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If it's a 45 yard punt in the air, sure. If it's a 35 yard punt in the air there's no reason to risk catching it in the air now. See it all the time in amateur football. Most punts aren't returnable for starters unless the punter screws up.

The hash marks will have the unintended consequence of killing the vertical passing game. Play callers will always opt for the path of least resistance and now you'll be watching a lot of 20-30 yard horizontal passes out into space. Guess exciting for the YAC? It's an alright rule in amateur football where most of the kickers only have range to 35ish yards. In pro football with the kicking game it will make the coin toss the most important aspect of many games in the fall, even more than it has been of late. The all 15 yard No Yards also gives no incentive to the return team to catch the ball which won't help the return game as hoped. Hopefully more cover teams leave guys onside.

Because he’s great for a Global but which American would you have sat for him last year?

Clements is in the top 5 for me. Collaros is tricky without the longevity but just winning. Similar to Clements in putting a very good team over the top to great. Jones took a team that had no hope and made it a contender, arguably saved the franchise, ridiculous numbers for a 3 year period where he just got demolished behind a patchwork OL. Jacobs and Ploen are a given. Dunigan a little too mercurial, belongs to the league or maybe Edmonton more than anyone. Glenn doesn't rate on the great scale for me aside from longevity, one borderline great season here but nothing spectacular in terms of his own performance or winning. If I boiled it down to the best season of each player as a Bomber and had to rank them in order of who I'd pick in a draft: Jacobs (insane passing stats for his era, like Flutie-esque) Ploen Collaros Clements Jones Brock would be 6th, just a little less efficient than Khari. Dunigan would be 7th but never played a full season for us without significant injury (the one he played most he tore his achilles in the second last game).

Give your head a shake and open your eyes. The whole league is on one year contracts even QB's. It's always build for this year. Who cares about Taman? It's 2022. Taman is a guy who made sure to make the third mistake so the first two mistakes made sense. The structure of the organization is built to succeed because we have a hall-of-fame coach, personnel department and front office. We have a winning team with several key players who have built a culture of winning. To pay those guys who always show up and decide that one guy was a concern in terms of being in shape and maybe missing some games is overthinking. We aren't talking in maybes. Who's been our best player through 5 playoff games that led to 2 rings? As long as that guy wants to play this season he's on my team. People are talking like Harris sat out the playoffs or something. He's the only back who touched the ball in the playoffs and he dominated.

Are you kidding? I'm fine with moving on from players. Harris is this team. Do you think we even get to either Grey Cup without him? It's a big risk to move on. Has Augustine even hit 50 carries in a season? I'm not one to overstate the value of one football player to a team but man this is Harris' team. Why the hell would Harris have been benched when he's averaging 16 carries 90 yards a game and superb pass protection? I get it that RB's sometimes fall off a cliff but the guy literally dragged this team into a Grey Cup two months ago. We're not talking about Charles Roberts or Milt Stegall we're talking about a guy who just built the culture, did the work and got the result...TWICE. I trust O'Shea to make the call but I have strong concerns that they overthought this one and potentially will regret that later. This team is not built to win in 2023 or 2024 or 2025. To me there's no reason to favour a 25 year old player over a 35 year old one when the 35 year old clearly just outperformed the other guy. Who's our next QB, who's our next big defensive star? All our guys are old. You can't build for 2 years down the line anyway but especially not with the current contract rules.

It's way beyond Milt tbh and we don't have the rehash that but we just won two Grey Cups and which player led that culture? It's always one year. It's not the NHL. How many years is Collaros signed for? Jeffcoat? Jefferson? Bighill? You think that Johnny Augustine at age 30 is gonna carry us when all those guys are gone or retired? Get real. Brady could tear his ACL or break his tib-fib again and be a total non-factor. It's football. You build a team for now. All our big players are signed for one year and pushing 30 or older. We win now, we're not worried about Brady Oliviera in his prime.

Yeah he won the job. That's not really how this is playing out. We looked pretty fragile in a game like the West Final and the guys who snapped the team out of it were Harris and Jeffcoat. Until someone steps up into that role on offense we're a worse team, and I'm not really sure it had to be that way. Lawler and others I get, this one is way different.

You can watch the games or look at the stats. Our downfield passing game was up when Harris was playing and down each week he wasn't. The OL was the same, the QB was the same. The guys installing and calling the plays didn't trust the other backs to block, especially Oliviera. Sure he was essentially a rookie, but in football that's fluff and even fluffier in a one-year contract era. You build a team to win now.

Harris and Augustine ended up in opposite places of my expectations heading into this offseason. Augustine has shown he can play but nothing beyond a game here and there, Oliviera has shown bursts but is pretty average so far and really nothing in the pass game as a threat or blocker. We have no idea how these guys will show in games that Harris dominated regardless of his health. We know Harris will show up. If you're building a team to win in 2022 you take Harris over either or even both of those guys, and really in the CFL you're building a team for one year. I feel of any decision this one will bite us in the ass the most when the games matter. This is a mistake IMO.

Can't imagine how much guaranteed $$$ it would take to keep Castillo from hanging out until summer and waiting for a NFL shot. He's right on that fringe and 2-3 weeks on an active NFL roster is his CFL season.

Only above average player there is Acklin. Overpay a bunch of vets and hope it works this time. See BC last year.

Sankey is very Barron Simpson-esque. Makes a lot of plays 5-10 yards down the field not making big plays behind the line.

Based on the structure they had to go that high. I’m actually shocked Lawler took a deal with no upfront money even if it’s 15% more in the end. They could cut him the day after training camp starts and owe him nothing. He could pop his Achilles tomorrow and lose that deal, still has medical.

On the game ending INT, 100% deliberate by Rose to deflect to Wilson, and that play belongs right up there in top Grey Cup plays right with Eddie Brown in 96. TSN totally botched that play, took forever for a replay, kept showing closeups of Ticats.

Remember too it was 2 rouges Hamilton gave us off kickoffs because the previous one the returner tried to catch when he could have just let it go through for no point. Negated the safety we conceded.

Bombers KO'd the starting KR for Hamilton on the opening kickoff and just waited for it to pay off.

Sounds like someone demolishing the set just behind the TSN panel. How the hell is production value so bad?

First coach in this era that put teams on the field you expect to win really. Ritchie I guess to some extent but the bottom was always about to fall out. The older of us remember Murphy's teams that were the same, always in the mix and confident enough to win it all with a bit of quarterbacking. It's Grant, O'Shea, Murphy/Riley.

Once it got to 22-20 it's just like Hamilton expected to lose somehow. Our mindset and patience just way too much.

Might have gone Jake Thomas for Canadian. Demski had a TD but otherwise pretty rough night.

Just stunned.

Holding.

That only went through by about 2 feet.

Easy.