Everything posted by Tracker
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2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
Always is.
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2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
As an example of what is possible with LaPolice, Paul Maurice was fired several times, but got smarter with each coaching experience until he got to the Florida Panthers when it all came together.
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2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
Alas, a literary classic despoiled.
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2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
Given O'Shea's personality, I cannot see him willingly parting with his favoured but inadequate players. If he is ordered to do so, he may well, like Ahab lashed to Moby ****, go down with them, and that would not be a bad thing. If he is ordered to make those cuts and somehow chooses to stay as head coach, I would question how well he would function after that diminishing.
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2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
So long as O'Shea has anything to say about it, nothing short of death is going to get the needed players out of here and replaced. Any strength can be a weakness if carried to an extreme.
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2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
If O'Shea is still here (a distinct probability) he will choose who fits his....ahem...unique personality.
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2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
If O'Shea is still here as head coach next year, we will have a repeat performance. If any business had a manager who had a worse job performance for three consecutive years and made the same staffing mistakes again and again, damned few would get a fourth chance,
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What a dynasty means to me
Never liked that hype. The Bombers staggered through the playoffs last year and choked in the Cup game. This year, they mostly picked up where they left off with dismal play, so where anyone got the idea they were on the verge of greatness, I do not know.
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2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
That might not be all good. In 2019 Streveler threw himself into the line like he had a spare body and, probably because of LaPolice, did not evolve his game despite seeming to have all the requisite tools except game experience. With luck, his time in NFL provided him with some good coaching and we just might get a new and improved Streveler back.
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2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
With the threepeat losses, there has to be friction between those who want to win and those who are there only because O'Shea is keeping them around. A house divided cannot stand. Agreed. If nothing changes, then nothing changes.
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2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
Collaros should wear the horns yes, but not alone. O'Shea's decisions were at least as responsible and have been a liability for at least two years. Every coach reaches a best-before date and I think O'Shea has passed his.
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2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
Wade would rather have consistent 30K crowds than a one-time 50K one, most of whom will never be seen again.
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3 turds plus crappy honker. Long winter edition.
It was not his decision.
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3 turds plus crappy honker. Long winter edition.
I cannot accept that the Bomber played that poorly in the Cup game because they played so well against the Greenies- that ought to have gotten absolutely pumped against the Argos.
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2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
I would bet Mr. O'Shea knows exactly what went wrong and knows that he is on the hot seat, but is in public denial. Whistling past the graveyard.
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All things considered...
Don Matthews was a legend but his end was less than glorious.
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2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
If the Bombers clear out the deadwood (over O'Shea's deceased form), there ought to be enough money to upgrade a lot of other positions and keep vital players. I am of the firm opinion that Collaros is not worth the money he is being paid and he is trending is downward, so moving him is definitely an option, maybe even necessity. Moreover, Brady's comments are indicative of the malaise in the team that other players are feeling. That he spoke so directly means he is very unhappy and the Bombers would be insane to ignore that.
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All things considered...
Better track record, though, although Cal had to work with a bargain basement budget.
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Most irksome moment of GC 2024- Why did they Stray from Brady?
His brittleness is the concern.
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All things considered...
Absolutely. If Miller/Walters/O'Shea think that the vast majority of Bomber fans are to stupid to have seen what has been going on, they will be shocked when the attendance falls.
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What a dynasty means to me
Disagree- we here are rightfully pissed at Collaros (among others) but Collaros is the target of opportunity as the de facto leader of the team and highest paid player. Anyone can have a bad day, but he has been trending downward and choking far too often.
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2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
Bad decisions for the Elks continue.
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All things considered...
Has to be an either/or situation, not a tandem.
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Most irksome moment of GC 2024- Why did they Stray from Brady?
We can only hope. Buck seems to be reasonably intelligent and as a former QB. he ought to be able to recognize what the opposing defence is doing and figure out how to counter it.
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111th Grey Cup- Argos vs Bombers GDT
You cannot say nothing lasts forever- you have not listened to one of my wife's lectures.