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That's ridiculous! What's wrong about not wanting to make a guy GM who has half a season as an AGM and half a season as an interm GM? The comment was in 5-10 years...what part of ridiculous don't you get? He's with us for the rest of the year, but we have people saying he will never make a good GM, and some saying only in 5-10 years like they really know that. Not! I say give the guy a break. You keep harping about giving Walters a break. Have you not clued into the fact that's all the Bombers do but give their buddies a break by hiring them? Why do you think we keep losing? Because we hire inexperienced people into key coaching & management positions who think they know what they are doing but don't. And because they come cheap. Or are a friend of someone on the team like a coach or Board member so they get hired. Our track record is hiring the friend of so & so. And the result is hiring inexperienced peopleis they come in on the cheap coming in & are expensive on the way out as we are paying them to sit around teiddling their thumbs after they're fired. Mike Kelly was buds with Lyle Bauer. Joe Mack was friends with Joe Pop & Paul Robson & look what happened? The hiring process was all about who you knew & not what you knew. Most fans don't want Walters as our GM because he is inexperienced. Not because they don't like him or don't think he has a future with the team. They want someone with a winning track record at the helm for a change because the Bombers have shown in the past, rookies in that position don't work. Yeah, 5-10 years when Walters has the proper experience working under someone who knows how to win. Not apprenticed for 6 months by Joe Mack. There's been personnel guys & assistant GMs in this league who have worked under people for a lot longer with success than 5-10 years. I'm totally clued in to your negative attitude about EVERYTHING! That's the only argument you have??? You have no other comeback. Nice discussion on your part. The only comeback you have is I'm negative. Well, wash, rinse, repeat. Boo freaking hoo. Well, hit the ignore button then. Since all you want to do is get insulting because you've got nothing else to say well ... Can't help it if you make stupid comments. Nothing to discuss with you....you make ridiculous comments that it will take 5 to 10 years for our acting GM to amount ot anything. It's shouldn't be insulting when it's the truth. Truth hurts doesn't it?

That's ridiculous! What's wrong about not wanting to make a guy GM who has half a season as an AGM and half a season as an interm GM? The comment was in 5-10 years...what part of ridiculous don't you get? He's with us for the rest of the year, but we have people saying he will never make a good GM, and some saying only in 5-10 years like they really know that. Not! I say give the guy a break. You keep harping about giving Walters a break. Have you not clued into the fact that's all the Bombers do but give their buddies a break by hiring them? Why do you think we keep losing? Because we hire inexperienced people into key coaching & management positions who think they know what they are doing but don't. And because they come cheap. Or are a friend of someone on the team like a coach or Board member so they get hired. Our track record is hiring the friend of so & so. And the result is hiring inexperienced peopleis they come in on the cheap coming in & are expensive on the way out as we are paying them to sit around teiddling their thumbs after they're fired. Mike Kelly was buds with Lyle Bauer. Joe Mack was friends with Joe Pop & Paul Robson & look what happened? The hiring process was all about who you knew & not what you knew. Most fans don't want Walters as our GM because he is inexperienced. Not because they don't like him or don't think he has a future with the team. They want someone with a winning track record at the helm for a change because the Bombers have shown in the past, rookies in that position don't work. Yeah, 5-10 years when Walters has the proper experience working under someone who knows how to win. Not apprenticed for 6 months by Joe Mack. There's been personnel guys & assistant GMs in this league who have worked under people for a lot longer with success than 5-10 years. I'm totally clued in to your negative attitude about EVERYTHING!

That's ridiculous! What's wrong about not wanting to make a guy GM who has half a season as an AGM and half a season as an interm GM? The comment was in 5-10 years...what part of ridiculous don't you get? He's with us for the rest of the year, but we have people saying he will never make a good GM, and some saying only in 5-10 years like they really know that. Not! I say give the guy a break.

That's ridiculous!

Yup...you never disappoint with your always negative attitude!

One of the golden rules always has been "never believe what you read in the newspaper" In my opinion, I don't believe Ricky was offered to Mac first. Tillman it seems to me was doing everything possible to ingratiate himself with TO. I can't believe how some on this forum are so down on Walters being a possibility for GM. Yes he does not have a lot of experience at this point, but he is sure going through trial by fire, which will gain him a whole lot. He could be the greatest GM ever, who the hell knows? Give the guy a chance at least, nothing to lose at this point.

Because Burke said he was told not to talk about it...

Ok but how about when you're throwing 50% in practice and in games? Then what? If he's not improving in practice then he's not going to get any better in games. Please. I've been to practice and training camp dozens of times over the last 3 years and he looks the same as he did on day one. Overthrows and underthrows the most balls of any QB we've had here in that time. It's naive to think it will get better by playing in games. Well then if he's looked the same to you then I guess that's settled. I will definitely not believe the other reports that Goltz has improved, since you have now clearly said he hasn't. What reports that he has improved? is that why he is back to third string now and was 4th string last year? Some improvement!

Williams may have a hard time staying in the NFL unless he cures his propensity to fumble. Gotta say Chad Owens is doing a much better job at hanging onto the ball this year.

And you're going to put this bus load of players where?

Not even a close comparison!

Not really, aside from Kelly they're all garbage.One of the worst comments I have ever seen on here.The whinning, bitching and unrealistic expectations are making this entire board unbearable. Says the guy with 14 posts. Says the post # snob

Why do you assume Burke is right? He's already admitted he doesn't know very much about the finer points of an offense. He's also already admitted Buck wouldn't likely be on the team if he wasn't such a nice guy, so there's a clear bias. burke must talk to his oc and offense staff.before talking to the media and explaining his positions tho, no? i cant imagine he just goes in there and wings it.. Burke does wing it...he is a wing nut...guess you haven't been listening to him all season

Why do you assume Burke is right? He's already admitted he doesn't know very much about the finer points of an offense. He's also already admitted Buck wouldn't likely be on the team if he wasn't such a nice guy, so there's a clear bias. Actually he said he didn't know anything about the offense, which makes it even worse when he comments about issues on offense

Yes there is.He's certainly not the best coach of all time, but the group that's been given to him to lead is an absolute dumpster fire. Mack left him with little talent to work with, and Burke has made it worse by not surrounding himself with good coordinators. That's a recipe for a train wreck season. Does Burke have any less talent than Mike Kelly did? Does he have less then Reinbold did? he horribly misjudged his preferences at quarterback (why do we all blame Mack when the coaches are the ones who ran Elliott out of town and expressed their love of Pierce) None of them had much talent to work with.He picked a bad qb over other bad qb's. We blame Mack for the qb issue b/c there were no good options on our roster this offseason to choose from. *edited* That's a pathetic comparison!!!!!!! and a ahole comment!!!!

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‘It takes really special women’ to be coach’s wife Scott Radley Aug 22, 2013 They were checking into the hotel when her husband's phone rang. It had already been a long day driving to Tennessee for a family event and they were tired and hungry. But he took the call anyway. It was the Winnipeg Blue Bombers calling to offer him a job. She didn't know who was on the other end, but she immediately knew what was going on. And when he wandered back a few minutes later and saw his face, she really knew. "We're going to have to talk," Julie Bellefeuille laughs as she tries to imitate the way her husband Marcel said it. "I said, 'Oh no, it's The Talk. I don't want to have The Talk.'" To those in the pro football wives club, The Talk means change is coming. Not just for the coach. For them and for the kids. It's the hardest part of the unseen side of lives spent supporting men whose jobs bring long days, late nights, countless meetings, constant travel, hirings, firings, job searches, fame, infamy, pressure, stress, fan interaction, enormous elation and deep disappointment. This story is about Julie, whose husband returns to coach against his old club on Saturday in Guelph. But change the details a bit and it's about every football wife toiling in the background. Because every coach who's asked his players to sacrifice something has already asked his family to do the same. "It takes really special women to be able to do this," she says. Julie was the co-ordinator of two long-term care facilities in Hull when she met Marcel at a restaurant back in 2000. He simply introduced himself as being "in athletics." She didn't know that meant he was the head coach of the University of Ottawa GeeGees. So she wasn't a football fan? "Nope," she smiles. Did she watch football at all? "Nope." She's laughing again. She thought football was the most awful sport ever. Just a bunch of guys running into each other, falling over and then starting again. Ballet was more her thing. It was a couple weeks before she learned who he was. She saw his picture in the paper. They'd already hit it off by this point, though. Meaning even though she didn't know it then, her life was about to change in a big, big way. The Ottawa team's budget was small. Things were tight. She'd cook huge pans of food for the players. She'd hem their torn jerseys and take their stuff home to wash it. You don't even want to know what the car smelled like most days. "It was awful," she says. But by doing it, she got to know the young men. And when she connected, she felt a desire to start watching the games to see how they'd do. She still had no idea what was happening on the field, but she was slowly grasping the culture. Quickly she became Marcel's unofficial personal assistant. When the GeeGees qualified for the Vanier Cup in Toronto, he sent her ahead to organize rooms and meals. When they won, she was given an even bigger responsibility. "I can't remember why I ended up with the Vanier Cup in my car, but I did," she laughs. As the players made it back to Ottawa in their buses and prepared to meet the media, her job was to bring the trophy to the photo-op. Except she was exhausted and missed the exit, holding everyone up for nearly an hour. A week after Marcel proposed — on Valentine's Day, as it turns out, proving coaches really are softies at heart — he was off to Saskatchewan to start his new job with the Roughriders. That left his fiancée to plan a wedding, organize a move, and leave her job. That May, he was home for just a couple days to get married before heading back to work. Though Julie was somewhat familiar with the coaching life, as the niece of late NHL coaching legend Pat Burns, she says she still didn't quite get what was going to be required of her until she and her two daughters — who spoke no English — flew west to join him. She's not laughing now. It wasn't easy. It was a long way from home. Things were unfamiliar. They knew nobody. And fans didn't hesitate to offer their opinions. Julie remembers calling Marcel to let him know a truckload of manure had been dumped on kicker Paul McCallum's front yard after he missed a field goal in the playoffs. "When things go good, it's great," she says. "If you dare lose a game, it's horrible." After five years in green, Marcel accepted a lesser coaching role in Montreal. He had other job offers, but wanted to get closer to home so Julie could be with her mother who was battling cancer. It meant packing up and moving the family again, now with two young sons. Two years later when he was hired by Hamilton, they bought a house in Ottawa and a small place in Hamilton. He came here. She moved there, home-schooled her two young sons, and commuted to every home game. When Marcel's contract was extended, they found a place in Ancaster and moved again. Each time she moved to a new province she had to get a new driver's licence, a new health card, register the kids for a new school, find a new home, and get to know new friends. As a head coach's wife, her role changed, too. She helped create a game-day babysitting service for players' and coaches' young kids. She started a team wives Bible study and activity days. She helped put together welcome packages for incoming wives. She drove new wives around the city to help them find homes. One night when Marcel was watching the NFL Network on TV, he saw something in a dressing room he really liked and mentioned it to her. For the next few days, Julie and a couple other people were at Ivor Wynne hand-painting all the stalls to match what he'd seen. On top of everything, she was a buffer between the head coach and the players. Guys might be upset with her husband because of some decision he'd made, but they always had time for a chat with Mrs. B. She helped smooth things over at times. Trouble is, when her husband was fired, she was by extension let go, too. "Yeah," she says, almost sighing. "Yeah." Julie says Marcel had five job offers the day he was let go. Three were in Canadian university ball and two were in the CFL. But he had some other things he wanted to do first. He wanted to get some American football experience, so he signed on to help coach the Omaha Knighthawks of the United Football League. It meant a lot of time away from home. The day she flew down to see her first game was the day the league folded. He also went to a bunch of NFL camps on his own dime to talk to coaches to better learn the four-down game. Which meant more time away. "He also has NFL aspirations," she says. But not taking a job right away let him write a book and be home for longer than he had been in years. Many days, you could see him jogging along Golf Links Road, just enjoying a normal home life. Seeing his sons. Seeing his wife. Enjoying stability. But Julie knows she married a coach. She knows what that means. She knows that eventually the phone is going to ring when you're in a hotel lobby in Tennessee and a team is going to want to hire your husband as a consultant. Then a week later, promote him to offensive co-ordinator. That night, they drove home, packed him and drove him to the airport for a 7:45 a.m. flight to Manitoba. She hasn't seen him since. She has no idea where it'll all lead in the future? A long-term deal with the Bombers and a move to Winnipeg? A return to Ottawa? A gig somewhere else in the CFL? She has no idea. She's learned not to bother guessing. She just knows she'll be along for the ride, like all the other women with husbands in a game that's so often nomadic. Meaning she'll eventually have to start packing all over again. Again, she laughs. "I've already started."

David Larkins ‏@LarkinsWSun46m #Bombers draft pick Giovanni Aprile has four touchdowns — one run, two receptions, one missed FG return — today for Queen's

And how do you know Walters is not ready? He may be more ready than you think he is...certainly can't do any worse at this point!

I was one of the people who made a comment. When I pick View new content, I would like to see only the new content made by actual posters. I read the newspaper links myself and not fond of seeing them interspersed with the other new posts, virtually all of them with 0 comments. If everyone else still wants to see them every day...not a problem...I just like it better when they were not there...or if they could be placed off by themselves that would be even better.

Burke has to go and the sooner the better. when you try and pull a player off the field and he refuses and then you don't even bench the player for the rest of the game that's just unacceptable behaviour. The team isn't listening to Burke so why are we letting this persist? I agree Burke has to go...but I would rather have a player who knows he had made a bad mistake, and who wants to stay on the field and correct it, and you'll notice he did not go offside for the rest of the game, than someone who has given up. This is not a normal situation, the team is playing bad and it is effecting EVERYONE!. So I say give Hall a break in this case, he will get his lecture after the game.

Another candidate could be Rick Campbell

Walters said he made contact to establish communications just in case. Nobody said Mack never talked to them...that's what you would like to believe. Let's get it right before you spout off.

None of this matters anymore!!! We have an 8 or 9 year veteran who is beyond his expiry date We have two unproven backups...neither one of which might win the job We need another QB in the mix ASAP, preferably Collaros, Willy, Mitchell The Coaches don't think Goltz is ready...he needs more work They're not sure about Hall, as none of us are at this point. The backups here just don't get a fair shake when you are in panic mode. We should be working on that now!

Yup...it's a great idea to pay a guy starter's money when he's not good enough to start!