kelownabomberfan
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The problem still remains with Akeem Foster that he has already dropped more balls than young Etienne and still he gets in the lineup.
I can't imagine how Etienne must feel towards Burke/Winnipeg when he sees this occurring.
It's decisions like that that drive the fan base crazy and one of the reasons to keep calling for his departure.
That would be sometime on Sunday, Nov. 3, when our next season actually begins.
I don't think Etienne's balls have dropped yet either...
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I like how people are all glamorizing wally letting a player go as in that every move he makes is gold.
Forget not that Wally traded for Buck Pierce!!!! Why isn't anyone bringing up the fact that a gm actually would trade for a guy who is beyond washed up.
Look how bad Pierce has looked in BC!
Foster sucks but hey at least we gave it a shot, saved some cash and moved on from a real poor player weighing the team down.
I haven't really seen much of Buck in BC. Even with Demarco crapping the bed, they refuse to pull him in favour of Buck or Elliott. Which speaks volumes for both of those guys.
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My thoughts...
Hall is to slow and doesn't have the arm for this league. In the first half he only could dink it 5 yards and couldn't hit anything while on the run.
He had two ints taken away from penalties. That being said he's the best we got for now.
Ford isn't starting material but he's good as a change of pace back. The O line aside from the one big run was poor. Guys were hitting ford the second he had the ball.
Montreal was god awful, nieswander had time to throw but just made some poor throws. They looked like they had zero interest in playing.
I thought the lbers and secondary were solid and had a lot of hustle.
Overall with all those turnovers we should of won by a lot more...
Both of the int's were taken away by blatant pass interference calls, which, if the receivers hadn't been interfered with, they probably would have caught the ball. There's reasons to doubt Hall, but you can't say that the INT's were just "taken away by penalties" - they occurred due to illegal acts by the Montreal players.
The first interception was taken away by a penalty from Chip Cox who was on the other side of the field. You're right about the second though, Parker literally pushed Kohlert down and then intercepted the ball.
I just watched the first half again and the first PI that took away an INT was on Shea Emry, even though Cox was the one called for it. Emry held Kohlert so when Hall threw it it looked bad as he threw right to the Montreal DB, but Kohlert would have been there had Emry not held him up. Kudos to the refs for catching that one, but boos for all the other PI's they missed. Montreal was holding our receivers on almost every play. The series where we got the ball on the 8 yard line after the Dunn INT Hall lobbed a nice ball to Watson, who couldn't get it because he had Chip Cox hanging off of him from the line of scrimmage. Just ridiculous. I guess the refs felt bad about missing that one, as they let Edwards go on his blatant off-side on the Denmark TD right before half time.
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I'd still go with Burris, I think.
What's the problem with this team? Too young and inexperienced. So we're going to solve that with.... more youth and inexperience? Bring in Burris as a stop-gap for a couple years while we bring a young guy along. Bringing Collaros into this mess right now is just setting him up to fail.
yeah well Burris coming into this mess would just pout and be a total jackwang in the dressing room, blaming everyone else for the team's failures. No thanks.
Hamilton was a disaster last year and that didn't happen with him.
were you in the Hamilton dressing room?
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I'd still go with Burris, I think.
What's the problem with this team? Too young and inexperienced. So we're going to solve that with.... more youth and inexperience? Bring in Burris as a stop-gap for a couple years while we bring a young guy along. Bringing Collaros into this mess right now is just setting him up to fail.
yeah well Burris coming into this mess would just pout and be a total jackwang in the dressing room, blaming everyone else for the team's failures. No thanks.
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The Bombers have the best red zone % in the league they said... That is mostly because of Goltz and his legs.... Yet Burke keeps putting Boltus in... Blows my mind...
Hall wasn't doing that great he came on strong later on but for most of the first half he really sputtered and tossed some really ugly passes.
He at least didn't look scared or made blatantly horrible decisions.... If only he could run and have an arm like Reilly....
it also would be nice if the O-line could give him more than 1.5 steamboats to pick a target and throw. Hall was rushing almost every throw as on almost every throwing play there was a free Alouette coming at him unblocked. I know that this may have been "designed" - but to just let a guy run at our QB unblocked on almost every play? Really?
They highlighted a play yesterday where our o-line didn't even shift in covering a 5-man Montreal rush. Amazing how even when we are man-on-man, we are outnumbered.
yeah that was brutal. Two o-linemen took the same guy and left a Montreal D-man completely untouched to walk in on Hall. To his credit, Hall stood in there and got the ball out quick. I think he's realized that he has to make quick throws as he will only be given 2 seconds tops to get the ball away, on every single passing play. Our O-line is just plain awful. I still am scratching my head at how we won that game yesterday. Montreal truly looked like they were trying to lose. Is the mob now controlling that team like they control everything else in Montreal?
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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.