Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread

[wbbfan]

1 hour ago, GCn20 said:

Jonathan Jones sucked when we did play him and was reportedly no better in the dressing room. I get you wanna defend him because you really built him up as our next Bighill...but the reality is he was a swing and a miss by Walters not MOS.

We got enuff reasons to not shed a tear if MOS leaves but JJ isn't one of them. Our biggest mistake was keeping him around too long when he became a cancer

He didn’t play D, he got in on teams. Didn’t build him up into any one. Doesn’t play any thing like biggie and never said he did or that he would be biggie.
Can’t not play a guy and say he’s a miss. 

Also, I said one of many cases.

Got a link to any thing saying he was a cancer? 

33 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

Where's the report JJ was a cancer 

I’m betting the source will be “trust me bro” 

[ShyGuy]

I'm guessing O'Shea sees the writing on the wall a little bit and has to realize he is on fairly tenuous ground. By all accounts, he seems to really like being here and this is something that he has built over the better part of a decade. I'm guessing he uses the leverage of having the Argos sniffing around to have a bit more stability than the usual 1 year open contract he seems to have favoured the last little bit. Will re-up in the next couple days for 3 years... maybe with some more formal GM duties... maybe Walters is completely gone, maybe he moves up the hierarchy a bit and is less hands on in the GM side of things. The way the roster is currently constructed their almost has to be a fairly significant shake up... multi year gives him at least 2 seasons presumably to get something going again, if he were to come back on a 1-year deal and miss the playoffs... or even be in the cross-over again, that would probably be the end of his time here.

[Noeller]

6 minutes ago, ShyGuy said:

I'm guessing O'Shea sees the writing on the wall a little bit and has to realize he is on fairly tenuous ground. By all accounts, he seems to really like being here and this is something that he has built over the better part of a decade. I'm guessing he uses the leverage of having the Argos sniffing around to have a bit more stability than the usual 1 year open contract he seems to have favoured the last little bit. Will re-up in the next couple days for 3 years... maybe with some more formal GM duties... maybe Walters is completely gone, maybe he moves up the hierarchy a bit and is less hands on in the GM side of things. The way the roster is currently constructed their almost has to be a fairly significant shake up... multi year gives him at least 2 seasons presumably to get something going again, if he were to come back on a 1-year deal and miss the playoffs... or even be in the cross-over again, that would probably be the end of his time here.

What in Christ's good name are you talking about? Writing on the wall? 1 year contracts? He's never signed less than a 3 year deal....

[ShyGuy]

18 minutes ago, Noeller said:

What in Christ's good name are you talking about? Writing on the wall? 1 year contracts? He's never signed less than a 3 year deal....

Apparently I need more sleep and better reading comprehension

I was remember this article from last year https://3downnation.com/2024/11/26/kyle-walters-mike-oshea-unlikely-to-sign-long-term-extensions-with-winnipeg-blue-bombers-this-off-season/

and snippets such as "as of now, Walters expects to work next year without a long-term contract in place, while O’Shea said last week that he hasn’t “put one ounce of thought” into his contract status", and "O’Shea has always waited for his previous contract to expire before signing the next one, though this is highly unusual." and quotes from even before that like https://www.sportsnet.ca/cfl/article/blue-bombers-coach-mike-oshea-unfazed-about-being-in-final-year-of-contract/ "``If you look at the history, I always play out my contracts and figure it out at the end of the year,'' O'Shea told reporters. ``I don't spend a lot of time thinking about it, to tell you the truth.''" have swirled and combined in my head in the past year and formed into "Walters and O'Shea have operated on rolling 1-year contracts" so yeah, I'm the idiot.

So my idea of... O'Shea operating on a one-year contract and if the Bombers tank in 2026 doesn't really make a lick of sense

[Goalie]

Like I said I hope we know preferably by grey cup game the latest cuz yeah, just something that needs to be figured out fast.