JohnnyAbonny

This is key. Agree he could play that role if he’s fully healthy. All year he still clearly hasn’t been. Wilson has looked way more capable in the short set this season

Wild to think that this will most likely be the first west final since 2017 without the Bombers in it

I remember Darby falling off the cliff that year and everyone wanted him off the roster. I think Rutledge hit a wall or something and he was a surprise mid-season cut as well. I can’t remember which one Kramdi replaced either. I don’t mind Kramdi at all honestly, he’s serviceable, but to me more of a complimentary piece. I think the biggest problem on D is lacking any major impact player. It’s a bunch of lunchpail guys and 2-3 liabilities. That’s where I think we need to test out Connor Shay for one, he should at least be able to show flashes at this point. Jonathan Jones also isn’t an unknown, we know the guy can play MLB as well or better than what we have, we saw it when he was an Argo.

Kramdi, right. He came in for Alden Darby or maybe Rutledge Jr? I wish historical depth charts were easier to find.

Of course out of camp. We were specifically talking about replacing established vets in season

Closest thing to that happening was Jeff Hecht getting replaced by BA, but even then BA was in his 3rd year and had been playing a different position and Hecht wasn’t cut, just benched. I can’t think of another time in season.

From his spot on the ground, rolls all the way to the end zone

For real though, we’re going to get **** pumped

Strev 26/33 408 yards 5 TD Thomas 4 sacks Lawson Jr 2 pick 6’s

Don’t forget fat Dillon Mitchell

It’s a pretty long article but it basically says he felt disrespected by Bomber management. “For the star receiver, it boiled down to one main thing: disrespect. “Y’all signed Dillon Mitchell before me. Who wouldn’t (feel disrespected)?” Lawler shared with the Free Press on Thursday in a one-on-one chat inside Hamilton Stadium.” … Now a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Lawler said he didn’t receive a contract offer from the Bombers until a day before free agency opened at the start of February. His agent only had two brief conversations with Winnipeg, where the club was more focused on gauging the market value for a receiver of his calibre. For Lawler, there was a more personal issue that needed to be addressed. The two-time division all-star from Pomona, Calif. — who moved his family up to Winnipeg — had been doing some work on the side helping the city’s grassroots football scene before running into a roadblock. “It’s not that (the Bombers) didn’t want me to do it — they wanted me to do it under them. They closed my work permit,” Lawler explained. “I have my own business where I go and run camps and I was starting to do that and was getting momentum and when I had to get my work permit closed it was like, ‘hmm, why is this happening?’ You know what I want to do, I live here in Winnipeg, the full year, and if I am going to be taking a pay cut, which I was doing when I was in Winnipeg the whole time, I’m going to need something else to be able to supplement that. It’s not that I need it, it’s that I want to be able to start it so when I’m done with football I can still live where I’m at and transition right into something else and someone wasn’t seeing that.” When asked who, specifically, wasn’t on board, Lawler responded with: “I think that’s a question you might have to ask them. And it probably wouldn’t be to anyone that you could probably get an (interview from).”

What a crappy offseason we had. Just think about all the WRs on the market and we ended up with a damaged Schoen, Mitchell, Sterns and Reggie White Jr who didn’t even make it out of camp.

He was as very good as you can get without being great. 07 was by far his best year, it’s a such a shame how it turned out. The knee injury he had in 2006 gets forgotten too, he was a pretty good threat with his legs before that.

Echols for Mitchell would have been good. I’d have left Woodby, taken Ayers off for Woods and Ball or Hallett off for Bailey

Davin Bush lol. I’d almost forgotten about his stint here as the practice monster

Sure, of course. A kick in the ass is better than a kick in the junk undoubtedly. Thing to me is that we likely would have won 5 cups in a row instead of just getting to them if some of these red flag issues had been dealt with over the last 2-3 years.

2000 as well the offence was coming into form with Khari, Milt, Simon, Gordon. IIRC there was 2 co-co-ordinators that year

With Weitz at wil for Wilson

So if Nichols can’t play it’s Houston coming on and Lawson Jr at half?

They cut a guy from their PR, probably just a replacement

At some point the quality of the rest of his life has to come first. I’ve got a close family member dealing with severe post-concussion issues from an accident that happened a decade ago, he’ll probably never fully recover. People don’t realize the toll it takes and for how long after the fact.

MOS didn’t sound too pleased with Milt on the coaches show yesterday. “I think he started off by saying that because of who it is, saying it, Milt Stegall, a lot of people listen. And I think because of that powerful voice, he should probably choose his words a lot more carefully than he did. You know, he's not qualified to make those decisions or he certainly doesn't know what's going on. And I'm not qualified either, right? But I have a little more insight into the situation, obviously. But you know, there's, when you make those pretty brash statements, you're, you know, and you make them quickly in the spur of the moment, you're not considering his family or his people that care about him when you make those statements, right? And I think a little more care and concern should have went in before, you know, announcing to the world and creating clickbait and getting your likes up.”

Kolo is on the ground for so much of the game it looks like he’s playing Nightcrawlers instead of football. I’d like to see how the guards do with a half decent C. Eli, Vibert, some American, whoever. That’s the swap that needs to be made before anything else. At least get someone there who isn’t physically dominated constantly, I can deal with the odd communication mishap or rookie mistake.

Desarlais on the OL. Stove at DT.