Bombers at TiCats early chat

[wbbfan]

13 minutes ago, Booch said:

Look at top 3 teams...winning record teams

Rotate 7 to 9 guys up front...90 % American...all can play...dominate

Look at Superbowl and how why Philly dominated

Our 2 cup wins...T.O schooling us...all in common...legit front loaded import dlines...Not a coincidence 

Look our 3 losses...and our season to date...osh still can't figure it out

we are rolling 6 dl with 3 canadians. every other team is rolling 8+ with 6 or more imps, except for one team with a very good canadian pass rusher. 

We are the only team under rostering dl, and filling half the spots with fringe roster guys. 

28 minutes ago, Booch said:

He doesn't get it...don't waste your breath 

Probably?? U just confirmed you are bordering on clueless 

truth. a couple people on here are soo lost in cognitive dissonance from their unwavering faith in the mafia doing no wrong and the fact we have been at best a fringe play off team for two years, outside of the insanely flukey stretch streak last year. 

 

[17to85]

18 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

we are rolling 6 dl with 3 canadians. every other team is rolling 8+ with 6 or more imps, except for one team with a very good canadian pass rusher. 

And most of our guys are way on the wrong side of 30 too.

[Mark H.]

2 hours ago, 17to85 said:

And most of our guys are way on the wrong side of 30 too.

This wouldn't matter so much if they had more support and rotation.

[bb1]

2 hours ago, wbbfan said:

we are rolling 6 dl with 3 canadians. every other team is rolling 8+ with 6 or more imps, except for one team with a very good canadian pass rusher. 

We are the only team under rostering dl, and filling half the spots with fringe roster guys. 

truth. a couple people on here are soo lost in cognitive dissonance from their unwavering faith in the mafia doing no wrong and the fact we have been at best a fringe play off team for two years, outside of the insanely flukey stretch streak last year. 

 

No...just no. MOS believes his way( focus on special teams) 9 Cdn because of the flexibility if one gets hurt...that's what he believes..is it right with the talent level we have with CDN players? I will leave that up to a professional coach who has brought us 2 cups and to how many Grey cup games?  I don't always say he is right but i believe he has the right for at least one season to show us he ain't wrong, despite what informed posters on here say...i want the Blue to win as much as anyone but to suggest MOS can't coach or assess talent...would you guys say Dickenson couldn't coach the last 2 years before this one? 

[SpeedFlex27]

Can someone summarize the story in today's Free Press as to why Ken Lawler left the Bombers? There's a paywall so I can't read the story. 

[JohnnyAbonny]

8 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Can someone summarize the story in today's Free Press as to why Ken Lawler left the Bombers? There's a paywall so I can't read the story. 

It’s a pretty long article but it basically says he felt disrespected by Bomber management. 

“For the star receiver, it boiled down to one main thing: disrespect.

“Y’all signed Dillon Mitchell before me. Who wouldn’t (feel disrespected)?” Lawler shared with the Free Press on Thursday in a one-on-one chat inside Hamilton Stadium.”

…

Now a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Lawler said he didn’t receive a contract offer from the Bombers until a day before free agency opened at the start of February. His agent only had two brief conversations with Winnipeg, where the club was more focused on gauging the market value for a receiver of his calibre.

For Lawler, there was a more personal issue that needed to be addressed.

The two-time division all-star from Pomona, Calif. — who moved his family up to Winnipeg — had been doing some work on the side helping the city’s grassroots football scene before running into a roadblock.

“It’s not that (the Bombers) didn’t want me to do it — they wanted me to do it under them. They closed my work permit,” Lawler explained.

“I have my own business where I go and run camps and I was starting to do that and was getting momentum and when I had to get my work permit closed it was like, ‘hmm, why is this happening?’ You know what I want to do, I live here in Winnipeg, the full year, and if I am going to be taking a pay cut, which I was doing when I was in Winnipeg the whole time, I’m going to need something else to be able to supplement that. It’s not that I need it, it’s that I want to be able to start it so when I’m done with football I can still live where I’m at and transition right into something else and someone wasn’t seeing that.”

When asked who, specifically, wasn’t on board, Lawler responded with: “I think that’s a question you might have to ask them. And it probably wouldn’t be to anyone that you could probably get an (interview from).”

 

[SpeedFlex27]

22 minutes ago, JohnnyAbonny said:

It’s a pretty long article but it basically says he felt disrespected by Bomber management. 

“For the star receiver, it boiled down to one main thing: disrespect.

“Y’all signed Dillon Mitchell before me. Who wouldn’t (feel disrespected)?” Lawler shared with the Free Press on Thursday in a one-on-one chat inside Hamilton Stadium.”

…

 

Now a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Lawler said he didn’t receive a contract offer from the Bombers until a day before free agency opened at the start of February. His agent only had two brief conversations with Winnipeg, where the club was more focused on gauging the market value for a receiver of his calibre.

For Lawler, there was a more personal issue that needed to be addressed.

The two-time division all-star from Pomona, Calif. — who moved his family up to Winnipeg — had been doing some work on the side helping the city’s grassroots football scene before running into a roadblock.

“It’s not that (the Bombers) didn’t want me to do it — they wanted me to do it under them. They closed my work permit,” Lawler explained.

“I have my own business where I go and run camps and I was starting to do that and was getting momentum and when I had to get my work permit closed it was like, ‘hmm, why is this happening?’ You know what I want to do, I live here in Winnipeg, the full year, and if I am going to be taking a pay cut, which I was doing when I was in Winnipeg the whole time, I’m going to need something else to be able to supplement that. It’s not that I need it, it’s that I want to be able to start it so when I’m done with football I can still live where I’m at and transition right into something else and someone wasn’t seeing that.”

When asked who, specifically, wasn’t on board, Lawler responded with: “I think that’s a question you might have to ask them. And it probably wouldn’t be to anyone that you could probably get an (interview from).”

 

There's a definite pattern here as Lawler isn't the first player at free agency to feel that way.

Edited 2 hours ago by SpeedFlex27

[SpeedFlex27]

Thanks for the article, Johnny Abony. 

[Deiter Fan]

13 hours ago, Booch said:

And the "yeah but" crowd just kept ya buttin'

At a time like this I'm reminded of the many times the team won a close game and you or someone else pointed out flaws and people would chastise you/them for not just being happy with the win and how "good teams find ways to win close games"...when...in point of fact...good teams are constantly analyzing, adjusting, critiquing and improving so there aren't so many close games.

Edited 1 hour ago by Deiter Fan