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They're bringing out the fat lady now.

Sooooo close

Ok, maybe the game is not over just yet. Or not.

Apparently Mitchell is the first CFL quarterback to throw for 5000 yards without one 1000 yard receiver. Quite a feat.

Aaaand...there's the game.

Despite the weakness of the East, the RBs are giving the Stamps a better game than the Bombers did.

RBs are still in this one. Gotta stop the big plays, though.

No chance as Reilly and Maas are BFFs.

So long as you can find the loo......

Mea culpa., I haf meant to say that they would be a playoff threat to go deep into the playoffs.

It occurs to me that if Bighill and Loffler defect to BC, that would instantaneously make them a playoff team.

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.

It concerns me that there were two good MLBs in Woods and Taylor and there was no indication that Walters pursued either.

Agreed. This is a BIG "if".

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.

Tough call.

In a way, this hurts more because we looked to be so close, only to be let down.

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.

Walters may be good, but when did he become deified?

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.

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.

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.

More than the horribly inept series of coaches and GMs that we've had?

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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.