Burke wasn't that kind of person either but he failed because he wound up really doing nothing.

I think I could have coached the Bombers this year just like Tim Burke, because I can point the finger at everyone else and shrug a lot as good as anybody I've ever seen.

Bilukida---Mulumba----- Muamba--- very hard to keep them straight, Jones--Whistler---Rigney was a lot easier in my day.  

heh heh ok Don Cherry! Anyway - I for one am glad that Canada welcomed all of these great Congolese athletes into our country! Keep em coming Congo!

 

 

 

CFL media, Brandon.

I heard the CFL media in Virden is also reporting these rumours.

Virden?….must be Avro Lancaster working behind the scenes!

What ever became of mr.lancaster?

 

Pretty sure I saw him on display at the Calgary airport...

Perhaps sometimes self preservation out weighs what some might consider as an occupational challenge.

Well there's not much else that outweighs Stubler. That man is unhealthily obese for his age.

CFL media, Brandon.

I heard the CFL media in Virden is also reporting these rumours.

Yeah no thanks on Marshall. He can go and work with Lapo on TSN, and take Kavis with him. Perhaps they could host "Consequences" - a new CFL show on TSN that would air in the West so we wouldn't have to watch Landsberg's awful show.

Many Happy Returns…..one of which was Demond Washington's punt return TD this past year and was highlighted again on TSN's Top 100 plays of the year!

and that valiant punt return effort, one of the best I've seen in a long time, was wasted. Just like I'm going to be next Tuesday! Wait, why am I waiting for Tuesday?

This board has been celebrating the "airing of grievances " part of Festivus all year. Time for the feats of strength!  Get the aluminum Festivus pole!

 

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. All I want under the tree tomorrow is Bomber merchandise and a new QB.

good to see Ike back in the CFL. Go Iceman!

Stubler's D left the middle of the field wide open for Durant in the semi likely costing BC the cup in the process. Dodged a bullet as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah that was strange how Durant just started running up the middle and BC did nothing to counter it, even after Durant exploited it for big gains several times. The tide of the game changed completely after that.

Strange, I wonder if the foot injuries for DiCroce had anything to do with the Bombers losing him.

 

Had really high hopes for him.

 

I only saw two training camp sessions last season, but DiCroce was horrible in both of them.  Dropping everything even in the warmup drills.  The day after the second one they announced the foot injury.  He certainly didn't look like a guy with CFL potential hands-wise.

and everyone was calling DiCroce the "steal of the draft" on the TSN panel. Oh well...

I thought I read somewhere that MB had said the offence will feature a lot of things he's learned over the past 1-1/2 years from visiting various teams (something like that). If that's the case I wonder how much of his past playbook is still being used now. It's possible it could be a completely new playbook compared to his times in SK, Montreal and Hamilton.

He can have my Blackberry Playbook for $10.

I don't think it will take much to improve the offence we've seen over the past year and a half. It's been just plain putrid, aside from some anomalies like the game last year against Toronto.

It's time for the Reinebold era of a Steel Curtain defence to begin in Winnipeg!! Release the Reinebold!!

Replacing Palardy with Sandro was one of the weirder decisions of the past year.

I think everyone was tired of Palardy's 35 yard kick-offs. Of course that was with a stiff breeze behind him.

No, he's no Mike Kelly that's for sure. But when he's not happy he shows it. When he's angry his answers are curt & to the point. He's never been adversarial with the media in the 6 seasons he's been in Calgary but it shows  when he's upset. Monday, he lost a qb, an OL & a safety all starters & he is joking & laughing because he knows with his talent & depth, the Stamps won't skip a beat. The most negative thing he says is he's not happy about it. Huff's favourite movie as a football coach is, "It's A Wonderful Life".

Jason Boltus' favorite movie is "The Longest Yard"....

IIRC, after he was named OC didn't MB say QB decisions were up to the HC.

probably. Between Burke and MB there was a lot of buck-passing and blaming going on - "it's not my fault it's Joe Mack's fault"...ok whatever.

I was told that Goltz did not see the field in the last few weeks because they did not trust his decision making at all.

even on a QB sneak? Isn't that the definition of "no-brainer"?

I really would like clarity on the whole Boltus and Goltz situation . if they hated Goltz so much then why didn't they cut him?

Why wasn't Brown doing qb sneaks?

Yeah actually that would be cool to see Doug Brown come out of retirement just to do QB sneaks. We'd get 5 yards every time!

Ok the Dickenson screw up was funny because you didn't do it on purpose.  Now you're just milking it.

 

Fair enough - but the visual of Doug Brown doing a QB sneak just makes me laugh for some reason...

Right now I am really hoping we can land Collaros and Willy.  It would be hard to pull off since I doubt Willy wants to move to another backup spot (though he could be sold on stepping in if Collaros sucks).  I was hoping Nichols would hit FA but now our options are slowly shrinking.

I agree - if we can pull off a Willy we should be extremely satisfied.

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hope he makes it out of training camp this year. I don't think Reilly is going to live through another 18 game pounding like he took this year.

Calgary is a winner only because they are one of the few teams who can absorb these losses & not be affected because of their depth. Like I posted earlier.Hufnagel had a presser & he was all smiles & relaxed. Not at all acting like a GM who lost 3 starters.

I get the smiles and relaxation thing but that being said, Huffer is no Mike Kelly either. Of course he's not going to come out and do a presser cursing and swearing and acting like a jack-arse.

I really would like clarity on the whole Boltus and Goltz situation . if they hated Goltz so much then why didn't they cut him?

Why wasn't Brown doing qb sneaks?

Yeah actually that would be cool to see Doug Brown come out of retirement just to do QB sneaks. We'd get 5 yards every time!

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A little surprised that anyone associated with the '13 offense would be back, but I suppose Marcel Bellefeuille deserves a full camp & year

 

Funny, that's exactly what we said about Tim Burke at the end of last season.

Yeah I thought it sounded familiar.

Wouldn't it be funny if Brink were to be signed by the Lions.....

That would be amazing.

I'd rather they signed Boltus.