First practice of the regular season is today. Out with the old and in with the new. Time to get it started.

 

1 hour ago, Booch said:

Every one those coaches....you earned the spot, but also had to maintain it.....Ritchie in his later yrs had a fondness for some his vets, but at the least some them still could play....

Richie absolutely kept too many vets long term. But the talent that those teams had on offense...we can only dream about that now.

Ray Jauch was cut throat. He never hesitated to cut a veteran if he felt he could bring in somebody better. I remember when he traded popular  Winnipeggers Gord Patterson & Leo Ezerins to Hamilton in 1980. The fans were not happy. 

6 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Ray Jauch was cut throat. He never hesitated to cut a veteran if he felt he could bring in somebody better. I remember when he traded popular  Winnipeggers Gord Patterson & Leo Ezerins to Hamilton in 1980. The fans were not happy. 

100 percent...totally forgot about him....and yeah u didnt cut it...you were outta town in short order

9 hours ago, Mark H. said:

Richie absolutely kept too many vets long term. But the talent that those teams had on offense...we can only dream about that now.

2002-Khari throwing to Milt, Bruce and Gordon with a Roberts/Sellers RB tandem. So much fun to watch.

Everyone in here talking about old-time football. WTF was going on in 1975.

From the game notes for tomrorow

Winning With 3 Completions: The Blue Bombers won last week despite having just 3 completed passes on 8 attempts for 54 yards and a 9.4 Rating. The last club to win a game with 3 or fewer completed passes came on September 24, 1975. That day Winnipeg was again involved when they were just 2-of-11 for 62 yards and yet defeated Hamilton 34-32. With Chuck Ealey at QB, Winnipeg rushed 54 times for 349 yards that day. Of Note: Hamilton went 3-for-12 in a 1974 game and won 11-10 over Ottawa.

8 Pass Attempts: Last week Winnipeg attempted just 8 passes for 54 yards and a 9.4 Rating. The last time that ANY CFL club tried as few as 8 pass attempts was by Winnipeg themselves on August 26, 1975 vs Calgary. That day behind QB Chuck Ealey they tried 8 passes completing 4 for 99 yards in a 25-22 win. That day they ran the ball 39 times for 237 yards.

https://3downnation.com/2025/09/26/cfl-fans-start-petition-to-delay-rule-changes-call-for-two-week-blackout/

Don’t usually expect much from these type of petitions but it won’t hurt 

4 hours ago, ShyGuy said:

Everyone in here talking about old-time football. WTF was going on in 1975.

From the game notes for tomrorow

Winning With 3 Completions: The Blue Bombers won last week despite having just 3 completed passes on 8 attempts for 54 yards and a 9.4 Rating. The last club to win a game with 3 or fewer completed passes came on September 24, 1975. That day Winnipeg was again involved when they were just 2-of-11 for 62 yards and yet defeated Hamilton 34-32. With Chuck Ealey at QB, Winnipeg rushed 54 times for 349 yards that day. Of Note: Hamilton went 3-for-12 in a 1974 game and won 11-10 over Ottawa.

8 Pass Attempts: Last week Winnipeg attempted just 8 passes for 54 yards and a 9.4 Rating. The last time that ANY CFL club tried as few as 8 pass attempts was by Winnipeg themselves on August 26, 1975 vs Calgary. That day behind QB Chuck Ealey they tried 8 passes completing 4 for 99 yards in a 25-22 win. That day they ran the ball 39 times for 237 yards.

Lesson here is, when the Bombers throw less than 10 times they have a perfect record.

2 hours ago, wbbfan said:

https://3downnation.com/2025/09/26/cfl-fans-start-petition-to-delay-rule-changes-call-for-two-week-blackout/

Don’t usually expect much from these type of petitions but it won’t hurt 

....yeah the older fans getting a little upset...Change is constant BUT the league forgot the CFL is steeped in a traditional past and present.... that's going to be hard to skate around 

15 hours ago, ShyGuy said:

Everyone in here talking about old-time football. WTF was going on in 1975.

From the game notes for tomrorow

Winning With 3 Completions: The Blue Bombers won last week despite having just 3 completed passes on 8 attempts for 54 yards and a 9.4 Rating. The last club to win a game with 3 or fewer completed passes came on September 24, 1975. That day Winnipeg was again involved when they were just 2-of-11 for 62 yards and yet defeated Hamilton 34-32. With Chuck Ealey at QB, Winnipeg rushed 54 times for 349 yards that day. Of Note: Hamilton went 3-for-12 in a 1974 game and won 11-10 over Ottawa.

8 Pass Attempts: Last week Winnipeg attempted just 8 passes for 54 yards and a 9.4 Rating. The last time that ANY CFL club tried as few as 8 pass attempts was by Winnipeg themselves on August 26, 1975 vs Calgary. That day behind QB Chuck Ealey they tried 8 passes completing 4 for 99 yards in a 25-22 win. That day they ran the ball 39 times for 237 yards.

I remember that game. That was Ealey's last game as Bomber QB. He was traded to the Argos & the Dieter Brock era began. 

 

 

https://www.cfl.ca/2025/09/29/kpmg-playoff-probability-which-team-is-the-grey-cup-favourite/

 

Bombers favoured to win the cup in this model for some reason. Also better than even chance to host a playoff game. Looks like they expect Calgary to be the cross over team 

29 minutes ago, WinnipegGordo said:

 

 

Likely wanted to be freed from here and said no more..he won't be teamless long

1 minute ago, Booch said:

Likely wanted to be freed from here and said no more..he won't be teamless long

See who signs him for the stretch run

10 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

See who signs him for the stretch run

My guess would be Hamilton.  They just released a linebacker.

What a waste

38 minutes ago, Booch said:

Likely wanted to be freed from here and said no more..he won't be teamless long

Just pisses me off. 

On 2025-09-26 at 11:35 PM, SpeedFlex27 said:

I remember that game. That was Ealey's last game as Bomber QB. He was traded to the Argos & the Dieter Brock era began. 

Yeah hard to imagine Dieter only passing 8 times in a game lol...

1 hour ago, Booch said:

Likely wanted to be freed from here and said no more..he won't be teamless long

so sad, such a complete waste free agency was. I believe we brought in some talent, but just wasted it. wtf do you even bring in Jjones when you have tjones/kyrie and won’t play him if either stays healthy? We have ayers and the canadians too. Even Woodbey, who could play wil mac or all the db spots. 

More teams are going towards canadian lbers and tweeners at lbers and it’s becoming a less and less critical position. That said, I think Woodbey is exactly what teams should be looking for at one of the two lber spots especially at mac. Just like how biggie gave our Ds soo much versatility being able to pick guys up and carry deep. He’d be great at sam, or as a full time Wil. 
If, we don’t waste him. 

Meh he was good in Toronto, lost his job there, couldn’t crack a spot here, it’s not like there wasn’t an opportunity here to some degree because Younger likes using several linebackers in his schemes.  Woodbrey who started lower on the pecking order surpassed Jones over time and just had an outstanding game. 

Unfortunate about Jones but with Woodbey Shay smith and the starters I’m not sure I see the spot for him. Linebackers have been good. 

I’m just irritated with yet another terrible handling of free agency dollars.

Sign a guy to decent money, healthy scratch (aka pay him against the cap to do nothing) and then move him to the PR where we definitely also still paid his full salary and then cut him for the playoff run.

What the hell was the overall plan for this guy?

49 minutes ago, Mike said:

What the hell was the overall plan for this guy?

My concern is what the hell did the gm and coach talk about going into the offseason? Guys we drafted get no defensive snaps either. Just bizarre what's happening

3 hours ago, kelownabomberfan said:

Yeah hard to imagine Dieter only passing 8 times in a game lol...

Same for Zach. The play by play announcer for the Ti Cats back in 1972-75  is a member of my Facebook page CFL History. Ealey was a very good passer until he came to Winnipeg.

He told me that Ealey suffered a shoulder/arm injury in 1973 before he was traded to the Bombers. The Ti Cats kept it a secret so when the Bombers traded Don Jonas for Ealey they never knew of the injury. It took him over 2 years to recover so he was just about healed up when he was traded to Toronto a year later. It would explain why Ealey played so badly as a Blue Bomber.

You'd think the Bombers would have done a physical so I don't know why Ealey's injury was never discovered. Then again, the GM at the time Earl Lunsford was so upset with Jonas criticizing him in the media at the time. I think Lunsford would never have voided that trade & just didn't care.  Out of spite Lunsford wanted him out of Winnipeg.

Edited September 30, 2025Sep 30 by SpeedFlex27

5 hours ago, Booch said:

Likely wanted to be freed from here and said no more..he won't be teamless long

If we keep Walters expect another useless off season of non signings & defections. Not much of a risk to trade for Mauldin. He'd have helped us for a playoff run. We could have had the guy for a fourth rounder. Now we lose Jones. Walters has to go. 

Edited September 30, 2025Sep 30 by SpeedFlex27

3 hours ago, Arnold_Palmer said:

Meh he was good in Toronto, lost his job there, couldn’t crack a spot here, it’s not like there wasn’t an opportunity here to some degree because Younger likes using several linebackers in his schemes.  Woodbrey who started lower on the pecking order surpassed Jones over time and just had an outstanding game. 

Wynton mcmanis lol, and when he was healthy he stole half his reps. Their other lber was pickett, aka the two best lbers in the cfl in the last 5+ years. and Jjones took reps and starts from them. Woodbey isn’t being used like jones and didn’t pass him on the depth chart. woodbey is being used as a db. He could be used as a wil like that but isn’t. 

Does any one think that Tony jones or kyrie would steal reps/starts from mcmannis or pickett on any other team in the league? 

Edited September 30, 2025Sep 30 by wbbfan