johnzo

might be time for someone bold to put a fork in this weird season and fire up the 2025-2026 Blue Bomber Offseason Thread.

Ah. 💡 If I can read Wikipedia right, Mike Miller is the guy who oversaw the development of the sex pest and Arbuckle. That seems like a pretty good guy to have if you're looking at needing to develop a QB as we need to be. Jarious Jackson ran a pretty great O in Edmonton in 2024 -- he had MBT on a serious roll. Too bad for him his defense had negative clutch. Would be happy to see him get a promotion.

back in the day when he was an argos coach he did a Q&A thing on cfl.ca. I asked him how defensive plays are called and whether the D can make audibles based on what they see. Got a terrific multi-paragraph response back from him. Definitely got the sense that he cared about doing this tiny nothing gig for some fan on the internet.

nope. see https://www.argonauts.ca/2025/10/22/hogan-a-look-at-the-argos-roster-for-2026/

Arbuckle is also signed for next year.

Mike Miller? Is that guy on an OC track? (I honestly have no idea)

the pick that BLM threw early in the second quarter that killed a promising Hamilton drive -- he was staring Lawler down all the way.

Congrats bigg jay, who is not just MBB champ but also outpredicted the best of cfl.ca (Steinberg at 56) and is currently tied with the best guy at 3downnation (Abbott)

that would have been a first down if the BC lead blocker had finished his block. Rourke had a lane all the way to the first down.

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34 needs to finish that block, that Rourke draw started off as a real nice looking play with a lane all the way to the first down

kicking three there was not a great call, I don't think, but we'll see how this plays out.

Crunch time for the green. Rourke starting to roll.

Riders' secondary did not take their Ritalin this morning... these conference final games have not been track meets but they've been tense and enjoyable to watch.

BC's defence starting to regress to their squishy form of midseason.

The Teeth, coached by The Ears. $5000 is a lot of tires and oil changes.

right before his hamstring re-injury he made a nice solo run for a first down in the red zone ... and he clowned it up on the sidelines, making big eating spaghetti eating motions at the crowd. Then he got hurt on the next play. Felt a little like karma and hubris. In conclusion, needs to turn his Madden cinematics down about 25% and I bet he doesn't finish the game next week. yup. he gets the goat horns for sure.

The Litter Bowl

the prestigious MBB poll voted decisively in favour of Montreal. Would be interesting to see how the MBB predictions fare against the cfl.ca ones...

The trouble is that we're old at positions that are difficult to recruit for. Our best OL is ancient. Our best Canadian receiver -- our best receiver period -- is on the wrong side of 30 and has had significant injuries two out of the past three years. Our best Canadian OL, Neuf, will be 37 next season. worst of all, Zach is 37 and he is probably our best option at QB next year. Who else is out there? Taylor Powell might be a good FA signing, but he's been moldering on the bench for two years now. Maybe Brown could come home in a trade? I'm not in a position to judge our pipeline but it seems like our pipeline will need to do some good work or we're going to drop from the middle tier of the CFL to the bottom tier next year.

the stadium is kind of small time but damn is it a fine place to watch a game on a summer night. Love the setting up on the mountain with the campus buildings wrapping around the stadium. Absolutely gorgeous scenery. Need to get back there someday.

sucks that the Bombers aren't in it, but have to say this is a compelling CFL playoff bracket with four legit finalists. Am rooting for a BC vs. Montreal final, I think that'll be the best hope for a classic grey cup starring two great young QBs .... but will settle for anyone but the riders. decide on a word worse than "suck" and use it for the Riders.

yup. again, bad situational awareness on VAJ's part, throwing low-percentage endzone bombs that stopped the clock twice while they were in FG range. You can put this loss on him. Dude is massively talented but does not play in reality.

Just catching up on the game now ... that was the most VAJ play possible on the final play of the second half. Dude runs around and extends the play with eight seconds left in the half. Brutal situational awareness. Just like when he got hurt earlier in the season, diving forward for what wasn't going to be a first down.

crappy honker to that tramp stamp Mobil ad on everyone's jerseys. bush league.