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Love your optimism... Like JBR said, it would be crazy for Collaros to re-sign in TO and let them control what happens to him. They have to trade his rights or lose him for nothing in FA. And as 17to85 alluded to, who really gives a crap about tampering? The slap on the wrist from the CFL would be worth it, as this is too important for us to screw up.

Why is Glenn to Ottawa such a sure thing? He's a free agent next year so if the Redblacks take him in the expansion draft, all they win is an extra few weeks to "exclusively" negotiate with him. Glenn's not a FA this offseason.

I didn't hear this myself, but I read on The Extra Point that Knuckles said the HC options are down to O'Shea or Jones. He also mentioned O'Shea as his guess to be the new HC a few days ago.

That would be a hard-ass, unlikeable pair of coaches.

I'd like to find out who else, if anybody, Miller spoke to about the GM position. I'm ok with Walters having the job, but I'd like to think we at least kicked the tires on other cadidates.See if we had anything close to the "complete & exhaustive search" he talked about when he was hired. Walters with some combination of McManus/Worman/Moll could do a good job for us.

http://ht.ly/r69YU Walters all but official & the Bombers have asked for permission to speak to both Chris Jones & Rick Cambell. Apparently Walters told one of the potential HC's during his interview that he'll have the interim removed from his title after the Grey Cup.

Glenn was pretty good in the West final last season.

I heard that too this morning on 1290. Pretty funny and pretty terrible all at once. Taman also said that he fully expects to hear from the Bombers once the game is over.

While true, I stand by my point that he's a jackass. Like Zontar said, he goes out of his way to rile people up. I'm pretty sure he knew what kind of reaction he'd get as a TO journalist insulting a prairie city.

That's actually a good picture of him. He's lost more hair now & his glasses cover 2/3's of his face.

I like O'Shea as HC material for many of the same reasons Atomic gave. He just seems like he'd be a good leader. If he could surround himself with quality assistants (Jones & Burke?) we might have something.

gary lawless ‏@garylawless 7m Agent source confirms #bombers have asked #argos for permission to speak with Mike O'Shea about HC position #bn

Bob Irving said tonight he thinks Mike O'Shea will be our new HC.

I've never taken that route but from looking at the Google satellite map it does look rather desolate. Simmons is a jackass. He thinks every city in Canada outside of Toronto is a wasteland.

Durant is either playing the victim of the mean fans/media, or he's a cocky pos. There usually isn't much middle ground with him, IMO. His pouting and poor me attitude in 2011 cost a few coaches their jobs. In the Banjo Bowl he was taunting the fans at the end of the game, which is something I'd never want to see my starting qb do. IMO, being the starting qb means you should conduct more professionally than that. He's the face of the team and he acted like a clown. Chamblin is too cocky for my liking. He called out Cornish & the Stamps and guaranteed they'd hold them under 100 yards or people would lose their jobs. That's a stupid thing for a HC to say. Especially last season, he seemed too cocky for what he'd accomplished to that point in his career. By impossible to like, I mean while they're on any other team than ours. I just assumed that went w/o saying. I think Dwight Anderson is the only player in the league I couldn't cheer for, even in Blue & Gold.

No, the guy I'm specifically referring to on the "official" Bomber fan site is a troll. He drops in a few times a year to congratulate us on "winning" the battle for the first overall pick. He also ends each post with "chow", which annoys the hell out me for some reason. Sometimes all it takes is one guy to sour you on a team.

I recall Kevin Glenn being a MOP candidate under Berry.

This is all true. Also on the impossible to like list are Durant, Sheets, & Chamblin. I took the Stamps loss last week almost as badly as I would a Bomber loss, just b/c I so badly wanted Calgary to have their dressing room and win a Cup in their home. There problem with some Ticat fan posters, yourself excluded, is they seek out other sites to troll. For the most part Rider fans just take part in being knobs on their own site.

Yeah...we weren't that bad.

The truth is somewhere in between. We had a combination of the worst talent in the league & a bad coaching staff, possibly the worst in the CFL. Edmonton's in that conversation; Reed seemed to lose his sanity as the season went on and made some very strange decisions. His "consequences" rant is up there for the worst coach media scrums I've ever seen. 17to85 wouldn't (couldn't) answer the question so I'll put it to you, what other team's roster would you take ours over?

And anyone who thinks coaching wasn't the single biggest issue with this team is similarly out to lunch. What other team in the CFL would you take our roster over?

Having said that, Jones as HC kind of intrigues me. A HC doesn't have to be a great x's & o's guy, so his middling career as a coordinator/position coach doesn't concern me that much. As long as he finds good cooridinators, he could succeed by being a good leader and motivator, which he strikes me as.

I have no idea if Jones would be a HC, but the optics of everything so far (rumoured or done) are terrible. An old Bomber gets the CEO job. He keeps the young, inexperienced interim GM and makes him full time (probable). He hires someone whom he has a history with, Rick Worman, to be part of football ops. Now his business partner and good buddy is probably going to be our new HC. These may all turn out to be good moves, but the perception of the "old boys club" everyone was so upset about appears to be going strong. It's weird how the best people for the job are all people Miller has history with.

Nice burn...

If rumours are true that Khari Jones is our new HC, maybe he's already said that he'd like Burke to stay? That would be a tough pill for Burke to swallow, but if he could deal with it so could I. Has that ever happened before? I believe the Jones rumour more now than I did a week ago when it first surfaced on this forum. It's coming from more sources now.