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It’s gotta be Manitoba boy and legend Tom Cochrane. Has to be.

We didn’t know terry bolea. We all knew hulk hogan. I’m not sure they are one and the same.

Regardless of what dude said. He’s a legend. RIP Hulk.

It’s been a long while since we had a guy come to camp and earn himself a starters job immediately. Last guy was Schoen.

But with that being said I am starting to believe there is a disconnect between Walters and O’Shea. Now O’Shea has his flaws, roster management but I think @GCn20is right in saying we lack the talent and that’s not necessarily on O’Shea. That’s on Walters. Guys like Thomas and Korn dress cuz 1. Kyle signed them to contracts. And 2. We lack the Canadian depth. I mean our Canadian depth is so poor ppl think an ex bison and ex elk castoff in Cobb who has done lots of nothing in his career so far should be an option. Our cdn depth is so bad we got ppl yearning for a dude with 18 catches in 29 career games. Crazy. Exact same thing tho can be said for ppl always going off on O’Shea and ignore the lack of talent really which is on the gm and scouts. Honestly. Seems like McManus gets paid to do nothing and Walters seems to do very little once the season begins. Does Walters care anymore? I’m not sure. Perhaps it’s time for new blood in the gm chair sooner rather than later.

Can you name 3 who left for not money? Lawler? Def took the $$$. Hardrick? Took the cash. Ford? $$$. Deslauriers? $$$ and woman. I mean honestly these are really the only impact guys who have left over the years. Others like couture left cuz he’s from BC. I mean. Who exactly did we lose cuz not cash? Garbutt? Fox? I mean you can go back a year and ppl were growing tired of them here. I don’t see any impact players who left for not cash or family related reasons.

Sure. This works. Our Lady Peace has redone and re released whatever. Now most prob think who cares but they retired it because it was the theme song of former WWE star and wife and child murderer Chris Benoit from 2002 until his death. All profits from the redone whatever will go to suicide awareness and mental health initiatives.

I don’t think it’s hate I think it’s reality. Dude was a legend then went to the nfl then came back and buck used him like a fullback pretty much and dude got hurt and is obviously not fully recovered and might not ever be. His mobility from side to side is gone.

Perhaps an ass wooping by arbuckle and the Argos will change things then. I almost call this my lock of the week. Bombers will lose. Argos just have our number especially if we trotting out the same crap as the last 2 weeks.

I dunno. Streveler looked good week 1 but every other appearance he’s looked like garbage. I’m not sure what’s up there but that throw and decision is on him. Dude put up 2 fgs in 2 plus quarters. I dunno. Can’t really throw it appears atleast when coming in for injury reasons or crappy Zach play. Seems like he needs the 1 reps to be a good QB. Otherwise he’s not good at all.

That’s a career ender at his age.

RIP to the true legend ozzy. Man oh man I remember seeing a video recently of him at the reunion and his grand daughter is watching and is excited screaming pa pa pa pa. Pa pa pa. It showed a human side to a man who is famous for biting a head off a bat really. He probably should have died 20 times but still sad but not unexpected as he hasn’t been doing well. Glad he could have 1 final show. They must have known he didn’t have lots of time left.

First time going against the bombers. Yup.

Because BC. I’ll stick with Kenny Lawler.

That must mean ppl watch other games. I’ve seen a few. All I know is don’t see guys wide open every play in other games. That’s partially talent or lack of and it’s partially scheme.

Sayles is good but fox and garbutt spent lots of time on the injury report when here and quite honestly were underwhelming. I mean ppl could go back and read the posts about them towards the end and the majority felt it was time for changes there also. A few good games and a couple sacks don’t change things really. Yes our DL sucks but fox and garbutt were already here and the DL sucked then also. Why ppl pretending the DL hasn’t been an issue for 2 3 seasons. The DT position hasn’t been great since Doug brown retired. Stove was good but he’s out the league now. Left and got hurt immediately. The DEs have been crap since Jeffcoat retired. Doug brown was replaced by Jake Thomas and the other end was habba and garbutt who weren’t good here. Ppl grew tired of them quickly. The problems on DL are talent related for sure. Was last year when 3 of those Hamilton DL were here also. The DEs and DT in camp were better than our starters. They kept the wrong players out of camp. Not signing Fox Habba or Garbutt aren’t the reason our DL sucks.

Who said he doesn’t have flaws but blaming him for everything seems ridiculous. I mean I’m pretty convinced he’s not calling D plays on game days or O plays. Someone brought up a scenario from the last game where we stuffed them then put out Jake and the 3 4 D the next play on 2nd and long. I doubt that’s O’Shea making that play call. That’s Younger. Bend but don’t break but this year they broken.

Based on ??? I mean gonna be honest guys. Most the guys you push as the next great thing end up out the league in a year. What is any of this based on? Feelings I guess.

That’s on the D coordinator tho not O’Shea. Do you just blame O’Shea for everything and ignore the coordinators who definitely have a huge say in things and likely have a larger say in who is and isn’t playing than you think. Crazy theory. What if the problem is the coordinators aren’t very good? I mean younger gets a free ride but the D didn’t adjust the last 2 games at all. At what point is it not O’Shea and it’s the coordinator who is playing the obviously confusing to most scheme.

Calgary basically changed their entire D and are the best in the league really. It’s not about communication it’s about talent. Ours has gotten old and at the same time. You're only as strong as your weakest link and we got a few links broken right now. O’Shea needs to be forced to make some moves and if not he should be fired because who plays is on him. We have had 2 byes and are 3 and 2 now and our D players look gassed. That’s on the talent and on the guy (guys) playing them. Talk about to much moving parts? Uhh really cuz our old guys lead the team in D reps. Someone has lost the plot whether that’s O’Shea or Younger, who I think might not be innocent here. It is his D scheme after all. Despite the narrative, it’s probably younger overplaying the old guys on game days. There’s this narrative O’Shea forces him to play these guys but I’m not sure that’s based on facts. The D sucking is on the coordinator also.

Turns out you get them here and they love it. Getting them here is the issue. There’s a perception about Winnipeg that lots of us think is reasons but turns out hunting fishing and the outdoors is very popular with rich people and the younger guys who just want to play hockey and that’s it, well this is the ideal place for them. I personally don’t want players who can’t deal with the equivalent of 2 weeks really of very cold temperatures. The rest of the time is your typical northern winter. No different than Chicago Minnesota or Wisconsin. Edmonton on average is colder in the winter than we are recently (last 5 years)

Is Bridges cut yet?

Is Schiltz available cuz I’m trying to think of guys with some cfl experience and I’m drawing blanks here. Wonder if Hamilton would trade us Powell as they also have Tuas brother they like. He’s probably the only option really. Ottawa needs a reset. They should trade us Dru Brown for Collaros Peterson and Jake Thomas.

Bombers gonna be 3rd after Sask wins tonight. Changes required. At this point cuz we got the season series against BC it’s gonna be us vs Sask in the western semi in Sask. and in a hosting the cup year that’s gotta be a fail.

Evolving hockey who predicts contracts and aav had him at 8.6 x 6 years so jets got a bargain here. 7.5 is the going rate for 60 to 70 points. fun fact. Vilardi 61 points last year. 7.5 aav - career high points 71 games played Ehlers 63 points last year. 8.5 aav. 1 point off his career high of 64 back in year 2 of his jets career. 69 games played