as a whole

That’s why having Sterns on the roster just baffles me. We don’t use quick crossers or stuff like that. We need taller downfield threats with long arms.

They were pretty garbage too I agree, just things like 2 pick 6’s, that holding penalty on their opening drive, Brady slipping and falling twice, the dropped passes and the missed TD throw, aren’t going to happen every game.

It’s a MOS team going into a bye week, no one gives a ****.

I still can’t believe he didn’t challenge the spot on that one third down when they still had a half-assed shot at coming back, that was just inexcusable.

If luck went the other way the offence could have made it a much closer game honestly. The D however played like plastic grocery bags full of leaky puke in the first half, that’s what got it out of hand.

Coaches in Grey Cup mode today

Even put Terry Wilson in. Strev doesn’t need the injury risk either right now tbh

Honestly, the only way they go anywhere this year is if a higher up forces MOS to make changes. Whoever told him to sit Willy down in 2016 needs to have a similar convo about a few areas of this years roster. First and foremost, Jake Thomas needs to go (as we all know) maybe Vaughters too, at least get a real 3rd end on. Sterns is the poor man’s Kelvin McKnight. How could Mitchell possibly do less? As much as I wanted Vanterpool on for the run game after week 1, the drop off from him to Wallace isn’t enough to make it worth using an import spot. I like Parker in general but I’d rather see him in Bridges spot and Jake Kelly at safety if it would mean making DT an American position besides Lawson in rotation.

They’re really making a habit out of playing like piss going into bye weeks the past few years, to me that’s another lackadaisical coaching trend.

The refs are the farthest from the reason we’re losing this game, but all the same this line judge shouldn’t be anywhere near professional football.

How in the **** was that not a stop on 3rd and short?

What the hell good does a FG do you at this point? If there was ever a time to gamble, that’s it.

Bonds probably having his worst game as a Bomber.

I don’t know what makes me more embarrassed, this game as a Bomber fan, or TSNs broadcasts as a football fan.

TSN in all its gimmicky glory with this garbage. How many times are they going to show fatass Henoc racing a guy in a cow suit?