17to85

Oh please. The middle east is such a mess and has been for a long time because the global powers started arbitrarily dividing the place up putting factions on opposite sides into countries together and expecting to to work. The whole area has been getting attacked and conquered for centuries and used as pawns in global power games and you're saying it's the americans alone? Come on now. After 9/11 Have things got better since the Yanks went and attacked these countrys? Dont seem so. These countrys and people need to figure things out alone without interference from others. Did things get better after the crusades? After the Mongols sacked everything they could? After the western powers started drawing arbitrary lines to make countries? The place has been unstable since long before 9/11. Trying to pin this entirely on Americans shows a frighteningly short sided view of the history of the region and why it's in the state it is. Yes America has it's share of responsibility, but you made the claim saying it was all their fault and that is completely incorrect.

I know everyone is all hot and bothered by Marve right now, but he's not the first young qb to come in and be able to catch teams by surprise with his ability to run and improvise. Often times those players go through an adjustment period as teams know what they can do and take away their running options forcing them to beat them with their arms. If they can get Glenn at a reasonable price as the backup you absolutely do it. How many qbs have the Bombers rushed before they were ready and left dead or dying in the ditch behind them? There is no downside to Glenn as a backup. He's a veteran who can come in and win games if you need him to. He got the Stamps to the Grey Cup only a couple years ago, he got the Bombers to the Grey Cup in 2007. It's not like he's never won playoffs games. He isn't the guy to take a team on his shoulders and do it all by himself, but he is a guy that will play to the level of the team around him. His playoffs experience is pretty much identical to Henry Burris and so many people were screaming to get Burris here last season.

Fort Mac is likely money related. I'm sure someone is paying up for that. Too bad they picked a bad year to be doing it.

What happens if these guys don't mesh as a unit? What if Dile is hurt and can't play, what if Picard is washed up? What if Greaves and Neufeld don't pick up their games? I know it's fun to look at the names and say they are one of the best, but I think tempering expectations is a good idea. Let's save this kind of talk until it's actually proven on the field.

The left is just as intolerant of the right, as witnessed by their outrage over this network to begin with. I told all the wing nuts to stop worrying about sun news network, that there weren't enough people with a desire for that kind of sensationalistic network in Canada and that it would fade into obscurity, but no we can't even have anyone voice an opinion that has a right slant to it. Sun News Network was trash but the market judged it and found it unsustainable so away it goes.

Oh please. The middle east is such a mess and has been for a long time because the global powers started arbitrarily dividing the place up putting factions on opposite sides into countries together and expecting to to work. The whole area has been getting attacked and conquered for centuries and used as pawns in global power games and you're saying it's the americans alone? Come on now.

It's funny people here are so anti-Glenn, he did get this team as close to a Grey Cup championship as it's been in a long long time.

Your name insults the Bombers all-time leading scorer. If my high horse keeps me from sinking to that level, I'm fine staying up here. Like Jane Seymour says, if you keep an open heart, love will find it's way in. Riiight....have you ever looked at his career averages???? Here's a clue, his career average is 72%! 72%! Only 1 season where he was over 80% & that was only 80.4% (once in 20+ years) If he was any good, at all he'd have way way more points. He's only the bomber career points leader because of how long our stupid franchise kept him around...Saying a player sucks when that player actually does suck is not an insult. Go cry somewhere else... Guess Lui Passaglia sucks too then. He only went over 80% twice in 25 seasons. Dave Ridgway's career FG percentage was 78%. I know, it's sad how long all those kickers played for. The kickers now have much better percentages. Back then there wasn't enough legit competition. Now the league is much stronger in the kicking game percentage wise. Under 80% now just doesn't cut it. So don't hold Westwood accountable to todays standards then? Back in the day he was a perfectly fine kicker, he just happened to really crap his pants in a very important game.

He had a lot of fumbles for the touches he got. He was a good backup player. Could get some yards if you had to use him but wasn't good enough to get a big workload.

You know what the most exciting part is? WIth January and Morley gone it means we've finally turned the page of the names Mike Kelly brought in.

No one is as bad as Rider fans. As much as this site is filled with the biggest homer Bomber fans in the world even we can't hold a candle to the sheer level of the mental gymnastics that the green ******* can manage.

if it's to be a backup what the hell is wrong with Kevin Glenn? You could do worse, a lot worse and we have. Hell we've done worse at starter in the recent past.

And J Richardson, Emry, Watson. Its the roll the dice year for us. We apparently are just going to wing it from here on out. You guys are nothing without Durant. Proved it last year. Any team without its starter is in big trouble. Pretty basic football 101. The more surprising part for me was how ineffective the passing game was when Durant was still healthy. It's one thing to be a run-based offence, but the passing game looked completely out of sync for most of the year no matter who was under center. I don't know what to expect from that team this year. you mean before they got Dressler back? Let's face it the RIder receivers without Dressler didn't scare anyone. With that guy though it changes the entire group.

The biggest thing for the Riders is Durant being healthy. If he's good to go they're automatically a better team than they were to end the season. Remember their record before he got hurt? They've lost some depth this year sure, but that's always Tamans MO. They stay healthy they'll be a good team.

Every other team in the league can get a jersey that at least looks half ways decent but the Bombers continually get crap except for those royal blues, why is that? How come when coming up with the signature jerseys last year we wound up with Argo colours? Who is responsible for that? Was that listening to the fans? I understand there's deal in place between the league and Reebok to make the jerseys and all that stuff, but we're the only team that seems to get crapped on as much in terms of the product that comes out and I for one would like to know why. Does the team not realize that actually giving the fans what they want will sell more merchandise?

Wasn't the biggest problem for Swiston the fact that he kept getting hurt? I don't see why anyone would hate on the guy for his time here.

That is the most common sense answer here. Likely lots of rotation still but that seems like the basis for a defence that puts people in the best position to succeed.

Yes, the team does listen to the fans. And yes, we do monitor forums, mostly to make sure we can dispel false information that's being spoken about as fact. However, first off, it's not a decision made by the "Marketing department" to change the uniform colors. Secondly, yes, we are well aware that a segment of fans wants the team to go back to royal blue full time. Thirdly, it's not as easy as just "deciding" to make a change and then doing it. There are far more factors that would go into a move like that than just making a decision a couple of months before the season and swapping jerseys. It would have to be approved at a variety of levels, and then there would be a substantial cost to switching over all of the team gear, down to the most minute pieces of equipment. If a color scheme switch is going to happen, it's a decision that's made thoughtfully and carefully at higher levels than just the "Marketing department", with consideration given to all of those factors and many, many more. Yes, the royal blues are gorgeous and we know a lot of fans love them. But to suggest the team isn't listening to its fans, or that we "know best" as you put it, just because the royal blues haven't been brought back as the primary jersey is a terribly unfair characterization of the situation when there is substantially more to it than that. But thanks for your input! We all appreciate the spin job, but let's be honest, other than the royal blue jersey which is just copying an older design the latest batch of uniforms that have come out have been ass ugly and the team always says "we listened to the fans and have come up with this!" No one buys it. If you want my completely uneducated guess, Reebok who are known for making hideous jerseys came up with these abortions and the Bombers just went along with it and never told them to go back to the drawing board and come up with something that doesn't suck. If they really were listening to the fans about jerseys then we'd be royal blue full time. No one thinks the current jerseys are good and everyone hated the bullshit ones that came out last year. Hell royal blue isn't even the biggest thing in my mind, it's just the gross design of the things right now. I want to buy a new jersey, I really do, but I ain't paying money for any of the current jersey or the thirds that came out last year.

How do you declare war on a stateless entity?

It's just a real odd thing to sign two one year deals rather than a multi year deal. I wonder what the logic behind that was... Something to do with trying the NFL if he wanted I suppose.

Bob Irving thinks Sears already has a deal with another team. That's why he rejected the $135k offer from the Bombers he verbally agreed to. That's not proof of another deal, just proof someone is willing to offer more than what Walters was offering that Sears was going to accept. I suspect there will be some more negotiations going on before he actually puts his name on a contract. If he was willing to sign with the Bombers before free agency I doubt that he's just going to up and leave because he got another offer, he'll likely give Walters a chance to match.

IN THE CFL?! We need to launch a full inquiry to get to the bottom of this.

It astounds me that people can follow the CFL and still display a complete lack of understanding how the league works....

Not really. Well Mike, you may be right. Maybe the real answer is somewhere in the middle. After the mass exodus to here when this site opened up in 2013, there were many members who stayed loyal to OB & never followed for one reason or another. Some because they felt they owed Colin. Others because they never heard about this place. Over time, more & more people heard about MBB & came over. I've learned over the years that once people decide that a website isn't worth staying with or going to, it never recovers. Some real big CFL sites have come & gone or are still around in skeletal form this past decade or so. I think it's just a matter of time now. A lot of people never heard about this place because the insecure people running ourbombers censored every mention of it. I don't remember why people started leaving, I know why I left, Ourbombers was circling the drain. The quality of conversation had been sliding and when most of the people who were worth reading came here it was a no brainer to follow.

Because oil companies like to panic at the first sign of trouble. Doesn't mean things are going to be doom and gloom. I was reading last week for example, an article saying that things weren't as bad as a lot of people in the industry expected. The economy out here was so over heated that a slow down is not the end of the world. What's happened is that spring break up is happening earlier than usual, most stuff will be shut down before March as opposed to April or May this year... but for me by the time I'm done the well I'm currently working on I'll still have had one of my busiest years in the last decade even with being finished a month earlier than usual. There's always layoffs and such in the spring in the oil field, wait and see how things look in the fall before we make any real judgement calls. Sitting idle during the spring/summer isn't all that unusual. People are just so envious of Alberta though that they are actively rooting for things to fall apart. Not going to happen.