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Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
17to85 replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
We already have a sub par player in the position so what's the difference? Also, we drafted some big upside players this offseason who get 0 snaps.... gm or coach? -
Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
17to85 replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
The entire point is that we don't know if it is inferior or not because Osh won't give anyone a chance unless forced to. Kolankowski if he's not the worst starter on the team is damned close to it and should be replaced. And if Eli isn't the guy to do it then he should be replaced too. We've seen Kyle Walters bring in players who can step in and play before. Based on each guys respective history I say Walters is fine at finding players, it's the coach who is bad at giving them chances and building a roster properly. -
Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
17to85 replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
I watched kolankowski **** up a snap not 2 games ago... and I watched him do nothing of value on many other plays, and I watched his slow ass limit a run by Brady because he couldn't either get a block or get out of the backs way. Maybe he's better at snapping, but at this point maybe we need someone better at not being a guy who can snap and nothing else. -
Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
17to85 replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
Bighill was useless in pass coverage too. Bighill got injured and it improved the D so how can you sit there and sat it was the best use of roster? It's a bright flashing sign showing how O'Shea's loyalty to certain veterans blinds him from making the best roster moves... so if we know it happens based on this one example we can ******* easily extrapolate that it happens to varying degrees at other positions. It's pretty ******* telling when we can sit here on this message board in the offseason and basically nail the depth chart before camp even opens. -
Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
17to85 replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
This is less about how good Eli is and more about Kolankowski sucks, try someone else and if it's not Eli find someone else. -
Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
17to85 replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
And it took an injury for him to get the more substantial playing time which led to improved team performance.... and opportunity that wouldn't have been given without injury... and that's not the only position this sort of thing happens with. We're just not always lucky enough to have injuries at positions where they need to happen. -
Ottawa RedBlacks @ Winnipeg Blue Bombers GDT
17to85 replied to voodoochylde's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
This is a terrible argument... teams in the cfl barely scout practise rosters of each other any more. Fact is their own American scouting is just as efficient. Hamilton is a great example. They hired a gm from the Bombers and he found a use.for tons of guys who didn't get as many opportunities here. Mostly with Americans you're looking at potential and it's the combination of opportunity and development that turn them into impactful starters. The crux of the issue here is that we never give guys those opportunities when there's an established vet in their way on the depth chart. It leads to stagnation. -
Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
17to85 replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
Tony Jones? Cause you and I know damned well that without injury bighill would still be starting for us despite a scrap heap pick up like Jones instantly improved play at the position. -
Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
17to85 replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
Neufeld was ass to start last season because he was hurt all camp. And how can Eli earn a spot when he never gets a chance there? See you're still clinging to this false idea that you have that guys are starting because they are the best option and no one has pushed past them. That's demonstatively flase with this team... -
Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
17to85 replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
When has Eli ever been put in at centre? And if he's awful why is he here? Kolankowski is a bottom teir starter on this team, should be a priority to replace rather than untouchable. As for neufeld, why threatened? Old, often injured or playing injured.... -
Ottawa RedBlacks @ Winnipeg Blue Bombers GDT
17to85 replied to voodoochylde's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
I liked buck for the most part, just last year he seemed to get stupid, but that might also have been collaros problems. -
Ottawa RedBlacks @ Winnipeg Blue Bombers GDT
17to85 replied to voodoochylde's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
Guy had 1/3 of a season to prove what everyone else already knew, that he wasn't good enough, before he was demoted and released... let's not pretend it reflects on the coaches in some positive light here. -
Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
17to85 replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
Mostly through injury or departure though... kolankowski was purely an injury fill in and he had never once been in danger of being pulled out. Neufeld can be injured all training camp and never feel pressure to lose his spot... -
It makes too much sense!
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Osh ain't taking Thomas off the roster unless he was dead and even then it's 50/50
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Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
17to85 replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
I much prefer schoen to Lawler but that's me. Lawler can be amazing, but some games he wasn't amazing. We can debate schoen coming off the injury and whether he was ready or not but I'd have picked schoen over Lawler too. -
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I'd go 3 American ol if the interior American was at C...
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Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
17to85 replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
Well the GM obviously envisioned a group of schoen, Mitchell, demski, clercius a d wheatfall/sterns... which is better. -
Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
17to85 replied to Atomic's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
With schoen on the IR who is that receiver you turn to when you absolutely must have a play? Demski... but history has shown he is at his best when he's the #3 type guy. Wheatfall is too inconsistent, sterns is limited by his size. Clercius is still young and not the real dynamic make plays all over the field type anyway. So yeah, receivers are a big problem -
Yeah you see me defending collaros much?
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Outplaying Zach in a Grey cup sadly isn't all that high of a bar.
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Put him in bubble wrap cause trusting a guy that old to last a long season is a choice when his history isn’t one of the picture of durability
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It's more of a back handed compliment. He doesn't quit when he's in trouble, he keeps trying to make a play. Sometimes it blows up sometimes it works.