Jesse

Yeah I didn't mean the location or anything like that, sorry for the confusion.

I'm glad 1290 is putting more into the Bombers and the CFL in general. I get frustrated when they spend crazy time on hockey when the CFL season is in full swing and the hockey boys are still in the gym, and golfing.

I doubt the Bombers have to cut anyone to find $100k.  They don't spend their entire cap budget on the opening day roster.  No team does.
All teams budget some slush into the roster for injuries and mid-season signings.  If it were me, it would be at $250 - 300,000, at minimum.  The idea that the Bombers have already fully committed over $5.05 of the $5.15 million in cap space they have for this season with more than half the season remaining is preposterous.  Walters is not that dumb.

With all respect to your intent, we'll just have to settle for studying film. Mr. Ploen has earned his retirement well, and paid for his efforts dearly. I'd like him to enjoy entering gate two at IGF as a valued alumni and feeling honoured. 

Players don't always rush out of town when they're released.  They might be one injury away from having a job again.  As long as they have a couch to crash on and access to the team buffet and workout room, going back home and going thru the classifieds isn't always the first choice.  Besides, Winnipeg is almost mosquito-free this year.  How often will that happen*?
 
 
 
 
*with the rise in global temperatures one of the long term effects in our region will be increased droughts, so a byproduct of this may be a decrease in mosquito numbers.  So, possibly much more often.

It worked last year. It didnt this year. 1960s is a long time ago. D's have improved lots since then. 

We need to study some 1960's film:
Kenny Ploen  laterals left (an apparent sweep) to Leo Lewis who then throws it the opposite direction, right, to a wide open abandoned Kenny Ploen .... and how many times did we see the same type of play in its many  variations such as Ploen to Lewis to Ploen to Lewis
Time to get Kenny out of his rocker and down to a closed practice
 

Like I said earlier, gonna have to agree to disagree.. Nichol's did have position on the DB, DB was behind him at the goal line.  If adam's throws the pass, its possibly caught or gets a PI.  I'm more then willing to accept it didn't work as planned and it was a failure but I still don't see it as a bad call.  

There's a pretty clear difference to me and it's not just a matter of saying "oh, a trick play see he's not conservative!"
I'm a big Lapo fan and I don't give him as much of a hard time as some others may want to, but that play call was horrendous for so many reasons.
We marched the ball down the field at will in front of the biggest crowd of the year, coming away with a touchdown on our first possession of the game would've put an exclamation mark on things for a crowd that was dying for an excuse to go nuts. Our yardage on each play of that drive (not counting the short yardage play) was 9, 8, 12, 9, 16, 6, 5 - we were first and goal on the 6 yard line. 7 plays consecutively with positive yardage, not a single incompletion and we land ourselves in striking distance. We were KILLING them and we just gave it all back in one stupid decision. 
Here's my issue with the call: even if you want to call it, call it on second down. Calling it on first down basically killing two downs at once because now we're in goal 14 yards out and Edmonton essentially just had to play the line of scrimmage. Call the smart play on first down and if THAT fails, get creative. Don't piss away an entire drive to give yourself a chubby because you made a fancy play call. It took the energy out of the building entirely and it was just unnecessary. There's a difference between being conservative and being smart and I'm sure even LaPolice would look back on that and know he made a bad call. It happens, every OC does it. That doesn't mean it WASN'T a bad call. 

Before you continue digging yourself deeper, please watch this short educational video:
 

On the Watson play, I was more mad at the lack of good tackling by the Bombers than the 'holdin' from Edmonton. Could have gone either way. Not worth a challenge.
As to the DBs being run over, your "letter of the law"  quote is accurate. A CFL source has confirmed that very wording. 
And yes, as to the way the call is made on DBs, that has to change, when they are obviously run into. That very fact was brought up by none other than Chris Jones. He believes that Calgary runs plays exactly for that reason..that is, to draw contact penalties. Especially before the challenge rule was changed. I believe there is some truth to that belief. 
To me, if a defender is merely 'standing his ground', I don't see why an illegal contact penalty should be called. This call invites receivers to initiate  contact for that very reason.

Depends on where we're at when he's ready to come back, but if he comes back willing and able to play the last 6 games of the season + playoffs, I'd throw a prorated 200k at him, which would be 66k-ish - and I'd give him whatever we need to upfront.
Can you imagine a group of receivers made up of Walker-Adams-Dressler-Thorpe-JFG?

It's a long season, but if Harris goes 1000/1000, he's the league MOP, not just on our team.

So I take it Chris Jones recently bought a used copy of Madden 25. Guess his copy of Madden 08 got scratched or something.

No one in the history of the CFL has ever done 1000/1000 rush/rec. If Harris can do that he is the MOP. Since he is on pace for it right now that makes him my choice for MOP up to now with Nichols nipping at his heels.

Statistically, all of the QBs are so similar. MOP/ All Star nods will probably come down to team success.

Statistically, all of the QBs are so similar. MOP/ All Star nods will probably come down to team success.

So, stay conservative...

This part of the thread just goes to show how easy it is to criticize an offensive coordinator. 
The reality is everyone one of us would call a slightly different game. Some opt to run the ball when I would go with a pass, and vice versa. The trick play wouldn't have been something I would have called there, but I've got no issue with it.
It didn't work. Plenty of calls don't work. Only reason it sticks out is because it's unique. 
People can complain  all day about an offensive coordinator. What matters most is the overall result of these play calls and right now this offense is putting up really strong numbers. If those numbers tank, then I'll be more willing to listen.
People complain about LaPo because his name is LaPo. If this offense was run by New Coordinator Joe, everybody would love it. 

@Throw Long Bannatyne and @SpeedFlex27
There is very little difference in that play and any other play the Bombers run, other than one more person handling the ball. They obviously saw something in the Eskimo alignments that put forth an argument to try that play.
You guys didn't like it, fine, but don't talk to me about the  ultra conservative play calling of LaPo anymore.

I disagree, opening drive of the game is the time to show that they can shove it down their throats the old fashioned way, no trickery needed.

I just saw that infamous trick play for the first time today as I missed the first quarter. I see nothing wrong in calling that play. They saw something, they practiced it, and called it at the appropriate position on the field. It failed.
It's really no different than getting stuffed, getting sacked or missing a throw/catch. It was a loss of a down, nothing more, nothing less.
I for one, applaud any attempt to confuse, demoralize any team by using whatever means to BEAT them. Sometimes any play call doesn't work. Oh well, on to the next play. 
Hindsight is not fulfilling for me..

Well played sir, well played.
To your other point though, exactly right. This is the kind of thing that tells me the league's broadcasters and pundits don't actually watch the games. They see the games they cover while they're sitting up in the press box with their buddies, and then go by the stats page for their "analysis".

I'm going to do the unobvious guys (Matt and Andrew go without saying)
1. Randle: In the post-game show, Walby and Westwood said they could not give Randle their "defensive player of the game" award because no one throws his way. Well guess what dinguses, that means the CB is performing exactly the way he should. Randle never gets his due, but in the past three games has a FR for a TD, a sack, and an INT. All-Star who will never be recognized for it league wide.
2. Thorpe: Really comes on strong late in games for first downs and, like everyone else last night, was piling on the YAC.
3. Paul LaPolice: The guy has been crapped on around here and TEP for a long time. Even people going so far as to question the offence will Khari and Milt. But the guy is creative, matches perfectly with Matty and Andrew and co. and is having a steller season. I've been putting some thought into it, and it's possible we may not see any HC changes this off season, so maybe we even get to keep Paul around.
HH: Flanders: I feel guilty for even thinking it, but I've often wondered what could be if we didn't have Andrew Harris at RB. Now, I don't need to wonder because we're getting the best of both. Fladers' contract has to be up at the end of this season, but I wonder if there's any way this two-back system can be carried forward, and if it could continue to be this successful.