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Tackling techniques are bad because the CFL teams don't practice in pads anymore. You can't go full out in drills focusing on fundamentals with little or no protection.

Exactly financing & running a CFL team compared to an NHL team is miniscule in comparison. That being said, Halifax doesn't have the desire to build a 25,000 seat stadium costing upwards of $150-200 million. I don't think it happens.

Mark Washington? Luke warm on that...

Most CFL kickers come fromU Sports so maybe he's The Next One.

Who was the kicker the Bombers drafted from U Sports?

Burke had PTSD. He was completely broken.

So many more opportunities for Steinhauer in the NCAA & perhaps later the NFL. I'll be shocked if he ever comes back. Thorpe is out there.

You want Hugh O'Neill kicking for the Bombers?

Yeah, don't know much about the rules so I'll take your word for it, thanks.

I don't like Jones. At times, I think he lacks integrity as he cheats. The roster situation last year with practice players & working out Johnny Manziel even though he was on the Ti Cats Neg List. He is an embarrassment to the Riders at times but between he & John Murphy they kept signing players at all positions. They totally revamped their team on the fly & well, you can't argue with results. Doesn't mean I like his methods but he ultimately was successful. What did the Bombers do? Stood pat. Really didn't bring in a lot of players especially at receiver & defensive back to challenge the guys we had. We decided to go with "the guys that brung us here", so to speak & management never really challenged the roster to get better. Which really hurt us when the injuries started. Was that a mistake? I'd have liked us to have been more aggressive but do we have the scouting staff with the connections John Murphy has? At times I wonder. I think you sign players, evaluate & add them as needed if they are better than the players we already have. That's what I think. We were very passive with personnel issues. It cost us yesterday.

Wait, earlier you were saying coaching had nothing to do with anything yesterday. That what happened was all related to personnel issues. Now, you're saying good players make coaches great. Whose fault is it if the MLB is expected to eat blockers? That's all coaching. You just contradicted yourself.

I believe PR players are free agents & can sign anywhere as they aren't under contract once the season is over. Isn't that what happened with Brian Bennett last year at this time? The Riders signed a bunch of players off PRs as soon as the regular season ended IIRC.

O'Shea said he was afraid of Reilly & wanted to keep him off the field. Which leads to desperation decisions like that.

O'Shea's explanation was that they ran the fake to keep Mike Reilly off the field. That tells us even the HC knows the Bomber defense isn't very good. Of course, that takes us back to off season scouting decisions, free agent signings, politics by the coaches as to who plays & who sits, standing pat all this past season not bringing in others to push the starters on D at certain positions, staying with Hall as the DC, screwy personnel decisions like playing Roc Carmichael taking half a season to be replaced, Ryan Lankford playing over TJ Thorpe & taking a year to figure out Coates was deserving of a starting position at receiver, then set in stone ratio decisions at MLB. That failed punt fake was set in motion starting last December by all kinds of things the Bombers did yet failed to do to improve the defense overall in the past year..

What got the Bombers angry is that the refs have been calling the defensive line whenever they jumped even if the ball wasn't snapped. What I didn't like about that was just call the play & snap the ball if they don't jump. Wasted a down for a FG. The Bombers should just worry about executing their plays & winning the game.

Just two reminders to Big Blue. (1) Fans wanting Hall fired is in just about every post game thread here so why have another dedicated to firing him? (2) WE do not fire him. The Blue Bombers do. More specifically, Mike O'Shea.

This regime will be on the hotseat if they don't replace Hall. That should be Job #1. If MOS gets stubborn & keeps him & things defensively stay the same next year with a MLB who just plunges into the line then there'll be problems.

Coaching is all about using personnel to its best ability. What do we see Hurl do all the time? Dive into the OL, get eliminated from the play while Gable goes the other direction for a touchdown. Hurl never even saw the handoff so he can't read the play. Meanwhile MOS says what a great job Hurl does taking on the guards. Does exactly what they ask, he says. Can't recall O'Shea doing that when he played. Or Muamba, Woods, Singleton, Sherritt or Elimimian. Just Hurl. I guess if throwing Hurl at the guards on every play is utilizing his skills in the best way possible then no wonder defensively we're so bad. No, it ain't coaching... Right.

1. No 2. Didn't challenge as we had No Yards 3. I was home. Comfortable.

They then scored another TD & it was over. The Bombers were sapped of anything to mount a comeback. That's when the defensive breakdowns started. It was a huge turning point.

You don't know that. Field position wins games & we gave up a ton of real estate by not punting which led to the Esks scoring a TD. We had stopped their offense the series before. We lost all the momentum we had after that fake. It was definitely the turning point. It was a dumb call.

Lindley fumble. The Choke is on.

Anyone want to go on Babble?

Harris just throws a pick. C'mon man. Damn, I hate the Riders.

Allen doesn't have the same respect other qbs had. I think a lot of it had to do with his laid back attitude. I remember a lot of times he'd throw a pick, fumble or make a bad play & just walk off the field like it was no big deal. He'd even be smiling sometimes. Fans noticed that & thought he didn't care but he did. It was just the way he handled pressure.