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The difference between 15-3 and 3-15 is usually about 15 mins a game of domination/being dominated. McGuire should stick to hockey because he doesn't know **** from shinola about football.

You have to have locker room leaders willing to buy in and help too. It's not all on the coach to make this happen. Players follow their locker room leaders lead. To get 100% buy in, like the Bombers have, you have to have guys who set the example and are willing to go the extra mile to get everyone else on board. Strong coaching certainly is also another prerequisite, but you have to recruit the right players, find the right leaders, and have a coaches vision they can believe in and sell. When a locker room, and I use this term loosely, leader like Nick Marshall is openly feuding with his HC on social media it is a sure sign that there is a massive breakdown in the character and communication in that locker room. Any Rider fan hoping that the Riders will somehow overcome this and go through the East and win the Grey Cup at home is delusional. The Riders are a tire fire.

I think they thought they were doing it for the past 3 seasons and is why I agree that JOD has to go. From what I have seen he can assemble a pretty talented roster, but he seems completely unable or unwilling to assess the character of the players. He judges them strictly on talent alone, and that is not enough. Every player in the CFL has some talent. The truly great players are the ones that bring intangibles along with the talent. JOD, and his coaching staff, seem to be unable to either find or bring out those intangibles in the players on the roster. It is his flaw fatale as a GM imo and I doubt things improve at all until they find a GM that is as equally concerned with building a locker room as he is with bringing in talent. You gotta do both and I am very surprised that JOD has not realized that yet and why I doubt he ever will.

What the Riders need cannot be attained in an off-season. It is rebuild time in Riderville.

KSB will be in an NFL camp

I am sure Lawler would love to get a competitive offer from us and would strongly consider it.

CK has been rock solid. Easing MC in is a luxury we have and are taking advantage of. It's all about being as strong as possible for the WF now.

I am concerned about our DL too. Cody Fajardo likes to jackrabbit backwards 20 yards before being caught. That takes a lot of wind out of our big guys on the DL.

He arranges for them to fight in practice instead to get rid of their excess energy.

I agree. If they aren't fired up already at their coach, there is nothing left to do but fold the tent over there.

Little worried about not dressing an extra DL for this game. Our guys have to go an extra 10-15 yards deep every play to find Fajardo spinning around heading backwards every play. Our guys might get winded from having to go back all the extra yardage he surrenders before being sacked.

We are 12-2. If we win the Grey Cup we will be the most successful franchise since the early 80's. I would suspect that our management, and coaches would try for continuity in that event. Why would we be looking at big changes with a three-peat in our pocket? Our team got cocky last week, and took the week off, let's hold off on the doom and gloom. We are by far the best team in this league.

True.,..like I said, I'm not trying to paint him as the devil and I don't disagree with a word he said. Just put the twitter away now. It does encourage me that he seems to be craving the kind of locker room structure that we have so I think he will embrace FIFO.

Shade is shade. Yes, he was not specific but it was a gratuitous shot at them and was not necessary. I'm not trying to paint him as the devil or something, just a behavior he will need to leave outside our dressing room door. I love the comments themselves and think they are wholly accurate. However, this is stuff that Bombers don't do. They leave all their commentary in the dressing room.

I knew you meant Hodge with the putz comment. Just don't like players on social media lighting up their dressing rooms, even if they are out the door. That's learned behavior from a broken locker room and along with the content of his tweet it illustrates the lack of class that permeates that organization.

There is a black market Bonanza just outside Estevan at Jedediah's barn. Don't ask what kind of meat you are eating....you don't want to know.

He was likely disgruntled there for sure. He probably hated the culture and lack of discipline. However, I am not a big fan of any player who throws shade at his locker room on the way out the door, that is something he must have learned in Riderville and it is something that MOS and our player leadership will need to school him about how the Bombers don't do **** like that. As true as it might be it shows some of the same lack of discipline and class as he is complaining about.

I thought that was automatically inferred as the term Lame Duck and Cody Fajardo have become synonymous. AS PER Webster Dictionary 1. A sporting term referring to a pass or throw with little accuracy and a lot of hang time 2. SEE: Cody Fajardo

Interesting, getting paid one Toonie Tuesday at a time.

I don't think BLM has worn out his welcome, and it seems pretty obvious as to why he is 2nd string. I am sure that a lot of Stamps fans still like him, and appreciate him, you just can't deny the obvious. BLM is not the same QB he used to be prior to his shoulder injury. I am sure that BLM being a ****** canoe made this transition much easier for them though...that and the fact that Maier is balling. Make no mistake, even nice guys have little sympathy shown for them when their game goes South. I would expect that if Zach ever starts tossing up lame ducks, and wobblers with regularity there will be a good number of Bomber fans all too ready to run him out of town. Such is the life of a CFL QB.

Yes, it isn't social services correlation to taxation that I have a problem with. It's wasteful spending's correlation to increased taxation that bothers me. I have no issue with paying a much higher tax rate than our US counterparts for the extra services we receive. I just don't like money being thrown about willy nilly with no regard to deficits or tax rates. I think centrist parties strike a nice balance in doing this, and it is mostly why the Liberals have been in power most of the last century. I don't like when economics slip too far left, or right. These type of governments should be replaced after no more than two terms imo. Absolutely. I voted for the PCs to take over from the NDP on the promise of fixing our finances. They went way over the top though and we now need an NDP government for a term just to balance this **** out. In my perfect world the PCs and NDP would go 8 years at a time and balance each other out. When one party takes it way too far, they need to go.

How does one go about getting it?

Thanks, I will check into it.

I am not in favor of the American model either but thanks for the info. I love our Canadian health care program, and other such programs that America does not have. That is not what I am talking about at all. I don't like government waste, never will, and this is not exclusive to any one party.

Bring back Pickled Onion chips. Hostess used to make them in Canada/US and now they are just a European thing.