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Just a practice arm. That ought to wake him up.

We have no one brimming with potential ready to replace him, so we have to give him and every other QB an honest shot to become the starter.

To me it looked like Walters got passive and did not challenge O'Shea on his player utilization, likely because O'Shea had accumulated an aura of infallibility, or maybe Walters just trusted him and gave him carte blanche. In his recent presser, Walters had a completely different tone to his statements than in previous pressers, and maybe he had a fireside chat with Miller. Its difficult to understand Walters' thinking in not going all-out for a Grey Cup game at home. Many fans and players will not have a second chance to see their team win The Game at home. It would have been legendary.

Picky, picky, picky.

I bow to the experience of the mods in deciding to update the site. Looks good to me and works well.

Oh. Then it was a Good Thing that the bombers missed the playoffs. Less conflicts.

Way back, when I was considering retirement, my brother, who was in the RCMP at that time, told me about this beautiful former mining community in BC that was literally giving away modern homes as the mine had run out and people were abandoning the town and their homes. I briefly considered moving to Tumbler Ridge, but decided that it was too remote. Thank God.

He was good but just not often enough.

There is a very recent development for athletes (mostly football and hockey players) who have been diagnosed with a variant of Traumatic Brain Injury- Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, AKA CTE. As most if not all here are aware, this is a terribly debilitating condition caused by repeated impacts affecting the brain and to this point, nothing could be done to alleviate the suffering or effects. There is now hope. Researchers at the University of Utah have reported dramatic and lasting improvements using near-infrared light treatment. The treatment so far is in its infancy but has shown great promise and is non-invasive. Matt Dunigan ought to be very interested.

Oliviera did not dominate for his first few games, either so Peterson would need time to relearn how to read a decent Online.

It would be a Winnipeg edition of Drunk History once the inhibitions were anesthetized.

Due, no doubt, to the genius of our OC.

Given how O'Shea hung onto players that were close to useless to the detriment of the team, the message had to be that players could play very poorly and still keep their jobs so long as they kissed up. Word gets around.

I suspect the real reason that some guys liked that they could under-perform and still have jobs. There will always be those who prefer that security over winning, or at least being in the hunt every game.

Stewie or Peter? O'Shea's pets have at least nine lives.

Perhaps he is, but the question is whether he will be given enough real time to show his stuff.

Agreed. We really, really need a QB who is good enough to push Collaros from training camp onward.

Waaaay better.

He would not be the first and it may be that or UIC.

Ford is a gifted athlete, and from all reports, intelligent. Demski is built like a runningback so it should be doable, and Demski, once he has the ball, moves like a runningback. On pitch-outs, if Ford is a danger to chuck the ball with velocity and accuracy (ALA Tricky-**** Thornton), that ought to give DBs fits.

The reality is that Demski has a lot more days behind him than in front of him and he is getting dinged more often and needs longer and longer times to rebound. Tre Ford ought to be a natural replacement.

Unless O'Shea has had an on-the-road-to-Damascus epiphany, he is most likely to play non-pets in minor and/or losing situations so as to try to discredit them, then do an I-toldyaso riff. All passive-aggressive stuff. For some reasom, you are confusing a realistic assessment of Thomas as ineffective and an obatacke to developing younger, better players. with hatred for him. So far as I am aware, he has not eaten any puppies or beaten up any orphans, but am willing to be proven wrong in that regard.

I am in partial agreement, but am given to wonder if he was mostly the benficiary of a very good roster assembled by Walters. When that roster was thinned out by aging, injury and defections, O'Shea's effectiveness faded out because he was unable/unwilling to adapt.

And no one can live on their past glories.