BigBlueFanatic

In regards to the Lions record over the last two seasons - Lulay getting hurt and KG being KG aren't exactly things you can hang on Benevides either...

According to the Freep last night's performance improves them to 7th league wide for goals against. Now to see if they can be consistently this good.

It's not just O'Shea; player recruiting and the coordinators need to be better next season. Was surprised to be reminded Benevides is in his third season as an HC - there were plenty of times when I thought for sure he was gonna get axed. Here some are saying chop O'Shea by Labour Day??!! Obviously if the team goes winless the first half of next season then sure (as that would basically be a seasons worth of straight losses). I don't believe that will happen. The management genuinely seems to care and I think they'll use the offseason to think real hard about the good and the bad this year.

Agree - acknowledging the need to improve run defence would be a good start. You'd think that with all the film on Kuale this season that it should be an easy decision to give Kromah a shot to be a consistent difference maker

Like what you wrote, especially how the record and the excitement gets our expectations a little out of whack. Too bad Matthews is on the Seahawks PR

Fraser got hurt and Anderson went in for the rest of the game, with Turner moving to DE (according to Cuthbert) With the injuries piling up Hunt and Hall sure sound like what the doctor is calling for...

My wife just pointed out that the new unis might cause the refs to confuse the Bombers with the mothership in TO and that we should see a lot of phantom and non-calls go our way LOL

See a Dieter Brock jersey in the time appropriate colours is totally not hipster. A new "fan" who's never heard of the bombers before last year suddenly wants to look "authentic" so has a 2014 rookie's name on a royal blue... Well that's hipster - or it would be if anything remotely connected to football could be hipster.

Agree A 20 year old fan wearing a royal blue jersey with Grigsby stenciled on it is waaaaay more hipster than an outright ugly jersey. Hipster isn't just a word people use for whatever they don't like.

Sherman hasn't been perfect, I mean even #RandleIsland forgot how to tackle during the EE game. Sherman has had many fine moments, and so far has been a big play turnover-causing machine.

Capital pizza is good

On the one hand I told myself these kind of games are bound to happen. All to often I caught myself cursing at the TV (I'm in Edmonton) and wondering what I'd done to get exiled back to 2013... What a circus show of errors and futility. The exact opposite of the kind of game I was hoping to see, win or lose.

LOL I don't post often but I've been around here long enough to expect this. What? Reasonably suppose that MOS is smart enough to discern between talking to the media or his players? Absurd! TBurg doesn't know if he does, so neither can anyone else. But wait, the season isn't even one regular game old and he hasn't thrown his cap in the dirt or wrung his hands (figuratively speaking) while despairing over his team's shortcomings! What a Suzy Sunshine!

Seriously, what MOS presents to the media and how he addresses the players on the field can't possibly be the same as some are making it seem. The flip side is that bizarre Gary Lawless article warning against MOS going full-Vesuvius on the team.

Jordan Taormina - he of the never effective falling down pass-block move

Video says 5'9" 190 lbs... But the psu site says 5'8" 186 lbs. Either way, a playmaker cb with some wheels. Looking forward to seeing more Danny Mac/Ted Goveia prospects at camp.

I miss the Twin Geralds... Alphin and Wilcox were fun to watch.

His composure and positioning were just so solid compared to Pav's work against Vancouver... It was a great opportunity to watch them back to back this week for sure.

Montoya serves up 30 saves and one goal allowed as the Habs get dumped twice in one weekend!

^ what he said! He's been coaching pretty much constantly since he retired from the CFL and has been successful in building/rebuilding defenses.

After an amazing catch by Edwards Hall fumbles a horrid snap. Only this Bombers clown show could convert 5 Alouette turnovers into a 3 point lead...

I dunno, Casey Bramlet brutally crapped the bed once upon a time...

LOL fair point regarding Buck. I agree that was a terrible decision to anoint him the starter for this season. Goltz had been in the system for three years, so why not give him a shot given the physical tools he has (how do you know if he will pan out? You won't know until you know, for better or for worse) too bad it all turned to shite. Bomber coaching and o-line deficiencies don't help either. I'll admit as a fan I never looked too deeply into Hall's history - but unless he magically transforms into a winner I wouldn't "settle" for him either. That said Hervey rolled the dice with Reilly, who until this year had played less than a handful of games, and won. Guess that makes him a genius rather than lucky, never mind his team's crappy record and lunatic head coach.

Pffft yeah Hervey is a "good" GM because he took a gamble on a QB who hadn't proved anything at the time. Reilly has turned out to be a good one, no denying that - but you are close to sounding like you have a crystal ball as to who will be an all-star and who will be a bum.

Not bad considering he started at guard, then moved to RT with Jake Thomas standing next to him...