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3DownNationWinnipeg Blue Bombers to induct Cal Murphy to Ring of Hon...The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have selected Cal Murphy for induction into the Ring of Honour at Princess Auto Stadium, the team announced on Thursday. The Winnipeg native was the club’s general manager fr

Other defense are free to suck, but the Bombers O and D both need to be dominant. I don't ask for much.

I'll be 39 in a couple weeks. I hope I am still welcome here, after all these attacks on 39 year olds.

This is Jason Hogan erasure and I will not stand for it

I won’t name names, but a few years ago somebody private messaged me on this site to challenge me to a fight in person lol.

I'm 49. I care deeply

I'll take the smothering defense we had in 2021 for 200, Alex.

Would HE notice? Is it too revealing to confirm that it was G. Billan? Ahhh that’s probably giving too much away. Garrett B!

lol this is such an embarrassing thing to write down and click the send button on. If Rich wants to take away my "administrator" tag so that I'm allowed to talk the exact same way you talk to people, he's more than welcome to do so. The way you insult Booch is so much worse. The way you start almost 50% of the posts you make with some form of "I don't know if people just don't get it or what" is your (bad) attempt at mocking people and I don't see you having a problem with that. As an aside - I've said on more than one occasion recently, I'm not a moderator here. I don't even think I know how to get into the Mod Panel or whatever it's called anymore. I have this tag because I helped (not really) Rich start this place up way back when. "cyber knock him out" though ... wow Such a ridiculous thing to say from probably the most self-unaware person we have in our community. Despite what Al thinks, I don't have a problem with him. If he wants to be loud, boisterous and abrasive and then play the victim when he gets it back, that's up to him. We've all known eachother for going on 15-20 years now. I'd say we're all very comfortable talking with eachother like we would if we were sitting on the couch watching the game together. It's probably the main reason this place still exists in spite of Reddit, etc. Nobody needs to threatening other people.

Do you want to go through game threads from last season and see what you wrote then about Wheatfall and Stearns? What your belief system told you then?

… I feel like you stick to an opinion and you are literally just unable to process a different viewpoint. He’s not comparing Cobb to Lawler. He’s saying he’s our fifth option, other guys had huge games. Not every receiver is going to get 100 yards a game. Our offense is clicking and you’re bitching and whining that we didn’t invest into THREE free agent receiver big ticket items (and also somehow forgetting that you pretended we didn’t sign ANY)

BC's receiver group is decimated with Cotty, Berryhill and McGee out and Hatcher a GTD. Buck is going to be calling some of us to play if this continues.

I’m just stretching out the hammies but should be ready to go.

I'd toss them both out just for the stand alone reason of this bullshit with the refusal to use an American as a Canadian even though we're allowed to. It's borderline negligent and I know that's not going to sit well with some people but there's a reason we are the only one of nine teams that doesn't use it.

I do actually agree that if one goes, the other should go too. Despite how disjointed it looks in it's execution, the line we've been fed for years is that it's one unit working in unison and every decision they make is made as a team. I don't think Walters deserves to keep his job if O'Shea is let go, if for nothing else than because he's spent too much time allowing what could be his subordinate to have an equal say when it hasn't been or shouldn't be needed.

I'm 69... Get off of my lawn.

Mike Benson got that old waiting for Mike O'Shea to give him an opportunity to shine.

Is 20-0 with an average score of 60 to -5 too much to ask?

We've lost one game. We are jumping the gun on anyone getting fired. We got torched defensively and that had zero to do with roster construction. JY and Richie need to do a better job.

Throw in kelly and we got a deal.

We've won 10+ games 9 straight years, longest streak in club history. Sure its been frustrating the last year or so but this is not the Reinbold or Daley eras.

Let's just gain some perspective here in that we're talking about a 12-14 win team becoming a 8-10 win team. Between 95 and 2015 we won 10 games twice, 11 games once, 12 games once and 14 games once.

4 out of 5 starting WRs had over or near 100 yards last week. But because the #5 guy didn't....that's a problem? As of right now, he's on pace for just under 500 yards, which is essentially Wolly type numbers. What else do you expect from a #5 wr? "Defences don't respect him" isn't an argument. It's your opinion. And while there may be some truth to it, if Defences didn't care about him, they wouldn't be covering him and the rest of the WR core would be impacted. The O can not spread the ball around like it has been, without the defences covering the entire field. Which is the point I was making, the WRs working together to get each other open. You decided to cherry pick the individual state line...I was talking the stat sheet of the WR core. lol wtf does that even mean? This might be the lamest attempt at tough guy internet talk I've ever come across.

Something is going on with defences.... This week almost every QB had career numbers....virtually every defence was lit up. Not defending ours as it was bad, but look a the numbers for Kelly, Alexander, Collars, Bo, Rourke and Harris....what the.....actually heck, look at those numbers....

Isn't part of coaching trying to figure out how to use rules to your benefit?

100%. With the coaching cap, we are married to this set up for another 2 years.

You cant upset the apple cart and fire whole regime...especially if it's not a complete dumpster fire...You start with the HC...almost always and that G.M gets his second attempt to see if the coaching was the issue...if things still tilt downward with no relief in site...then yeah purge city A G.M and HC purge..which essentially leads to total staff turnover and a lot of times admin pieces too...is last resort and will really set you back a few yrs...a HC canning wont

TIL everyone on this board is the same age. Actually I am two years younger so reserve the right to call @Mark H. and @rebusrankin old AF.

Are personal attacks allowed on this site?

Remember last year when they kept trotting out Corcorran and most of us were screaming for the team to field Cobb? I really hope Clercius gets a chance to take a big step forward this year. His ceiling is just so much higher.

The sad thing will be rules coming in next year taking a bunch of points off the board.

I hear the DLine coach is showing promise.

So also worth remembering, that Cobb is only playing cause Clercius is hurt anyway so it's not like he was a planned starter or anything. Jeeze even after all the **** I talk no one has wanted to fight me... what a failure I am

They will get the D figured out i have no doubts about that. Between Oshea, Younger and Hall there's too many bright minds and pride to let it stay that bad.

as it generally goes in football...tried true and finite...a HC will usually can a coordinator when things go down the pooper to try and save his own hiney...and when that doesn't work...The G.M has to take do his job and can the HC he signed...That's his mulligan and his chance to right a ship....and if/when that turns into more the same lack of success, or even becomes worse and you still have a listing/sinking ship....He is next to go and house is cleaned....Especially when it starts to effect the bottom line. Pretty rare...almost never happens that a G.M is axed for a team failing to live up to expectations...or see success and a HC is retained for the new GM...Good luck finding any G.M worth spit willing to walk into that situation. And to be frank would never wanna be a part of any organization where it's done in reverse....as its a sure sign the dynamics of the hierarchy are way outta whack and just a place that's not gonna succeed until all all purged...We didn't hit that Ottawa Renegades/Gleiberman era of nonsense but jury still out so far on this season and what we are in for...there been some real good signs in some aspects...but some of the issues that really handcuffed and handicapped us are slowly seeping back into the forefront whether some here don't wanna believe it...or don't see it I still think we made the right move in giving Walter's a new deal and he stepped up, but do think the Osh time was up and we needed to move on...no coach stays in one place forever and 14 yrs in football is an eternity and ultra rare. I still giving benefit of doubt...the season is hardly started and there are a lot of positives so far...but if we fall on our face again...miss play-offs and some of it can be directly related to a lot of the same ol same ol....and a a refusal all yr to utilize league wide rules that only we re-buff...time to snip snippity snip

By that logic the ultimate responsibility for the roster construction is KWs. If he has a coach exhibiting flaws he is responsible for correcting it.

Basically...exactly..just way it is...as at end of day its his ass on the line and he has to answer to, and be responsible for end result...

We've had this discussion before. with you or others, I can't remember. A coaching staff is not a democracy. It's collaborative to a point. However, the Head Coach has final say in everything from play calling & schemes to personnel on the field. If Osh says no on any subjecy then the discussion is over. Yes, the D is on Younger responsibility but he still answers to Osh. If the HC wants to make changes like changing coordinators, simplifying the schemes or cutiing players then he will do it as he has that authority. Whether anyone disagrees or not.

All of this is very wrong for all of the reasons already outlined in the last dozen posts. Brady, Demski, Nield, Neufeld, Wallace, Bryant If we were using our ratio to its full extent, this easily accomplishes what we want it to without us being pigeon holed into a Canadian fullback, tight end, receiver, whatever for that last spot.

Choosing to make that argument when our wb goes over 400nyards passing and multiple receivers had very good stats lines seems like poor timing for this argument.

On a positive note for bombers, it does seem like every defence in the league is terrible this year

Look at it from a different perspective - we literally handed this guy a roster spot. That spot doesn’t need to be a Canadian at all - the minute we start using the roster rules appropriately, we could change absolutely nothing about our current roster except make Daniels an American and finally call Stanley Bryant a Canadian like we are allowed to. Daniels doesn’t need to be interchangeable with those guys at all, he is currently required to by nature of us ignoring the roster rules because O’Shea doesn’t “believe in them”.

Nate?

Yep. GM's fire head coaches all the time. Mostly to cover their asses for mistakes they made either hiring the wrong HC to begin with. Or such as to cover up a bad trade or lack of recruiting themselves as a distraction to buy a GM more time.

Ehlers with the icing on the cake to get his first cup. Good for him.

There’s no feud brother, it’s a message board. You should press like on everything I write, my belief system would not allow me to post something that wasn’t worth liking.

Is Kian Schafer-Baker the most insufferable & unlikeable receiver in the CFL? The constant posing after a catch. Lying on the ground & pretending to chill should have been a penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct. He just looks like & acts like a fool.