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Personally, I feel that Stubler has been done for awhile, back to his last couple years in Toronto (07-08).  I'm not a huge fan of the avoid the deep ball but give up most of the rest of the field (including the run) approach, that's how we ended up killing Stubler's defence on route to the 07 Grey Cup game.  CFL offences have evolved (call it the Trestman Revolution), and the deep ball is the lowest percentage throw, the shorter the pass the higher the completion rate.  Offences are all about high percentage plays.  Top OC's will run the ball when they are getting 8-9 YPC.  Defences need to challenge QB's and hold gaps.  The best approach for a defence is more of a hybrid and showing a million different looks so the offence can't safely decide where the ball is going before the snap.  Nobody is having success because of this style of defence in recent CFL history, basically since Stubler and Marshall were the top DC's in the mid-00's.  The only way this defence works is if you have an offence that is going to stay on the field for long stretches.  You could see it's downfall when BC lost Lulay.  It isn't going to create turnovers or 2 and outs.  Toss in Stubler's rumoured health concerns and I'm not that enthused about this rumoured hire, unless Stubler is going to be a consultant or something.

Personally, I feel that Stubler has been done for awhile, back to his last couple years in Toronto (07-08).  I'm not a huge fan of the avoid the deep ball but give up most of the rest of the field (including the run) approach, that's how we ended up killing Stubler's defence on route to the 07 Grey Cup game.  CFL offences have evolved (call it the Trestman Revolution), and the deep ball is the lowest percentage throw, the shorter the pass the higher the completion rate.  Offences are all about high percentage plays.  Top OC's will run the ball when they are getting 8-9 YPC.  Defences need to challenge QB's and hold gaps.  The best approach for a defence is more of a hybrid and showing a million different looks so the offence can't safely decide where the ball is going before the snap.  Nobody is having success because of this style of defence in recent CFL history, basically since Stubler and Marshall were the top DC's in the mid-00's.  The only way this defence works is if you have an offence that is going to stay on the field for long stretches.  You could see it's downfall when BC lost Lulay.  It isn't going to create turnovers or 2 and outs.  Toss in Stubler's rumoured health concerns and I'm not that enthused about this rumoured hire, unless Stubler is going to be a consultant or something.

Personally, I feel that Stubler has been done for awhile, back to his last couple years in Toronto (07-08).  I'm not a huge fan of the avoid the deep ball but give up most of the rest of the field (including the run) approach, that's how we ended up killing Stubler's defence on route to the 07 Grey Cup game.  CFL offences have evolved (call it the Trestman Revolution), and the deep ball is the lowest percentage throw, the shorter the pass the higher the completion rate.  Offences are all about high percentage plays.  Top OC's will run the ball when they are getting 8-9 YPC.  Defences need to challenge QB's and hold gaps.  The best approach for a defence is more of a hybrid and showing a million different looks so the offence can't safely decide where the ball is going before the snap.  Nobody is having success because of this style of defence in recent CFL history, basically since Stubler and Marshall were the top DC's in the mid-00's.  The only way this defence works is if you have an offence that is going to stay on the field for long stretches.  You could see it's downfall when BC lost Lulay.  It isn't going to create turnovers or 2 and outs.  Toss in Stubler's rumoured health concerns and I'm not that enthused about this rumoured hire, unless Stubler is going to be a consultant or something.

Who did Friesen want?  The available people with head coaching experience are terrible and as much as Trestman wanted to leave Chicago for Winnipeg, they are in the middle of a season.

Who did Friesen want?  The available people with head coaching experience are terrible and as much as Trestman wanted to leave Chicago for Winnipeg, they are in the middle of a season.

Who did Friesen want?  The available people with head coaching experience are terrible and as much as Trestman wanted to leave Chicago for Winnipeg, they are in the middle of a season.

Who did Friesen want?  The available people with head coaching experience are terrible and as much as Trestman wanted to leave Chicago for Winnipeg, they are in the middle of a season.

Who did Friesen want?  The available people with head coaching experience are terrible and as much as Trestman wanted to leave Chicago for Winnipeg, they are in the middle of a season.

Cortez as a head coach is a playcaller who gets to make the big decisions, basically an OC with expanded duties.  I'm not a fan of that setup.  It takes a very special coach to pull that off, and while Cortez is one of the best OC's in this league over the last couple decades, I don't believe he can run a team successfully that way.  I want a head coach who will manage a football team, not spend 90% of his energy on one-third of the team.

When the ratio goes down to 2 NI's we'll be golden.

Kohlert, Watson, Muamba and Greaves are the only NI's that are worth protecting at this point.  Hard to see a reason why we wouldn't protect any of them, regardless of their contract status.

Kohlert, Watson, Muamba and Greaves are the only NI's that are worth protecting at this point.  Hard to see a reason why we wouldn't protect any of them, regardless of their contract status.

When the ratio goes down to 2 NI's we'll be golden.

More likely that the Bombers had no interest in Higgins, just like every other team in the league.

Those pieces don't hit the market.  Name one starting NI OL in the whole league who moved during free agency last off-season.  In the last 3 off-seasons, Labatte, Picard, Rottier and O'Neill are the only guys who could be even loosely called starters that moved in free agency.
 
Last NI safety to move in free agency, JR Larose, a guy coming back from a tib-fib fracture who almost had his leg amputated.  
 
Free agency is useless when you are building a team.  Draft and develop.

Could be bad news for the CFL if TSN gets knocked off basic cable, or if the pick and pay model for cable and satellite that the current federal government is pushing comes to fruition.

Glenn signed an extension with Calgary, as did Mitchell.

Because it creates the conditions for a toxic environment.  Hire someone to do a job, a job where that person needs to make decisions, and undermine their decision-making by pressuring them to make the decision you want them to make while you are basically holding a gun to their head (employment-wise).

Because everyone in the league assumed Walters would get the interim tag removed.  How to kill a personnel search quickly.  No one is going to interview for a job that is filled.

Because it creates the conditions for a toxic environment.  Hire someone to do a job, a job where that person needs to make decisions, and undermine their decision-making by pressuring them to make the decision you want them to make while you are basically holding a gun to their head (employment-wise).

My opinion, I'd have little interest in Berry, Cortez or Higgins.  I'd be interested in Cortez as an associate coach/OC if they are already sick of him in Regina.  Berry is done in the league as a head coach or coordinator except in emergency situations.  
 
I'd give Chris Jones and Chapdelaine a call, mostly to pick their brains, but I wouldn't have a lot of interest in hiring them.
 
Lapolice isn't coming back.
 
Guys I'd have on my shortlist in alphabetical order (keep in mind for coordinator jobs too):
 
Marcus Brady (possible OC too, might want a chance outside of Milanovich's shadow)
Bobby Dyce (potential offensive or special teams assistant too)
Jason Gesser (QB coach at Wyoming, former OC and interim head coach at Idaho, former Stamp QB...possible OC/QB coach candidate)
Khari Jones
Barron Miles (possible DC or defensive assistant with personnel experience in BC too)
Mike O'Shea
Noel Thorpe

Big time.  The inmates ran the asylum when he was here, luckily he had some pretty solid inmates who could lead.  The total loss of control in 08 and downloading of the OC duties to Dinwiddie and Glenn in the second half of the season proved the guy can't handle any of the positions that require management skills.  Good coach, not a manager.  Not cut out to be a head coach or co-ordinator.  OL coach or maybe even QB coach would be a good role for him, along with advising a young head coach.  Don't want him in charge of anything.

Big time.  The inmates ran the asylum when he was here, luckily he had some pretty solid inmates who could lead.  The total loss of control in 08 and downloading of the OC duties to Dinwiddie and Glenn in the second half of the season proved the guy can't handle any of the positions that require management skills.  Good coach, not a manager.  Not cut out to be a head coach or co-ordinator.  OL coach or maybe even QB coach would be a good role for him, along with advising a young head coach.  Don't want him in charge of anything.

First step for the organization is to hire a GM in the week after the Grey Cup.  Walters will lead the transition team and take on the position of assistant GM/director of Canadian scouting.
 
Here's what I'd do up to the Ottawa draft as a GM:
 
Step 1- Hire a head coach with strong management abilities.  I don’t want a guy who is going to call the offensive plays or insist on a certain style of offence or defence.  I want a guy who can manage a strong coaching staff (and attract those coaches) and players. 
 
Step 2- Give the head coach the necessary resources to put together his coaching staff.
 
Step 3- Offer the Argos our 3rd round pick in 2014, 1st round pick in 2015 (conditional on Collaros signing a contract with the Bombers) and Max Hall for Zach Collaros and Trevor Harris.
 
If they refuse, I counter with our 1st pick in 2014, 3rd round pick in 2014, 1st in 2015 (conditional) and any import player they want off our roster or neg list for their 1st pick in 2014, 5th round picks in 2015 and 2016, Collaros and Harris.
 
Step 4- Protected Lists:
 
Import-
Collaros
Sears
Washington
Wild
Anderson
Jones
January
Denmark
Turner
McAdoo
Woods
 
NI-
Muamba
Greaves
Kohlert
Labbe
Swiston
Watson
 
Next 7 (we get to protect 6 after Ottawa picks one from this group):
Etienne
Thomas
Poblah
Pencer
Renaud
Fitzgerald
Volny
 
I didn’t protect Neufeld because I think his contract and broken leg will shoo Ottawa away, or take a bad contract off our hands.  I don’t care a whole lot about Ottawa not targeting free agents, the only guys Ottawa won’t take are guys with legitimate NFL prospects this off-season IMO.  If we don’t protect free agents we won’t have anyone to protect.

This season was just plain ridiculous on and off the field.  To put a team that poor on the field in the first year of a new stadium when you have a chance to build and solidify your fan base is an absolute f**k up.  Combine with terrible planning, fan relations and the general poor attitude of the whole organization off the field, and you have a total show of incompetence, a complete disaster transitioning from an old dumpy stadium to a fresh one, should have been a great time for everyone.
 
It would be impossible to top this in terms of bad.  I mean they could go 0-18, but if they had a half dozen people on payroll who knew how to operate and function within a customer based business off the field they'd fare better than they did this year and through the stadium transition on the whole.  I never thought it would be possible for my loyalty to this team to be tested, but it sure has, I mean I've lived my entire life save for about 9 months in Winnipeg and played football from the time I was 7-22.  It's my favourite sport, I'm bound to be a Bomber fan just by my interests and environment.  If the Bombers can lose my business they can lose almost anyone.