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Sounds like this signing has some promise but lets see how he shapes up. If he has the same learning curve as our QB's, he ought to be a started by 2019.

The only reason that we are not #9 is that the hapless Riders continue to implode. The Big Bluejust can't fall any lower because of them, but a win tomorrow would boost us into the dizzying heights of...seventh place. We ain't gonna get it for free because the BC Pussycats seem to be getting better every game and we ain't.

Isn't willy starting? I'm betting that Willy will start and be pulled for Brohm if things do not go well. When things go badly for Brohm, O'Shea will do nothing.

Marve or Davis(?) may or may not be the best alternative if Willy goes down or is ineffective, and all but CNIB clients have twigged onto the fact that Brohm is NOT the answer. It is a complete puzzlement as to why 0'Shea et al haven't figured this out. As bad as Brohm is, if Marve is worse, he ought to be dragged out in the street and shot immediately. If our recruitment people cannot find a QB who is better than Brohm, they ought to suffer the same fate.

FYP Works either way. Can't he do both? Pleeeeaase....

I feel much better now.

It was actually Dunigan on the colour, and it was something like "if Winnipeg wants to run the ball here, they should probably take a look at the nine guys that are standing on the other side of the line expecting it to come." Then Matt went ape-**** going on about how great the Edmonton defence pounced on Cotton. Of course they looked awesome. They knew it was coming and there weren't enough blockers to counter-act the rush. A five-year old would have seen that that play wasn't going to work. And what's frustrating is that we do this, over and over again. No adjustment. No learning. Just repeat and fail, repeat and fail. I stand corrected. Still, this scenario about the Bomber offence being painfully obvious to all and sundry is all too familiar for too many years.

The predictablity on that running play was so obvious that I believe even Suitor called it. It looks like Mr. Bellefeille has outstayed his welcome here.

Do you honestly think even if he sucks, he will Boltus himself off the roster? It may take MB being shown the door before this happens. I suspect this will be the case, but I fear what it will do to team confidence if Brohm either starts or comes on in relief and craps the bed as his history predicts. We fans huff and puff but the real damage would probably come in the evaporation of whatever respect the players have left in the coaches (and GM) to make the team competitive. One more shellacking at the hands of a mediocre team like BC would be really hard on the players and might be enough to convince them that its next year country.

If you look at play execution, discipline and tackling as bellweathers of how ready the team is to play, the Bombers got a solid "F" last Saturday. Even while Willy was still in the game, they were tentative as all getout, but as soon as Brohm came in, the whole team started playing as if they did not expect to win. And they didn't.

So far as I can recall, Cotton has been running as hard as he can and not hesitating, but as Saturday's game wore on, he was being met by 3 or 5 defenders right at the line.

If an athlete cannot crack the starting lineup in 7 years, it is never gonna happen, no matter what the sport. If he's the best backup McManus can find, that's just sad.

I cannot imagine the misery it would be to sit in the stands for that match-up. I would prefer 3 hours of root canal work, or a colonoscopy- at least you can be numbed for that.

Brohm's stats can't get any more damning than that. If the coaches still believe he can lead the team, there is something terribly, terribly wrong.

Whatever kicks Stoudemire did field, he had virtually no room to move before the Esks were right on top of him.

I've been a Bomber fan for some 40 plus years and I've been there through good seasons and bad. With that experience, it gets easier to see when a team is going though a rough stretch and with little hope for improvement in the short term. By the way, I was complimentary to the 'Cats as well, but they have not been the subject of ridicule in this forum as the Riders have. I was comparing the effort and execution of the Riders to the Bombers in their most recent games, and that is a valid comparison.

We could put up with Brohm having the personality of flatulence in a closed elevator if he had the right stuff, but if he does, he must be saving it for the prom.

The way things look at the moment, the Riders would be rated higher than the Big Blue, even though the Riders haven't won a game to date.

No matter who is the returner, if we don't block better for him, we will get the same result.

Just finished watching the Sask-Hammy game and I was watching the discipline and effort of the Greenies while the Saturday Bomber debacle was still fresh in my memory. As much as we have slagged Chamblin, Taman and company, the Riders played as if they cared about the outcome. Had Glenn not been injured, they might even have won, but the point is that both teams played the game with energy and like they were well coached. The contrast to the Bomber performance of late was stark, and the only conclusion I can draw is that the problems of the team are more of the coaching variety than the talent, and that means we are in for another disasterous season and probably no better than last year, Willy or no Willy.

Worse yet, even though they lost against Toronto, the Lions look like they would have little trouble beating the Bombers, so there ain't no easy two points there, either. O'Shea and company are going to have to pull off a small miracle to win, even with Willy back in, which seems likely.

And by the way: exactly how was Stoudemire better than the returner (Veltung)he replaced?

The real question is: will it make any difference to the outcome of the game against BC?

The real point is that it is not the loss, but how it came about. We have played 5 games and in three of them the team looked incompetent, being humiliated in two of these. To beat an old drum, losses are inevitable but being routed is not. The fourth quarter last night was unacceptable for a team whioh is trying to establish an identity as a contender.

That Chris Jones is quite the despicable little man. And classless. There is absolutely no reason to keep the gas pedal down on offence right until the end, nor sending blitzes when obviously, the game is over. Putz. The reality is that it was a third-string quarterback who did that to us. If the situation were reversed and say, Marve was in there with Willy out and Brohm ineffective (as usual), I would have no problem giving my third stringer all the experience he could stand even if it was already 48-0.