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Fun fact about the 2015 BC offense: they started Jennings in their last eight games. During that stretch they were the third-best offense in the league at 26.875 ppg. Ottawa had 30ppg in that stretch and Edmonton had 28.875. Calgary was a point behind BC at 25.875. Cortez made hay with a pure rookie at QB last year -- and the BC offense continued to improve even as film got out on Jennings. Pretty nice job by the coach, setting up his rookie QB to succeed.

I don't know if O'Shea is a good coach but I gotta ask: what's O'Shea's record with Drew Willy vs. his record without Drew Willy? It's not O'Shea's fault that his personnel people thought that Brohm and Marve could play at the CFL level and the best WR they could find in the offseason was Darvin Adams. The CFL is not the NHL: great coaching can't compensate much for a lack of talent. The one thing I'll fault O'Shea is his bringing back MB for another season. And hell, even MB's offense didn't look half bad when Drew Willy was running it. Willy put up some numbers, though he paid a serious price to put up those numbers... Get an OC who doesn't get his QB killed, bring Nichols back, find some import receivers, and I think we'll be fine.

Before you write off Cortez, look at the other candidates .. Jones has zero track record as an OC and Lapo's a retread with only one good year as an OC, back in 2009. Cortez had an insane offence in Hamilton as recently as three seasons ago ... led the league in scoring with zero support from his Casey Creehan defense. (GC was the OC of that team as well as the HC) Who out there is better than Cortez? (edit, yeah I missed that Khari had a couple years as an OC, Hamilton in 2011 and BC in 2014. Still think that Cortez has shown way more than him.)

Oh man, that first logo is awesome and gaudy. Six colors! I like the new logo fine. Noticed yesterday during the Grey Cup Youtube broadcast that it's recognizable at very small dimensions -- they had it as a bug in the bottom right corner. Although the shape says "old tube TV" to me instead of "truncated football."

The day after a Grey Cup in our stadium that we were not even remotely qualified to participate in ... it's natural that morale will be low. Next year I'll be pumped again, especially if we're back in the royal blue. Can't not get excited about bomber football.

Don't we already have a Grey Cup thread?

Heart hopes Ottawa will win. Head thinks that Edmonton will. They've been on a fantastic tear these past few weeks...

Holy cow, what a game by Masoli and what a great CFL game. Very happy for the fans in Ottawa who have been through football miseries that people here can't even guess at. And LOL at all the "Desjardins is an idiot" stuff from back in 2014.

The next Jay Walker!

There's lots of reasons why the NHL is so committed to propping up its marginal teams. For one, having a presence in every corner of the USA helps juice American TV deals -- and it's working. The 2011 NBCSN deal is worth $200M annually, triple the amount of the old US TV contract. For two, if the Panthers were to sell to Quebec City or Las Vegas or Seattle interests tomorrow, NHL teams would lose a potential half a billion dollars in free expansion money. Roving franchises really hurt the market for expansion teams. For three, in the case of Arizona and Florida (and previously Columbus) taxpayers can be made to prop up these weak sisters. More money for nothing. Who cares about half-full arenas when the bottom line in the NHL has never been better? If I were an NHL owner, I'd love Gary Bettman.

I'm sure there's lots of ways the Panthers can cook the books to make sure that they keep their hands on that sweet expansion dough.

Off to rescue yet another team with a mess at QB. Glenn is the CFL's Littlest Hobo. I wonder ... if Ricky Ray is available this winter, does Glenn get shoved aside yet again?

I don't like dancing on players' graves, but this news makes me happy. I don't want to see Picard play for us ever again. The only way I want to see Picard as a Bomber again is to see him as a special teams coach working with Lirim on his hang time ... Picard's snaps had beauty hang time this season.

Matt Walter has always impressed me whenever he's gotten real reps spelling Cornish. He's not a guy who can own a game like Cornish, but the dropoff from Cornish to him doesn't seem enormous. I wonder who gets the first-team reps at running back between those two guys? I saw a Cornish interview during Grey Cup week last year that made me hope he'd walk away from football in the off-season. Compared to past interviews, when he sounded really astute and sharp, he was not doing well .. he was slurred and distant in that too-familiar athlete way. And now with this concussion protocol news -- man, I hope he's okay.

My wife is scientist and has worked with some very very very smart and accomplished people. Sometimes, those people believe that since they're experts in some extremely difficult (and relatively narrow) field, that makes them an expert in every field. We call this "Ben Carson syndrome" now.

Some call him the space cowboy.

#noleadissafe

Listening to the TSN radio feed at work today. Argonaut radio guys are calling Chad Owens CO2, so maybe it's not just a Rod Black thing.

C'mon, what are you even talking about? We have a whole TV show about criminals acting the fool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cops_%28TV_series%29 It's run for twenty-eight seasons. It is older than the Bombers' Grey Cup drought, for christ's sake. So what? Does that mean we shouldn't fire / charge out-of-control cops?Of course we can't expect perfection from the cops. But what we can expect out of them is improvement -- that they'll be on the watch for the violent, lying assholes in their ranks, and guide them towards different careers.

Nice. #filmthepolice

Idle thought: it would be cool to identify the place where the Oregon killer bought his gun, and then picket that place like it was an abortion clinic.

I was shocked to see Burris was running the short yardage team last night. A 40 year old QB running plunges in a season where quarterbacks are falling weekly? The guy's invulnerable/lucky.

Whatever happened to all the people who thought Desjardins was an idiot for ditching Glenn and signing Burris?

Binged on all of Rick and Morty this weekend. Fantastic stuff.

Good luck to him. He's leaving us with a couple unforgettable highlights.