17to85

yep lot of what ifs to look back on this season

Crapping on Bomber players while making excuses for other teams players is a pass time for some around here.

Cutting taxes and government spending is either some you agree with or you don't. That's the biggest difference between left and right in terms of the fiscal side of it anyway. Lots of people say "yeah raise taxes, keep the government spending going" others simply want less tax burden and balance the budget by reducing services that aren't super important. There is a line to walk. Now cutting the GST wasn't about anything other than a giant middle finger to the Liberals and their little red book of lies. Remember when the Liberals promised to abolish the GST if elected and then didn't touch it? The Conservatives did that basically as a way to say to people "unlike the Liberals when we promise to do something we will do it" It was politics pure and simple. Cutting taxes though is not something I oppose. There's too much bloat and spending from the government cutting taxes and cutting spending is OK with me. There's a lot of other things this government does that annoy me though. It's a damned shame I don't trust the Liberals to give a damn about Western Canada and the NDP are just a non starter. Real tough time to be a conservative because the options aren't all that great right now.

Him and O'Shea are friends. Wouldn't surprise me if O'Shea has already discussed this with him.I could see Montreal firing Higgins and hiring Milanovich to be the head coach there, or if he's going to settle for being an offensive coordinator why isn't he going to work for his BFF in the whole wide world Chris Jones? He may be friends with O'Shea but he's got more and stronger ties to other places if you ask me. Guy like that won't have to settle for whoever comes calling, teams will make room for a guy like that. Word leaked out earlier this week that Higgins will be back with the Als next season. and you think that matters if there's an improvement comes free this offseason?

I think Walters is well aware of this based on his comments on H&L yesterday. He basically said a successful long term strategy is to draft 2 OLineman each draft. One early that can compete with the team this year and one later that can develop and come back the following year. Unfortunately you can't magically fix an O-Line over night. Amazing how fast Drowsy Joe Mack took it apart two years ago. That was like, two days. Lost Labatte & Picard. Now it takes years to rebuild. You gotta stop acting like we actually had Picard when Mack was here. He was never on this team when Mack was here. Never mind that Picard isn't the difference between a good OL and a bad OL either. As per Walters his approach is to draft 1 OL on first 2 rounds and at least 1 on the later rounds. The first picked OL is expected to compete and make the roster (eg. Goossen) The later pick(s) will be sent back to school to develop (eg. Everett) I wouldn't say its a winning formula but it's a lot better than not having any formula at all (Mack) Ehh Mack drafted his share of offensive linemen too so I wouldn't say he didn't try. It's all well and good for Walters to say that, but he's still got to actually get players to develop and become starters for the team, that's what tripped the Bombers up in the past.

Are you complaining because we lose a player that didn't do anything for us and holding it up as a great move of the Als? A guy who isn't good enough to crack the Bombers roster with our serious lack of NI depth and this is the soapbox you get on? yikes. And so you think Popp is stupid and just goes around signing people to contracts because he likes to. He must have seen something and that could mean his versatility. Wake up my friend. Geez. No wonder we float around in a sea of mediocrity around here. Sometimes you just need a uniform filler late in the season. That's all he was for the Bombers that's all he's going to be for the Als, why are you so worked up? Or are you under the mistaken impression that every Canadian player in the CFL is worth something because he's Canadian? There's lots of useless spare part canadians, especially on practise rosters.

Him and O'Shea are friends. Wouldn't surprise me if O'Shea has already discussed this with him. I could see Montreal firing Higgins and hiring Milanovich to be the head coach there, or if he's going to settle for being an offensive coordinator why isn't he going to work for his BFF in the whole wide world Chris Jones? He may be friends with O'Shea but he's got more and stronger ties to other places if you ask me. Guy like that won't have to settle for whoever comes calling, teams will make room for a guy like that.

Are you complaining because we lose a player that didn't do anything for us and holding it up as a great move of the Als? A guy who isn't good enough to crack the Bombers roster with our serious lack of NI depth and this is the soapbox you get on? yikes.

I think Walters is well aware of this based on his comments on H&L yesterday. He basically said a successful long term strategy is to draft 2 OLineman each draft. One early that can compete with the team this year and one later that can develop and come back the following year. Unfortunately you can't magically fix an O-Line over night. Amazing how fast Drowsy Joe Mack took it apart two years ago. That was like, two days. Lost Labatte & Picard. Now it takes years to rebuild. You gotta stop acting like we actually had Picard when Mack was here. He was never on this team when Mack was here. Never mind that Picard isn't the difference between a good OL and a bad OL either.

Get a feeling Sears will exhaust his NFL aspirations, if none come to fruition, Don't think any will, Think he will come back to the bombers. Hope you're right Goalie but like I said, O'Shea made him a healthy scratch for half the year. You know he wants to play - he'll sign where his best opportunity is (and the most money) and unless MOS changes his tune it's not Wpg - if O'Shea liked him so much, he would have found a way to get him in the lineup. It was only injuries that got him in. And realized the error of his ways, why do you leave that point out? There was a very clear change in his approach later in the year. Rookie head coach makes mistakes, learns from them. This is a pretty big thing you want to gloss over all the time. I don't think Sears will go elsewhere unless the Bombers cheap out on him or he gets an NFL opportunity. Can you really see other CFL teams making a big offer to the guy knowing that he has had problems staying healthy? Maybe Ottawa but again if you're choosing a team on the rise that you've played your whole career for or that **** show in Ottawa it's not much of a choice. what did I leave out 17? Want to read my post again? I said once Sears got back in, he played so well that MOS couldn't take him out of the line up again. Or, do I need to say that every single post I make (check the previous page). You left out the fact that O'Shea seemingly learned that it's a mistake to sit out your best players because he started to be more proactive with his roster as the year went on. THAT is what you glossed over to further your silly notion that there's a feud between the coach and player.

Get a feeling Sears will exhaust his NFL aspirations, if none come to fruition, Don't think any will, Think he will come back to the bombers. Hope you're right Goalie but like I said, O'Shea made him a healthy scratch for half the year. You know he wants to play - he'll sign where his best opportunity is (and the most money) and unless MOS changes his tune it's not Wpg - if O'Shea liked him so much, he would have found a way to get him in the lineup. It was only injuries that got him in. And realized the error of his ways, why do you leave that point out? There was a very clear change in his approach later in the year. Rookie head coach makes mistakes, learns from them. This is a pretty big thing you want to gloss over all the time. I don't think Sears will go elsewhere unless the Bombers cheap out on him or he gets an NFL opportunity. Can you really see other CFL teams making a big offer to the guy knowing that he has had problems staying healthy? Maybe Ottawa but again if you're choosing a team on the rise that you've played your whole career for or that **** show in Ottawa it's not much of a choice.

Calgary is the model? I'm sold but how much do we have to pay to get Hufnagel here?

care to give a recap of what makes you feel that way? I didn't catch it.Well I recommend trying to listen to it. But from what I recall, he talked about how much the inability to stop the run hurt us this season. He provided stats on that too...seems like he's clearly done his homework/analysis. He suggested O'Shea knows the run D is a problem but that O'Shea protects the coaches during the season; that was part of his plan going into the season. Said figuring out the coaching staff is his and O'Shea's first priority now; to me that says there's uncertainty there. If this is what he said then the writing is on the wall big time.... but if they fire Etch and keep Bellefool I'll be irate. One is much more deserving of a firing than the other.

holy underrating Ian Wild Batman! Guy had 73 tackles while missing a few games and playing in that kooky Etchevary scheme. I dunno how much you pay the guy but he's better than just above average.

Well I enjoy Maher sometimes but he is really up his own ass and that can be off putting depending on what he's talking about. Moore is a waste of skin who outright lies and twists facts to suit his agenda, kind of like the folks on the right wing news stations.

I have a pretty good guess. Tomorrows Paul Friesen article "Walters says O'Shea won't be fired but is he telling the truth? This intrepid reporter thinks O'Shea should be fired or at very least openly questions by fans, media and management every day until he is fired because that's what I want to write about damn it!"

Except I didn't say people who watched those networks were idiots, I said the people who actually take them seriously are idiots. It's entertainment and I am convinced they're all doing the same schtick a Stephen Colbert except everyone knows that Colbert is a comedian playing a bit, some people actually think the commentators on those news networks aren't playing characters. I will often read the Calgary Sun when I'm getting an oil change, and every single time I roll my eyes at the opinion pieces spinning things into some huge left wing conspiracy. It's obvious baiting and sensationalism yet there are people who take it at face value, those are the idiots. It's no different than those left wing blogs you see people taking seriously too. Most of the mainstream networks do have a bit of a lean to the left to them I won't disagree with that, but none of them to the extent that Fox News or Sun News go in the opposite direction. I say this as someone who has always voted conservative. These imbeciles going full ***** with their right wing news do more harm to real conservative values than they help it and I wish they'd cut it out so that progressive conservatives stop getting lumped in with the intolerant assholes. Conservative has become a dirty word and it's in large part because of those types.

That's because the president doesn't matter. So long as the senators are all bought and paid for the president doesn't have the ability to change anything. That's the biggest reason why people think Obama hasn't been good, they don't accept the fact that the American system is horribly broken and it's the lobby groups that have the real power and not elected officials and certainly not the president.

Everyone should watch the video in its entirety. And can we please punt the CBC already? sun news network? now don't get me wrong I'm a conservative leaning person anyway, but sun news is at this point basically parody. You have to wonder sometimes if they're actually in on the joke. They're trying to be Fox News, but the idiot demographic in Canada isn't nearly as large as in the US, so they struggle for an audience. So conservatives are idiots? Thank God Fox news exists or it would be all smiling Obama-is-great rhetoric 24/7. No it's not conservatives who are idiots, it's the people who can't see how over the top ridiculous foxnews and sun news network are that are idiots. Right wing media, liberal media they're all equally crazy and both need to stop trying to spin the story to fit an agenda and just report the facts. You seem angry about Obama for some reason, what are those reasons?

I'll second that - Wild is good for certain things, but was too small to stop the run - but Kuale didn't do much for that either. I shudder to think if we lose Wild and Kuale becomes the #1 guy at MLB next year .... I completely disagree, he is big enough, hell he's one of the few guys on the team who can actually consistently make a tackle. The lack of run stopping wasn't a size issues, it was the scheme plain and simple. I understand people wanting a more traditional MLB, but let's not go pretending that this team gave up a bunch of rushing yards cause Wild is a few pounds too light.

Key point. Goodrich is as good of a prospect as Demski in terms of talent. He could be a very good CFL player. I like JFG and Kohlert, I don't think Watson has enough good plays left in him to be a main target. What's the story on Goodrich? Will he be in TC next year? When O'Shea was talking about this on CJOB he mentioned how Watson stayed healthy the second half of the season. Maybe he's on some type of new training regimen where they're more confident in him staying healthy. he stayed healthy but how many catches did he have? He was pretty invisible most of the last half of the season.

and yet Brohm, a pocket passer like Willy ended up having his season ended in the same manner of injury that first caused Willy problems this year, that is he got his hand banged up by guys being too deep in the pocket as he was throwing. I have no doubts that if Brohm took as many snaps as Willy did this year he too would have started holding onto the ball longer. As for Marve, he is able to scramble so that bought himself time, but if teams had some film on him would they simply play contain on him and take away that advantage? It happens a lot. Basically early in the year Willy was doing things to avoid the pressure too but he got worn down over the course of the season, I think the same would happen to the other qbs as well. You know I remember Max Hall talking about the offense in the preseason and saying he was excited because the offense had so many things in it to counter the blitz if the opposition threw that at them... well where were they? This team was woeful against the blitz this year. I think the offense for Bellefeuille is just flawed. Puts too much pressure on the offensive line and that doesn't seem like a good idea when the team is still trying to rebuild that area of the team. Gotta put guys in a position to be successful and I am not sure leaving Willy in the pocket to be a target was a good idea. Sounded like in the final game though they were moving Willy around a bit, but again, why did it take 18 games to figure that out?

Everyone should watch the video in its entirety. And can we please punt the CBC already? sun news network? now don't get me wrong I'm a conservative leaning person anyway, but sun news is at this point basically parody.

I think what most of us want is for the team to do better than "no worse than Romby"

well I think being benched the last few games means the writing was already on the wall for Kelly