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Yes they were....but Durant wasn't the one doing it. Unless, you want to compare who hands off the ball better between Durant and Willy in that game.

Next season the Bombers win those games. I'm confident Bombers win at least 9-10 games next season. Could've won them this year too. We were outplayed at the QB position - rest of the team played well enough to win those games. Willy had his struggles towards the end of the season, however, in the games against the RIders at home and against Hamilton he outplayed the opposing QB. You are just making crap up.

If Willy had Montreal's OL and receivers he would be the MOP this season. Heck several QBs could be behind that group. Crompton is serviceable at best. He would not start on any other team in the CFL.

We can all take solace in the fact that after the WSF when they get absolutely demolished by the Eskimos that the bandwagon will begin to empty, and many that remain will be screaming for heads to roll. It will be the highlight of my offseason until FA. I predict that Edmonton will beat them by a 20 point margin and that Durant will play and suck badly because he is rushing back from injury. With or without Durant the Eskies are clearly the much better team this year.

I think that previously it was a rarity for an impact NI to come out of junior. Nowadays, it's becoming more common place. I agree, that it is unfair as it stands right now.

Fire them all....then hire Milanovich and fire him too....rabble rabble...must be firings...nothing to talk about....rabble rabble

I land somewhere in the middle of Dr.CFL and Jaxon on this. I like the territorial exemption in principle. I do believe that teams like BC or the Riders that have a much larger pool of talent to choose from have an advantage. I would like to see the territorial exemption kept but with the caveat that if another team is interested in someone that falls into your protection area you must sign them within a certain timeframe or lose the territorial exemption on that player. I think this would still keep the CFL quite invested in junior football and open up an avenue for even more junior players to get invited to TCs. I think that junior football has really started taking off since the CFL started to work hand in hand with them. It would be a shame to lose that momentum.

Kelly had the Maggie the Monkey approach to drafting. They now use his "draft wheel" as a gambling fundraiser at Bomber alumni dinners.

I'd like to see Dumas back as well but if he didn't come back he would not be tough to replace.

These are the guys I'd like to see back next year. The rest, I could take them or leave them.

Some will undoubtedly not be offered a contract at all.

Popp simply had some room on his PR and thought he'd take a flyer on Norris. Doubt he figures into any Montreal plans in the present or future.

I have heard that Goodrich is secretly a Rider fan and secretly wants to go there instead of the Bombers. Take it with a grain of salt though....my source was Migs. lol

So very early to begin talking about how our NI roster will shape up next year. I am sure that MOS and the staff have had the discussion out of due diligence but without knowing who's staying, going, or will be signed/drafted this discussion is really just flapping your gums at this point. There are so many variables that can play out still. An example is what if we lose Sears to the NFL? I would bet that we would start Newman and Leggett at Safety and SAM thus creating a 2nd legit NI on D. Heck, Bilikudi and Mulumba could be signed and we have 3 or 4 quality NI starters on D. If this is the case, we would be kinda stupid to go with 3 NI receivers. There are so many what ifs that can be rolled out right now that any suggestion that our coaches have any concrete roster plan for next year would kinda be stupid and inflexible. Too many dominoes still to fall.

We would need an impact receiver brought in. Doubt it`s Demski because our needs are obvious at OL. The trio of JFG, Watson, and Kohlert would not scare me if I were the opposition. Not sure the Bombers could pull this off, so I doubt we see it happen.

I think it's pretty doubtful that Wild garners any CFL interest. Similar body style to Sherritt and he didn't get a sniff. I hope we retain Wild....I especially hope we play him at WIL instead of MIKE. Sears, I don't believe has the body of work to garner significant NFL interest. There might be a team or two willing to work him out of even bring him in as TCF but I don't see him having a legit shot of actually making a roster or PR. I think there is about a 50/50 shot that we re-sign him. Brohm....I think he's a good QB who teams will shy away from signing because of season ending injuries in consecutive years. I think he'll be back. Bucknor....hard to say. Played well for us, hope he's back, but he'll be more expensive than when he came to us. I am sure our management will pick and choose from the rest and I will have no problems with any of them staying or leaving.

Interesting...sure. Just as interesting as any opinions on this forum though. A lot of opinion...some fact based...some not so much. Nice to get a good idea of who is coming up for FA though so thanks to the blogger for that. Anyone know whose blog that is? Writing and opinion seem familiar.

Under the new CBA the minimum is one year. The new CBA wasn't signed until well into TC. I doubt that any of our starters are under one year deals.

common sense says that if you can get pressure sacks will follow. I don't think you'd see too many people who get a sack every time they get pressure, but if you can consistently generate pressure you will consistently be getting sacks. We can look at the Bombers this season, early in the year they were better at getting pressure on the qb and their sack numbers were in the top part of the league sack race, but that ability to generate pressure lessened as the year went on and now the team is near the bottom of the sack race. One leads to the other. I agree completely with your post and would add the following for consideration. I blame our LB corps for our lack of sacks.....hear me out....lol. I think that early in the season that Etch was scheming to get a lot more of a pressure attack on QBs and it was working. However, about a third of the way through the season teams figured out that our LB crew was weak against the run and began attacking us with the run game with great success. I think that in order to try and shore up the run defence that Etch stopped running some of the pure pass rush schemes we were initially using. In the last game, I noticed a return of some of these schemes when we were using Sears to great effect in the pass rush. I think that if we go with a revamped LB crew next year with Wild at WIL/Sears at SAM/ and ??? at MIKE then we will see a return of some of our ability to get consistent pressure/sacks on the QB.

Exactly. What on earth could he possibly gain by doing it publically....a lesson that Mike Kelly thoroughly taught to all new coaches.

If this was a team referendum then I would rank Willy pretty low...but it's not. I think he has had a good season on a bad team. I rate his season ahead of Burris, Crompton, Durant, Collaros and Glenn. I think Willy would have made any of these teams better than they were this year.

I really think what it comes down to is that a lot of fans want to see the coaches and players as angry as they themselves are after losses. I think you're right and I think a lot of fans make assumptions about MOS having zero knowledge about him. A guy doesn't need to spit, swear, and have a tirade to be pissed off. If he goes on a tirade it just becomes media fodder and a distraction for him and the team.

World is crashing around me? Cripes man it's just football.I'm curious why you think this is the start of a collapse in Riderville? We lost our marquee QB to injury. It happens. How did Edm do without Reilly this season? To proclaim a collapse of a franchise because of an injury is beyond goofy. This has nothing to do with your QB. If you think that you are a QB away from a Grey Cup you are delusional. Your team took a huge leap backwards in terms of skill level and competitiveness this season. Over the past few weeks this has been thoroughly exposed. Teams have figured out how to beat the Rider defence and that was the teams saving grace this season. Durant, no Durant, it doesn't matter....the Riders will get creamed by Edmonton in the playoffs. So, in summary, do I think the Riders took a huge step backwards this year? YES....I think that even most Rider fans would agree with that statement. In fact, they have Do I think that they will continue to get worse before they get better? YES. That is Taman's M.O. and he is sticking to script thus far. In Winnipeg we have been shown this same movie on several occasions and not to be a spoiler...it doesn't end well. Even though it's still got to be considered and extreme longshot, all the return of Durant in time for the playoffs would do is raise the Riders chances of winning a playoff game from non-existent to improbable.

I'm kinda glad he's back in a way. Gives us a chance to put boot to ass a little more before he skulks away permanently in a couple weeks when Durant doesn't start the last game. I didn't think he would have the class to be a man of his conviction anyway.

I don't care if we have a 100 office staff and 60 of them are masseuses for the team...as long as we can afford to pay for them and they help produce Grey Cups.