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Why do you try to define any critic of Hall as "haters"? This is not about him as an individual, only about his performance as a coach. Your comment was unnecessarily inflamatory and dismissive.

This has been a peeve of mine for some time with the coaching. I do not think that the backup QBs have been given enough time to show whether they were good enough to be kept and the experience to be able to execute plays if/when called upon.

Don't think the Argo fans are going to have to put up with Mr.Chamblin too much longer.

'Cause our head coach doesn't believe in that sort of thing.

I do not believe that O'Shea warrants another year, let alone 3. He chose his assistants and damned few have shone. What evidence is there that the next ones he would choose would be any better? Why have the systemic problems in the offence and defence been allowed to continue? Early on in O'Shea's regime, it became obvious that he was slow to change and rigidly, blindly loyal/stubborn, and it was speculated that this would be his downfall. And so it has been. His judgement has been repeatedly shown to be poor. And to those who are saying that if O'Shea gets canned, we are are going to go back to the dark ages of Reinbold, Burke, Daly et al, Walters has shown himself to be able to build a good organization and he ought to be able to find a good replacement for O'Shea. Status quo is not good enough- we are no closer to the Cup than we were three years ago. I think the talent is there, save perhaps at the QB position, but at this point the team has to have lost confidence in their coaches.

Disagree. We have at least good receivers who are hamstrung by a quarterback who is unable, unwilling or forbidden to use his strengths in a RPO game plan. We do not know if this is all on Streveler or LaPolice or both. Either way, we're boned this year once again.

The holes for Harris (and Streveler) were not there very often.

Disagree. Given O'Shea's stubbornness, Hall will be back again, and the problems with the offence and offensive game planning will still be there. A change in quarterbacking will not change anything substantial.

As my final commentary on the debacle that was last night's game: the defence came to play and did, and to me, that indicates that Hall's absence was better for the team than his presence. This loss was mostly on the offence, and the O-line was mostly good enough, the offensive game plan was pure, unadulterated horsepoop, the quarterbacking was terrible but its hard to put all the blame on Streveler. The receivers did not cover themselves with glory, the running game was okay when it was used, but the Riders knew that the passing game was going to be near-nonexistent, so they plugged up the middle and put a spy on Streveler- game, set and match. Alexander was great at safety, but whythehell did this take so long? It has been painfully clear to all and sundry for weeks that Hecht was nearly useless. Alexander was injured, but surely the Bombers had an import player who could have been way better than Hecht. And we still receivers who will fight for the 50-50 balls. We lost 100% of those last night. And as a footnote, we got out-coached again.

Nononononononono

And he said even less today than usual.

There were those in this forum who expressed concerns even early in the season.

I think that Streveler's performance, miscues and all were the result of him trying to gamble and win the game that was slipping away. He did not look good, but he may yet be salvageable, as Vernon Adams was in Montreal.

You are assuming that it would be better if Nichols was not injured. The deficiencies in the team were becoming evident even before he went down. And the coaching has remained the same.

Well, at this point mediocrity would be an upgrade for the Bombers.

I think hanging all this on Streveler is a gross over-simplification. We still do not have have receivers who will go fight for the lobbed balls or the coordinators who can adjust game plans on the fly.

O'Shea has chosen, supervised, assessed and defended his coordinators. His judgement is suspect at the very least and does not inspire confidence in him as a head coach.

That could have resulted in an embarrassing loss.

I have been maintaining that the Bombers had better talent but a worse team. I need to rethink that.

As I was saying.......

Umm.......maybe the congeniality prize, but other than that, no.

Tradition?

Not sure if any or all would have made a difference in this game.

Two successful, but only one unsuccessful

Alexander has played a helluva game. shoulda happened 6 games ago.