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Lost my mother when I was in my 20's, a very tough loss for a family. The mother is always the glue that binds. Lost my father 4 years ago, he was my hero and has kind of set my family adrift. The estate is still not settled, as my father had many holdings that were complicated by partnerships etc. and I haven't seen some of my brothers and sisters since the funeral. We are all older now, and my older siblings have their own children and grandchildren, but it sure is tough to maintain immediate family ties without a parent to anchor things down. I really feel for anyone going through the loss of a parent. It is some of the worst days/months of your life afterwards.....so let's cut Biggie and Dru a little slack around here for a few weeks if they are reeling from their losses.

He just has no clue as to when to get rid of the ball into the 2nd row.

I think they are comfortable giving him a chance. I would imagine that Walters is looking at options right now unless Rose is ready next game and we roster Daramy at returner instead. I would imagine that McCrae will see reduced time on O because of return duties. I mean he got winded running a long one back last week, they are going to have to keep him fresh for returns lol.

He definitely is. However, at least 4 of his sacks have been coverage sacks imo. That's not to diminish anything, just that he is getting to the QB after his first read and if not for stalwart coverage he may not have these sack totals. Beating your man and staying with it is still quite an accomplishment though considering one of those guys was the GOAT.

Agreed on all points.

Stop the hate. Any message board that is Bombers and CFL related that has traffic is a damn good thing for our team and our league. Not sure why you are feeling threatened by any of them? People wanna talk Bombers, and that is a good thing. Some like the conversations light, breezy and moderated others want to dive deep and be able to speak more freely. There is no right or wrong.

You can bet your bottom dollar that in a 9 team league with lots of player movement each year that our coordinators are pretty damn good at changing up signals and making their plays hard to pick up pre-snap through subtle changes week in and week out.....especially in situations where we are facing a player we just released, or spent a lot of time with us. Further to that....even if we had a guy intimately familiar with the ins and outs of our play book to pass that knowledge to his new DC, and then his new DC coach everyone up on it in the span of 3 days would be pretty damn tough. Yea, I think Couture being a former centre would know a lot more of our OL tendencies than Desjarlais at OG. Also, Desjarlais would be a couple years removed from the Bombers so his memory of such things may not be as good.

Perhaps, opportunity was not his friend either. He was a bit of a tweener for sure.

Burnett was fast but was always a step behind the play because it took him a split second longer to mentally process what was happening. Unfortunate, if he would have had more football instinct he would have been a gooder.

I thought Walker played a strong game vs Calgary, but yea...we could use some DL help. Again....not on MOS. We can't just dress ham and eggers. If the guys Walters brought in aren't up to snuff there is no use keeping them. I will trust our coaches evaluation of talent and fit. If a guy is good enough they will find a way to roster or PR him. These guys were deemed expendable. Our recruiters need to find some DL that aren't. Hansen will help things out, and I am hoping we are in talks with other recruits to get them up here. Bad time of year....guys are hoping for NFL spots still.

People seem to think that a play book remains static throughout the year, and it most certainly does not and most definitely changes drastically year to year. Desjarlais might be able to point out some chinks in the armour at a personnel level on the OL, things he knows certain guys struggle with more, but that's about it. Pigrome is quite literally useless to his new team, in regards to play book. We have built a ton of new plays since the insertion of McCrae that Piggy wouldn't know, and existing plays are now seeing progressions built off of them. No team runs the exact same play book all year...you can't...there is too much film.

He basically says Winnipeg, but I have friends in Saskatchewan who plied me with food and liquor so...... Desjarlais hasn't been here in two years and Piggy had a cup of coffee and couldn't figure out the SY play book. Not scared of what they may reveal. Pigrome is a physical talent, but couldn't grasp our playbook. I hope he tells them everything he knows.

Wilcotts was traded to address a need in the secondary. I don't consider that poor roster management at all. We traded Wilcotts out and got in Darby and then added DE depth from the Riders. Hansen's injury has thrown a bit of a monkey wrench into both our DL depth, and the need to keep another Global on the PR because you have to dress two globals now so one has to be on the PR pretty much. I agree we need to be looking at more DL depth though, but that's more a Walter's failure than a roster management failure. What do we do if either of the Jeffs go down, we go scrap heaping and air lifting. There are some decent DE's that are a phone call away. Just because we don't have one currently signed doesn't prohibit that as a back up plan. That is not to say there hasn't been some head scratching moves like PRing the 36 year old kicker, just that it isn't all doom and gloom because currently we don't see the options that Walters might. We are sitting here talking roster management, and yes MOS does make some odd choices at times.....I thought that keeping McRae in when Demski returned was odd. However, the game plan soon corrected my misgivings. As for DL management, you can't put that on MOS....who should he dress?

It's not abusing the rule if it's allowed. Plain and simple.

Dirty Sanchez talking about BC is about as objective as Milt talking about the Bombers, or Suitor about the Riders.

Neufeld hasn't been very good the past 2 games. I wonder if he is nicked up.

Jeffcoat gets into the backfield fast and forces the QB to stay in the pocket or escape up the middle and that allows our other DL to eat. Simply put there is no LT in the league capable of standing him up at the LOS.

When all your receivers are ham and eggers the drop off to a ham and egger back up is barely noticeable. But hey, yardage between the 20's where most receivers can ALWAYS get soft coverages if you throw enough times is the yard stick they wanna use over in Rider land. Sorry, red zone receiver production, 2nd down conversions, YPC, and having a high % completion to target has always been my gold standards. Having 10 targets for 70 yards is not great receiver or QB play and that is the RIder offence in a nutshell. Spray balls around for a crap load of passing attempts, most in the 5-7 yard range and rack up completions and yardage by default then crow about how great your QB and receivers are in a game your team scored 11 points. SMH.

If I have a backup that's even thinking it I would cut him loose. I want a backup that wants to be the starter and gets a little POed when he sees the depth chart every week. Anything that is less green is always better, but at the end of the day it is a Rider jersey and that alone makes anything they wear god awful ugly.

Considering how narrow each of their victories was against struggling teams I would not be impressed if I were a Rider fan. They aren't a very good club. Just a really fortunate schedule with the exception of playing us. They get an imploding Elks twice, a decimated by injury and out of synch Stamps team in the first month.

It was the only 3 play sequence he threw well all game. Guess he was practicing those all week.

Tate once told a TSN reporter that he loved being the backup QB because he gets a game cheque and doesn't have to play and then followed that up with he really prefers not having to go into the game.

Speak for yourself....lmao...I'm in Thompson for most of the summer so our summers are short and every day of heat is a good one. In 3 weeks fall begins up here....lmao..

Harris was working it because they had keyed in on their secondary playing that area very softly.....until they didn't because Harris went to the well too many times in a row.

It's a fall thing for me. Usually Bailey's pumpkin spice Irish cream in my coffee on a nice crisp fall Saturday morning. My doctor is not a fan because of my diabetes, but a man's gotta live.