WildPath

He’s got a similar disregard for outsiders, and a similar stubborn arrogance. He hasn’t gone full kelly though and I don’t think he ever would. he’s also earned far more as a hc than kelly up here. 

i think we peaked in terms of how out of touch we are with the rest of our league. we’ve been used to over paying role guys and promoting them after paying them. thing is, teams aren’t coming for those guys any more. We are wasting our best talent on the bench and pr, and not retaining our top free agents like lawler. over paying our mid tier guys, and losing/not replacing our top guys, has left us in deep trouble. 
We need change at this point. pick some guys and send them packing. and i’m not just talking players. 
 
The season is about to slip away or we don’t turn things around drastically. 

My thoughts were keep brown and let he and streveler figure out who the man was. Trade collaros for assets (and let's be honest Ottawa was desperate and probably would have loved to get collaros at the time). You save money on qb position and can bolster other areas of the team. Would brown have been injured here? Who knows. Different team different circumstances.  

Here's what I have:

Vs Toronto (63 defensive snaps)
Jefferson 58
Vaughters 54
Thomas 35
Lawson 34
Adams 26
Person 25
Kornelson 6

16 snaps with Vaughters as a stand-up player rushing from the interior. 20 snaps of him, Jefferson and Person on at the same time.

Season to date (6 games)
Vaughters 290
Jefferson 281
Lawson 205
Thomas 198
Adams 1768
Kornelson 45
Person 29

Still zero D snaps for both rookies.

It just blows me away that they can get curb stomped like the 2 calgary games, including coming off a bye where historically this team has done tremendously well, and make absolutely no changes... 

Whenever I get asked about why Mitchell isn't playing I say it's because he's an X wide receiver. And to get him in would require he or Wheatfall changes position. Based on having Case in for Schoen on Sunday I have to believe the Bombers have reservations too. The first day of camp this year they had Mitchell at slot next to Wheatfall. The next day Mitchell was at X with the 2s. And since the end of camp that's where he's stayed.
Mitchell has played some slot in his career but the Elks clearly felt he was a WR. For his career I've got him with 151 targets at WR and 55 in the slot--73% WR is pretty high. When they signed Geno Lewis in 2023 they tried Mitchell in the slot but eventually bumped him out to Z.

Watching his '24 and '23 Sunday night Mitchell had some real struggles with the waggle...more hesitant than most guys. How much was him and how much was the bad QB situations in Edmonton...who knows.

Too many smiling faces after getting ass handed to you for my liking

And a Bomber game is far more fun than a Jets game.

We should’ve learned our lesson last year from what Bryant went through. If a linemen is sick for a week, don’t throw him into the heat of a summer game.  
 
have the opportunity to make some good changes, not betting we will see more than 1 positive change though. 

Because we need entertainment! The game is boring! Send in the clowns!

Nice to see actual analysis start to appear on TSN from Wilson, sometimes Lapolice. 

I remember hating Osh the player, nearly at a Simoni Lawrence level of anger

yep. 
 
https://3downnation.com/2025/05/23/silence-at-last-montreal-alouettes-ban-air-horns-for-2025-season/
About time. Sounds like the cfl put their foot down and are holding the ALs responsible to the standard held across the league. 
 

Ba moved to S, secondary gelled, D got healthy and hot at just the right time. A lot changed with the D from strevys starts to late. 
 The ol also came together, Lawler stepped up as well. 
 Zach gave us more than his production in 19 though. That famous run around toss up td to Darvin adams changed every thing. We went from a scrappy tough ground n pound team to a team that could make any play and win any way. A grey cup win went from a pipe dream to a very real possibility. 
 For my money, that is one of the greatest moments in bomber history. 
But you are right, the only thing that matters with respect to all this is brown vs Zach last year forward. 

MOS relied on trickery a lot more before the team started to get good around 2017, after that he dropped the tricks and beat them with better football.  If I'm not mistaken he acted as his own STC for the first few years, where a lot of the trick plays were deployed.

Complacent...in many ways...and the success...or lack there of due to it when all said and done of late is apparent...time for Osh to get back to how he used to do things to a certain extent....he used to piss fans and other teams off before with is keen knowledge on rules and ways to exploit them....why the change?...

I wanna say 2018 maybe early 2019 was the last time we saw that kind of stuff from mos. He’s gotten real conservative with the gc rings. 

MOS used to be great at finding those little loopholes but it's been a long time since we've seen that.

It's training camp, even the veterans need to knock off the rust.  But if you're still doing this in week 2 or 3...

I love the idea and we usually get some thing similar but a bit more fluffy from Tait here. 
 If the league put it self out there more and gave fans all the stuff they don’t want to share, they would create a huge vacuum for the target demographic. 
 
I know no team would want to be that open, but if they want to break the norm it will take great discomfort. I’m not talking about teams bad mouthing players they don’t like, but being open about what they do like about who they like. Competitively, it comes to pass fairly quickly after the draft that each team knows who the other teams liked. And it doesn’t really matter at that point any way. 

It is. I don’t think it’d be financially viable to have these guys playing all over. I think it’d have to atleast start out as a south Ontario to qubec thing. With in a 4 hour ish drive radius you have a ton of infrastructure. 
 
It you send kids there who aren’t gonna be in the cfl, give them a chance to make it and 25-35k, you’ll scoop up a huge portion of the guys who fall out of the league. 
 I might add globals as well. Say a limit of 5 globals and 5 Americans per team. 

I don't come around these parts as frequently since what went down with the political posts, but I appreciate the kind words.
I've ruined a few floor mats trying to help people get out quickly, but it can be a good quick fix. One time my buddy plowed a friend's brand new truck deep into a ditch after a hockey tournament in Lynn Lake. Not even the ol' floor mat trick would have helped in that deep snow. Just a lot of digging and pushing. Fortunately we had a whole line of hockey players in the truck to help with the pushing.

I'm replying to a 2023 post, outstanding.  I've always enjoyed WildPath's posts, wish they would post more often. 🙂
Here's tip we got if you're ever stuck in snow that has been helped us help out a many people along our travels. Take our your floor mats in your vehicle and put them under the tires. It gives the tires grip and most times viola you're unstuck.
So simple yet so brilliant!

I burst out laughing when I read this.... The arrogance of this *******...