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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Mark H. in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    That's him. Super nice guy
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from wbbfan in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    Unrelated to the bombers but tangentially related to football. Look up a recent picture of Ethan suplee. He was the fat lineman in remember the Titans. And generally always played the fat character in everything.
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Mark H. in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    When I went for the football game I did a hockey game as well
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from wbbfan in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    Best game day experience I've had was surprisingly Ottawa. BC is my favorite stadium (Winnipeg second). Going to a game in Ottawa was actually a really fun experience though, I never thought I'd say that about Ottawa in any capacity
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Tracker in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    You may be right but I'll never say anything nice about him. Even if 2007 wasn't his fault
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Noeller in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    I started watching the bombers when Ritchie was coach. There's a long list of things I wanted to see but didn't 
     
    A win in Regina in my 20s. It just didn't happen
    A grey cup. Got there after almost twenty years of watching.
     
    Online fans being happy with anything the team did. Winnipeg Heights, OB MBB, anywhere I've seen football talk it's as negative with 5:grey cup appearances in a row as when Mike Kelly or Jim Daley was coach. 
     
    Online fans being happy with who is picked for coach and being right. Tim Burke says hi. 
     
    The closest was being happy when we got O'Shea. Is he perfect, no. But the man changed the culture of a losing team not respected by the league. Then we started signing guys who said they came to Winnipeg because of O'Shea. The day will come when he's fired because that's just how it goes in sports, but even when that day comes show some damn appreciation for the turnaround of a team that was absolutely terrible top to bottom.b
     
    Swaggerville was fun. Roberts and sellers was fun. Khari to milt was great. But this right now is the only stretch in decades where the team is consistently in contention, when it's a surprise to lose rather than a surprise to win (unless you're booch, who is surprised 10-14 times per session). 
    Guys like Danny Maccocia(sp?) and Chris Jones keep getting jobs. There's no excess of great coaches out there. I'd rather lose with O'Shea than win with a guy like Jones.
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Fatty Liver in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    I started watching the bombers when Ritchie was coach. There's a long list of things I wanted to see but didn't 
     
    A win in Regina in my 20s. It just didn't happen
    A grey cup. Got there after almost twenty years of watching.
     
    Online fans being happy with anything the team did. Winnipeg Heights, OB MBB, anywhere I've seen football talk it's as negative with 5:grey cup appearances in a row as when Mike Kelly or Jim Daley was coach. 
     
    Online fans being happy with who is picked for coach and being right. Tim Burke says hi. 
     
    The closest was being happy when we got O'Shea. Is he perfect, no. But the man changed the culture of a losing team not respected by the league. Then we started signing guys who said they came to Winnipeg because of O'Shea. The day will come when he's fired because that's just how it goes in sports, but even when that day comes show some damn appreciation for the turnaround of a team that was absolutely terrible top to bottom.b
     
    Swaggerville was fun. Roberts and sellers was fun. Khari to milt was great. But this right now is the only stretch in decades where the team is consistently in contention, when it's a surprise to lose rather than a surprise to win (unless you're booch, who is surprised 10-14 times per session). 
    Guys like Danny Maccocia(sp?) and Chris Jones keep getting jobs. There's no excess of great coaches out there. I'd rather lose with O'Shea than win with a guy like Jones.
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from MOBomberFan in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    Haven't been on much to see this and reply the ones that came to mind for me that I was referring to are when he was coming back early in the season and was #2 on the depth chart for a game. I don't remember what he said but I remember thinking I'd prefer if he had just kept quiet. Everybody knows he's the guy, and he's going to be the guy, but at that time no need to publicly question coaching decisions. Behind closed doors go for it, but no need to do it in the media.
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Noeller in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    Haven't been on much to see this and reply the ones that came to mind for me that I was referring to are when he was coming back early in the season and was #2 on the depth chart for a game. I don't remember what he said but I remember thinking I'd prefer if he had just kept quiet. Everybody knows he's the guy, and he's going to be the guy, but at that time no need to publicly question coaching decisions. Behind closed doors go for it, but no need to do it in the media.
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Wanna-B-Fanboy in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    Some of his public comments last year indicated he's more of a me guy than a team guy. But that's probably just O'Shea's fault
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    You gotta be really sour to have your mind made up on this being a bad hire.
    Keep in mind Buck Pierce hadn't called a play for a PeeWee team before he was given the OC job here.
    You've got three experienced CFL coaches leading the offense.  Judgement on Hogan's scheme/play calling can come later.
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Booch in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    That's just budgeting though. I have a breakdown of where I expect my entire budget to go at work, but I still underspend in column B because I overspent in A all the time. If I hit the total budget nobody cares, but that doesn't mean I didn't start with an idea where the money was going.  I'd say he's a terrible GM if he was black and white staying only within his positional budget. They job is field the best team for X dollars, not allocate x dollars perfectly. 
     
    Not saying you're wrong, but I think it's crazy if he's that black and white about it.
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from wbbfan in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    You sound like a Montreal Canadiens can who says every French player is going to sign in Montreal in free agency, and then they never do
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Noeller in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    You sound like a Montreal Canadiens can who says every French player is going to sign in Montreal in free agency, and then they never do
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Bigblue204 in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    You sound like a Montreal Canadiens can who says every French player is going to sign in Montreal in free agency, and then they never do
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Goalie in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    You sound like a Montreal Canadiens can who says every French player is going to sign in Montreal in free agency, and then they never do
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Noeller in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    Once you're old and crotchety, you only focus on the negatives. Whether it be the D or three head coach or something else. 
     
    So the D was bad because we ignore the secondary because we can't complain about it.
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    Milt in the know?
     
     
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    brett_c_b reacted to 17to85 in 2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread   
    Counterpoint: he was given a chance to develop and did get a chance to make the roster and contribute and nowngrts and NFL look. 
    Player development can look at lot of different ways and just because you have an axe to grind and everything they do is **** doesn't mean you're way is the only way. 
  20. Go Bombers
    brett_c_b got a reaction from CodyT in 2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread   
    I like his rule about the bombers playing in every grey cup game
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from BigBlueFanatic in 2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread   
    I like his rule about the bombers playing in every grey cup game
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from rebusrankin in 2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread   
    I like his rule about the bombers playing in every grey cup game
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Fatty Liver in 2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread   
    I like his rule about the bombers playing in every grey cup game
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from bigg jay in 2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread   
    I like his rule about the bombers playing in every grey cup game
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    brett_c_b got a reaction from Noeller in 2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread   
    I like his rule about the bombers playing in every grey cup game