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Darrin Bauming ‏@DarrinBauming4m Justin Goltz and Max Hall trading plays under centre with the first-team #Bombers offence today.

He's injured

Some updates courtesy of Kirk Penton: - Max Hall throwing passes, Goltz still getting most first-team reps - Washington, Wild, Jovon Johnson all back practicing today - First team receivers: Pierce, Denmark, Edwards, Watson, Etienne - Greg Peach is there practicing in uniform (#90)

IMO, Khari was a good QB who was able to foster some uncommon chemistry with great receivers. I don't buy that he was mediocre and certainly not that his stats were "artificially inflated", whatever that means. He was good, and his receivers were great.

I like this signing if he is healthy enough to play. He is an upgrade on Freddie Harris and he will also push Kenny Mainor. It doesn't look great because the DL is the least of our concerns right now, but he will make a strong position even stronger. Just because we need DBs and OL doesn't mean we should be passing up on opportunities for better players in other areas when they arise.

He is injured a lot but he did get into 15 games for you guys last season.

According to CJOB. Look out Kenny Mainor? Or maybe just looking to add to the rotation. Hall-Mainor-Peach isn't a bad DE rotation... http://bluebombers.com/article/blue-bombers-sign-defensive-end-greg-peach

Ejiro Kuale with his mighty ZERO career sacks. Some assassin that is...

Well they're trying Andre Douglas out, maybe he'll be better. He was pretty good in 2010, maybe not as good in 2011. We also still have Aderious Simmons on the PR.

One more week. But who knows whether they actually pull him off or not.

Our strategy for improving the OL has literally been "Do nothing and hope they get better." Meanwhile Calgary had one of the better OL's last year and still had two new starters this year, who are even better than the old starters. Something wrong with that picture

Wow, another hammie for Washington... good thing Hef's gone right? (sorry, had to do it.) Is Sears ever coming back? How we didn't hire a Strength and Conditioning coach in the off-seson is beyond me... What are you talking about? Alain Couture serves that role with the Bombers. "Couture is also a Registered Massage Therapist through the Massage Therapy Association of Manitoba, and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association"

Swiston got yanked in favour of Morley last week. Apparently he had two brutal whiffs on pass blocks and was taken out of the game. Really? I didn't notice. That game put me to sleep halfway through

Kinda funny how Morley is healthy for 4 years straight then suddenly gets injured when he's not even playing. As for the LB's, I'm sure Wild will play. But at training camp, I thought Sheffield looked like our best new LB prospect, I think he may still factor in at some point.

You'd like that wouldn't you

Finally a movie for the common man

http://ht.ly/omf4b LB Ian Wild — sick DE Alex Hall — maintenance day SB Terrence Edwards — maintenance day CB Jovon Johnson — knee (day-to-day) DT Zach Anderson — knee (will try to practise on Friday) QB Buck Pierce — undisclosed (won’t play this week) QB Max Hall — hand (will try to practise tomorrow) WR Chris Matthews — foot (still out for a few more weeks) SB Rory Kohlert — hamstring (out for at least a couple of weeks) OL Steve Morley — knee (out for a month; having his knee scoped) DB Demond Washington — hamstring (day-to-day) OL Glenn January — sick LB James Green — knee (unknown)

Durrrr yeah that's why I said we didn't get him and it would have been good for depth. This is like talking to a child. Or...acting like one. If you can't see 'the overall' of what I was saying...don't blame me. Keep making your puns, the adults are trying to talk football

Ah yes. There was just so many that I lost track.

I'm not going to disagree with your overall sentiments, but is this because they didn't have faith in the kicker or because they (in Lapos case moreso, it's pretty clear Burke didn't like Palardy) had so much faith in the defense that they preferred to try and pin teams deep? The bigger concern is that the miss becomes a TD the other way. One of the worst decisions Lapo made was sending Palardy out for a 48 yarder into the wind at Canad Inns at the end of a half vs the Argos in 2010. Owens fielded the attempt at the 5 yard line and ran it back. Punting from inside your own 45 is not a good situation for pinning anybody (unless there is a significant wind). Punters don't practice shanking punts, they can't use their proper technique to hit that kick, and it has just as good of a chance of going into the endzone. When you watch kickers in warmup or practice, most of them go out to 55-60 yards and hit kicks. They probably couldn't do it in a game against the rush, but you can see them do it off a stand. Palardy could barely get it to the posts from 45-50. Wasn't that Serna?

Why is that guaranteed? Hinds couldn't even stick as a special teamer and depth in Hamilton and lost his job to an Ontario junior player. Because Dan West has no idea how to take an angle and it makes him useless as a safety

Sure sounded like Burke was expecting Pierce to be okay to play. I'm guessing Pierce starts on Sunday.

Durrrr yeah that's why I said we didn't get him and it would have been good for depth. This is like talking to a child.

We can't afford to be picky, especially when we're an injury away from starting Dan West and our starter isn't any good anyway. And I don't see how he has "failed a few times already", when he's only ever been with one team.

I'm annoyed that with our lack of Canadian defensive back depth we didn't get Ryan Hinds. He didn't pan out as a starting corner for Hamilton but guaranteed he would be better depth than Dan West at safety and would have pushed Cauchy as well.