Rich

The decision to play defence first is because it gives you a huge advantage in the overtime format.  If you go offence first and find yourself on 3rd down, you pretty much have to kick a field goal.  By going offence second, you already know what your opponent did, so if they scored a TD, you have the luxury of knowing you have to go for it on 3rd down.  If they went FG, then you know you can kick the FG.
 
Has nothing to do with resting defence or preparing your QB.

For out of town posters and those not attending the game, be sure to join everyone in the chat room for some highly intellectual and engaging real time discussion on the game!
 
http://www.morningbigblue.com/community/chat/

Two year contract extenseion.
 
 
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=432158
 
 
I like this move.  Like what he has done so far, but this team is now pretty much all his.  With guys he has either signed to extensions, traded for, or drafted.  They need to make the playoffs within the time frame of this extension.

Totally agree here.
 
I've said it before but one of the keys to allowing your draft picks to develop (and season as it were) is to have bridge players in place.  Unfortunately for the Bombers, we don't have starting linemen playing at a high enough level to act as that bridge.   We have to be active in free agency, overpay in some cases (if you have to) but we simply need to put whomever we lineup behind centre in the best possible position to succeed.  From there, you draft linemen .. year after year after year.  You push the veterans you've signed.  You push the practice roster guys.  You keep hunting for that diamond in the rough and eventually, the overall depth and quality at the key non-import positions will have improved dramatically. 

We were going to go with this until Buck got traded.  So close Y2C.
 
In all honesty, with the season we've had, it has been a tough summer in Bomber land.  I know there has been days when it has been tough to come on here.  With no entries in the contest, we went off site to get a new banner made.  I'm quite a big fan of it.  Hope you all like it too.

I disagree.  Coaches and management shouldn't be throwing players under the bus with the media.  Team meetings, one on one conversations, all that stuff is when to call a player out when he sucks.  Doing it in public to other people is not the way to foster trust and respect from your team.  There is being honest and then there is being stupid.
 
I know sports isn't a one to one comparison to the "real" world, but could you imagine if you screwed up at work, and rather then tell you to your face, your boss sent out an email to everyone in the company calling you out and berating you.  Do you think you would still have respect for that boss,.  Do you think your performance at work would go up or down?  Would you be looking for another job?
 
The best coaches / organizations are the ones who not only understand the game, but are the ones that can inspire and motivate their players to be their best.  They foster a positive atmosphere in the dressing room and with the players that promotes winning and confidence.  That doesn't happen when they don't trust you because they read in the paper about how much you think they suck.

I disagree.  Coaches and management shouldn't be throwing players under the bus with the media.  Team meetings, one on one conversations, all that stuff is when to call a player out when he sucks.  Doing it in public to other people is not the way to foster trust and respect from your team.  There is being honest and then there is being stupid.
 
I know sports isn't a one to one comparison to the "real" world, but could you imagine if you screwed up at work, and rather then tell you to your face, your boss sent out an email to everyone in the company calling you out and berating you.  Do you think you would still have respect for that boss,.  Do you think your performance at work would go up or down?  Would you be looking for another job?
 
The best coaches / organizations are the ones who not only understand the game, but are the ones that can inspire and motivate their players to be their best.  They foster a positive atmosphere in the dressing room and with the players that promotes winning and confidence.  That doesn't happen when they don't trust you because they read in the paper about how much you think they suck.

I disagree.  Coaches and management shouldn't be throwing players under the bus with the media.  Team meetings, one on one conversations, all that stuff is when to call a player out when he sucks.  Doing it in public to other people is not the way to foster trust and respect from your team.  There is being honest and then there is being stupid.
 
I know sports isn't a one to one comparison to the "real" world, but could you imagine if you screwed up at work, and rather then tell you to your face, your boss sent out an email to everyone in the company calling you out and berating you.  Do you think you would still have respect for that boss,.  Do you think your performance at work would go up or down?  Would you be looking for another job?
 
The best coaches / organizations are the ones who not only understand the game, but are the ones that can inspire and motivate their players to be their best.  They foster a positive atmosphere in the dressing room and with the players that promotes winning and confidence.  That doesn't happen when they don't trust you because they read in the paper about how much you think they suck.

Overall, things have been really great on the site since we opened in terms of poster activity and poster civility.  We thank you all for that, especially for the type of season we've had this year.
 
In reality, there hasn't been a lot of "modding" work to do, and that can sometimes lull us (mods) into complacency.  However, we did want to send out a quick reminder of the Code of Conduct of the board which can be found here:
 
http://www.morningbigblue.com/community/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules
 
 
Specifically we would like to ask everyone to reread the bolded bullet 2 up above.
 
Lets keep the dialogue, discussion, and disagreements on topic and not degenerate into insulting each other on a personal level or name calling.  It really isn't necessary, and does nothing to promote discussion and participation in the board.
 
 

Watching the repeat of the game on TSN right now.   Those really are sharp jerseys, live and on TV.  They just pop on the screen.

I don't really want to de-rail this thread, so if you would like to continue the discussion in PMs or another thread, would be happy to.
 
First, I don't really want to limit anyone to post here.  As a general rule, we don't want to overly moderate this site and control what opinions people should have.   The post probably should have been deleted or edited.    We missed it.  But if you see a questionable post such as that, it is best and I would ask anyone to report it so it can be dealt with appropriately.
 
To Smokinlue, I will apologize for call you out publically.  Shouldn't have done it.

Bombers are marketing a new cup for the Banjo Bowl
 

Well, that is a depressing stat.

Would you sign somewhere where there is no clear cut starter and you have the chance to be that guy rather then a backup under an established QB?

I'm not saying Etienne is a shoe-in to be the next great Canadian super star, but going into this week the Bomber's best receiver was ranked 21st in the league.  In an 8 team league, that is unforgivable.  
 
Have to fix the offensive schemes and QB before we can really start evaluating the receivers.

Saw this last night when I popped on for any updates. Looks great. Are you going to use Google Ads? If so, people have to click on the ads in order to generate income. I run a site and over the course of about 2 years I think I'm sitting on a gold mine of about $12. 

Not to be outdone by the shakeup in the Winnipeg Blue Bomber front office, we decided it was time for a bit of a shakeup at Morning Big Blue.   No, we aren't replacing Mike with KelownaBomberFan.   For those of you using the main theme, you will have found a bit of a brighter Bomber Blue and Gold when you logged in.  The site layout and navigation is pretty much the same, and should be familiar, it has just been updated with a new paint job.  Take a long look at that gold bar up top where it says Morning Big Blue - A Winnipeg Fan Community and put your creative hats on, we will be launching a contest soon to replace that text with an official site logo.   We've also recently added a weekly Pick 'Em pool starting this weekend (Get your picks in before tomorrow!). As well, Blue Bomber articles from the Sun and Free Press are now being syndicated into our new News Feed forum.   We are going to be experimenting a little bit with ads on the site over the next little while. You will see blank gaps in certain places of the site while we go through the approval process. If the revenue that comes out of this is negligible, then they will eventually go away.  If it can offset the cost of running the site, then great!   If it brings in more then costs, then it will be invested back into the site.  I will promise that the ads will be in appropriate places and not cover content.     Happy to say that we have recently passed 200 registered members.  We've had over 13,000 posts in over 400 threads since moving to the new forum software, with over 3,500 of those posts coming in August alone.  Buchko and Mack being fired had a helping hand in that.   I think we hit a record with that thread with 590 posts and 11,000 views.   It has been a tumultuous time in Bomber land these past few weeks, and that usually means increased work for moderators as people's temper and emotions get the best of them.  Happy to say that there has been very few issues that we've had to deal with.  The discussion has been excellent, on point, and civilized.  Thank you all for your contributions!   There are no major changes planned at this point.  Some items that are out there and being thought about:   I would like to get the Twitter feed back on the site.  Still trying to find a way to do this without causing load errors in IE8.
  Speaking of Twitter.  There is an addon that would tweet out created topics through the @MorningBigBlue twitter handle.  It would allow you to get updates of current topics in your Twitter timeline.  Debating whether or not this would be useful or more on the side of spam on Twitter.  If there is interest in this, let me know.
  We now have quite a few contests going on.  Including the CFL Drafts, the Lock of the Week (special thanks to Jpan85 for running this!), Pick 'Em pools.  If there is interest I have been eyeing another feature to allow "betting".  It wouldn't be real money.  It would be something along the lines of people who participate getting a set amount of fake currency to start with and making weekly bets with it.  Purely for bragging rights.  If there is interest in this, let me know.   As always, your feedback is important to us.  Is something on the site bugging you?  Let us know.  We can try to change it (or at least let you know why we can't).  Have a suggestion to make the site better, tell us about it.  Think we are doing a good job? Well we love to hear about that as well!   Now lets go get a win this weekend.  Go Bombers!

100 per day.  If it was per QB change then I am sure the 10 would have been more then enough!
 
Have to have a limit, just the way the software works.  If you ever hit the 100 limit, let me know and I will up it to 1000 

Who knew there was a limit. Upped it from 10 to 100

Who knew there was a limit. Upped it from 10 to 100

I think their hand was forced with the leak to Lawless. I don't think they wanted to blow it all up as soon as they did

just proving once again that they blew it up at the worst time possible. Should have done it after the back to back with Hamilton.

I've integrated a new feature into the site, the ability to do pick 'em pools (See the new Pick 'Ems menu up above).
 
It is a little odd starting this in the middle of the CFL season, but better late then never    Gives us the rest of the season to test it out and see how it works.
 
For now, it is setup to just pick winners, no ties, no odds.  But the addon does support those things.
 
It will track overall leaders, stats, etc.
 
Pools can be setup for any sport, so if there is interest, we can do NFL, NHL, etc.   Unfortunately the schedule creation is manual so the NHL would be a lot of data entry.
 
It has been setup so that picks for any week have to be before the first game starts.  So for next week (Week 8), picks can be entered up to 7PM next Friday (August 16).
 
Any questions / problems let me know, and good luck!

I've integrated a new feature into the site, the ability to do pick 'em pools (See the new Pick 'Ems menu up above).
 
It is a little odd starting this in the middle of the CFL season, but better late then never    Gives us the rest of the season to test it out and see how it works.
 
For now, it is setup to just pick winners, no ties, no odds.  But the addon does support those things.
 
It will track overall leaders, stats, etc.
 
Pools can be setup for any sport, so if there is interest, we can do NFL, NHL, etc.   Unfortunately the schedule creation is manual so the NHL would be a lot of data entry.
 
It has been setup so that picks for any week have to be before the first game starts.  So for next week (Week 8), picks can be entered up to 7PM next Friday (August 16).
 
Any questions / problems let me know, and good luck!

He tweeted yesterday, and I quote, "board member tells me Garth Buchko has made a recommendation to #bombers board to fire GM Joe Mack"
 
pick a side Gary.