TheGhostOfJoeMack
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I bet hes employed within a week.I saw him as insurance in case Simpson went down. Should Simpson go down, he's just a call away. In the interim we don't have to pay him.
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He was on his second contract so it was probably higher than the minimum, albeit not by much. We've got two other import running backs, no reason to spend the salary on a third on the IR if we could use it in other areas. I know Joe Mack really liked him so that might be why he stuck around as long as he did.
Or we could have released Ford who hasn't done anything for us. At least Garrett proved he could carry the rock. Ford has done nothing. If were just in salary dump mode right now why is Buck still here?
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Couldn't agree more. Garrett was a grinder. I bet he wont be unemployed for long.Not a fan of this move to be honest. If he was healthy, I feel he brings more to the table than what Ford does.
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Not sure why this move is being made. Hes been pretty vocal the last few days on Twitter about getting some playing time but not in a bad way. Just sounded motivated IMO. Too bad, because he really dominated when he was given the chance.
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Dude.....Mack got us in to this mess. Why on earth do you keep defending him? All this talent you keep talking about amounted to the steaming pile of dung you see before you. Keeping him around one minute longer would have done nothing but postponed the enevitable . At least now we can start the process of rebuilding earlier and maybe if the people in charge make some good decisions we can get this sorted out sooner rather than later and it wont take another year and a half. Kyle Walters has been promoted. And if anyone thinks he wont be given the job full time going forward they are crazy. And as much as people might not want to hear it, Burke will more than likely still be here next year as well. The Bombers cannot afford to keep firing people, We basically have enough salary on the books from people we paid to take a hike that we could have two full sets of staff in place. Mack is the architect of this entire mess. our record over his tenure and the sad state of our franchise at the moment are undeniable evidence. This is where we stand after 4 years of Mack. You are right about one thing, firing a GM mid season isn't optimal, he should have been fired last off season when he failed to adress the areas he highlighted himself as being crucial to fixing the team. His in action has lead to this .Unless they actually hire their new GM right away it just leaves the team rudderless for the rest of the year. It's not going to fix things right now, you're just going to have a harder time making changes during the season because you lost a very connected guy in the football world who always did seem to bring in some quality players midseason. There was no harm to be done sticking with Mack until the offseason. He wasn't going to go crazy and throw picks and players away on magic beans and leave a smoking crater like Kelly did so might as well have just waited until the offseason.
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I think Lawless just said on H&L that it wasnt a board memeber who leaked the info to him.Because he wrote a full page article calling out the board for the leak.
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Has lawless actually confirmed it was a board member who provied him with this info? How do we know it wasn't someone else?
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nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo@CCtsn: @DuaneFordeTSN , it's Wade Miller on line 1
Interesting tweet from Chris Cuthbert...Let the panic begin
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The thing is though Montreal and Edmonton have actually won fairly recently. Some hiccups are more acceptable. Hamilton? Well no one even cares about Hamilton so thats why they aren't mentioned with the Bombers as champions of futility. As soon as the Bombers win cup, a lot of this anger and frustration and pressure will subside and it will better for the club and fans alike.I agree. Seems to be how things work in this league. The Bombers have some issues and it's blown into some massive deal with every single media clown with an axe to grind across Canada weighing in with their opinion. Meanwhile, Montreal, Hamilton and Edmonton are at least 50 feet of crap below us right now and everything is apparently hunky-dory. Herb Zurkowsky from Montreal has been one of Mack's biggest protagonists, even calling him a "moron" on Twitter IIRC, and yet here is the sports writer for a team that served up the biggest bowl of crap yet in 2013 last night. Mind your own knitting guys. We're down but we're not out. The same can't be said for Montreal. They look like a team that is on the verge of collapse. In this league, you can never say that next year you are already dead. You can go from zero to hero in one year. It's been done many times before.
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Well Buckhorn isnt bad IMO.....when I try an type Butchko in my phone it auto corrects to "But Chlorine"Gary Lawless confirms on Twitter that Garth Buckhorn is fired. @GarthBuckhorn twitter account started immediately. I love the Internet.
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If the players were good enough we wouldn't be talking about the coaches or the GM. There is not enough talent on this team right now and there hasn't been for the entire time Mack has been running the show.There is no doubt in my mind that we will have a new head coach next season and likely new assistants as well except maybe for a couple spots. No GM is going to come here and be saddled with these coaches. If these coaches were good enough the GM wouldn't be on his way out the door.
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Friesen suggesting on Twitter that the leak is Buchko himself, to take the heat off of him. Good Lord Paul....
So brutal.......to me the heat on Garth is even worse now because he and his BOD can't act like professionals and keep this type of thing confidential.
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so how do we smoke out the rat?
Well, as another poster eluded too , I think the BOD was divided on firing Mack. IMO it makes sense to assume that someone on the fire Mack side would leak this to Garry as to speed up the process. Really,what else can the Bombers do now but fire Mack?
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How are they supposed to fire the leak if no one knows who it is? One little rat boy flaps his gums to Lawless and the Bombers make an even bigger gong show out of this. Im all for removing the rat but there really isn't any way of identifying him unless Lawless give up his source and that aint gonna happen.
As for the new GM......Im all for McEvoy. 18 years with the Lions, and Wallys right hand man. Hes learned from one of the best, is Canadian, and knows the CFL and the role. IMO there really isn't any other option that would offer as much stability and experience.
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Sometimes even Wally can't stop it from happening. Wally has been quoted as saying he wanted to keep both Cauchy and Yurichuk and that he offered them very good contracts to stay but he lost them both for nothing to free agency. And how much did he get for Ricky Foley when Foley ignored his verbal agreement and signed with Toronto.
Some good points. Regardless, I think we can all agree that Cauchy needs to step up his game.
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If you have to ask, you don't deserve to know, you can simply wait and see like everyone else. I will say this though, it's takes some pretty big stones to go from GC finalist to league joke in only a year and half. Almost seems unbelievable that someone could f-things-u that bad by accident.
That is the biggest cop out answer in the world. Thats exactly what someone says when they dont have any proof or facts to back anything up that they have said. Like really, how would I know what anyone said to their roofers unless I was there? I guess I "dont deserve to know" because I wasnt creeping outside of some Bombers house the day his shingles were replaced.
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Accusations and calling people pathetic shouldn't be acceptable here either. Just saying.
Accusations like the ones you were making? And I called your actions/intentions rather pathetic,not you personally so relax.
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I'm a fan of Burke dipshit so no I was not misquoting to make him look bad. If knowing buck has been better than Goltz is a man crush then you're nuts.
Show your source then. As far as the Buck comments go, I have asked you several times to justify your opinion as to why you think Buck is so much better than Goltz and you never can or do.
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Don't kid yourself, all that talk and bluster from Butchko about how the Bombers were going to be the Pittsburgh Steelers of the CFL.......they let this happen because a few losing seasons is nothing when compared to the $200M at stake.
The Bombers are making money hand over fist right now.
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Well declaring Goltz a starter for the rest of the year is a big step and opening yourself up for potentially having to admit you made another mistake. Still not a smart move as a forward thinker.
As apposed to what? Saying they are going to audtion guys for the rest of the year? Naming Goltz the starter for the rest of the year absolutely was the right decision. We saw the last few years of the QB carousel and how it didn't work. This way the team knows who is taking the snaps every week and Goltz knows he has the coaches confidence. There really wasnt any other option.
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So disappointed to here Burke's comments about how good the team is, how vastly improved they are and how they are on the "cusp".
Worse, hearing Goltz parrot that same verbiage.
Sounds like the team was given a PR release and told to use the word.
Montreal fires their head coach. We pay ourselves on the back for not being blown out.
Disgraceful. Mack left the cupboards bare as far as coaching goes. We literally cannot fire any of our coaches as we have no one to replace them.
Burke never said the team was "good"or that they "vastly improved". We lost to the Lions , a very good team, by 7 points with a QB making his 2 carreer pro start. I know you have a massive man crush on Buck but coming on here to misquote Burke to try and make him look bad is rather pathetic.
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I guess we'll see when the time comes.
See what? Logan and the others you mentioned have already left....what exactly are you waiting for? Whats your motive for even bringing this up?
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That look on Burke's face when he had to call a timeout when old man Crowton couldn't get his crap together on the 2nd and inches play said it all to me. The loud F___K!! that Burke yelled as he threw down his headphones said even more. I don't think grandpa Crowton is around anymore as soon as tomorrow.
I think that the Bombers are hurting from paying coaches that are no longer working here. If anything, I think Mack will have a short leash with regards to the hiring and firing of coaches. Im not sure how much the powers at be are willing to let him make big decisions about the future of the club at this point. We might have a lame duck Gm at this point.....
Garrett been released?
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