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AOL & Time Warner merger killed WCW. Eric Bischoff had the investors to buy the brand & run tv tapings out of one of the resort hotel/casinos in Las Vegas. They had a 2,000 seat venue that Bischoff thought would have been perfct to revive WCW. However, once the merger came about with all of Ted Turner's tv properties including WCW were absorbed, Bischoff's deal fell through as WCW as everything was contingent upon WCW to still be broadcast on TNN. The new owners of Time Warner-AOL despised wrestling & didn't want it at any time slot on TNN. Vince McMahon came in & bought up WCW ( mostly videos of old matches & PPV's & finally put his wrestling rival out of business in 1999. A few guys made it in the WWE. Ric Flair, Big Show, Chris Benoit, (tragically he killed his family & then took his own life in 2005), Eddie & Chavo Guerrero, Chris Jerico & Booker T all made it. Today, Goldberg still wrestles occasionally on WWE PPV's for big paydays.

I don't see massive changes. When you have Mr Blue Bomber, Bob Irving himself, saying today on X that signing Jake Thomas is a priority for the team, just how much change will there be??? Not a lot. I don't see much changing. It ends when he says so.

Assuming we trade Collaros. Then on the hook for half... If we want to make a change we'll have to accept that. No, BLM wasn't dumped by the Stamps because of turnovers. Dickenson/Hufnagel thought his shoulder & arm issues cooked his career. At the time, he was having problems with accuracy & one hopping intermediate passes. Maier was actually playing well in relief so they made the move to make Jake the #1 guy.

Adams easily could but he's expensive, I also like the young qb from Montreal & I like Powell from Hamilton.

Defense wins championships. Offense sells tickets. Our gameplan on D made no sense. Ruxh three, drop 9 & no pressure?? Why dress SEVEN DL when you only play 3 at a time? Once again, Osh's use of our roster made no sense.

I don't want to hear that word again. We're no dynasty. We're a team that has great regular seasons but can't win their very last playoff game of the year.

Not Thomas, Gauthier & others. He'll also want Bighill back.

Did you watch the game? Arbuckle was autographing the balls he threw in the pocket on almost every passing play. Very little pressure to rattle the qb. There's plenty of blame to go around to include the defense.

Is that a serious comment or a sarcastic one? Walters can make the decision but would he? I have my doubts.

You make it sound so easy. It ain't happening. Osh will keep his veterans. Bighill will be welcomed back with open arms. The only way that changes is if Osh is forced to make changes. That's the problem he won't do it on his own. It's a huge problem.

The way they played, I'm surprised they didn't wear garbage mitts.

I dunno. That dropsie disease they had today was like Covid. It probably would have spread to Schoen & Wolitarsky had they played. We miss Darvin Adams. No ifs, ands or buts. He was a leader of that receiving group that the other receivers really respected. Our offense hasn't been the same since Walters had another brain fart & wouldn't pay him.

My comments about moving on from Schoen was pre game before our offense totally collapsed today. I didn't expect that. Nobody did. I will say that even Dalton Schoen wouldn't have helped that stinky mess of an offense we watched today.

I see this team falling off a cliff if we just keep bringing back the coach's favourite old vets even if they can't play anymore. We could be 4-14 in a couple of seasons.

So, does Buck go to BC this week?

I called our offense scatter gun today which I think is an apt description. Our plays were all over the place. It sems like we had no game plan. I'm thinking that Buck just called plays with really no rhyme or reason.

Of course but Walters has final say.

Absolutely agree. When we dominated the CFL our defensive front 7 were ferocious. We intimidated other teams. Wev attacked, attacked, attacked. I remember our D swarming to the ball. And we had turnovers. Fumbles & interceptions. We were ball hawks. fast forward to today. Our D is passive. We had no pass rush. Arbuckle had all day to throw. Did we adjust? Nope. Just stayed in a 3 man front & dropped 9 all day. little or no blitzing. Never changed a thing in the second half. Just kept doing what didn't work in the first half. Being conservative playing not to lose. Offensively, it was a clusterfuck from the first snap on. Eli going offside was a portent of poor play to come. You can sure tell how fragile this team is. if things don't fo well in the first series or two we just fall to pieces. That's been our forte all season long. Our OL didn't play badly yet neither did they play great. We never established our run game. We kept trying to do something in the air that didn't work. We kept going deep too much. Instead, we needed to pound Brady but alas, Zach showed no patience. Instead of going on 10 play drives that eat the clock, we tried to score in one shot & it didn't work. That's on Buck Pierce. Just terrible play calling. Special Teams. Another clusterfuck at the return position & punter. I just want to thank Kyle Walters for keeping someone as useless as Jake Thomas & releasing Janarion Grant. That's some kinda great managing, Kyle. Congrats.... Now, we have an off season where we all know changes need to be made but this team is so slow to react. I'm not expecting much to happen.

We have to spend $$$ on both sides of the LOS. Both O & D have to improve & that's job 1. Jake has to be told it's time to retire & hand him a coaching cap. Or a plane ticket back to the Maritimes.

They gave up. Quit. As a unit, they should be ashamed. They gave up. Quit. As a unit, they should be ashamed.

Do you actually believe changes will be made? I don't. I think it'll just be another year of the same thing.

How can it NOT be on O'Shea? He's the Head Coach.

BC might withdraw their coaching offer to Buck.

Now Suitor pandering to US.

No, he'll never change. More of the same next season.