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At the very least Castillo has to come on the roster to punt. That change should have been made 6 weeks ago.

That record is essentially meaningless. Kickers across the board are much better now and we had almost two decades of mediocre Westwood to start the modern era. It's the proverbial tallest midget award. Hajrullahu has cost us two wins this season directly (@ Calgary, vs Edmonton) and been a major contributor to more losses, home vs Toronto another big one. That could very well be the margin of being a near .500 team and a bunch of people losing their jobs. I suppose it's O'Shea's fault to a large degree for not putting a punter on the roster anyways.

His punting has been fine. Can't blame him for crappy coverage on returns. He has continually put punts right down the middle of the field when they should be going near sidelines. You cannot blame a punter if a cover team fails to cover. Even if they kick a ball right when it should go left you should be able to compensate in coverage. In every case this year either the cover team was blocked out or did not stay in their lanes. If you stay in your lanes you rarely will get scored on.I have watched lots of teams kickers place the ball in the middle of the field or not pull of a great punt and not get scored on. This is junk. The likelihood of a kick being returned a long way increases the further away from the sideline it is because the return teams blockers come into play and the returner is making one guy miss away from having a huge seam. I'm not sure how a coverage team is supposed to adapt to an inaccurate punter. Look up and watch the kick, then run and cover? It's pro football, there's no margin for error and wasting time. In high school you cover the whole field because the kickers have absolutely no idea where the ball is going for the most part. Shouldn't have to be that way in the CFL. The kick doesn't even have to be pinpoint accurate, just anywhere inside the numbers. The Bombers coverage unit has done a good job this season despite Hajrullahu routinely misplacing the ball and out kicking coverage. He's not a punter and that's obvious.

Looked to me like Nichols sacked up at halftime and was ready to play in the 2nd half. He looked like he wanted to cry in the first half. Hitting hot routes is all QB reads, the offensive coordinator can't make the reads for him.

Harlequin is booked at the Pandora on Grey Cup Sunday so the CFL might be out of luck.

Just a matter of who the guys chasing kicks are.

It's a good thing we signed Gary Nectarine to fill in.

And it sad because whether is right or wrong (to cut the coach/es) that's the reason why coach/es doesn't want to come here. Winnipeg is a coach's grave yard. I don't want us to cut coach/es and then we end up with someone worse as a replacements because no one wants to come here. I don't see it getting any worse with a different HC. Regina's the only team behind us in the standings, and they'd be tied with us if Glenn came back a week earlier IMHO.We don't fire coaches as quickly as Montreal does and they can still bring new ones in, so I don't see firing O'Shea costing us chances at bringing in a new coach. The last two times Montreal has hired a head coach they had multiple candidates around the league turn down interviews and ended up hiring Dan Hawkins and Tom Higgins, both unemployed then and since they were fired. Not the best example. Really? Who turned down interviews in Montreal? BTW: O'Shea wouldn't have got a second season in Montreal after going 1-7 in the last half of last season. Jones, Dickenson. Not sure why that matters. Montreal has been putrid in a mostly terrible division since Calvillo's career ended in 2013. Firing coaches hasn't helped, and their hires get progressively worse. Not exactly a beacon for anyone to follow unless you're trying to build a shitty football organization.

And it sad because whether is right or wrong (to cut the coach/es) that's the reason why coach/es doesn't want to come here. Winnipeg is a coach's grave yard. I don't want us to cut coach/es and then we end up with someone worse as a replacements because no one wants to come here. I don't see it getting any worse with a different HC. Regina's the only team behind us in the standings, and they'd be tied with us if Glenn came back a week earlier IMHO.We don't fire coaches as quickly as Montreal does and they can still bring new ones in, so I don't see firing O'Shea costing us chances at bringing in a new coach. The last two times Montreal has hired a head coach they had multiple candidates around the league turn down interviews and ended up hiring Dan Hawkins and Tom Higgins, both unemployed then and since they were fired. Not the best example.

And the ignore list grows...

So what's your point? Are you saying that adding Muamba wouldn't improve the run defense? He'd improve the ratio situation. I don't think he's a better player than Ian Wild or Khalil Bass, but he's Canadian. I think that's likely the role he would have played in this defense, I don't think he'd do as well on the line of scrimmage as much as Hurl has been this season as the "MLB." But yes, I don't believe Muamba would make a huge impact on this team right now. His value is being a guy who is as good as most import MLB/WIL in the league and being Canadian.

There's no reason why so many OL should be NI's when there are not enough of them up to the task of playing in the CFL. That just poor management that is taking far too long to adjust to the reality of the expanded rosters and more DI's.

Wiecek is an idiot. I happened to catch him on 1290 on my way to work a few days ago and forgot to turn it off. He said that illegal formation shouldn't even be called if the receiver is out wide and it's a QB sneak. Idiot. Obviously the official botched the call on Friday, but formations are legal or illegal regardless of where the play goes. Why have rules at all? The Free Press and 1290 should really do themselves a favour and get someone who actually wants the job on the Bomber/CFL beat. I can't recall ever hearing/reading someone so disinterested and outright contemptuous towards what they are covering in the media ever.

5.5 ypc against in 2013. 5.5 ypc against in 2015.

I find it hard to fault one official for those Bombers-Als debacles in Winnipeg in September-October 2011. Both all-time games in terms of poor officiating. That call for Carr came right after a play where he actually was interfered with and there was no call. They also completely botched the spot on the first QB sneak for the winning Bomber touchdown, Brink's entire body up to his knees was in the endzone unless he fumbled there was no chance that he wasn't in, and the Bombers never did get in.

You really think the officials would overturn a call because the team penalized said they didn't actually deserve a penalty? No. And that's not what I wrote. Then what is the relevance of what you wrote?

You really think the officials would overturn a call because the team penalized said they didn't actually deserve a penalty?

The Lions were worse in each successive season under Benevides. Ditto Higgins teams in his last two head coaching stops.

They already are. The officials are responsible for judging whether the formation is legal based on the rules. Players can always ask for clarification, that's what the check-in with the linesman is. You'll see defensive players ask the umpire to set the line for them fairly often on short-yardage so they don't line up offside too.

If substitutions and participation are reviewable, there's no reason why formations can't be.

OK...everyone makes mistakes. I'm certainly not immune to them. However, why didn't they pick up the flag? His memory couldn't be that bad that he couldn't remember 5 seconds later that he did indeed acknowledge Adam's position on the line. This doesn't make sense. No kidding. It's gotta be instinct for a side judge. If you don't throw the flag on the snap, why the hell would you throw it 7 seconds later? Can't invent penalties. That official should not work another game this season. Clearly not up to it.

Suitor is the worst colour commentator on anything I watch. Picks one narrative (likely what he was fed by a producer) and pounds it into the dirt all game long, regardless of what is actually happening in the game. Pure garbage.

But you can't. All the " other plays and squandered opportunities" absolutely are the teams fault and they should wear it. The thing is, that game breaking incident wasn't the incompetence of the team, it wasn't the Stamps out playing the bombers, no bone headed coaching mistake- it was 100% on the Zebra on a bllusiht call. They gave that game to Calgary, that is what is infuriating about it. Agreed. The problem with the "shoulda made the plays earlier in the game" stuff is that the cumulative effect of all the plays to that point in the game had put the Bombers in a great position to at least tie the game if not more, and then the official unnecessarily jabbed a pin in that balloon. There's no reason to shield the official with that crap. That complete screw-up on the most basic part of the side judge's job took the determination of the outcome away from the players and onto his flag. The league needs a mechanism to ensure that doesn't happen, to ensure the integrity of the outcome (don't think it happened in this case but a fix would not be hard). They've done it with pass interference after a series of ridiculous end of game incidents. Let the officiating supervisor or command centre make the right call.

He's always been a DB, arrived here as a DB, played there in NCAA. Johnny Adams went out for a few quarters and Stoudermire filled in.

What makes this one so bad is how basic of a call was just completely botched. At least with the Richardson fumble and whistle debacle in 2010 the rule was pretty vague and unclear. It was understandable that a mistake could be made. This one is just pathetic.