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So Mike, tell me... If he is fired who will hire him as a DC? Please fill me in. Be interested in your take. ... what's your point? That he's the worst Defensive Coordinator in the league and we can clearly do better. Agreed. Etch's performance this season makes me wish we'd hired Marshall instead.

Love Mo Legg as a playmaker but don't like his tackling. He got beat a number of times going one-on-one against the ball carrier and quite a few of his tackles got shrugged off. I think Brack is a much more reliable tackler. The biggest difference between Leggett and Brackenridge is experience- a couple of years under the belt makes a world of difference in adapting to the CFL game, but either way, Brackenridge is a talent.

For those who were betting that Reilly would be good to go with an aspirin and a bit of tape, this is bad news. On a sort of related note, Taman is looking pretty clever with bringing in Kerry Joseph.

What, you don't like 3-1 final scores in your CFL games?

Ummm....Alouettes are actually larks and are not predators. And so much for nit-picking. Larks yes, but blood thirsty man-eating larks for sure. Those are the worst kind.

Moreover, the #2 pivot in Edmonton, Pat White, is on the limp as well. This puts the Esks' fortunes squarely in the hands of Matt Nichols, as a broken bone in Reilly's foot will probably mean the end of his season. We could be looking at a western semifinal between Kerry Joseph and Matt Nichols. Could be a real yawner or a scrambly classic. Either way, Calgary isn't losing any sleep over this.

Ummm....Alouettes are actually larks and are not predators. And so much for nit-picking.

Kinda reminds me of a slow-horse race between Lulay and Durant- will he or won't he.

Montreal, certainly would want Trestman back, but I think that BC and Ottawa would also be in the mix.

Yup. the edge goes to BC in quarterbacking and defence. Crompton ought to be in a full body cast by the end of the game.

Why did we? Rookie GM & HC. Money perhaps as bringing in experience is expensive? The Bomber organization loves to save money... We know that. Just sayin'. That doesn't explain Ottawa though. Desjardins seems to think money poops out his butt. What the heck- its not Desjardin's money and there are those who believe that you can buy a championship- like Bruce McNall, and it does work once in awhile. Yes I know it's not Desjardins money. Since when is it ever the GM's money? You don't have to take me so literal. The point I was trying to make is that Desjardins was not behaving like he had a long-term stake in the team's future. If you expect to be in for the long run, you tend to be a good deal more careful. Ah sorry, I gotcha now. Yeah, I agree. He's like a magician. He's distracting you with one hand "oooo look we got Henry Burris" while scamming you with the other. Makes it look like he's doing something big and spectacular, but in truth he's just spending all their money in the wrong way and probably screwing the team in the long run. That guy just wreaks of slimballiness. Exactly. Desjardins, probably because of an over-inflated ego, decided to go for a big splash instead of methodically building a contender. With a bit of common-sense decisions, he could have had a team which not only got into the playoffs, but maybe even got past the first round. As weak as the whole East was this year, it would not have been inconceivable.

Why did we? Rookie GM & HC. Money perhaps as bringing in experience is expensive? The Bomber organization loves to save money... We know that. Just sayin'. That doesn't explain Ottawa though. Desjardins seems to think money poops out his butt. What the heck- its not Desjardin's money and there are those who believe that you can buy a championship- like Bruce McNall, and it does work once in awhile. Yes I know it's not Desjardins money. Since when is it ever the GM's money? You don't have to take me so literal. The point I was trying to make is that Desjardins was not behaving like he had a long-term stake in the team's future. If you expect to be in for the long run, you tend to be a good deal more careful.

Why did we? Rookie GM & HC. Money perhaps as bringing in experience is expensive? The Bomber organization loves to save money... We know that. Just sayin'. That doesn't explain Ottawa though. Desjardins seems to think money poops out his butt. What the heck- its not Desjardin's money and there are those who believe that you can buy a championship- like Bruce McNall, and it does work once in awhile.

Being an idiot on air often gets you lots of attention- like Charles Adler, Don Cherry, Don Imus etc etc.

If BC does not advance to the Eastern final, and maybe even if they do, there will be changes in BC.

Grigsby had a couple of good games with us, too- remember? I have no rancor for him, but he is still a below average back. I'm betting he doesn't even get an invite to the 'Cats training camp next year.

Another question that deserves to be asked is why Desjardins chose to go with a rookie head coach rather than suffer through two different sets of teething pains.

Next season the Bombers win those games. I'm confident Bombers win at least 9-10 games next season. Could've won them this year too. We were outplayed at the QB position - rest of the team played well enough to win those games. Willy had his struggles towards the end of the season, however, in the games against the RIders at home and against Hamilton he outplayed the opposing QB. You are just making crap up. He was pretty brutal in the first game against the Riders. I thought that was one of his worst games actually. Those three picks he threw were absolute killers. They hurt, However, I blame 2 out of 3 of those on the play calling and on a receiver making no effort to go to the ball. Fact of the matter is that we scored more points on offence than they did. If we could stop turning the ball over for TDs, or stop Dressler on KRs this series looks a lot different. Who gets a FG blocked for a TD? The luck was running the Riders way. Willy played well. He was not the cause of any of our defeats to the Riders. I was at that game, and it was difficult to tell who should have worn the goat horns, but Willy had happy feet the whole second half after being pounded in the first half.

Had they hired a competent GM (read:not Desjardins), they would have been in the mix for the playoffs, so no sympahy from me here.

Heck, even Doug Flutie and Ron Lancaster had bad times, but of the current crop of CFL pivots, if I were coaching a critical CFL game, I would pick Ray.

Beware the Buddhist dictum:" Before you set out to seek revenge, dig two graves."

The information is embarrassingly true, but it is what it is. What occurred to me was " Who the heck were the Florida Manatees, and who in their right mind would name a professional team after animals who were slow and dim, not to mention being called "sea cows"?"

I'm getting moist and tingly again......

If he can do both, that ought to double his chances of not getting hurt. Personally, I suggest he should provide his O-line with sidearms. That ought to do it.

Karma?