TrueBlue4ever

Damien Jackson. 😁

Legit curious question, how often are you in the dressing room with the team? And in what capacity of you can say?

2014 and 2018

The strange thing about Hall’s defences is that the “bend don’t break” almost seems like he is playing soft coverage just to see what the offence is doing for one half, then makes second half adjustments to more aggressiveness. Not sure why it takes a half to get in synch so often this year.

Re: Speed’s point about great teams choking in the playoffs: just a reminder that 12 teams in CFL history have won 15 or more games in a season, only 5 of them went on to win the Grey Cup.

In terms of concert sales right now, I’d put Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Es Sheeran and Elton John way ahead of Foo Fighters, and for actual bands being bigger, right now Coldplay, U2, Springsteen, and even Guns and Roses are bigger box office draws. I don’t think Motley Crüe or even Metallica would appeal to a football audience en masse.

Well, that, and the gaslighting, name dropping, name-calling and character attacks on players, coaches, and disagreeing posters, and constant resume reminders that smack of “do you know who I am?”. I think Noeller put it best when he said there’s a good debate to be had somewhere, but the extreme positions taken have made it lose all context.

Yes, I was. Actually it can stand for whatever you want it to. Could be “too long, didn’t read”, “terrifically detailed logical reply”, or “tiresome loudmouth droning repeatedly” - whatever suits your mood.

Or in the same post if you want!

TLDR

Curious as to what turned you off? And how you would rank the Bond movies, and what you look for in them.

Thank you for validating what I have always believed…….that you have no idea what you are talking about. Just kidding. To each their own, but Skyfall is generally recognized as one of the, if not the best, Bond films ever made.

Brady O

Did that bother you more than seeing Milt Stegall get hurt in 2002 in a meaningless game before the playoffs? Or imagine if Kevin Glenn’s broken arm happened in garbage time or in an unimportant tune-up? Which is worse?

Did not realize he had ALS. Living on borrowed time already, very sad.

And how would you react as a fan if we were “forced” to play an Oliviera, Collaros, Schoen, Lawler, Jefferson, etc. in a nothing game and we lost them to a season-ending injury heading into the playoffs?

Who says they are doing it for 6 games? And if they do, they earned that right. We benched Collaros effectively for two games in 2021, again strangely silent here. And if a Calgary or Montreal opponent complained that we made their games easier, would we say “rightfully so” or say “why should we put our players at risk in a nothing game so that Ottawa or Hamilton or Saskatchewan don’t feel ripped off? Pretty sure I know what the answer would be with the shoe on the other foot.

I don’t recall this kind of wailing about the integrity of the game last year when we sat Collaros in BC for that “marquee” match-up between the top 2 teams in the CFL at the time. Or how the Montreal fans were getting ripped off shelling out their hard earned money only to watch the Sean McGuire spectacle in 2021. And if the league put in a “load management” force them to play edict and we lost Collaros to a season-ending injury in a nothing game for us (like we did in 2002 with Stegall), I can just imagine the calls for Ambrosie’s head for such a stupid rule being in place, forcing us to put a player at risk needlessly. This has been done in every league every year when a team clinches early. Not just a “short-sighted CFL league office” situation.

That’s a lot more than Joan Jett and Desmond Child apparently get in royalties for a song that’s a direct rip off of theirs.

Fortunately the idea of Russians as the villainous country is in favour again (unless you are MAGA). Or this guy, Henry Cavill

Whatever is asked of him in whatever position he is put in. And the team has won more when he was inserted into the line-up than the local favourites Parker and Haba. Which is really the most important thing for the coaching staff, whose job security is measured in wins and losses. Just sayin’. 😊

Let’s try another random question after the commercial one did not take off. What is the best gift you have ever given or received? Trying to go beyond the obvious of “my love” or “my partner/my kids” idea. This is a tangible random birthday/Xmas type present. Mine would have been a Christmas gift from my mom in 1997. She had gone through literally thousands of old pictures (some print, some old slides that she had transferred to print) and made a memory photo album for myself (and two more for each of my siblings). Must have spent months putting it all together for each of us, and covered a quarter century of our lives. Was about a two hundred page album and I spent the entire Xmas break just going through the memories the first time through. Meant so much then, and even more now that my parents are gone and many old friends have moved on to different places.

You haven’t been reading the Bomber threads much this season, have you?

“Donorcycles”