JuranBoldenRules
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We need better players. Peach is one of the league leaders in UR penalties during his time in the league, doesn't make him a good player or do anything to our opponents.
I'll take a guy who can do his job whether he barks at people or shakes their hand after the play. Doesn't matter. The problem is the collective number of guys who are average or worse CFL players, not personalities.
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Getzlaff at the right price would be a nice addition, he's better than our NI receivers. Key words are right price.
And you'd be lucky to get half a season out of him. He's done.
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Could have taken Waud instead of Richards and Shaq Murray Lawrence instead of Morgan but the Guru thinks.......
14 and 33 with Bozo Walters in charge. But it takes years, they saw. Just ignore Ottawa hosting the EF in its second year, Edmonton going from 4-14 to hosting the WF in 2 years and the Riders going from 5-13 to winning a GC at home in 2 years. All under the SMS I might add.
The Morgan pick isn't as bad as the Richards one. Richards is really coming in as Etienne 2.0 but worse with the concussion history. Don't draft guys who can't play football that early. The guys you are hoping to turn into players need to be late picks.
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A convert returned by the defense in Canadian football is always worth 2 points.If the returner had left the end zone and gone back and had been tackled it would count as two. Missed and not conceded and tackled, conceded, or missed through the end zone is a rouge. Because the ball is live missed and return is a TD. Think of it as a kick-off. A missed PAT returned the other way is only one point a returned two pointer is worth two.
To the OP, the returner isn't conceding s point on a PAT. If they really cared about what you are talking about on FG's they'd adopt the Football Canada rule of putting the ball on the 20 if the ball is returned out of the end zone.
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Just posted this in the game day thread, but the last time we played Toronto, Lirim was 4-4 in FGs including a 53 yard attempt. He was good enough then...
That's just not possible....he sucks and everybody around here knows it. ******* terrible. Cut him yesterday!
Dave Ridgway had field goal percentages of 62.9, 66.7, and 60.5 from 1983-1985. Pretty sure he turned out okay...
Liu Passaglia had field goal percentages of 57.1, 67.4, 67.5, 64.1, and 63.8 in 1976, 1980, 1981, 1990, and 1999 respectively. Pretty sure he wasn't too bad either over the duration of his career.
I swear people just like to whine and make noise just for the sake of doing so, without considering that MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, players in sports will occasionally have a bad year from time to time, and that it is not a reflection on their overall capabilities.
It's not even worth discussing kickers like that in comparison to kickers today. The kickers today are much more accurate and expectations are much higher on them. Plus the ease of playing imports there is a big change. Passaglia had 2 seasons 80% or higher out of 25 and was divisional all-star 9 times. Every team but the Argos has a 80% plus kicker this season on their roster as of today.
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I saw this and chuckled a bit thinking about the people on here who'll swear up and down that nobody could possibly be worse than Winnipeg...
Montreal averages a full yard more per rush, given up 24 fewer sacks than the Bombers, even with having a rookie QB at the helm for the majority of the season.
Whoever is grading their OL the lowest is hugely biased or incompetent.
- TBURGESS and blueandgoldguy
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I just don't understand what good it does to piss and moan. It's all good...perfectly within your rights to do it, I'm just saying I don't see the need for it and don't gain anything from it. So many on here have become completely irrational and just negative for the sake of being negative. It serves no purpose, other than to make this board virtually unreadable...
I was to the point of not wanting to log on anymore. Then put 10 people onto ignore and the boards are readable again. Unfortunately ignore doesn't work in chat, so that's still unreadable, but the boards are much more readable now.
I think ignore works in chat. Check your ignore preferences.
I was to the point of not wanting to log on anymore. Then put 10 people onto ignore and the boards are readable again. Unfortunately ignore doesn't work in chat, so that's still unreadable, but the boards are much more readable now.I just don't understand what good it does to piss and moan. It's all good...perfectly within your rights to do it, I'm just saying I don't see the need for it and don't gain anything from it. So many on here have become completely irrational and just negative for the sake of being negative. It serves no purpose, other than to make this board virtually unreadable...
That only gets you so far. Ignore can help you to get better at counting to ten and just arguing salient points. Eventually though ignore can make life terribly boring.
Not when the people you ignore are terribly boring.
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We are the weakest team by far on both sides of the line. DL has perked up in the 2nd half of the season, but still a non-factor. As long as a stiff like Neufeld is trying to block our QB's are in constant danger.
Until this is addressed you could hire God as head coach and Jesus as offensive coordinator and it wouldn't make a difference.
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IF there are boundaries being stepped over to the detriment of the Bomber command structure, it wouldn't be unique. Does anyone remember the reign of Harold Ballard? And now what is going on with the Blue Jays with the CEO(Shapiro) renewing the contract of the manager bypassing the GM (who resigned)?
Anthony Crispino, is that you?
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Moore drops too many and gets no respect from opposing defences. He's a good #3, mediocre #2 based on his time here.
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Should not any tackle to any players knee be illegal. If I was receiver or rb i would be pissed if only the QB's knees are protected. I also don't get why any QB would not wear some sort of knee brace at all times. I know it reduces your mobility slightly but your livelihood is dependent on that body part.
I think the rules already encourage form tackling and the officials can certainly apply rough play and unnecessary roughness penalties to both high (above the shoulders) and low (knees) hits.
It's a change in approach for the officials that needs to happen. The rules are there. The game is derived from rugby and if you don't form tackle in that sport it's an automatic foul.
A good example was that hit on Banks yesterday where he literally was clubbed in the head. They made the right call on review, but any clubbing of the head whether or not grasping facemask should see the flags flying from any official with a view of the ballcarrier.
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To be honest, I think some of these QB's are so used to the protective wrap they are in that it's counter productive. Literally from the time they are 10 years old they never get hit or learn how to. You watch a guy like Burris running outside the pocket and he doesn't brace for contact. Then he's mad if he gets touched.
The biggest problem is the crappy OL and the advantage DL's have on them with the expanded rosters.
The rule on low hits already exists in the pocket.
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Nope. BOD members have been involved with the process for every hire since Cal Murphy (as far back as I go) and the process of every firing too. The CEO can't make those decisions about organization direction and payouts on his own. This is not unusual in any business, public or private. In my professional life I've never been hired by any less than a committee of 3 and am now on hiring committees/panels that range between 3 and 7.
Once doesn't make it traditionally. They did that after Bauer left as an over-reaction to giving Bauer too much power.The Bombers BOD has traditionally been involved in the hiring process for both GM's and head coaches. Not the entire board, but ad hoc committees have been directly involved with the interviewing, short listing and final decisions.
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The Bombers BOD has traditionally been involved in the hiring process for both GM's and head coaches. Not the entire board, but ad hoc committees have been directly involved with the interviewing, short listing and final decisions.
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The BoD has about as much influence on the on-field product as you or I, yet every month or two there are people complaining about them. They hire the CEO. They set overall governance policy for the organization. They review financials and set goals. That's about it. They do not have ANYTHING to do with the football operations of the team. Nothing, nada, zilch. Now having said that, we'll still have people trying to blame them for the team's record, but every now and then I like to try and point out that blaming them for the win/loss is like blaming the board of Ford/GM/Chrysler when your car breaks down.
Ideally that's what they would do. How was Joe Mack hired? There's a long history of the BOD doing a lot more than hiring the CEO and staying out of the way.
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I think they should get rid of the rouge altogether personally. It's like rewarding someone for screwing up.
Not at all. It's a point for kicking the ball in goal. It's more penalizing the defense/returning team for not bringing the ball out of goal. Why not scrap field goals because they are rewarding offenses that can't score touchdowns?
meh, i prefer the ol lateral game, school yard/longest yard styles
Laterals are way more dangerous (drop it and it's potentially headed the other direction in the arms of the other team). Considering that on a kickoff cover the only guy back is likely their kicker as everyone else is running full speed toward you to cover the kick, you have a decent shot of forcing them into a tough situation by quickly kicking it back. The Argos scored a safety on us when O'Shea was their ST coach back when Serna was our kicker. Squibbed a kickoff at the end of the half that Kuale scooped up and blasted 60 something yards. Serna conceded a safety.
Teams should be putting guys onside more often IMO. Like today in Hamilton, anytime I punt into the wind I'd have 3 guys onside. Even if you don't recover the ball you're killing the opponents return game because they have to focus on the onside guys.
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McManus' job is the easiest one on the personnel side. He's been a dud. It's been two seasons and we have Bass and Johnny Adams as actual pieces moving forward in terms of guys brought in the last couple years from the US. That is beyond brutal. Time to make a change in that personnel role. If they like McManus touring the US and scouting in person, maybe keep him and add a role for a John Murphy type guy who has contacts and can do both sides of that job. Or just can McManus.
Our drafting hasn't been much better. Goossen is struggling to prove himself as a CFLer. Chungh looks fine, other than that we haven't even added someone capable of being a role player on offense or defense to this point since Walters has been in charge.
I don't see a lot to be hopeful about at that level after two seasons, Walters, Goveia, McManus. This is a much larger cause for concern in comparison to the coaching. If I were Wade Miller I'd probably fire the whole crew, but McManus should be an obvious one.
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I wonder how many of the people criticizing this guy are season ticket holders. I can tell you it's been absolute hell being one since the 2012 season, really since the whole move to the new stadium began, and I won't be one for the first time in my adult life next season. This guy is at least joking, he's already renewed for 2016. There's a confluence of factors for me, but the Football Club has basically given me no reason to remain a season ticket holder beyond loving the sport of football. I love the Bombers, but I haven't been in love with them for several years. Making time to go to the games is a hassle at this point in my life and rarely enjoyable.
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...it was always stated that the 6-8 week time frame was best case scenario.....
It may have been 6-8 weeks to be re-evaluated. Whatever the case there was never any certainty
That's exactly what it was.
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I didn't budget for a sellout with Huff. I budgeted for 3000 more per game which would be an average of 30-31k per game. Realistic if you look at attendance during the 2011 Swaggerville season. If Huff could produce a consistent 10-12 win team, he'd more than pay for his salary at $1 million per season as GM and HC.
Yes they could. 3,000 extra tickets sold per game over a full season is an extra ~2 million dollars. Not very good at math, hey?
Then you could volunteer to be his offensive coordinator, cause they couldn't afford to pay one.I'd like to see the Bombers step up and make a big splash by giving Huff $1 million per season to be our HC and GM. Unfortunately our CEO and Board are way too cheap, and too stupid to understand that you need to spend money to make money. You put a winning product on the field and you'll average 31,000+ bums in the seats per game vs the 26-27k we probably averaged this year.
Once they put together a legitimate balance sheet that demonstrates an ability to operate the Football Club, IGF and service their debts we can start dreaming. They haven't done that since the stadium opened. I don't know how you budget for sellouts. Hiring Hufnagel isn't like flipping a switch.
And if he wins 15 games over two seasons and you want to fire him? Can you, or are you too invested financially? Hufnagel's success isn't just him. He's got the best personnel guy in the recent history of the league with him, he's got Dickenson, Stubler etc. If you can't build that organization, what's the point of paying one person?
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Yes they could. 3,000 extra tickets sold per game over a full season is an extra ~2 million dollars. Not very good at math, hey?I'd like to see the Bombers step up and make a big splash by giving Huff $1 million per season to be our HC and GM. Unfortunately our CEO and Board are way too cheap, and too stupid to understand that you need to spend money to make money. You put a winning product on the field and you'll average 31,000+ bums in the seats per game vs the 26-27k we probably averaged this year.
Then you could volunteer to be his offensive coordinator, cause they couldn't afford to pay one.
Once they put together a legitimate balance sheet that demonstrates an ability to operate the Football Club, IGF and service their debts we can start dreaming. They haven't done that since the stadium opened. I don't know how you budget for sellouts. Hiring Hufnagel isn't like flipping a switch.
Let the firings begin
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I'd like to see Howell get a shot to run special teams.
I'd also like to see McManus canned soon. Get in the market for head of US scouting/personnel guy ASAP.