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On 2024-02-20 at 6:27 AM, Jesse said:
The club wasn't exactly in a good financial position back in the day.
As we always say, we're living the glory years right now, and it's for more reasons than the fact we're winning a bunch.
Yeah they were running it on the cheap back then. The facility was super rough too.
I don’t think we retained a high-end FA for nearly a decade.
After 02 it was the big 4 (Milt/Blink/Brown/KJ or KG) with little to nothing else talent-wise.When they hired Doug Berry, Taman was able to bring in a few good vets on the tail end (Simpson, Bolden, Armstrong, ect) to make a short run.
Point is, you’re right. There was never anything foundational for a sustained run on top before Wade took over.- Bigblue204 and Mark H.
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8 hours ago, BigBlue said:
Pass - Run: who cares
November games hurt attendance and weaken the whole league ... many fans stay home when they would attend in May
MOVE THE GC TO THE 1ST SUNDAY IN NOVEMBER
Nah, it’s fine the way it is.
I’d even be ok with the playoffs in December like way back when.
I mean, I’m in the minority I guess but I love cold weather football.
Nothing more Canadian than a 3pm start ending under the lights with snowflakes falling.
Not to mention avoiding the weekly lightning delays that come with late spring/early summer games.
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7 minutes ago, 3rdand1.5 said:
Winnipeg/Manitoba has many, many good and great features and things about it, but to say our downtown is anything but bad would simply be a lie.
Our downtown has nice pockets during the day and maybe one could argue very small circumferences around a few select businesses into the evening, but for the most part as soon as work ends, the concert ends, the Jets game finishes etc. it's hold your wallet in your pocket and get back to the suburbs as quickly as you can.
It’s ok if you’re directly in front of the arena while there’s an event on.
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51 minutes ago, bluto said:
Having visited Winnipeg over the last several decades (80s, 90s, 2000s, 10s) it is shocking how badly things have fallen off.
I can only even put it in the nice-place-to-visit category if you have plotted out exactly where to stay, where to visit and where to avoid (most of it).
It's reality.
You’re not wrong.
It’s the “our nerd” mentality though. You better live here if you want to rip on the city lol.- GCJenks and HardCoreBlue
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20 minutes ago, Booch said:
Once I believe...was about usage too..when we had mills and the other back who's name escapes me... I think
Yeah Eric Blount. He was a gooder too.
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1 hour ago, Geebrr said:
I mean going out and getting **** faced the night before a Grey Cup game where we had a guy making his first start ever at QB was frustrating.
For sure it was. Especially considering he did it twice. Doesn’t change the respect I have for his natural talent though.
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1 hour ago, wbbfan said:
I’d add blink, he played behind some horrible ols and still put up great numbers. Plus was often our 2nd best wr behind milt.
Bolden was insane. And he made it look soo easy.
Agreed. I’ve smoked cigs and joints with Charlie Roberts.
The way he played, with that lifestyle earns a completely different level of respect for me than anything else I’ve seen watching pro sports of any kind.- HardCoreBlue and Rod Black
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9 minutes ago, Booch said:
I'd go for whom I've seen for best Bombers DBs as Hill..BOlden..Brown...Roy Bennet and James Jefferson...bar none..nobody since be even close...I would almost put Bolden first if he had a series of yrs together...dude had no business being up here and we were so lucky to have him a few times
I’ve never seen a player at any spot in the CFL more dominant than Juran Bolden.
The last great Cal Murphy/Paul Jones find here- rebusrankin, HardCoreBlue and coach17
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12 hours ago, Mark H. said:
In 2021 & 2022 - teams were often forced to use extra pass pro against the Bombers. In 2023 not so much.
From 19-22 max protect was pretty much the only way teams could have any measure of success against the Bombers D. Especially when Hall would blitz into it constantly.
I’ve said it before, I’m still surprised the ticats didn’t use it in the 19 GC, they’d killed us with max pro in both regular season games that year.- Bigblue204 and wbbfan
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18 hours ago, bearpants said:
I don't care what would've happened if the ball hadn't hit the crossbar.... idiots like to say the Bombers got lucky... I say the Riders luck finally ran out... on that final drive there was the Sayles almost pick that would've ended the game... BA almost had a pick that would've ended the game... if Fajardo holds on to that "incomplete" a split second longer, it's a fumble and the game is over... Rider finally stopped fluking that final drive.
That game should have been over on the strip sack earlier in the drive.
The ball came out when Fajardo’s hand was next to his hip and the command centre called it an incomplete pass.
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1 minute ago, 17to85 said:
Been saying it for a while, Calgary is going to be a problem spot for the league before long
It’s wild how quickly both Alberta clubs went to ****.
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Different topic, anyone else think the Stamps organization is in serious trouble?
Dilapidated stadium and facility, super low and consistently dropping attendance. Lousy QB with a big contract, no marketable star players. Ownership doesn’t seem to care in the slightest. Huff getting older. Dickinson getting dumber by the year it seems.
I actually think they’re on the thinnest ice of any team right now.
Frankly, that stadium is pathetic.- Noeller, Mark H., Bigblue204 and 2 others
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53 minutes ago, Mike said:
I agree, I just don’t think it’s an off-season that puts them in contention for the Grey Cup.
Agreed. Not enough to seriously compete for the west but they won’t be the joke they’ve been for the past few years.
They improved at RB, OL and a couple spots on D. The new coaching staff there couldn’t be any worse.
Still an underwhelming QB, mediocre receiving corps, not much of a DL.
Plus, **** ‘em. 9-9 at best.
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19 minutes ago, Booch said:
thinking one thing typing another...and looking at something else
To be fair there’s 5 or 6 OL like that bouncing around at any given time.
I swear there was a different Eric Lofton at one point too -
I think you might be confusing Lofton with Jamar McGloster
Lofton was with Ottawa in 2017, then BC, Edm, here, then Sask.
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5 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
Lofton stunk here too though.
The concern is that he becomes the next Jackson.
If the jags cut ayo oyelola I wouldn’t mind if we brought him back for global depth.
I doubt it. There’s already a guy with much more pedigree brought in as well.
If he was going to be that, I think they’d have kept him over Richmond.
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It’s not like they’re paying him starter money. It’s a TC body at worst.
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15 hours ago, Booch said:
he is a stud....had a string of games/snaps where he didnt allow a sack or a penalty...was a phenomenal amount...off top my head cant recall
WhatI do know is has good feet and athleticism for a big guy...likes to get in second level on runs and cause havoc too....could be the replacement....also has experience at guard too
I know highlight tape is cherry-picked but man that guy just looks like a monster at the second level
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1 hour ago, ddanger said:
Just took a look at this. Not much info about him other than 6-6 and 315lbs....gotta laugh outta his DOB
Wait til he turns 1..
1 hour ago, ddanger said:Just took a look at this. Not much info about him other than 6-6 and 315lbs....gotta laugh outta his DOB
Wait til he turns 1..
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33 minutes ago, voodoochylde said:
More like ran it back for two years then ran it and fumbled on the 1 for the other two.
The better team prevailed on those days but it still pisses me off that we weren't able to close out those other two Cups.
Especially 22 in hindsight.
23 we were outcoached all game and outplayed in crunch time by a team on a roll.
22 was a game that Bombers gave away and had no business losing. -
Tyrell Ford back. Huge.
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A lot of football also players enjoy what they do to a point, but their love and passion is for another sport.
Andrew Harris for example was a hockey player first.I just heard an interview with HOF lineman Anthony Munoz, he said his first love was baseball and really only chose football because of his size.
I’m sure that’s more common than we realize too.
In any occupation, the amount of people that truly love what they do is smaller than you’d think. It just so happens this is one that we idolize as fans.
2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)
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Taman was the most bush league GM in modern CFL history.
Not all his fault mind you as the club was broke, and being run by the inept BOD.
If not for Milt, I sincerely believe the team would have folded by 2005, and if not for Wade Miller would still be a bottom feeder now, if even in existence.
In retrospect it’s amazing they made it through.