TrueBlue4ever

Who are these two fresh-faced newcomers you picked this week?

That was his scout Ron Trentini, who the club said was acting independently and not at the club’s request. He was taking notes of the Tiger Cats open practice, which led to the whole “handled internally, non-issue, next question” presser with the media.

I mostly agree with the mindset of “don’t coast”, but after 2001 Dave Ritchie swore he’d never again rest players and the very next year he loses MOP Milt Stegall to injury in the last meaningless game of the year. Given our injury woes this year, would hate to lose Collaros or Schoen or Demski or Jefferson or Alexander to an injury in a meaningless game, or a “hurt” player tweaks something and needs to sit out in a more important game. This team will be judged by our Grey Cup success, not on how we look in game 16 against Edmonton.

Was arrested and charged. Judge agreed to drop the charges if he underwent anger management counselling, which he did.

This game is completely irrelevant if the Lions win. A win by us won’t clinch first, and a loss won’t cost us. BC needs to sweep us to catch first. If they lose in Toronto, then we have a chance to clinch first against the Elks. Otherwise it all comes down to the head-to-head.

Isn’t that the same thing? He was openly hostile when he was not considered for head coach after Cal Murphy was fired, and burned a lot of bridges on his way out of town through the media. Next remember him returning in 2002 during a pre-game show on CJOB and being asked if anyone like Stegall, Roberts, Sellers or other stars could make it in the NFL, and flat out said no, no way is anyone in the CFL good enough to make it in the NFL because the NFL players had the same speed as any CFLer but in a much larger body. Always thought he felt entitled to the head coach job here and that it should be anointed to him rather than earned. He remained openly hostile and had some famous run-ins with media (“non-issue, internally handled, next question”) and fans (“do I come to McDonalds and tell you how to cook fries?” and “living in mom’s basement”). For whatever talent he had (was the OC for both the club record single game passing and rushing performances), I never cared for his character and did not enjoy seeing him return. From this interview, sounds like the chip in his shoulder remains. Was he the guy who posted he was watching training camp for the stands at IG Field and kept trying to create the nickname “The Wave” for the stadium?

And on that bobble the play should have been no yards. Had he fumbled it away I’m confident O’Shea would have challenged it (and won again). If there was a valid criticism, it was that he was giving too much room for a booming punt. On the first one he was 50 yards from the first down marker but it was 3rd and long, so he was over yards from punter. When the punt was muffed he had to run too far up and it then bounced by him. The punter did not really hit a clean one but Grant was consistently too far back worried one was going over his head, and having to run up to a lower wobbly punt caused him problems. That is correctable and Grant has shown enough past success that I trust he will address and fix that issue.

Very last play of the game, on Holm’s interception return. Was wondering if they were going to fine Demski for going into the fans area after he climbed the stairs to give the ball to the indigenous fans after his 2nd TD. Guess that’s less egregious than eating nachos or sitting on a sectional.

I’d say no (based more on who else is out there rather than them being not so bad), but they are the most well-known disliked pair.

RESPECT!

FIFY. The rest TLDR but I got the gist of it. 0% credit, 100% blame. Again. 2016 - 27.6 ppg, 363.7 ypg 2017 - 30.8 ppg, 361.4 ypg 2018 - 30.6 ppg, 369.4 ypg 2019 - 28.2 ppg, 349.0 ypg 2021 - 25.8 ppg, 346.1 ypg 2022 - 28.9 ppg, 360.7 ypg And yeah, Buck is slaying it, deserves a lot of credit for his part in it. Must have also had a good teacher. And a healthy QB. Probably did. And the guy who chugged early probably got too drunk to lift the Cup and passed out too early. The methodical guy made it to the end of the evening and was able to walk out the door with the Cup in his hands at the end of the night.

End of discussion.

Very aware of what Hull meant to hockey here and agree with his impact overall, but his (alleged) wife-beating and Nazi comments make a statue a non-starter.

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Putting aside Durant’s ‘09 season, and Matt Nichols career in Winnipeg, I’ll just ask you how are the injuries to the Bomber playmakers in 2002 and 2003 the fault of the OC?

Does Khari’s best season ever under him count? Or Darian Durant’s development into a starter? Buck Pierce when healthy had possibly his best season ever under LaPo. Matt Nichols had his best success under LaPolice’s offence. As for Streveler, I would argue in part his “regression” as a thrower was in part due to teams getting tape on him and figuring out how to defend him (don’t let him run and force him to beat you with his arm). He had the same offence that Nichols and Collaros had but with poorer results, more INTs, and a losing record. LaPo was able to tweak his game around his option play running scheme, and it garnered him an NFL look. Where he continues to struggle as a pure passer in his first few years (see Bomber Esiason’s scathing commentary in game after a bad Streveler pick). I get the perception since other than Durant he has not taken a raw rookie and made him a solid starter. And he isn’t the QB guru like the Stamps coaches. But words like “no one” and “terrible” is the kind of exaggeration that leads to push back from the “apologists”. But don’t equate that defence with “he is blameless” because he isn’t. He is a micromanager which killed him as a head coach, because he couldn’t decide if he wanted to manage the game or draw up the offence, and he was incapable of doing both effectively. He is not head coach material, no debate there.

As long as we can agree that nothing was as gimmicky as Mike Kelly’s Jet formation or as arrogant as his call In show comments then everything else is Kool and the Gang.

Straddling the line between optimistic and delusional.

@Noeller I was legitimately asking what you disagreed about in my post or felt was off-base and wanted to comment on, but if you just want to throw stones at me we can move on from it and not derail the discussion, or you can PM me if you want to get something personal off your chest without the mods having to step in.

Wondering out loud, how many of the Ten Commandments has the anointed one broken? And how many of the seven deadly sins is he guilty of?

Feel free to elaborate on your eye roll, Noeller.