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Really easy to always say that there's some mystical coach out there that would be a better fit. We've been through generations as CFL fans watching teams including our own who keep believing that. Hufnagel, Grant, Mathews, Buono, O'Shea That's the order of CFL coaches by winning percentage. Let's pull our collective heads out of our asses.

There would still be a rebuild as a new HC & his staff would want "their guys" at different playing positions on the team. So, if a free agent became available that the new HC liked, the Bombers would sign him to replace a player already on the roster. Maybe the new OC wants to fill the air with football & the run game then becomes secondary. Or used just to prop up the pass as in BC last year. So then, the CFL's leading rusher Brady Oliveira is suddenly not as important anymore. His salary now becomes a liability. So Oliveira is now too expensive. The OC decides to flip the roster at that position to an Amercan for a much cheaper price. So, someone like Peyton Logan takes over from Oliveira who either leaves in free agency or is traded. Defensively, a different DC means a different scheme & players with different skill sets. So, the players there now would be replaced. That's how it works. It's all up to the new coordinators vision of what they want. I remember when Ray Jauch took over from Bud Riley in 1978. The Bombers were a playoff team, Not a great team but always in the hunt. With a little luck going their way, a Grey Cup contender. I believe they were 9-7 in 1978 & just couldn't win a playoff game when Riley was HC so he walked the plank. Riley just didn't seem he could get the job done & after 5 seasons of failure he was fired. The team had a lot of talent already. Most fans & pundits thought that with Jauch's steady guiding hand & his experience, he would let that same talent rise even further to the top & with the help of scouting find even more talent to become Grey Cup winners. Jauch kept Riley's team together for the most part in 1978. They had another decent 9-7 regular season but after another playoff exit vs the Stamps, Jauch decided to gut the team in 1979 & start over. We fell to 4-12 that year & some popular veterans were traded away or released. Three player I remember in particular, two from Winnipeg & both popular teammates & players were gone. They were TE Leo Ezerins & SB Gord Patterson both traded in separate deals to the Ti Cats prior to the 79 season. The other trade was a shocker as immensely popular & gregarious Lyall Woznesensky, an Canadian All Star Defensive End... "The Wizard of Woz" as he was called was traded to the Stamps for another All Star & HOFer John Helton. It was a monster trade that was so tipped in Winnipeg's favour. Helton gave the Bombers another 4 great seasons retiring in 1982. We signed Elton Brown an All Star DT from the Argos. A thousand yard rusher in RB William Miller as a free agent. Others as well. There must have been at least a dozen changes. The Bombers missed the playoffs in 1979 but then qualified for it every year after that for over a decade. We won three Grey Cups. Those players in 1979 & 80 never got the chance to sip from Lord Earl Grey's Cup but they established a winning culture that contributed to our success in the years to come. Jauch tried to keep things the same but it didn't work. So, he went with his instincts & really did change things up. He got rid of a lot of deadwood on the roster & recruited other players that fulfilled his vision of what a winner really was.

LOVE this title!! Kudos, sir. Since anthem singing has become political now, and the club shows no signs of not singing the US despite the boos, after today would really like to see the Hoosli Men’s Ukrainian Chorus sing the anthems tomorrow and include the Ukrainian anthem like they did once before. I would stand and cheer for that.

I’ve always admired the Steelers way of working with coaches and not canning guys. I think it is repeatable, if you have a growth mindset top to bottom. easy to do but hard to do well. Filling bottom end roster spots with above average starters at a contenders level is a strong option imo. Wr is pretty much as it always has been when we’ve needed talent. The upside is we have the tools to develop WRs quickly. Dobson is replaced either by ratio swap or Wallace. Either way I think we will be better and I like Dobson. dt I think comes down to our usage and health. Woods and Lawson is tremendous. We. Could use a sayles style 3t pressure guy who can play 30 edge maybe 40 edge too. Walters and co needs to step up here. the pressure is gonna be on Walters. He needs to have one of his best recruiting crops this year.

I know that there's context needed here, but go back to the coaches between Ritchie and Osh, and tell yourself circa....whatever year...... That in 2025, the Bombers had won the West 4 years running, regularly decimated the Riders, went to the GC 5 years in a row... Won 2 of those GCs....... ....and there's a call to fire the HC..... As JBR said, heads from asses, please...

Leave the math to me. Just revel in the numbers getting smalller.

I was told there would be no math... 😜

I'd like MOS to change some things (country club training camp, hanging onto aging vets) but wanting a coach to change some things isn't the same as wanting him fired. I don't want MOS fired. This has been Rebus's mini Ted Talk.

Agreed, that why I put multiple steps in. But winning the division is a big advantage, so that’s the goal I am interested in

Loved those guys! Jim Brunzell and Greg Gagne. They always had to contend with that sneaky Bobby "the brain" Heenan...

Ehlers is a pending ufa so he’s not worth equal or greater value. He’s worth a 1st and prospect or a dude on an expiring ufa contract who might be a better fit. Maybe Ehlers for Boeser, probably fair value. Nelson would be tremendous and being from near by Warroad Minnesota, there’s a chance he’d sign a new deal.

Be interesting if we could get Brock Nelson on board. He's Dave Christian's nephew.

We don't? What a waste of time this has been posting here for the last 12 years.

Singing national anthems will be a thing of the past, soon.