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http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/eskimos-give-coach-kavis-reed-contract-extension-1.1318715
This extension gives us stability going forward," Eskimos general manager Ed Hervey said in a release. "Leadership is critical to a young football team for success and I know our players work extremely hard for and are committed to coach Reed."
Looks like we know who is taking over "Coach's Playbook" from Lapo on TSN when Lapo takes a job with Ottawa next year. There are going to be consequences....
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Well that's what Walters/Miller have asked him to do. Guess you know how to run a team better than they do.Until you explain where you've heard that from, I guess there's not really much to discuss.
I'm not sure where the idea came from but I heard the same thing from Burke's mouth, so it must be on audio somewhere.
He did have the players slotted into which players can be starters on which teams and backups etc. I haven't heard of such a system but then, who am I to argue with Burke.
I heard Burke say this on the post-game commentary after the last game on CJOB.
Bizarre. I'd like to hear more of an explanation to this.
I think it just is what it is. They want an evaluation from the coaches before they are all canned. They are getting paid anyway. Whether their evals just go into the dumpster is another discussion. I personally would keep everyone around until after the Ottawa draft, just so that you know what you are doing and are ready to handle any curve-balls. I know "Burke is an idiot and should be gone" etc etc but that kind of knee-jerk thinking is one of the reasons we're at 23 years and counting. Wait until Jan 1 for the axe to fall and meanwhile, at the Grey Cup, be pressing the flesh and interviewing coach and GM candidates.
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Proof is in the pudding by the team he built, I believe. I know the Edem story has made the rounds & from what I understand actually happened. Denying it would be like saying Rob Ford doesn't eat too much.
I guess this would be a good time to mention that if Mack always listened to Walters, we'd have Edem and Pasztor over Mulumba and Pencer but we'd also have Mitchell over Muamba.
Well we wouldn't really have Pasztor now would we, considering he's the starting right tackle for the Jaguars.
wow starting Pasztor must really be messing with the Jaguars' ratio - aren't they only allowed to start 3 Canadians?
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No surprise that Kavis as let go. No surprise that Edmonton did it before we get rid of Burke. They always seem to be one step ahead of us.
Burke is the best guy to do the exit interviews, the player analysis and to create a baseline for the new HC. Getting Burke's input on who we protect and who we should go after in Free Agency is a good idea too. We don't have to go with his choices, but the more good football opinions the better IMHO.
You totally contradicted yourself with those two sentences. First you say that Edmonton is one step ahead of us by firing Reed, then you say it's good that we are keeping Burke around for a few weeks. ?????
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Well that's what Walters/Miller have asked him to do. Guess you know how to run a team better than they do.Until you explain where you've heard that from, I guess there's not really much to discuss.
I'm not sure where the idea came from but I heard the same thing from Burke's mouth, so it must be on audio somewhere.
He did have the players slotted into which players can be starters on which teams and backups etc. I haven't heard of such a system but then, who am I to argue with Burke.
I heard Burke say this on the post-game commentary after the last game on CJOB.
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Laverne and Shirley would be an improvement......
out-dated reference. Most of the posters here weren't even an itch in their daddy's pants when those two were on TV in prime time.
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You are right Iso, but it starts with the QB and the Coach. We never had an Oline the entire time Khari was here either.
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We need a QB and a decent coach. We've had neither for a long time, and that's on Mack. Once we've got those two key pieces, everything else will fall in afterwards. Edmonton was one minute away from having just as bad a season as us, but you don't get the same feeling of despair from them. That's what a good QB gives you. Hope.
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Burke is getting paid for the next two years no matter what, so he isn't dangling. He should pull a Lapo after the axe falls and get a job on TSN for the next two years so he can double-dip on paychecks. Winnipeg should be able to supply coaches for that "Coach's Playbook" segment at half time for many years to come.
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Just thought this was worth mentioning ...
For all this talk about how bad our team is and if we're really right for assuming the staff is the issue, all that discussion as to whether the problem is the staff or the players ...
There are now three players on other rosters in the CFL who were originally on our negotiation list but refused to play for this franchise because of apprehension due to the current staff that is in place.
DE Eric Norwood on Hamilton, good rotational guy in his first CFL season. Very Kenny Mainor-esque.
WR Jeff Fuller on Calgary, I'm sure we'd love to have a 6'4" receiver going across the middle like this guy has so far
DE Aaron Maybin on Toronto, waited almost two years for this guy to show an interest in the CFL and then when he finally did, he said "sure, but not in Winnipeg" and now the former first round NFL pick is in Toronto
So where would these guys get the news about Winnipeg being so bad? Most of the guys that come up readily admit they know nothing about the CFL or Canada until they get here. Is some agent poisoning the well? When they come to Canada, they pretty much are at the end of their professional ropes as their NFL dreams are either dead or on hold, and so it would be a case of Beggars can't be choosers, I would think.
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Buck Pierce beating the Riders in Regina in the Western Semi would make the 2013 season the equivalent of an M. Night Shyamalan picture: awful beginning and middle leads to a crazy satisfying end that no one saw coming. But ultimately, the thing as a whole was still shitty.
I gave this a "like" but I also had to say - well done. "I see Buck people"....
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Why would barker want to leave Toronto?
I could see why everyone would want to leave Toronto, the better question is - why would you want to leave to take the top job with the Bombers? In Toronto at least you are free from the prying eyes of the media and fans, as there aren't any. And in Winnipeg the media is downright terrible. Stay in Toronto hotdog man.
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I can't believe Montreal blew that game. And on a FG return for a TD on top of that. Just wow.
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Well if they want the jump on Collaros then who do we have to trade? Unless the Argos want maybe a guy like Sears I can't see to many guys they would want from us....
actually, i think that JBRs 3rd rounder plus a conditional 1st isn't unreasonable. but i also think that the rights to Bilukidi is a fair offer too. heck, we're losing the guy anyway...
yeah that could work. What about JBR's theory that Barker might be offered the chair in Winnipeg? Would he want it?
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agree on that. besides collaros is a free agent why trade if the bombers can get him from free agency.
That's what I asked about Edmonton last year trading for Reilly a few days before he became a free agent. It just made no sense.
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Who says Muamba is a lock for coming back....
Maybe we can trade Biks rights to Toronto for Collaros.
LOL - I can see it now - first play from scrimmage in 2014 - Bilukidi rips between Sorensen and Pencer and jumps on Collaros, who promptly wrecks his shoulder and is done for the year. And we go through another year of Hall-Goltz-Boltus etc....
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how about chalking it up to adjusting and learning what toronto was doing? at the end of.the day that "dreadful" half was half of the second.best offensive output in the last 2 seasons, best of this years... id prefer to look at it that way..
For some reason Toronto started blitzing in the second half, and Hall was able to get around it. If the Argo defence had just played the same way as the first half, the score wouldn't have been close. We probably would have only gotten another 3 points.
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Most NFL players are broke within 5 years of playing pro football. He could be short on cash.
The ones like Terrell Owens with 3 ex-wives are broke within one year. They adjust their cost of living to their current cash flow and never think that those days are going to end. Happens to movie stars too. Dave Foley from Kids in the Hall lives in poverty in LA while his ex-wife is sitting in their multi-million dollar condo in Toronto.
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Every scouting report out there talked about his good hands coming out of Central Michigan
What the hell happened
He signed with Winnipeg. Dropsie capital of Canada.
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We finished 4-3 on the back of some decent quarterback play from Joey Elliot, whom we then released and went back to Buck Pierce (who appears to be no longer able to play football at a high level).
I'm not saying Elliot is a saviour, but if we had started the year with him as our starter I don't think we would be eliminated from the playoffs yet.
And the "Joey Elliot was good last year" myth continues to be perpetuated. Of the final four games we won at the ass-end of last season, Buck won two of them, Elliott one and the last game was a Brink-Goltz combo (as Elliott was injured the previous week in a loss to Hamilton where he played just plain brutal) in a game that Montreal handed to us as it was a nothing game, though Goltz looked pretty good and ran some nice plays, when Burkenstein finally pulled Brink in the 4th quarter. I'm not sure how you can say that we went 4-3 on the back of Joey Elliott, given he didn't even appear in 3 of the 4 wins. ????
PS - Elliott played in all 3 of the losses in the final seven games last year, and in those games he threw 8 INT's and zero TD's.
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If Calvillo doesn't retire, he's nuts.
I've said that every year since 2011.
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Worth pointing out re: Hall, he is also coming off a year out of football as a player.
He's sort of like the Tim Burke of quarterbacks. He'd be a great one if he could throw the ball.
Not sure why Toronto went heavy blitz in the 2nd half. Sit on routes and you are pretty much guaranteed that Hall won't complete many passes for first downs because he can't place the ball on intermediate routes, and chances are pretty good you'll be returning INTs. That said, I guess you can't quibble too much with a gameplan that limited the opposition to 20 points.
The Argo defence and the uprights held the Bombers to 20 points.
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I did see some Twitter exchanges today on this. One response from the Bombers was interesting - season ticket prices are still lower than Ottawa right now. Anyway, take that for what it is worth. As much as I have suffered this year I still would be a season ticket holder next year if I could.
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Put Foster and Poblah in a paper bag, reach in and pull out your hand. What do you have? Nothing .....or maybe you dropped the bag.
yet watch both of them go into a system with another team that knows how to utilize them and they start to light it up. When I see Adarius Bowman catching everything that comes near him I just shake my head. That guy couldn't catch a cold with us. Also - watching Lapo gush about the "creativity" of other teams' offences on TSN really makes me wretch. He was so vanilla on offence it was just plain sad to watch.
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yeah that 52-0 loss to the Riders was a great example of that too...
Give it up already...