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The only reason to fire a GM midseason is to stop a guy going crazy gutting a team to desperately try and turn things around. I don't see Mack doing that so there is absolutely no reason to do a mid season firing that will accomplish precisely nothing.

Going out on a bit of a limb taking Simpson. I'll hold off on making 2 guesses.

given what he did in Edmonton I don't think you can realistically say he'd bring anyone closer to a Grey Cup.

I believe Ray was recommended by Rick Worman

The real quality of Crowton as an OC will be shown in the coming weeks. They built an offense to protect Pierce and it didn't work at all, now that the attempt to wrap the qb in bubble wrap isn't needed we can see what he's actually all about. We saw progress at the end of last season, let's see if that continues now.

that stat was bullshit to begin with because there were lots of games PIerce was playing like complete crap in and had the team in a losing position but then got hurt and didn't finish the game. It's not so much a when he played he was always good more of a when he played bad he also wound up getting hurt. PIerce has been a brutal qb for over a year now, probably closer to 2 years than anyone wants to admit. This move was a long time coming.

he's a professional athlete, those guys always have the ego going thinking they can play. Very few of them leave on their own terms, most of them need it pointed out to them that they're done and even then they don't accept it.

the thing that really got me was how in the clip of burke talking about moving on from pierce he talked about needing the continuity of having the same guy behind centre week to week and how the young guys have more potential to get better.... Why the **** didn't he see that prior to now? Some of us were saying those exact same things before last season ended. Frustrates me when fans pick up on obvious things before the coaches do.

it's entirely possible that Pierce misunderstood what was being asked of him. I would give him a couple days to calm down before putting too much stock into what he's saying. It is perfectly understandable to see a guy upset to lose his position. If he doesn't come to terms with it then we can get rid of him.

that's an unfair statement. Every player wants to be on the field if they can. I don't fault Pierce for wanting to keep playing, I fault the coaches/management for not making the decision to move on sooner.

given how their o-line has struggled this season and how poorly Calvillo has dealt with that pressure I would lean towards this move not really doing as much as some people expect. Popp is not known for his head coaching abilities.

marcus brady is working with one of the best qbs in the league, Jarious Jackson is working with Lulay in BC, Jason Maas is working with Ray... do you really think the quality of the qbs play matters when it comes to their ability to coach? I don't know if Pierce is any kind of coach or not, but how he played certainly doesn't have any bearing on that. At least Pierce was a good qb at one point. I hope he does well.

I just hope they give Goltz a fair chance here. I don't wanna see any Mike Kelly style handling of the new qb here. If Goltz is the guy don't yank him at the first sign of trouble and go to the next guy and the next guy and the next guy.

is this the circle jerk? Do we all drop our pants and grab some lube?

but it's not like this is the first time he's fired a coach and taken over himself... He's had his slip ups before. Just damned lucky he had such stability at the qb position for such a long long time.

not to be THAT guy, but could you imagine the fall out here if Joe Mack had hired a coach and fired him 5 games later?

wow very surprising that it happened this early.

I can't believe they actually came out and announced this.... shoulda been done in the offseason but better late than never I guess.

makes sense when you consider the scarf we've all seen him wear

it happens in the business world all the time, it's a good way to take egos and internal finger pointing out of the picture. Just get someone to come in from outside and ask them "so what's the problem?"

not really the point, the point was Berry had the balls to try a new player at the position to see if it helped.

what are the contract statuses of those players? Which ones are upcoming FAs?

it's absolutely ridiculous that they have to have games on tuesday night. I'm going to assume that's a bluejays reason for this? Argos gotta get their own stadium built so this insanity doesn't happen anymore.

he also wasn't playing against a defense that didn't know how to make a tackle like BLM and Collaros were. Most of what Collaros did was high percentage throws let the receiver do the rest.

what the hell are you talking about? No one is doing anything but telling it how it is with the sun. Penton might be an OK reporter but he's still guilty by association with that rag.