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Waaaay better.

From Our Man Tait in his latest piece.... Worth your click, as always:
 
https://www.bluebombers.com/2025/12/22/__trashed/
 
 
"...And as for the decision to add Thomas to his staff, O’Shea said this about one of the most-respected people in the building — not just on the roster:
“Love the guy. Can sit here right now and picture him hoisting the Cup in 2019. Extremely smart, passionate, good leader. A guy that just loved being around. There was a time where because of a contract issue he came late to training camp by I don’t know how many days, not much. But the whole practice stopped and everybody went nuts that he walked onto the field.
“That right there speaks volumes about what everybody thinks about him. Not just from the players’ perspective, but in the entire organization.”

JT...has bled blue for a long time....will he make a good coach...who knows..hopefully he will. 
Congrats to him on a new position...
Hogan staying on is meh to me, but going back to RB coach, is probably a much better fit for him
 
As to next signing, I am hopeful it's Nuefeld

Or having the best RB in the league made him look better than he actually is?  He certainly didn't use BO the way you would think a great RB coach might.  I'm less concerned about that move though - he's at least experienced in the role.  Hiring one of our problem players to coach (imo) our biggest weakness does not inspire confidence in me.  

Now, if they would name Kola as the new head of catering….indisputable. 

Exactly, I really don't understand the level of hate for Jake Thomas with some around here. Was he good the last few years? Nope. but it's not like he didn't try or bleed blue and gold. We are literally suggesting that the club should have cut ties with him permanently because he was too old to play well anymore and that is absolutely nuts. Some guys have gone off the deep end on the Jake Thomas hate train around here. I don't know if he will be a good coach, but I can't see any reason why he might not be. We'll see. We need to at least give him a chance.
Exactly. He stepped aside as a player and we still get the benefit of his experience and locker room worth. I can't believe people are viewing this so negatively.

I actually laughed about the Jake-As-Coach thing just because I knew exactly what the reaction would be. So funny. 
I think he's well respected in the room and 13 years experience is definitely worth passing on to th next generation. I'm happy for the guy. 

The best players don't always make the best coaches.  It's often the less gifted guys who make tremendous coaches... so how good withh Jake Thomas be as DL coach? I don't know but it's not some immediately crucifiable since to try. 

Keeping Hogan when it seems like he and Brady clashed last year is sort of weird. I know Brady previously raved about him, and maybe we were reading between the lines too much, but it certainly seemed as if the relationship had gone sour.

You realize that Hogan was our RB coach before when BO had his best years right?
 
I think these are great moves for our organization.

He can't be as bad as Patterson was and if it takes him off the field it's a double win. Are you seriously complaining about this? Jake is a long time veteran DL of our club and league, he has a ton he can teach. That doesn't necessarily mean he will be a good coach but excluding his chances of being one based on his playing career doesn't make sense either. Look at Ryan Dinwiddie, guy was a career backup and barely at that and is a great coach. I'm willing to give him a chance, and at the same time get rid of Patterson who was god awful.

Dillon Mitchell. What a waste of a signing. My Gawd. 

Oh, damn- one less mediocre restauant to not patronize.
My absolute favourite breakfast place is The Original Pancake House. The giant apple pancake is a good excuse to sleep the rest of the morning, but my 16 year old son ate TWO of them in a single sitting on a dare. We didn't see him again until well after lunch.

I'm much smarter if the wife ain't around.

I'm much smarter if the wife ain't around.

I'm much smarter if the wife ain't around.

I'm much smarter if the wife ain't around.

I'm much smarter if the wife ain't around.

If I'm looking thru my wife's eyes I'm assuming she sees this when looking at me:

Bigger bodied athletic QB...interesting...can't argue with this signing
Hopefully gets a lot of TC reps to get a good gauge on him

Nice signing! Great pedigree. Good college numbers, started a game in the NFL and got a ring with the Rams, and the UFL MVP! Now let’s sign Taylor Egersma and I feel good about our quarterback room. 

Perkins was added to our neg list in August but he's been bouncing around other teams lists since at least 2020 so might be just lucky timing on our part but I won't complain.  Looks like he has a great skill set for the CFL and he's still only 28.

Well except for me.

losing Brady would be a disaster on many levels, including attendance . He deserves a big raise, and an OC that realizes his abilities.