WildPath

I went basically my whole life without seeing the Bombers win a Grey Cup until 2019, and my kids have only seen the Bombers win or play in them. 
There will be change and this is likely the end of an era. But I'm going to take a second and just reflect on the amazing run that this team had. I am so appreciative to pretty much everyone involved in the organization. Management, coaches, players...they've put so much into it. Winning Grey Cups is just difficult. 

I'm not saying he was the problem. I'm saying him being our nominee for rookie of the year is indicative of the talent we brought in the rest of the team this year. Even if your punter is outstanding, it looks bad on your crop of rookies if he's the best thing you got for ROY.

Especially when we played not to lose two years in a row. We said it was just another game and the rest didn't matter - we played like it was obvious we would win and we just had to wait for that outcome.

We just seemed old and tired tonight, didn't have any spark with exception of Brady and surprisingly Gauthier!  
Need intensity,  need youth maybe?
 

That Fajardo pick was the perfect example of how our tactical plan on D was so misguided.
You let him have that throw in single coverage and all the receiver has to do is outfight the DB.  You drop guys out and do it purposefully to bracket Mack (simply have one guy over top, one guy trailing) and those throws aren't there.  Fajardo has to put the ball at risk to try to be accurate or start spinning around in the backfield.
Instead we blitzed 6-7 into 7 man max protect routinely and gave him the Cover 0/1 looks he can work with...all he can work with because he has a horribly inaccurate and weak arm in terms of getting the ball there on time at any distance downfield.
It hurts so, so much because we gave this one away...and we just had the gameplan for the same QB to perfection last week in the West Final.

You gotta give some credit to Montreal D. They played well and our D did not. What was Bighill doing out there at all? Also, Faj outplayed himself, threw just one pick - and that was a great pick by Holm, not necessarily a bad throw. Not wanting to toss Zach under the bus but now you wonder every time: do we get the good Zach or the bad Zach? There's the exact reason why Hamilton, Toronto and Sask let him go. Anyhow, lots of changes in store next season. Hope this was not our best crack at the Cup for awhile ...

It says something about our complacency/loyalty when the mediocre/poor punter is the nominee for rookie of the year.

We are all angry and hurting but I gotta speak up on this one. The Bombers have been consistently great for the past three seasons and very good before that. Obviously blew it twice in the Cup games but overall they have been one of the best teams in the league consistently. 

The J's are at the point where you have to pay attention to snap counts.   We completely failed in this area all season.........

Not my Ourbombers.com

Jeffcoat is fine, we just need to have some depth at defensive line to keep everyone fresh. That what won them cups in 19 and 21. 

Punter was ROTY nominee... what a crop of newcomers... be better next year

I know you're upset. I am too. I have been a die-hard (really die-hard) since 1957. (Yes, I'm that old.) Seriously, there is always next year, more for you because I don't have that many left.

Please step away from the edge. It's only a football game. Do the interview. Get the job. Come on back. There's always next year. 

$100,000.
Less than 2% of the cap.

Only guy who did the job was Oliveria.   Our passing game sucked....

I don't know...in these playoffs we've burned a ton of roster spots on guys who clearly were significantly injured to the point they could barely function in a CFL game (Bighill GC, Grant both games, Schoen)...and Jackson, and McCrae who we didn't even see.
I'd argue if we actually used all 46 guys we might get something from it.
We've done nothing to backfill a bunch of spots where guys have been banged up and worse.
Returner this year might be one of the best case studies.  Like did we keep McCrae around because he's shaped closest to Demski, or could we have worked to bring in an actual returner in the summer when trying out some guys wouldn't be fatal?  Montreal did it and that guy returned a kick for TD in East Final, got a couple decent ones on us in the GC. 
Canadian LB another spot we just quit on.  Eventually got guys back, but can't say didn't affect our cover teams almost all year.

It won't happen. No way the Bombers release Zach & keep Brown. 

That...Jackson.... Houston....that punter all yr...no depth for dline as they wear down each game...poor in-game decisions....

Said it all year and it happened in the biggest game of the year. We sat a guy out in Rose to play a cripple who could barely move when we had an adequate replacement. The loyalty in our roster management was disgusting this year and it didn’t show any truer than in our final game of the year.
 
Was excited that Bighill could go but let’s call it what it is - there was absolutely no reason he should’ve been out there tonight. Rose to back up Parker sounds pretty good right about now.

Just wanted to make sure my boy Booch saw this....... A quality read, I am sure
 
 
 

2018..2017..2016..2015...2011...2010..2006...1991

Ok Charles Roberts

One of the comments reads 
"People in Hamilton can barely speak English" hahaha

This is an odd take… you think if one of the established reporters in Winnipeg (bauming, Hamilton, wyman, etc) asks a tough question, they’ll be banned from the facility?… nothing that’s happened in the ten years that O’Shea has been here leads me to believe that would happen…
if anything… it might be more like the media guys are too afraid to fracture they’re relationship… they’re more concerned about being buddy-buddy than getting the “hard scoop”