For minor off-season Bomber news.  Any significant stories or news that are likely to generate significant discussion may have their own thread created.

Going to try going with the two threads again for the off season.    One for Bomber news, one for CFL news.   These threads should be used for general / minor day to day news, tweets, etc.  A catch all for tidbits that people want to share to keep everyone up to date on the goings and comings of the league.

Any news, tweets, and signings that is likely to generate significant discussion may have their own threads created.

17 minutes ago, Bomber_fanaddict said:

Just looked back at last season. The Bombers are now 11-2 in their last 13 games. And I know you cant add in preseason but if you could 13-2 in he last 16 games.... 

Wow.

16 minutes ago, Bomber_fanaddict said:

Just looked back at last season. The Bombers are now 11-2 in their last 13 games. And I know you cant add in preseason but if you could 13-2 in he last 16 games.... 

 

13 plus 2, fourteen, fifteen...sorry, my guzinta’s don’t get the same answer. I’ll try again..13....lol

Just now, Rod Black said:

13 plus 2, fourteen, fifteen...sorry, my guzinta’s don’t get the same answer. I’ll try again..13....lol

Lol that's my Rider math.

1 minute ago, Bomber_fanaddict said:

Lol that's my Rider math.

My mistake then...carry on! Lol

15 minutes ago, Rod Black said:

My mistake then...carry on! Lol

 

12 minutes ago, Mark H. said:

 

Better brush up...I don’t see anyone getting cheated! That’s great! 

19 minutes ago, Rod Black said:

Better brush up...I don’t see anyone getting cheated! That’s great! 

Don't think too hard...

On 2019-07-19 at 9:20 PM, AKAChip said:

Yeah I screwed up. What of it?

Well, if it was a one-off, it might be easier to let slide. But....

Nichols

Hecht

Kyrie Wilson

Gaitor (last year, who in your own words “proved you wrong”)

so that’s “What of it” I guess. 

Just now, TrueBlue4ever said:

Well, if it was a one-off, it might be easier to let slide. But....

Nichols

Hecht

Kyrie Wilson

Gaitor (last year, who in your own words “proved you wrong”)

so that’s “What of it” I guess. 

Do you want me to go through all the times I was right? This goes both ways. This is a message board. I call it as I see it and sometimes I’m right, sometimes I’m wrong. At least I own up to mistakes. 

2 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

Well, if it was a one-off, it might be easier to let slide. But....

Nichols

Hecht

Kyrie Wilson

Gaitor (last year, who in your own words “proved you wrong”)

so that’s “What of it” I guess. 

To be fair, no one was excited about Hecht...  I know I had visions of Hurl 2.0

And Gaitor was just awful in BC...

1 minute ago, Floyd said:

To be fair, no one was excited about Hecht...  I know I had visions of Hurl 2.0

And Gaitor was just awful in BC...

And even if Rose has been amazing for us this season, he was victimized countless times in 2018. 

2 minutes ago, AKAChip said:

And even if Rose has been amazing for us this season, he was victimized countless times in 2018. 

On your own there... I expected him to be a ball hawk - he was in BC 

The sane people on this board were, at worst, taking a "Let's wait and see what happens...." approach. The crazy people are the ones who immediately jump to a negative. 

Lol, right. 

I love the absolute certainty of some posters when it comes to things they know little about.  "This guys sucks." Whoops, no.  "Ok, this guy sucks." Dang, wrong again.  "Alright, this guy for sure sucks!"  Crap, he's good too.  So people just love to revel in their wrongness.  Here's a tip.  If you don't know what you're talking about, absolutes are probably a bad idea.

Absolutely!

9 minutes ago, Noeller said:

The sane people on this board were, at worst, taking a "Let's wait and see what happens...." approach. The crazy people are the ones who immediately jump to a negative. 

I've seen other years of that - but aside from Hecht, I didn't see a lot of panic this year... 

I mean replacing your entire interior of your OL 'should' have been a disaster... instead they gelled in half a game

Wilson was always going to succeed beside Bighill - whats surprising is how much of a force he is without him...

Love that the Miller/Walters/Osh strategy has paid off... if we would have had a rough start, I think the BOD would have started getting antsy

2 minutes ago, WBBFanWest said:

I love the absolute certainty of some posters when it comes to things they know little about.  "This guys sucks." Whoops, no.  "Ok, this guy sucks." Dang, wrong again.  "Alright, this guy for sure sucks!"  Crap, he's good too.  So people just love to revel in their wrongness.  Here's a tip.  If you don't know what you're talking about, absolutes are probably a bad idea.

You’re way, way off. Let’s just take a couple of examples here. Jeff Hecht is 34 years old and never been more than a spot starter in the CFL. When he has started at safety up until this season, he’s been largely terrible. Good for him for playing well as a starter for five games but no one would be wrong for assuming he would be a disaster in that spot. 

Anthony Gaitor was run out of B.C. after two very poor seasons. Perhaps he found his calling playing SAM, but he was objectively bad in the secondary for those seasons in BC. 

There is absolutely nothing wrong with both expressing concern or stating an opinion based on a player’s previous level of play. And for every Hecht and Gaitor, there are multiple examples of previous poor play continuing, or a player being a poor fit on this team. Bowman comes to mind immediately. As does L’Damien Washington, Corey Washington and Kenbrell Thompkins. 

There are also numerous examples of the exact opposite. Players that are unheralded or rookies that certain people suggest will surprise in a positive way, even with very limited on-field play to go on. JSK, Steven Richardson, Wolitarsky, Alexander and Jeffcoat when they were rookies. But I guess as long as it’s making a call that someone will be good rather than bad is okay because that has a positive spin. 

37 minutes ago, Floyd said:

To be fair, no one was excited about Hecht...  I know I had visions of Hurl 2.0

And Gaitor was just awful in BC...

I actually said Hecht would be more then serviceable. Our defense was better when he was in the line up last season when Loffler was hurt. I got laughed at for when saying he would be fine with Hecht!

Just now, Arnold_Palmer said:

I actually said Hecht would be more then serviceable. Our defense was better when he was in the line up last season when Loffler was hurt. I got laughed at for when saying he would be fine with Hecht!

I'm sorry you were laughed at.  You are a strong and capable person who can achieve anything you set your mind to - never forget that!!

6 minutes ago, Arnold_Palmer said:

I actually said Hecht would be more then serviceable. Our defense was better when he was in the line up last season when Loffler was hurt. I got laughed at for when saying he would be fine with Hecht!

Great call. 

Like I said right from TC..the loss G of Loffler would be least of our concerns..andnia easiest position to slit a new guy in...was never worried or concerned

Be safe to say that our safety play over 5 this year has far surpassed our play from last year...easily...and Hecht has still maintained the presence in middle for receivers to keep head on swivel and be tentative.  Which has been seen several times this  yr already

Edited July 21, 20196 yr by Booch

I love the way Hall moves around Gaitor and Hecht. Really puts those guys in a position to succeed and negates Hecht's limited speed.  I think they had significantly overestimated Loffler's abilities, and he would have been much better playing more like a Cover 2 safety, shallower and blitzing more like Hecht has been this year.

2 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

I love the way Hall moves around Gaitor and Hecht. Really puts those guys in a position to succeed and negates Hecht's limited speed.  I think they had significantly overestimated Loffler's abilities, and he would have been much better playing more like a Cover 2 safety, shallower and blitzing more like Hecht has been this year.

Isn't that basically what they did with Loffler before Bighill was signed...?

Anthony Gaitor did not have two terrible seasons in BC. He was actually pretty outstanding in 2016 and that's why he got a shot with the Saints after that season. When he came back in the latter part of 2017 he wasn't very good. But that seems to happen to lots of guys coming from the NFL halfway through the season. Betting on him to bounce back in 2018 was a smart move.