Mike

Speaking of big name quarterbacks on negotiation lists ... just in case anyone is curious Johnny Football is on Hamilton's negotiation list, Jameis Winston is Winnipeg property and Brett Hogan is Edmonton property.

Would be pretty seamless, get rid of Edwards and that would cover most of it. But it wouldn't be between Edwards and Dressler, more like Collaros vs. Dressler. And that still leaves Henoc. However, this year having so many FAs on our roster, and expected SMS increase, there may be more wiggle room. Still the argument whether Dressler would be the best investment rests with who will be out there and where our greatest needs are deemed to be. Have to disagree. I can guarantee you, if you manage your cap properly, you could easily sign Dressler, Henoc, Collaros and Andrew Harris. And field a competitive team with them on it. It's not one or the other. A 200k salary (which is probably the average of what these guys will earn) is like 4.5% of your cap. Consider for a moment that the average CFL salary is around 1.2% of the cap, you have PLENTY of room for big name players on a squad.

Maybe he wanted to relocate the Bombers to the moon and Wade wasn't sure the travel costs would be manageable for road games.

Parting ways the same way Buchko parted ways. Wouldn't want Chapdelaine here.

Curious to see how this works out for Edmonton. I think I've gone a bit sour on ace defensive coordinators making the move to head coach. Stubler and Burke, among others ... it's just not a good run on those guys lately.

And according to many of our own forum members, the Winnipeg print media is the laughing stock of the media. Nope. WPG media is somewhat negative, but they are among the sharpest. Penton just won CDN football reporter of the year! Our organization is (or has been) a poorly run joke, and our media have the balls to call it as such. If you want warm and fuzzy, move to SK and read Rod Pederast and the Great Fan-stone. Among the sharpest? Yeah. No. Lawless can't keep his thoughts straight from one article to the next, Friesen somehow manages to write 30 articles a year about football without actually ever discussing football, Wiecek would rather be covering curling, Bender doesn't even know the rules of the game and Toth spends 75% of his time covering the team chatting it up with his colleagues (I still remember Toth's tweet earlier this year when he said Buck looked really sharp in practice and Pierce had only thrown one pass that day) Tait knows his football. Irving knows his football. Penton is a good writer and is getting more up to speed with the game. That trio are the only ones I would consider sharp. So our media covering the CFL are awful ... except for the three we have that are better than what's in any other CFL city? Agreed about Lawless, he's lazy and relies on his board leak for all his stuff. Friesen does what the paper tells him to do to sell that paper. Wiecek is also lazy. The King of The Em Dash. I don't have an opinion of Toth or Bender. Still, those top 3 are as good as the CFL gets. Maybe as far as quantity but I'd certainly say Lowell Ulrich in BC and Herb Zurkowsky in MTL are great at what they do. Jim Mullin, although I feel like he doesn't write much anymore, is also really good. Terry Jones is another favorite.

And according to many of our own forum members, the Winnipeg print media is the laughing stock of the media. Nope. WPG media is somewhat negative, but they are among the sharpest. Penton just won CDN football reporter of the year! Our organization is (or has been) a poorly run joke, and our media have the balls to call it as such. If you want warm and fuzzy, move to SK and read Rod Pederast and the Great Fan-stone. Among the sharpest? Yeah. No. Lawless can't keep his thoughts straight from one article to the next, Friesen somehow manages to write 30 articles a year about football without actually ever discussing football, Wiecek would rather be covering curling, Bender doesn't even know the rules of the game and Toth spends 75% of his time covering the team chatting it up with his colleagues (I still remember Toth's tweet earlier this year when he said Buck looked really sharp in practice and Pierce had only thrown one pass that day) Tait knows his football. Irving knows his football. Penton is a good writer and is getting more up to speed with the game. That trio are the only ones I would consider sharp.

If you want to play that game, I could easily give you three names they had more than one conversation with about the GM position. Other than Kyle Walters.

There's a difference between questioning it (which some are) and what you are doing which is essentially just making the same snide comment a million times.

Some people are being dicks about it, but it really is a legitimate issue to question. Pretty much everybody on this site wanted us to do it, until we didn't. Then it's no big deal, and as you say, we should all get over it. It's hard for us to know to what extent they went looking for candidates, but you're right. I do want a thorough search. I guess I just never expected a thorough search to mean what others thought it might.

So how is it that an HC and an OC are being hired at the exact same time? Doesn't O'Shea get to hire his coaches? I wasn't there, but my assumption is talk of coordinators came up in the interview process. You'd think people would be thrilled that two guys with NO connection to eachother are going to be working on staff together, but somehow even THAT is ruled as fishy.

I'm getting tired of reading this stuff from you. Are you just determined to turn EVERYTHING into a jab at the football club?

Bluto ... who would you guess comes with OShea? and what do you think of him as a HC

Best of luck to him, but I can't see him getting a deal down there. As per official Bombers Twitter.

Yessssss two scouts!

I'd rather employ a goat.

I'm happy. Not ecstatic, but Higgins (or pretty much any other non-surprise candidate) would not have made me ecstatic either.

This is horrible news.

I like this entire thread.

O'Shea with Khari as OC suits me fine.

Creehan following Burke makes sense, they don't have a LB coach in Toronto. If O'Shea is the man, I wonder who they'd poach. You know what I'd love to see? O'Shea bring Maas with him and give him a promotion to QBC

No surprise you'd hate the halftime show seen as how you pretty much seem to hate everything. That being said, the halftime show isn't meant to cater to people already at the game or watching the game on TV. They're already watching, it's not meant as a "bonus" for them. The halftime show IS to cater to, as you put it, the 12 year old girl demographic. Get TV sets that wouldn't normally tune in to switch the channel. Up the ratings, up the ad revenue, it's that simple. And as much as I can't stand Hedley, I'll take them over outdated acts like BTO mumbling out lyrics nobody can understand. No surprise you'd pick out something as ridiculous as this to criticize me for. You can be an ass just like everybody else even though you claim you aren't. In a single post, you called something "one of the biggest WTF moments in a century", made a joke about sexual abuse against children and suggested Jennifer Hedger was "on something" during the halftime show. Speaking of ridiculous.

No surprise you'd hate the halftime show seen as how you pretty much seem to hate everything. That being said, the halftime show isn't meant to cater to people already at the game or watching the game on TV. They're already watching, it's not meant as a "bonus" for them. The halftime show IS to cater to, as you put it, the 12 year old girl demographic. Get TV sets that wouldn't normally tune in to switch the channel. Up the ratings, up the ad revenue, it's that simple. And as much as I can't stand Hedley, I'll take them over outdated acts like BTO mumbling out lyrics nobody can understand. I understand the idea of trying to get eyeballs on the tv that wouldn't normally be there but I'm going to take great exception to the idea you'd take these guys over the outdated acts... Those acts have staying power for a reason and their songs popularity span across generations. In summary damn kids todays Musically? No, I wouldn't. In a live setting? Some of those acts just don't have the chops to produce a quality live performance anymore.

No surprise you'd hate the halftime show seen as how you pretty much seem to hate everything. That being said, the halftime show isn't meant to cater to people already at the game or watching the game on TV. They're already watching, it's not meant as a "bonus" for them. The halftime show IS to cater to, as you put it, the 12 year old girl demographic. Get TV sets that wouldn't normally tune in to switch the channel. Up the ratings, up the ad revenue, it's that simple. And as much as I can't stand Hedley, I'll take them over outdated acts like BTO mumbling out lyrics nobody can understand.