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I would say that is false but only because that would require in game adjustments which we have yet to see. But this statement is total false too, because there have been in game adjustments and at times its been very very obvious actually. Do you watch the games dude? Seriously, no adjustments made in game? There are adjustments being made every game.

That's a gruesome injury to Budaj, trail of blood from the Net to the Bench... It was insane. Hope he's ok. For real, looked like he lost a lot of blood. Innocent looking play, looks like he got cut by a guys skate blade on a very innocent looking play.

BC hosts the cup this year, Couldn't really tell it by the way they spent their off season this past year or how they are playing right now. WIll the bombers make a run at guys just cuz they are hosting the cup? Maybe but i think it's more likely they take a run at a couple big name free agents because those free agents will make our team better overall. I still think they would take a run at a couple free agents even if we weren't hosting the grey cup. Say what you will but Nick Moore was a big free agent signing, Graig Newman was a pretty big one too, yes he's been hurt but prior to that he was a very very good player for the Riders, could and probably would have started for us this season and i am fully expecting him to start for us next year (linebacker, shermans spot) 2 "big" signings, didn't host the cup... What huge free agent signings did BC make this off season? None really, they traded banks for poblah tho, they lost moore to free agency, they lost a few other guys to some other teams too, they didn't really sign any free agents at all really, they had a horrible off-season. Riders seem to be the only team that spends spends spends spends, but they have done that for a few years now, not just grey cup host years.

Romby i think can be productive on crossing routes, he's had several big gainers this season on the crossing route. I wonder if Bryant has been used right? to the best of his abilities, putting him in a position to succeed instead of fail? Would like to see more crossing routes to Romby, where he can use his speed to gain some YAC yards.. With Moore back, it might be possible, you know he's gonna get double teamed a bit, leaving Denmark and Romby open more so than not one would think or hope. Hope Marcel actually uses the guys we are rostering this week to the best of their abilities, going deep to bryant might not be using romby to the best of his abilities, Hitting him on a 5-10 yard crossing route that he can turn into 15-20 or more due to his speed, he is fast, might make more sense. Perhaps with Moore back, we will see a bit of a different offensive approach to the game. Howard doesn't concern me too much, I mean Jones has been turnstiled the last few weeks like crazy, Howard playing Guard is not as bad as howard playing tackle, Tyler has played well so far on the OLINE so maybe Tyler,Howard can lock up that side of the line and give willy some time. Nobody else has managed to be able to do that this year, Why not try howard, might make for a better guard than tackle. Would seriously consider sitting January tho, Give Anderson a shot.. He can't be worse than January has been, still seems to get a free pass tho when it comes to the oline, Howard has played a few games, he takes heat, January has played them all and hasn't looked good in any of them really.. more bad than good thats for sure and he's a vet. Howard is really a rookie still to the CFL. Why don't bomber fans like calling out Glenn January?

Honestly, not sure why the dislike of howard, he hasn't played the last few weeks and our oline still sucked. It's pretty clear that it's not just one guy, It's also possible howard is actually better than the guy who has been playing ,was it jarvis jones? cuz he's been owned several times the last few weeks. Just like everyone else on the OLINE tho really. As for bryant and kelly, well crap is still crap regardless of what number is on it's back so really not that big of a deal IMO. Kelly has the size and talent that he should be a guy who shows up week to week, he doesn't tho, he goes missing for long periods of time, he has all the tools except he seems to lack the most important one and that's whats between the ears, the guy has given up on plays a few times too. Bryant? meh, maybe he's a better blocker than kelly, maybe the reason he is playing this week and kelly isn't is because last week bryant made one hell of an effort play to tackle a guy on an interception, where was kelly? probably 40 yards back. Hard to say. Kelly? Bryant? same player really, might get a little more hustle tho with Romby at this point.

Great start. 6-2 wooping really. Could have been 8. Scheif had a nice chance early and there was another, buff off the post maybe or crossbar, regardless tho.. The first period was a thing of beauty. Absolute domination of the first period by the JETS. Kind of "coasted" after getting the big lead but.. Played a solid 60 minutes. Pav was solid in net, stood tall when he had too. Great game by Wheeler and Little. Great D game played by Bogo and Toby. Powerplay looks deadly, had chances, Need to bury them. This game really could have been alot worse score wise for the Yotes than it was... Hopefully Kanes ok, Not brace or anything apparently, limping a bit so hopefully he's ok. Great start. Tough road trip to start things off, 3 games in 4 days. Off to San Jose next.

Kromah ain't no Barrin simpson or Joe Lobendahn when healthy but... he also ain't Kuale so right now he's got that going for him. Hopefully Kromah makes an impression and takes the Job. If not, that's a spot we will definitely have to upgrade in the off season. Wonder if a slimmed down Willy Mosely could be a guy that gets a look in the Middle.

Cotton to start eh. Good luck to the guy, probably will find out it makes no difference, but we shall see and i hope he does well. He's getting his chance.

It's gonna take a while to have what 21 quality Nationals on the roster, For sure.. But i agree with the others who say adding Mulumba, having a healthy Newman back and maybe just maybe having Bilukidi plus another top pick in the draft, the only real positive to missing playoffs is its likely we get the 2nd or 3rd probably draft pick. Should get a guy ready to contribute, Demski sure would look nice in blue n gold, so would another oline prospect. Quite a few of those available it appears. So by just adding a few guys that we already have "under out control" CFL contract wise, our Canadian depth gets significantly stronger. The draft should help out too. Could possibly add 5 "impactful" Nationals to the roster next year, Eliminate the 5 worst.. Huge difference. Free agency, not sure who is availabe but Holmes and even Jabar Westerman (i do believe he is a free agent possibly with nfl aspirations but not good enough soo... ) would be 2 guys we should go hard after if possible, Helps us out quite a bit. Builds our Dline depth, essential it seems in the CFL for most teams. Ratio Flexibility too. Newman was very good, could see him playing Teague Shermans spot .. Newman starting means sherman is depth, not a bad depth player really. National talent ain't looking half bad really.

the trade for Gibson and signing of Moseley and Booker is due to Vega and Frazer being injured. Wilson and and Lawrence is probably just for a look-see and guys may get an invite next years TC if show some promise. although we are not really that good on our import rec positions except for Denamrk. Moore is in and out off the lineup. Kelly's play is on and off. Bryant is washed up. So we need find and upgrade there. Anderson, Tyler and Daniels is for the musical chair on our OL. I wouldnt be surprised if in one this game January will sit in favor of Jones, Anderson or Daniels. I actually got a feeling that January is on the trading block. Yeah, yeah he's our best OL as someone would say it but I dont agree with it. To me. the best OL we have currently is Greaves and Morley (yes Morley). I agree we need to see some RBs but still the question is will these current coaching staff will give this new guys their chance on the field? Aren't they all though? Like every football player on every team on every planet?? I thought Mike said, and hey man IT'S MIKE, but thought he said the bombers were high on one of those receivers. Sure, it's for a look see but.. At one time, all the guys were in for a "look see". Unless the guy has some CFL experience, you generally don't bring him straight on to roster the first week he's here. Putting a guy in that early with no knowledge of the CFL... it's crazy, it ruins them. Give them a few weeks to pick up on the quirks of the CFL, or what makes the CFL the CFL. As much as maybe we all think that a guy like Bryant shouldn't be playing, he's got some experience and i suppose brings a bit of a veteran presence to the team which lacks veterans for sure or the veterans we have are mediocre. Kuale,Bryant,January really, Morley i guess would be too. He's had a good season tho for the most part. Couple bad games but not nearly as many as others around him, YOu just need to give the guys coming up here a chance to learn the nuances of the game, it's not just 3 downs that's different from the NFL or NCAA, it's others, 20 second play clock, for receivers, the waggling. These guys will be given there chance to play i'm sure, especially the ones they are high on, or who make an impression or if injuries happen and when they do, hopefully some of them show that they belong or have potential to belong.

I feel that Nelson and The Price Is Right post summed it up pretty nicely.

And Chad Kackert has retired from the CFL.. Sucks but i thought i saw that the injury wasn't too serious so i suppose the saga/thread continues for now.

Yeah, Our top 9 is looking solid. Mix and match Buff and Frolik really but Ladd,Little,Frolik Kane,Scheif,Wheeler Lowry,Perreault,Buff Pretty solid group. Solid as anybodys really. K,S,W is probably going to be a legit top line group and probably would be on quite a few teams. Hopefully everyone can stay healthy.

Regarding Mulumba, does he project to be a defensive end up here or tackle or is he more suited to be a linebacker?

I dunno about that one to be honest, the east was really ripped apart in the early parts of the season with injuries, I mean hamilton lost collaros for several weeks, several other important pieces have been and are out now too for them (gable being one), Toronto has been crippled with injuries, Owens, Durie, Coombs. Now those 2 teams are slowly getting healthier and are starting to play much better. Hamilton and Toronto are very good teams when healthy.

Well you can't change the entire oline in one off season unless some miracles happens like what happened with sask.. but one or 2 national oline (one via free agency, although looking at that list i'm not sure that guy exists, maybe holmes from toronto) and one via the draft. Be nice to snag Demski in the draft if we can. MLB is an obvious one too, Wild is a good WIL linebacker but he's too small to be an everyday MLB... Improve the canadian depth (free agency works here) and the draft ofcourse. Backup QB? meh i dunno about that one, Willy is our guy and if he can't do it no one can. Every team seems to have a dominant pass rushing defensive end, we don't have that guy so that would be an area to upgrade. Alex Hall maybe? Hickman since he only signed a 1 year deal with the ticats could be another. One import receiver would be nice, maybe 2 but one for sure. Chris Matthews would look good next season i think. Wouldn't mind having a big time defensive tackle, we seem to be lacking that, i like turner and i like anderson but i think it would be nice if we could move one of them to the defensive end position. If coordinators are available in the off-season, probably a big if, but if there are guys available who can replace MB and Etch, then you'd be crazy not to atleast think about doing it. STC probably needs to be upgraded too. Maybe going after a guy like Jabar Westerman, who is going to be a free agent this off-season, would be a nice depth move. Getting some help from the NFL so guys like Mulumba and Bilukidi can come north would definitely help.

If i'm bowman, i wouldn't want Steeves endorsement.

He's hear? Perhaps the club was not impressed with Hutch and are uncertain if Pav will play like he did last season. Typing errors happen at times when you don't really read through your whole post and just post it. I dunno man, budaj being sent down to St Johns suggests i was pretty darn right.

Yeah that game hutch played well, he actually played ok in most the games he got in, he really didn't get much help out there and generally played with what i'd call the american hockey league version of the Jets.

I really don't think Geography has much to do with that, if the Jets were a winning team, Free agents would gladly sign here. Hell man, Detroit is a crap hole, its broke, it's cold, it's crappy, it's gang filled yet free agents still sign there consistently? why? because that team wins. It comes down to winning, if the jets start winning, people will sign here. And if signing free agents to over priced contracts guaranteed you won stanley cups then why the heck hasn't Philly Toronto or even the rangers and flordia panthers won anything in recent memory. Because to be honest, free agents don't mean crap.

In my opinion, the OL is the engine that drives the offense, and unfortunately ours have been stuck in neutral the last few seasons. Without a good, event decent oline, i don't really think you stand much of a chance, we are playing 3 americans on the line and we still aren't good enough. Is the talent really that awful? I don't get how we could be playing 3 americans on the line and still be giving up all these sacks and still having willy being pressured every other play. Without time to throw, your offense has no chance, i'm not sure if they have been opening up many holes for grigsby or not, it doesn't really seem like it so i think i need to reserve judgement on grigsby until the oline is upgraded, With that being said tho, in the off season cuz you ain't gonna find a guy right now off the streets to come in and play the last 4 games, unless you want to give Cotton a shot, but i don't think he's an upgrade at all, i hope we bring in lots of competition at the tail back position, Grigsby deserves to be invited back for camp, But right now, i'd say he doesn't deserve to be guaranteed a job. I mean when zach evans and andrew marshall are consistently owning your asses, yeah the oline is a huge problem.

Leddy is a very good left handed d man, better than every left handed d man we have other than Toby but his upside is huge, I'm glad we didn't give up any goalie prospects for him too but he would have been a very good pick up for us.

Fun fact: I tweeted all the "main" mayoral candidates on twitter and asked a simple question, "why should i vote for you". I tweet JUDY, Gord and Brian Bowman, the only one that responded back was Bowman. Being a young guy, the guy i relate to the most is Brian Bowman, I think Bowman represents the change i'm looking for. He's not a career politician and I think he's the guy that i'm going to vote for. Steeves in my opinion has no chance in hell, he's alienated too many people and he's exactly what Sam Katz is. Honestly, Judy will probably win and it will be interesting to see how her and the provincial NDPs work but.. my vote is going to Bowman.

Actually i think these boards have been quite active, look at all the new topics started just in the last week or so, it's lots. Losing Interest? Nope we got 4 games to go, hopefully more and i plan on watching all of them. The off-season seems so long as is, i'd never lose interest during the season, for as awful and gong show like last season was, watched every game. Not really looking forward to a long off season. Sure the Jets are starting up soon and i'll watch them too. NFL? meh, NFL has been going on for a few weeks already and i have to admit, i maybe watched one full game. The teams i like, well, seems like they aren't really on TV that often. To be honest, I'm not a baseball fan at all but i'm more interested in seeing if the Kansas City Royals make it to the world series than any NFL games right now.

We will forever be rebuilding if we keep firing coaches every season or every other season.