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Goltz and company made some plays but our offence couldn't sustain drives without major penalty help from the Roughriders. The only reason we led at the half was because Jade Etienne nearly got beheaded and Dwight Anderson has self-control issues. What's with this team's second half woes? Goltz and Hall -- hell, even Buck -- have had decent first halves and then crapped the bed in the third quarter.

Buck's contract is guaranteed at this point, so they might as well keep him around for emergency purposes. Sorry Buck...it's just too much. By "Emergency" I mean something like "Goltz becomes a quadruple amputee, Max Hall quits the Bombers to commence astronaut training, and Jason Boltus is revealed to actually be a pair of clever dogs wearing a human suit. Also, Michael Bishop is unavailable."

Congratulations to Chad Simpson, tho!

Buck's contract is guaranteed at this point, so they might as well keep him around for emergency purposes.

Can you even challenge a penalty call or a penalty non-call?

What's the hold-up on Boltus? His signing hasn't been announced, he's not on the bluebombers.com roster. It's getting late in the work week to bring in a new QB. Anyone got a practice report to share? Who's getting the reps? I'm betting that Buck will be starting the LDC -- Hall's wrist looked super painful and that one practice toss he threw on the sidelines was real ugly. And Burke doesn't seem to want to play Goltz.

I don't care about 2013. 2013 is finished and dead, we're not getting better, we're not making the playoffs, we're certainly not winning a Grey Cup. The best I'm hoping for right now is that the Bombers stop embarrassing themselves and compete a little bit. The only thing that matters now is making the right hires for 2014. If the right coaching staff for 2014 is out there right now waiting to be hired, then by all means fire everyone and hire the new people in. I kinda doubt that's the case right now, though. On the other hand, if that coaching staff isn't out there right now, then we need to just leave Burke in there until the best possible replacements can be recruited. A panicky midseason coaching change is (part of) what got us into this shitshow to begin with.

How do you know this? I ask because I am super curious about why the Bombers gave up on Elliott and I want to know if I can take you seriously or not.

According to cfldb.com, contracts are guaranteed after the ninth game for 6-year veterans, after the tenth game for 5-year veterans, and after the eleventh game for 4-year veterans. One of the weird things about being such a young team is that this doesn't matter so much for us. We have a lot more freedom to cut players in the back half of the year. Buck's salary is guaranteed after next week's game, and since he's injured now and can't be cut, I suspect that he's going to be with us for the rest of the year. They're paying him, they might as well keep him around for when Goltz / Jyles / Boltus / whomever else gets smoked. Stewart, Morley, and Johnson all have 7+ years so they the Bombers have to make decisions with those guys this week. Suber is a four-year guy so the latest they can cut him is the week after the Banjo Bowl. Boatman, Denmark, and Palardy are only three-year players so the guaranteed contract date won't force the Bombers' hand on them.

Me too. Their 80s unis as a whole are pretty sweet looking.

It'll be interesting to see if Neiswander can make chicken salad with a full week of starter reps -- he looked pretty terrible last week. With all those injuries and coaching upheavals to boot, I don't like his chances.

Mike Reilly would have been as good a QB for the 2013 Bombers as Dieter Brock was for the 1984 Bombers.

How do you know this?

I think Hall's struggles in the second half were more about Hall being beat to crap and less about the Ticats' adjustments. Remember he took that hellacious Pierce-like blindside hit and also that heavy shot to the ribs in the third quarter. He said he was having trouble breathing. I'm eager to see Hall get some more time, I think he's got some promise, but I don't hold out much hope for his success if our OL can't keep him clean and he can't elude the rush.

If I had a sig this would be it.

He reminds me of Chris Brazzell. Great speed, deep threat, but not much of a receiver otherwise.

I feel bad for Rob Bagg. You've got to admire all the comebacks he's made, and each time he's come back he's played at a high level. Saskatchewan 2013 looks like Blue Bombers 2011 -- they started like a house on fire, but they have some structural deficiencies.

Leffe Blonde. Super delicious.

That picture of Wade Miller in the Free Press makes him look like a Coen Brothers character. "You always gotta put one in the brain!"

Glad to see Butchko gone. His announcement that there was absolutely positively completely 100% certainty that the team would not play at Canad Inns in 2012 made him a zero-credibility joke. He should have resigned immediately after he had to walk back that statement. Mack goes with my best wishes. At least he achieved something during his tenure. He gave us a Grey Cup appearance and had a peculiar gift for recruiting brilliant one-year-wonder receivers.

Did the Bombers even use stitched jerseys back then? When I watch the old 80s games the numbers and letters look all shiny and plasticky like vinyl iron-ons.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mNM8SwkhXZI http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xj8fPebMdPI

This is the one Bomber game I'll get to see live this year. Hoping for another crazy upset vs. BC like we had in 2009 and 2010. Hope Chad Simpson runs like Fred Reid and Marty Markett ruins a QB's life like Deon Beasley did...

I'd sell you my late eighties #63 but I'd worry that Chris Walby would get hit by lightning or be carried away by a tornado or something.

Simpson and Sheets here too.