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Bye Ted! Thanx for the memories. Good luck in Steel town

Hope they interview and talk to people, but Bourgoin is a highly regarded coach in this league.

Right away? No, I don't think he will and that's not disrespecting Biggie. The Bombers have so many deserving candidates that I believe deserve the nod and have waited for the nod.

For sure. I think if he takes the offseason to really work hard on his foot work he could improve.

I personally believe Dobson is our weakest link, but that is in no way an endorsement of Kola. We can do better at both positions.

In a non SMS and cash strapped CFL, Taman did a good job. Once the SMS was started and teams financially recovered and were able to have actual scouting departments, Taman's past resourcefulness became a liability to teams, not a strength.

No evidence that they won't based on the past. We have moved on from many very popular players over the MOS years. We put Harris, Nichols, Adams etc. out to pasture as an example. All huge fan favorites, all supposed MOS guys. People say that MOS will bring these guys back, but history says otherwise.

I guess if you look at who we turned over an argument could be made that none were by the Bombers choice, or all were depending on whether you believe we should have paid market value to re-sign them. Bottom line we turned over quite a few positions to young players and that was part of our reload. We will reload again at a few positions to poise ourselves for the next 2-3 years. Guys like Biggie, Alexander, may be re-signed but will find themselves in diminished roles with diminished money. Bryant maybe leaves, hope not, but he's up there and the one old vet that I wish wouldn't. We will see some turnover again. DL is young, secondary is young, receivers are young, OL might be too young if Neuf and Bryant go...really I think we may be a really young team going into this season. I think we are focusing so hard on a very few guys getting up there that perspective is lost on just how many really young guys we have in our starting 24.

Both men are on expiring contracts IIRC. Not much we can do really. However, I'm not sure that McManus/Goveia are interested in moving and being 2nd fiddle to the other one. We would retain one rather easily I would think.

Argos have been very good the past 3 years. Other teams try to be good too. I fail to see what that has to do with our sustainability? We are in a small market prairie town, we start at a disadvantage. The fact we can attract and retain the calibre of players that we do is really good work by all involved. Predicting doom and gloom is completely unfounded at this point. I think we've been pretty good at getting young guys who are struggling off, but I agree on the vets for the most part. It's how we've built our room and culture by not being cut throat, but maybe we've gone too far in that regard. We shall see what kind of reset we continue on this offseason. Last year we turned over about as much of the roster as any team should in one year. This year we will likely see more of that.

It's an indication of inexperience not poor coaching. It's difficult getting a receiving corps to learn the nuances of every play, and to work in synchronicity. Even harder when at times it was 60% rookies. Buck had to pare back some layers of his offence. I would expect that if Buck is to return that we will see more details and motions added.

Imo, the first half of the season was a very patch work and young receiving corps. When they finally all got on the field and had a couple games under their belt we started seeing a good offence. Absolutely no doubt that Buck had to simplify many aspects of his receivers route running and pre-snap motion due to their inexperience. I would think that year two of this same receiving corps would see some form pre snap motion being re-implemented. I am a little curious about the Bailey mid season non-signing as well, my thoughts are that maybe there was some bridge burning last offseason?

Yea...they used to be a FA destination because they were winning. Now they will only attract flies.

McManus rarely ever comes North of the border and that is by choice. Unless a team wants a GM conducting business from Florida, or McManus suddenly gets an affinity for being here full time I can't see him moving on. Goveia, otoh, is a much better choice and would be a huge loss to Walters team.

I don't like his offence at all. One dimensional and easy to shut down. Hope we aren't seriously considering him.

Calgary has an owner that too cheap to buy coffee and muffins for the players meetings. I can't see how they could grade any better than the inevitable F they are going to get.

Been hearing that for 3 years now.

Wouldn't want Maksymic as our OC. Might as well trade BO if we did that.

This makes no sense. We have been the West division champions for those 3 straight years. There are 4 other teams that should be firing their coaches every year by your standard.

No ones is saying lollipops and rainbows. Just as this could be the beginning of the end, it could just as easily be the continuation of the dominance we have seen. All things end for sure, but that does not mean that it is now or even beginning now. CFLPA is putting out their report cards soon. That will tell a lot.

The criticism of MOS is fair game. Booch takes it way over the top though, but it's discussion worthy. Not as big a problem as it is being suggested, but still something MOS needs to work on. It is idiotic to suggest he has lost the room, or this is some kind of last hurrah for MOS. That's just an extremely polarized take.

LOL at Hamilton knowing anything more than the fans. He's been on the outs looking in for 3 years now since he sewered Harris.

We could pick a half dozen guys that would have made more sense to move on from to keep Janarion in retrospect. However, at the time the decision was made I can understand it. I don't agree with it...but I get it. He was coming off back to back years of serious injuries, and had been non-commital about returning. Only so long you can wait for a guy to answer his phone in a year where dollars were super tight. There has been no bigger fan boy of Janarion on this forum than me, and at the time I wasn't all that surprised or upset that we didn't re-sign him. I thought it was a mistake, but I also truth be told did not see him returning to his old self either.

I think Hervey is a good choice for them.

I wish MOS would be more forthright because I think it would shut up a lot of the people who criticize. I can also respect why he isn't. You are allowed relief for one firing every so many years I believe. However, at the end of the day Rick Campbell may have been relieved of duties by BC but his contract is still in place until the end of next season. Now, naturally no team is going to prevent a fired coach from seeking new employment but technically teams do have to ask permission to talk to him. It's a technicality really but so long as Rick Campbell expects them to honor his contract, teams must get permission to talk to him. EDIT: Rick Campbell is not under contract for next year. His contract expires Jan.1/2025. Up until that point he is technically under contract with the BC Lions and it would require their permission for others to talk to him which I am sure would be given. Same goes for Neil McEvoy.