WildPath

No one asks hard questions anymore out of fear they'll lose their press credentials. The days of the media holding the HC & GM's feet to the fire is over.
There are no more Jack Matheson's Don Blanchard's or John Robertson's. They were as smart as the team manager as they'd all covered the Bombers for at least 30 years. Matheson back into the early 50's for the old Winnipeg Tribune. If they wanted to, they could make life miserable for any GM & HC duo if they got on their bad side.
Then on the radio side was Jack Wells who also was hard to fool. Although, he generally had a good relationship with Lunsford & any of the coaches he hired. Being on radio, he could only really give sound bites & not go into anything in great detail. The same in local TV with Don Wittman, Bob Picken & Stew McPherson. Thyey only had maybe 3 or 4 minutes to tell a story about the Bombers before having to move on to other subjects in an 8-10 minute sprtscast.
They all had insider CFL contacts in every city & more importantly were never intimidated by guys like GM Earl Lunsford or any of the many head coaches he hired at the time. And there were a few. If there were tough questions to ask then they all did it.
The only head coach that I remember Jack Matheson & the rest of the media holding in high esteem was Bud Grant after he left. I do remember that Grant was pretty close with most of them. I know Bud shared more than a few drinks after hours with those guys & some of them were his good friends. 
Bud Riley never got along with the local media very much. It was always frosty as he never never trusted them. That changed when Ray Jauch was hired. He knew most of them from his time as a player with the Bombers & he won a GC as a Head Coach in Edmonton. When Matheson smelled a story, he was relentless uncovering it. Guys like Earl Lunsford had to treat the media with respect even if he didn't like them. It made for some great reading in both newspapers.
Times are certainly different today. It would be interesting to see the relationship those old media types would have with Mike O'Shea today as he keeps a lot of things close to the vest. I think they'd have a hard time getting info from their sources as the league has closed ranks in a lot of ways to the media. Things aren't as open as they used to be. 

That’s the exact same roster as last week aside from Schoen listed GTD instead of McCrae.
All those backers are dressed because that’s the core of the special teams units.  No bread crumbs there on Bighill.
I think they should go rush end for Bighill but will probably go Rose since he’s a vet.  They got picked on pretty bad by BC when Jeffcoat was on sideline and Hansen on the field.  If Jeffcoat tweaked his hip 3 plays into the game we’d be absolutely ******.

Would love it for #97 to call him out on it during Sunday's pre-game. 

Those are good. Letting Masoli play in the Cup unvaccinated just because the Cup was in Hamilton was about as egregious as it gets. 

Hopefully we don't do the dumb thing and dress them if they can't be an effective player all game....if they dress and are limited and or get rehurt...then we effectively just cut our roster depth even further...and will be a.major coaching blunder.
If they not 90 percent or better I wanna see Ambles and Fox...and ideally Rose for the soldier...that be a damn solid 46

I think Biggie is for sure out… based on the way guys have been talking about him this week…. Schoen seems extremely unlikely too, unfortunately 

I’m flying in from sunny Los Angeles to the frigid north tomorrow! It’ll be my first Bomber game live since the 2021 Grey Cup despite still having season tickets so I fully plan on losing my voice!

Chad Kelly took John Hodge for a ride and made him look like a gullible idiot.  Elsewhere on 3dn Dinwiddie told Dunk he heard about the concussion from his wife, who only saw on their site, and “who is as bad for reading 3dn as he is”. Hahhahahahaha what a backhand to them.  Chad Kelly himself on cfl.ca “I’ve moved on from that game, I’ve even worked out twice”. Wow some serious powers of recovery who had an out of body concussion experience right after stinking out the stadium.   Newsflash Chad, that feeling was utter humiliation, not a concussion 🙄

I sent this clip to some German friends and now they are going to be tuning in to watch the game on Sunday from Germany.  They didn't know we had a German Panzer in our line up! LOL

Lawler gave a nice shout out to Darvin a few days ago, said he's the person he thanks the most for putting him in the position he's in now.

Love Darvin. 
 
Too bad he didn’t want to be given a full reception by the fans that he deserved.
It was clear that he just wanted to focus on the now. 
Hopefully he comes back to a game some day and gets a proper thank you. 

This game just makes me miss prime Darvin Adams. I know he's too old now and Bailey has largely taken his blocking role, but dude was just nasty for other teams to deal with.

Coming up. Keith Urban halftime show followed by a quarter and a half of Suitor and Keith love fest in the booth. 

I could tell you how it ends if you want to save time.

Interesting tweet by DT about Rose. I'd rather see an extra DL on the roster than Rose.

There's a 55 percent chance either team will be poisoned by the food and water sources in Hamilton during Grey Cup week.

I just arrived at Toronto airport. Next stop Hamilton!

I just dislike this persistent sentiment that we just popped up out of nowhere in 2019.
The Bombers were built over years. It wasn’t some  out of the blue playoff run. 
I don’t see the comparison  to the 2019 team. 

The University of Toronto has won the same number of Grey Cups as the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Please stop calling the Saskatchewan Roughriders a professional football team. 

Of course, Bond bridged the gap while the young guys rounded into shape. OL play was not lacking.

Jeff Hecht getting the hook for BA, plus using Taylor and Maston completely transformed the back end… that said we still needed a qb with Nichols out and Strev on one leg.  McGuire wasn’t taking us to the promised land by himself so Zach was also a vital ingredient to the cup run.  It can be both.

Count me in as a person who is happy for whoever wins the award, and I don't really mind if the league sets it up to throw a bone to teams that were dog and pony shows all year so that their fans have something to cheer about.
I second that. INEXCUSABLE betrayal. Know your role DTon. You just lost a ton of respect amongst Bomber fans. I will go one further and will be emailing CJOB to ask them to explain your actions. Just understand one thing DTon...you are expected by the fans to be the voice of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers first and foremost. If you want to be an independant journalist go to 3DN. I could understand your stance if Kelly was actually the MOP...but we all know he wasn't even the best QB in the league this year...you even said so yourself. This wasn't some foregone conclusion, two players who had great seasons and both worthy of the award and a person could argue for day about who should win....in that scenario it seems absolutely gobsmacking that you would bite the hand that feeds DTonOB. I know who Bob Irving would have voted for.
EDIT:
Message sent to Kelly Moore expressing my disatisfaction. I highly encourage everyone to take a minute to do the same if Taylor's votes upset you.

Betts was good at one thing and one thing only. And, he wasn't even good at that in the second half. In fact, the entire BC defense was horrible. 
If the Jeffcoat or Jefferson could be as irresponsible as Betts, they would get 20 sacks a season each. But, they're trying to win games, not personal trophies. 

They are the only ones who do work in the community for sure.