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The Bombers though have said they valued Willy higher in the offseason though, I see no reason not to believe them. That's the one aspect you are not taking into account here. It's also why they likely didn't go all in on Collaros initially. But you've of course made up your mind, no amount of logic will change it.

No the pissing and moaning as you call it is trying to send a message that we as fans want better. I hate the current jerseys we have, so much so that I won't buy one, my hope is that enough people follow suit but doesn't appear that is happening.

There was smoke about Collaros and Burris to Winnipeg too, bottom line it comes down to who pays the most with FAs.

Easiest answer is they don't make that colour blue. The fact that they have a couple of the retro jerseys out tells me that they do in fact make that colour or a close enough example of it to not matter.

revisionist history IMO.

can't go anywhere in the world these days without running into bandwagon Rider fans...and if I don't notice them they notice my Bomber hat and have to make an obnoxious comment...in February when I was in Maui I was told almost every day by some ding-dong that Willy sucked and they were glad he was gone...ha ha ha ...Try living out here. Most years, it's quite sickening. As you can imagine, this year has been better. Having said that, yesterday I took heat in the local WalMart for my new Jets hat, hoodie and Bombers tee.....Rider fans, Stamps fans....a horrible combo out here. what the **** to flames fans have to say about the Jets? ******* Flames over achieved in a big way and managed to draft 4th overall...

The running game is really under rated. If you can generate a strong rushing attack it makes your quarterbacks job a lot easier. Durant is not having the same success this year as he did last year with a very strong running game backing him up, The Argos running game is a bit unsettled and Ray is not doing as well as usual, without Cornish BLM looks pretty pedestrian, when BC gets Harris going Glenn all of a sudden looks a lot better... You need the ability to run the ball in the CFL in order to get your passing game working because if you're one dimensional it's too easy to defend.

Everyone agrees that the royal blue jerseys are the nicest ones, why in gods name do they refuse to make them the teams full time jersey? **** I hate Reebok designers so much.

Known douchebags don't get the benefit of the doubt.

What an idiot that guy continues to be...

Why would Willy choose BC over Winnipeg? In the offseason everyone assumed Lulay would be ready to play and he's still young enough Willy would have seen BC as an unlikely place to get starting reps.

I swear, every week there's a post like this and we end up with the W.. Let's hope the trend continues! *knocks on wood*And every week there's someone posting about how everyone isn't pissing rainbows.That said, the one week I picked Bombers to win in the pick ems they lost. So I now I pick them to lose out of stubbornness. I have this irrational fear of believing in this team for this reason The last few years have really messed up my head with regards to this team. I love this team they're playing so well and look completely different from years past... but I keep waiting for the **** to hit the fan because that's all we know lately.

nah it really hasn't, apparently people are just touchier right now.

Wow that group of receivers just got a whole lot weaker... So of course we're going to piss this game away now. Everything falling in the Bombers favour, short week for the Riders, guys nicked up, best receiver out of the lineup, perfect conditions for the Bombers to lay an egg. God I hope that's just being beaten down by the last few years talking.

The only wins that count more are the ones that happen in the playoffs, otherwise I don't really care when you win, just win enough to get into the playoffs.

ahh what the hell, Harris.

unbelievably great call this one.. so many people were ready to run him out before preseason was over... and yet, there is no " oops.. Bad call..." posts made by anybody.. shocking! People are expressing that exact sentiment all the time.

Desperation thy name is Als

I think there is a very noticeable difference between this year's hot start and 2011's hot start... in 2011 they were winning exclusively because the defense was dominating, this year they are actually getting wins because the offense is contributing in a big way. Generally in the CFL you can get by riding your defense early in the season because every offense is behind. This year I would expect the offense to get better as the year goes on as well so they shouldn't get left behind as other offenses start to improve across the league. If any team should be concerned about doing what the 2011 Bombers did it would be Edmonton because they're doing it almost exactly the same way as the Bombers did back then. Relying on tons of sacks and turnovers, but eventually teams will clean that up. I would expect the Bombers record to sag a bit simply because of a tougher schedule but I don't expect it to drop off the map completely.

They dominated BC from start to finish, after the first 3 series of the game they dominated Ottawa.... I think you are selling this team short in terms of their actual performance. Often times the quality of a team is greater or less than the sum of it's parts. This bunch may not be the sexiest names out there but they're effective so it doesn't really matter.

Yeah he's playing that WR spot that never sees too much action. Kohlert is catching the passes thrown to him and blocking well so not like he's useless.

The Bombers have demonstrated that they are better than the bottom half of the league. Those are primarily the opponents they've faced so far. No one expects them to go 15-3 on the year, but they've quite clearly been good enough to win 5 of the 6 games they've played. People like to talk about the Bombers having everything bounce right for them to be 5-1 but that is pretty bullshit to me. They should have won the Als game handily but those turnovers kept it closer than it needed to be, they were controlling the Hamilton game quite well but one big kick return TD and it's closer than it should have been. Against Ottawa they got caught on the first couple series but then absolutely locked it down once they realized what was going on.... There's been a lot of bad luck for the Bombers this year as well, they are just proving to be resilient enough to overcome it. That is actually why I like this team so much, it's not 5-1 that tells me they're legit, it's how they're over coming adversity in all forms. The ability to over come adversity is what sets good teams apart from bad teams.

but if coaching and qbing is good then why get that nonsense about 3-3? That's a stupid comment to make because they got big improvements in the two key areas. Look at BC, they took a hit in qb play and dropped in the standings, same in Hamilton. Edmonton got a boost in the coaching ranks and jumped up the standings too.

and it just so happens that those are really the only two areas of a CFL team that really matter.

I do think that Willy will be just as motivated as Ford, but it's not like the Riders cut Willy. He moved on because he wanted to start.False. Taman is on record as saying that they were moving on from Willy because he didn't fit their plans and they like their current back up better. They were going to let him go to FA but we tossed em a token piece for his neg rights. I don't care how Taman wanted to spin it. Willy was leaving to get a shot at starting. "I don't care what people who know the actual facts say, I'm sticking with my idea!!!"