Mike

Serious question.
 
Are you forgetting that Buck already had his opportunity with a proven CFL OC? He wasn't any good with PLP either.

If I was running our team, I'm sure I'd have drunk dialed Jim Barker and tried to trade Tim Burke, Henoc Muamba and our next three draft picks for Ricky Ray by now.

Somehow I doubt that.
 
He's sucked for the majority of three and a half years here, why is one week going to change your mind?

You know ...
 
I'm all for alternate opinions.
 
But I'm starting to get a bit annoyed with your defense of Buck.
 
"Just because" is not a good enough reason. I'd love to actually see you explain your opinion and back it up with something substantial other than you think it's a bad move because you have a personal favorite based upon, well ... what kind of appears to be nothing. You keep saying "Buck is better" .. prove it?

Right choice.
 
Good on you Tim Burke.
 

I don't even know how to react to this.
 
We signed a guy who has played in the CFL before?!

You know ...
 
I'm all for alternate opinions.
 
But I'm starting to get a bit annoyed with your defense of Buck.
 
"Just because" is not a good enough reason. I'd love to actually see you explain your opinion and back it up with something substantial other than you think it's a bad move because you have a personal favorite based upon, well ... what kind of appears to be nothing. You keep saying "Buck is better" .. prove it?

You mean he was along for the ride.
 
I was always very supportive of Buck when he was playing alright. I wanted him to succeed and while he was never an elite level QB for us, he at least did an okay job of managing things for us while he was in the lineup. Unfortunately, since the Banjo Bowl two years ago when he threw 5 picks and got lit up by Craig Butler, he's never been the same. His numbers since that game do not deserve my support.
 
Buck has never been an on-field leader for us on a consistent basis and while he played at a higher level for us a few years ago, his mental and physical game has broken down so much that he's just no longer a viable option.
 
The coaches spent all offseason designing a max protection offense to basically keep him healthy and in the game at the cost of production. It didn't work because it's not an effective scheme for his skillset or what's left of it.
They took the reins off and let him play HIS game and it got him injured after one half of football.
 
He's just not durable enough to play the style of football that gives him the best chance at being effective anymore. Keeping him safe comes at the cost of rendering him useless.

Sorry, you lost me there...

I disagree. Kives is the best writer that paper has by a country mile. 
 
What, would you prefer Paul "I write in Morse code" Wiecek or Gary "I write in soundbites" Lawless?
 
Even better, Gordon "I love to write about my rich friends and the plight of Aboriginals who aren't my friends" Sinclair?

It still accomplishes nothing for the future of this franchise.
 
Let's be honest here, one or two wins from Buck in the interim isn't going to do anything but give our boneheaded management a false sense of direction and hope leading into 2014.

It still accomplishes nothing for the future of this franchise.
 
Let's be honest here, one or two wins from Buck in the interim isn't going to do anything but give our boneheaded management a false sense of direction and hope leading into 2014.

If I was running our team, I'm sure I'd have drunk dialed Jim Barker and tried to trade Tim Burke, Henoc Muamba and our next three draft picks for Ricky Ray by now.

How is it going to eliminate a distraction? For the entire time he's been here, Buck has been the distraction.

If I was running our team, I'm sure I'd have drunk dialed Jim Barker and tried to trade Tim Burke, Henoc Muamba and our next three draft picks for Ricky Ray by now.

As per Bob Irving via Twitter, Bellefeuille told the media today that Burke will pick the starting QB on Saturday.
 
Welcome back, Buck Pierce.

If I was running our team, I'm sure I'd have drunk dialed Jim Barker and tried to trade Tim Burke, Henoc Muamba and our next three draft picks for Ricky Ray by now.

I use first names for certain people around here (TBurgess, TrueBlue, 17to85, Noeller, Raydawg, Mr. Perfect) just because I've spent so much time talking football with them that it seems awkward for me to call them something else. Or I guess in some cases, I actually see them outside of this forum so I feel weird using a handle to address them.
 
But if anyone had an issue with it, they're free to say so and I'd stop.

Everything I say on here would be just as easy for me to say in public. I'm not hiding behind anything.
An unnamed reporter (very popular round these parts) asked me to take down a post about him that I made on OB a few years ago. I told him to shove it. Defamation suit my rear end.

I think your stance is a bit too serious for my personal tastes, but to each his own.

Everything I say on here would be just as easy for me to say in public. I'm not hiding behind anything.
An unnamed reporter (very popular round these parts) asked me to take down a post about him that I made on OB a few years ago. I told him to shove it. Defamation suit my rear end.

I have to say, I wonder why people around here like Howell so much.
 
He sure hasn't helped Matthews this year. Or Denmark. Or Poblah.
 
I'd get rid of Howell too.

While I do like Goltz, I actually thought Hall played better than Goltz did.

Get this ... Brenden Labatte has legitimately been called for pass interference this year.
 
How does that happen?

First game in years that I'm getting hammered at.
 
Hopefully by halftime I'm drinking to celebrate rather than to forget