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Calgary just has too many douchebags who would rather follow UFC and **** like that or desperately want to be "big time" and only care about the NFL.

Lots of the good players in Canada do this too, it's intentional because they need to get more rotation on the swingy arena ice. I guarantee you were taught the same way I was where it's a simple turn of the wrist, and that works well on club ice but on arena ice no chance. I think that will be where the difference is, the euro teams are not used to playing on that kind of ice and the adjustment throws them off whereas a team like Jones has played on that type of ice tons and knows how to do it without screwing up the line.

i'll withold comment to wait and see what happens to Bomber attendance if they start poorly and the "newness" of IGF wears off a bit... houses. stones. glass. etc. Oh please, Bomber fans have seen shitty teams for long stretches before, there's a base of 18000-20000 who show up regardless of how the team plays.

The one way up high are far away but they're still pretty good seats if you want to be someone not in the endzone.

I'm excited about o'shea for sure, it's the coordinators that make me nervous.

I am not going to comment on the positional coaches because I haven't seen enough of them and as a rookie head coach I think we need to give o'shea the benefit of the doubt for now, but the OC and DC? Very underwhelming. Remember these guys were out of the league until the Bombers got desperate and gave them a job. That doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. Really seems like they were digging to the bottom of the barrel to get these guys. I hope they prove me wrong but based on past history I dunno.

This is what I was wondering too. He did talk about not going to play in Ottawa at all so I suspect that was strategic so that they could leave him unprotected.

what? Are you saying we are like the Vikings? Minnesota variety?

Or maybe you shouldn't just talk out of your ass. You said there was a lack of experience, you're completely 100% wrong about that, it's just that the experience isn't great. What you're doing here is trying to move the goal posts. You'd be better off just admitting that you were wrong on your comment and then move on.

maybe thats the reason why they are not announcing it, they dont want to disappoint the fans. why start worrying about that now? Disappointing the fans is where the Bombers are a viking.

New jerseys suck and are synonymous with one of the worst periods in Bomber history.

a team with a lame duck head coach that fired a GM mid season had locker room troubles? The hell you say.

Don't worry about Burris, he's happy as long as he's getting paid and no one is questioning his place on the team. Biggest suck in the league.

Yeah I would think that Walters knew damned well that Matthews was gone and Edwards was retiring before he even had the chance to try and sign Moore.

As usual Captain 20-20 hindsight calls another correct prediction. As usual Mr. Irrelevant has nothing really to say. Last year I chose Edwards as the surprise TC cut and I was wrong. This year I said he'd likely not make it to TC and I was right. Just cuz you didn't see it coming, doesn't mean others were also blind. If you keep predicting an older player to retire every year sooner or later I suppose it's bound to happen.... Seriously are you really going to boast about that? Everyone knew Edwards was getting near the end of the line.

It absolutely is a total change in the team. Very few veterans left around anymore. About the only guy from the old leadership group is January.

Guy had really really good hands. He regularly made catches that I don't know he had any business making. The only thing I didn't like was his habit of trying to draw flags all the time but he always produced for this team.

For a guy who was an after thought pick up and not even guaranteed to make the team his first season here he really was a great player for us. Yeah he slowed down lately but he'll be missed for sure.

That's never how the ratio works. The ratio works by identifying your best 7 NIs and where you have depth and playing those guys. And here's the thing, it may not be great, but the do have the most NI depth on the o-line so it only makes sense that they are looking at 4 NIs on the o-line.

unless their draft board has a huge drop off after that spot...

I think you can find RBs too easily in the states to worry about making it a NI position. Would rather go heavy on NI receivers than RB.

Not picking sides here but it's this a case of the pot calling the kettle black? Just saying. Not at all, I am very open minded, it just so happens that I have considered everything already and drawn the only acceptable conclusion.

And this is why you get so worked about about things, with that statement there you demonstrate that logic has no place, what you believe is the only truth. That's dangerous thinking buddy, makes you very closed minded. Defending is a reaction, you can't react without the initial acting. You want me to stop defending then stop attacking. The power is in your hands.

I don't know that it's worth it. RB can be such a weapon I don't think the team is in such a position where they can go with "he'll do" at the position. Better off using a good import rb and throwing the scraps at some other position.

He's got a work out some time this week. If that doesn't result in an offer then the Laurent sweepstakes begin. I saw one article valuing him at $150K. I hope if that's true that the Bombers at least show some interest and put in a contract offer. He'd be a big piece on the DL. He won't be a replacement for Doug Brown (no one really could be) but he'd give us some roster flexibility. Ted Laurent signing with the Bombers would make instant fans of Walters by all and sundry here. Now, if only Christo Bilikudi returns to the fold...actually, he was never in the fold. I said to Noeller a while back that if Bilikudi or Mulumba wanted to go and get themselves cut from the NFL that'd be a huge boon to the Bombers.