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And Dunigan and Dickinson etc etc. Maybe we ought to start a separate thread extolling Willy's toughness, ie:Willy is so tough that: -he doesn't get out of the bathtub to pee -he stirs his coffee with his thumb -he backtalks to his mother-in-law -he doesn't shave-he drives his whiskers in with a hammer and bites them off inside -etc

Well, whatever we're doin ain't workin', so why not shake things up a bit? Seems to me that a scrambling quarterback might give our offense a different look- what's the worst that could happen? We could lose the game, but we've been losing pretty consistently for the past while anyways.

Buck got a lot of praise (mostly in disbelief about how he was still alive) but simultaneously most here shook heads and started taking wagers about how long he would last before his self-preservation instinct kicked in. Mack should have been charged with criminal negligence for keeping him on as long as he did. I wouldn't want to be Buck in 10 or 20 years.

Because we are not going to get a bruise by bruise accounting of Willy's health,we are going to have to accept O'Shea's word that he has refused to lie down and stay down at the first opportunity. O'Shea was a tough a linebacker as ever played in the CFL, so he should know tough. Willy has taken some whacks and bounced right up, the kind that would put Buck on the DL for three weeks. Willy is tough but not unbreakable, and it better be a priority for the Bombers to get better protection for him in the off-season, and I don't mean a better brand of condom.

At the risk of sounding over-confident, it is Hamilton after all, so it would make sense for Brohm to start to see if he can make his former employers sorry they let him go. Keeping Willy in reserve makes sense because the Bombers' chances of making the playoffs is so slim that we might as well see how good the backup(s) are.

Which is precisely why he's on his what? 4th team? This is yet another example (if you needed one) that talent alone isn't enough. Athletes need to have the instinct and the competitive attitude to be at the top of their games.

From what I understand, Willy was a spectator and remains iffy for the next game. Its looking more and more like Brohm will get the start. The defensive tackle we traded for was present at practice.

What is interesting from this same article is " Don't understand what Detroit saw in him"

I sure hope the Bombers paid attention to the Calgary-Montreal game. Hamilton, Toronto and now even Montreal are playing much better.

Maybe the Ottawa team ought to shorten their name to the RB's- it might even get them sponsorship from a fast-food chain.

I was afraid this game was going to be a snooze-fest, but at least the teams have made it into the end zones.

Ya gotta get people away from Rod Black as much as possible.

For a 29-30 year old QB? Don't see it. Yeah. Willy will be a solid starter but Ricky Ray? C'mon man! Absolutely. Willy has the command presence, the good mechanics and the ability to read defenses and react. All he needs is good QB coaching and experience- lets have this conversation next year at this time.

Williams absolutely should have been ejected from last night's game, and ought to be fined and maybe even suspended for that deliberate intent to injure. It was completely dangerous. And yes, Willy may well be the heir to Ricky Ray as the best pure quarterback in the league. If he put on 10-15 pounds of muscle, he would have the NFL all over him in a year or two.

I don't think we've been blown out. We've lost some games by lop-sided scores, but not like last year, which was a disaster from beginning to end. The only way people would have a right to be really let down this year would be if they had fantasies about how good the team was. We are still about six players away from being competitive, and there will be no help for that this year. We are pretty much guaranteed a win in Ottawa but a win against Hamilton is going to have to be fought hard for. If we lose against Hamilton, even beating Ottawa becomes iffy and its all downhill from there.

We don't play Toronto any more so that doesn't matter and the Hamilton game is a home game for the Bombers right? That's a plus there. Unfortunately, home field has not proven to be any advantage this year, so there goes that theory.

Bad news for our side- both Toronto and Hamilton seem to be on the upswing.

The BC loss can't be hung completely on Glenn- the BC defence took the night off and Ray was very good. BC got behind early and that took the running game right off the table, allowing the defence to key on pressure and defending the pass.

Walters is a victim of his own success- he started out so well but seems to have been firing blanks lately. If the player we traded Suber for cannot report, surely we must have some recourse. We are going to be going through some trying times for the next couple of months, and it would be nice to have reason for optimism.

Nice to see offense in the CFL again and running backs who run straight ahead. Rather unsporting of the Toronto defensive lineman to take the name of the monster in Lake Okanogan, though.

It will be interesting to see if Calgary goes to sleep as they did against Toronto, but even if they did, Montreal does not have a Ricky Ray. Montreal is probably hooped, but stranger things have happened.

American tort law is quite different than Canada. People down there (and organizations) sue each other at the drop of the hat and often win bizarre awards by the courts. In Canada, there is the legal concept of "a reasonable person" as a determination of onus. If there is deliberate misrepresentation or knowing omission, that would be grounds for finding for the plaintiff, but that would have to be proven in a preponderance of evidence. Bruce would have to prove that the league knew or reasonably should have known by way of common knowledge that he should not have played under those circumstances. If a doctor determined from the available evidence that it was a reasonable decision to let Bruce play, then it lets the league off the hook. If the doctor made that decision in defiance of reasonable medical evidence and judgement, then the doctor may be culpable. In short, Bruce is not likely to win even if the court agrees to hear the case. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

It has to be Ploen. If memory serves, he even played as a defensive back and did very well at that. Just icing on the cake if it is so.

If the stars align, we will finish the season 9 and 9, if we run into the same old, we will be 6 and 12, and that is still way better than last year, even though we will miss the playoffs again along with Montreal and Ottawa. Pretty poor company to be in, but there we are. Some of the problems that have plagued the team for years have been addressed, but Walters, McManus and the scouts is going to have to be very busy in the off-season. It would be encouraging to have at least one stud import O-lineman, linebacker or receiver arrive before the end of the season to give us hope that things are on the upswing.

I disagree. There's huge value in keeping a defense off balance and guessing. A few passes per game to Fitzgerald, and a few runs up the middle for Pontbriand would help do that. I never said replace Watson with Fitzgerald in the slot. Keeping a defence off balance is critical- for the past few years, our offense was utterly predictable and we were screwed by the third quarter. The only hitch might be that out talent level might nor be good enough as yet to run that sort of thing consistently.