gbill2004

Maybe a dedicated thread should be started called, "Pissing matches, hurt feelings and misplaced egos"? Might clean up the actual discussion about the Bombers in these threads... Would likely be one of the most popular threads in here since a lot of posters seem to prefer the drama over actual Bomber discussion

I agree, Bucknor is a must sign.

That is something that is shared by most defensive coordinators though... run to the ball, get to the ball with speed, everyone to the ball... not unique with Etch. The only thing that is really unique about Etch is how much he likes to gamble. Most DC's put more of an emphasis on actually making the tackle, compared to Etch. I don't agree with that at all. If you think that they don't care if someone misses a tackle or not then you are just being dumb on purpose. Perhaps what you are trying to complain about is the idea that you don't need to always put a guy in a position to make a tackle initially because he believes that speed and pursuit should create a tackle before too much damage is done, but that's a different matter entirely. It's okay if you don't understand Etch's philosophy.

Alexander is still here too. I know, he was put to the suspended list last week. I'm not really sure about him though, i'm not sure if he is just battle lot of injuries this year or his game have regressed and got push down on the depth chart by derek jones. He isn't listed as suspended anymore. As for injuries or Jones keeping him off the field, I would guess both. Some of the times he was on the IR wasn't for injuries. this from cfl. transaction page October 31 Roster ... WPG TRF TO SUSPENDED NIP Donovan ALEXANDER (DB) North Dakota Btw, here's the latest transaction for the Bombers November 2 NON-ACTIVE 2-Nov-14 WPG REM UNS IMP Daivon DUMAS (DB) Northern Arizona WPG REM UNS IMP Jarvis JONES (OL) Oklahoma WPG REM UNS IMP Abraham KROMAH (LB) Duke WPG REM UNS IMP Marty MARKETT (DB) South Carolina WPG REM UNS NIP Ezra MILLINGTON (WR) Ottawa WPG REM UNS NIP Kyle NORRIS (LB) Saint Mary's WPG REM UNS NIP Shea PIERRE (DB) Windsor WPG REM UNS NIP Rene STEPHAN (LB) Harding WPG REM UNS IMP Aaron WOODS (WR) Portland State Why would someone be placed on the suspended list? Did Alexander break a team rule? Those other guys look like guys who were mostly on the PR. I don't think the suspended list is exclusively for law-breakers or problem guys. So why was he singled out and placed on that list?

Alexander is still here too. I know, he was put to the suspended list last week. I'm not really sure about him though, i'm not sure if he is just battle lot of injuries this year or his game have regressed and got push down on the depth chart by derek jones. He isn't listed as suspended anymore. As for injuries or Jones keeping him off the field, I would guess both. Some of the times he was on the IR wasn't for injuries. this from cfl. transaction page October 31 Roster ... WPG TRF TO SUSPENDED NIP Donovan ALEXANDER (DB) North Dakota Btw, here's the latest transaction for the Bombers November 2 NON-ACTIVE 2-Nov-14 WPG REM UNS IMP Daivon DUMAS (DB) Northern Arizona WPG REM UNS IMP Jarvis JONES (OL) Oklahoma WPG REM UNS IMP Abraham KROMAH (LB) Duke WPG REM UNS IMP Marty MARKETT (DB) South Carolina WPG REM UNS NIP Ezra MILLINGTON (WR) Ottawa WPG REM UNS NIP Kyle NORRIS (LB) Saint Mary's WPG REM UNS NIP Shea PIERRE (DB) Windsor WPG REM UNS NIP Rene STEPHAN (LB) Harding WPG REM UNS IMP Aaron WOODS (WR) Portland State Why would someone be placed on the suspended list? Did Alexander break a team rule? Those other guys look like guys who were mostly on the PR.

You think Rich as the site owner disrespects this community? His mantra is a giant middle finger to the community that visits this place? And the rest of the guys who volunteer their time to this place? You should be embarrassed for even suggesting such a thing. Do you know what Rich gets out of fronting the money for this place? How much of the revenue he takes for himself in exchange for the late nights when he has to do site updates or for the money that he puts up to pay for server fees, etc? Not a single dime. It all goes to you guys. The shirts we made, the contests we run, the season tickets we donated to charity on behalf of all of our members here. All of it is for our members, not for the people who own and operate this site. There's ONE guy on our moderation team that pushes the envelope. Me. You want to suggest I'm a bad site administrator? Go right ahead. While you're at it, maybe find me some examples of how I've used my admin privileges in an abusive fashion because there's a difference between "mod abuse" and you just not liking my attitude sometimes. But it has nothing to do with the entire team that works on this place and I find it quite unbelievable that you would even suggest it does. Wrong - Mr. P. Just look at my tough love thread and how he treated me. Look at my post about Jonathon Crompton and how he called me 'stupid' for saying what I said because he won one game. Aww muffin.... What I said, for the umpteenth time was that it was a stupid post. I dare you to look through my comments and find specifically where I said you, yourself, were stupid. Go for it. I'll be here waiting. and you tell me how it was stupid? I just watched the guy here for a year, made a comment to the community about what I observed. I had no idea he'd be so successful but it wasn't a stupid post after all now was it? I love how you change the subject instead of responding to my post directly. You proved my point. Thank you. As for Crompton himself, look at Montreal's schedule the latter half of the season. After the game they lost to us in late August, seven of their final ten games have been against East division teams. Do you remember how bad the records were in the east at the end of August? The division was (and still is a joke). On top of that, the three west teams they played in the second half, two of those teams were without their starting quarterbacks (and Calgary was without Cornish as well) and as you know, or as I would hope you know, the more two and outs the opposing offence has, the more chances you yourself will have on offence. Furthermore, in the second half of the season so far, out of the nine games they've played (game 10 as I referred to earlier comes this weekend), Crompton has been under 60 per cent passing (considered to be the bare minimum when it comes to completion percentage) in five out of those nine contests. With the competition he's had to face, that's the definition of a joke right there. You want to know why Montreal has done so well in the second half of the season - Look at their defensive statistics. Their fourth in total defence, fourth against the pass, and fifth against the run. Pretty much near the middle of the pack in every defensive statistic which is indicative of their record. Montreal is a team that if they had a legitimate quarterback would actually be a pretty decent team. For all the crap they went through in the first half of the year (which Crompton was a part of after Smith was benched) they've turned it around nicely with Jeff Garcia in to help Ryan Dinwiddie with his play calling. They are managing the game offensively to play to Crompton's limited strengths. Crompton on the year has a completion percentage of under 60 per cent, and has only 10 touchdown passes in nine games he's started to far. I'm sorry, but those are not in any way, shape, or form good numbers. Yes Montreal is winning, but you can look to their defence, and a very simplified offensive gameplan as the reason why. If you don't believe Crompton is working with a simplified offensive game plan, look at his first games at quarterback - He had four interceptions in his first two games, then he was finally reeled in by the offensive staff. They are doing the best they can with that they have to work with - Which under centre is not very much. Montreal will be very aggressive in going after a quarterback this offseason, and they'll do it because Crompton is not a starting calibre quarterback. Lastly, again, I dare you to find where I specifically said you personally were stupid. I stand by post of saying your comments on Crompton was a stupid post. If you're unable to decipher to difference between the two, frankly that's not my problem. I have better things to do with my time than to pat you on the back and say "there, there". I wonder if Montreal goes after Brohm this offseason?

That is something that is shared by most defensive coordinators though... run to the ball, get to the ball with speed, everyone to the ball... not unique with Etch. The only thing that is really unique about Etch is how much he likes to gamble. Most DC's put more of an emphasis on actually making the tackle, compared to Etch.

I don't think Teague has the talent to be a starter. He's more suited as a backup and special teams daemon.

Etch's philosophy on tackling is speed; don't worry about missing a tackle. He believes speed will create turnovers and if you miss a tackle, a teammate will be there to help.

Now you've got me all excited and tingly. Probably won't happen, but the alliterative side of me would sure love have Unamba, Muamba and Mulamba all playing in the backfield at the same time. Rod Black's nipples would explode. Aren't Rod Black's nipples always hard?

Several games lost due to bad long snapping when Wild was out with injury. I recall a stat where bad long snaps cost us ~30 points in 4 games. When your in close games, that really hurts.

In my opinion Ian Wild isn't big enough for the NFL. He's 6 feet and just over 200 lbs.

Portis? What did he do on the sidelines?

I only really noticed him in the second half.

I believe it was number 32.

This all bodes well for next season.

Yep I thought he looked good too.

Yes. I'd love to see that. Is Matthews still on the Redskins PR?

He was very good in the games he played. We now have 4 legit Canadian OL's in Morley, Greaves, Goossen and Neufeld. That means starting 3 next year should be a given.

Offensive line is Job Number 1. But the Bombers have been trying to upgrade that unit for years. So how do we do anything over the off season. Draft, free agency, recruiting and a healthy Neufeld.

I agree with Bob Irving and Doug Brown...priorities are: Offensive line Front 7...bigger DL's and a real MLB New scheme on defense (i.e. get rid of Etch) A couple difference maker import receivers

A few Calgary dropped balls sure helped too

Yea, Marve looked very comfortable out there. I'm not sure we win today if Willy plays the second half.

Considering (in my opinion anyway) that if Cotton plays the whole season we're likely 9-9, I'd say it's certainly attainable. Yep, Cotton all season = 9-9. Any DC other than Etch = 11-7.

Can't 6-game players at this point of the season to keep teams from doing exactly that. When is the cutoff?