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Lankford as a DI Receiver/Returner would make a lot of sense to me, especially if Fogg isn't ready to go to start the season. (I see Fogg as a DI DB/Returner.)

I could see Jeffcoat getting a DI spot allowing him to backup both Westerman and Okpalaugo. Thomas, Butcher and/or Ekakitie should be able to hold down one DT spot and backup the other. That leaves Johnson as a PR guy and allows us to use an import MLB.

We challenged it and lost the challenge and a timeout. My guess is that there wasn't any more than the one angle so they went with the call on the field.

I'm not known for my blue colored glasses, but it certainly looks like the Riders were within 5 yards meaning no fumble and Bomber ball 15 yards up the field.

June 10 - BC Lions Released: QB Keith Price (I) DL Harold Brantley (I) DL Edward Godin (N) OL Vincent Brown (I) OL Quinn Horton (N) OL Evan Telford (N) WR Mitchell Hillis (N) WR Montario Hunter (I) WR Deon Long (I) DB Adrian James (I) DB Justin Thomas (I) LB Nehemie Kankolongo (N)

I was a huge Knight fan back in the day. Ralph Dieter Brock had a great arm and could put the ball anywhere he needed to, but Knight was the better QB until he tore his rotator cuff.

I thought it was the Baylor Basher.

It would be to me. Anything to end the current drought.

That made me laugh out loud. Your cursed Mike. Cursed. Please, please don't get a Loffler jersey.

Bill Frank and it's not even close. Minnick was great but IIRC he was always injured.

Like I said 24 hours ago:

Cummings and Shologan came in with big expectations last year. "Everyone" was talking about how they were going to fix our D line problems. O'Shea even got upset at a reporter who dared to ask if he expected them to do the same on the Bombers as they'd done before and he said of course we do. They didn't live up to those expectations. Is that because 2 players suddenly got worse or because they were being used differently in their old defenses or maybe because they were playing different roles in Halls defense. Does it automatically mean that our new big name FA's are going to do the same? Nope. It doesn't mean that they will automatically live up to "everyone's" exceptions either. Don't be dim. Lots of teams made mistakes in the off season and I point out what I think the mistakes are no matter if they are made by the Bombers or someone else. BTW: I don't think that signing either Okpalaugo or Nevis are mistakes. I just don't see them as the big upgrade that you do.

Cummings came to the Bombers off a season where he had 24 tackles, 8 sacks. Folks expected him to do the same as he did on Toronto's D, but on Halls D he got 16 tackles, 3 sacks. Nevis comes to the Bombers off a season where he had 29 tackles, 5 sacks. 5 more tackles, 3 less sacks than Cummings when he came to the Bombers. Most folks around here expect him do do about the same or better than he did last year on Hamilton's D. I'll believe it if I see it. Shologan came to the Bombers off a season where he had 24 tackles, 7 sacks. On Halls D he got 22 tackles and 2 sacks. He's replaced by 2 guys with zero stats. (Thomas is still going to rotate)

It's still Hall's defence after all. I expect the DL to look much the same as last year. We got rid of the 2 high priced FA's we brought in to fix the DL last year and replaced them with 2 high priced FA's to fix the DL this year. Cummings and Nevis are a wash IMO. Both had good stats coming to the Bombers. Okpalaugo's a definite upgrade. Shologan's being replaced with a draft pick from this year and one from last. I expect that to be a downgrade especially at the beginning of the year. I agree about Calgary and BC and about our special teams, but we had one of the worst defenses in the league last year, except for the turnovers.

My take at the moment: East Hamilton - Gotta assume they won't have the huge injury problems they had last year. Ottawa - Losing Burris, Jackson, Kenneh, Williams will hurt them. Might even fall farther. Montreal - Fixed their 2 biggest problems, Popp as HC and QB. Will go as far as Durant takes them. Toronto - Love Trestman, but they got started too late which cost them in FA. Will go as far as Ray takes them. West Calgary - Won't win as many as last year, but still the best team in the league. BC - Don't bet against Wally B. Jennings has a full year as a starter and will get better this year a few less TO's = a few more W's. Edmonton - Went 5-1 to end the season last year, 1-1 in the playoffs. Walker wasn't their only play maker. Winnipeg - Doubt the gaudy turnover stats are repeatable so we'll have to find new ways to win and we stood pat in the offseason. Regina - More wins, but not enough to get out of the basement.

Other than huge injury problems with the other teams, Riders will still be last this year. More wins than last year tho.

Mike used the Big Blue Booster Crew's own website against them too? Yikes! The guy's serial abuser.

I signed up because it was a new site to talk Bombers. Simple as that. That doesn't mean I didn't think it was a crap move in the first place. I've got lots of posts because folks like to argue with me and I have a different opinions than lots folks around here. For Example: 17 said on page 4 of this thread... "and then once people left Colin made the address of this place censored for everyone, even in PMs, cause I remember trying to PM someone the address to this place and they just got a bunch of stars. Bottom line is Colin was an egotist and couldn't handle not being THE Bomber internet message board guru. " That's the 1st post in this thread that I replied to. Without it, were about 4 pages shorter and a bunch of posts less on this thread. I get that you've talked yourself into the idea that you did the right things for the right reasons and don't like being called out on doing it in crappy manner. It wasn't simply 'Where'd everyone go?'. It was an coup organized by the OB mods. What did you expect Colin to do? Nicely ask you to stop butthurtin him or just ask when your going to be done?

Typical Mike. Type about a bunch things that have little or nothing to do with what I typed about in the first place. Your entire post is filled with good reasons to break away from the old site and start your own, which I have absolutely no problem with. None of it has anything to to with using the old site to promote the new one. FTR: The only 2 things I said were crap were: Using Colin's site to promote you own site. Complaining that Colin wasn't nice when you did #1. You don't see any difference between using someone else's competing website to take their members and leaving a card to help the other Realtor contact you? That's dim, even for you. Being right and winning the argument aren't always the same thing.

Realtors leave their cards in every home that they take their clients to. It's done to help the selling agent contact the buyers agent to get feedback and to show that you actually took your clients to the showing. It's nothing like posting on someone else's site to take their members.

Your just justifying your actions by arguing that the ends justify the means and saying what else could we have done. I've already told you the alternatives were to advertise, use social media and email to promote your new site. You staged a coup. You won. Those are the facts' that matter. When I was a Realtor, I'm sure I'd have been called before the ethics committee if I went to another Realtors site and tried to take their members, even if I had problems with the other realtor, my new site was way better and just what everyone wanted. I certainly wouldn't complain about how they did me wrong by blocking my new site name. That and being banned would be expected parts of staging a coup.

I don't see ads, so I don't know if they bought any, but I'd doubt it. They made a post inviting everyone to their new site. That's how I and many others found out about this site and what had been going on in the background in the first place. That post was deleted, but the conversation was started and ended up in other threads. That's how a lot more folks found out about the new site. Colin made the new site name turn into *'s. That lead to folks PM'ing the new site owners, who hadn't been banned from the old site. So yes... they were actively promoting the new site on the old site.

Nice team by team overview from CFL.CA - https://www.cfl.ca/2017/05/27/primer-team-team-look-2017-training-camp/

Lets try a Winnipeg type, in person, example: You don't go to a friends social and make an announcement to invite folks to your social instead. I'm betting you'd be thrown out if you tried . You don't then complain about the guy who set up the social because they didn't give you an easy way to contact the people who weren't there when you make the original announcement. That's just whining after being wrong in the first place.

Classy.