blueandgoldguy

This is easily one of the best finishers of all time.  Looks legit devastating - 200+ pounds crashing down on your chest and throat.
 

With regards to the quality of quarterbacking in the league, it's amazing how quickly things can change within a couple years.
 
Flashback to 2016 - Nichols emerges as a legit starter in Winnipeg putting together several good outings.
Jonathan Jennings has a phenomenal rookie season in BC.  Looks like they will be set for the next decade.
Ricky Ray did not play much during the season, but when he did he was still impressive for the Argos
Collaros had just come off a fantastic season that was cut short by injury.  While he struggled a bit in 2016, he still posted decent numbers and was considered an excellent QB.
Reilly was already a great Qb for Edmonton.  Franklin's limited snaps had many viewers drooling over his potential
Same with Mitchell in Calgary.
Burris just came off an MOP season in 2015 and put together a heck of a run to win the Grey Cup.  Oh, his backup Trevor Harris, looked pretty good, winning eastern all-star accolades.
Glenn was solid if unspectacular in Montreal although given what he had to work you couldn't expect much more.  Better than anything they have today...
Saskatchewan had a declining Durant.  While not the same player he had been prior to 2014, he was OK and like Glenn, probably couldn't be expected to do much better given the lack of talent on the riders in 2016.
 
Here we are in 2018...
-Ray appears to be done due to injury.  His replacements, Franklin and Bethel-Thompson...the former very disappointing so far while the latter will probably post no better than Journeyman-type numbers.
-Jennings regressed massively in 2017 and has not regained his form.  Could be one-season wonder.  Lulay, the former starter is no longer the elite Qb he once was due to injuries.
- Nichols has ranged between average and awful...basically playing like a backup for the most part
-Collaros hasn't been any better looking shell-shocked for 2 seasons now.  His days as an elite starter, maybe even an average starter, are over.  Riders' backup Bridge is too raw and will never amount to anything more than a quick-fix..athletic with a good arm but little else.
-Burris has retired.  While Harris can be maddening with his inconsistency from game-to-game, I think we have seen enough to label him as a good QB.
- Reilly is still elite and the MOP of the league yet again.  Bidding war ensuing in the off-season and imo he will sign for in excess of $600 or 650,000 next year.
- Mitchell is elite.  Just ask him.  He will also sign for over 600,000 next year.
-MOntreal still desperately searching for a starter.  Could Manziel or Pipken be the answer?  Possibly, but will either of them be better then average?
- Hamilton has been the only team that appears to have found a legit good starter that was relatively unknown a couple years ago.  Masoli has shown flashes of greatness but appears to have difficulty finishing off drives and has a greater tendency towards brain farts then the greats in the game.
 
All in all, it appear we have 4 good to great Qbs in the league at the present with a whole lot of question marks outside of that.

Heh, heh.  Long-term injuries to those three will give the Bombers the perfect excuse to bring back all the coaches next season.

Heh, heh.  Long-term injuries to those three will give the Bombers the perfect excuse to bring back all the coaches next season.

So in other words, when everything else on the team is going well and Nichols doesn’t overtly screw everything up, he’s fine. Pardon me while I celebrate. 

Honestly the hate on guys have for Nichols is getting old.
He is not a flashy qb but with a good d and when he is running a steady ball control offence that doesn’t turn the ball over it makes for a winning combo.
the only qb’s that are better are Riley and Mitchell with Masoli possibly ahead of Nichols but he has yet to win anything.
He proved his worth in the 4th with the drive that led to a big field goal and by not turning the ball over.
ill conceed Montreal is not a good team but they have some solid players on D.
 
 

I have no faith Nichols and the offense have the game to match Edmonton next week.  We need to hope Reilly turns over the ball several times to have any chance in that game.

Jets game going on.,,,yeah, it's pre-season but I'm sure there were 13 - 14,000 people there.  Many have lost faith in the Bombers this season.  I can't blame them.  No surprise there was less than 20,000 at the game.

Walters will have to bring in an international receiver to put some pressure on Adams then.  Just use his vast network of contacts from down south.

Walby named Nichols the player of the game.

Dang never thought of that - Now you will keep me up all night worrying about having to see the entire collection back next year!

Heh, heh.  Long-term injuries to those three will give the Bombers the perfect excuse to bring back all the coaches next season.

Murph sure caught a lot of long bombs for TDs back in the day.  In fact most of them appeared to be of that variety.  He sure as hell would have trouble getting more than a handful today given our current starting QB.

How about a positive thread for a change...
Fritz Hanson - the first superstar in Bomber history and one of the all-time greats from the early days of Canadian football - will be inducted to the Ring of Honour.
https://www.bluebombers.com/2018/09/18/ring-honour-inductee-fritz-hanson/
They called him ‘Twinkletoes’, the ‘Perham Flash’ and the ‘Galloping Ghost’, and every nickname just seemed to perfectly describe his enthralling skillset.
Melvin ‘Fritz’ Hanson was the first superstar in the history of the Winnipeg Football Club, pre-dating all the legends in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ long and storied history, arriving decades before Stegall and Roberts, Ploen, Lewis, Gray, Tinsley, Brown, Brock, James and Walby. Hanson – the 2018 inductee into the club’s Ring of Honour – first appeared on the local football scene in 1935 during the Great Depression – spurring a $1,000 offer from the New York Giants to sign in Winnipeg instead for $800 along with a new overcoat and the chance to be close to his hometown in Perham, Minnesota.
And he instantly put the franchise on Canada’s sporting map.
The ‘Winnipegs’ – as they were known then, before the nickname ‘Blue Bombers’ was hung on them by Free Press sportswriter Vince Leah – had fallen in the Grey Cup semi-final in 1933 and were just 3-4 a year later when the Bombers added Hanson.
The game was changing then, with more American college players migrating north to Canada and passing coming into vogue.
Long overdue but I'm glad it's finally happening.
 
 
 
 

How about a positive thread for a change...
Fritz Hanson - the first superstar in Bomber history and one of the all-time greats from the early days of Canadian football - will be inducted to the Ring of Honour.
https://www.bluebombers.com/2018/09/18/ring-honour-inductee-fritz-hanson/
They called him ‘Twinkletoes’, the ‘Perham Flash’ and the ‘Galloping Ghost’, and every nickname just seemed to perfectly describe his enthralling skillset.
Melvin ‘Fritz’ Hanson was the first superstar in the history of the Winnipeg Football Club, pre-dating all the legends in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ long and storied history, arriving decades before Stegall and Roberts, Ploen, Lewis, Gray, Tinsley, Brown, Brock, James and Walby. Hanson – the 2018 inductee into the club’s Ring of Honour – first appeared on the local football scene in 1935 during the Great Depression – spurring a $1,000 offer from the New York Giants to sign in Winnipeg instead for $800 along with a new overcoat and the chance to be close to his hometown in Perham, Minnesota.
And he instantly put the franchise on Canada’s sporting map.
The ‘Winnipegs’ – as they were known then, before the nickname ‘Blue Bombers’ was hung on them by Free Press sportswriter Vince Leah – had fallen in the Grey Cup semi-final in 1933 and were just 3-4 a year later when the Bombers added Hanson.
The game was changing then, with more American college players migrating north to Canada and passing coming into vogue.
Long overdue but I'm glad it's finally happening.
 
 
 
 

How about a positive thread for a change...
Fritz Hanson - the first superstar in Bomber history and one of the all-time greats from the early days of Canadian football - will be inducted to the Ring of Honour.
https://www.bluebombers.com/2018/09/18/ring-honour-inductee-fritz-hanson/
They called him ‘Twinkletoes’, the ‘Perham Flash’ and the ‘Galloping Ghost’, and every nickname just seemed to perfectly describe his enthralling skillset.
Melvin ‘Fritz’ Hanson was the first superstar in the history of the Winnipeg Football Club, pre-dating all the legends in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ long and storied history, arriving decades before Stegall and Roberts, Ploen, Lewis, Gray, Tinsley, Brown, Brock, James and Walby. Hanson – the 2018 inductee into the club’s Ring of Honour – first appeared on the local football scene in 1935 during the Great Depression – spurring a $1,000 offer from the New York Giants to sign in Winnipeg instead for $800 along with a new overcoat and the chance to be close to his hometown in Perham, Minnesota.
And he instantly put the franchise on Canada’s sporting map.
The ‘Winnipegs’ – as they were known then, before the nickname ‘Blue Bombers’ was hung on them by Free Press sportswriter Vince Leah – had fallen in the Grey Cup semi-final in 1933 and were just 3-4 a year later when the Bombers added Hanson.
The game was changing then, with more American college players migrating north to Canada and passing coming into vogue.
Long overdue but I'm glad it's finally happening.
 
 
 
 

How about a positive thread for a change...
Fritz Hanson - the first superstar in Bomber history and one of the all-time greats from the early days of Canadian football - will be inducted to the Ring of Honour.
https://www.bluebombers.com/2018/09/18/ring-honour-inductee-fritz-hanson/
They called him ‘Twinkletoes’, the ‘Perham Flash’ and the ‘Galloping Ghost’, and every nickname just seemed to perfectly describe his enthralling skillset.
Melvin ‘Fritz’ Hanson was the first superstar in the history of the Winnipeg Football Club, pre-dating all the legends in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ long and storied history, arriving decades before Stegall and Roberts, Ploen, Lewis, Gray, Tinsley, Brown, Brock, James and Walby. Hanson – the 2018 inductee into the club’s Ring of Honour – first appeared on the local football scene in 1935 during the Great Depression – spurring a $1,000 offer from the New York Giants to sign in Winnipeg instead for $800 along with a new overcoat and the chance to be close to his hometown in Perham, Minnesota.
And he instantly put the franchise on Canada’s sporting map.
The ‘Winnipegs’ – as they were known then, before the nickname ‘Blue Bombers’ was hung on them by Free Press sportswriter Vince Leah – had fallen in the Grey Cup semi-final in 1933 and were just 3-4 a year later when the Bombers added Hanson.
The game was changing then, with more American college players migrating north to Canada and passing coming into vogue.
Long overdue but I'm glad it's finally happening.
 
 
 
 

How about a positive thread for a change...
Fritz Hanson - the first superstar in Bomber history and one of the all-time greats from the early days of Canadian football - will be inducted to the Ring of Honour.
https://www.bluebombers.com/2018/09/18/ring-honour-inductee-fritz-hanson/
They called him ‘Twinkletoes’, the ‘Perham Flash’ and the ‘Galloping Ghost’, and every nickname just seemed to perfectly describe his enthralling skillset.
Melvin ‘Fritz’ Hanson was the first superstar in the history of the Winnipeg Football Club, pre-dating all the legends in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ long and storied history, arriving decades before Stegall and Roberts, Ploen, Lewis, Gray, Tinsley, Brown, Brock, James and Walby. Hanson – the 2018 inductee into the club’s Ring of Honour – first appeared on the local football scene in 1935 during the Great Depression – spurring a $1,000 offer from the New York Giants to sign in Winnipeg instead for $800 along with a new overcoat and the chance to be close to his hometown in Perham, Minnesota.
And he instantly put the franchise on Canada’s sporting map.
The ‘Winnipegs’ – as they were known then, before the nickname ‘Blue Bombers’ was hung on them by Free Press sportswriter Vince Leah – had fallen in the Grey Cup semi-final in 1933 and were just 3-4 a year later when the Bombers added Hanson.
The game was changing then, with more American college players migrating north to Canada and passing coming into vogue.
Long overdue but I'm glad it's finally happening.
 
 
 
 

How about a positive thread for a change...
Fritz Hanson - the first superstar in Bomber history and one of the all-time greats from the early days of Canadian football - will be inducted to the Ring of Honour.
https://www.bluebombers.com/2018/09/18/ring-honour-inductee-fritz-hanson/
They called him ‘Twinkletoes’, the ‘Perham Flash’ and the ‘Galloping Ghost’, and every nickname just seemed to perfectly describe his enthralling skillset.
Melvin ‘Fritz’ Hanson was the first superstar in the history of the Winnipeg Football Club, pre-dating all the legends in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ long and storied history, arriving decades before Stegall and Roberts, Ploen, Lewis, Gray, Tinsley, Brown, Brock, James and Walby. Hanson – the 2018 inductee into the club’s Ring of Honour – first appeared on the local football scene in 1935 during the Great Depression – spurring a $1,000 offer from the New York Giants to sign in Winnipeg instead for $800 along with a new overcoat and the chance to be close to his hometown in Perham, Minnesota.
And he instantly put the franchise on Canada’s sporting map.
The ‘Winnipegs’ – as they were known then, before the nickname ‘Blue Bombers’ was hung on them by Free Press sportswriter Vince Leah – had fallen in the Grey Cup semi-final in 1933 and were just 3-4 a year later when the Bombers added Hanson.
The game was changing then, with more American college players migrating north to Canada and passing coming into vogue.
Long overdue but I'm glad it's finally happening.
 
 
 
 

Every coach and gm, past and present, bring valuable things to the table - even the Mike Kellys and Kavis Reeds of the world.  That's not a compelling enough reason to keep them.  Do those valuable things outweigh all the non-valuable or bad things they bring to the table?  

No team in CFL history has kept a head coach for more than 4 seasons without at least one playoff victory.  The Bomber organization has been extremely patient with him.  Make the playoffs and win at least one game or you are done.  Simple.

Walters is OK but he handicaps our team because he has limited connections down south.  Yes, the scouts are there to find players in the US but it would be better if both the GM and the scouts had an extensive network there.

They did get hot at the right time but they had at least one element on that team that allowed them to to get hot at the right time against the better teams in the CFL.  That of course would be Ray.  I still remember that incredible long pass he made to the Argos receiver, hitting him in full stride for the TD in the Grey Cup game.  Nichols, and several other Qbs in the league would never be able to pull that off.

I like how you go on this rant basically guaranteeing you know the result.
You Hire a new HC in  the offseason, then allow the new HC to choose his coordinators.
You're very confused and it shows in your rambling post.

No team in CFL history has kept a head coach for more than 4 seasons without at least one playoff victory.  The Bomber organization has been extremely patient with him.  Make the playoffs and win at least one game or you are done.  Simple.