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I don't know if there would be a record without Blink's name on it... you gotta wonder if the maturity you get with age has left him with some regrets

but it's a very good reason actually. GMs don't want to deal with players getting their panties in a twist if they weren't protected and I'd rather have the fans left in the dark than to start creating some bad blood between players and management. I mean is it far fetched at all to see some player who wasn't protected but not taken in the draft feel unwanted by their team and start looking for somewhere else to go? Yes they should all be more mature than that but we all know that professional athletes are not always as mature as they should be. The players are obviously going to find out if they're protected or not. Its stupid, but I can't say I'm surprised given the stance on the Neg List and Salaries. How will they find out... not getting picked by Ottawa != protected

Not to mention Sheets is good, but not actually insane good... their O-Line and, more specifically, their schemes is better. It also helps Sheets a ton having a QB like Durant (who can extend plays or run with it) and a crew of deep threat receivers

^ this When you look at Sheets tearing it up on the ground, look at the X's and O's with their O-Line... it's pretty special how they move to create space for him

I heard he was wearing out his welcome in SK. Granted, a GC ring will chill his critics, but I would sure like him here as an OC/Assistant HC. Of course, we still need a fricken QB. I don't even understand how Cortez could be on the outside in SK... did anyone over there see their offensive performance this year? That wasn't entirely the result of having a good running back.

I hear his company Pinnacle is having all kinds of profitability issues for a number of years .... nonetheless I love Wade Miller at the controls It`s a tough time to be in the recruitment business

Damnit... the pick my favorite color strategy didn't work this week...

If AC says he wants to come back you quietly tell him that he's too ******* old and shouldn't do it to a stellar career... then offer him a QB coaching position.

Yeh it seemed weird, he was never placed on the 9 game was he?

I'll agree Garrett was running hard...but look at the defence he was running against...they are very very poor I almost went strikeless to the win betting against their ability to stop a running back from getting into the end zone... I wouldn't read too much into a RB doing well against edm.

Green

Buchko managed public perception of the mistakes made in the new stadium process EXTREMELY poorly. Strike 1 Buchko managed public perception of his retention of Joe Mack extremely poorly Strike 2 Buchko's hair / Season ticket stuff I guess Strike 3

He is my thoughts on Denmark this year - He either didn't fully understand, or buy into whatever offensive system Crowton started us with. It showed, and perhaps that lack of understanding/buy-in hurt him more than just not performing well within the system (he didn't get what he was really supposed to be doing / didn't think it made sense and that resulted in not going at 100% of his full effort) Once we got MB as our OC Denmark made a pretty marked turn around in his play. I doubt it is coaching affecting Denmark as much as I think it is having a system he understands and believes will work.

It isn't so much that Baseball isn't technical, it is, however the additional complexity of football (Baseball is essentially a bunch of 1 v 1 matchups and easy statistics) makes statistical analysis more difficult. I wouldn't be shocked to see Football "Moneyballed" sometime in the future with the increase in our ability to use automated video analysis. Almost something like what they are starting to do in Basketball with the analysis of player movement around the court.

I don't think you can not give Frito MoP this year.... his numbers were so ******** good while healthy it is insane.

If Cortez was available I would grab him ASAP. Durant is a whiner who kills OC's by not believing in what they want to do (which naturally affects his play within their systems) unless it's exactly what he wants to do. He's just lucky that he is pretty talented and has a couple of exceptionally good receivers (Dressler specifically).

Yeh... empire building building up huge debts buying a piece of an industry that was just about to implode... that is what ****** Canwest (If I remember Izzy was a big part of those acquisitions)

Rosters are frozen for the week before the Expansion Draft. Basically once teams submit their protected list, December 9-16. There's two weeks after the Grey Cup for movement. I thought the league still had the right to not approve any trades made after the Grey Cup

Only if the Riders don't pick up his option. Because that's likely

I don't think speed would be the problem... endurance is the bigger deal

If we want to have a good offence, we should plan to "start" 5 NI's on offence, 2 on defence. If Pencer or Neufeld win the RT spot, great, Swiston is the better of the 3 so he'll probably end up being our RG by default. We shouldn't rely on it. That's a recipe for a bad season. We really need to solidify the interior though. For some reason the Mack/Lapo regime had this great fascination with the NI tackles and we've done nothing to procure or develop any interior guys other than Greaves and even Greaves was looked at as a tackle prospect. I think they assumed that is a guy could play tackle he could also play Guard... it's turning out to be pretty untrue

Transportation is easily one of the things the Bombers have done best. With the exception of pre-season the park and ride system has been a delight. I never have to hunt for a parking spot, basically never have to wait in traffic while driving (since the drive to the park and ride is basically traffic free) and have to wait little to no time for a bus.

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Positive developments yes, but too little too late I would imagine. Not trying to take away the good things we have seen lately, but that can't cloud the fact that there is much more wrong with this team than there is right. A few games to close out the season that show positive developments can't change minds about what needs to be done to be much better next season. We finished last season 4-3 with the brain trust thinking we were on the right track, so little to nothing was done in the off-season. I would hope that we learnt our lesson then. We finished 4-3 on the back of some decent quarterback play from Joey Elliot, whom we then released and went back to Buck Pierce (who appears to be no longer able to play football at a high level). I'm not saying Elliot is a saviour, but if we had started the year with him as our starter I don't think we would be eliminated from the playoffs yet.