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I'd rate Nichols with Tom Burgess or even Sean Salisbury. I think he's better than the other 2 though. Nichols excels as a game manager. He prevents turnovers & picks other than the last regular season game where he threw 3 but that was just him having a bad game. All qbs have games like that. If we develop a dominant defense to help him we can win. That's the key to this team. It's our defense. It has to be better. It's dragging the team down. Changes have to be made. Perhaps starting at DC. We'll see. I just hope Mike O'Shea sees that.

I believe Wild's play was injury related. He'll come back next year & hopefully stay healthy & will have a much better season. Wild's a very good player.

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I was thinking about our team today & doesn't it feel like we've emerged from some Dark Age? That there are better times ahead. Like a warm day in late March. You know better days are ahead.

J5V, I've been reading your posts about Mike O'Shea. The simple truth of the matter is that you just don't fire a head coach who took a team from 6-12 to 11-7 in a single season & the WDSF then toss him. It just isn't done. The Bombers organization would look like a Ship Of Fools if they did that. Certainly it'd be sending out a lot of negative vibes to all the other coaches in the CFL about the state of the team, the people who run it & the kind of business they'd be doing. It would make no sense. Who'd want to come here knowing that being 2 games over .500 & making the playoffs isn't good enough to keep their job? O'Shea deserves a new contract. The guy's earned it. Other than Marc Trestman who would you want as head coach? Start naming names instead of using vague terms like, "Bring in an experienced coach". Who? Experience doesn't mean anything. Don Matthews went 0-9 in Toronto when he was given the Argos HC job in the middle of the season. George Cortez was a very good OC & turned out to be a very bad head coach. Both had plenty of experience but it didn't matter. Matthews is the second winningest head coach in the CFL all time with over 200 wins behind Wally Buono. The Bombers won't fire O'Shea & they'd be crazy to do it. He deserves to be here.

If Mike O'Shea did leave on his own accord to say, Toronto (if there was a head coaching opportunity there) then it's his decision to go. No one asked him to leave, he would have been offered a contract but turned it down. If he wants to go then he'll go. If he wants to stay then he'll stay. The Bombers will offer him a contract. If he left, I believe that there's no way Walters will bring in a head coach who'll tear everything down. This team is on the way up & hasn't reached its potential yet, Toronto is on the way down. I think it would be difficult for O'Shea to leave a job unfinished in Winnipeg so I think he'll be back.

I really like Marc Trestman. It may have sounded like I didn't but I really do. The CFL needs more guys like him & less of Jason Maas & Chris jones & their shenanigans. I was hoping he'd be back in some capacity with a CFL team like the Argos or the Als. The man is just a class act all around.

Trestman isn't in the NFL. He was fired. He never would have become the Bears head coach had he not have had the success in Montreal that he had. Okay, stupid was the wrong word. I guess puzzling may have been the better term as the Argos would have opened the vaults to sign him.

I don't care how good the pass catchers are, if the qb is looking at the sky when he throws the ball it doesn't matter. We just went through a very dark era in Blue Bomber history where we had the worst OL for years. Now that we finally put together an OL we can actually win with some fans want to dismantle it to play 5 Ints at receivers? No thanks.

Marc Trestman "not too interested" in coming back to the CFL? I guess he likes bouncing around the NFL like a rubber ball becoming more & more irrelevant with every bounce. The CFL saved his career once & it could again. Up to him I guess. You can't teach stupid. It just is.

Nichols played with confidence. Willy played with very little confidence out there. The hits & injuries really took their toll on the man. He looked the same in Toronto as he did here. He didn't look comfortable when he played. His facial expressions & body language just gave everything away. Willy's teammates could see that & I'm sure that is why his teammates didn't play as hard for him as they did for Nichols. Nichols had some gruesome injuries as well to deal with but to his enormous credit he was able to put that in the back of his mind & not let it get to him. That's a quality a lot of us wouldn't have to be honest. To face your fears, come back from adversity like that & play well. I feel bad for Drew Willy but even coming back the way he did took guts on his part. At the same time, I admire Nichols for what he's done. He's courageous.

This is like Trump & Hillary. You see one POV & that's it. Depends on what fans think of O'Shea.

I'd never even consider that the Bombers should have tried a 61 yard FG if the Bombers didn't get the first down. I'd say 99% of the other fans would be the same. That the right play was to kick the FG? Never. Now at 58 yards with the game on the line on the last play of the game then yes it's the only play as it would have had a better chance than a Hail Mary. But not 61 yards with 36 seconds left on a third & four. The only choice was to go for it. Not kick. There's more luck involved than skill on a kick that far.

Disagree. FGs aren't normally tried from 61 yards so I don't believe the coach would have been questioned if he gambled. Thirty six seconds left on 3rd & 4 you go for it. If you don't make it then okay you tried the most logical & statistically highest percentage attempt which is to gamble & not kick. if this was the last play then yes you try the FG. That wasn't the time to do that. O'Shea should have put more faith in his offense to get that first down,

Some chance to win? What? No!

The Lions had a lot of calls go their way. Unless the Stamps totally collapse they should beat the Lions by more than a few points.

Then it got stopped. I'd have accepted it. At least we were doing the logical thing trying to win. There were 36 seconds, not 6 seconds left. The FG attempt was a stupid call.

Ultimately it DID come down to one call irrespective of the others. It was a gutless call. The season came down to an impossible FG attempt or 4 measly yards. I am having a hard time accepting the way our season was lost by a panicked O'Shea. If our O couldn't have got the yards I'd be happier to lose that way than the way we did today. At least we'd have tried.

O'Shea turtled & panicked. That's how I saw it. He got scared & made the wrong decision.

They never turned off Suitor's mic. He was just heard on TSN laughing while the Jennings interview started, "I told you we'd (BC) be going to Calgary".

No. Neither should O'Shea with that dumb decision. I'd have rather lost trying to get the first down than on a 61 yard FG attempt.

Jennings a pick, a sack & a fumble. What a great young qb says TSN.

Why has the CFL gone so screwy the past few years? From strange PI rules to coaches challenges to Campbell getting nominated for COTY. What has happened to the CFL??

Campbell?

Only a few will leave. In the end, they'll stay.