Rich

This is what I thought at first as well, that he wanted that 500k cash grab. Then I read the rest of the article and he it seems he is more concerned about the Heritage Classic cannibalizing Grey Cup ticket sales. They overpriced the heritage classic in Vancouver and struggled to sellout, giving deep discounts before the event. You are going to be asking a lot of the same people to spend $300+ on Grey Cup ticket and another $200 - $1000 on a heritage classic ticket. Based on prior seasons, the Bombers are by no means guaranteed to be in the Grey Cup, so no guarantee you see your team, but you are guaranteed to see the Jets. Then again, when was the last time the Grey Cup didn't sellout. Maybe this is just a cash grab. I do agree that if Wade wants to play chicken with the NHL, he will lose.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/football/cfl/Outdoor-Heritage-Classic-game-could-be-postponed-289193531.html

Just curious, what contents of an announcement would have made you thought them to be unusual and that would have led you to believe there was "sitting". I really don't know if the Bombers were sitting on the announcement or not. But I'm not sure how the contents of that announcement could lead you to believe they delayed it or not. There really is no link between the two. It isn't like they are going to say we signed him last week but our PR guy was on holidays so we waited until today to announce it. Just not how things work.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=749417

Sure its a hockey play, but it is an illegal one. It is called cross checking. And he did it to Perreault at the end of a play where it wouldn't normally be expected. Unfortunate for Carcillo, but they suspend based on the result and reputation. He has a bad reputation and the result was he took Perreault out for at least that game.

This has now been resolved. Sorry for the downtime and thanks for your patience.

A few interesting tweets after the game.

Been working to get this fixed but getting push back between the people who make the forum software and the hosting provider. Both think the other needs to fix it. Chat room unlikely to be working for tonights game.

I know there are a few people that use the chat room during Jets games so I'm posting this notice in here. The site’s hosting company had a bad outage yesterday that sent a whole bunch of their websites down (some of you might have noticed that the board was down for 10 – 20 minutes yesterday afternoon). I suspect they had a power outage or something and all of their servers crashed badly. There are some funny logs on the website that seem to correspond with that time frame, and software support has said that those events are the likely reason the chat room isn't working, and some things need to be cleaned up. I do have a support ticket in right now with the hosting company to get this looked at and fixed. My guess is they are pretty swamped right now cleaning up the after math from their crash yesterday, so I don’t yet have a time frame on when it will get fixed and working again. I will keep you updated.

average: a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number. The average fan does not check this site multiple times a day and obsess over coaches and announcements. The obsessive or hard core fan does. Face it, those of us that obsess at sites like this are not “normal”. And there is nothing wrong with that. The Bombers know that they don’t have to try very hard to get the attention and money of the hard core fan. They do have to try harder to get to the average fan. This is why announcements in the off season are often strategically scheduled to get the Bombers name out into the news at regular times, and not necessarily the minute a signing is a done deal. It doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate the hard core fan or are trying to upset them. They are just doing what a smart organization does to remain in the conscience of a wider fan base. And yes, those people are real fans. They spend money on season tickets and merchandise just like hard core fans else (maybe not as much on a per fan basis, but they spend more money as a group). If the only fan this organization had was the hard core fan, it wouldn't be an organization for long.

Off season and people are on holidays? Often, for things like this they want all the players (GM, head coach, maybe Miller, etc) in town to do the press conference, and it sometimes takes time to coordinate those schedules.

Keep in mind that the Riders have said they are open to keeping Hall on staff, just not as DC. Normally it would be hard to imagine someone wanting to be in that situation but Hall's ties to Regina are very strong, so it is a possibility. Perhaps a remote possibility, but a possibility nonetheless. For sure anything is possible. Assuming he would stay as a defensive coach (and not special teams), can you imagine being demoted to work under a rookie DC who is basically there to run the defense of the head coach who fired you. Awkward situation to be in and would have the makings for a dysfunctional staff / toxic atmosphere. If I was the Riders administration, I wouldn't let that happen.

On the flip side of the coin, with the Saskatchewan job filled, who else is looking for a defensive coordinator? I suppose it is possible Hall decides he just doesn't want to work next year like Benevides, but there isn't much other competition right now for DC jobs. Most teams have kept theirs from last year.

If you find the NFL boring, it could be because a telecast consists mostly of players just standing around between plays (35.5%).

Shouldn't be too disappointed with getting 3 of 6 points on a road trip that includes games against LA and Anaheim. Just hurts a little more with the leads they've given up and it seems the team has regressed a bit defensively.

You are so good at being one, the board awarded you an extra *

I’m not saying I necessarily disagree with what you wrote, but it is interesting how you say that Pavelec played well last night, but he is consistently underperforming for the season and that his save percentage is an indication of that. His save percentage last night was .867, which is obviously not good enough. So then, did he really play well last night? I was curling last night and watched the game in the lounge after so wasn't paying the closest attention to it. He made some big saves after the first two power play goals, but were the goals he did let in weak? Or was the team just playing really poor defense around him? Looking strictly at the numbers over the last couple of months, Hutch is severely outplaying Pavelec in both save percentage and wins.

This poll, while a month old now, had Benevides as the choice of the forum. Hall was a distant 2nd and almost tied with Claybrooks.. Though no requirement to be "smart" to vote. http://morningbigblue.com/community/topic/6269-poll-who-should-be-the-bombers-new-dc/ Benevides 59.3% Hall 16.48% Claybrooks 15.38%

I really think there has to be only one defensive coordinator to determine the style, pace, and plays called. How would that work with co-defensive coordinators? One designs the playbook and the other calls the plays?

It was January of last year when he had season ending spine surgery. Reoccurring back injuries are not a good thing. Assuming the other D-men come back, we are okay depth wise, but sucks for Clitsome.