HardCoreBlue

Barring injury of course.

I was referring more to our boy JT. 🙂

Bigger picture it might of done this organization some benefit long term if Edmonton had indeed snuck by us and eliminated us from post season play. This would have dictated/forced what our off season would need to look like in how we need to make some changes to the genetic makeup of this club at all levels. Now making the playoffs might be a false positive that fakes us into continued complacency with minimal changes. But if we win it all this year, I take everything back. 🙂

I'd add the Argos to your list but that's being taken care of already. 🙂

The ole 'players aren't executing versus the coach aint doing **** to help' debate.

I didn't listen to the post game presser but would it be fair and reasonable for our Head Coach to break out of his protective mode and challenge our players and communicate to the world outside the locker-room that currently this team is pretty average, not a very good team in what our expectations are as an organization and we need to get better real quick if we're going to make any noise in the post season? I'm all for keeping certain things in-house where tough love is only seen behind the scenes while only generic things are said to the media but maybe tweak that a bit to light a fire, a sense of urgency, pride whatever?

Shocking.

The only thing I can think of, and I'm being gracious ,is opposing D's watched the game tape and schemed to take it away?

Social media where we take something good and turn it into bad nicely summed up with those seven words.

I'd add 60 minutes of playing and coaching with urgency.

Some people are just wired more than others to lead, to influence, to set the right vibe, to be the glue but all have to perform and if glue teammates stop performing they quickly outstay their welcome in any work environment. The advantage one sometimes have over non-sport environments is one can move the glue guy who can't perform anymore to the level needed into coaching/management positions. MOS has made it known though that players like JT have earned the right to go out on their own in ending their playing careers. Like I said my guess is MOS wants his legacy to reflect loyalty and respect to players who earned their stripes. Admirable. Comes with some opposite effects as does most decisions we make in life.

Glue guys have to perform no matter the vocation. That's been my experience. It's not an either/or. It's both.

Shocking.

I love (well not really) how your first couple of sentences tell the reader they don’t know what they are talking about unless they see it exactly how you see it when it comes to this dynamic and how it influences how successful a group of people are when building, maintaining and enhancing a culture that creates a consistent high performing team.

My daughter’s experience was not a fan interaction. It was a human to human interaction not about sport.

Of course it's with the Knights. I know I'm some rando guy on the world wide web so this is only important to me and my family but my daughter had a run-in with this individual in his draft year and let's just say she wasn't impressed, well it was the complete opposite of impressed. Here's to the Knights and said player failing miserably.

The other observation I had watching the dynamics on the sidelines was MOS's (and other coaches/players) animated displeasure (with good cause probably) towards Mitchell's lack of execution/preparation/engagement but completely 180 degree approach to other players like JT who is probably very likeable, hustles, is a team player, engaged but bottom line his 'production' generally matches what players like Mitchell 'produce' considering JT gets more reps that DM. I get why but at the EOD one has to produce on the field and being a body filler of gaps frequently being manhandled on pass plays to me sends what kind of message to players who, like JT, bust their ass but produce unlike JT? This whole dynamic is a much bigger issue than the approach JT is our 39th best player it's not a big deal. IMO playing and supporting players like JT influences team culture that influences production on the field more than some think.

MOS showing his displeasure with him, JJ very animated in trying to coach him up while showing him plays on his playcard, Wilson trying to get Mitchell more engaged on the sidelines as Mitchell would drift off and stand alone while the D was on.

Based on what I saw on the sidelines last week against the Elks, it makes sense seeing Mitchell come off. On the one hand I'm really surprised he hasn't been released but on the other hand not surprised because we have limited depth at that position.

So in summary our Blue Bombers are East division champs winning the Grey Cup handily against who cares. Nice.

Yes but let’s look at this with in-depth analysis, objectivity and the conclusion I keep coming up with no matter the season no matter the record is, it’s confirmed, Riders suck and smell really really bad, like see a doctor bad.

Yup BO got in behind the coverage. Defender made a great play on the ball and changed it’s trajectory just enough or BO could have trotted it in for 6.

I did write Argos suck.

We still in it until it happens we aren’t. Obviously no where near the feeling of confidence for the last 5 years, logic tells us no way for anything positive but hey stranger things have happened. Keep the faith so to speak, why not. Argos suck, that’s something.

Being at the game sadly they weren’t even 50-50 balls, either well under-thrown or well overthrown into double coverage.