JohnnyAbonny

Your post is very black and white thinking. How about “You’ve put together one of the all time great runs in club history. Some fans have a point that it could be even better, given the team has in fact declined to use competitive advantages that were available.”

Skimmed through it. Strev can make all the wide throws. Still trucking guys, even looking much leaner than 2019. Barriere needs some work, that was pretty terrible. Terry Wilson seemed like he knew what he was doing, albeit with a lot of jobbers on the field for both teams. All of this granted Bombers didn’t really throw downfield with any QB. On D, #22 McGhee was with the 1’s, was around the ball a lot for better or worse. He had a rough play early where he let KSB pull down a duck in front of him that he should have made a play on. He got in on another breakup to hold the same drive to a FG. Oulette didn’t look like he enjoyed being tackled by #48 Gemmel, he could be a real thumper. Bombers ran a fairly aggressive D for an exhibition game. Rivers, Garbutt, LB Tre Thomas, and actually Schmeckel all stood out to me on plays. ST basically nothing. Ol’ Garcia seemed to be in fine form and the punter had a nice TD saving tackle. Godawfully boring game with atrocious commentary. We’re so, so lucky with our radio guys here.

From my relative experience around the game, and those who know it at a high level, I can clearly see that @Booch @JuranBoldenRules @wbbfan @SpeedFlex27 @GCn20 have more detailed and nuanced football knowledge to offer than most.

I’m stuck at work, can anyone give a recap?

They’d be just as well off with Jon Arbuckle

That Bomber game was probably 10k displaced Winnipegers

Exactly. My Dad used write for the old Winnipeg Tribune. I grew up hearing about Jack Mathison, Vince Leah and Jim Coleman. My time had hacks like Friesen, Paul Wiececk, Randy Turner. We’ve had great Bomber reporters in my lifetime, but they’ve worked directly for the club (Irving, Tait) I could go off about Postmedia but I’ll keep it relatively on topic. If it were a full-time job, I think Doug Brown could be the investigative/thorough type of reporter we all want.

In that hypothetical, ford got hurt I’m pretty sure Kramdi would come in at dime (if he wasn’t already starting ) and whichever American would move to Fords spot.

Option 1. I’ve seen them lose 6 grey cup games in my lifetime, a sure win means more to me than a berth.

Maybe the city didn’t pay their Shaw bill.

Some of us can’t even shut the **** up about 2001 yet never mind last year.

That’s thoughtful and you’re not wrong about any of those instances. My roster management thing is more like: If our interior DL was able to push the pocket, we would have won that cup against Montreal by 10+, making those other what-ifs irrelevant.

Yeah that’s a drawback for sure, and I’m a huge fan of his play.

This all makes me really hope Dylan Moses can play up here.

Like @Mike said. If a 32 year old career STer becomes the starting middle linebacker for 6 weeks or more, somebody ****** up really bad.

I really don’t think so. If it were him, he’d be referring to himself in the third person near constantly. Plus that profile is for “Ron Brown” and reads like an over 40.

If you click that profile, it appears to be his father arguing with Tait

I’d see him being on the “1 Game” a lot. Thorax issues.

MCI is replacing Jackson on the roster, not Augustine imo. They’ll be able to use an American somewhere else like we all wanted last season.

I don’t even see a problem with wavering if more information becomes available. For example, early 2022, I still thought we for sure needed an American running back. Brady’s play totally took a 180 and I was glad to change my opinion. Something like: Having no interior DL who could push the pocket and 2 gassed out DEs cost us the last 2 Grey cups. That’s a hill I’ll die on.

I think that’s more of a message board thing in general rather than a MBB/OB thing, but I will say I felt what you’re saying wayyy more on OB (and TEP) like 06-11ish.

No way. He’s serviceable at worst. Definitely deserves to be out there, just some of us think there’s some more talent to be had at that position. I wouldn’t lump Augustine in with guys like Jackson or Shmeckel either. Augustine and Kramdi are decent-solid.

Cut him

I think he’s been generally positive about the team since the drought ended. Not sure how true, but I’ve heard over the years Friesen was butthurt about having to cover football instead of curling. Would explain a lot of the snark towards the Bombers.

Christian Aurmell talks Bombers a decent amount. I think he’s the next Tait or Irving, if he wants to go that way.