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Hope for the best for Chris down there but I think his speed or lack of, and age will ultimately see him come back North, hopefully with us.

To be fair the Bombers did draft a couple of solid o-lineman in the years from 2004 - 2013, Labatte and Picard ... very good players that could anchor a line for years to come. Problem is they were starting for the Riders and not the team that drafted them last year If there's one thing that hurt Mack and the Bombers more than anything else in his time here (his 2nd year here I think), it was the FA defection of Brendan L. Never adequately replaced. One would have thought with all the early selections in 2011, 2012 and 2013 that he could have found someone on the o-line that would have been almost as good. If not, trading a first rounder for an established NI o-lineman is not out of the question and it's not like it hasn't been done before. Instead Mack drafted everything but top quality o-lineman (like Etienne with the 4th pick) and just "hoped" one of the lower picks would work out. It works when your line is solid to begin with I guess, but not when you need to replenish quickly. Love Muamba but when you think about it, would it not have been better to trade that pick for a a quality o-lineman (for the ratio) and use an import at MLB? Maybe that time no one wanted to trade with Mack perhaps, hard to say, all I know is I don't believe everything that could have been done during that time to address the issue was done. Dead horse beating I guess ...

Thought Dubuc was a running back converted to slotback I believe?

There's Hanson in his number 5 (how did we get started on this anyway? ) Before my time so sorry if I forgot about his number. Definitely another great Bomber wearing number 5!

Let's hope it does that for Willy, cept for the not getting to Grey Cups part

When it comes to this team's draft record, Taman and Kelly also bear some responsibility, not just Mack. Horrible, horrible drafting (as far as o-line). Some guys like Henoc and even Watson were no brainers IMO ...

When you look at the draft record of the Als compared to the Bombers from 2004 - 2013, and consider that for most of those years the Als finished ahead of us, it's deplorable to consider the state of this team's O-line over the last number of years. Whether trading away the first pick by Taman or Mack taking a flyer on a project with the first or second pick, the draft history (particularly the offensive line where games are generally won or lost) is an embarrassment and certainly helps explain to some degree why we are where we are. A top flight QB wouldn't have hurt either but we had a decent one and deemed him expendable ...

Amazing ...

Either is better than what we have now, although maybe Morley will surprise at center ...

From the article on McCune ...

Ya I realize a few Bombers wore that number but Dieter was the most famous 5, wore it for more than 9 years as a Bomber, 2 MOP awards etc.

Good for JJ ... He and Burris do get to play together after all

Western Final preview? Hopefully not "Our Grey Cup" ...

CanadianFootball HoF ‏@CFHOF 9m Happy Birthday to CFHOF '95 member and @Wpg_BlueBombers, Dieter Brock. DB induction montage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD6l3qA9brc … To the original #5

Three against the Riders is great! Weird that we start the first three all against Eastern teams though. Don't mind the Thursday games. Tues in Toronto is becoming the norm unfortunately

Burke and Daley together ... the possibilities are delicious

He's the Ticats problem now ... but seriously, I agree, he can be a very good corner and a good teammate.

it's early in FA believe it or not. There are still some guys left we could sign and losing Sorenson is not really that big sorry to say ...

He's much better IMO ... check out some of his play in this game ...

Starting to get excited about our team for the first offseason in a long time! Moore, Randle, Willy, Banks, and Newman are great ads. Props to Walters for getting back to work and not letting the Burris thing derail his resolve!

I actually think our 05 Daley team was better than our 2013 Burke team but who cares? Bad is bad ...

Is this guy still even relevant?

I disagree with these kind of statements.... Mack brought in lots of good young guys on the D.... what about Washington, Sears, Wild, Turner, Gilmore and a few others? His greatest fault of course was the QB and O-line and O-Coordinators which killed us.... but to say he didn't bring in talent on D is a stretch. Mack brought some talent but was also blessed with some guys when he got here that were brought in by Taman and even Kelly. Not sure if it was his style or whatever but he couldn't or wouldn't sign or trade for a FA that could compliment and strengthen what he was trying to build here and that's what ultimately did him in. Ya we had no QB but that was his job and he couldn't get one. Our o-line got progressively worse as well and that's also on him. Anyway don't want to talk about him anymore. Good job Kyle.