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Bombers in 7th at the moment seems about right. The good news: even if they lose to the Esks this weekend, they will still be 7th, but if they win, fourth would be appropriate.

you obviously have no idea what sort of fans we have. The two of them aren't all that bad....

Hey, don't dis the town. They have a new hotel and a Tim Horton's now. Change is coming at a dizzying rate in Saskatchewan.

In the OP it said Picard was sick today.Yes I know. Your point? It's not surprising that with Picard sick they would need another guy snapping the ball and that Neufeld would be that guy. What's with your snarky comments lately Jacquie? I was just stating a fact, that Neufeld was playing centre in practice. It's a notable development, even if Picard was sick. yep, Jacquie is the one being "snarky" I, for one, think it's notable considering how Goosen is waiting in the wings .. The clock is ticking for Goossen. He appears to be bypassed for a starting role, and I am beginning to wonder what is missing from his game.

Actually, those are prarie dogs amped up on steroids.

This is believeable. Chamblin's ability to whine and snarl simultaneously is getting old.

As per previous years, by Labour Day, we will know where we stand with the post-season and probably O'Shea's fate as well. Marc Trestman, anyone? Our last ex-Alouette coach didn't work out very well but TSN seems to like him.

Hindsight is always perfect, and in retrospect, the experience of Higgins would probably have been a valuable asset for a team reeling from mismanagement and miscoachingment. We can give O'Shea a Mulligan for last year but not so this year. I don't see turfing O'Shea mid-season but unless the team gets past these preventable mistakes we saw too much last year and again against Calgary, he's in trouble. Even if O'Shea doesn't survive into next year, Walters probably has one more year of grace. As a sidenote: Walters was a special teams coach and these special teams screwups has to grind him.

I can see why Walters went with O'Shea and it might be a bit early to flush him away. Walters probably wanted to start a new era with a new face as coach who did not have a lot of baggage, and on paper, he looked like he was worth taking a chance on- young, a player who had a tremendous work ethic and respect from his peers. The risk: he had no head coach experience but had worked under some good head coaches. We knew that 2014 was going to be a year of learning and struggle. We had the struggle, alright, but it is becoming questionable whether there was any learning. Part of the defensive problems may lie at the feet of Walters and McManus for not finding the stud players we lack, but O'Shea bears full responsibility for many of the mistakes which cost us the last game and were present last season. The players must also be beginning to wonder if the coaching decisions are costing them games which they ought to be winning.

Its going to be interesting to see whether the Walters/O'Shea approach of not making any real changes to the roster to spur a team which underperformed or the Taman/Chamblin tactic of bringing anyone who might help is best. The Rider approach might be interpreted as panic and the Bomber reaction as resignation.

Willy did do a mea culpa in his post-game interview, but he was not the only culprit.

Are we so far gone as a country that only Saskatchewan maintains sane voters?So sane that they elected an MP who believes that children ought to carry guns to school.

Ihope Stoudemire gets one more shot at returning kicks- he has too much talent to give up on too soon. That said, he ought not to have too many more brain cramps. His status will give us a good idea how rigid O'Shea is in his thinking and whether he is willling to live or die with favourites. The next couple of games are going to be critical.

Hajrullahu was in the same position as a goalie in hockey. An opposing player can blow past a team's forwards, deke out the defencemen and score, but because the goalie was the last one with a chance to win the game, he gets blamed. With all the screwups, it all falls at the feet of the coach or coaches.

Stoudamire screwed up, but not alone. Any one of several factors cost us the game but I'm willing to give Stoudamire another shot because of his raw talent.

Gotta give Willy credit for both defending Hajrullahu and admitting that he coulda/shoulda thrown the ball better on his last play of the game.

Yup. We were right there. Even after the gaffe on field goal we STILL had a chance to get it in range but that INT broke the camels back. We were right there. That was only the last of a whole series of screwups and not-good-enoughs which started after the first quarter. If it was one or two things, it would be easily fixable, but this edition is lacking in so many areas that this season to get back on track is not likely to be enough.

Could be. We may have a better idea by the end of the season. The last minute of the game felt Lapo-like. Could be. We may have a better idea by the end of the season. The last minute of the game felt Lapo-like.We've had too many LaPolice/Rheinbold/Burke moments of late and the scary thing is that Willy sure as spit looks like he is regressing. How does he look like he's regressing? Lmfao. Calgary has one of the best pass defences in the league.. He did rather well did he not? The things people chose to try and claim around here at times.. When Willy's game deserted him last year, his biggest failing was his inability to handle blitzes and folding in crunch time. That's pretty much what happened tonight.

In some ways this loss was worse than the one aginst Hamilton. The Bombers were never really in the game against the 'Cats, but we gave the freaking game to the Stamps through multiple mistakes and they all seem to point to the coaching in one form or another.

Could be. We may have a better idea by the end of the season. The last minute of the game felt Lapo-like. Could be. We may have a better idea by the end of the season. The last minute of the game felt Lapo-like.We've had too many LaPolice/Rheinbold/Burke moments of late and the scary thing is that Willy sure as spit looks like he is regressing.

Too many dumb choices, plays and mistakes. O'Shea is beginning to make me think that his hiring was a mistake and we might not have too much room to snigger at the Riders and Chamblin. It may be a toss-up as to who gets axed first.

At what point does glacier-like speed of improvement become no longer acceptable when several other teams have proven that you can turn a crappy team into a Grey Cup contender in two years?

O'Shea and company are perilouly close to the point where coaching errors and blown player assignments can be forgiven as growing pains or rookie mistakes. After awhile "mea culpas" are an admission of incompetence. This game was winnable except for the Bombers as a whole giving it away and we've had way too much of that sort of thing. Its even time to question how good our scouting has been.

If the Bombers want this game every man jack will have to play at his best, and Collins will have to shine. No way are the Stamps going to be out-coached or out-talented, so the only alternative is to out-work them. And NO bonehead mistakes such as dumb penalties. BLM looks to be a notch off his last-year form so Willy ought to be at least as good. With our questionable linebacking, the D-line has to keep lane discipline.

The amazing part was Messam and Allen chewing up big yardage against two of the best linebackers in the league. Didn't do the Riders any good though. Kevin Glenn was very good as well and played well enough to win and is going to have his rep as being unable to win the close/big games solidified through no fault of his own.