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Milt setsd up a friendly banter and controversy .... his forecasts are good observations but often don't fulfill those observations .... so his sooth saying is at an average outcome... Milt keeps it very interesting ... and he has a healthy self image

This will be Edmonton's 2nd game amd on the road so the usual is to leave many of their veterans at home .... we should be able to pound them ... I expect Nichols plays only the first quarter or third of the game: then Ross, then Steveler and possibly Bennett too. I am hoping our rookies play as well as our veterans. Truly tryouts this year

This is the defence Hall has been trying to create since he got here: “If you look at history over the past couple of years this defence has created the most turnovers,” said Bighill. “From that standpoint, I don’t want to go back on that. I want to be a defence that prides itself on takeaways and we continue doing that. In general, it’s an athletic, physical defence. You’ve got DBs who like to come up and challenge people and the front six-seven are playing pretty physical up front. If you control the line of scrimmage, it’s what you want. At the end of the day if you are a physical football team that plays fast, physical and smart you’re going to win a lot of games.”

First I want to say that I can't remember so much talent in training camp .... It is like going to to the candy store: you can't have all you see no matter how hard you lick your lips The magic will be finding a way to hide them on our roster, pr and lists ... and keeping them from going away mad ... we will be stocking the league if we keep this up ... What I don't want is one or more of our late cuts getting picked up by Jones in Regina (or some other western franchise) and turning into an allstar Second it looks like we have stockpiled the players Coach Ritchie needs to play his gambling style of defense .... stripping the ball and going after picks is going to be emphasized over making a solid tackle .... Hall wants the D feeding the O the ball: that is who he is and I think he will have the players and the speed required to succeed at such gambling (Heath who?) The newcomer coaches on D may contribute more than we know .... I am smelling real talent in the coaching ranks .... I am betting that everybody on D is going to know their role and not be guessing what (or where) they should be doing .... that is good coaching Meanwhile MOS seems to be putting together something cohesive and I am not used to that I am so excited for this 2018 edition of our beloved club .... I can almost taste the Grey Cup

Well one thing that seems for sure better is the way Ed Tait is getting out daily reports on training camp ... I like the layout, style and content ... snippets of MOS and other players are great

There seems to be a major difference in our scouting .... is it just our scouts maturing and connecting more ... or is it the newbies bringing old connections to the forefront?

Momentum counts for a lot ... yes we have to showcase the talent but we also have to win with that talent .... this is the best group of rookies I can remember but they have to show us they can win if they want to make the club ... and they need to do that immediately ... we need to show we are much improved from last year at both rookie and lockedin positions

Time to move on .... I hope the mods close this thread

Don't tell me preseason games don't matter. I want us to pound these guys. We need to send a message to ourselves and everyone else. This game sets the tone for everything that is going to follow ... and it is better to knock off Edmonton than anybody else!!! I hope they bring lots of rookies.

The season has begun: Yipee!!!!

I will second that

cancer is always a surprise and you don't lighty cut a $300k player

The one good thing coming out of this is Durant will not be a negative influence or slow growing cancer in the locker room this year .... lucky good riddance

I am betting we go with a tried and true LB picked from last year's starting LB's. Any new comer is going to have to wait his turn to play MLB no matter how talented he may show, It seems this is the way our coaching staff is.

Who do you favor at 3rd string"?

It's getting closer.... league wide: MAY 16TH – ROOKIE CAMPS OPEN MAY 20TH – TRAINING CAMPS OPEN Yipee !!!

Heath being gone may have a more positive impact than we can expect ... he was a hotdog that disrupted "team" .... his freelancing disrupted harmony and destroyed confidence in "system" .... I expect we are going to have far less secondary breakdowns giving up easy TDs

With Lefevour gone our new 3rd string QB will have to be able to run the short yardage offense ... I don't see you know who running it ... he won't take the pounding required

The first Preseason game is May 31 .... the regular season starts June 14 ... everything will start to move very quickly now .... I am not used to the CFL in May but you know what? I am very glad for it Thank you Mr Ambroise but please be advised I still want a November Grey Cup ... mid November is Ok but no sooner Stanley Cup and Grey Cup in the same year ... it would probably kill me !

So here we are a year later and what has changed .... does our team just need aging like a bottle of wine ... or are we going way beyond standing pat .... I am seeing a couple of defensive changes ... MLB and DE (sort of) and upgrading two or three positions at DB/REC ... lost two key pieces in Bond & Westerman, got one back in Bowman So what will take us over the top? 1) Scouting, 2) Coaching, 3) Maturing, 4) Luck 5) Something else

Coach and management still here and looking promising

I used to search the Sun and the Press for tidbits of Bomber News ... for a while there was a place on this site that would reference football posts in the press ... now I find very little from whatever might be written (during the season or currently) except for one or twp websites that focus on the CFL ... is it because we don't care or is it something else like everyone just uses twitter?

Dear Mr Negatron What good are such statements about who said what first ... Bombers & Jets win it all in same year ... that would be a freak of nature ... sort of like putting all your free cash flow into lottery tickets guareenting poverty forever Predictions and forecasts are useful if it can help govern good actions .... otherwise they are no more than narcissistic ego ... annoying and antisocial.... but yeah the Bombers are going to win the Grey Cup this year

I believe Heath being gone is going to help a lot more than hurt. He was a risk taker and that cost us more than we know. We had so many defensive breakdowns in the secondary that cost us large ... I expect those breakdowns to be more or less eliminated with different popsitional coaching and more stick to your own knitting DB's

I am guessing that the change in defensive positional coaches is going to make a bigger difference than we expect this year