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I'm 50% sure of that.

As a footnote to Brian Herosian, he and his late wife had a special needs son (Ben) and one of the reasons Brian chose to retire was to look after him. Brian did remarry and have two more kids. One of the reasons I recall him so vividly is that Brian's late wife had the same first name as mine and we had driven that same road a few days before.

If history is any indicator, Nichols will likely be about the same as this year- for better or worse. The only real question is what O'Shea will do about that, if anything.

According to my admittedly porous memory, Herosian was most effective as a safety.

I don't know Jack.

2019 will give O'Shea a fresh start, and it will be up to him to prove that he is not blindly loyal and stubborn to a fault. If he does well, all will be forgiven. If the team stumbles for the same reasons as seasons past, all of the wolves will howl.

And with most of their receivers on the DL, most of us thought the Stamps would be in trouble this season past. It will be interesting to watch how Huffer and Co. deal with this.

On the Bomber neg list, QB Bryan Schor looks interesting. Of all the clubs, two whose QB needs would seem to be the highest (Riders and Alouettes) were very light on those in their lists.

Wasn't the Perrizo signing announced earlier this week?

Ryan is a good, hard-nosed hockey player of whom I can say nothing bad.

Well, his sons have not covered themselves in glory. Ryan was a thorn in the sides of the Jets.

It was a lament. I recall him being a dominant safety until the accident that took his wife. His career was cut short, though.

I'm not sure if this has any relevance here, but a CFO of a sizeable company said that on a $100 million operating budget, and using perfectly acceptable accounting practices, a competent accountant could turn a $3 million profit into a $3 million loss or vice versa.

No one is talking about Brian Herosian.

Dickenson did pretty well with all kinds of receiver injuries, a suspect O-line and a QB who did not have his usual stellar year. Huffer and a heckuva scouting staff have his back.

If there is no reciprocal agreement between the CFL and the AAFL, what would stop a player from jumping mid-season from one to the other?

The world needs all the happy people it can get!

I will leave it to you to puzzle that out.

Its all well and good to have a love-in about finally winning a playoff game and having better NI talent and a credible quarterback, but the Bombers and the faithful have been waiting along time for a championship- too long actually. How much longer does the current regime have? If Chamblin manages to cobble together a winning team from the wreckage, how much pressure does that put on Walters and O'Shea?

Nope.

And a punishing tackler, too.

Trump has been able to get away with outrageous and illegal conduct all of his life due to his being born with a silver spoon in his mouth and his father using money to smooth over things for Don. Trump grew up with the attitude that he was beyond the law and carried that into his presidency. However, in what will probably be a shock to Trump, the betting in Washington is that Don Junior will be indicted next week. Trump is showing signs of coming unglued already and has been snarling at his whole staff this week. Next week ought to look like a political China Syndrome.

Attorneys and bail surety are both expensive.

And you do not find yourself being rated as being somewhere between the 5th or 7th best quarterback in the league by accident, either.

A couple of points: everything about O'Shea's modus operandi says that he will stick with the status quo as long a she can. His history with the Bombers is replete with examples, so we can expect that Nichols will go into training camp as the anointed one. Nothing about Nichols' track record indicates that he is an elite quarterback ala Bo-Levi, Frito-lay, Reilly etc. He is a good QB, and his acquisition probably saved the jobs of Kyle Walters and maybe even O'Shea. Nichols looks like a more fragile version of Kevin Glenn- he will be only as good as the players around him. Doug Brown's assessment of him as being the 5th or 7th best QB in a nine-team league supports this opinion.