Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread

[wbbfan]

1 hour ago, Pete said:

so who would you have chosen as allstar lb instead ? In the east Mcmanis didn't  play enough. In edm Morgan and ANderson were hurt. And as for research  looked at CFL stats, Given whos voting thats gonna be one of the criteria they use to vote .Maybe we'll get a better idea when the players select the allstars.

Thurman seems the most consistent mlb but hes not great at making big plays either.  None of the mlb's are in the class of outside lbs Pickett and Beverette.. 

You pretty much nailed it with the last sentence. Reality of the league is, we don’t have impact players at mac. 

 For me, I’d rather take a guy who was injured but dominant. Like kyrie in his best years. After that, I’d pick a hands up pass rusher, extra end or extra db especially at sam. A better than average sam does far more to help his team than a top mac right now. 

I knew they’d fall into the trap of picking Jones. I was only surprised we didn’t front him for modp. 

 

The guy in the west I would pick if i had to pick one, would actually be aj allen (riders, I know ew) he was the best in the division, while thurman is a big padded tackles guy (and the best of the padders) allen was exceptional at getting back in coverage and has tremendous football iq. 

In the east and very similar in game to allen is Darkangelo. 

The guys like that, and kyrie (in his prime) weren’t running around like bighill and soli making the flash plays. They excel by playing much larger areas than the box. 

It’s exceptionally hard to be a true side line to side line player in the cfl. Border line impossible. But the guys who play one has to opposite side line (kyrie,) and/or from the gaps back into the secondary (biggie) are the real stand outs. 

 

[wbbfan]

Also, the 4 leading rushers are in the west, including brady leading yards from the los. So arguably the best backs in the league don’t make the list, but all the 1k wrs save for one makes it. 
 

The all star list/system is dumb. It should be first and second team all cfl, With flexibility for positions to make sure you represent the best talent not just positions. 

 

[Tracker]

4 hours ago, Pete said:

not sure what your issue is with Jones. He has the second most tackles in the league and ahead of the next bomber by  a mile.

The bomber d is in the top 3 against the rush as well. He's also 2nd in the league in total defensive plays 

His tackles are almost always 10 yards behind the line.

[WinnipegGordo]

1 hour ago, wbbfan said:

Also, the 4 leading rushers are in the west, including brady leading yards from the los. So arguably the best backs in the league don’t make the list, but all the 1k wrs save for one makes it. 
 

The all star list/system is dumb. It should be first and second team all cfl, With flexibility for positions to make sure you represent the best talent not just positions. 

 

Also, in the 2017 the CFL switched from having 2 runningbacks as division allstars and added a 5th receiver.

[wbbfan]

16 minutes ago, WinnipegGordo said:

Also, in the 2017 the CFL switched from having 2 runningbacks as division allstars and added a 5th receiver.

it makes sense to do that when you have a bunch of wrs and few rbs who deserve it. 

[rebusrankin]

Can we agree Milligan didn't deserve to make the team?

[17to85]

 Brady disrespected

[Goalie]

They obviously need to change who votes for this or make it public cuz sometimes makes no sense 

[SpeedFlex27]

14 hours ago, bigg jay said:

Oh STFU.  Quit taking one little thing, completely misreading it and blowing it into something it's not.

Show me where I'm defending him.  All I said was it's normal for Walters (not every GM), this is his track record and has been for a while.  That's not being an apologist or being critical as I didn't give an opinion one way or another on his approach. FWIW, I would prefer if he was more visible and I'm definitely not satisfied with the work that was put in this year (from him or MOS).

You said it, I didn't... The guy has been a virtual ghost all season. 

11 hours ago, WinnipegGordo said:

 

 

Brady with the tip of the hat to his OC Hogan, "Thanks for nuthin', Coach". 

Edited 12 minutes ago by SpeedFlex27