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This change of face has been delightful.... We won yesterday's game on courage, especially MOS's courage. Perhaps this courage is going to change to confidence... for the whole team, and these last 3 games have been against perhaps the league's best. Ritchie finally figured out what to do against the rookie QB .... very well done. MOS is actually leading ST's and is new master of fake kicks The D didn't give up .... they adjusted and prevailed When will Nichols learn to shoot straight? He needs to take a breathe and use a quarter second to set himself .... still throwing in a panic ...... maybe team confidence will rub off on him .... When will Drew be back? The game was won yesterday by genuine pro's (except maybe for Picard's ill-discipline) .... a team is finally emerging and do you know why? Because needed changes are being made where needed including playing Goosen and changing ST's personnel as needed .... including STOUDEMIRE at receiver. A proper reward system is in place for first time in MOS's tenure as HC ... playing your heart out finally means something to everyone on the club

The evidence is in the adversity ... a player goes down, a big mistake is made resulting in a TD against us ... and there is no come back, no digging deep .... instead we unravel and let them have another score We hang in there on the scoreboard for a while but then suddenly we are down big with no hope of coming back with the type of crew we have ... in garbage time (which is regularly starting to be in the 3rd quarter) we put in some Johnny-come-lately first downs and maybe a score or two We don't finish drives, let alone have two or three or four good drives in a row .... we have one here and one there .... this is not a team bursting with confidence or swagger When we get to the red zone we look like the keystone kops - the defenders dig deep and we look foolish ... I am guessing our red zone TD ratio is the leagues worst ... good professionals shine at the goal line Watching Kuale play and Sears sit last year was the beginning of MOS losing the locker room .... we have little leadership coming from the players you would expect it from The players on this club are not whispering mutiny - - they are too resigned and are just hanging in there until next year I don't hear them saying how much fun they are having.

He has never had control of anything. I've been saying this for so long now about O'Shea I must sound like a broken record but he is just a mouth piece for Miller and Walters that smirks and gets snarly with the fans and the media. I have zero respect for him as any kind of coach. Only reason he appeared competent in T.O. was because of Chad Owens. Mike O'Shea is a complete fraud, that should be obvious. Obviously no seems to think MOS can rally the troops to beat an Alberta team .... two more blowouts coming and then the average fan will have had enough and go from complacent to angry Declarations of canceling season tickets for next year will come to the forefront If Walters doesn't clean house after Edmonton, his job will go too as they clean house in late November I have to conclude that MOS's favoritism and unwillingness to take control has disheartened the players. No one is reaching deep for the sake of the team ... it has become too much about self preservation for too many of the players, too much emotion, not enough self sacrifice for a vision of what the team could be The coaches are circling the drain; the question is who are they going to take with them Ritchie Hall will be made interim head coach before long and then our D will go to hell under the interim DC "No action hands-off" which has become the theme of Miller's reign is making this club the laughing stock of the league No amount of booster juice can save it. There will be no forward progress until we see a little wisdom and a whole lot of decisive action Losing Willy has only exposed what has been going on under the covers Nearly every poster on this site knows it but no one but no one in management is willing to say "the king has no clothes!"

He has lost the room .... lost their confidence Its over

Can we start with: do they have the courage of their convictions and judgment to go with it? How about they wanted to be a contender this year, to win now, not slightly thinking it was a (re)building year? And I am just curious, who has more proven veteran CFL stars on their roster?

So how do you think we will do in the next two weeks with first place contenders Calgary & Edmonton? Has MOS lost control of everything?

So the cost this year for Henoc is 1/3 of season and next year we can use Picard's salary

What distubs me is Ottawa, an expansion club, appears tp be ahead of us in development and play ... agree or not they have a win now attitude in terms of their personnel .... thats all that counts in the dfl

Crazy

Do we make the playoffs this year? We have beaten the Riders twice. Montréal once and Vancouver once. All of our victories have been against basement dwellers. So forget about the Grey Cup! We will play Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto before the playoffs and so far we have had only one close game against them. More importantly, we have games left against Montréal, Ottawa and BC. I don't know if we can win two or even three of those games. Meanwhile, BC plays Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, Toronto as well as Regina and us on their home turf. Montréal has Edmonton, Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Regina in the last game of the season, and us next Sunday. If we can win all three games of our games against Montréal, Ottawa and BC wejust might a chance to make the playoffs. If we beat BC, they might only win one more game this year (against the Rough Riders). Conceivably Montréal could beat Ottawa, Regina and one of the top four teams. In that hypothetical, we win three more games, Montréal wins three more games, and Vancouver wins one more game: BC would be 5 & 13. We finish 7 & 11; , while Montréal would have the same 7 & 11 record, not enough to cross over ahead of us. Does anyone think we can do better than that this year?

hearing, not reading .... no topic on such but probably in one of our lengthy threads .... I have less interest these days on reading every word of every post I do hope he isn't in a MB staight jacket

Hearing Nichols will start .... could it be otherwise? Have the coaches told him what an "audible" is?

I get a rash when I even think about working within a bueaucracy

In the business world, when incompetent employees are not dismissed, staff morale suffers, cooperation / coordination starts to disappear. and before long team work is replaced by individualism. Its no different in football. A good example is the Blue's 2014 linebacking decisions. That kind of management example has come home to roost in 2015; in fact it is now permeating the organizatiom. Its spreading like a cancer.

What exactly is Wade Miller's job. What has he done to date? Can anybody show me anything?

Was it a good kinda yelling like, "Hey Wade! Keep up the good work!" Or was it the bad kind of yelling like, "Hey Wade, nice hiring you did for the Bombers! Maybe stick to Pinnacle!" Whoever said Pinnacle was a success; I work in an industry related to Pinnacle. I have used Pinnacle. They have not done anything to impress me ... in fact, they have done the opposite .... still they seem to make money and carry on ... what does it take run a franchise like booster juice ... well not everybody can do it but there is a formula for success but you have to follow it ...... still not impressed

https://www.umfm.com/listenonline/ trying to listen now .... not succeeding

Apathy What did MOS say about bringing MB for this year? Who is Wade Miller any way? At least the Riders were polite enough to fire someone Someone blew out the Bombers light a long time ago.

I know I am but when analyzing MOS's demeanor is the most interesting thing there is to do, what does that say ... a new QB in town and I can't get excited ... yawn

I got this creepy feeling listening to MOS ... it was his demeanor, his tone, the jadedness and an aura of resignation, inevitability ... signs of a dead man walking? I don't know ... it was the opposite of engaging, of that I am sure

Never done that Bomber mid season before I have been angry mid-season but never disinterested or bored

Blow outs are what get coaches (and GM's) fired If MOS wants to save his job for next year he must appear to do something, attempt to resucitate the patient which is in this case is the BB Offence. Making Buck Pierce OC might do it. The elephant in the parlor is of course MB's predictability, timidity and whatever else adds up to this tepid incompetence. Buck at least has fire in his belly and the courage to try. The other appearance needed is to cut Brohm; If you won't cut incompetence you appear indifferent. Bringing back Yantz might appease some of us. Saying he was too green to play was just MB's cowardice. He could find a receiver downfield and rifle it in to him. No skipped balls with Canadian star. And he brings a history of success and confidence, If that is too big a move, then go find Portris although that feels like defeatism. The brass have to make a move or two immediately .... none of this rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Isn't there a thing called waivers, Bombers 1st choice except for Ottawa ... so why a bidding war?

Yes all that & more ... its the experience of winning that makes for the secret success sauce and it can come from anywhere. Willy had it for a while last year. This stuff ISN'T LUCK.

IMHO we lost to Calgary because we don't yet have our confidence built to its top level. When it comes those "little things" will go right instead of going wrong. I am not sure I want Swaggerville back - - it was close to being too much, even over the top ... but I am waiting for something like it to come around. Swagger is what it takes to play championship caliber.