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I don't get why they have to start both new tackles. Why not put Pencer at RT, Kowalczuk at guard, and Paliwoda as the 6th OL? Surely it would be better to start the guys who have been here all year and put a new guy in as the 6th OL rather than a starting tackle?

John Chiles

No, never hit the active roster

Also of note: Akeem Foster into the starting receiving corps. Apparently Foster, Denmark, Edwards, Kohlert and the kid from Hamilton as our starting corps. Is is curious that Sims-Walker isn't starting full time yet? I was wondering about him too. I thought someone said he was in the Banjo Bowl but I don't remember seeing him. He played, mostly special teams but got in on a few snaps on offence.

Were you actually watching him play? He was getting killed for the first 4 or 5 games until he really started to take off. Like I said, he was terrible for part of his time at guard. Doesn't mean he hasn't improved, because he obviously has. I don't disagree that he could help us here and I never said he couldn't. But I'm not ready to put him on a pedestal as you have and declare him an upgrade over Greaves and Pencer.

Just in case you haven't seen it yet...

I like it, because I just don't see the downside. Ownership has deep pockets, they can afford to eat the salary if things turn sour. Shows loyalty to employees and will help in attracting front office and coaching staff in the future.

Then the jury is still out on Norman as well because he played an incredibly limited amount at guard. And he was absolutely terrible for part of that time as well.

Of course hindsight is 20/20 but here are some names we passed on, and who we took instead. Not saying we should have taken these guys, just pointing out which currently contributing OL we had a shot at. May have missed a couple. 2010 - Ryan Bomben (4th round, MTL backup G), Patrick Neufeld (5th round, Sask starter G/T), Adam Baboulas (6th round, BC backup G) - Took Woodson and Chris Smith earlier. 2011 - Alex Krausnick (4th round, Edm starter C) - Took Swiston and Dunn ahead of him. 2012 - Matt Norman (3rd round, BC starter C/G), Mike Filer (5th round, Ham backup C/G), Ryan White (6th round, Mtl PR tackle) - Took Bilukidi ahead of Norman; Stephan and Thomas ahead of Filer and White. 2013 - Brett Jones (2nd round, Cgy starter C) - Took Mulumba and Robertson ahead of him.

4 years of Mack Drafting (by position) OL - 4 (Greaves, Dunn, Swiston, Pencer) Rec - 7 (Watson, Etienne, Mahoney, Poblah, Aprile, DiCroce, Alli) RB - 2 (Woodson, Volny) FB - 1 (Fitzgerald) DL - 3 (Thomas, Bilukidi, Mulumba) LB - 3 (C. Smith, Muamba, Stephan) DB - 1 (Robertson) P/K - 1 (Pavlopolous)

Gorgeous

I just mean firing him right now. The season is a write-off, so let him wear all the stink until it's over. I'm 100% in favour of firing him after the season.

West is injured

One of the most feared things in sports is the development of a losing culture. One in which the players believe they are going to lose. It's not easy to change once it is in effect... and it sure looks like that has happened here. Firing Burke won't change anything at this point. There's going to have to be a wholesale change of players and coaching staff this offseason. Too much losing associated with the players here, even the good ones. Everyone knows we need to rebuild but the sad thing is that the rebuild hasn't even begun yet and won't until the offseason. Sure we have shuffled some players around, but it's really nothing but window dressing. Marc Parenteau and Akeem Foster were never going to turn this team around. Hopefully Walters or whoever becomes GM is ready to take on a big task, because it's not going to happen overnight.

Really depends how Demarco does this week.

IMO starting Volny at RB would have the least negative effects

I agree with Blueandgold, we need to bring in Cleo Lemon

I don't like it! It's not good to hold back your anger all the time. Some fences could use a few holes!

lol you're so ridiculous

I'm thinking Cory Boyd

I think both are equally likely. It wasn't necessarily Mack telling Burke he can't fire any coaches, that may have been coming from higher up... i.e. we have no money, do not fire any coaches. Remember him publicly questioning whether he would be allowed to hire a running backs coach because he wasn't sure if it was in the budget? Pretty clear he wasn't granted total control over hiring and firing whoever he wanted.

Are those guys any more dangerous than Dressler? Besides that the Bombers zone defense is the worst thing in history and I wouldn't want to watch a game of that again. Stamps is better than Dressler IMO, and Dressler wasn't at full health last week anyways. Adarius Bowman brings something different to the table in that he is very hard to bring down. Our DB's have struggled with tackling at times, that's more of my worry there.

Should be interesting to see what we do on defence. We played a lot of man coverage against the Riders but I'm not sure how much man coverage I would want to play against Fred Stamps and Adarius Bowman... good recipe for getting burned.

I'm guessing Foster will be on the 4 man reserve this week

Yeah well that's an assumption not a fact