Mike

Unamba starting over Dunn ...

Tickets gone, thanks for playing. Go Blue

Our offense will be rejuvenated as soon as we start scheming to have a shortstop in the backfield.

From what I heard yesterday, he's right. Apparently, Grigsby wasn't too popular.

I have some tickets to this weekend's game and I won't be using them. If anyone wants them, just let me know and I'll run through whatever the process is to send you paper copies. They're section ... 215, I think? I always forget.

Not sure if serious ...

Bender is such a putz.

Also interesting from that press conference - they cut out Friesen's stupid question at the end.

As for why they didn't trade Grigsby ... here's what needs to be considered Grigsby ASKED to be cut. If rival teams were asked about a trade, the answer is simple - why would they give up assets when they KNOW the Bombers will cut him today knowing they wouldn't dare risk their reputation with agents and players by cutting Grigsby AFTER today which would render him ineligible to play in the 2014 season.

If he's healthy, why not? He busted his butt when the team stunk. and he was really good. Other than when he quit on them.

I honestly have about 73 items on my desk that I would prefer as a representative of my opinion on the Bombers instead of Paul Friesen.

Suber revealed himself as a braindead idiot earlier this season after he tweeted about him being benched because Winnipeg didn't want to play the best players. He just happened to delete it quick enough and it happened late enough at night for nobody to pick it up and run with it. Except Grigsby ... who tripped over it and fell down before he got anywhere.

He was trying to be clever and imply Grigsby has the most catches on the team. But he doesn't.

I forget the exact wording he used, but he tweeted something over the weekend about how people need to understand a running back can't do anything when he's playing 1 against 12.

What on earth does one have to do with the other?

SIGN JOSEPH RANDLE

His Twitter comments over the weekend MAY have had something to do with it ...

Not going to bother grading things out. I agree with a lot of what you're saying. Here are my thoughts ... Walters, more than any GM we've had in recent times, has his finger on the pulse of the league. He understands the CFL and I'm sure he's got up to date opinions and information on nearly every player currently on a roster. He has done a good job of bringing in established talent in various capacities. Moves like Randle and Stoudermire, incredibly underrated moves to make for a GM and that impressed me. I also love his dedication to the draft and am very excited to see what talent he provides our roster from that pipeline going forward. As for the negative stuff ... I think he's a bit too fast and loose with dealing away draft picks (really don't like that Brohm trade) and to me, he definitely failed in his first season of import recruiting. Do I want him back? Absolutely.

I think most people (myself included) just base their preferences on who seems to be on a successful staff, have a good mentor in front of them, etc. I'm curious - what do you know that makes you say Jackson is too early into his career? Or that Shivers is the same?

Who says Zach Anderson is an undersized DT? Dude is a powerlifter and is easily pushing 300 pounds. He just also happens to be fast as well.

Good question, but I wouldn't expect him to give any other kind of answer at this point. He can't afford to pigeon hole himself.

Absolutely Zach Anderson, JFG, Sherman, Derek Jones, Neufeld, Briggs ... Zach Anderson is so underrated and ANY competent NI talent that we have under contract should be back.

Walters? I wouldn't say Walters is on the hotseat, but our enhanced scouting staff definitely is. These guys are supposed to get out there and find us the players we've never heard of. We need a lot more of those. Fingers crossed for McManus to find us some more studs.

MOS is absolutely safe. People should've known better than to expect ZERO mistakes from a rookie HC. He gets the benefit of the doubt this year.

The esks absolutely embarassed the Etch D, they had a plan to get 7, 7 or 9 yards every first down and that was a huge problem in the game, but number 2 on my problems defensively list is the fact that the only time they could get pressure is when they sent 8 or 9 guys. The defensive line was just completely neutralized by a pretty shitty edmonton OL. Need to improve that area in the offseason big time so they can disrupt things without having to completely sell out on a blitz. Offensively the OL just got completely worked. They might as well have turned around pre-snap because that would have given them an advantage in chasing after the DL who blow by them. Bellefeuille I felt got really bland with his play calling as well and obviously hates Paris Cotton because he didn't give the guy a chance to succeed at all. He had like 2 or 3 carries in the first half, one was one of those stupid wide runs that the Bombers never seem to block properly on and the 2nd was completely blown by the OL getting worked. I actually thought Etcheverry made the right adjustments early in the game. I actually think he's been fairly decent with his adjustments for the most part. JBR pointed it out in the chat yesterday too, but I liked that he dropped his zone coverage lower when Edmonton got into a rhythm of working 1st down with the goal in mind of going for 2nd and short. Unfortunately, without any sense of pressure from our defensive line, there was just nothing there to disrupt Mike Reilly from picking us apart. I'm not a fan at all of the fact that they took out Marvin Booker, who has been disrupting quarterbacks ever since he got here, and replaced him with Jason Vega who is in the middle of probably the worst season of his career. I'm not so sure I wouldn't get rid of both Peach and Vega in the off-season. They're both fairly capable when they have Turner and Anderson creating havoc in the middle, but as for trying to create anything on their own? Haven't seen it yet this year. Our trench game right now on both sides is just pitiful. Offensive lines are just making a point of stopping Turner in the middle because nobody else is capable of creating for themselves (aside from Booker, who of course is on the bench) and defensive lines are just treating us like tackling dummies on their way to the QB. It's becoming apparent to me that it's not just the depth that we're lacking. Guys like Peach and Vega who were cast in big roles this season simply aren't meeting expectations either.