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Once doesn't make it traditionally. They did that after Bauer left as an over-reaction to giving Bauer too much power. 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.

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.

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.

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? 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.

Ray was awful, although fairly typical for his career. Moved the ball, didn't score any points. Doesn't look like he has much arm strength. Will be interesting to see where he ends up next season.

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.

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.

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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Then you could volunteer to be his offensive coordinator, cause they couldn't afford to pay one.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? 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. 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. 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?

Then you could volunteer to be his offensive coordinator, cause they couldn't afford to pay one. 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? 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.

There is no problem with it if it producing results. It is not and therefore those responsible should be up for review before continuing their employment. Why pay people for not fulfilling their job duties? This is a weird argument. I get the argument that Walters has struggled to find talent, but you're arguing that he shouldn't bring in any players to look for guys who are talented? Makes no sense. This is extended training camp essentially for every team in the league with the expanded PR.

Then you could volunteer to be his offensive coordinator, cause they couldn't afford to pay one.

I also find it amusing to see how many people take things at face value. And "off field issues" could be anything, including my theory.And ya, O'Shea is nothing but forthcoming with the media That returns us to tburg's question of how that saves us face? Any team can can pull someone off of another team's PR. And any team can block that trade by putting them on their AR. Because for that to work, Tajh has to want to leave Winnipeg and go to Montreal. PR's aren't like waiver claims. So? What does this have to do with your theory? How is this any different than what the person you responded to posted? Clearly he wants to be in Montreal, he just signed there. All the other poster is saying is that the Bombers could have easily blocked it if they wanted to. Clearly they didn't want to.

I see it every game in Calgary. No high school linebacker lines up like Hurl. No Eskimo linebacker either btw. Every linebacker in Canada (excluding SAM's in the CFL) is playing through a gap first and foremost against the run, regardless of where they are lining up. Formation doesn't matter, the gaps adjust to the blocking. Just as every offence is using zone blocking in the run game. It's a cat and mouse game. Might swing back again, but that's where it is now. Edmonton rarely shows a front with fewer than 5 guys on the line, same for Hamilton. The guys in the middle are commonly the ones closer to the line taking an inside gap, that's why the playmakers are now the WIL's, Lawrence, McCoil, Bass, Venable etc.

Edmonton has looked pretty bad in the 2nd half of the season. It's not even cliche this season to say that all you gotta do is get in the playoffs to have a shot at the Grey Cup. The Bombers are literally one play from winning over Edmonton and Calgary in half the games they've played them this season.

You'd be hard pressed to find a football team in Canada from high school to the pros who are playing the kind of 80s defense you guys are describing with guys guessing where the ball is going and chasing, and not gap control on first downs and 2nd and short. The only major variations are on passing downs.

Denmark is the guy other teams are choosing to sit on with a guy over top and covering him on a curl drop too, bracket coverage. Since teams have been doing that our offence has been awful. Moore isn't a #1 guy, other teams don't respect him and just hand him the rope to finish himself off, drops and fumbles. Adams is lazy as all hell, it's been awesome for the few halves of games he's decided to play hard. I wouldn't bring either of those guys back next year. Denmark is a very good player, hard to get him the ball though when there's no one else who is a consistent threat.

Because that is the system they are running. It's all about keeping OL from getting to the second level and forcing cutbacks. Bass is basically your MLB in the way you're thinking of it, the guy chasing the play. He's been a beast once he adjusted to the width of the field and figured out how to get on the right side of the play to make tackles with his inside shoulder.

It's not even that they lost guys through attrition. Taman made extremely short-sighted decisions around the Expansion Draft. They decided to give up all their interior NI DL. Within a year they were plugging Canadians in as starters on the interior DL. Just poor management.

Glenn has been relatively awful since he returned from injury.

Who was the quarterback? Picard was in for all the debacles vs Hamilton and Edmonton. He's not adding anything, even mentally.

If he can get out of his stance and not get blown 5 yards off the line on the majority of run plays he's already better than Neufeld.

And an illegal block. We were over due to catch a break though.That wasn't a block. It was just a collision. Stoudermire was running his route and the BC player ran into him. That's a key point. Stoudermire is running a hard dig into the field. He's allowed his space too and he didn't really veer off his route. Phillips was stationary then read the route and reacted late. Looked like they had banjo zone coverage on with Phillips taking the curl/flat (ended up being Denmark) and the corner taking the deep route (Stoudermire). Phillips turns his hips and starts to run toward the boundary to chase Denmark, runs into Stoudermire's path. Stoudermire isn't even looking at him.

Worked though. Would have worked better if the left guard blocked anyone. I honestly don't know how people expect any offensive coordinator to build even an average running game with so many overmatched OL. Capers wasn't getting off the line at all. He looked fine at tackle. Neufeld looks bad everywhere. Routinely getting bullied off the line by guys like Khreem Smith in the run game. Just brutal.