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I'm finding the black text on the grey background harder to read than the old version. Maybe a lighter grey?

What did you want them to do? Calgary put in their 2nd string QB, 2nd string RB to start the 2nd half and didn't have their top receiver in the game. The guys who don't get much chance to play or to show off their skills weren't going to just stop playing. Calgary ran the score up because Hamilton didn't stop them. That's just the way football goes sometimes.

I like the way Carter can play football. I wish he'd play the way he did last night all the time. I couldn't care less if he mouths off, lots of players do that. He's an idiot, but so are lots of football players. I don't like the stupid penalties or the way he disappears for games at a time or the way he pouts when he doesn't get the ball. If he could fix those things, he'd be in the NFL.

Thanks.

Cool. Personally, I don't use the twitter feed, so that's not a big deal to me. Just checked out the reactions. Assuming you can change what shows up there, how about an Agree and a Disagree Emoji. Didn't like the fluid view so I changed back to the old one. I only look at one forum so having the others there didn't help me.

I didn't think that the 'shove' deserved a penalty. An acting award maybe, but not a penalty. I didn't think the 'PI' in the end zone that Carmichale took deserved a penalty. An acting award maybe, but not a penalty. Maybe the CFL needs to put in a 'diving' penalty.

I didn't say all the variables are more or less the same or that the Bombers suck or that everyone else doesn't. I simply gave 5 examples (Trestman twice) of new HC's taking bad teams and turning them around. Calvillo was with Montreal, looking like he was done, before Trestman got there. Same holds true for Ray. Reilly was in Edmonton putting up a disappointing 4-14 season before Jones took over. You don't like Chapdelaine, so I'll throw in Austin who took a 6-12 team that already had Burris on it to the Grey Cup in his first year. There you have 4 examples of QB's winning way more under the new coach than they were under the old coach. Ottawa out bid us for their QB's party because O'Shea actually believed that Willy was the right answer.

You start off so well then you say comparing Trestman to O'Shea laughable. How 'bout the first time Trestman came to the CFL. Took a team that was 8-10 the year before to the Grey Cup. Jacques Chapdelaine went 4-2 after Popp went 3-9 last year as a rookie HC without a great QB (For 17). Chris Jones went 12-6 in 2014 as a rookie HC, after they went 4-14 the year before. Rick Campbell took a team that didn't exist to the Grey Cup in his second year and won it in his third year as a HC.

So you're admitting that a proven HC is better than a rookie?

Of course he inherited a bad team, but so did Trestman and he's turned Toronto around in the first third of his first season. I don't give O'Shea a mulligan for being a rookie HC. You ought to be able to do the job you get. I don't like the first round of coordinators at all and I don't much like the passive PLAP or Hall all that much better. There's a reason we constantly start slow and give up late drives. O'Shea hasn't steadily improved. In fact he had more wins in his first season than his second and we absolutely stunk in the first third of his third season. O'Shea's had two thirds of a good season so far and many of the changes that sparked our turn around were forced on him by injuries. IMHO 2/3's of one season don't erase 2 1/3 bad seasons. Being liked by your players is a horrible way to judge an HC. Jeff Freakin' Reinebolt was loved by his players too. It didn't make him any good at his job. Folks put way too much stock in what players say after they sign with any team. Would the players who say good things about O'Shea say good things bout any other HC they were playing for? Probably. Would they sign for more money on another team? Probably. Wins is the number 1 way to judge an HC. I wish I could be astounded that I have to point that out, but...

An interesting read: https://www.cfl.ca/2017/07/27/ferguson-trend-team-2017s-quarter-mark/ We're 4th in the league and above average in run %. And we grade out top in QB protection.

It's not that O'Shea has rubbed people the wrong way nor will it take an unblemished record and a GC to satisfy folks who don't consider O'Shea to be a great or even good HC. All you have to do is look at his current record to figure out why some folks don't love MOS. He's in his 4th year and still below .500. He had 1 winning year in his first 3. He hasn't won a playoff game yet or got us to a home playoff game. His choices of coordinators leaves a lot to be desired as does his in game decision making.

From: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/new-study-teaches-us-football-brain-disease/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=newshour

That's how you know you're right.

It's not that consistency creates winning teams, it's that winning teams create consistency. Being consistently bad is horrible. Being consistently mediocre is somewhat better. Being consistently good is what everyone wants.

It started with this statement, which is wrong IMO. Firstly, making the playoffs hasn't guaranteed the HC another year in the past, just ask Doug Berry. Secondly, there is a time limit on mediocrity. 8 or 9 wins gets you into the playoffs. O'Shea keeps his job with that record this year because they wouldn't want to pay the 2 years left on his contract nor would they want want to admit they were wrong. 8 or 9 wins again next year and you have to think about replacing O'Shea. Same thing if we don't win playoff games. Walters will give O'Shea the benefit of the doubt for this year, even if we don't make the playoffs, but would he continue to do so next year or the year after if we turn out to be a consistent .500 team instead of a contender? FTR: I'm not saying that we will be a .500 team going forward, that we won't make the playoffs this year or that we will only win 8 or 9 games each of the next two years. I am saying if these things happen, O'Shea should lose his job because you can't support continued mediocrity.

I'm hoping that learning more about CTE will result in finding ways to reduce it happening in the first place. Better helmet technology might help.

It doesn't matter who fired Berry and it doesn't matter that it was fairly obviously the wrong decision at the time. The fact he was fired after making the playoffs every year he was our HC proves that just making the playoffs doesn't mean you get to keep your HC job.

Of course he didn't fire himself. Berry was fired after 3 straight years of making the playoffs. Just making the playoffs shouldn't be a guarantee of employment. O'Shea should be fired if he has 3 years of playoffs without a playoff win for example.

Doug Berry disagree's with you.

Hey Rich... You gonna update this to take the 5th game from last week into account?

I'll go with Messam, if I'm still in it.

SHOCKED are you? It wouldn't be the worst possible outcome. It wasn't 3rd down. It just would have made it 2nd and one, which we likely get anyway.

I still don't think it was in. Should have been 2nd from the 1.

The next 7 games are the easiest part of our schedule. Edmonton is currently the only +.500 team and we have 3 games against the 2 worst teams in the league. On paper, we should win 5 or 6 of them, but the games aren't played on paper. Montreal has a very good defence and they beat Calgary, a team we weren't even competitive with. Ottawa has a very good offence and is better than their record. Those games may make or break our season.