Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread

[Booch]

27 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

I have dumped on Schmekel but he was great last game. Thus I withdraw my previous comments.

yup.....same..maybe the demotion behind Korn lit a fire...If he can contribute like that game in and game out then he deserves to be on...He works great in the short yardage both sides of the ball so has purpose there beyond any extra reps he gets on defensive rotation...Thomas does not and is probably our slowest and least impactful guy off the snap....so why even bother

[Tracker]

28 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

I have dumped on Schmekel but he was great last game. Thus I withdraw my previous comments.

You are not the only one who was (pleasantly) surprised by his performance.

[wbbfan]

6 hours ago, Tracker said:

You are not the only one who was (pleasantly) surprised by his performance.

i love seeing a guys hustle and motor pay off. especially a canadian linemen. 

[SpeedFlex27]

21 hours ago, Mark H. said:

In my opinion, that is still to be determined. There were plenty of good catches last week, as well taking hellacious hits to make plays

Ottawa might not have the best secondary, but they do play with aggression

This comment reminded me of a former Blue Bomber Head Coach named Joe Zaleski whose favourire expression was, "We're optimistic!!" every time he was asked if he thought the Bombers were good enough to win their next game. Or, if his next starting qb was good enough to play. He was Head Coach for the Bombers from 1967 thru 69.

He must have repeated that phrase a dozen times over, if not more during his time here.  Maybe Joe felt the more he said it out loud for all to hear that he'd even start to believe it. He finished last in the Western Conference every season & had an overall record of 10-37-1.

The result of Zaleski's optimism? He was fired. Optimism didn't cut it. The lack of results did. You're optimistic, Mark H & God bless you for that. 

My point is, that I don't believe this our receiving corps as a group is good enough to carry us long term. Yeah, it was nice to see Keric Wheatfall make an appearance again with some catches. I just don't think who we have currently are good enough. Walters made sure of that this past off season. 

The key to everything is to get Brady going running he ball. Until Hogan takes his head out of his ass & realizes that, our passing game without Oliveira chewing up enough big plays on the ground & our receiving corps without enough real playmakers is going to suffer. Hogan refuses to commit to the run game & it's hurting everything. 

Edited 1 hour ago by SpeedFlex27

[SpeedFlex27]

23 hours ago, Blue28 said:

Walters did draft Vibert - a centre. Hopefully they use him at some point.

He'll never gt the chance to play Center with Osh here. 

[GCn20]

2 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

He'll never gt the chance to play Center with Osh here. 

Yes, because we have never let young OL get into our starting lineup. I mean c'mon...you guys are laying it on a bit thick. We have swapped out a ton of guys on our OL over the years.