blueandgoldguy

I'm happy that the Bombers are staying on CJOB. As already touched on by a few posters, if there is a conflict in the schedule between the Jets and the Bombers (and there will be) Bombers will get the boot, while the Jets will get top priority. Not exactly an ideal situation for advertising your product to the masses. I have listened to the Bomber pre and post-game show on 1290 and I have it to be quite good. I enjoy Walby's take on the game and while Walby is not as eloquent as Doug (everyone remember overneath?!) he doesn't come across as arrogant but rather jovial. Plus Walby the offensive lineman > then Brown the defensive lineman. Westwood is OK on the morning show though I could do without the fake moral outrage he expresses from time to time. I find he has made an effort to learn things during his tenure on 1290. ie. analytics in hockey. Toth is terrible - the worst thing about 1290 at this point. Toth - makes a point about something. Westwood or Bauming or some other host - easily refutes the comment Toth ignores his previous comment defending a particular stance and agrees with co-hosts - "But that's what I'm saying" Ralphie pretty good and comes across as polished. You have to like his dry sense of humour. Hustler is enthusiastic and has a pretty good grasp on most of his subject matter. I think the ratings for the drive home are also quite good for 1290 though not as good when Lawless was one of the co-hosts. He and Hustler had some good chemistry. Overall average ratings for 1290 probably take a bigger hit in the evening and late night - moreso than CJOB - due to the airing of out-of-country radio personalities. I doubt there are many in Manitoba who listen to Jim Rome and ESPN radio as obviously do not focus on anything in Canada let alone Manitoba. Offhand, there is some truly hilarious filler content on the weekend. I had the radio on as background noise while I was doing some work and there is a weekly Esports (Electronic Sports AKA Competitive Videogaming) show on with two hosts..I don't remember their names. On one show they were talking about these "athletes" retiring and the consequences for life after video games as compared to their counterparts in traditional sports. Such topics are handled with extreme gravitas lol. I guess one's fingers and thumbs are never the same after several years in the rough-and-tumble world of video games!

Special teams will have to dominate as they have for several games this season with some good kick/punt returns. D will need 3 to 4 turnovers to give the Bomber offense some short fields to work with. I still expect them to give up 450+ yards though. With Nichols likely to be nowhere near 100% we have to hope he can somehow make it through the game without getting further hurt - a monumental task with his lack of mobility.

I wouldn't consider it a reflection of fans in this city if the playoff game only has 25,000 or so showing up. You would then have to say that fans of any team in the CFL don't show up for playoffs. Semi-final games in all cities do not sell particularly well. All you have to do is look at recent history. The only exception would be some semi-finals in small stadiums out east like Tim Hortons Field. If these 24,000 seaters expanded by 10,000 I'm sure they wouldn't sell more than a few hundred additional seats. As I say this there are still a few thousand seats left in Ottawa for their game against the Riders.

I'd feel pretty confident the Bombers could go all the way and win the cup if Nichols health wasn't in quite so much doubt and we had one or two less key injuries. Then again, if you look at the roster of a team like the Stamps or Esks they have been missing players just as important as Westerman, LEggett and Adams for most of the season so it comes to not having good depth. Ah well. Hopefully they can pull off the victory against the Esks next week.

All that money spent on Mosaic and they can't even provide good visitor locker rooms. http://3downnation.com/2017/11/04/esks-offensive-lineman-says-visitor-locker-rooms-new-mosaic-crap/ With the Edmonton Eskimos set to play the Saskatchewan Roughriders tonight for the right not to lay waste to the East Division, Edmonton offensive lineman Justin Sorensen used Twitter to harp on the accommodations provided to Rider guests. The Riders opened the new $278 million Mosaic Stadium this stadium which features a number of state-of-the-art amenities including a lavish player’ lounge, a barbershop and a 4,450-square-foot open-concept locker room. The team spent $19 million on their portion of the facility. The opposition digs, however, are less opulent. Teams have complained about limited space for training and medical staff and the Toronto Argonauts were less than impressed when the air conditioning mysteriously stopped working in late July when temperatures were in the low 30s. Predictably, reaction to Sorensen’s ranged from Rider fans chirping about home field advantage to others slamming the “classless” organization. And his former teammate Eddie Steele, now with the Riders, couldn’t help himself… I have certainly never heard any complaints about the visitor locker rooms in new stadiums/renovated stadiums in Vancouver, Edmonton, Hamilton, Toronto and Ottawa. This is a big fail by the organization and Regina. You would think the most boring city in Canada that is life and death to bring any out-of-town visitors to their village would try to create a good impression wherever possible especially with those poor unfortunate souls who are forced to travel there for a football game.

Dressler and Adams would not replace the top-2 on Edmonton or BC and the results would be the same. Puhlease. Lapo's system is perfect for a guy like Nichols and our receiving core. Nichols does not have the arm strength or accuracy on long throws to go 20+ yards to the same degree the likes of Reilly can. Put lapo in Edmonton and Reilly would still be chucking it down the field on a fairly consistent basis.

Black goes into a game with a chosen narrative and sticks with it regardless of what is happening on the field of play. Black would actually be pretty good in the studio hosting a panel which I have seen him do on a semi-regular basis. He got a shout out once from Charles Barkley a couple years ago on some broadcast. Does that make him a little bit cool? We should give him a break. Black is from Transcona. A man can't help that his idiosyncracies are a result of where he was raised.

That's exactly who he reminded me of!

No the Esks were missing their starting running back - one of the best in the CFL - at the beginning of the season. Their second string running back went down shortly thereafter. The third stringer came in and played quite well during the Eskimos win streak. This shows good depth. Cory Greenwood - a Canadian linebacker injured all season JC Sherritt - injured first game of the season after rupturing achilles Sean Whyte - best field goal stats this year before he was injured in the 5th game and 93% last year. Imagine if we lost Medlock? Simeon Rottier - out most of the season Adarius Bowman - missed 6 or 7 games...eskimos won 4 of the 7 games on their winning streak without him which shows they can win without a key receiver Derrell Walker - lost him to the NFL for the first half of the season. One of the best in the CFL is not so easily replaced in the off-season. So these are some of the key starters the Esks were missing at or near the start of the season during their winning streak. Several of these are still out of the lineup. There have been more in and out since then as well. The fact that the Eskimos were able to maintain such an impressive winning streak without all these players is impressive and is a testament to their depth. Only when injuries reached ridiculous proportions (20 plus players) did the inevitable losing commence.

The Bombers have only been without Nichols for 3 quarters. They looked bad in the previous 3 or 4 games. Jennings looked quite fine yesterday. Ottawa's second stringer Tate was fine before he went down. It would be one thing is Davis was playing well and went down like Tate and the fever came in and sucked like Lindley. That, of course, is not the case. Both looked terrible. Right now, the Bombers appear to have the worst 2nd stringer in the league at QB. Edmonton had many key injuries at the beginning of the season in the midst of their winning streak - more than the current Bombers have. Only when they reached around 20 players on the injured list, did the Esks go into a complete funk. The Bombers are nowhere near that number.

This isn't entirely true. Edmonton started the year with several injuries and it grew to around 13 players injured around the middle of their win streak. Only when injuries reached around 20 players did the Eskies inevitably start to falter and go on a losing streak. They still have some players out with season-ending injuries while pulling off several wins recently. In contrast, once the Bombers lost 3 or 4 players to injury they quickly went into the tank sporting a 1-2 record going into this weekend's game and looking pretty mediocre to awful in all of them. The Esks were able to handle several injuries at the beginning of the season (many more than the current Bombers) and still win. The Bombers play took a noticeable downturn with just a few players out of the lineup. On that basis, it is pretty clear a team like the Esks has better depth than the Bombers at this point in time.

It's frustrating that this team's GM and scouts can't do a better job at finding quality Qbs, linebackers and receivers down south.

I remember when many people on the old site thought we had great QBing with Pierce, Elliott and Brink.

If by the end of the line you this season, then yeah, I agree. No guarantees beyond this year though.

Yes, those teams were worse off than the Bombers in 2013 Speaking of which, Ottawa started from nothing and went 12-6 in their second season and made it to the Grey Cup. Then they fought through several injuries the following season and won the Grey Cup in their third season. Edmonton was in a similarly dire situation in 2012 with Tillman and Reed. Sub .500 season. Get rid of Tillman and hire Hervey. Fire Reed the next season. Post a winning season and make the West Finals in 2014 and follow that up with a Grey Cup in 2015. So the Edmonton rebuild took 2 years and the team was a Grey Cup champion in year 3. It's been proven time and time again. Rebuilds in the CFL do not take that long. Back to Jones. He is a ****, but a winning ****. Much rather have that than a losing **** like Joe Mack who is once again showing his shoddy recruiting skills with the 3-14 Als this season.

As I just said in the other thread, if the Bombers are one and done in playoffs this year, both O'shea and Walters will probably be toast at the end of the 2018 season should the team fail to make the division finals by next season. ...but let's see what happens the next 2 - 4 weeks. Interesting little tidbit. Since the Bombers last playoff win in 2011, every other team in the CFL has won at least one playoff game since then.

He did bring over the veteran coaching staff some of who had less experience than Bellefool and Etch who have been around for years. By the way, O'shea is the one who chose to bring those two in just as he chose to bring in Hall. Jones also had 0 experience as a GM and has managed to restock the cupboards in 2 off-seasons. As for playing fast and loose with the rules, I would suggest all teams bend the rules. It is only to what degree that each team does that is the question. Bringing in Trestman and Popp does not cancel out the shitshow that was the Argos off-season. They barely had time to prepare being brought in as late as they were. Wasn't Popp regarded as a failure around here not too long ago because of the lack of talent he brought to Montreal in recent years? And now, he provides Toronto with a distinct advantage? OK... The bombers did decide to groom a GM and HC indeed. The reasons behind it are a subject to debate, in particular with Walters who has hired on a permanent basis after the "extensive search" in the 2013 off-season. So far, it has yet to pay off after nearly 4 years and suspect depth at many positions. We will see what happens in the playoffs, but if the Bombers are one and done, I suspect both Walters and O'Shea will have to make the Divisional Finals in 2018 at a bare minimum (whether that be by finishing first or winning in the division semi-final) to keep their jobs.

Offense has been awful for at least 3 games though. They had the QB, OL and running back for the previous 2 and yet they played poorly. The team has been trending towards awful on the O-side for a month now. The lack of quality depth is killing them.

Those rare times the fever has looked good in the past was when he used his evasiveness and running ability to extend drives. Sadly when the other parts of his game are so lacking, as was seen in hamilton and toronto, the opposition keys in on this forcing him to throw and well, we see the results of that. He is strictly a third down/short yardage qb. I really hope we see a little more positive production from Davis next week.

/\ /\ Sadly this appears to be a trend that has carried on for two decades and the past 4 management groups. I guess when the Bombers had Jyles and Buck in 2010 that would be considered good backup depth. The only problem is one of them had to be the official starting QB!

Medlock appears to be back on track. Special teams were solid.

Care to elaborate? Jones came into a situation just as bad if not worse than Walter/O'Shea. Aging team with no Canadian depth. Trestman and Popp came on very late in the off-season in Toronto. Remember how long it took ownership to fire Jim Barker. The new manager and coach barely had any time to prepare for the draft and recruitment. All the other teams had a head start.

Regarding the Fever this shouldn't be a surprise. Watching his games in relief and starting for Hamilton and Toronto it was pretty apparent he had little arm strength from the getgo. Yeah, he fluked out a win here and there thanks to his running ability but his throws were of the popgun variety and because of that, he was incapable and is of stretching the field. He is fine as a short yardage QB, that's about it.

total team failure in this game. The defense has been brutal pretty well all season with a few exceptions, but the offense has shown a really disturbing trend the past 4 weeks or so, and that was with Harris and Nichols in the lineup. Poor net yardage and TOI. I guess Adams and Flanders being out of the lineup make a big difference and reflects the lack of depth in this roster has. No suitable replacements and that is on the management and the scouts.

GM/Coaches like Chris Jones and Trestman and Popp are proving it doesn't take 3 years to rebuild a team into playoff or even Grey Cup contender. Jones accomplished this feat in 1.5 years while Trestman and Popp appear to have accomplished this in a half year in Toronto.