Fatty Liver

Surprised by the lack of player movement this year but I think the trend of air-lifting in a swath of replacement players for faltering teams has proven to be an ineffective and costly strategy over time. Seldom can an incoming player unseat a player who has been with a team since TC, mainly because they're neither fluent in the CFL nor the play-book. At best any "new to the CFL" players brought in mid-season are likely candidates for TC the following year. Exceptions are possible as in Jarvis Jones and Dan Knapp's case but still rare.

Pretty obvious that O'Shea realizes an airlift of prospects is not going to be brought in at this time of the season to save the day and Walters confirmed that the other day. Bombers have to run with the horses they have at this point with the occassional prospect emerging from the PR to compensate for injuries. I expect the D backfield to suvive the off season but the LB crew and D-Line might look a lot different going into next season.

The good news is that If the Bills stay in Buffalo, Toronto will never get an NFL team as they are considered part of the Bills territory.

Looks like the Bills will be staying in Buffalo. http://www.tsn.ca/nfl/story/?id=461318

Dude I love Willy but this is crazy talk. Durant was nearly perfect in the playoffs last year -- I think he went 10:1 in TDS:picks. Sorry I should have said Willy has a better QB toolbox at his command, offencive stats. like he put up in the last game don't lie. One for one I wouldn't trade Willy for Durant because Willy's potential is still unrealized and he's only going to get better over the next 5-10 years. Durant has already peaked, he's got some physical tools but not the smarts to be anything other than a "meat and potatoes" QB.

Welcome to fan bias. It's the same type of crazy behavior that makes someone suggest Tino Sunseri is equal to Drew Willy. That's not what I said. Read it again really slowly. Here's what you said recently on the the Riders forumn. "I am sure we could care less what some Joe Sixpack Bomber fan thinks." "Pretty lame to come on a Rider board and post this crap." Being green or being a hypocrite.....hard to decide which is worse.

Here's what I would worry about if I was stupid enought to be a Sask. fan hanging out on a Bomber message board. In his first year as a starter Willy showed that he already has more QB skills than Durant at his prime. The next time Willy puts up 350 yds. passing vs. 137 yds. for Durant, the cow farmers won't be going home with a "W". You can take that home to your cross-eyed cousins and nail it up on the barn door.

At some point enough is enough and lulay has gone well beyond that point. Time to put on a baseball hat and get into coaching, I hear Buck Pierce is looking for an assistant.

Well, I hope I'm not out of turn, but lately this has been on my mind anyways, so here's some story time. A long time ago in the wilderness, often called the official Winnipeg Blue Bombers Forum, there was a handsome young devil by the name of my blood runs gold. Sort of a cross between Robert Redford and Ghandi, and crazy humble too. Being somewhat younger than he is now, as we all tend to be when we travel back in time, this fellow, who we'll call mbrg for short, was still young enough to care about what random strangers said on the internet. Crazy! Now one day into this forum wilderness wandered a very young man. For the purposes of this totally fictional tale, I'll make up a name. We'll call him Fuhlooyuhd. Fuhlooyuhd was new to this wilderness, a wilderness that mbrg had taken some amount of pride and ownership in, and like many of his very young age, he thought that brashness was how a person should navigate through this wilderness. He had two pet birds, and to help him get around he would wave them in the air. And while in some internet wildernesses that is simply the way things are done, mbrg and many others thought it was unnecessary, since we were all in this same wilderness together. So often mbrg would take issue with Fuhlooyuhd, pointing out that he didn't need to use those birds so very often like young people of his age tended to do. Sometimes these discussions got heated, as the older people who didn't use birds for navigation and communication had limited use for those that did. It was probably a generational thing. Anyways, one day a forest ranger intervened in the heated argument and took mbrg aside. He acknowledged that while things were not ideal, arguing would do nothing to decrease this generational divide. He suggested to mbrg that immaturity will almost always walk hand in hand with youth, and rather than try and lecture him to change, he rather demonstrate to young Fuhlooyuhd that there were ways of navigating our wilderness without using those birds so often, and to let mbrg's actions speak instead. Mbrg tried to follow that ranger's advice, and though it wasn't always easy, after a while it was noticeable that young Fuhlooyuhd wasn't using his birds nearly as often as he once like to do. Eventually mbrg left that wilderness, and left all wildernesses. Time passed before mbrg ever found himself in such a wilderness again, but once he did, one of the first people he came across was young Fuhlooyuhd. Except young Fuhlooyuhd wasn't that young anymore. And he had matured enough that he navigated through the wilderness without ever resorting to bringing out his birds anymore. Mbrg marveled at how time had changed Fuhlooyuhd as a person, and he wondered how many other people that ranger had spoken to. Although they still didn't always agree on which path to take, mbrg thought that Fuhlooyuhd had become quite a fine young navigator in his own right. And mbrg? Well he had grown into a cross between George Clooney and Mother Teresa. And was still crazy humble to boot. Bravo! And I thought I had time to kill, you just ate my cake!

Listened to the Coach's Show and O'Shea said Wild could be back for B.C. but Neufeld is out.

Nobody gives Joe Mack much credit but the one thing he had was NFL connections. The scouts they have now are CFL born and bred, not sure any of them have the connection to the "good ole boy network" that is southern football.

Snow+mountains=4 wheel drive. Wouldn't do it any other way.

For all amateur whisky drinkers there is but one guiding light. Ralfy! Prepare to meet the master. https://www.youtube.com/user/ralfystuff I spent the better part of a year following this sage man's advice until my wife said. "No more Ralfy". Sometimes I miss that wife.

That is the ultimate test... best RB and best o line in the league I say the Bombers treat those games as tryout camps and don't send any of their valuable assets which could be be injured in the beating. Hope I'm wrong.

How long is Fraser out? Can't even remember what injury he has.

I've gotta figure out how to use AdBlocker to block people in the game day chat. or.. the mods could just give a temporary ban to those handful of people maybe for 24 hours, the day of the game so they can't ruin it for the rest of us. I don't come on to chat often for that very reason. It's the usual suspects over and over again so not sure why it wouldn't be warranted. I understand the site seems to be against banning people but.. temporary bans just so the folks who actually want to talk football during the game on chat can actually talk football on there without the usual suspects throwing in their pointless 2 cents every 10 seconds. If any mod wants to know which guys it were, you probably got about 15 of us who can tell you who those i'm gonna say 2 were. The op was one, the other.. think everyone knows who that was. I love you like Dora the Explorer loves Maps, I love you like the popes toilet loves Holy Craps I'm Offensive and Creative like Handicapped Porn A girl's like a fridge, once a week you should Stock (stalk) it... Ohhhh Words to live by, or what?

You are completely wrong. Look at where the Riders points came from in both games in Winnipeg. Offence didn't put up enough points in the first game and gave up 2 direct TDs, special teams did the same yesterday. If the O and ST don't hand the Riders points, both games in Winnipeg are easy Bomber wins even with 200 rushing yards against. When a team has a big lead their approach to the game changes. The only number that matters is the final score. But that big lead didn't come from the Riders offense, it came from special teams.... The Bombers won the battle on offense and defense yesterday, they just lost the special teams battle in a very lopsided manner. A win is a win, but when dissecting why a loss was a loss you can delve deeper into it than simply the final score. Let me ask you this, as a Rider fan were you pleased with the way the Riders offense played? Yes. Why? Because they controlled the game on the ground and protected the lead in the second half even while losing their starting QB (who was 8 for 9 passing at that point). but they didn't protect the lead... the lead kept shrinking on them in the 2nd half and the only reason they had the lead to start with was because of the special teams plays... I'll point it out again, the Riders offense twice had chances to make first downs late to take time off the clock and twice they failed to do so giving the Bombers chances to win the game again. The Riders defense did more to keep the lead than the offense did. You are looking at the offense from the standpoint of "we won so it all worked out" which is flawed. You have to ignore the final score to properly look at how things went. The alarm bells will only ring for the RR fanbase when Calgary punts them by a large margin. Of course they will blame it all on DD's injury.

Sears is not a LB he is a DB. Playing him like he is a LB is what keeps returning him to the I.R. O-line is getting better with the install of J. Jones but transitioning to an all-Canadian O-line is going to take a few years. Swiston and Hinse have to step up or they'll be out on the street along with the other long serving Canadian O-lineman cut earlier this year (who's name I've already forgotten).

Well not according to O'Shea, not if they execute and cancel their gaps, their defence should be no more vulnerable than anyone else's, so that only leaves personnel not doing their jobs. Doug Brown would disagree with you on this point. On the post-game show he was quite explicit in pointing out that the players did not stand a chance of stopping the run due to Etch's unbalanced positioning. Prior to the snap the RB just has to look to see which side of the line is loaded and go the other way. Later this season the number of losses attributed to this defect will be tallied and pinned to Etch's behind. Is it 2 and counting, or 3 and counting??? Again, we knew exactly what we were getting with Etch... starts strong, teams figure him out and he re-invents his D late in the season. We've been figured out. I remember reading an endless discussion about this on the Riders forum just after the Bombers hired Etch. Speculation ranged from a players revolt over schemes to Etch being reduced to the role of assistant DC. for the playoff games. Riders did well in both seasons he was their DC so it's hard to say if he makes adjustments himself or if he is always reigned in. It'd be nice if he showed a little wisdom in learning from past mistakes but there doesn't seem to be much evidence of that. Banjo Bowl is going to expose him to increased wrath if the D. is exploited in the same method especially if the Bombers lose. Looks like Etch failed another exam. Time for O'Shea to provide some special tutoring.

Didn't see the game so can't really comment on anything other than the stats. Kuale 5 tackles, Kromah 1 tackle. Funny that CFL.ca does not list penalties.

I bet Max doesn't even know. One thing I've learned from alcoholism & drug addiction that seems to unfortunately run in my family is, some people are born with addictive personalities. I battled my addictions over the years.... I smoked 2 1/2 packs a day for two decades till I quit in 1996 for good. I weighed 310 lbs because I ate like it was my last meal & would snack nightly on chips & french onion dip, nachos, KFC, McDonalds at all hours, mostly at night when my wife was asleep. Then I'd shamefully bag up all the eaten goodies, walk out to the garbage & throw it away thinking she'd never know when she did. I remember asking myself why I did what I did & had no answer. It was like those addictions controlled me as I couldn't control them. And then I'd feel like absolute crap the next day being sick. I drank too much but wouldn't classify myself as an alcoholic but it was close. About the only thing I didn't do was drugs too much... Well, today I weigh 210 lbs, I don't smoke & I only drink occasionally. I haven't been drunk in years... But seeing my dad & uncles battle the bottle & with my demons, I think we were born with addictive personalities... That's my theory anyway. Congratulations on your victories.

Not much fan noise at all, crowd seems pretty uninvolved in the game. Anyone hear the attendance number?

Etch is assuming an offence is firing on all cylinders and they have built a good sized lead, which has not been the case this year even when the Bombers have won.

I was 14 once. Can't recall but pretty sure I was never that young.

Blasphemy! This must be the house of the devil, I'm getting the hell out of here!