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i know what you're saying Al and i definitely see Higgins as a quality hire. but i don't get how people think that a guy with as many contacts in football as Forde has would somehow not know a single soul south of the border... or that the Bombers don't already have a pretty good guy doing the scouting down their already to work with Forde. i think people sell him short.

how can i hate you for wanting him? you'd be nuts not to. he also would be a second player personnel guy for your new GM. you'll likely have to outbid Montrel for him though... and he's already the highers paid coordinator in the league by far. (he gets more than some HCs get)

feeling your age there oldtimer?

i had them as equivalently smelly. they both were bad calls that set up TDs that shouldn't have been. but it's all a matter of perspective.

#95. total matador job. OLE!

i thought the game hinged on the mystery flag on Marsh. it may not have been close in the 2nd half but for that.

two ways you could have taken that post, rg. perhaps he was saying that he doesn't care about the plight of the team (like the theme of this thread being that fans are starting to stop caring) and not about you or your opinion. ........ i'm well past the Schadenfreude stage with the state of the Blue Bombers. it's getting to a sad place and the fact is that i don't see a fix that doesn't include dynamiting most of the people who are decision makers for your club. i remember all of those years of Bomber teams that, while sometimes they weren't a top-level GC contender, they always had guys on the team who were worth watching play and were the backbone of the roster. the type of player that not only would you gladly pay to watch, but if you were rebuilding the team next year, you didn't have to worry about their positions because they were locked-in. i'm talking about Stegall and Brown level guys... or even the next tier of Roberts or Simpson players. players that other GMs wish they had. right now the roster is nigh bereft of players in that category. there's maybe one blue-chip NI and maybe, maybe two top level imports. that won't cut it on any team and it's the biggest reason why the Bombers are again in last. only one man can take ownership of that. period full stop. Buchko, inexperienced sports exec though he may be, had an instinct last off season to bring in another manager to hedge the team's bets. it's a shame he got persuaded not to do it. because whether or not Forde was the right guy (or will ever be a top CFL exec), at least he'd have been an option. another football mind to talk to Buchko and help him find the next GM. options are good things. and that $200k seems like a small fee to have another way to go right now to me.

i remember those! i had a Greer one made of the same stuff.

at 31 years... this is awful news for him.

makes our defensive assignments for Thursday a bit easier to guess: Jones: Okay, Watkins! You cover Green. Everyone else... just pick someone.

it's a blow... but i have a feeling that the offence's production in Montreal will still be going up. bad: Richardson out for year good: Hawkins fired it's a net-gain still i think.

your BoD had their chance. they blew it bigtime.

QBs in tonights game.

very much that. lucky for us other teams in the East the Bombers won't do anything resembling that.

i am calling Dave a homer... but it's for the reason that he's trying to sell coaching as the only place that Mack has failed in that post.

smh.

their personnel on D needs a minor overhaul, but Orlondo is going to get the most out of what they have. they'll still get lit up from time to time, but i think they'll get fractionally better from week to week. by the time they play @ Molson in the ESF, they may pull off an upset.

perhaps switching out certain players who no replacements were brought in for (Buck, Morley, Boatman, etc) has taken so long since it would be a de facto admission of mistakes by a manager who can't afford any more. ego investment is a hell of a motivator... just ask the people who are still backing Mack...

good finish!

botched 2 pt convert... onside attempt coming?

and the TiCats D tries their best to fold...

this game started off as a real dog, but it's actually gotten entertaining in the late going.

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Burris had alllll dayyyy to find Ellingson on that TD and somebody in the TD scrum was doing a Daffy Duck ("whoohoo!whoohoo!whoohoo!")