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Who do you think pays coordinators more? I mean Sask has a staff of 20 of Jones' Tennessee buddies and some CFL vets he worked with like McAdoo, but who is getting paid more?

Pfft...get real, those guys have barely played or been targeted. When they have all they have done is make plays. Wolitarsky finally starts being targeted, last 4 games he's on 1000 yard pace. Corey Washington is in an import. Guy who has spent time with 7 NFL teams. What has he done in that time frame?

He was an assistant for 4 seasons in Toronto under Barker and Milanovich. Special Teams, the coach who most closely works in game with the head coach to make in game decisions. O'Shea is not the kind of head coach who is going to take over the O or the D. He's an overseer. Wally Buono is the same way. He manages the team. He's not going to be like Chris Jones who coaches every play on D and has nothing to do with the rest of the team during the practice week and the game. We've had those coaches, Lapo is that kind of head coach who coached the offense and had nothing to do with the rest of the team. The only thing I blame O'Shea for is for trusting Lapo with the offense. They needed to integrate Streveler at least by the LDC given how Nichols was struggling. They let Nichols get to this point and Lapo flat out refuses to use Streveler at all. He indicated this in his media scrum this week. I'd have had the press release out this morning terminating Lapo. He has not developed an offense that utilizes the strengths of the players in it. We have under utilized a number of useful players and continued to go to the well with garbage players like Adams getting targeted repeatedly and not producing.

If our offense is going to be a 17 point handicap every week it wouldn't matter if we could have a seance and have Buddy Ryan running our D. We won't beat anyone. And the D has actually been good on the whole this season with a few bad games. The O is a black hole.

You better move to the States and start scouting then. Again, bullshit. The only part that has any credible thought is on Neufeld. We should have had more depth behind Hardrick and Foketi, but them getting hurt in consecutive weeks is pretty unusual. We've had a bunch of import returners and if you look around the league there aren't many guys lighting it up right now. Fogg is one of the top punt returners. It's not worth rostering someone to do kickoffs. I agree the import scouting has left a lot to be desired. But disagree with the bullshit assumption about imports vs Canadians. I don't believe that offense yesterday would have been better with 3 more average import players starting.

You don't even make sense. 5-10 years to change personnel? Most of these players careers don't last more than 3-4 years, and very few play on the same team that long.

Streveler looked alright considering he was running Nichols offense and Nichols is basically the complete opposite style of QB, along with Streveler's level of experience. Lapo also had about 5 playcalls yesterday, Harris/Flanders search run, Demski sweep, QB Draw, RB slip screen and a handful of pocket passing plays. Can't really judge Streveler until he actually gets to run an offense designed for his strengths.

That's hogwash. To have one guy as good at both placekicking and punting is extremely rare. There are better punters, but they don't placekick. There are a couple placekickers in his realm but they don't punt. He's definitely worth one of four DI spots considering most teams are using 2 roster spots and more cap space on kickers, at least the teams with good kickers.

That's not a fact. That's an assumption.

So the offense would be better if Harris and Demski were replaced by imports, just because they are imports? That's a fact? Are you actually serious? The imports are the ones underperforming on offense.

That’s such a load of bullshit.

Let him call the plays and find out.

And the D was never that bad. The O has struggled forever to be consistent. Bombers have been best field position team for years and always one of the best turning the ball over defensively since 2016. O has had amazing games and games where they can’t get a first down. I’ve been sounding this alarm for at least a year. It’s blatantly obvious and shouldn’t take a bunch of games where the O scores more for the opposing team than ours to make significant changes.

They didn’t run a single read option. You are talking about a quarterback draw. There was no other option. The play was just Streveler running, no back to hand it to, no pass option, no read to make other than for Streveler to try to find a gap to run to. They had zippo installed for Streveler, nothing. The only difference between the calls for him and Nichols was they called QB Draw twice in that half he played. It was a disgraceful display of coaching by Lapolice. How can they go into that game knowing where Nichols is at and not give reps to Streveler and have a game plan ready for Streveler as well? To me that’s fireable amount of negligence for an OC.

Lapo should watch a lot of Mike Reilly film if he needs a blueprint for building a gameplan for Streveler. They get him on the move all the time and challenge the defense to hold contain and cover 3-4 guys in the route that are accessible to Reilly.

More than 2.

Running Nichols playbook.

8 NI's. 7 on O, 1 on D. But doesn't really matter just means there's an import on O who can sub in for anyone, really 6 on O, 1 on D.

He also has a coaching and support staff that doesn't fit on a Canadian sized football field....until next season. They don't look that good. Bombers blow out both games with even average QBing. You'd expect to lose by 20-30 handing the other team 3 scores a game.

Always PVR TSN3 for Bomber games.

You'd just have to start Petermann in addition to Wolitarsky and Demski to be able to go all import on D. I mean they could have done it anyway today with 4 NI OL starting. But once they go back to 3 NI OL, start the three receivers, you have Simonise to backup along with Lafrance, probably call back Tylor Henry and dress him instead of the 7th OL dressed today.

Ya when two import receivers went out. The backups are Canadians, we didn't have a DI receiver. I don't for the life of me understand what they love about Loffler so much. You'd think you'd want any of the guys on your defensive depth chart to make some plays on the ball carrier and the ball. He's barely made any in 12 games. We also only dressed 6 DL, one of them being here only 2 weeks. That's a disaster. Need at least 7. Not sure why we don't have more options on our practice roster in terms of imports on both lines.

I think they've done a good job of shifting the demographic of who is buying tickets younger. But they've lost a lot of mature fans with the transition to the new stadium. And I'm not trying to get into the blame game about people not going even though it's so convenient now. There's a perception and an experience people have had and that is something they have to fight against to sell tickets.

Ticket sales aren't good. They've been down every year since the move to the new stadium win or lose, and are several thousand below the average of the same period in the old stadium. They are playing to about 80% of capacity. In the old stadium it was over 85%.

Bombers dominated field position today. Riders left their base defense on for punt return to stop the fakes.