Fatty Liver

That's the crux of the matter, time for the CFL to invest some of their TSN money into training and employing professional officials.

He doesn't look to have much meat on dem bones.

Another election promise but here is the reality. While the Conservative government claims its defence spending over the years has risen massively, independent studies show the Tories actually underspent their own approved military budgets by close to $10 billion. They also chopped nearly $5 billion from defence since 2012, in large part to help Stephen Harper reach his much proclaimed budget surplus. "The spending now on the military, when you adjust for the inflation is back where it was … at roughly 2007 levels," says David Perry, senior defence analyst with the Conference of Defence Associations.

True enough, and it only took him until week 14 to do so.

OK...everyone makes mistakes. I'm certainly not immune to them. However, why didn't they pick up the flag? His memory couldn't be that bad that he couldn't remember 5 seconds later that he did indeed acknowledge Adam's position on the line. This doesn't make sense. Agreed. And I'd assume that Adams and/or O'Shea would have told the ref, "yes we did have an end...Darvin Adams, and you acknowledged it". Would that not jog his memory?Or command centre could have called and said "pick it up idiots!" No they couldn't and you know that. Why? Why couldnt they? They all have ear buds. Johnson could have easily said "wtf you doing? Pick up flag and drop it again and say no infraction on the play". They follow along dont they? Illegal procedure is a non-reviewable play so the Command Centre can't get involved. No one can order an official to pick up a flag. There was that game in 2011 between Montreal and the Bombers were an official threw a flag for defensive pass interference in the end zone against the Als. It was a terrible call and should have actually been offensive pass interference against Greg Carr. The officials huddled and tried to get the official who threw the flag to pick it up but he refused. He was fired shortly thereafter because of that call. No.. I get that. What i meant is that the command centre is watching live. They must see things close to real time.. If they see a potentially game altering mistake by the officiating crew, wouldnt it be prudent to allow them to stop the error? Why wont they allow a situation like that to help fix these dumb mistakes... If they can't then that should be on the agenda for next season. Only one game going on at a time in the CFL so it wouldn't be difficult for the command centre to watch every play and be in full contact with the head official to help them out on the field.

I'm watching Hockey now - will be fully vested when the season starts in less than two weeks. I agree it was a chincy call but the player was not on the line. Only issue I have with the call is the lateness of the flag. I agree with other posters here - the line judge watches the line from the sideline, and usually throws the flag right away. Only thing I can think of is he confirmed with the line judge from the other side first. i.e. he didn't want to throw a flag if a bomber receiver from the opposite end was on the line - thus negating the call. When the other sideline judge said no, he threw the flag. No different than the Sk too many men penalty in the G.C. a few years back. But here's how I see it, the bombers were playing the defending Grey Cup champs and now, with the loss of Collaros, the best team in the league. They hung with them all game, really fought it out. Those guys complaining about the Bombers O - hey that's a Rich Stubler Defense, and Rich knows Nichols very well. He made his adjustments and it took the bombers a while to figure out what to do. That's why they're the CHAMPS. Good on Wpg! I expected a blow out and instead was treated to a close game that had a heartbreak ending. If the bombers had played that way a few more times, it wouldn't have been a must win. It still wasn't IMO - B.C. will be slaughtered by the Eskimos today. Bombers still, have a good chance. They just gotta keep playing this way every week. If they do, they'll win their share of games. If they lay an egg last week, it's on THEM - not an official. You're allowed to be one yard back from the line. That's in the rule book. The pictures clearly show him half a yard back, in line with the tackles (who were aT least in line with Nichols). While I'm not convinced it's a conspiracy....it was 100% the wrong call. Yep it is. But you know, a 'good' team will make that 49 yard field goal. Also, we have absolutely no idea what would have happened after that play if the officials let the play stand. Nichols could have been sacked twice for big yardage loss, or they could have turned the ball over. Just because they get the first down doesn't mean they win. I like Liram, I think he'll be a star, but I just saw the guy he replaced and was out of football for TWO years come in and kick a 50 yard field last night in an Ottawa loss (Justin Palardy). To me, the call was irrelevant - the BOMBERS lost that game, not the officials. Liram is paid to make those kicks, he's not paid to make garbage field goals and 3 out of 4 extra points. He failed ,HE lost the game. You're being a bit over-zealous here. At best a 50 plus yd. FG is a 50/50 proposition for any kicker, especially accounting for wind variations.

That doesn't explain why Stoudermire started the game at Safety.

You know...sometimes, I don't even understand what you're saying. You respond to comments and it just doesn't make sense. Dr.'s receive special training to talk that way.

Only because he had previously proven himself incompetent at the other positions he played. Next week I expect him to be lined up at MLB while Bass moves to the PR. I call it O'Shea's shenanigans.

But only after he consulted with the head official, so he didn't have the balls to make the call himself but first sought permission to do so from someone who most likely didn't see the actual offence. The head official could have averted this whole embarrassment with a small amount of forethought in his response. It was 3rd and 2 inches, so the "offending player" was not integral to the success or failure of the play.

Now if the refs. made sure Wpg. won that would make a bit more sense from a corrupted betting perspective.

Rod seemed to be extra bountiful tonight, someone needs to force feed him Quaaludes before going on the air.

Suitor can't hold a candle to Dunigan.

Doesn't make much sense as a conspiracy either, basically this was a nothing game. Bombers weren't going to make the playoffs and the Stamps weren't going to miss them either.

The challenge call has to be relayed down from the coaches in the booth who have access to replay. Not on MOS. According to O'Shea they did not see that specific replay until the next play had already started.

According to O'Shea Adams pointed to the official and the official pointed back confirming he was on the line. It was not confirmed that it was the same official that threw the flag.

That was one of the most brutal game I've ever listened to. Who decided to team up those two morons?

More evidence of current govt.'s suppression of information and data. Why is NRCan's fuel price report suspended during election? http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-fuel-prices-neil-macdonald-1.3240778

He won a grey cup with a team Buono built. Once he had a few years as the head coach things started to fall apart, granted there were some injuries etc. But I don't think Benevidez will be a head coach again any time soon. In fairness to Benevidez, he had a declining Wally lording over him and making all of the personnel decisions. He's a smart young guy who will benefit from previous experience in his next gig and do well imo.

That is an amazing stat. right there.

Hope Bruce McNall's name doesn't pop up in the middle of this.

Did you miss it bro? He was released a few days ago by the bombers. Wow, I guess I have tuned out... thought he looked good in the limited playing time he had. Bizarre. Hate to break it to you but Littlejohn has been sent back to Sherwood Forest as well.

Somebody better run down to Earl's and see if Kyle is still waiting for him to show.

I write the offenders name down in my little black book, wait two years then go for their jugular when they least suspect vengeance.

Only reasoning I can think of is they're preparing to defend against the "John Cornish Show" and may choose run stopping ability and positional play over pass-rush capability. Then Nate Collins should be playing. I agree with that. It would be nice to see Cole and Collins play together.