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Neuf is a good place to save SMS and we need to cut down.

Like I said, I hope you guys are right.

I don't have any opinion about how good or bad McGuire is yet, because I haven't seen him play enough. I hope you guys are right though, because he'll likely be our starting QB sometime next season.

Merry Xmas to all. Have fun and stay safe.

Make up things I didn't say just to complain about them, thereby proving once again that you are one of the ID 10 T's. Nope, I didn't complain about any of that. Nope, I didn't complain about the playoffs or the regular season either. It was me being condescending. That's the joke. If you've read any of what I actually wrote, you'd already know that I've been very clear on what part of the year I was talking about, when I said average, from the very first post onward. Not the pre-season. Not the post-season. Just the regular season. Who cares about the pre-season? Everyone agrees that we had a great post season.

Pre means before the season. Post means after the season. Condesending means talking down to people.

There's the pre-season, the regular season and the post season. I've said exactly what I really wanted to say.

The ID 10 T is still you.

That's my first comment. If you read the whole line, you'll realize what I'm saying.

My dog you guys are idiots. I said we had an average regular season and you act like I said they played like crap or that the season wasn't successful. Are you unclear on what average means? You say you don't care what I say, but you've gone on for several days whining about what I said and grossly misinterpreting my point even tho I've restated it many times. I said we had a great playoffs, which we did. No disrespect to the team at all. We came from 3rd in the West to win the cup, which isn't something that happens very often. That doesn't change the fact that we came in 4th overall and 3rd in the West in the regular season. Folks want to say we were a great team last year, when the truth is we were a great team in the playoffs and an average team for the rest of the year. Cheers & stay safe.

All of Hamilton, Regina, Calgary, Winnipeg and Montreal had successful regular seasons. Edmonton was semi-successful, but being sub-.500 and 6th overall is below average IMO. Both the Riders and Ticats had great regular seasons. You can't do any better than coming in 1st. Montreal had a great regular season too. They went from the free space on the bingo card at 5-13 to 2nd in the East at 10-8 with a rookie HC who got the job at the last minute and without a bonifide starting QB. We went from 3rd to 3rd and won one more game in 2019 than we did in 2018. Successful and average. Calgary had a less successful season in 2019 than they did in 2018, but they still beat us and got a home game. I'd call it just above average.

So, no... that's not the argument. To restate. The Bombers had an average season followed by a great playoff to win the cup. The tougher division argument means we had 1 harder game than Montreal last year. I said IF we hadn't made the trade for Collaros, we'd have lost the first playoff game,, we'd have 1 less regular season win and a poor playoff run. Losing 1 addtional game against Calgary doesn't change the regular season much, but losing the playoff game changes the way we'd think about last season immensly. Therefore it's the playoff wins that make people remember the regular season as being good to great, not the season itself.

If we don't make the trade for Collaros, we don't win the last game and go to 10 wins. (3rd string QB, whose thrown 3 passes in the CFL, starting his first game) We go one and done in the playoffs again because we're forced to start our 3rd string QB in his second start against Regina in Regina. Do you still say we were good start to finish with just a little hiccup in the middle? Of course not. You say we were average with a poor playoff run. Montreal played Hamilton 3 times last year. Hamilton was the best team in the league during the regular season. The other extra game was Ottawa, which was easier than our extra game against either Sask or Calg. I give them 1 easier game than us, which I don't consider a huge advantage. BTW: We lost 4 games to eastern teams last year and 3 to the stronger West. I'm not changing anyone's mind here, but I stick to my point that we were an average regular season team. Above average regular season teams have a home playoff game and good ones come in 1st in their division.

Take issue with the facts if you want. I'm going with the facts, which is they were 4th overall in the regular season and great in the playoffs. We were just 1 win ahead of Montreal. Every teams plays every other team twice plus 2 extra against their own division, so playing in the East simply means 2 games against weaker teams. It's not as big an advantage as Western fans make it out to be.

The win/loss record speaks for itself. All teams went through slumps. All teams had injury issues. Hamilton had to replace their starting QB before we did. They got 1st in the east. Regina had to replace their starting QB before we did. They got 1st in the West. 4th in a 9 team league is pretty much the definition of average.

We had a pretty average season. 3rd in the West. 4th overall. The difference last year is that we had a great playoff run. The east is a weaker division, but that only gets the eastern teams 2 extra games against the weaker teams and you can't exactly call BC a strong team last year.

I don't think you guys are looking at Farjardo objectively at all. He was supposed to be their backup QB. He managed to get them into 1st place in the West. He threw for more than 4300 yards, 18 TD's to 8 picks. That's an objectively great job for a first year starter. Does that make him a top QB? Not in my mind, but if he does it again next year, he's got to be in that conversation.

No freak out because it's December and because the whole freak out thing is just made up by the Kumbaya Crowd in the first place.

It's really hard to compare QB's from different era's, but Reilly, BLM, Flutie, Moon, etc would be great in any era. Some youngsters think that the latest and greatest are the best ever. Some old guys think that no one can touch the heros of their youth. If the old guys played today, they'd have today's coaching and todays offenses. If the current guys played in the past, they'd have that era's level of coaching and that era's offensive schemes.

Yes the players are better today because they have better training and better coaching and better schemes. If the great players of the past had the same training, coaching etc, they'd still be great players in today's game. The same thing goes for today's great QB's if you put them in the past with that level of training etc. The top 2 or 3 QB's of every era would be top QB's in any era. You can't compare stats from different timeframes because the game was different for everyone in different eras.

https://3downnation.com/2020/12/04/the-winnipeg-blue-bombers-2021-potential-free-agent-list/ 3rd down nation shows who is and isn't a free agent on the Bombers. Every team will have an equally long FA list. If a team wants to buy the GC, next year will be a good year to try.

Streveler was a backup CFL QB who got opportunities when we lost our starter. He also had some running plays in the regular offence in the post season. I have no reason to beleive that he'll get the same chances in the NFL as he did in the CFL, especially in his first year. I'll be shocked if he gets more than 10 plays in total this year.

I don't understand why people hate Ambrosie for always looking at the positive side of things and only doing positive news, when they love MOS for doing exactly the same things.

BC's got money. Braley left them money to keep them solvent for a few years.

He was OK, but not great. That's not being shat on. It's an apt description.