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On the way he dresses: The reason he won't change is the issue... I wouldn't care if all he wore was a 'Budgie Smuggler' (Speedo) if he delivered wins. On holding players accountable: I'm not in the dressing room or the meetings and I don't have a bug in O'Shea's office so I can't tell if he yells at them or shames them or anything else that folks might consider 'holding players accountable behind closed doors'. All I have to go on is there haven't been any consequences to bad play, just a bunch of public excuses. By consequences, I mean losing playing time or airlifting in players to compete for the spot or having the backup start or letting a young guy take a game to see if he can produce or demoting the player to a DI or off the game day roster or offered a PI spot instead of full salary or getting rid of them during the season. On not winning back to back games for a year and a half: I'll stop bringing it up when he starts winning back to back games. On best HC since Richie: Based on what?

I know that he doesn't hold his players publicly accountable and you really don't know if he holds them privately accountable. Kuale was one example, not the only example... how about Romby Bryant and Greg Peach?

You don't think that means he believes he's right? I submit Kuale and Hurl as examples of players who weren't performing that he wouldn't get rid of and he made excuses for.

O'Shea is just another in a long line of Bomber rookie HC's that's in over his head. Comparing him to Dave Richie, our last good HC is a joke. Richie was a GC winning HC with 5 years experience, who'd never missed the playoffs when we hired him. He missed the playoffs in his first year as a Bomber HC then made them for 4 straight years including a GC run. We were 7-10 in 2000, but 5 of the wins were in the last 8 games and we lost one of them by a single point. O'Shea's has a .333 winning percentage, most of his wins are in the first half of the seasons, hasn't made the playoffs yet, lost more games in his second season than his first even tho he had a better backup QB and hasn't even won 2 games in a row for more than a year. O'Shea won't change and that's part of the problem. He believes he's right even tho the results say otherwise. He won't hold his players accountable. He won't get rid of under performing players. He'll make excuse after excuse for sub-par play. He won't even change the way he dresses because then people will think it's because they complained? Really?

Expected both of these guys to be gone. Good luck to both of them. IMO: They'll have to take pay cuts if they want to continue their CFL careers.

IMO... Coaching is a full time job and every time you give more than 1 full time job to a coach you're making them work twice as hard and dividing their focus. I'd rather a rookie receivers coach to handle the day to day with PLAP doing the top end work than PLAP doing both jobs full time. Same goes for O'Shea as the HC/STC. BTW: Yes... I know other coaches do it at a high level, but I'm not convinced that either PLAP or O'Shea are able to do 2 full time jobs.

Every OC works with his receivers on a regular basis and they still need a receivers coach.

OC/Receivers and HC/STC. Any more 'slash' coaches?

OK... worst suit I've seen since the '70's.

Yikes! That may be the worst suit I've ever seen. He looks like a black Bobby Vinton.

Based solely on what's happened so far... Teams that look like they'll be worse this year: Edmonton, Hamilton, Calgary, Ottawa Teams that look like they'll be better this year: Winnipeg, Regina Teams that look to be around the same: Montreal, BC, Toronto

You're right. His dumb agent was himself.

What kind of stupid agent does he have? It's Wally's job to get players for the least money and he plays hardball. It's the agent's job to get the best offer for his client. 3 years at league minimum? That's all he could get?

I'm old school. When you sign a contract you've completed the deal. Wally should (probably will) offer him more money for extra years on the contract because that keeps everyone happy, but he doesn't have to. If Jennings holds out, he can't play anywhere and won't make any money until the contract is over, unless he is traded and there's nothing in it for BC to trade him. 55K is a lot better than zero now and maybe starters pay in 2 years time. Players love to say, 'I had a great year. Tear my contract up because I deserve more', but I've never heard them say, 'I had an off year. I should take a pay cut even tho my contract says I don't have to'.

I'm not sure this year is any different than the last couple of Free Agent seasons. Working mostly from memory (Which I admit isn't what it used to be, so feel free to update)... Players taken in FA or traded for in FA and signed: 2015 D Adams I Brown M Dile T Cronk S Hurl S Bryant D Picard J Westerman - NFL reject, not exactly a FA 7 Players 2014 J Feoli-Gudino M Bucknor D Willy N Moore C Randle D Alexander B Banks 7 Players In both off seasons we signed a lot of free agents who were big upgrades and wanted by other teams, but it didn't help much in the win column. We did it again this year and look better on paper again. The real question is will that mean more wins this year.

Heck, I wouldn?t have written the above preluding many of the seasons I?ve been here. But something you develop over a long period of countless hours in the sports business, is a strong sense for what feels right or wrong heading into a new season; knowing when things are actually on the right track, or when they aren?t. - Rheanne's been the Bombers Social and Digital Media manager for all of a year and 4 months. She manages the social media accounts, she doesn't write the blogs. She likely posted it. Not likely she wrote it.

Just the on-field stuff? You mean winning? That's more important than anything that was in the 'article'.

Randle's one of my favorite players. I hope he's 100%. I'd prefer to see him with the DB's than the LB's.

Darren Cameron, Director of Communications and Media's job in part is to write pieces that spin Bomber stories in the best way possible. He isn't a source of unbiased opinion. He's a source of which spin the Bombers want the fans to see. That's fine in and of itself. Where the same group of folks go off the rails is when they take Cameron's articles as facts and then use those 'facts' to take shots at other groups of fan.

700K? That's 3 to 4 backup QB's.

I get what you're saying, but the ratio rule leads to the same thing. X # of Canadians and Y # of Americans and you couldn't make that mandate in the states. When you take into account that the 3 QB's are imports, we actually allow more Americans (23) than Canadians (21) although we make 4 of the Yanks DI's.

It flies in Canada in the CFL. We mandate a certain number of Canadian jobs and allow the rest to be taken by foreign workers. (I know the US wouldn't allow it)

The CFL can't change US labor laws, so the ratio would go for the US based teams. To be competitive, the ratio would end up going for the Canadian teams too. US teams would get paid in US dollars. That would give them a 30% increase in SMS space unless the SMS was set in Canadian dollars and the conversion done before the season started so they had the same amount of money to spend as their Canuck counterparts. Field size is an issue. I doubt there are (m)any US stadiums that could fit a CFL sized field in them. CFL rules are what makes the CFL different and special. Changing to NFL rules wouldn't make sense especially changing them for some of the games played in the US.

The honest truth is that there is more than one way to fit out the jersey you purchase. The only thing that matters to the club is that you purchase one in the first place and that you purchase a real one, not a knock off. Go ahead and roll your eyes at my choices. I couldn't care any less. I won't point and laugh at a big fat hairy guy in a Stegall jersey. I've got no problems with how anyone else wants to be a fan. BTW: No one is whining about players changing teams and my #30 is my number from when I played way back in the dark ages so it's not some random number to me.

Muamba signed a contract that he and his agent decided was good for them, KNOWING he could be cut at any time and that he wouldn't get his bonus if he was cut before it was due. I don't see that as a player being treated badly. It's more of a player being treated exactly as the contract he signed said he would be treated. If players like Muamba who had multiple offers, don't like the terms, they shouldn't sign. Canucks are paid more because of supply and demand. Finding 7 or 8 NI starters is a hardship for most teams so those players get paid the big bucks. The only way to change that is to change the ratio and although there are several of us around here who think that's a good idea, the majority don't. The CFLPA doesn't want to change the ratio because they are run mostly by NI's who benefit from this policy. The only way to change that is to get the Imports more involved with the union at the highest levels. As that hasn't happened over the history of the CFLPA, I doubt it will change. What the players get paid in general has nothing to do with fairness. It has to do with supply and demand and perceived value for each player. Play well and you get well compensated. Play badly or get hurt and you get cut.