Brandon Blue&Gold

THIS is the guy that Rider fans thought was better than Willy?? LOL!

Let's hope he's ok.
 
Brohm looked well let's just say I'd rather see Portis or Marve.

Brohm looked awful in the NFL, awful with Hamilton, awful in TC and preseason this year and awful yesterday. As a guy who has always seen the positives in almost every backup this team has put into uniform, I will never see it with this clown. No mobility, fires a fastball with no touch on every throw, terrible accuracy and no poise in the pocket. Max Hall was head and shoulders better than this guy even while coked up. If Willy is out for a period, I don't see any reason to trot Brohm out for more than a game. He just doesn't have it.
 
Watching this game last night sort of depressed me in the sense that without Wild and Sears in the lineup, there aren't a ton of guys in the front seven to like on this team. Some of that is injury, some of that is on scouting but I also recognize that Etch's scheme greatly limits the available personnel. Guys like Louie Richardson I get are playing pretty much exclusively due to injury but Greg Peach gets a ton of opportunities and snaps and he's about as average as you can get from an import at that position. He'll have one strong game followed by weeks of invisibility. And the offense has been getting worse progressively since week one. This was another perfect game to illustrate why Grigsby isn't a starting tailback. Maybe there isn't anyone better on this roster right now but if there isn't, that's also a failure. Denmark, Watson and Kohlert are all very good players who I want on this team for a long time and Moore I'd put in that category as well but the longer Romby Bryant is in the lineup even as a replacement the more I feel like it's an insult to the fans. I think he legitimately has as many penalties as receptions this year and I don't even think that's an exaggeration.
 
I guess I'm just ranting for a number of reasons. I'm frustrated that this team gave us a sliver of hope and then injuries and ineffectiveness hit. There will be better times in the future, no doubt. But the thing that I keep coming back to is in years past, no matter how bad we were, there were always guys on the PR that from either TC or watching practice or just reading scouting reports, I wanted to see in action. One of my favorite parts about the CFL is that young guys can come in midseason due to injury, ineffectiveness or whatever and actually make a significant positive contribution. I look at our PR right now and save for a few names, I see lots of other team's cuts and stopgap Canadians. Meanwhile, a team like the Argonauts are forced to make injury changes and they have young guys with upside! Okpalaugo, Whiteside, Vince Agnew (who I wish we got back after his NFL try) even a guy like Greg Childs who hasn't played yet is an exciting prospect like we haven't seen in awhile. We get an injury? "Have another kick at the can, Romby. Sixth time's the charm!"

Trouble is.....the Etch thing robs Peter (run D) to pay Paul (sacks, turnovers)......when this D is not getting the "big plays"  it looks pretty ugly.  We desperately needed the ball back, the last 6 minutes.....and the Lions (like everybody else) ran the ball up our asses.....

This is becoming childish... The He Said, She Said argument. Or My Dad Is Bigger Than Your Dad routine... 

What I think is funniest is ... they complain about the lack of access to practice.
 
When's the last time anyone actually saw a detailed practice report from the media?

Like this has *ANY* relevance at all .. Average Joe Taxpayer doesn't care one iota if the Bombers are holding 'stealth' practices at IGF .. hell .. if anything I would think the average taxpayer would think something like this:
 
"They damn well BETTER be practicing there for all the money we spent!"

I think Grigsby's blocking has improved immensely... I often watch him in the backfield because he really pissed me off at the beginning. I can tell you that that little scit last game where the commentators were talking about his blocking was accurate IMO
his receiving I'm fairly impressed with. He has legit hands at times, but it will take a while to erase some of his blunders from early in the year.
His running, I think is getting much better as well... I see him pumping his legs through contact, bouncing off guys and I think his vision is getting better as well... Noticed that severely lacking earlier this year...
I think he really just came in rusty from being in baseball for so long, now he's starting to get better.

So they made two seperate designs for the Argos and opted to replace the A with a W on these ones and hope the Bombers didn't care right?
 
Get that Argonaut **** out of here. 
 
It's blue and GOLD! Reebok you had 1 job, 1 job and you ****** it up. 

The weirdest thing to me is that for the Redblacks, Argos and Bombers they basically just did the same design for each uniform: stick the logo on the chest, make the jersey a primary colour and make a unique helmet.  These feel decidedly common, rather than unique.

Go home Reebok, you're drunk.

Replace the W on the front with an A and it's perfect for the Argos.  Is Reebok punking us?  Not one speck of Gold?  I think this is the worst of the new jerseys up to this point.  At least the other jerseys stayed somewhat true to their respective teams.  Thank god I got my Royal Blue jersey last year.  Won't be buying this one.

Quick question, just popped into my head reading through this thread: I seem to recall an "ignore" function being added to the board at some point (unless I'm mistaken). Can someone give me a quick crash course on how to use that functionality? i.e. let's just say, for example, of course, I wanted to ignore/never see...oh, I don't know...every post by the OP of this thread. What might I click on to make that happen? 
 
Just in theory...of course.

Any time you go into the offseason with Desia Dunn, Aaron Kelly and Greg Peach as projected starters and come out of the following training camp with it being the exact same, you've done a bad job.

Agreed, aside from Paris Cotton is there any other real good import we brought in? The fact we couldn't find anyone better than a guy like Kuale bothers me.

You mean guys like Foster? Gonna go ahead and disagree with you there. What other moves were there? The Neufeld trade? Well why don't we wait to see the guy play before we judge that one?  There is really very little to go on for the guy at this point, it will be determined when they play some games next year. 

Berry has had success everywhere he has gone aside from Darian Durant crying liek a baby.    The guy is a good OC... not head coach material.    
 
Walters is saying the right stuff,   now if he can get a qb and actually address issues when they are presented (such as being weak in certain positions) then he will do much better then Mack.

BS.  Granted he brought in a couple of semi decent receivers, but the rest so far haven't shown me diddly so far, including a dud QB, a gimped NI OLman...and was he responsible for our crappy kicker or was that Mack.  I can't remember.
 
I don't know why you guys are harping on Robyn and IC Khari.  They're just stating that we won't know what kind of GM he'll be until August, and that's the truth.  You guys were the same ones that said there was nothing wrong with Mack and that all the Mack hate wasn't justified earlier this year, and the same ones who said "oh you can't say Burke is bad when he took over in the middle of the year like he did blah blah" back in 2012.  As if any of you know what this guy is going to be like any more then we do.  We all like him so far and what he's saying, and hope he's good.  But no one knows if he's going to **** it up or make us into a winning team just yet.
 
Geez, stop crucifying people here and acting like they said "this guy was utter **** and OMGZORZ HE'S THE AWFUL!!!111!ONE!!!!"

Anyone following Arash Madani on Twitter?? It is UNREAL how angry that guy is toward the Bombers. I dunno if he was fired or he quit as their Comm's guy, but he is BITTER......

Bottom line Ian Wild is a hell of a player and him not being a starter is a crime. 

but at the time you make the decision you assume your defense is going to step up and prevent a score. I'll take my chances with a defense when the turnover might occur that deep in the argos own end. 

But Toronto would have started from their 13 yard line instead of their 35. If they had then moved the ball the same distance they likely would have punted rather than go for the FG.

I disagree, kicking the field goal is playing for a tie. The position on the field the Bombers were in You gotta try and score the touchdown and even if you don't make it you're still down by 6 with plenty of time to get the ball back and win. As it ended up they were still down by 6 when they got the ball back. you're sitting at 3 wins on the season might as well go out trying to win rather than playing the passive game, epsecially when the offense was actually marching pretty well on the drive. 

Definition of insanity: putting Boltus in for short yardage plays over and over again and expecting different results.

Did players in the Winnipeg Jets organization think the fans were unclassy for cheering Teemu Selanne everytime he touched the puck during that game in MTS Centre on December 2011?