SpeedFlex27

Harris was your best option. So much for this off season being an earthquake type event with qbs moving around. I think Davis Alexander agent blew it. He would have been a sought after commodity in free agency & would have been able to get a more lucrative contract in free agency. Not much out there other than Fajardo.

You can't tell me Schmeckel & Thomas are better than any American options that they have. Then there's Kolankowski at Center....

Toronto who didn't play 10 or 11 Canadians won the Grey Cup by fielding the best team they possibly could by playing 7 Canadians. We didn't. Trying so hard... not.... to.... mention... Jake... Thomas.

This is O'Shea's team. The buck stops with him. He makes the personnel decisions. How many other teams start 10 or 11 Canadians?

He'd have Collaros. He's Adams old college Coach at Eastern Washington so he may not want to leave the Stamps.

Phillips defenses weren't even that good. Yet, there he was for all to see hamming it up constantly. Overmatched on the DL. Couldn't stop the run. Betts could rush the passer but then got beat outside by the backs in this league. Linebackers average. Real problems in the secondary.

Philips made it all about himself on the sidelines using drama to call attention to himself. "Look at me, I'm the smartest coach on the field".

Willard Reaves, Jeff Boyd, James Murphy & Sean Kehoe. All Esks HC Pete Ketella cuts in 1983 who ended up with the Bombers & key components in our 1984 GC win. Willard Reaves & James Murphy are both on Bombers Ring of Honour inside PAS.

Mike should retire from coaching. Why would Buck want him as DC?

On a 42 man roster, you need to be able to find more than one great player a year or you're the Elks.

Lionello was the running backs coach at SFU when my son played there. Ante Milanovic-Litre was his player.

I didn't say there was anything. Just a feeling that I had.

Yeah, not saying that Buck has an axe to grind with fans here but those comments had to hurt. I read some of them here.

Really, who else were they gonna get? We're stuck in the same boat.... There are no young Zach Collaros around.

I've been away the past 3 or 4 days through all the appointments of head coaches & general managers. One thing, maybe I'm wrong here but I sure get the impression that both Goveia & Pierce (Buck especially) couldn't wait to leave. I think Pierce is pissed off the fanbase blames him for the Grey Cup loss when it was O'Shea who told Collaros to get back in there with his wounded finger. I haven't heard a thank you, Winnipeg from either of them. As a fan, I'm not asking for much but ignoring the team you came from because some fans made you angry seems petty if that is so & even a little classless.

The quality of our front offic 5 years ago was impressive. Two were Asst GMs who eventually became GMs in Ringmaiden & Goveia.

i think what he lacks most is experience & will only get better starting games. I.m hoping that we'll move away from Bighill. Save us some money for free agency. I'm hoping this is sarcasm.

Goveia is a huge loss. We can sugarcoat it all we like but he's the primary reason our Cdn scouting was so good. I guess we have a young guy waiting in the wings wanting to make a name for himself as a scout but until he does he'll be a question mark. The Stamps in the 00's. 10 & 20's (until this year) may have mised the playoffs a couple of times. The Esks made the playoffs every year for 37 seasons straight. We've had a great run as but we're nearly two decades behind those teams. Who both eventually hit hard times because they never adapted or changed. We'll see this season how sustainable it is losing Pierce & Goveia. Maybe McManus. Changing scouting staff may be a shot of fresh air.

Or he could be a trash OC. See, that's the thing about hiring an unknown OC. You never know what you're gonna get.

Every interim head coach unless the title is made permanent gets a raw deal.

We get to listen to Ben Mulroney's Toronto MORNING show at 12-2 after Corus cut 27 year CHQR veteran talk show host Rob Breakenridge here in Calgary. What an insult to the listening audience across Canada. Breakenridge was one of the best news interviewers on radio anywhere. Always prepared he can talk to just about everyone. Eff off Corus. Once they got rid of Breakenridge, That was a deal breaker for me. I stopped listening.

Hufnagel still runs the Stamps, no question about it. He still calls the shots.

A 20 year STC to take over? That is ridiculous. If that's the best that the Elks can do then they aren't searching very hard.

I think we know That with Head Coach Mike O'Shea Stubborn!! Nothing will change.