Jacquie

OMG what a horrible place BC is, no one wants to go there, what a joke of a franchise. 

I have no beefs with Andre Proulx. I honestly think people's negative view of him has a lot to do with his heavy accent. Not fluently English, so he must be dumb...

When one team goes over the cap over and over again, does that cause it to cross a line from breaking the rules to cheating?

I don't think it's fair for you to expect Stubler to be interested in your life, especially while he's working.

If Cauchy is playing I have a lot more faith that the coaches know better than you what type of player he is.

Maybe he could use it for motivation purposes. "I've put you on the turf before and I'll do it again"  

I'm not sure why people seem so down on Kavis Reed and so up on Mark Nelson. Our defense gave up fewer yards per game and allowed fewer points in 2010. We had 15 more QB sacks in 2010 but the 2009 defense had a lot more interceptions. When looking at the other numbers there wasn't much of a difference. I'm not saying hire Reed, I just curious why people think Nelson is better. I know people like to put all the blame on Kelly but it was Nelson that got Barrin Simpson's knickers in a knot. I know a lot of fans didn't like the way Richard Harris was treated that year and to me that falls as much or more on Nelson than Kelly.

I'm just now listening to the press conference (about 1/2 way through) and so far I'm really impressed. I really liked his answer when he was asked about how well he knows offence and he said to "truly beat an offence you have to understand what they are trying to do to you". Compare to Tim "I don't know offence" Burke. Night and day.
 
 
And a DB I believe. Gotta love those two way players back then.

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Andre Durie ‏@AD3TWO  It has been a true honour to have played with and Developed under Coach O'Shea ...wish him all the best in the Peg....except against us.   Doug Brown ‏@DougBrown97 Before O'Shea went back into coaching, he was the shoe in to replace Stu Laird as CFLPA president.  He was that respected by the player reps  
Chris Cuthbert ‏@CCtsn It's a good day for the #CFL when somebody like Mike O'Shea, who has given so much to the game, is rewarded with a HC job. #Bombers

It does. All they would have to do is add the assistant head coach title to OC to make it a promotion for Cortez.

I meant it as a joke. Couldn't get the smilies in the post because the bus kept running over snow ruts while I was posting.
Note: I have added the smilies.

Absolutely not. Fans are the last people I want to see having any say in the operations of this franchise.

And how do you know who was on the Esks' neg list and which players were at Esk's TC?

I agree that it's a great hire. 
 
 
Do you have any proof of that? 

When is a search for a GM ever a transparent process?

And according to many of our own forum members, the Winnipeg print media is the laughing stock of the media.

As head coach? From what I understand Higgins doesn't want to coach - he wants to be in management.
 
 
I wouldn't want to break the bank on Dressler but it would almost be worth signing him just to piss off Rider fans. 

As head coach? From what I understand Higgins doesn't want to coach - he wants to be in management.
 
 
I wouldn't want to break the bank on Dressler but it would almost be worth signing him just to piss off Rider fans. 

Can anyone name an available GM candidate who has experience successfully rebuilding a team. There are potential GM candidates with more management experience than Walters but of the names bandied about none have rebuilt a team as GM. Both times when Higgins was GM in Edmonton he inherited good teams. Murphy, McEvoy and O'Day have never been GMs so they haven't been in charge of a rebuild either.

but it's a very good reason actually. GMs don't want to deal with players getting their panties in a twist if they weren't protected and I'd rather have the fans left in the dark than to start creating some bad blood between players and management. I mean is it far fetched at all to see some player who wasn't protected but not taken in the draft feel unwanted by their team and start looking for somewhere else to go? Yes they should all be more mature than that but we all know that professional athletes are not always as mature as they should be. 

The league assuming something doesn't mean it was true.

Can anyone name an available GM candidate who has experience successfully rebuilding a team. There are potential GM candidates with more management experience than Walters but of the names bandied about none have rebuilt a team as GM. Both times when Higgins was GM in Edmonton he inherited good teams. Murphy, McEvoy and O'Day have never been GMs so they haven't been in charge of a rebuild either.

I'm not so sure that both of those should be mentioned in the same sentence.

Have these people learned nothing from Mr Scott? Always under-promise and over-deliver. How else will people think you're a miracle worker.