johnzo

🧠: CFL preseason means nothing, it's just nice to have football back.
💙: YEHAW RIDERS LOSE! 🎉 🎉 🎉

🧠: CFL preseason means nothing, it's just nice to have football back.
💙: YEHAW RIDERS LOSE! 🎉 🎉 🎉

🧠: CFL preseason means nothing, it's just nice to have football back.
💙: YEHAW RIDERS LOSE! 🎉 🎉 🎉

woo hoo football!!! For pre-season I'm pretty impressed with the quality. Just so happy to be watching my favorite sport, even if its two teams I despise. 👍

Yes it's only pre season, and yes it's only Stamps hosting Gappers, but we officially have 2026 CFL football today .. by gar it's been awhile.
Also, the "broadcast", if you want to call it that, is on the CFL website...

I am paying a lot more attention to this camp because of the lack of Jets playoff hockey and a perhaps misguided hope that this year will be better than last season with a new attitude and a new O coordinator, and a new center...and a massive upgraded Jake on our DL...anyway...getting very excited for this season. LFG!!

Must have been quite an impression on your new co-workers when you walked in like this on your first day!

Major Williams with a nice read and jumped route for a int...him and Burrell of the new guys to me look the best and most likely vying for that open spot as front runners...for now

They had lost 4 of 5 before the ZC trade. There was a game vs. Hamilton that was just an absolute mess.

Seems like a cool idea....

My all time favorite playoff defense was our 1990 team with Greg Battle, James West, Tyrone Jones and Albert Williams at LB. Tracy Ham and the Edmonton offense didn't want to leave the sidelines. Beautiful to watch.

all high profile defensive free agent new team tweets must feature a photo of free agent forcing a Blue Bomber fumble.

His arm wasn't shot until he went to Ottawa. He could still make all the throws in 2019 when he last played for us.

When given the chance, he could definitely pitch...
College numbers: 12,616 passing yards (6th in NCAA history) and 96 touchdowns over 47 games

I was at that game. Matty Ice was red-hot, we were up and down the field all game. Classic CFL playoff game except it ended sad for us.
100% Matty deserves recognition and fan love but he's not an all-timer.

I was at that game. Matty Ice was red-hot, we were up and down the field all game. Classic CFL playoff game except it ended sad for us.
100% Matty deserves recognition and fan love but he's not an all-timer.

I was at that game. Matty Ice was red-hot, we were up and down the field all game. Classic CFL playoff game except it ended sad for us.
100% Matty deserves recognition and fan love but he's not an all-timer.

Also, all that game manager stuff that people hang on Nichols is unfair because his OC was always Lapo, and Lapo would turn Doug Flutie into a game manager if he got the chance.

I was at that game. Matty Ice was red-hot, we were up and down the field all game. Classic CFL playoff game except it ended sad for us.
100% Matty deserves recognition and fan love but he's not an all-timer.

AND in all honesty...he played well in playoffs and if not for a seive defence vs..was it BC??...He would have pulled off a playoff win...we lost but not from his play. I bet his playoff stats are much better than ZC's in his time here

Matty Ice had a couple great showings in the playoffs. Like you said, just wasn't a team that was ready to win yet.

I’m not exactly a nichols booster, but I think that’s reasonable. Def not roh guy, but bb hof qb? why not i can’t think of any one not in whose better (and retired)

I'd put Matty Ice in the Bombers HOF but definitely not the Ring. He's one of the most underrated performers from this glory era.

100 percent. Nichols saved Walters and O’sheas jobs, and without him we don’t build a team and culture good enough to win a grey cup. No way we land guys like Jefferson or Bighill without Nichols. Just to reminder people how dyer it was. We were 1-4, not a single winning season since 2011, only one winning season since 2007.. we win 10 straight games, and really the rest is history.

Great QBs on great teams don't screw things up. They play like game managers, make great plays themselves at times but let the talent around them win games. BLM may not have been as great if he had played for the Lions instead of the Stamps. Or with us from 2013-16. We were a wasteland at qb back then as I recall. Look what Collaros did in Saskatchewan. Virtually nothing. Then he comes to Winnipeg after another useless stint in Toronto as a washed up pivot & set the CFL on fire as a Blue Bomber in 2019 & 21. How good would Ken Ploen have done had he signed with the Alouettes instead of the Bombers. All the pieces have to fit in place even with the great ones to win.
BTW, I think Matt Nichols doesn't get the credit he deserves. He came here for a bag of footballs as Ed Hervey felt he was washed up. Nichols turned the fortunes of the Bombers around. I'd like to see the Bombers recognize his contributions to making this organization a winner.