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Meh, it's football, it is ruthless. I think most players would rather play for a team that puts the guys on the field who most deserve it.

Are you sure? I've got a tracker from their site http://www.tsn.ca/draftcentre/feature/?id=120382 or am I looking at something different from what you wanted? Maybe it was an ad for TSNGO that took over my screen, either way I just flipped to NHL.com once I saw TSNGO.

Bell was smart enough to block their NHL Draft tracker with the TSNGO crap. Guess I'll take my web traffic to one of the other 1000 sites providing that service today.

Returner too.

Looked like Jim Barker thought he was the head coach last night. Kind of crazy to see the GM on the field arguing with the officials. I didn't notice that but I did chuckle at the shot of Barker standing right behind Milanovich at the start of the 2nd half scowling with his arms crossed while Milanovich uncomfortably fidgeted with his headset. It was after the play in the back of the endzone on Argo 3rd down where Washington got called for unnecessary roughness but they called the penalty as occurring after the change of possession, giving the Bombers the ball -15 yards. It was Murray Clarke calling it as the back judge, he does owe us a few dozen calls.

And really, the fact that teams know the Bombers are hyper aware of that on punts, and willing to let Renaud throw the ball (hey it's better than letting him kick off a tee) might make them hesitant to put a punt block on with extra guys inside.

Morley took a pretty funny dive on a PAT after a Toronto guy punched him...took a good 5 seconds for the pain to register in his brain. Must have been watching the World Cup.

Alexander is probably a little better than Bucknor. Bucknor hesitates a lot, but to his credit he kept everything in front of him and finished plays last night. Better to give up 11 yards and a first down than a 50 yard run after catch.

Teague Sherman, damn. Ballcarriers better be carrying that ball extra tight when he's around. Nice to see Sherman getting a chance on D and continuing to shine as he did in limited chances last season. Dobie's probably wishing they played him at SAM LB now.

They moved the guys around in the front 7 like crazy though, pre-snap too. I think Turner and Vega lined up in every gap during the course of the game. It's such an advantage for the defense if they can screw with the QB's pre-snap reads nowadays. Tackling needs to stay strong though. I was glad to see that because they struggled somewhat in the pre-season, admittedly with a lot of cuts/non-contributors in there. I really like the new additions in the secondary, Randle, Johnson and Leggett especially. Will be interesting to see what happens with Suber and Banks. How do you sit one of those guys or someone like Dunn after that game?

I initially felt the same about the fake punt, but it wasn't anything gimmicky or gadgety at all, just a total blown assignment by the Argo back on that side of the field to not cover the gunner. All the Bombers showed is that they are willing to take advantage of that.

Don't blame Burke. He didn't really want the job and they don't have enough talent.

Looked like Jim Barker thought he was the head coach last night. Kind of crazy to see the GM on the field arguing with the officials.

That was definitely a game plan put together for Burke's defence, and with not a lot of pressure on the QB from the front four, that defence collapses and is prone to getting burned by the deep ball, or any ball really with no pressure. Even the turnover was a good play for the Bombers. Essentially a 45 yard punt, and also a 50-50 INT/Denmark catch for touchdown ball. Toronto's offence was off-balance all night, Ray had no idea where to go with the ball from what the D showed pre-snap, leading to a lot of double-clutching and settling for 2 yard passes with a defender coming downhill at the guy catching the ball, when our defence got to the ball and didn't let Owens, Durie or Chiles get any YAC, they had nothing. One might wonder why the Argos didn't try to establish any kind of run game, even though they got behind early, there was lots of time and they completely abandoned the run. The Argos had a terrible night, penalties like crazy, a couple of their DB's looked terrible in man coverage, #4 especially. Even on a lot of the deep bals the Bombers completed, he could have easily and probably should have been flagged for PI. It's nice having a quarterback with an arm and a brain, who isn't getting scraped off the turf whenever he gets hit.

What Bryant did would be more like walking into a co-worker's office/cubicle and purposefully destroying something they are working on or smashing their computer than your analogy/experience. When how you perform your job directly affects a large number of other people, it takes a special lack of integrity or awareness to truly not give a ****, regardless of the circumstances or reasoning.

There aren't many winning football teams that exist in an environment that isn't ridiculously, almost sickeningly positive, and if a winning team is in a negative environment they are almost surely a very talented team that is on the brink or underachieving. Who is saying that saying nice things in the media will make the team better? Nobody. It's a matter of respect and professionalism. Players shouldn't be in the media if they have issues with coaching or another player, or anything to do with the organization, they should take the issue to their coach or teammate. Same goes for a coach. I don't understand how this is even an issue. We don't know what he says to his players, so why make assumptions and attack him before a meaningful game is even played? If you're expecting honesty from a professional coach in the media you are brain dead.

Ya, hearing about how Mike O'Shea is going to have to restrain himself from pulling Drew Willy if he struggles in a first quarter was enlightening. Lawless is out of his depth talking about actual sport, hockey, football, whatever. He's good at digging and working sources for information and creating soap opera-esque storylines. Sad that we couldn't get any thoughts from a guy like Lapolice on Drew Willy or anything Bomber related really.

Jesse Briggs @jessebriggs34 Frustrating preseason watching from the sidelines, but I finally get to step on the field in that #Bomber uniform tomorrow!! #cantwait Briggs won't be the LB on reserve.

Why are you equating what O'Shea says for public consumption to what he says to his players? I don't follow your premise, because it doesn't make any sense. When have you ever heard Hufnagel, Buono or even Austin publicly trash a player in the media? Austin clearly hated having Burris as his QB and it was all sunshine and rainbows publicly. If you've listened to the Coaches Show to this point, O'Shea has been very blunt about why certain guys were cut, and assessing some of the players on his roster, certainly a lot more than I expected from him and more than most head coaches around the league would have divulged.

I'm fine with the punishment, 240 hours of community service plus 2 years probation. On that individual it might be a little lenient, but the last thing we need is an easily influenced kid tossed in jail for a few months when he's not really a threat to society. Rest assured he'd make some new "friends" in the joint, probably start a new "career" and be an actual threat when he's put back on the streets.

Why TSN wastes airtime with Lawless regurgitating his talking points from his columns when they have actual football analysts is beyond me. Let Lawless report news and maybe do some insider stuff with Naylor.

Only 150k for Ottawa's D on a bye week...couldn't resist that value.

I don't know about that. It's a long game, and I think that's something that O'Shea preaches. Both pre-season games they were pretty resilient, I expect that to continue in the regular season...and we have a pretty good opposite case to illustrate what less resilient teams do...pre-season 2013.

I'm chuckling over here. No. He proved that he doesn't have the tools to be a head coach in this league, not even close, but for him to crack that top echelon of Bart Andrus awfulness? No, he just wasn't that interesting. His time as head coach will be a footnote in Bomber history. The truly awful ones get their own chapters. A head coach with zero positive attributes. Yep, Burke is one of the worst ever, the only one in his league in Bomber history is Reinebold, and even though his teams sucked his players would have tried to run through a brick wall if that was the play call, so he had some positive attributes. The only head coach I can remember in my time who was worse than Burke is John Huard. I'd but Burke at par with Andrus, Paopao and the American Greg Marshall as head coaches as the next tier of garbage head coaches after Huard. We'll see if Chris Jones joins that crew.

There is no evidence to support that statement. Mike Shanahan. Won a bunch of games & two Super Bowls with great players. Then he gets saddled with a terrible Redskins team with an injured starting qb and he looks like a bum. He won a bunch of games with pretty average teams in Denver too, unless you really like Brian Griese, Steve Beuerlein and Jake Plummer. He was also at the forefront of reinventing the run game in modern football with zone blocking, which you see everywhere now, including on our team.