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Not to get too far ahead here, but a reporter on 1290 yesterday was essentially talking about Marty in the past tense, so I suspect his passing is imminent. Great coach, just could never get over the hump with talented teams. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kshb.com/sports/former-nfl-head-coach-marty-schottenheimer-reportedly-moved-to-hospice-care%3f_amp=true

Start at the 8:37 mark. Or cut to the chase at 10:13. Either way, I have found the best remedy is to starve him of oxygen if you don’t like him. Not literally, and not via the ban hammer. Just tune out his noise. Don’t worry about discrediting his sources or challenging his version of spin with contrary opinion or facts. Just act like he didn’t even post and carry on with the conversation. And when he whines about the “echo chamber” and “closed minds refusing to accept differing points of view” (Kellyanne Conway called them “alternative facts”, which by definition cannot exist) understand that he does it to get a rise out of people and to get them to follow him down the rabbit hole to get a sense of gratification out of it (he will deny this point I strongly suspect) because he is being heard. He may have some interesting tidbits to post, unfortunately for him so much of his past posting history (notably in the Climate Change thread) is so one-sided and debunked, that his reputation as an objective or credible poster here is shot. And that is of his own doing. So if you want to spend time debunking him further, have at it. It gets kind of fun to see how fast you can sow doubt into his sources. But there is little point in getting upset about it. That is his oxygen. And it seems to me that this approach of just ignoring him and pretending that he didn’t post anything worked before. Once his contrarian climate change posts were simply passed over, he got bored of being invalidated and “took a break from the echo chamber”. Now he’s back but his habits haven’t changed, so there is no reason to give him a new chance at legitimacy. Differing opinions are certainly allowed here, and we can agree to disagree, but if you can’t back up your position, use discredited sources, or just turn a debate into a personal insult like “you just don’t want to see the truth because of a character flaw” (radical left, right wing racist, and Rider fan seem to be the go-to’s here at this point in time) when you get challenged, then your schtick will get tired quickly, whichever side you are on. In my opinion, the best way to remove these types is to pretend they did not post. Or write “TLDR”. (My personal calling card) 🤣

Very sad story on the eve of the Super Bowl. Aside from the distraction for the Chiefs and their coaching staff, a real human tragedy that could have legal consequences. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/05/us/britt-reid-accident-kansas-city/index.html

Bombers’ operating costs for 2019 was $32 million, the player salaries were only $5.35 million of that. Ticket sales accounted for 32% of the club’s total revenue of $35 million. Game day, concessions and merch sales accounted for another 24%. And although the privately owned clubs’ books are not public, the publicly owned Bombers, Riders, and Edmonton Whatevers are considered probably the 3 healthiest clubs in the CFL, and only the Bombers turned a profit in 2019. Suggesting that the TSN can cover the bulk of the salary cap and therefore the league is financially solvent because of that one fact is too simplistic and fundamentally incorrect. Edited to remove some of my snark. Was not needed or called for.

Look, I told you I was sorry for that..... uh, I mean, yeah, me too! It may suck, and it’s another re-tread, and you just may not like Queen Latifah in general, but don’t judge just on the casting beforehand. No one thought that Bruce Willis of Moonlighting fame could ever pass as an action star when Die Hard came out, and who would peg Liam Neeson as an action star either before Taken, given his work in Schindler’s List and Love Actually?

The club paid him $100,000 in bonus money in 2020 to not play one down. I’d say they did right by him, and he has returned the favour.

Travel expenses, hotel accommodations, flights, meals and per diems, training camp expenses, equipment costs, stadium upkeep and game day power usage costs.,,,,,,,

Hey, your wish was granted and LaPo is no longer with the team. You can stop slagging him for all the terrible things he did to this offence like bringing home a Grey Cup.

Third goal reminiscent of the power play on Monday. Club doing a better job of keeping the puck in at the blue line and counter-attacking. Also Vesaleinen working and skating harder than I can recall him ever doing so before. Good 3rd and 4th line work tonight.

The Ottawa game is on October 2. I would say odds are better that we will have fans in the stands than not by that time.

Best part of the Guardian article is the last two sentences of this snippet. A delicious middle finger to the grifter . ”And yet, in less than five minutes, USFL joy was replaced by USFL horror, and NFL horror was replaced by NFL joy. After confirming that, yes, the NFL had violated the law, the jury awarded damages of … $1. Yes, one dollar. “Actually, $3,” said David Cataneo, who covered the trial for the Boston Herald. “Damages in antitrust laws are tripled.” Rozelle had the car turn around again and speed to the courthouse. Trump, already there, was sitting alongside John Mara, the son of New York Giants’ owner Wellington Mara. When the words “one dollar” emerged from Leisure’s lips, the younger Mara pulled out a $1 bill from his wallet and handed it to the Generals’ owner. Trump’s sunken expression was worth the price.”

So I thought this was just a trend for the last 2 years, but this is telling. Charleston Hughes sacks the last 7 seasons: 2019 - 16 total in 17 games (10 in first 7 games, 5 in next 5, 1 in final 5), 1 sack in 1 playoff game 2018 - 15 total in 17 games(13 in first 10 games, 2 in final 7 games), 0 sacks in 1 playoff game 2017 - 11 total in 14 games played (6 in first 5 games, 5 in final 9), 1 sack in 2 playoff games 2016 - 16 total in 18 games (7 in first 8, 3 in next 6, 6 in final 4) , 0 sacks in 2 playoff games 2015 - 10 sacks total in 15 games (9 in first 9, 1 in final 6) 2014 - 8 total in 11 games (6 in first 6, 2 in last 5), 0 sacks in 1 playoff game 2013 - 18 sacks total in 16 games (13 in first 10, 5 in last 6), 0 sacks in 1 playoff game Toronto may be wise to cut him before Labour Day when veterans’ salaries are then guaranteed for the remainder of the year.

Hustler and Rick Ralph were on this afternoon expressing surprise at why fans are jumping all over Wheeler, conveniently ignoring that is was a media session and the media were the ones broaching the subject of him slowing down and throwing out analytics to bash his performance. The media say that they are only parroting what fans are saying to dodge their own accountability in creating drama, but when the majority of fans disagree with them on something, they chafe at that criticism too. I am getting a little tired of the media creating the news and stirring the pot instead of just reporting it, and then getting all defensive any denying that they are doing just that and blaming the fans for calling their integrity into question. Jakob Voracek was bang on.

I don’t think he said “Hmm, Milt Stegall better fit into my short pass scheme or he has to go for a better fit”. But yes, his schemes would probably highlight some players more than others, and in some cases individual production would either exceed expectations or suffer. Still, I don’t think Drew Wolitarsky and Julian Feoli-Gudino are 1,500 yard receivers that got wasted by Lapo’s short pass offence. Maybe with Mike Reilly they hit 800 yards or scrape to 1,000 in a career year.

A lot of that probably depends on where Harris is at after 18 months of inactivity, and the evolution of both our offence around Collaros and other teams’ defences. Hopefully we adapt as others teams will have tape on what we already did.

I don’t think LaPo was the “scheme over talent” guy many would claim. The talent on this offence was a big o-line, a bull at running back who was a great receiver out of the backfield, one deep threat who had OK but not world class speed, and a QB with good accuracy and could run through progressions but a middling arm and was not a risk taker. LaPo crated a ball control offence that would not light it up but could control the time of possession and limit turnovers, and took advantage of a robot at kicker to get points on the board more often than risking turnovers that kept points off the board. Not as flashy as a high risk/reward quick strike offence, but took the tools he had and maximized its effectiveness and working around its shortcomings. When he had Milt, Khari, and Roberts in his first go-round he loaded up the playbook to use them. When Streveler came in he adapted to incorporate a strong running pivot with much less accuracy and made him a viable weapon that could throw just enough to keep defences off balance. When Collaros came in, the longer pass plays were then incorporated to work to his strengths. People knocked LaPo for a “predictable, boring” offence but it played to the ball control grind it out strengths we had and it won us a Grey Cup. At least that’s how I saw it. Many would chafe at the lack of excitement and non-sexiness of the “not a gun-slinger” style of offence, but you can’t argue with the ultimate result, and it for with the strengths of the talent we had.

One good thing about the Nichols move to Ottawa for me: we were not supposed to play the Argos at home this year due to the imbalanced schedule. At least now when the RedBlacks show up Oct. 2 the club can give Nichols a proper video tribute (which he deserves) and the fans can applaud him (which he even more so deserves) for all he did to bring the Bombers back from the dead into the playoffs and ultimately into a Grey Cup champion in his time here, not to mention all his community work and charitable donations.

I think there was interference on the play......and I am pretty sure the refs would still have upheld the goal. Great save but he almost blew it by failing to freeze the puck and letting it squirt out by his stick. He had buried his head and had no clue the puck was still loose. Good on Lowry for picking up the puck and dumping it out. Overall a really nice game from Brossoit, and Forbert had been playing it simple and steady for the most part.

Blue lives matter, FOX?

Lose a challenge, give them a power play right after a goal.

If Elon Musk wants to pioneer a new age of commercial passenger air and space travel for civilians, these videos are not helping consumer confidence. I mean, would you willingly board one of his rockets right now?

Still having trouble sticking the landing.

Worked last time for the GOP.