Atomic
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I am surprised at how sensitive some people are. But whatever... I said I'd try to be better. To be the man you have to beat the man? WTF does that mean? Yeah, I can beat a mod & admin, sure.
Lol I was just following up on road griller's comment. You really do have to chill out man!
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To be the man, you gotta beat the man
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Big John Chiles
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I do agree we need somebody experienced, Atomic, am curious your opinion of Higgins?
Mine is hire Higgins as GM and coach if he wants to coach too, if not let him hire who he wants as coach and hire a quality staff.
Higgins would have been a good choice several years ago. I don't know whether he is still interested in the job or has the connections he once had. Still, he has done it before and is still involved with the league so I'm sure we could do a lot worse.
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Seems some people don't understand quite how bad things are right now for the Bombers. It's not a matter of just replacing the GM and president. The whole organization is a mess. When every department is losing employees on a regular basis and you hear former members of the grounds crew, of all people, claiming they had to get out of the "toxic environment"... you know things are bad. People talk, and players talk especially. The vibe around the CFL is "Stay out of Winnipeg", and that's not speculation. It's going to take time to fix everything, and having two rookie Acting executives in charge of everything this off-season is not going to help. They need to hire a strong, experienced head man to run everything, like a Hufnagel, Buono, or Austin, or it is going to continue to be an absolute circus.
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I'd still go with Burris, I think.
What's the problem with this team? Too young and inexperienced. So we're going to solve that with.... more youth and inexperience? Bring in Burris as a stop-gap for a couple years while we bring a young guy along. Bringing Collaros into this mess right now is just setting him up to fail.
yeah well Burris coming into this mess would just pout and be a total jackwang in the dressing room, blaming everyone else for the team's failures. No thanks.
Or he would come in and win some games for us, you know maybe we'd have a passer go over 3500 yards for the first time in 5 years.
Bringing in Burris gives us a guy who WILL win games and also a perfect timeframe to develop a young guy because Burris will be gone in a couple years. Win-win-win. 7 habits of highly effective football teams.
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I'd still go with Burris, I think.
What's the problem with this team? Too young and inexperienced. So we're going to solve that with.... more youth and inexperience? Bring in Burris as a stop-gap for a couple years while we bring a young guy along. Bringing Collaros into this mess right now is just setting him up to fail.
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Hall's okay. He's still got a lot to prove and doesn't really have much time to do it. If he wants to stick around, he's going to have to play very well in the final 3 games.
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And the raw sex appeal of Tom Brady
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I know this is a completely hypothetical situation but the reason I wouldn't want Burris is because it would go a long way in keeping Collaros away from here. Not saying that Burris isn't a great QB. We all know that he is. But I don't even think he is measurably better than Collaros at this point and no matter how good he is, a short-term Band-Aid solution really doesn't help us much. Especially when our number one priority should be getting Collaros to sign a long-term deal in Winnipeg.
The thing I like about Burris is that he has had success under several different systems over a period of many years. Collaros looks great, but he has only played in one system on a pretty good team with some great coaching. Could be a dramatic fall-off if Collaros comes here, which is less likely with Burris.
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....and I'd take Burris WAY ahead of Collaros or Demarco, honestly. I don't trust either of those kids in a system outside the one they're currently in. Even if Hank is a short term fix while we train someone else, so be it. At least we know he can get it done in any situation.
Burris sympathizer. No dumb ass qbs please.
Funny that after all these years of poor QBing, we can still be too picky to accept the guy with the most passing yards in the league, an MOP award, a Grey Cup, a Grey Cup MVP, and a winning record
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The Bombers' top 3 QB targets this off-season will be:
1. Collaros
2. Burris
3. DeMarco
That's straight from the horse's mouth this weekend.
Who is the "horse's mouth"?
DeMarco? If he's in our Top 3 then bring back Goltz because DeMarco isn't that good at all. .
Would you rate Goltz higher than DeMarco? I wouldn't. When you think about it, DeMarco makes sense as a third option. The team is reluctant to take a risk on Tate (injuries), and there is little interest in bringing back Kevin Glenn (debate amongst yourselves on that one). Bo Levi Mitchell is apparently not on the market in any way, shape, or form. Really, that leaves DeMarco and Drew Willy as realistic options, and obviously someone thinks DeMarco has a higher ceiling.
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January is at best the equivalent of a non import tackle in the CFL.....an import tackle needs to be a dominant player.
Easy to say that, but when you look around the league it's just not the case. Hamilton has an above average OL, are Brian Simmons and Marc Dile dominant? Not so sure. Toronto has Tony Washington, he's good but not dominant. BC has a couple big names, but has either carried their weight this year? Not to the point of being called dominant.
Stanley Bryant in Calgary and Xavier Fulton in Saskatchewan are possibly the best examples of great import tackles, but that's still just 2 tackles out of 10-15 starting import T's in the league. It's easy to SAY it, but not so easy to actually accomplish it.
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If you could convince Walters to stay on as AGM, I wouldn't mind bringing Murphy in as GM... I'd only accept taking a first-time GM if he had someone with some decent experience underneath him as AGM.
I truly don't understand all the love Murphy gets on here. What has he done to prove to you that he'll be a successful GM in the league? Trust me, Hufnagel is a control freak and nothing happens unless he gives his blessing. So is the success in Calgary Hufs doing or Murphy's. Because Hufnagel controls every aspect of the football operations of the club. He doesn't allow any of his coaches do radio or TV interviews. Everything goes thru him.
That's an interesting question from an evaluation point of view. What can you look at when determining if a person will be a good GM?
1. Past experience - This is, of course, the easiest thing to look at and also the most surefire way to know what you're getting. Have they done the job before, and did they do it well?
2. AGM experience - Failing to have actual experience, you have to move on to their body of work in other areas, as an assistant or director of player personnel. I think this is the most alluring part about John Murphy. He brought in pretty good talent in his short time here and he has always brought in solid talent for Calgary. That doesn't mean he can manage a team, but bringing in quality players is a big part of the puzzle.
3. League associations - How in tune is he with the league? How long has he been around? Has he worked in a successful organization? You talk about all the great things Hufnagel does for the Stamps, well, can we infer that Murphy has learned something from that? He certainly has connections to good coaches like Dave Dickenson and Rick Campbell... could we use that to our advantage?
4. References - This may be a little superficial because it's rare that a football executive will get trashed publicly, but sometimes we can learn from what other people say about them. In Murphy's case, I've never heard a bad word spoken about him, even from his time working with Mike Kelly. This could be a plus.
I think there's a lot to like about Murphy, but it's true he is still an unknown. He is the kind of guy you would need to surround with experienced people so he doesn't get overwhelmed, but if we are looking at hiring a GM neophyte, I think we could do a lot worse than him.
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The Bombers' top 3 QB targets this off-season will be:
1. Collaros
2. Burris
3. DeMarco
That's straight from the horse's mouth this weekend.
Who is the "horse's mouth"?
Upper mgmt, can't say the name unfortunately. Very legit source though.
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Hamilton's rookie laden roster looked pretty good yesterday.
Lots of rookies but the core of the offence has tons of experience... i.e. Burris, Fantuz, Hage, Dyakowski, O'Neill, Wojt, Diedrick, Grant.
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pointless to try and speculate until we know who is going to be GM next year and what their plan is.
Isn't that the whole point of these discussion boards...to discuss/speculate? Tough crowd in here.
I like how he says it like our speculation is going to be more valid once we know who the GM is. It's still just speculation either way.
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The Free Press a couple weeks ago.
Damn I usually don't miss that stuff. Bad season making me rusty I guess.
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The Bombers' top 3 QB targets this off-season will be:
1. Collaros
2. Burris
3. DeMarco
That's straight from the horse's mouth this weekend.
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Based on...?
Yes I'm 100% sure my FA's listed are in fact FA's.
Are you sure Sorensen, Morley, Parenteau, and Kohlert are all FA's? I haven't seen that reported for any of them. Foster and Etienne yes, the others, not so sure.First round I protect: Neufeld, Greaves, Pencer, Swiston, Watson. Maybe Henoc as a gesture, even though he's a FA. Ottawa has said they will not select FAs in the expansion draft so no need to protect them.
Sorensen, Parenteau, Morley, Etienne, Kolhert, Foster are all FAs.
January is one of the imports I protect.
And just because Ottawa says something does not mean they are going to do it.
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As far as the OL goes, we can't just keep getting younger. We need to sign a free agent centre, guard, or both to add some veteran presence there.
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First round I protect: Neufeld, Greaves, Pencer, Swiston, Watson. Maybe Henoc as a gesture, even though he's a FA. Ottawa has said they will not select FAs in the expansion draft so no need to protect them.
Sorensen, Parenteau, Morley, Etienne, Kolhert, Foster are all FAs.
January is one of the imports I protect.
Are you sure Sorensen, Morley, Parenteau, and Kohlert are all FA's? I haven't seen that reported for any of them. Foster and Etienne yes, the others, not so sure.
And just because Ottawa says something does not mean they are going to do it.
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Interesting, not much love for Denmark and looks like he's going to finish as our most productive receiver. Figures!
Max Hall
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Right now I would take Hall as our starter if we couldn't get Collaros or Burris. He would be my third choice out of the guys who are popularly believed to be available. I would rather stick with him than turn to DeMarco or Tate. Tate's a good QB but I just can't stomach the injury risks.