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Oh there was plenty. first playoff loss in the new building, the shut out.. then the off season blow up of the riders management.. Lots of stuff to be happy about as a bomber fan

Today I have brought shame upon my family.

Anyone else think the Arcenaux signing was a complete afterthought. ....trying to appease the restless mob with a brand name ?

The CFLPA are run by Canadian offensive linemen who as a group are higher paid than most other positions as rookies. Only the lower draft picks play for minimum. They could care less about the entry level as most Canadian OL will be paid above that. They have basically taken over running the Association. That is why the money goes to the vets & not the rooks. And it's hurting the CFL.

It's unfortunately that most of what I've heard about increases coming to our CBA will be basically given to the top players. I'd rather bump up the minimum salary a bit. I wonder how often we convince a star player not to try the NFL with a big contract compared to how many players we could attract to the league with a higher minimum contract.

Poop Johnson made it onto The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night... Pretty funny stuff.

okay, rod black

that is some serious mental gymnastics....

Points after: 👁‍🗨 Debate last year at training camp on who won the safety spot. Taylor Loffler was in tough to secure the starting position. Fate stepped in, Jones got injured, and Loffler grabbed the cash after being voted an all-star. Funny how that works. 👁‍🗨”Something gotta give.” Kyle Walters. He’s referring to all the money spent on top end Free Agents and squeezing all bodies under the SMS. Some good players will be released. 👁‍🗨 As early as last fall, the Bombers defensive Coaches were pointing at Winston Rose as a target at Free Agency. 👁‍🗨 Nice to hear Chungh contacted the Bombers to thank the Coaches and the Org. for drafting and tutoring him. Willie Jefferson - “It’s the team, the organization and a couple of guys I know got in contact with me and told me they wanted me... Come out here and let’s try to do something we’ve been trying to do for the last couple of years." 📝 | http://ow.ly/FNoI30nIGUi #ForTheW 👁‍🗨 Pretty petty of Ottawa to squabble over a signing bonus for Harris..So what did it cost them? Only their QB 👁‍🗨 Lalate depth signing for Wpger and LB DJ Lalama..

The only positive is the entire west minus St Louis who have now won 10 in a row is pretty weak.

Im a canes fan now

Jovon Johnson says the Riders locker room is dysfunctional and there is work to do to fix it. I'm sure Rider fans are claiming the problem guys have all left now.

Yeah, that's how I remember it.

21 tackles - that pretty darn good for a Defensive End. But I’m curious about the way you assess your DL - don’t you think it’s more about getting consistent pressure and keeping contain?

FYI the order they announce things might not have anything at all to do with the way things unfolded behind the scenes.

I like how in the Riders' signing announcement proclaims he's a former Grey Cup champ. Yeah, from 2017 as a bench warmer playing in only five games...talk about grasping at straws.

I mean, considering the level of quarterbacking they’ve had lately that might be considered a good year for the riders.

So when you steal a bottle from the LC whole security watches helplessly you can no longer go to the library with it because security will be tighter.

Quick note. I know at least one of you here came out to the Dalton Castle show (always nice to our a face to the handle!) anyone else who might have, thanks for sticking with us while we had absurd travel issues. Castle left his home at 6am. Had three delayed flights, ended up in Toronto (wasn’t originally scheduled to), waited on a delay there while they called in a replacement pilot). Made it to the show after midnight. Was on at 1am. It was one of their nights we can laugh about. It worked out in the end. Castle is a great guy too. Best fans in the business. Thank you!

According to Dave Meltzer, the Undertaker Mark Callaway has retired. http://www.ladbible.com/news/sport-wwe-legend-the-undertaker-has-retired-as-a-wrestler-20190216?c=1550331069320&fbclid=IwAR2ma6jmplPkOvzzQJzJTSRcyab2zj_iVdW6kCeUQ-M0pKhDVer-xvxAN1Q

Sheif and Wheeler not looking good..on the ice for the ot and not coming back hard.. Maurice of course will not break those 2 up for a change or shake up the lines. What gives. You bench Laine and cut his ice but keep throwing the same lines out time after time when the whole team lays an egg? Hopefully they pull out of this funk soon..or we will be lucky to get out of the first round.

Outshot.... Again. 42-26.

The quarterbacking in this league is just brutal. If they are going to skew the rules one way they need to skew them to offense. If I'm a receiver I'm signing with the CFL over this crap. CFL sends a lot of receivers to the NFL, this league the QB's are so brutal you aren't getting a chance to make plays.

Exactly!! Any exposure, any growth is good growth... grassroots movement?? Well now there is 3 of them.. here, in mexico and in Europe. How could any of this be even remotely considered a bad thing..

Tho he seemed to handle and get under skin of Micah johnson last year. I like joseph as well in a rotation.. and if I was to go after a lineman Filer would be the best

I am going to guess quite a bit, especially Eguavoen. That guy was a damned good linebacker.

that and Health Care.

Jefferson signed first because on Riderfans they were flipping out and then calmed down when Micah signed. I listened to Jefferson on 1290 yesterday afternoon, aside from his annoyinig habit of going uhhhhh every few seconds the guy seemed to choose Winnipeg because of the culture and the management. He apparently was his own agent and made it seem like he was happy with how the club negotiated with him.

Only weapon you had is not a fair comment. I should have said the weapon you like to use the most

Jeff Hamilton reports Jefferson got north of $200 grand. Demski made $148 last season and was asking upwards of $180. Hamilton believes he receive somewhere between the two numbers.

Interesting hearing from management about what many of posters have been mentioning about Loffler's struggles in coverage...and confirms to me that he didn't get put in a traditional safety role...also interesting that Jones was in position to supplant him...t

After his Swaggerville days and such, I gave this dude a hard time- but in the end... Guy's got class.

because obviously whatever Walters is doing is wrong.

So a dude on Twitter did a thing.......this is where we're at so far.....

I don't know about that, I think we were 0-0 this time last February as well...

100% depends on how the Raptors do tonight

Everyone is talking about Lofflers big hits. In 1995 they would have been game changing. In todays game, they aren't. In fact that hit on Manny (while one of my favorite of all time) ended up costing the Bombers big time. Big hits are not needed or (in terms of player safety and game planning) wanted anymore. I'd rather have someone who can break a pass up or pick it off then lay a big hit. Keep in mind, I love hard nose big hitting football. But the game has changed.\ I'm willing to see what Jones/Hecht can do out there. Looking back, Jones was often highly spoke of by his coaches and made plays when given the opportunity. Will be interesting to see if he can get back to that form. Hecht filled in nicely a few times last season. But I don't see him as the future for the that position.

Westwood's on 1290 comparing the Esks new linebackers to Battle, Jones, & West...

It easily can be traced to the number of our own free agents we re-signed. The Bombers built this roster and really didn’t want to take a chance on Free Agency to get what they wanted. Teams have choices on how to build a roster. I like the way we were prepared. We didn’t have to rely on outbidding to get some players. We already had them. That’s where we put our money.

Most of the guys BC signed outside of Reilly were replacement level. You don’t just sign guys for the hell of it. This is a good roster outside of a few sore spots. A receiver would have been nice but we didn’t miss out. Jefferson was arguably the best non-QB free agent.

We lost half our oline and no new impact receivers signed... just kinda blows my mind that BC can throw 700k around for a Qb and edm signed Harris for 500k a year and we after losing so many quality players can only muster Jefferson? Spin it any way you want but why are other teams spending coin and we are not? I guess the other teams are more hungry for a cup??? Flame away but I thought this was our year to really push.....

I guess you need to do less hand wringing and pay more attention then.

Agreed Davis is likely to surprise a few folks with his play. He's better than Manziel IMHO. We groomed him here and then just let him walk for nothing.

Davis will be the RedBlacks starter next year and the Bombers just let him walk. Tsk, tsk. The East is the CFL feeder league.

12 minutes in. The inactivity from this organization, is disturbing...

I don't think losing JSKs abilities are a big deal but he seemed to really mesh into this team. He definitely had the right attitude and enthusiasm. Same talent, same price, I would rather have JSK above anyone else. Oh well.

Half expect them to try and bring Franklin back....in any case they can't lay this disaster at the feet of Len Rhodes he's sporting the Nixon defence.

Reminds me a bit of how Americans look down their noses at the CFL... before getting to know anything about it. Their loss, and they don't even know it.