Mark H.

The 'need' to start Canadians on the OL is a tough mindset to change 

If the other teams keep winning they could make trouble for us 

If the other teams keep winning they could make trouble for us 

The OL problems would go back further than '08, but the Ottawa expansion draft provided some stop gap solutions in '06. Then there was Alex Gauthier who never seemed to miss a game at LT while he was here 

The OL problems would go back further than '08, but the Ottawa expansion draft provided some stop gap solutions in '06. Then there was Alex Gauthier who never seemed to miss a game at LT while he was here 

The OL problems would go back further than '08, but the Ottawa expansion draft provided some stop gap solutions in '06. Then there was Alex Gauthier who never seemed to miss a game at LT while he was here 

As I've said before, protection first   ratio second. Unless the Canadian OL really step up, they should consider 3 Americans on the OL. If that means Bucknor has to start in the secondary, they could go with a second Canadian receiver. 

Too true. I just hope the OL talent and protection schemes are being given their due diligence this time around.  I would say our entire season pretty much hinges on this. They seem to have improved the talent pretty well in most other areas. Perhaps they are counting on Harris to be a difference maker in the protection schemes, and that's why they've mostly stood pat  with the current OL.
TBD

Harris gives us a consistent weapon against the blitz.....

Yeah I highly doubt Bryant needed to sign here. Every team starts one or two import tackles,and he's a good one 

Yeah I highly doubt Bryant needed to sign here. Every team starts one or two import tackles,and he's a good one 

Suffice to say, Bomber fans are not even a little surprised by Chick's contract.
 

Yes. Charlie Roberts did rather well with subpar Olines over the years. An RB who produces YAC consistently would help the OL a great deal. 

One winning season is all it will take to fill the stadium again. Just give Manitobans a reason to cheer - they'll be back.
 

One winning season is all it will take to fill the stadium again. Just give Manitobans a reason to cheer - they'll be back.
 

I gotta agree to disagree with you on that one - I think people are starved for a winning team and looking for a good excuse to party.

I gotta agree to disagree with you on that one - I think people are starved for a winning team and looking for a good excuse to party.

I gotta agree to disagree with you on that one - I think people are starved for a winning team and looking for a good excuse to party.

And you need the number 4 in there somewhere - man, it's just an incomplete list.
 

I don't even recognize all the names in the OP

At the risk of stating the obvious: it's the players who are right on the verge of making the NFL who make the most impact up here.  The Henoc Muamba's & Doug Brown's of the world.

Sorry man, I couldn't resist. Cheerio.
 

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Maybe, just maybe, there are cycles to earth's climate, that we don't even understand or get just yet.  Like, why were the "dirty thirties" so dirty?  Now, if there is a drought, it must be "man made climate change" that is causing it.  But what caused the drought in the 30's?  It wasn't man-made climate change.  Perhaps, just perhaps, climates change naturally.  But there's no $4 billion funding grants, and no fancy Paris parties to attend, if that's the case.  So fear-mongering it is.
 
I can answer this one:
 
The Dirty 30's happened because of poor farming practices. When you're farming, dry/wet years are just part of the natural order of things. They busted up the prairie sod and then put very little back into it for decades. Whatever straw wasn't needed for livestock was burned, almost all stubble was burned. When a drier period (dirty thirties) came long, their top soil just disappeared. Moisture retention was almost zero, top soil retention was non-existent.
 
Today we have practices such as zero tillage, crop rotation, shelter belts, crops that add more organic matter to the soil, and combines that chop the straw so it decomposes more readily.  
 
Basically, the dirty thirties happened because people didn't quite understand how to farm the prairies yet.  When I see neighbours still burning stubble (unless it's because of disease) I wonder how much we've actually learned.