As we get prepped for mini-camp opening next Wednesday, here's Our Man Tait with his annual "Positional Preview" series, starting with "The Specialists": 

https://www.bluebombers.com/2022/05/05/positional-preview-specialists-5/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

40 minutes ago, Arnold_Palmer said:

Love this by the way. Seems like a high character guy. Hopefully he has the talent and ability to be a capable back up QB. His maturity, hard work, and poise is a good start though. 

I think he's going to open some eyes in camp and ps. We could see the return of some streveler package stuff too. 

 

 

 

On 2022-05-11 at 8:38 PM, Mark H. said:

Since we're doing receiver confessions - I was excited when Taman signed Wane McGarrity. 

For me, that's how I knew our run at the top was done, and Lyle and Taman had finished destroying what Dave Ritchie built.

57 minutes ago, Mr. Perfect said:

For me, that's how I knew our run at the top was done, and Lyle and Taman had finished destroying what Dave Ritchie built.

Who do you think taught Taman how to GM? I love Dave Ritchie, but his biggest flaw was his distaste for rookies and the mentality that veterans are always better.

Its kind of surprising and sucks that bauming isn't reporting on rookie camp.

1 minute ago, wbbfan said:

Its kind of surprising and sucks that bauming isn't reporting on rookie camp.

He has no one to pay him to do it.

 

Just now, Jesse said:

He has no one to pay him to do it.

 

Thats a terrible approach to building a brand. Hope he covers tc this year, and hope TC coverage is better this year than the last 20. 

1 minute ago, wbbfan said:

Thats a terrible approach to building a brand. Hope he covers tc this year, and hope TC coverage is better this year than the last 20. 

Not sure what he's up to now.

1290 closed the doors, I'm sure he still wants to make it, but if he has a day job, what do you expect him to do?

Hopefully Bonfire can take off or Sports Talk grows enough to add more talent and shows. 

It was nice to see the parking lot at stadium looking busy this morning. I saw a Bomber walking (limping) down Chancellor East away from the stadium, carrying their cleats and backpack. I couldn't see who it was, with their hoodie up (and their name not on the back) but they were not headed towards the practice field or the entrance to the stadium. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I want to check out first day of practice on Sunday, but not sure it's going to happen?

6 minutes ago, JCon said:

Hopefully Bonfire can take off or Sports Talk grows enough to add more talent and shows. 

It was nice to see the parking lot at stadium looking busy this morning. I saw a Bomber walking (limping) down Chancellor East away from the stadium, carrying their cleats and backpack. I couldn't see who it was, with their hoodie up (and their name not on the back) but they were not headed towards the practice field or the entrance to the stadium. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

DT had tweeted that one of the receivers was on crutches after Day 1 - no names mentioned though and I haven't seen anything else.  Might be hard to keep track of with all the new names here for rookie camp.

1 minute ago, bigg jay said:

DT had tweeted that one of the receivers was on crutches after Day 1 - no names mentioned though and I haven't seen anything else.  Might be hard to keep track of with all the new names here for rookie camp.

https://twitter.com/DTonSC/status/1525122098737422338?s=20&t=MhaYB3fIzwO7_dZp8pQ6rg

2 minutes ago, Jesse said:

https://twitter.com/DTonSC/status/1525122098737422338?s=20&t=MhaYB3fIzwO7_dZp8pQ6rg

I don't know why the imbedded tweets don't work for me.

19 minutes ago, JCon said:

Hopefully Bonfire can take off or Sports Talk grows enough to add more talent and shows. 

It was nice to see the parking lot at stadium looking busy this morning. I saw a Bomber walking (limping) down Chancellor East away from the stadium, carrying their cleats and backpack. I couldn't see who it was, with their hoodie up (and their name not on the back) but they were not headed towards the practice field or the entrance to the stadium. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Did he look wirey?

10 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

Did he look wirey?

I would say, yes. He was definitely long and not wide.  

Probably this guy. 

1 hour ago, Jesse said:

https://twitter.com/DTonSC/status/1525122098737422338?s=20&t=MhaYB3fIzwO7_dZp8pQ6rg

I don't know why the imbedded tweets don't work for me.

If you're on a computer, you need click the three dots (...) in the Tweet and select Embed Tweet. Then, when a new Twitter page opens with the Tweet, scroll up (yes, up!) and copy that code, under where it says, What would you like to embed? 

Paste the code here, hit enter and it should load. 

3 minutes ago, JCon said:

If you're on a computer, you need click the three dots (...) in the Tweet and select Embed Tweet. Then, when a new Twitter page opens with the Tweet, scroll up (yes, up!) and copy that code, under where it says, What would you like to embed? 

Paste the code here, hit enter and it should load. 

 

4 minutes ago, JCon said:

If you're on a computer, you need click the three dots (...) in the Tweet and select Embed Tweet. Then, when a new Twitter page opens with the Tweet, scroll up (yes, up!) and copy that code, under where it says, What would you like to embed? 

Paste the code here, hit enter and it should load. 

It worked!

 

Darrin Bauming tweeted the same, so perhaps he is covering TC.

Draft picks going down like flies.

Edited May 13, 20223 yr by Jesse

Yeah, I was just going to say, whoever was talking about Bauming not being at camp...he's been there all week. One of the few who's tweeted every day from camp......

 

And I believe Ed Tait is on WST today, so for that should be a good listen.

interesting that Hammonds showed up on the suspended list considering we signed him so early before camp.

Would assume it's more of a passport issue thing and less of a "I got cold feet thirty seconds later" type thing but I guess we'll see.

Good to see TC coverage has been as miserable as ever again this year.

1 minute ago, Mike said:

interesting that Hammonds showed up on the suspended list considering we signed him so early before camp.

Would assume it's more of a passport issue thing and less of a "I got cold feet thirty seconds later" type thing but I guess we'll see.

Good to see TC coverage has been as miserable as ever again this year.

*late* before camp. Whoops.

1 minute ago, Mike said:

interesting that Hammonds showed up on the suspended list considering we signed him so early before camp.

Would assume it's more of a passport issue thing and less of a "I got cold feet thirty seconds later" type thing but I guess we'll see.

Good to see TC coverage has been as miserable as ever again this year.

quiet you...I'm gonna get DMs because of this!  Ha ha ha ha. I think the biggest thing is that there just isn't much to talk about during mini camp. Ed's had some nice features and his daily run downs. Hopefully once main camp opens, there'll be more to report on. 

 

2 minutes ago, Noeller said:

quiet you...I'm gonna get DMs because of this!  Ha ha ha ha. I think the biggest thing is that there just isn't much to talk about during mini camp. Ed's had some nice features and his daily run downs. Hopefully once main camp opens, there'll be more to report on. 

I was just baout to say, with such a veteran team, what percentage of these guys practicing today make the roster?

How much resources should media commit to early cuts?

Just now, Noeller said:

quiet you...I'm gonna get DMs because of this!  Ha ha ha ha. I think the biggest thing is that there just isn't much to talk about during mini camp. Ed's had some nice features and his daily run downs. Hopefully once main camp opens, there'll be more to report on. 

It's nothing against Ed whatsoever, he's great. It's just that I remember the days when he didn't work for the club and we used to get a less "measured" report out of him and then we also had DB, Irving and a couple other guys pitching in with their observations while Paul Friesen sat around suntanning and pretending to look deep in thought under his floppy sun hat.

The Bombers reports are definitely more of the "this is what we want you to know about" variety and that's great, but I miss the seasons past when we used to hear about everything under the sun minus the playbook coming from our camp reporters.

Just now, Jesse said:

 

I was just baout to say, with such a veteran team, what percentage of these guys practicing today make the roster?

How much resources should media commit to early cuts?

I'm going to throw out an early prediction and say 9.