Noeller

it's Homer buying all the pumpkin stock and going "I have a feeling they're going to peak right around December...."

for a 1st this year, Tyson Barrie and arguably their best prospect, Reid Schaffer......sigh. Nash throws in a 6th and retains 4% (?????). Ken Holland is dumb...

We have like 2 of them, don't we? The kid we got from Montreal last year for a song was great in the reps he had, and then I thought we had another that we drafted but sent back to college last year and is expected back in camp this year.... NI NT isn't an issue.... *edit* Cole Adamson and Cameron Lawson are very much the heir apparents to Fatboi....

that's an EXTREMELY cynical viewpoint, IMO. I'll admit that I'm biased.... Ed's writing (and he knows this) is a big part of why I got into media. I initially wanted to be a sports writer because of Ed and, to a degree, Gary Lawless. I started as an undergrad at BU with hopes of transferring for post-grad Journalism school at U of R, but ended up into what was then known as "electronic media" at ACC and, along with lots of other stuff, ended up in sports broadcasting rather than sports writing, per se. So I'm definitely a known biased-fan of Ed's work going back 30 years now, but still..... I think calling his BB.com pieces "advertorials" is extremely cynical if not wholly inaccurate.

he is more of a Columnist now than a reporter, for sure, which is the gig, I suppose.... I'm not sure how you can be a reporter, when acting as the team's written-media lead....

that's a fair comment, but I really haven't noticed a LOT of difference. Ed was rarely overly harsh on the team, and I'm sure that's part of the reason they wanted to bring him on board in the first place. I remember listening to Doug Brown's "Handled Internally" episode, and he talked about how the players, during his time, always liked Ed best because he was fair and rarely ever dumped on them unless it was absolutely warranted. I'm not saying Ed is a fanboi, but I think he's opposite of Friesen.... will err on the side of positive rather than negative.

a big one.....

lol....

I think an injured Kyrie Wilson and Brandon Alexander made the D look much worse than it was for a big chunk of the season. If those two play a full season, I think things look much different and all of a sudden everyone's talking about what a bounce back season _______ is having in the secondary/LB corps...... we weren't that bad on D last year...just missing too many key pieces.

Neufeld: Tough to see Couture go. They're very close, on and off the field. Roommates on the road. Happy to see him be closer to family and friends, but tough to lose him. Says Kolankowski and Eli are both VERY good and will have quite a battle in camp to determine who gets to start. Walters: Understands why fans are upset about the kicking, and there will be lots of competition in camp, which Liegghio is ready for and welcomes. They will have plenty of legs in camp, trying out for all 3 kicking jobs. Thinks the global draft may be of some help here. Lawler: It's going to be scary for other teams D to try and match up with Bombers O. Too many weapons. Too much depth. DT/Aumell Wrap Up Comments: Think the defense is not good and that they're going to give up a lot of points, but that the offense will be able to score their way out of problems. Think that other than Alexander and Nichols, the secondary is a huge question mark. Also kicking a major weakness. (Noeller wildly disagrees with much of these sentiments, of course)

Fyp.

it's rare that the 22 Mins Twitter feed says anything funny, but this made me at least chuckle....

I dunno, I'm happy to let a professional interviewer talk about whatever he thinks should be talked about with the usual suspects. As far as the players, I'm mildly curious about off-season training and what all that encompasses. But I would say it's Walters that I'm always most interested to hear from. I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that the only really glaring hole is at DT, and would be at least mildly interested in knowing how he feels about the DT position and how easy/difficult it is to find another Nevis or Stove... if they feel they have someone on the roster ready to step in, or if they'll be recruiting heavily for that position, and is it possible that there's decent CIS pick who might be able to do it? But, again, DT's a professional.... I'm sure the conversations will be just fine.

Nope.... because this whole thing was her idea in the first place. She's the one who reached out to the Zach's and wanted to do this. So she wants to play the next quadrennial if the girls do. As Cathy and Vic said last night "I haven't seen her look this happy while curling in a long time"....... it'll take something shocking for that team not to be together next year.

I would say there's a less than 5% chance she retires now. They've been really good on tour this year and with this showing at the Scotties, they'll want to stick together. As JCon says, if she was going to, she would have last year.

Not until after the quadrennial...she's committed through the 2026 Olys with this team. After that, definitely possible...

the game turned on the steal of 2, otherwise it'd been a back and forth game. Once Jones gave up the steal, she was chasing from that point on. The more experienced team won out, but I'd bet Jones's kids learned a lot from that one. They'll be back. It's only Year 1 of the current quadrennial together, so I expect big things from Jonezacharias....

So. Much. Weed.

It's minute... But all he said was "bingo".... He didn't say "I agree" or "you're absolutely right"..... And he didn't say the initial slanderous statement. I'm splitting hairs, I know, and I don't want to defend the guy, especially if it's true that he's a crazy anti vaxxer.

That was my first thiught about Stove as well... Was surprised when DT mentioned him in there...

In his defense (and I feel gross....) Ball didn't actually SAY the slanderous thing.... He just agreed with it. It's not a lot better, but a little.

I have it waiting on the PVR but now I know I can skip the monologue. That's really a shame... I generally like his work, but I've got no time for that bullshit.

lulz......