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My takeaway is that Bridges should be given an apple and a road map. Our OL and DL were useless, and Strev is not a very good QB Also our coordinators are not coordinating anything

Yes

I'm willing to give him a chance, but I am not particularly optimistic.

We absolutely need to bring some guys in at receiver. Our receiving corps is sub par.

At the end of the day the GM is the guy who offers the contracts. The fact that Jake Thomas or other long in the tooth guys are still here is 100% on Walters. I could give a crap if MOS wants these guys, sometimes as GM you gotta save a coach from himself. I look at his body of work over the past 3 years and I see a big fat F grade for Walters. Our depth is suspect, our OL and DL are average at best, and our NAT content is deteriorated compared to when we were the envy of the league. That's on the GM. I'm not trying to give MOS an out with these comments either, he needs to be better.

I don't mind a GM letting a succession plan play out. Dobson out for Wallace is probably going to pay off over the short term. However, we are letting guys that were game changers like Grant and Lawler go without any real clear replacements. Grant, in particular, was extremely baffling because he was waiting for our call.

I don't necessarily think he is wrong about Schoen, I'm not ready to write him off yet, but Lawler was a guy they needed to bring back. They let him go once and found out, I'm not quite clear why they repeated the mistake. As for FA mistakes, yep, very poor. Walters in general going back a couple years now is not exactly making too many good calls in hindsight is he? We are letting guys walk that should be staying, we are keeping guys that should be walking, and he's been getting a bit of a free ride from the fans. Our roster composition is HIS job not O'Shea's. Sure Osh makes it even worse with some decisions, but we have seen a considerable drop off in elite talent over the past couple years and more. In one offseason we let 3 all stars walk out the door and 2 of them were NATs. That's not particularly great GMing. Granted other teams blew their brains out to get them, but Walters should have known that was bound to happen if he let them hit the market. Now, of course, the elite of the league will always get raided but you got to have an ace up your sleeve when these things happen. Walters had let a plethora of talent go in the past few years without much of a replacement plan.

Never said you were a liar, I said you are making some big assumptions. I have no problem with us re-signing Schoen to the money we gave him, but I really think we erred letting Kenny walk. Should have trimmed somewhere else and given him his money to stay.

I would expect you to defend your inside knowledge, as someone of your ilk is bound to do. Sorry man, but until proven otherwise your insider knowledge is random fan here say. You say I am just a random person who befriended them kinda like a workout buddy I suppose. I know you've suggested you have had some former playing days but that does not make you a current colleague of theirs.

I know a bunch of the players and they told me they gather and sing kumbaya at the end of practice and it is a regular love fest there. I can't mention any names and the media won't report on it out of secrecy. I guess what i'm saying is that you are an anonymous poster on a fan site that can't specifically back up his claims to insider locker room knowledge. I have known many of the guys in the locker room over the years, many were good friends of mine and not a single one would ever break the barrier of the locker room. What happens in there stays in there if you are a real professional. Anyone yapping about it at Gold's gym shouldn't be in the locker room anymore., Cancer starts from guys like that, so if you have sources that are disgruntled and are talking to a random guy outside the locker room about it, we don't want or need them here. I hope your malcontents get cut.

I wouldn't say he's making things up, he's just reading things into scenarios that may or may not exist. Who knows maybe there is a morale problem and that MOS and Walters failed to do their jobs this offseason because they suddenly became incompetent after a 5 year GC finalist run that included two championships and players saw it and left for less money as he suggested. However, the more likely answer is that our FA's and guys at the end of their first contracts cashed in on the team success with big contracts that we could not match because of SMS. It literally happens to championship calibre teams every year. They get raided. The players listed left for more money, or a clearer shot of playing time because we had better players ahead of them on the DC. Simple as that.

So you can't name one and you are just assuming....got it.

He is not a CFL calibre starting QB and probably will never be one.

In a SMS world things change. What was too expensive yesterday, can become affordable today. It is ridiculous to suggest that just because Walters came late to the party it means he was lazy or was over confident. He likely pegged money for something else and circled back when it became apparent that whatever avenue he wanted to explore had dried up.....probably Lawler. Plans are just that...plans...but no GM in this league executes their plans 100% in FA. You pivot according to how the market plays out. Some guys you want to sign just become unaffordable. Tbh, I would have been POed if we blew that kind of cash on a DB and I thought Ford was an incredible NAT asset, but EDM threw ridonkulous money at him.

Awesome Zach, the more Bomber content on the net the better.

I think every one of those games was winnable, with the exception of last year, and that is because our QB got injured and our backup was out all season basically. Can anyone really say that we weren't one or two plays away from winning the other two Grey Cups? I don't think you can. I mean Fajardo throws a punt on 2nd and 25 and somehow completes it......that summed up our 4th Q in a game we dominated for 55 minutes. Honestly, it has left the realm of football discussion already. Forest fire smoke? MOS did it.

All of them. Crazy to suggest that MOS should be fired. Absolutely nuts. I can't even believe that people on this forum are suggesting MOS should be fired. Can he improve some flaws...absolutely but this guys has coached us to 5 straight Grey Cups. I can't believe the entitlement some fans around here are showing. Good gravy. I'm not suggesting MOS is the perfect coach, but the smear campaign against him is baffling. Our team hasn't been this competitive and strong since the 80's, FIred? Really?

Great...he has flaws...ALL coaches do. All coaches tend to be stubborn as well especially when their stubborness results in 5 straight Grey Cup appearances. If you are arguing that MOS has flaws you have no argument, if you are arguing he is not a very good HC then the facts and lists you speak of are completely applicable because they demonstrate elite success levels. Suggesting lists and facts as "cherry picking" is like you pointing to roster management on a daily basis as somehow negating all the excellent work he does as a HC to make this team a top contender year in and year out. That, too, is cherry picking your argument. Their is a heck of a lot more positive then negative to discuss, but we don't hear it much around here. We have another team this year that looks like it will challenge for a Grey Cup. Anyone thinking that should be automatic and without adversity is dreaming in technicolor. We will have highs and lows all season long that hopefully will culminate in another Grey Cup. This team steamrolled through it's first 3 games, got humbled in one. This is not some kind of disaster. We are still a top tier team capable of winning it all.

Ssshhh....don't let facts get in the way of a good old O'Shea bashing that's going on here.

Name one player who left for the same money we offered. Arguments could be made that some players may be frustrated with usage but you are creating fiction to try and back it up. This team does NOT have unhappiness and poor morale nor have I heard of any players leaving due to that or us missing out on FAs for any other reason than cold hard cash. Name one player that has left here and has stated anything negative about their time here. ONE. I'm waiting.

Everyone's been talking about the fire in 89.

Agreed. I'm on the verge of bring evacuated here in Thompson and it's not funny at all.

I agree that given our current roster it is irresponsible to not use every advantage we can such as IMP with national designation rules etc. We have discovered that we are a top notch team as far as overall roster but we certainly aren't above the pack. It's time for MOS to use any and all avenues available to field the best roster possible. I have never suggested that roster decisions don't have some impact on our ability to win. Of course they do. However, over the past few years we still should have won any game we lost with the lineup we had if they play to their potential. This year we may need more than that. I am hoping this loss last week will begin to convince our coaches and GMs that our roster needs to be optimized both outside of game day and inside of game day. No one will ever convince me that sitting Jake Thomas, as one example, will win us more games but given what we saw last week it may be time to hedge our bets and use the roster to it's full optimization. Of FAR more importance to our success, we need to close the country club atmosphere and get back to work.

Our OL sucked last game, as did our DL, secondary, QB and STs. Last week's game had nothing to do with roster decisions. Our whole roster sucked and so did our coaching and evidently locker room leadership.

The roster we had on the field was capable of winning. Maybe if my aunt had nuts she'd be my uncle is not a coherent argument to make. I will agree that Collaros not being taken out MIGHT have been a mistake, but one that can not be definitively proven. Maybe we put in Dolegala or Wilson for the remainder and they throw 3 INTs and we lose by a larger margin. We will never know. I do agree that depth has been depleted somewhat, and that in part is what the crux of my argument is. We have people sitting here saying that our depth is depleted but we should play our depth anyway because they are better than who the coaches have identified as starters. Pick a lane, the argument can't work both ways.