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O'shea has taken his fair share of criticisms over the years but it's undeniable that he's been instrumental in turning around the state and reputation of this franchise. We were the absolute laughingstock of the league and slowly but surely Walters and O'shea have turned the Bombers into one of the premiere destinations in the league and year in-year out contenders. I have no doubt that O'shea will win a grey cup as a head coach at some point. What I'm glad to see is that he didn't "learn" to do the job here and move on to Toronto to lead them. I'm 100% on board with O'shea's extension.

Community owned team - it's all our fault

Quarterback Chris Vargas dressed for 23 games as a Bomber in 1997-98. His career Bomber stats are 415 pass attempts & 213 completions for 2,798 yards & 16 touchdowns with a completion percentage of 51.8% & 22 interceptions. His best year was 1997 when he threw for 2,618 yards & 15 touchdowns.

Once a dictator, always a dictator. Look at the admins at riderfans.com. Perfect example of the above.

Only took just over 100 post before some claimed Dickenson>Lapo And that the clear consensus is that they wanted Dickenson the whole time.

Speak for yourself.

That was the first season of TNG when Picard was a old grouch who didn't like anything. They mellowed him in subsequent seasons or that series wouldn't have lasted very long with a captain pissed off at everything & everyone.

Bothered all the way to the bank perhaps. 3 years guaranteed money and all the built in excuses for failure that he could ask for.

basically a default hire as all other avenues withered up...and who's to kow how many people may have been approached and said no thanks....either way...i think both he and Macadoo should be a bit bothered by this as being overlooked originally and are only a hire of convenience

No coach should have a job for life unless he's Vince Lombardi or Bud Grant.

MOS has a job for life, as far as I'm concerned. The winning will come...he's doing all the right things so far. Really hope they lock him up long term.

I would have cut Dressler before Randle...

Stamps showed you can win with your backup receivers - so long as your QB consistently steps up and doesn't fold.

Jim Ausley had 4 GC wins in 4 tries & was part of the greatest era in Blue Bomber history. Murphy had success as well as GM but nothing like that.

A direct quote from RF.com "Given the "new" CFL timing standard for promoting other teams assistants it's quite obvious it's too late for a new OC this year especially as there's likely no one sufficiently qualified for that role on Rider staff now. IMHO, Mcadoo gets the year at least." Funny how 2 days ago it's easy to just give up your OC to another team and find a new one. Happens all the time. Now it's too late to find one? And this isnt the only person saying this.

The voting is closed for defensive tackle, and to no one's surprise Doug Brown is an all-timer, but very impressively, so is Stan Mikawos, with a clear-cut victory, over 3rd place, showing that steady excellence over a long period is valued as much as big flashy numbers. The defence is now set, and I have the coach and GM nominees up for voting this week. We will next consider the special teams, starting with the kicker and punter (where discussion has already commenced in other threads). Punter will be a short list (and even shorter voting argument, I'm sure) with Cameron and Ryan in just so we don't have an acclimation. Kicker has a couple of obvious choices in Kennerd and Westwood, but I'm prepared to add Medlock given his accuracy percentage. Any others?

And don’t forget that the earth is flat.

I think Chamblin wanted his coaches back something like a month earlier & Dickenson said no. So, he was fired & went to Edmonton where Chris Jones had just been hired. That was Chamblin's final year as Riders HC. He became dictatorial & eventually lost the locker room. Hopefully, he learned a huge lesson out of all that & will treat his assistants & players in Toronto a lot better.

Kendall Coyne-Schofield was stupid fast. Maybe the most exciting thing that's ever happened in the skills competition.

You're remembering it wrong. Chamberlin broke the terms of the contract and dickenson was well within his rights to fight back. Dickenson is a genius.

You forgot to blame da Suzuki man.

Joe Critchlow 1970's game worn helmet:

Joe Fleming

This is patently false. Saskatchewan does not have weasels... or porch lights for that matter.

Ryan played only a few seasons in Winnipeg. Cameron punted for over 15 years. I have to agree with 17to85 here. Cameron was the best.

i like that they signed him for 3 yrs

@AJonSports Hearing the REDBLACKS are about to sign DB Chris Randle. Spent the last 5 seasons in Winnipeg. CFL All-Star in 2017. #CFL #RNation

Debbie Downer.

Or I can continue living life in the real world and live in a place where gender pay gap does not exist... feel free to share JCon of your workplace and how they pay men more then ladies. That I would be interested in.

Craig Dickenson has been around a long time... I think he'll do pretty well as HC

FIFY. Edits in italics mine to reflect reality.

The pay gap doesn't exist... every paper I read has said that men gravitate towards jobs that pay more, while ladies tend to gravitate to jobs that don't pay as much. Human nature that men are more into the math and science while the ladies are more into administrative and health care jobs. It's human nature that women are more likely wanting to take maternity leave then the father , this is a massive factor when they claim "pay gap differentials". You can't say that scientifically Men and Women are build the same, so of course the end results of who makes more won't be equal 50/50. I myself have never seen two people doing the exact same job where one gender was paid more then another. I'd love to see real world examples of someone working at Wal-Mart making 15 dollars because they were a male , meanwhile a female was given only 10 dollars in pay because she was a female. Nobody ever gives these kinds of examples because in North America this does not exist at all. The old their is 85% of CEO's being male bla bla bla... I don't buy any of that crap. As I said before private enterprise companies will hire whoever can make them the most money. More men are qualified for upper level management because scientifically men are build to be better leaders. I definitely can agree with Kelowna because I've never worked anywhere or seen anywhere where a man was paid more because of his gender. Studies are bull **** and you can find a study backing anything you want.

I’m with you. I’m barely hanging on as LaPolice as OC. He has brilliant ideas as an Offensive guru, but he reminds me of a person swimming in a lake, he likes to go wading in the water, to get the feel, but he never goes all in.

i think if it comes down to being outbid on both..we will go all in on one and roll with Gray/Couture (who-ever wins out) in camp and I'd be fine with that...that extra money that a national lineman would cost us would go a looong way in resigning JSK and bringing in a Posey or Derel Walker

The Bombers are developing their backup QB in a refreshingly innovative way. They obviously have a number of "Streveler" packages that include pass/run options primarily centered around intermediate to short gains (less than 20 yards). Last year they consistently inserted him into the game when the stakes were real "the game was obviously still in contention" to play those Streveler packages. It's WAY more consequential playtime than any backup I've ever seen get outside of injury to a starter. Allows him to build confidence in a more natural way while simultaneously providing additional offensive depth to the Bombers attack.

They didn't want Lapo anyway!!!

Shayne Gauthier re-ups this morning, as per Twitter....

What seems to be lost on the Rider fans, and even some Bomber fans, is that Paul Lapo wanted, received, and agreed to an extra year on his contract. No one put a gun to his head. 2 year contracts are now the norm for coordinators. Why? Because they wanted multiple years of GUARANTEED salary in exchange for their signature. Lapo could have gone year to year on his contract if he wanted the freedom to leave whenever a job came up...but he didn't. He took a two year extension because that would guarantee his salary beyond one year. I hardly think it's fair for coaches/GMs to sign multi-year deals for GUARANTEED money and then cry foul when they are actually asked to honor them. We would honor the contractual payment if we had decided to move on from Lapo. If the coaches around the league truly want their freedom to move, it's quite simple, give up the GUARANTEED contract as a sign of good faith.

All joking aside, the Riders faithful are upset at the situation but the blame should solely rest on two men Chris Jones and Reynolds. In 2015 these two men engaged in back room negotiations during the season in order to completely blindside a divisional rival. This stunk so badly the CFL had to create new rules to make sure it didn't happen again. For the first time in CFL history other teams now needed league approved consent to hire a coach away from another team. Rider fans cackled with glee at how they screwed over the Evil Empire. 3 years later the man who tampered with Jones got a heavy dose of karma by trusting him. Gone was the savior because Reynolds was too stupid to get a cutoff date on Jones NFL out clause. Now faced with needing to poach another coach got an even bigger dose of karma when the rule created because of his cheating bit him in the nads. Rider fans are still crying foul...but the rest of the CFL says ..HA HA Karma beyotch! Hows the tampering and acting in poor faith working out 4 you now?

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And play him at guard.

Last year.