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If you're just trying to measure progress then all you can do is look at where they are starting from and gauge whether or not they are headed in the right direction. We should be comparing our team against the other teams in the league this year, not against last years historically horrible team. If we'd gone 1-5 in the first third and 5-1 in the second third, then I'd say we are heading in the right direction and I'd be pretty pumped about our chances of making the playoffs this year. That's not what's happened. We pulled out some late comebacks in the 1st third of the season and we've been heading in the wrong direction since then, culminating in a bad loss to the former worst team in the league. That's way more important than how we look compared to last years losers. Quite frankly, this team isn't much better than last years team. Willy's the biggest difference between 3 and 6 wins and neither record is good enough. No, neither record is good enough. But to say the team isn't better than last year's garbage is ridiculous. Seriously, thats borderline trolling. The team at this point in the season is not much better than the team was last year at the same point, but overall it is better than last year. The biggest difference is that there is reason to hope that the future is brighter with a decent quarterback, better coaching (arguably) and a better GM in Walters than Sleepy Joe.

I agree with the BWAAAA HAAAA HAAAA sentiment. To your panic stations, rider fans!

Meh. Who cares about apathy?

Naheed Nenshi could rush for 150 yards against the Bombers, so losing Cornish is no big deal for the Stamps.

I'm not sure if all the problems with the team can be resolved enough between now and next June- there's a lot of them. As has been said ad nauseum, we need to replace all of our import O-linemen with either very good one or decent Canucks. We need a middle linebacker who strikes respect if not fear in opposing running backs and slot backs. We need one of not two import receivers as well as a healthy Nick Moore- Kelly may be one of the receivers we need, but he's going to have to prove it over the next four games or he should be gone. We need either a dominant defensive end and/or tackle, be they homegrown or imported. Despite his flashes of performance, Grigsby sure as spit does not look like the back we need. Etch and whomever is responsible for special teams has to be called in on the carpet and our much-heralded o-line coach has not covered himself in glory either. Bellefeuille cannot be assessed until he has something other than chicken feathers to cook with.

Mathematically, it is still possible for the Bombers to make the playoffs, but only the fans most heavily dabbling in recreational mood-altering substances still believe this is likely to happen. Like last year, we've been in next year country since Labour Day, but some of us are still clinging to our fantasies.

For the good of the Bomber community you should chain yourself to the bed post on game day it that is all that will make them lose Is this some sort of bondage thing you're suggesting?

8 & 10 would have been a successful season, 6 & 12 is not. I was overly optimistic about the club this year, but 6 & 12 is a realistic measure.

What da heck is fewq? I'm just speculating, but my guess is that his injury is pretty serious, and that's his reaction. Absolutely- he has acquired a brain injury some time back that halved his IQ and removed the filter between what is left of his brain and his mouth and fingers.

Is it really calling out a player if the coach says our loud that that we need to be better at stopping the run, running the ball better, protecting the QB better, or catching the ball better? It verges on insulting the intelligence of the fans (and media) when O'Shea says that the team has the talent, but just has to brush up on some of the fundamentals of the game a bit.

I think this has been posed before, but could our shoddy tackling be explained by instructions from Etch to go for the strip rather than wrapping up the player with the ball?

And I can win the 649 Lottery if I buy a ticket- the odds are roughly the same.

I wish there was reason to be optimistic that this edition of the Bombers had the talent and grit to win another game or two this season, but although reality sucks here, it persists. It you look at the other CFL teams, almost all have made moves during the season to bolster the team and improved or plugged holes well as a result, but all we have done is add Stoudemire from Sask's PR. We have been out-played, out-coached and maybe even out-Gm'ed. The teams we are going to have to face are flat-out better than we are, and our players know it. It seems that the only Bomber who is pissed off at the team's performance is Leggett.

I am not a huge Lawless fan but tend to accept that he spoke the truth about Sleepy Joe letting LaBatte slip through his fingers out of apathy, laziness and incompetence. LaBatte has dropped a couple of hints that his departure from Winnipeg was not inevitable but the result of Mack not making much of an effort to re-sign him, and Mack's track record of valuing and assessing Canadian players seems to support Lawless's statements. Mack's only redeeming virtues were the recruiting of US players- he did bring in some good ones, but not remarkably better than say, Shivers. Moreover, Mack never resolved our weakness at quarterback- that was a spectacular failing of his.

There is little reason for optimism at this point. Willy has been beaten to a pulp, the offensive line is no better and arguably worse, the defence has finally given up trying to win the game, and there is no help on the horizon. Its sad to think that we will probably end the season having won one game in the last three months of the season.

The gloom and doom predictions about the effect Etch's schemes would have on the defence have come to pass. I. for one, am sick and tired of the "high risk, high reward" defence which has devolved into "high risk, high loss". Etcheverry is not going to change his philosophy, and if the talent level is not there, neither are the results. O'Shea had better figure out whether or not he wants to live and die with this style of defence.

There are certain players who, if they see that there is no one behind them as good as they are or better, will simply slack off, and it seems we have some of those on our team.

Maybe, just maybe, he might be better than Kuale. But then there are people in personal care homes who probably are.

I expect Mr. Heenan to be offered a high paying off-field "job" with a private firm which will allow the Riders to keep under the cap. It has happened before and will happen again.

The secondary is about the only thing salvageable from the defence beside one of our linebackers and one or two of our D-line.

Actually, that response might work well if you're being asked about choosing what live theatre to attend.

With Willy upright, we have a decent chance of a win, maybe even a substantial win. Without Willy in the game, its a toss-up, maybe with an edge to Ottawa. Ottawa has nothing to lose and the Bombers have everything to lose. If the Bombers lose, its a death spiral downwards from here, and we've been down that road too many times.

Obviously a man of few words.

So people are wired like that though, they look at their own team through critical eyes but gloss over a lot of problems with other teams. See it happen all the time. Its the passion for ones team that sometimes prevents us from being objective at times. We're fans!! That automatically means we are neither objective nor dispassionate. If we were, what would be the point in watching games and yelling at the TV? My wife keeps asking me if I think they can hear me when I'm yelling. I tell her " your dam right." lol. If you yell loud enough they can. Especially if you wear your tinfoil hat.

I sure wish I knew what on earth the coaching staff sees in Kuale that keeps him on the roster ahead of Kromah.