Jesse

I agree 100% But there there's a guy's resume and then there's what he presents in an interview. Minds can be changed. That said, I think O'Day is an idiot and just the worst GM in the league. I trust him to be looking for the wrong traits in his staff.

Some people just love recycling the same old guys, I guess.

Not cutting Zach, regardless.

I didn't see the ring part, my bad.

They would not.

I'm not saying it was the right decision. It's just a different argument/decision that what we've been having. People are moving the goalposts. MOS made a comment about none of our players, that he can see, are "aging out". The roster management decisions (like keeping Jackson on at the expense of another receiver) are a different argument than Brandon Alexander is too old and is hurting the team. Bighill, Bryant, Collaros, Alexander, etc. may have lost a step form their prime, but none of them are liabilities out there (Injuries notwithstanding). And the depth guys like Briggs, whoever you bring in for them (rando Canadian draft pick from the last couple of years) isn't going to be so much more valuable that they make the impact the game is a way that some of you seem to think. _______________________________________ But completely separate from the "Aging out" discussion is the rostering decisions, which were just crazy in a lot of cases. Jackson was a waste of a spot, period. Should have been used on a DL that we didn't even seem to have. That is at least partly a scouting fail. We ran without depth in the secondary for most of the season and mostly never hurt ys, but easily could have. And I guess it's fine if you want to commit to a "jack knife" as your receiver depth if that's what you feel your offense needs, but if he's the guy you trust, he needs to be active in a game in which the rest of your receivers are injured. If you don't trust him in that role, you needed to be developing a different guy all year - roster/scouting fail.

Who didn’t we have depth for? Plenty of guys could have/should have been on the field for Bighill. We had Rose inactive. We had McCrae and Ambles ready to go at receiver (although we had too many injuries at receiver to reasonably cover). The roster choices for those people were garbage, but I don’t we had choices to go to if we wanted to. MOS didn’t, unfortunately.

Honestly, I was kind of shocked when it was announced that MOS got his raise last year for that reason, so I wouldn't put it past him.

Ball heard it from Dunk and then tweeted it out as "people in my circle". Before that moment, he's been saying it's going to be Mace.

We've talked about it since last night?

Just dump the secondary that led the league in passing defence. I don't see the same things you're seeing.

We got killed because out entire receiving core was limping. I'd like to see Eli at centre next year and a solid DE rotational piece. Otherwise, run it back as much as possible. But that has nothing to do with an older player who we should move on from, which is what we're talking about.

If Buck hasn't pulled himself out of the race at this point, he's in it to win it.

Booch, most of the guys you are so worked up by are special teamers and back-ups. These are not huge detriments to the team. Kongbo chose to go somewhere else because he thought he was starting material and didn't want to be stuck behind the Jeff's, imo.

That's fine. And I've also been saying the same all year. But MOS has made no secrets about his philosophy and it just strikes me as funny that you're continuously surprised by it.

Pretty hilarious that you'd expect him to change his philosophy after 4 straight Grey Cup appearances. We will bring it back as much as we possibly can next year.

Not only did he stay, he must have taken a bit of a shave. Because MOS reportedly got a hefty raise and they didn't cut one of the assistants the way I thought they'd need to in order to fit a Walters extension. Everyone did except JBR. What an idiot.

No one signs a new head coach because their team is already in a great position. You have to believe in yourself that you can get the job done and turn the ship around. Buck watched it happen here and probably believes he can do the same elsewhere. Would make me sick to my stomach to see him in green though.

Like, did you really expect MOS to be the only management person?

He did it. That crazy son of a ***** actually did it.

You could easily make the argument that the only reason we've kept these guys together for so long is because of the cap. Otherwise other franchises could offer a crazy amount to steal guys away. But no one has been able to do that, so for the most part they've stayed.

Despite how terrible the job is, you’re obviously going to be taking over a terrible team when you’re first hired as a HC. This year is slightly different than last years people rejecting the Rider overtures as O’Day has been signed for a three year deal.

Of course not, but any HC candidate will be expected to share who is plans are for filling out his staff, so he would be expected to have those conversations before his interview. You can chose not to believe Dunk, but it’s not inconceivable that Buck has had that conversation with Younger. The Bombers wouldn’t prevent him from leaving for a promotion.

It came from Justin Dunk, originally. Obviously I have always expected Younger to be the heir apparent, but If Hall isn't retiring this year, I don't know why Younger wouldn't take the opportunity to take the promotion. That said, I feel like Buck isn't even O'Days first choice. So we'll see if Buck is even given the choice to accept or refuse.

I agree.