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Bartley Kives‏Verified account @bkives  45s46 seconds ago Wade Miller says Southwest Transitway leg to IGF ought to be finished in July. This will take buses off Chancellor & University. #cbcmb   Bartley Kives‏Verified account @bkives  38s38 seconds ago This means cars and buses won't compete for space. Ergo, less congestion before and after games.

Can we hire Hervey solely to a role where he deny Wiecek & Friesen team and locker room access?

Here's a piece of garbage on West division needs in the draft. Dude thinks the Bombers will be looking to draft a QB to replace Nichols...
 
https://www.getmoresports.com/cfl-draft-biggest-needs-west-division-teams/

I will never complain about an industry where Canadians get paid more than American imports.
If anything, I think the ratio could be increased to 8 - CIS talent level has really increased in the last ten years.
at the very least, there should be Cdn roster spot exemptions/rewards if teams want to carry more than the minimum...  
Draft picks should be under team control in an RFA-style format too...  like drafting teams maintain their rights for five years or something 
 

Bombers add ST demon Mike Miller, formerly of Edmonton Eskimos..  Lead the league in ST tackles last season

@SLemonator @6BONECRUSHER3 congrats on making the biggest mistake of your life Sincerely #Lemondrops

Can we stick to the Queen's English and not use rapper names?  Who the **** is Cwill?

Wow, you nailed it JBR!  Arcenaux has ABSOLUTELY blown guys up, I mean, blown them up to smithereens, on MANY an occasion. He is a big, mean, nasty, effective receiver who completely manhandles little DB's and would absolutely NOT hesitate - at any point - to make a point to destroy a DB in a chase position, say, looking the wrong way. So, in this case, he just met a man who is as big and mean and he is...if Arcenaux gets up after that hit, there is absolutely (too many "absolutelys?") no way the ref chucks that flag.

If I'm the DC, I would tell Loffler to make the hit every time and to heck with the penalty if it is called.

Loffler didnt have time to stop and say...oh ok he didn't catch it. He was in the air when Manny tipped the ball away. He was making a football play during the most important game of the year to seperate the ball from the rec. Didn't lead with his head. Even turned away from the hit. Two big guys running like that, there's bound to be an accident here or there. They called Loffler only cause Manny didn't get up. it unfortunate, but you can't penalise guys for accidents. If Loffler had jumped under Manny's chin, then sure that's not good. But he didn't. Manny was Ko'd as a result of playing hard football. Not cause Loffler tried to hurt him.

Interesting article on O'Shea on 3Downnation:
http://3downnation.com/2016/09/20/mike-oshea-saved-bombers-season/

Can't ever hate Willy. Wish him the best.

Yeah, no sympathy at all for the Riders. How about the way Jones lost that game with 2 stupid challenges & 2 dumb 3rd down gambles in Rider territory. Those were backbreakers & not the PI call. Those 4 plays cost the Riders the game. Jones is incredibly stupid. #textbook

I hope the Riders lose by 95.

Every touchdown we score removes an ad from the scoreboard, until ultimately the actual video takes up the entire screen.

I'll say it again: I love The Trinity amd hope they stay together in Wpg for a long time to come. 

Wonder if has Brown has any more negative takes left. Still a few columns before the season starts.

Boy, there was a guy named Lancaster that I think won only a couple of games in his first two years with an underperforming Riders squad then went on to win cups with a couple of other teams that had a little more talent as well as being a very well respected color commentator in between. You guys are pretty tough on Mr Oshea. Although it's true he has not always made the greatest decisions on the field, he's rapidly improving and I have no trouble backing him. He says and does the right things for the long term health of this club. I believe in MOS and his coaching and really think as long as there are no great injury situations this will be a turn around year and we should be challenging for top spot all year.

Congrats Blue, on a big day. Cats couldnt keep Medlock  anyway.... so glad he's out of the division at least.
Puh-lease make playoffs at the expense of Priders.

Everyone's shitting on him. It was different coaches, players and team when he was last here. We really didn't have much to pick from in terms of ocs, maybe 3rd times a charm. Embrace the guy and give him a chance again.

Out of all of our media, Doug Brown is the only guy that actually asks hard-hitting questions...  Osh getting pissed when he asked about off-field consequences for penalties
 
Irving cuts him off to come to Oshea's aid.
 
Osh clinging to 'sticking together' line...

I would can Tracey asap...  O Shea should be able to do double duties.   Can MB  -  promote Howell and hire Doug Berry.      Can Brohm ASAP.  Bring in Gale  or Troy Smith as a stop gap for the rest of the season to play back up.      

The best thing about Joe Mack was that he made sure we didn't have any talent for Ottawa to take from us in the expansion draft.

I will disagree strongly here. I'm not going to jump up and down and praise Tim Burke, so no one try to twist my words here, but remember that he was handed the position as head coach after LaPolice was fired. He was not hired to be the head coach, he inherited the position, and as the defensive coach many of the same posters on this board who rip him now loved him and felt he should take over from LaPolice before the firing occurred. He was handed a sinking ship by an obstinate GM who bristled at any perceived or actual criticism (true story: I was invited to a pre-season Bomber luncheon where Bob Irving was emceeing and he referenced the struggles of the 2012 season to the crowd and said "Good luck Joe Mack, hopefully we'll see better times ahead this year". Mack barked back "Gee, thanks, Bob" in the most dismissive, sarcastic way he could, and then under his breath - but not so quietly that I couldn't hear him the next table over - something that sounded a lot like "glass bowl") and stubbornly held to the belief that his way, which was opposite to everyone else's thinking, had to be the right way. Burke had seen Mack throw LaPo under the bus for his failed roster, saw the players assembled by Mack not giving any effort, and decided to preserve his own future career by calling out those lazy players. Unprofessional, sure, but it was in keeping with the whole tone of the organization at that time.
 
A Bomber beat reporter went into the locker room after a tough loss just before the week long bye (this was I believe just before LaPo got the axe) and said that 25% percent of the players were upset about the loss, 25% were laughing and goofing off, talking about where they were going to go drinking that night, and 50% had their packed bags with them and were talking about their plans for the week off starting that minute. That tells you a lot about the attitude and commitment of that team right there. That assembling of "talent" falls on Joe Mack and Joe Mack alone, who though bringing in "athletes" and not football players was the way to build a team. Burke did not rise above that mess, for sure, but that does not make him anywhere near "the worst Bomber coach by far". It just makes him an astute judge of player talent and character (or lack thereof in this case) who recognized that he was next to get thrown under the bus by his GM and refused to roll over and die, but instead called out those players (and by extension, his GM) to keep alive the hope of coaching in the future. That stance, however unseemly, got him re-hired in Montreal.
 
The stink of that Bomber regime will forever rest on the shoulders of Joe Mack. But, as was so eloquently put by saskbluefan 2 years ago in another post:
 
"The thing is there are a lot of people on this board with so much credibility capital wrapped up in Joe Mack that they can't admit what a dog of a roster this is.  So whatever shortcomings Burke may have need to be blown 10x out of proportion in order to blame him rather then the lack of talent on this team for the disaster this year has become."
 
And I'd put Mack's flaws in drafting, player assessment, letting free agents walk, failure to stockpile Canadian talent, inability to find a long term solution at quarterback or a back-up plan in place in the event of a Buck Pierce injury, and his overall refusal to learn from his own mistakes ahead of his acumen in hiring coaches. But we can agree to disagree.

Overall not a bad draft for the Bombers. Morgan may turn out to be a stud or a dud but Sukh Chungh and Richards are pretty solid picks IMO (even though I would have loved Durant). The short D-lineman could be a useful component and I like the French FB. Could have done better maybe but I've seen much worse drafts recently. At any rate, I think our O-line will have the potential to be feared in the not too distant future ...