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2 hours ago, JCon said:
JSK in the middle is an improvement over Hurl. And, there must be other LBs we can scoop, right?
EDIT: I still believe Hall retires. But that's just a feeling.
It concerns me that there were two good MLBs in Woods and Taylor and there was no indication that Walters pursued either.
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2 hours ago, pigseye said:
This season, the Bombers proved that their o-line and defensive front 7 could go toe to toe with anyone in the league, top 3 for sure. Would be nice to try to keep as much of it as possible intact but failing that, there will be a lot of good free agents available to plug the holes.
A shut down corner would be nice for those tall Williams/Mathews type of receivers (Fogg/Randle just give up too much size to those types of receivers).
And more explosive players on offence, at least one freakish deep threat import and a hybrid kr/rb.
Assuming Nichols can use those weapons to their fullest, we should be contending again.
Agreed. This is a BIG "if".
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4 hours ago, JCon said:
I don't think we had cap room left. Plus, Matthews knew he would start right away in Calgary.
Unless the entire coaching staff of the Bombers suffered massive brain cramps, I have no doubt that he would have started immediately with the Bombers as well.
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11 hours ago, blueingreenland said:
Yeah, but if you're Matthews, where would you sign? Calgary to catch passes from one of the most prolific passers in modern day CFL history, or Winnipeg who has Matt Nichols, who throws short passes, hands off to Harris and locks down on Adams? (And by the way, I like Nichols...but just saying).
Tough call.
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6 hours ago, Arnold_Palmer said:
I was so mad that game. We almost choked after being up a country mile against BC. It should never have come to an onside kick.
Do you not think that this same weakness would have led to similar injury during another play? It was probably an accident waiting to happen.
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6 hours ago, pigseye said:
Streveler will be a Bomber next year and for years to come, just get him some receivers for the love of god Walters.
Walters may be good, but when did he become deified?
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2 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
I was trying to be light & breezy. Maybe a bit too much wind?
If I have over-reacted, I apologize, but this is a hot-button issue for me from a clinical point of view. In my practice, I have seen the effects of unresolved emotional trauma and how devastating it often is. 'Nuff said.
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2 hours ago, 17to85 said:
See and I think a big part of that is because we didn't threaten them downfield until the last 2 minutes. Should have seen how it would look if we'd made them defend the entire field. Guys were able to get open deep the few times they tried, and it's because Calgary was sitting on the short stuff.
Agreed. The book on the Bombers was "take away the short game and Andrew Harris and you've got them." As so it was. Realistically, Adams was the only deep threat and he was largely ignored because it looks like he will not make the tough, contested catches.
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2 hours ago, Arnold_Palmer said:
What exactly is your point? That was then.. this is now. Thinking of the past only kills us long term.
You broached the subject of 1990. My point is that the reason we were so bad for so long is that there were a bunch of bad hires and passivity on the part of the fans. There are multiple examples in the CFL of teams being turned around (or started from scratch) and becoming successful in a couple of years, so the current Bomber regime is running out of excuses. The Bombers were in very sad shape, financially and talent-wise for much of that time, but winning one playoff game in five years is hardly a stunning success.
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2 hours ago, Arnold_Palmer said:
I’ve heard some pretty crazy suggestions... obviously we need to take that next step but I swear 1990 is in the back of everyone’s mind, and all that does is hurt this team long term.
More than the horribly inept series of coaches and GMs that we've had?
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13 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Time heals all wounds.
This is a complete fallacy. Ask any veterans who served in combat zones or victims of assault. All unresolved trauma does is sink into the unconscious to surface later as physical or mental illnesses.
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3 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Have you read what Marc has been thru this year? A lot of family tragedies
Yes, I did, but he still needs to get help before he is of any use to anyone\
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5 hours ago, wbbfan said:
I would take Trestman over mos in a heart beat.
The offense and defense both showed enough at various points this year to keep the respective COs around. That said, we have limited ability to improve our talent from where we ended the season. A system change is our biggest hope at a major improvement. Its a huge risk though.
Until this year, I would have totally agreed with you, but he had a major meltdown in Toronto thus year. I would want to be sure that he had his poop together before I offered him a contract.
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2 hours ago, White Out said:
I'm so sick of people holding up Ottawa as an example of a great franchise. They play in a **** division.
And yet they beat the Stamps in the Grey Cup game.
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2 hours ago, 17to85 said:
I don't think he was vacating the pocket early to be honest. The Stamps did do a good job pressuring the interior of the line and when Nichols took off to scramble it was when he didn't have options to throw to, so he scrambled and had no options either. The Stamps didn't have to think at all on D. Everything the Bombers did was telegraphed. I watched Harris get some of the hardest 3-5 yards ever because there was no misdirection, nothing they hadn't seen before a million times. The game plan for the Bombers was play it safe and hope for the best and that is unacceptable. Nichols is taking the blame for Lapo's shitty day.
To be the Devil's advocate, how do you know that Nichols was following the play that was called in to him? We just do not know and we sure as heck are not going to hear that sort of pronouncement coming from O'Shea because it might hurt someone's feelings.
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2 hours ago, 17to85 said:
when he scrambled guys weren't open. Trust me I was in the stands I saw it, there is a reason he threw those balls away. It was a horsecrap passive game plan and it's overly simplistic to blame the qb.
Not true. I cannot speak for the whole game but can recall at least two instances where receivers were open and Nichols was (slowly) rolling towards his right. One in particular, Demski was wide open on the left about 12-15 yards downfield and Nichols tried to force it into Dressler (I think) who was triple covered. Nichols is not the worst starting QB in the league, but he is not the pivot who will seize the game and win when the rest of the offence is struggling. Streveler might be that quarterback, but he still has to make his bones.
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The CFLPA is appealing the suspension, presumably for the sole reason that Rose would then play in the Grey Cup game. I sincerely hope that the appeal is denied- that was one of the egregious abuse of an official that I can recall seeing in the CFL.
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2 hours ago, BBlink said:
Should be a million x easier to make an upgrade at one of those positions...
I'm not sure upgrading just one of those positions is going to produce the desired effect.
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15 hours ago, kelownabomberfan said:
it's called the Jet Sweep....
So long as that does not involve Lankford deviating from a straight line, we got that one.
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2 hours ago, Booch said:
hardly an excuse...name a team that would go 3-0 in the first 3 games of the year with a QB straight out of college..with 3 weeks exposure to Canadian Ball...let alone a back-up who has been around a few years...I'd say no team in this league this year.
Heck, yes. If you are ahead in the first 20 yards in the 100 yard dash, you have it made, right?
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2 hours ago, do or die said:
If you keep Adams on one side - and get someone who is a serious downfield threat on the other.........would also really open up the field for quick hitters, drags, slants etc.
But...but..but..we have the answer in our midst: Ryan Lankford, do we not?
Around the League: 2018 Season
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Around the league: Maas' butt was saved by Mike Reilly vouching for him and threatening to leave if Maas was canned. In Vancouver, Hervey has made it known that he will not consider any candidates for HC who have held a previous CFL head coaching job.