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Fajardo was physically punished tonight He'll not feel spry tomorrow The Riders are way overrated

Life is about to get very hard for the Riders.

I hope he succeeds because if he does, the Bombers succeed as well. I'd never advocate doing that. Some Rider fans are trash.

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The 56 yarder, fine. It's the other kicks & convert he's missed this season. Most were makeable. He's got to grab the kicking job & make it his own. That no one will take it away from him.

Nelson is invisible as a receiver.

His inaccuracy & nervousness is going to cost us big time. Just remember all the games we lost because Troy Westwood sucked.

I think players respect LaPo but again not being a qb sometimes makes it hard as the offense is geared more towrads receivers making reads than being qb friendly.

I had heard 2 years & last year counts even though he didn't play.

That's what being a pro kicker is all about. Pressure, pressure, pressure. No different than throwing a rookie qb in there with no experience like Jake Maier, Dane Evans or Chris Streveler. They either handle it or not. I'm not convinced Liegghio will finish the season with us. The Als have a rookie U Sports kicker who is having a solid year. Liegghio has been wildly inconsistent.

Walters, please bring in a competent FG kicker. When Liegghio is at best 50/50 on a 37 yard attempt it's unacceptable. Jefferson is Job #1 to get re-signed. We can't lose him.

At least now we can mix it up & we aren't so predictable on offense with Buck Pierce. And we challenge the secondary of every team we play with the exception of the Argos but we never play well in TO for some reason. I just want to thank Ottawa again for picking LaPo as their Head Coach. Pierce was a former qb & he calls plays like one. I don't think LaPo was. Just like Jacques Chapdeleine who was a slot & never played qb. He struggled as an OC as well.

We can now see the difference between last year's offense under LaPo & having Zach Colaros as our qb instead of Nichols. We push the ball downfield in our passing game. I don't see a lot of 5 yard passes when we need 9 yards kinda thing. To me, it's like watching a different offense under Buck.

Collaros: Sticking it to Saskatchewan. Threw some darts. His receivers worked hard for him all game long. Woli & Lawler made a couple of great catches. Harris: Close to or over a hundred yards kept the Rider defense off balance. Brandon Alexander: Two picks by the ballhawk safety. HHA: The entire defense. They were physical. They were mean. They kicked the Riders offense all over the field. Fajardo was hit on nearly every pass play. They were in his head by the end of the game. I thought Liegghio was terrible. We need to bring in another kicker. Someone other than Crapigna.

Jim Barker talked about that. Fajardo can't push the ball dowfield. They absolutely punished him today.

Yeah, he wasn't done in 19. He was playing well until he got hurt.

Woli has to get more involved but he can't catch if he isn't thrown to.

Gimli would have been 1970 as the Bombers moved to St John's Ravenscourt in Fort Garry in 1971 & 72. What a picturesque setting with stately elm trees close to the Red River. Spavital believed that training camp should separate the Men from the Boys. You run, run, run & hit, hit, hit. Every practice every day in helmets & full pads. You'll either survive or quit. His philosophy was that games are won in the fourth quarter. That the Bombers would out hit & out work their opponents. He felt that the Bombers would not be tired late in the game if they had to go 109 yards for a touchdown with 3 minutes left to win the game. Hence the brutal training camps.

Old school coach so Old School ways. He was from Oklahoma & played fullback for the Bombers in the very early 50's. His Bomber training camps were the stuff of legends. Exceedingly tough with hitting & full pads during 2 a days for weeks. In those days TC & a 4 game exhibition season went something like 45 days.

No, the Bombers in 2013 were worse. Remember Jason Boltus & Max Hall? I think it's over for Matt Nichols.

He was 2-14 in 1970 taking over from Joe Zaleski who was fired. In 1971, he was 7-8-1 with newcomers Don Jonas,at qb. He went 10-6 in 1972 & finished first in the West. In 1973, GM Lunsford ripped the team apart cutting Herron & Thorpe after they were arrested for weed possession. A team that was primed to challenge for the Grey Cup in 1973 became a 4-11-1 last place team in the West. Lunsford made Spavital the scapegoat worried about saving his ass. The day Lunsford was fired in 1982 & was replaced by Paul Robson was a great day for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

I lived thru the Joe zaleski years & while he was waaaay in over his head as Grant's replacement, you had to respect the work he did as an assistant coach with 4 Grey Cup victories in 6 appearances. But the team he inherited... all the great players retired en masse over a 2 year period. He wasn't left with much to work with. It was abysmal but the guy tried hard to make chicken salad out of chicken feathers. The worst period for me was the Tim Burke-Garth Butchko era. It was awful. Those teams in 2012 & 13 were the worst Blue Bomber teams I have ever seen. And as good as Tim Burke was as a DC, he was the worst Head Coach the Bomber organization ever had. The man quit on his team. So, his team quit on him, as well. It was total darkness for me as a fan. The Jeff Reinbold era was a joke. He wasn't ready but he had nice hair.

Actually Kenney going MIA is a good thing as he may set an all time record for dislike when it comes to a Canadian Premier. Something so low he & the UCP can't crawl out of.

The CFLPA agreed to this & the Esks will carry 5 extra players on their roster for those 3 games. They should have forfeited. The players & mgmt deserved this. No sympathy from me. Man up & get it done. Congrats Elizondo & Sunderland. Job well done. I'm just glad they didn't **** with our schedule.

I think I remember something about his wife being very sick when Burke was Head Coach. If true, then he was facing trouble at home with personal issues along with trying to coach a very bad football team. It might have been better if he had stepped down. It wasn't talked about much by the media but I do remember a mention. I hope she is alright today.