1 mos, the handicapped roster killed us

2 walters for not putting on his big boy pants and fighting the ship 

3 kola, ole! 

crappy honker wj finally makes a play today and facemasks to go from a huge loss into a huge gain for montreal 

block of the game not many good blocks to pick but the illegal pass to wallace was funny 

crunch of the game, zach going full fajardo on the up right 

 

dishonorable mentions, jake, kyrie, jones, secondary, ol, and dl.

Honorable mentions, good enough zach showed up today, brady, wr core over performed for being under talented. 

You can fill in the blanks on Danny Mac but he’s arguably the best example of the old boys club issues going on in this organization.  Everyone who has done 5 minutes of due diligence on him for a job where he’s a face of the organization even up to OC has walked away.  And it’s not totally related to how he understands the CFL.

He’s someone who needs to go here and has for years.  It’s funny for the people claiming others in the org are inept and toxic pushing him as a candidate for a leadership role in the front of a professional organization.

9 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

Begin the thawing of Mike Kelly!!

he’s heading up a spring league now so we are safe.. for now 

crappy honker to that tramp stamp Mobil ad on everyone's jerseys.  bush league.

10 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

Begin the thawing of Mike Kelly!!

He's the Commisioner of the newly created Continental Football League. A developmental league for young players. 

2 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

You can fill in the blanks on Danny Mac but he’s arguably the best example of the old boys club issues going on in this organization.  Everyone who has done 5 minutes of due diligence on him for a job where he’s a face of the organization even up to OC has walked away.  And it’s not totally related to how he understands the CFL.

He’s someone who needs to go here and has for years.  It’s funny for the people claiming others in the org are inept and toxic pushing him as a candidate for a leadership role in the front of a professional organization.

I've always had my doubts about Danny Mac.. He could have been a GM years ago but the story goes that doesn't want to leave his home in Florida permanently. If he puts living in Florida first over running an entire organization, do we really want him running the Bombers? I don't. 

59 minutes ago, do or die said:

Season was fumbled from the GM, on down.  Recruiting and free agency were duds.  The roster we did have was mismanaged, on a weekly basis.  Questionable schemes on both sides of the ball, inconsistent QB play and no major adjustments made all year.

We needed significant changes to coaching and the roster, at the start of the year

Glaringly obvious now..........

 

This is the best I've seen it summarized

Yup on all accounts 

We all agree that Wade knows what he's doing... The best in the league at his job.

Can we just have faith that he knows how best to fix this?

9 minutes ago, johnzo said:

crappy honker to that tramp stamp Mobil ad on everyone's jerseys.  bush league.

hopefully the ad revenue from this helped to offset the lack of a Western Final this year.

21 minutes ago, MrFreakzilla said:

And one back breaking fumble 

Yeah the fumble sucked but that was still what his... 8th touch of the game? If the defense remembers they can't touch a QBs facemask they are still only a touchdown down. Defense can't stay off the field, 36 minutes of offense for Monteral is nuts, Brady can't get any rhythm going... although it looks like they gameplanned him out themselves anyways.

3 minutes ago, Noeller said:

We all agree that Wade knows what he's doing... The best in the league at his job.

Can we just have faith that he knows how best to fix this?

he knows as well as any one in the league how to manage the off the field production. On field? man idk if he does know, or if he has the will to fire his buddies. That can’t be known unless he does it imo. 

At this point, only time will tell. 

 

1 minute ago, wbbfan said:

he knows as well as any one in the league how to manage the off the field production. On field? man idk if he does know, or if he has the will to fire his buddies. That can’t be known unless he does it imo. 

At this point, only time will tell. 

 

Well, Wade can clean house if he wants as everyone's contracts are up so it won't affect the salary cap for coaches & admin. If he doesn't do something this year then he never will. 

1 hour ago, Noeller said:

We all agree that Wade knows what he's doing... The best in the league at his job.

Can we just have faith that he knows how best to fix this?

Why didn't mr. all knowledgeable fix this 4 years ago?

We had 3 DEs that showed more last week than our 2 veterans have all year. Our D line sucked. Could have been the difference.

2 hours ago, voodoochylde said:

Genuinely curious: if we cleaned house this season who do you look at as a potential GM and HC?  

Brendan Taman. I hear you moved on from writing plans on napkins to using looseleaf paper.

15 minutes ago, BBlink said:

We had 3 DEs that showed more last week than our 2 veterans have all year. Our D line sucked. Could have been the difference.

No doubt the braintrust has put them on the practice roster & will now be free agents. I mean, we got Thomas, right? With Jake, don't need anyone. He's a starter. 

3 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

No doubt the braintrust has put them on the practice roster & will now be free agents. I mean, we got Thomas, right? With Jake, don't need anyone. He's a starter. 

https://www.bluebombers.com/roster/

1 hour ago, Noeller said:

We all agree that Wade knows what he's doing... The best in the league at his job.

Can we just have faith that he knows how best to fix this?

He's part of the decision making group that has put a really bad product on the field and lost 3 straight championships. I'm not overly pumped. 

1 hour ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

McManus would be all time dysfunctional organization.  Think of what the job of GM is.  He’s not even good at the personnel part.

Why hasn’t he got hired?  The pool isn’t deep and he’s been in the shallow end for 15 years.

Took Goveia a million years before Hamilton finally gave him a shot.  Might not be a deep pool but it's also not like there are a lot of jobs and teams like to recycle (ex Hervey or Maciocia).

1 hour ago, CodyT said:

This is the best I've seen it summarized

Yup on all accounts 

I think part of it has to do with O’Shea and the old boys club. Look at the few free agents we did sign in Jones and Mitchell. Both couldn’t sniff the field. Think teams entering free agency want to come here? Who knows if they will even get a chance to see the field. When it comes to young talent entering the league would they rather go to a place like Winnipeg, or a place like BC, Montreal, Toronto, etc where as long as you have talent you have a chance to make the team and are put in a position to show case talent. I think we’re suffering a lot because of O’sheas stubbornness with his roster management. 

16 minutes ago, Arnold_Palmer said:

I think part of it has to do with O’Shea and the old boys club. Look at the few free agents we did sign in Jones and Mitchell. Both couldn’t sniff the field. Think teams entering free agency want to come here? Who knows if they will even get a chance to see the field. When it comes to young talent entering the league would they rather go to a place like Winnipeg, or a place like BC, Montreal, Toronto, etc where as long as you have talent you have a chance to make the team and are put in a position to show case talent. I think we’re suffering a lot because of O’sheas stubbornness with his roster management. 

Once you get out of the top 10 of free agent rankings from the past couple seasons it's littered with guys who have been benched and cut.  You can search up cfl.ca or 3 Down if you want to audit.

Free agency isn't a way to build a team.  The Bombers have had massive turnover since the 22 Grey Cup, each year since.  It's honestly part of the reason why they are less competitive.  They haven't back filled with young players who are developing into solid pros.  Rookies have had tons of opportunity here.  Some have taken it, some aren't good players at this level.  But we focus on the whipping boys who have been here for awhile.  Yes they've had a hard time telling everyone their time is up.  Like to me Neufeld and Bryant should have been gone after 23.  Jefferson I wouldn't have brought back this season.

I'm not sure who you guys think is being blocked here.  Like where's the all-star team of guys who haven't made it here in the past 3-4 years and are tearing up the CFL or NFL...even UFL.

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36 minutes ago, bigg jay said:

Took Goveia a million years before Hamilton finally gave him a shot.  Might not be a deep pool but it's also not like there are a lot of jobs and teams like to recycle (ex Hervey or Maciocia).

Danny mac has only interviewed for 1 or 2 gm jobs. Because of his limited part time up north status. but out of last years interview for the hamilton job he’s supposed to be willing to come up full time for a job and be more open to it than in the past.

 Previously he’s been  very happy to work out of his home and in his region, which i can’t blame him for. 

3 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

Danny mac has only interviewed for 1 or 2 gm jobs. Because of his limited part time up north status. but out of last years interview for the hamilton job he’s supposed to be willing to come up full time for a job and be more open to it than in the past.

 Previously he’s been  very happy to work out of his home and in his region, which i can’t blame him for. 

I know you know that doesn't cut it as a fulltime GM. Danny has to be willing to move if he wants to be in charge. He can't do it from 2500 miles away.

best case imo, is Dinwiddie as hc and co gm, with Archambault or laverne as gm/senior director of player personnel. 

If you get that, I think you get them coming in to work with jy, Costello and DC.  Out side of that, you let them run who they want. If they want some of our current guys that’s fine. If they clean house, that’s fine too. 

1 minute ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

I know you know that doesn't cut it as a fulltime GM. Danny has to be willing to move if he wants to be in charge. He can't do it from 2500 miles away.

yeah, what im saying is he hasn’t been willing to do that before. which is why he’s interviewed for only one job, twice over his years here. He’s liked his gig. But from what he said, he was willing to change that for the hamilton job, and would change it if needed here. 

11 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

Danny mac has only interviewed for 1 or 2 gm jobs. Because of his limited part time up north status. but out of last years interview for the hamilton job he’s supposed to be willing to come up full time for a job and be more open to it than in the past.

 Previously he’s been  very happy to work out of his home and in his region, which i can’t blame him for. 

Yup he's been clear that he's willing to move but it has to be the right situation. In 2019 Montreal was interested in him but he pulled himself from the running.  He did an interview in 2021 where he talked about it.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2021/12/08/for-mcmanus-its-all-about-winning

"For McManus to take the plunge, pack up his things in Florida and move up north full time to fill the void for an organization, it would only be for a place that shares the same values as him.

“They got to be committed to winning and not committed to just putting a decent product on the field. Winning is the most important thing. All these guys out here that are in between the white lines, all they care about is winning. When I was a player, that’s all I cared about: winning,” said McManus.

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4 minutes ago, bigg jay said:

Yup he's been clear that he's willing to move but it has to be the right situation. In 2019 Montreal was interested in him but he pulled himself from the running.  He did an interview in 2021 where he talked about it.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2021/12/08/for-mcmanus-its-all-about-winning

"For McManus to take the plunge, pack up his things in Florida and move up north full time to fill the void for an organization, it would only be for a place that shares the same values as him.

“They got to be committed to winning and not committed to just putting a decent product on the field. Winning is the most important thing. All these guys out here that are in between the white lines, all they care about is winning. When I was a player, that’s all I cared about: winning,” said McManus.

That’s right montreal, thanks for digging it up. He talked about it a bit this summer too after the hamilton interview, before ted got it. I think it was the youtube show for the bombers he talked about it in more depth. 

We have some solid agms, but I don’t think the rest are even fringe candidates on a good team today. Danny is it, and that would be pretty sub optimal. I think that only happens if walter’s takes another job but mos is retained. 

1 hour ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

https://www.bluebombers.com/roster/

Yea well can't let the truth get in the way of a good rant! Put em all on the practice roster!

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