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You still need to protect them if you want to keep their rights until February. You think Ottawa is going to take people in an expansion draft just so they can get their rights for a couple months?

How many weeks have the Bombers made someone a player of the week? Not going to prove much playing well against that offense. It's much more telling if you don't play well against that offense. Oh and what would be the problem with Worman joining the Bombers in some respect? Seems to me we had a pretty good offense when he was here before and was he not the guy who pointed Ricky Ray towards the CFL in the first place?

It wasn't even cheering for Buck anyway, it was a giant "**** you" to the team for putting the paying customers through this **** hole of a season.

i did too

Too much Tinfoil for my taste. The much simpler answer is that Burke at this point has no clue what he's doing.

someone beaked him for not getting a first down or something?

Boltus is here pretty much entirely because of Bellefool.... we want to keep a guy with evaluation skills like that around?

Our Canadian talent was brutal before Mack got here and he didn't inherit a lot of draft picks. When you look at what he's done Macks drafting was fine, he did more to rebuild the NI talent on this team than had been done in years. Don't try your typical blowing things out of proportion to take another whack at Mack. Oh yeah, forgot. Not Mack's fault. All Burke's. actually no, Mike Kellys fault. you know it takes time for NIs to develop right? Can't judge drafts until like 3 years after the fact right?

It just goes to show what a moron Tim Burke is as a head coach.

in the flag football league I play in they implement a mercy rule when one team goes up by 4 touchdowns to prevent scores from getting out of hand, I suggest the CFL implement a similar rule.

That he left Boltus in is unacceptable. It does no good to leave the kid in there to get his ass kicked all night long. He wasn't ready should have got him out of there for his own good.

what's personal? I'm making observations about the way you behave, you don't want to be called a grumpy old man stop acting like a grumpy old man!

If they'd wanted Donny O as a starter they would have paid him, that's why he left, they didn't view him as a starter and he wanted starters money so they got Jake Thomas as a backup/rotational NI d-lineman. Just because fans liked him doesn't mean Donny O was a starter level guy. If he wasn't local no one would be talking about him.

you are such a humourless old man. Harumph harumph harumph

You are in error when you claim Donny O was as important to retain.

I do that too thinking that they just dropped the guy for nothing

Hell there's plenty of stuff to suggest they've offered Muamba top dollar already too. This team has always been willing to pay it's top NIs top NI money.

Like I said, the entire thought process from the coaches with regards to the qb and offense was flawed from the get go.

Our Canadian talent was brutal before Mack got here and he didn't inherit a lot of draft picks. When you look at what he's done Macks drafting was fine, he did more to rebuild the NI talent on this team than had been done in years. Don't try your typical blowing things out of proportion to take another whack at Mack.

do we have more than 3 guys worth paying top dollar to?

Nonsense. Have you listened to what Doug Brown has said about the Muamba situation? He said he never made it to free agency because the Bombers always gave him an offer he couldn't refuse. All the talk surrounding Labatte was that the Bombers were offering him enough to make him one of the highest paid guards in the league. Cory Watson was always extended well before his deal was up and I doubt that he was re-upping early for peanuts. People like to say Mack was cheap, but he was really only cheap with import player, he paid his non-imports and he paid them well because he knew they were valuable.

All the more reason he shoulda stayed there going into this season.

No entirely true, Crowton put more and more of his stuff in as the year went on last year. All those improvements were credited to him putting his stuff in. The new and improved stuff for this year was done for one reason, to try and prevent Pierce from getting crippled, but PIerce can't play that way so they scrambled to try and change it... and PIerce got hurt. The real ironic part is that a quick release offence is actually something that would benefit Elliott more than Pierce. Just a giant **** up in thought process from the get go.

This. ^^^ if he was an equally loser qb no one would be pining for him. He showed better than these guys with the same coaches and same players, why can people not understand this? No one is claiming he's the greatest qb in the game, just that he was better than what we had here

Swaggerville was the best thing that ever happened to this team, it was the over reaction by certain people that was the bigger problem. I want a team that KNOWS it's better than everyone else, not the sad sack bunch of losers we're trotting out there now who only know that they're going to lose and the only question is whether they keep it close or whether they are getting spanked.