pigseye

Good wheels and plays the wide side corner.......someone is going to be out of a job.

Absolutely, which is why they get no sympathy from me. All the problems are their own doing from trying to shave a nickel here or there and it just ends up costing them in the long run. This whole situation could have been avoided last off season by simply hiring an assistant for Crowten to begin with.

Money is the only thing driving this organization, if they can justify saving salary you can bet veterans will be released before their salaries become guaranteed.

C'mon man, the move itself is way overdue I agree with that but everyone has also been screaming about the need for a QB coach/assistant OC of some sort too, and this is their solution, instead of just hiring one to begin with....

**** the purse strings must be tight in this organization to have to transition a player into coaching instead of just hiring one to begin with. At least it is a good move even if it reeks of thrifty.

Winning is all that matters to the owner....must be nice.

What's clear is that Wpg, Ham, Edm & Mon are the bottom feeders of the league right now. I guess it wouldn't hurt to give some credit for playing well against those teams but I'd much rather base it on how they do against the measuring stick teams like, Cal, TO, BC & Ssk.

The mighty Lions just don't look the same without Geroy and Bruce.

It amazes me how many people think this way too. That if you just keep playing the backup he is somehow going to evolve into this great starter all on his own.

Everything starts on the lines, O & D, if your going to overhaul the team, you have to start there.

Very interesting, could this 'consultant' be the next GM in waiting........

I really don't understand why the Bombers continue to butt heads with the media in this town. They know that refusing their requests is only going to throw gas on the fire. Who is in charge of media relations for the club......that's the person who should fired. As for Mack, he's basically out of the coat tails he has been riding on since he took over the team and now his handy work is starting to show, the media are going to come down real hard on him very shortly. A loss in BC will basically light the fuse.

Let me know when that happens, I'll be waiting.

Nah, they just looked better against crappy teams. The Argos and the Stamps just have very good offences and especially their olines, their QBs had all day to pick us apart. The interior of our defence is too small, has been since we lost Brown and let our other tackle go. Against good teams, they will get destroyed without a major overhaul. Burke just went too far with the whole smaller faster thing.

But will they improve is the question. They have already made some moves in personnel and will continue to do so I suspect.

Now go to your GM and ask him to bring in some 'real' football players instead of the smurfs.

Maybe not a bad thing though. The BOD is concerned with one thing only, the bottom line. When that is threatened they will react, how remains to be seen. I see two choices and it's probably cheaper for them to demand some sort of player movement that brings a marquee player to the team to restore public confidence as opposed to just blowing it up. But doing nothing while Rome burns is not an option.

Yeah, I think some of the boys were drinking heavy last night.... Anyways, here it is so that even an 'idiot' like me can understand. Calgary averages 32.4 points per game Winnipeg averages 23 points per game Final score 37 - 24 Simple mathematics tells you that for the Bombers to have had a chance to win, their offence, not their defence, was going to need to score at least 33 points to have a chance. The defence gave up slightly more than a field goal more then what the Stamps have been averaging per game offence, while the offence came up 9 points shy of what they needed to do. Defence (-4) Offence (-9) As bad as the defence looked, it was the offence who played a bigger role in the loss based on simple probabilities.

Well coached teams may have a bad quarter or a bad half but never have bad back to back games. They just happened to face two very good offences with hot QB's who exposed them for what they are.

Burke's defence has gotten too small placing the emphasis on speed instead. I felt sorry for our dline and linebackers getting absolutely pancaked by the oline of the Stamps. I recall one blitz in the 3rd quarter I believe but the Stamps picked it up.

No, you're just changing the focus now. If both teams run up and down the field all night long on each other, odds are the game comes down to whoever has the ball last. Either you don't watch a lot of CFL or this point escapes you? The problems with our defence are another matter entirely and have nothing to do with what our offence does when they get the ball. It's not hard to grasp.

Bend but don't break, and for the most part the defense was only giving up field goals, until they all but gave up when brain fart didn't take the points. You can't stop a short passing game when they have the run game going too. Your only hope is to match them, which the Bomber offense could have done if they had stuck to the same offensive plan as the Stamps, this is what Doug Brown was talking about, and I agree with him. Swap Dickinson for Crowton and their is no doubt in my mind that the Bombers win this game by a TD.

That's the CFL though, the team that controls the ball and keeps the other teams offense on the bench usually wins. Your offense has to be as good as your opponent because offenses have the advantage over defenses on the large field. The defense was schat but this was still only a 10 point game (7 even if brain fart had taken the field goal) late in the 3rd quarter. The Bombers needed to string together two long drives themselves in the 3rd and 4th quarter, ending points, the game was theirs for the taking.

lol, I knew you'd like that one.

One game, no biggie, two games, hmm, three games, wtf.