Rich

I would expect this to sort itself out by Christmas.

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Thats why he was on waivers. He was sent down to the AHL, but needed to clear waivers before he could be assigned.

Someone needs to tell them.....

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Thats a lot of people sitting out after a bye week.

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If you bundle things with them and look for right right promos, you can get a pretty good deal. I pay $61 for internet, taxes in. $44 for my cell plan which includes 100GB of data.

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I can almost understand regular season games as an experiment. Including playoff games is inexcusable.

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They have Vern's in Winnipeg now

He is an old school coach.

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Post game mortem Nast Nate style. BOMBERS 44, ALS 28: MIKE O’SAME DOES SOMETHING DIFFERENT Well gather around, rounders, hobos and assorted prairie plutzkies…your Winnipeg Blue Bombers just hung 44 points on the best team in the CFL. That is not a typo. The 5–5 Bombers welcomed the 9–1 Montreal Alouettes to Princess Auto Stadium and administered the most complete beating this club has delivered all season. Montreal arrived with seven straight wins, the league’s hottest quarterback and plans to clinch a playoff spot. They departed 9–2 with their tail feathers smoking and Jason Maas barking at officials like somebody had stolen his parking space. Where has THIS football team been hiding? Collaros played his best game of the year: 26 completions on 32 attempts, 324 yards, two touchdowns and—hold onto your hats—NO INTERCEPTIONS. He was decisive, accurate and protected well enough that he didn’t spend the night fleeing the pocket like a man being chased through a dark alley. Wilson caught nine passes for 114 yards and both touchdowns. White added 96 yards, while Nield caught all five balls sent his way for 52 yards. Nield also fumbled at the goal line, cuz apparently even during the best offensive performance of the season the Bombers must leave one dead fish lying on the kitchen floor. Still…324 yards through the air, 106 on the ground from Oliveira and 44 points against Montreal. That is not offence by accident. Credit must go to Tommy Con-Dull, who temporarily transformed into Tommy Can-Do and called an excellent game. He mixed the run and pass, used Perkins properly, moved the pocket and—most shocking of all—remembered Oliveira existed for BOTH halves. Oliveira carried 16 times for 106 yards and a touchdown. Perkins punched in two more majors from short yardage without requiring a double reverse, flea flicker or twelve-page feasibility study. Winnipeg controlled possession, kept Davis Alexander watching from the sideline and squeezed the life out of the clock. Simple football…executed properly. What a concept. Defensively, Jordan Yawner finally woke from his summer nap. Montreal entered averaging almost 119 yards rushing per game. Travis Theis managed 31. The defensive front attacked instead of standing around waiting for the play to introduce itself. Jefferson, Ceresna and the rest of the mob kept Alexander uncomfortable and denied Montreal the balanced offence that had terrorized the league for two months. Then Tanner Cadwallader came flying through the middle and blocked a punt deep in Montreal territory. The Punt Burglar had arrived. Winnipeg immediately turned the robbery into a Perkins touchdown and a 31–21 lead. THAT was the moment the game changed. Montreal had forced the Nield fumble before halftime, received the second-half kickoff and appeared ready to seize momentum. Instead, the defence produced a two-and-out and Cadwallader stole the football back. Vaval and Texada also brought some badly needed speed to the secondary. Texada ran stride-for-stride with Philpot on a deep ball, which may not sound revolutionary until you remember how many Bomber defensive backs have spent this season chasing receivers like somebody running after a departing bus. Now for the deadwood floating in the celebratory punch bowl… Montreal still threw four touchdown passes. Snead caught three of them and occasionally wandered through the secondary like he had purchased an all-access tour. Tackling remained questionable, Neufeld collected a pair of needless penalties and Winnipeg left at least ten more points on the field. The fourth-quarter defence also softened enough to remind everyone that Jordan Yawner remains Jordan Yawner. Rush three, retreat eight and hope the clock tackles somebody. But the Bombers answered whenever Montreal threatened. Castillo kicked field goals from 51, 43 and 20 yards. Collaros found Wilson for the fourth-quarter dagger. The offence drained the clock instead of handing the opponent three extra possessions and a handwritten invitation to steal the game. Even Mike O’Same showed signs of different behaviour. He challenged the first play of the game, won it and watched his offence turn it into seven points. He allowed Con-Dull to remain aggressive and did not begin protecting the lead midway through the second quarter. For one night, Mike O’Same became Mike O’Maybe-He’s-Learning. As for Kyle Waiters…well, he waited. No dramatic roster overhaul. No cavalry arriving from the NFL cut pile. But Vaval and Texada played, Cadwallader made the biggest special-teams play of the game and the receivers already in the building finally produced. Perhaps the cupboard wasn’t completely bare. Perhaps somebody merely needed to open the damn door. So the official accounting reads: THE GOOD: Collaros clean and confident…Oliveira properly employed…Wilson uncoverable…Con-Dull calling a balanced game…Castillo drilling everything…and the defensive front turning Montreal’s running attack into a rumour. THE BAD: Four passing touchdowns allowed…Snead roaming free…Neufeld’s penalties…and Nield donating a touchdown at the goal line. THE BEAUTIFUL: Forty-four points, Montreal’s winning streak DEAD, Alexander rattled, Maas whining and Princess Auto Stadium sounding like the madhouse it used to be. The Bombers are 6–5. One great game does not erase ten weeks of inconsistency, stubborn roster management and halftime hibernation. But it proves the season is not dead. Now take this act to Regina. Feed Oliveira. Protect Collaros. Attack on defence. Make the Riders miserable. And somebody keep an eye on the Punt Burglar.

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We do what we always do, watch the film.

For shits and giggles and the reminiscing of Nasty Nate in the other thread, I used MBB posting history and ChatGPT to get a Nate style commentary on the season to date. Enjoy folks, all meant for some levity in a frustrating to date season. THE 5–5 FOLLIES: MIKE O’SAME AND THE BLUE BOMBER MUSEUM Ladies, gentlemen, hobos, rounders and prairie plutzkies…your 2026 Winnipeg Blue Bombers are 5–5, which is a PERFECT record if the objective is to be neither good nor bad enough to force anybody in management to do something. These Bombers are a football slot machine. Pull the handle and maybe you get a half of competent football…maybe you get 377 rushing yards surrendered to B.C.…maybe you get a 16–0 lead in Edmonton followed by three points and 35 yards of offence in the second half. Nobody knows! Least of all the fellows being paid to know. After every fresh disaster, out strolls head coach Mike O’Same, president and founder of S.A.M.E.—Stand Around, Mutter Excuses. Mikey surveys the smoking crater and announces that the fellas simply needed to make two or three more plays. Brilliant! The Hindenburg merely needed a couple more buckets of water. Meanwhile general manager Kyle Waiters, also known as the Duke of Stand-Pat, watches every other CFL club bring in receivers, defensive backs and pass rushers while Winnipeg guards its practice roster like it contains the lost treasures of King Solomon. Weak receiver room? Wait. Confused secondary? Wait. Ancient offensive line creaking like a haunted hotel? WAIT HARDER. Eventually another team will accidentally release an all-star directly into Kyle’s office. Then we have offensive coordinator Tommy Con-Dull, architect of the CFL’s last-place red-zone operation. Give Brady O-FEED-ME-ra the football and he bulldozes Edmonton for more than 100 yards before halftime. Naturally, Con-Dull responds by hiding Brady in the second half like he owes the coaching staff money. Why use your best offensive player when you can have Zach Colla-Rust fling another hopeful balloon toward a receiver moving with the speed of a refrigerator being dragged through wet cement? On defence, coordinator Jordan Yawner has installed his famous Prevent-Us-From-Winning scheme. Rush three, rotate seventeen defenders, place the defensive backs somewhere near Brandon and graciously concede the seven-yard completion. The opposition needs eight yards? Give them twelve. Need to protect field-goal range? Back everybody onto Portage Avenue. Watching this defence communicate before the snap is like watching six tourists assemble furniture without the instructions. The crazy part is there are still some genuine ballplayers trapped inside this travelling carnival. Brady remains the engine. Trey Va-VOOM is one of the most dangerous returners in the country. Willie Sackerson and Jake Sack-resna can still wreck an offensive line. Nic Demski continues to fight. But individual talent cannot overcome an organization that treats adjustment like an admission of guilt. Now the 9–1 Montreal Alouettes come marching into town. Mike O’Same will tell us the room is confident. Kyle Waiters will continue waiting. Jordan Yawner will station the secondary in St. Boniface. Tommy Con-Dull will discover a new method of reaching the four-yard line and emerging with three points. The prescription is painfully simple: FEED BRADY until the other club proves it can stop him. Play the best players—not the fellows with the longest service pins. Attack on defence instead of operating a government-funded receiver-relocation program. Bring in actual competition before the season becomes an archaeological exhibit. If the same problems keep producing the same losses…CHANGE SOMETHING. The dynasty is gone, folks. What remains is a 5–5 club living off the fumes of what it used to be, driven by coaches who appear convinced that stubbornness is a substitute for adjustment. But don’t worry. Mike O’Same says they’re only a couple plays away. Prolly.

He was given lots of latitude, and if he was able to show any restraint, he would have been okay. A combination of posting so much that his posts dominated the board, which was turning off too many other posters. Its a message board, not a personal blog. And the nicknames / insults got to be too much and too demeaning.

Often reluctant to post "real life" things for peoples privacy. As much as Nate was a pain in the ass as a mod, he was certainly entertaining and still a vivid memory for those of us who have been around these boards for a long time. Pretty sure this is him. https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-332779/BAY_MORRIS

We are very consistent.

Atlanta-area city council approves NHL arena planThe NHL's potential return to the Atlanta area might be one step closer after a key vote this week. Alpharetta City Council voted 4-3 to approve zoning changes for a mall that now could include an NHL-sized arena, per FOX 5. The NHL has not awarded an expansion team to Atlanta and there is no guarantee the arena will be built, but this vote opens the door to more discussions. The Alpharetta plan calls for a 20,000-seat arena, a smaller music hall, offices and a hotel. Alpharetta is one of two Atlanta-area destinations exploring the possibility of attracting an NHL team. Forsyth County has also expressed interest in building an arena for an NHL team and held a successful vote in 2024 to open the door for a new arena. Alpharetta and Forsyth County are both located just north of Atlanta. The NHL has said it is eyeing Houston or Austin, Texas, for its next expansion team. Atlanta is the only other top-10 U.S. television market without a team. The Atlanta Thrashers played in the NHL from 1999 to 2011 before moving to Winnipeg. The Atlanta Flames played from 1972 to 1980 before going north to Calgary. Sportsnet.caAtlanta-area city council approves NHL arena planThe NHL's potential return to the Atlanta area might be one step closer after a key vote this week.