johnzo

yeah, the 2024-2025 Jets turning out to be a mirage was a giant bummer.

hell, I am blind to most of the subtleties of football and even I can see that Holm is a ludicrous athlete. Can't think of another Bomber DB past or present with his maneuverability. Holm to me is kind of like "what if Charles Roberts grew a couple of inches and played DB?" Good luck to him with his shot. Rod Black had Sticky -- MBB has Holm. (mods feel free to delete this terrible post)

2025 was a slog for me you guys, and not just as a Bomber fan. But I'm looking forward to 2026. May the new orbit bring you all good fortune.

cmon man, I get that you like to gripe but you're just saying nonsense here. Let's look at some GOATs: Scotty Bowman didn't play in the NHL. Don Matthews didn't play above the college level and certainly never played Canadian rules. Bill Belichick didn't play in the NFL. Closer to home, Kevin Bourgoin was the passing game coordinator / WR coach for the absolutely lethal BC Lions offense this past year and was our WR coach in 2021 when we lapped the whole league. Yet another dude who topped out as a player in college and went into coaching straight afterwards. And his playing career was so un-noteworthy that he's got no Wikipedia page and I had to google into a local news story just to discover that he did play at one time.

yeah, I remember that! Didn't that challenge cost him a record?

well, we brought in Brown but he emerged a little too early for our convenience. And Streveler could have been QBNext except for some devastating injuries. credit to this Bomber regime that they actually brought in two quarterbacks who could win games in the CFL. Before Strev in 2018 and Brown in 2023 you have to go all the way back to Danny Mac to find a Bomber-recruited QB who didn't **** the bed when the spotlight hit them.

best of the season y'all. May 2026 be our return to glory!

say what you will about Kelly, the Fred Reid game in BC will always live in my memory ... watched it on a cheap little laptop from a hotel balcony in istanbul, drinking raki. Poor Javier Glatt. I was astonished he still had a career after chasing fast Freddie around all day. Mike used to have a great avvy of Phil Hunt about to obliterate Kevin Glenn. Wonder if one could make a similar one for Jones vs Brock

have been watching some 1997 Bomber games as CFL Classics has been posting them. Just watched the Toronto v. Bombers game where Reinebold rolled out Dexter Dawson as a DB. Pinball and Flutie absolutely pantsed him. (the offseason is so brutal I can't believe I'm watching 97 Bomber games to get my fix)

I'm more thinking of Milt getting revenge for some of the cheap shots he took from Sanchez over the years...but sounds like their bygones are bygones.

Man I have no idea what Metcalf was thinking. Disrupting his team, getting suspended during crunch time of the season, and voiding millions in guaranteed money. Just bad all round. quite a season by the Hawks this year. I was not expecting them to be a divisional contender!

every time I see Milt and Sanchez together on the panel I am hoping just a little bit that Milt pulls a Joe Kapp.

Lots of people in Missouri are laughing today. 58% of the voters in Jackson County (the county in MO that would have imposed / collected a Chiefs tax) voted against the tax. Luckily for Phil Hunt, the owner of the Chiefs, the Chiefs taxes could be implemented in Kansas without requiring a vote.

What's JY's status? I know people get frustrated by the lack of pressure, but by the numbers we were the top D in the league last year. Are we in danger of a downgrade there? (we were the best in defensive points allowed, but were not the best in total points against. Lots of points scored on turnovers against us.)

it's an interesting year for free agent QBs. Ordinarily there's an obvious matchup of free agent QB and rebuilding team (like Brown in Ottawa, VAJ in Calgary, Fajardo in Montreal, etc). This year the top free agents are MBT, Crum and Powell, but there's no obvious landing spots for them. Really curious to see where Powell's head is at given that BLM just resigned for two years and Powell got no snaps last year.

yeah, you look at how Buck lost his shine here right around the time that our OL hit the skids and Collaros started tossing tons of picks -- then he goes to BC where he's got the legit MOP, a good back, receivers five deep and a line that can pass protect ... and now he looks like a genius and we'd take him back in a second. Crum surpassed my expectations last year. Showing steady upward progress. Wonder what his ceiling is? Would be happy to see him at QB2 in blue.

we've had guys on this very forum joking about doing a Tonya Harding to certain bomber players. I'm like 99.9% confident those are just dumb jokes but it's a world of crazy motherfuckers making lunatic headlines out there and so I'm always a little 👀 when I read that stuff.

Thanks you guys! Def going to be watching for the Big Stan Flop next season.

here's something I've always been curious about -- how on earth do OL play into their late thirties? how do Yoshi and Big Stan keep their footwork up to cope with freak 24-year-old speed rushing DEs? a guard like Neuf is getting heavy body contact on every play from jacked up DTs and generally will play the majority of snaps in a game. That's a lot of punishment to take over the course of a career and yet the dude is still doing it at a pro level (tho I guess opinions differ on this)

people tell me the team needs to "get younger" and I'm like isn't he our DC already?

I am not qualified to judge OL issues, but it sure seemed to me last year that Brady was getting the holes he needed at the point of attack and that we were getting OL into the second level often enough. The ugly OL moments happened in pass pro, Zach dropping back against teams rushing 3-4 -- sometimes Zach wouldn't even get a steamboat before he had to start scrambling, he'd have a DT in his lap or an DE coming round the horn. Which makes me hopeful that if we get pass pro sorted out, Zach will return to form.

I think Tyson Philpot is indeed the best Canadian WR and has gamewrecking talent ... but agree with others that yikes that's a lot of money for someone with his injury track record.

yeah, the dude had some serious success with MBT in Edmonton -- his OC track record isn't long but it looks pretty good.

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Durable too ... has missed only two games in the last three years despite doing a lot of work in heavy traffic and he doesn't shy away from run game blocking either.