kelownabomberfan

well except that PIerce wasn't good enough... They won the east final on the strength of the defense and running game. What did Pierce do in the Grey Cup game other than suck balls until garbage time? The thing that no one backing Pierce seems to want to address is that his struggles are not a new thing, he's been going downhill every since 2010 at the earliest and partway through 2011 at the latest. I'm not backing Pierce. I'm just saying that Glenn was brutal in 2008. Was that all his fault? I don't think so. Our schemes were terrible. Glenn proved that by turning it all around in Hamilton under MB in 2009-11. I think Glenn is a good QB and I would rather have him here in Winnipeg now than what we've got.

The first round pick never guaranteed they would get Reilly though! Why in gods name do some of you pretend like it was as simple as trade the pick and sign Reilly? The guy was obviously more interested in going to Edmonton than anywhere else to start with. Oh no. Here comes Round 43967345 with TBurg in the "We could have had Reilly" never-ending argument. Hindsight is always 20-20. Reilly is looking better and better. How he is still upright is what is really impressing me, given the pounding that guy has taken this year. Tate, Buck, Nichols all would have been in the hospital right now if they had endured that kind of punishment. I nor anyone else on this board are really privy to what really went on in the pre-season with Reilly and the Eskimos, and what Mack tried to do. If we had cut all of our QB's and given Reilly the number one role going into TC, and tampered and broke the rules by negotiating with him before the free agent deadline, could we have gotten Reilly? At the stage he was at, with two starts under his belt, was he worth doing it for? Now I'd say "yes". At the time, it was a huge gamble. So of course, "NOW" we can say that the Bombers should have pulled out all of the stops, traded picks, cut people, and offered boatloads of money to get Reilly here. And even after all of that, he probably most likely wouldn't have come. But anyone who says that it was a no-brainer decision that should have been done is just flat-out lying.

Also looking at the stats, it's amazing that I forget what an impact Charles Roberts had on our offence. I think for a lot of years, Charles Robert carried this team's offence all on his own. I look at 2008 and I see bad stats for passing, yet we were still in games and getting points all because of one guy, CR. Now that we have no running game, we can't hide the fact that we also have no passing game. So everything is exposed. I still scratch my head when I think we let CR go when we did during the 2008 season. All because Berry and CR didn't get along. So dumb. So many bad decisions between 2008 and now. Unbelievable.

We'll just have to agree to disagree on that. I remember Glenn was pitiful in 2008. I just looked back at the stats from the first five games and I was right. Glenn threw 7 interceptions and 2 TD's in the first 5 games of the season that year, before Dinwiddie took over. Glenn was playing scared that year because of his broken arm, and of course he had a terrible OC. I went to a practice that year after Dinwiddie took over number one spot and I could tell Glenn just didn't care. He didn't want to be here anymore.

Glenn was benched for 3 games. His huge September brought his numbers way up, but he had some truly awful games in 2008. but not nearly as awful as Pierce has been lately, that's the main point to take. I don't know about that. Glenn stunk in 2008 pretty bad. I think a lot of it had to do with having Kit "I'm the mirror-image of Crowton" Cartwright as the OC. He was about as knowledgable about the Canadian game as Bart Andrus and Gary Busey.

In my opinion, if we had stuck with Michael Bishop in 2010 instead of signing Buck Pierce, this team would be in a better situation right now. Because I would be cheering for the Lions now?

don't feed his ego please. Just make sure you also let him know how great the Cal Murphy era truly was. He loves that.

Buck Pierce

Not sure why you're trying to prove your clearly flawed opinion by comparing Buck to KG. Glenn averaged 22 TD's and 3900 yds per year from '05-'08. Buck has thrown 25 TDs and about 6000 yds in his entire Bomber career!!! Yeah, we were probably dumb dumping Glenn when we did, but suggesting we're about to make the same mistake with Buck is laughable. The difference between cutting Buck and cutting Glenn is that after we cut Glenn someone else in Canada wanted him. Buck may be lucky to catch on as a 3rd stringer with an Arena league team. Perhaps Gene Simmons wants him as his QB for his new team.

Well Sask at 4 NI's on the line. Somehow they are doing fine. It's not an import v non-import issue, it's about finding quality players. We haven't done that, while Sask has. And guess who is doing better.

Taman at least understands the value of a good O-Line. He spent the money on Labatte and Picard and Best and it is paying dividends big time. Meanwhile, their first selection in 2012 is now playing tackle, and NI tackles are worth their weight in gold. Meanwhile our NI tackle taken two spots below the Riders pick is still sitting on our 9 game injured list. Just think if we had Pencer and Swiston at tackle, we'd have 5 NI O-linemen. Our entire D could be imports.

Could start 3 Canadians at receiver when Watson comes back Swiston at tackle instead of the human turnstyle Boatman?

does anyone know why Buck came in for one series? I couldn't figure that one out. He came close to getting a first down so that was at least something positive. If he had thrown the ball to Denmark properly we would have gotten the first down.

with Bellfail in as OC, I expect a call has already been placed to Quinton Porter.

There was a time where I would have said that we shouldn't sign guys that were on crappy defences, but the fact is that there are no crappier defences out there anymore. Bo knows losing at least, so he should fit right in.

when things started to fall apart in the second half I thought about going over to the Rum Hut but I looked over there and it was densely packed with humanity, so I just settled for $7 budweisers for the rest of the night.

I'd tend to believe you here but I also know that the Illuminati control the Bombers so...

back in Kelowna now....

Drinking Fort Garry Dark at Buck's right now....delicious...

I just met Paul Swiston's parents in the airport. They were on my flight from Calgary. They are pumped to see him start tonight. I told them I am pumped too.

There's got to be a homeless shelter in Winnipeg he could move into so he could feel at home. East Hastings has nothing on downtown Winnipeg Hugh!

Drinking at Buck's Whole Hog from 3 until 5:30 then catching the shuttle to the game. Will be wearing a Muamba jersey (Henoc). If you see me don't be a stranger!

Yeah I sincerely hope that fatherhood truly has matured Sandra. The last thing we need now is another headache.

he's a Blue Bomber now. Everything he says is going to be spun negatively.