saskbluefan

Our problem. We don't have a winning culture. We don't have a good GM. We don't have enough talent. We don't have good coaches. What else?

Talent. Lack there of.

Somebody has to eat the salad. It's not going to be Joe. Not yet. So Crowton will follow Baressi and and Lapo out the door. Someday they'll be no one left to scapegoat.

Sheets

Let's hope he keeps playing well enough that this becomes a real concern. While we're at it a bidding war on Justin Goltz would be nice problem to have too.

Saskatchewan could easily fit him under the cap. If he's a 24 year old non-import home town receiver coming off an 800 yard season they'll find a spot. Any one of us could name 5 guys they could cut to get the money for someone like that.

If everything remains on its current pace Jade will go 50 or so catches for 800 or so yards and the team will win 5 or so games. So you have to at least consider the possiblity that someone other then Joe Mack will be making that call. Makes it hard to predict how that scenario will play out.

This guy is further outside the lines then a Mike Renaud punt. (Keeping it relevant)

Yeah but you got iso all riled up so I had to provide context for those who didn't know the whole story.

Oh, I didn't think of it. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/fringe/graphic-play-will-continue-at-local-fringe-216397531.html

The Good News is the Bombers can be counted on to not insert mayonaise into their rectums and defecate on the field. The mostly keep the soiling of themselves in the figurative realm. Which is not something you can say about all the entertainment options offered in Winnipeg this past Friday night.

I'm not disagreeing. I'm not defending that pick. I'm not defending Buck. But, "The entire game changed when he threw that pick." What does that tell you about the rest of the team?

It's funny two people can consume the same information and get such totally different views. Because I see it as the exact opposite. When he was a bust the IMWT crowd repeatedly called him Lapo's pick. Now that he's producing he's MAck's pick. I'm sure the mods here wouldn't appreciate me linking to threads on another site but do a 5 minute search of the name "Jade Etienne" over there and you'll see him called Lapo's pick fairly regularly. Just like it was Lapo's call to cut Kent when discussing last year's defensive struggles but Mack's call to cut Kent when discussing the fact he's now at of football. Having said that, Jade is doing very well this year. If he keeps it up and doesn't jump to the Riders first chance he gets then I will have been wrong and Joe Mack will have been right, sort of.

If the Riders supposedly have all these great fans drive in from all over the Province why do they play so many later Sunday games? I know the economy is good, don't these people have jobs to get to Monday morning?

Just because Burke is in over his head as an HC doesn't mean Mack isn't as a GM. You don't get this bad this consistently with only one incompetent person.

QB's last night were 23-29 for 309 yards. Maybe we run too much? Just kidding, but seriously lack of running plays wasn't our problem last night. Lack of successful running plays was. Lots of 2nd and 9's courtesy of the run game. The running game wasn't all that **** hot.

YES! The whole "just run the ball" idea os so unbelievablly simplistic. And you hear it all the time from people who should know better. You need to be making first downs to establish the run. Facing 2nd and 9 all game because the other team knows all the Bombers do is run is not the way to get the offense going.

Sorry to be obvious. Sheets.

Buck Pierce's fault.

Hugh Charles

Guys, we almost never win. And we did tonight. So let's just roll with it. Keep Buck in there till we start losing 19-11.

I think it speaks to the fragile nature of being an American in the CFL. There are about a million good players waiting to take these jobs. When you are in a place where the coaches and the quarterbacks trust you it might not be wise to leave for an extra $15,000.

Sheets

We should get better. If we have somebody available who is better then an old guy then we should play him. If we have somebody available who is better then a young guy then we should play him. Is Anderson better then Edwards? Markett better then Johnson? That's for management to decide. But I would also replace a young guy with a vet too if said vet was better.