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I think you have to look at the Bombers as an expansion team, Walters had to basically rebuild everything from the US scouting department and everything in between. It's a slow process but Hall was a better choice than Etch. Next year, they should find someone better than Marcel. I can see why Miller says it's a three year plan for this bunch. By the end of year three things should be a lot better otherwise they failed and have to go. US scouting wasn't a problem until Walters took over. He's basically reversed the problem from NI's to imports. Better base for the next GM to build from I guess.

There were two plays in a row where Greaves and Picard were double-teaming that guy who rubbed his gut. They literally didn't get a hand on him on the second play and he came straight through his gap untouched, on the first Greaves engaged him for about a second and a half, moved him inside to the double team while Picard watched the guy wander into the backfield. If Picard doesn't want to block anyone maybe he should retire.

It's not a scheme problem when the punter puts the ball between the hashmarks. Make one guy miss and it's a TD.

Ottawa has a real good chance of hosting a playoff game. They have BC without Lulay this week, Saskatchewan next week, the Bombers twice, the Argos twice, a home game with Montreal and a home and home with Hamilton who will probably be clinched in 1st to end the season.

Knowing how the BOD worked in the past they'll wait until the Earth is scorched before they do anything. Remember Berry, every 6 games there were changes made if things weren't going well, God I miss having a guy around who knew what they were doing. Remember Dinwiddie and Glenn being co-offensive coordinators in 2008 as Berry's buddy sat in the room and on the sidelines while Berry wouldn't fire him? That's what cost Berry his job. Berry had some pretty significant struggles himself. The fact that he's vanished pretty much shows you how he's viewed. If he was a even close to being a good head coach he would have got 2-3 shots at it. Close but no cigar, Berry lost his job even before the season started when Taman and the rest of the penny pinchers wouldn't let him field the team he wanted to, I believe the quote went something like 'some of you are only here because your cheaper'. Berry didn't lift a finger that year and I don't blame him. Sounds like a leader.

If the O line players are as bad as you've said they are, who could make them look good? Good is probably impossible, but it would be nice to see them look like CFLers, not fat guys pulled from the crowd and given a pair of shoulder pads with helmet. Wylie has also had input on personnel, recommended taking Goossen after personally working him out for example.

IMO the increased rosters and more DI's are killing offenses. Teams are using those extra guys on D, particularly on the DL, and just killing the OL's. Part of the problem is that everyone still thinks they need to play a bunch of NI's on the OL, even if there aren't enough good ones to go around.

Knowing how the BOD worked in the past they'll wait until the Earth is scorched before they do anything. Remember Berry, every 6 games there were changes made if things weren't going well, God I miss having a guy around who knew what they were doing. Remember Dinwiddie and Glenn being co-offensive coordinators in 2008 as Berry's buddy sat in the room and on the sidelines while Berry wouldn't fire him? That's what cost Berry his job. Berry had some pretty significant struggles himself. The fact that he's vanished pretty much shows you how he's viewed. If he was a even close to being a good head coach he would have got 2-3 shots at it.

This game is at the point where the refs really have to start throwing some guys out. Banks would have been an easy one to toss on the aftermath of that missed Argo FG.

Posey or Kearney will probably come on. How they will align the secondary we'll have to see. Kearney, Leggett and Washington would be the guys who might play SAM.

It's clearly personal with Morley. I remember one tweet he had about letting Bob Wylie run the offense. Bob Wylie can't even make our offensive line look like they belong in pro football. He likes some people and doesn't like others, there's no objectivity.

The Riders had the ball for 2/3 of the game and only managed two offensive TD's, with the first one coming at the end of the 3rd quarter. The defense did their job. They did get off the field. If you wanna play the what if game: What if special teams hadn't given up a TD and extended a Rider drive by penalty that lead to another What if the Bomber defense scored a TD instead of taking penalties that extended Rider drives leading to another TD If you really want to break it down, the Bomber special teams and defense hurt them more than their futile offense did. I'm not playing the "what if game." The defense was on the field for 2/3 of the game and gave up 2 TD's well into the second half. Those are facts. I guess you could expect them to score too, but they did their job. The benchmark for defenses is 20 points. Even being on the field for 37 minutes the defense gave up 23. They were on the field because they couldn't get off, penalties extending drives leading to points, not forcing turnovers, but that's okay because they were within the benchmark? Seems like something O'Shea would say. They got off the field for the first 43 minutes of the game. The offense only scored when they got the ball at the Riders 20. The offense racked up half of their first downs in the last minute of the first half and on the TD drive when the game was over. That's why the defense was out so long. They'd get 2 plays off and be back on the field. I'm not sure what is so hard to understand. Turnovers are awesome and the Bombers defense hasn't been slack in producing them through this season. The way the game is now the defense is playing to not give up TD's. They did that. You can't win if you're offense can't score them, and you really can't win when you're offense can't even stay on the field for more than 2 plays.

O'Shea is no different than any other coach. The halftime and immediate post-game interviews are useless, nobody is going to give up information, they don't know about injuries and they aren't going to say what they think happened.

The Riders had the ball for 2/3 of the game and only managed two offensive TD's, with the first one coming at the end of the 3rd quarter. The defense did their job. They did get off the field. If you wanna play the what if game: What if special teams hadn't given up a TD and extended a Rider drive by penalty that lead to another What if the Bomber defense scored a TD instead of taking penalties that extended Rider drives leading to another TD If you really want to break it down, the Bomber special teams and defense hurt them more than their futile offense did. I'm not playing the "what if game." The defense was on the field for 2/3 of the game and gave up 2 TD's well into the second half. Those are facts. I guess you could expect them to score too, but they did their job. The benchmark for defenses is 20 points. Even being on the field for 37 minutes the defense gave up 23.

That's very true. And he's playing behind the same OL. Even the wonderboy with the quick feet couldn't find time. It was funny watching Smith for the Riders scramble all over the field and extend drives with his legs yet the 'wonder boy' couldn't do the same thing? I would really like to know why that is? Because Greg Peach plays for us?

That's very true. And he's playing behind the same OL. Even the wonderboy with the quick feet couldn't find time.

Yeah. Liram's been decent. That return wasn't the problem of the punt at all it was where he was asked to put it and the ensuing coverage. It seems that every time the Bombers have to kick from deep in their end Tracey ask Liram to place the ball in the middle of the field and the blockers are called to basically spread contain which leaves them totally weak up the middle. The ball should have been placed on or inside the right hash and contain left which should mean the cover team only has to cover 1/3 of the field. I think you're wrong. There's no circumstance where a professional punter puts the ball in the middle of the field on purpose. My opinion is that Hajrullahu is still learning how to punt, his get-offs are very slow and he tries to speed them up when he is worried that a block will be on, leading to the poorly hit punts. There's also the wind factor which he has to learn to deal with. For the most part it seems that he's just hammering the ball as fast as he can after the punt blocks earlier this season.

The Riders had the ball for 2/3 of the game and only managed two offensive TD's, with the first one coming at the end of the 3rd quarter. The defense did their job. They did get off the field.

I think its both. The roster is bad. Really, really bad. I don't think a really good offense is even a possibility until we have a decent OL and QB. It will help to have Nichols there but its not like he's great either. Regardless, asking someone to build an offense with Brohm or Marve is equivalent to handing someone keys to a car with a dead battery. We're struggling to find Americans at positions that shouldn't be hard to find good ones - RB, WR, DL to some extent. Kudos to Walters for finding Bass and Adams, but we need more than just a couple of additions a year to turn this team around. For all the praise that Walters gets as some Canadian scouting guru, there are still problems. How bad is Goossen that he can't earn work over Dom Picard? Addison Richards is halfway to a redshirt season. Walters has had some good ideas and even perhaps a good overall plan, but its not coming together. I think AKAChip did a great job elaborating on Walters' problems last week. The roster is bad but the team is also being hampered by poor decisions, and that's on O'Shea. The only roster changes we seem to make are just due to injury. Hat tip to AKAChip for this line, but when was the last time a player lost his job for poor play? No one is being held accountable. He is loyal, but I fear that he thinks loyalty will somehow improve a player. That over time it'll just all come together. I'm all for patient, but making changes halfway through a season no longer counts as overreacting. Change your roster or expect the same result. Also, its never a good sign when the part of the team your coach is most experienced with (special teams) absolutely blows. I don't think our special teams are that bad. They need to get a punter and forget the 3 good games Stoudermire had last season. Cover teams are solid, only problems happen when Hajrullahu puts the ball in the middle of the field, even on a bunch of those miscues they cover those punts well.

If Neufeld, Picard and Greaves are playing our offense will struggle. Nichols might be a little better at getting the ball out before he gets cranked. Run game will continue to struggle, we've got 3 guys playing who can't block CFL defensive linemen at any level approaching consistency. If you're playing odds, you can basically count on at least 2/3 of them sabotaging any play off the snap. If the offense can get 15-17 first downs with no big turnovers and Hajrullahu can keep his kicks out of the middle of the field, I think our defense can do enough to have a shot to win.

Bass-Simmons-Hurl were on the field earlier... either way, Shell is not the answer. I'd take Unamba right now. With Randle. They ran the odd 30 front with 3 linebackers. None of those guys can cover a receiver. The front 7 is basically the front 6, and that's universal in the Canadian game. Unamba can't cover anything and takes stupid penalties. The only game he played significant snaps for the Riders he took 3 IC penalties. He's terrible. Not sure why people get fixated on terrible players.

Is there a team "starting" just 7 Canadians? It's a roster management ploy so they aren't stuck playing guys who don't belong on the field on O or D if there's an injury. Barely affects how they deploy the imports. The bigger problem here is the lack of impact players among the imports we're playing.

My hope is that they are reviewing Walters performance and immediately fire him after the season is over, hell do it in the last couple weeks of the season if we're eliminated from the playoffs. Our import depth is pathetic, the amount of money we're spending on useless players is worse. I'm embarrassed that the team representing my city has Pat Neufeld on the field, let alone playing right tackle. Greaves and Picard too. We can't even find import OL, forget the NI's. If you're a CFL GM and you can't find imports, you're in way over your head. We played a receiver who looked like he doesn't understand coverages at all for several games, Jhomo. This isn't a learning league, especially for imports. Get some guys who can play. Same problem with non-imports, we can't keep passing up football players for guys who we hope will turn into football players. We can't draft guys in the first half of the draft to simply chase kicks. I'd like to see all of Walters, Goveia and McManus fired ASAP. I'm not sure there is anyone to really replace them with in-season, so it will probably have to happen at the end of the season.

Montreal and Edmonton both did and won! No they didn't. Nichols had one practice with the Bombers, Cato and Franklin have been with their teams since training camp. Crompton didn't though... What? Crompton was with the Als for six weeks before he played.

Montreal and Edmonton both did and won! No they didn't. Nichols had one practice with the Bombers, Cato and Franklin have been with their teams since training camp.