It is an appropriate name still. There was a huge hole in the middle!Hahahaha I just found out that BC’s coach was calling his defence “the doughnut boys” after they shut out the Elks.
Despite being in my 20s, I do not have much experience in meme-making. I will have to ask one of my zoomer co-workers to Photoshop Kenny Lawler’s face into the Mike Tyson “and I took that personally” meme in regards to this doughnut thing.
You just love to see it. This is almost as good as the “their offence is kind of vanilla” shit from last year
OT: Winnipeg Blue Bombers 2023 Season - Another terrible disappointment. NEXT: Tough Decisions on How to Rebuild.
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Game Thoughts
Not too high, not too low. It's one of my favourite sayings. I said as much after BC clobbered us earlier in the year, it applies here just as well. Bombers weren't as bad as they showed after the 30-6 loss, they likely aren't quite as good as the 50-14 domination we saw last night. But damn if it wasn't fun.
Offence
I had a lot of great conversations with people before the game. We all were talking about how important it was going to be for the Bombers to establish the run, use the flats and screens to take the heat off the ferocious BC pass rush to allow the Bombers to open up the deep passing game Collaros loves so much. Buck and Zach decided to say screw that and decided to come out by punching BC right in the face and daring them to match. Have to say I approve of the Bombers execution. Collaros was on POINT last night. The precision on the deep balls was just wonderful right from the word go. Dropped a deep one out there for Lawler, Schoen on first drive and another to Lawler on the 2nd drive. 14-0 before some people had even settled into their seats at the game. Collaros had the one speed bump late in the game when he tried to force a screen pass that ended up picked and had one pass where his primary target was covered while he was rolling so he sailed it to McCrae that ended up dangerous, but otherwise didn't really miss any throws. As sharp as he's looked in 2023 so far. He was identifying the defenses and finding where the openings were. When BC dropped out he was taking the easy passes, when they came for him he was finding room over the top. Perfect execution. Glad that Bombers allowed Dru Brown to open it up as well late there allowing him some valuable reps as well.
The OL was the biggest improvement obviously. The Bombers were running 6, 7 or even 8 man protections ALOT, but it was a strategy BC seemed incapable of matching. The OL was helped out by crisper decisions from Collaros than we've seen so far this year, but they gave him the time he needed for those deep balls. The name I feel I have to highlight here is Geoff Gray. The interior got caved in last time they played BC and has been of a concern point all year. Last game against Edmonton Gray wasn't just moved out of the starting lineup, rather he was completely benched. They had moved him to OL7, barely playing at all against EDM. It appeared to be a message to him and did he ever respond today. I thought he was our best interior guy, saw him at 2nd level quite often, at one point he even finished his block with a pancake 8 yards downfield, right beside where the ball carrier had been tackled. He looked very motivated to retain a starting spot no doubt. Best game of the year for both tackles. Yes both were often given help by Dobson or Eli lining up at TE as an extra blocker, but even when left isolated against Betts, Menard, Teuhama the tackles were moving much better than in week's past. I think it shows you advantage of rest for our older tackles and how important winning the division will end up being.
Schoen and Lawler are as dangerous a duo as I can remember in any CFL WR corps ever. It's an absolute embarrassment of riches the Bombers have at WR and they were out there showing off last night. Even the Offensive PI called on Lawler which looked very legit live ended up being not PI when I saw the replay. And one of the more underrated plays happened on WPG's 3rd TD. The play before the TD Zach lofted a floater out on the corner to Lawler. Ball was out of bounds and not really catchable. Lawler turned around and made it look like he had a play on the ball when he CLEARLY had no chance of getting there. Lions corner Edwards-Cooper not being able to see that ball reacted to Lawler's catch "attempt" by dragging Lawler to the turf for an obvious PI call. That was all smarts by Lawler to draw that call. JC Abbott's backhanded comment in his 3downnation article was hilarious to me as the rest of the league is so upset by Bombers skill and depth at WR. Speaking of depth you have Demski who had another over the shoulder TD again. He makes it look so damn routine, but it really isn't the way that guy can grab it over the shoulder. Guys on pace to smash apart all his previous career highs. We didn't even see much from Wolitarsky and Bailey in this one as they were rarely called upon.
Oliveira has TD's 2 and 3 in the one and was 1 yard short of his season long rush on his 27 yard TD run. Wasn't called upon much, but effective when he was with the exception of another late fumble down the sideline. Needs to tighten up on the fumbles obviously. This one didn't hurt them even though Lokombo took it back for 6 points but we saw how it DID against Ottawa. Love his desire to get those extra yards and stay in bounds when Bombers have leads, but he simply cannot be doing it in a way that might result in him putting the football on the field.
Defence
Bighill ended up being the one knocking Evans out of the game, but the message was sent on play #1 from scrimmage. Willie beat his man clean on an inside move came downhill at Evans. Evans was forced to quickly throw it into the ground but he got absolutely plowed over by Jefferson. Exactly what you have to do to Evans. As soon as he starts to hear footsteps it's game over in that man's head. They may have only ended up with 1 or 2 sacks of Lions QB's, but the line rush was consistently disruptive and forced many decisions before BC QB's were ready to throw. Jeffcoat has an extra step back in his game, Thomas and Walker were collapsing that interior all night. Bombers were bringing alot of extra pressure with HB, S, and LB blitzes and doing with everyone from everywhere from Nichols to Alexander to Wilson to Cole to Maruo. It was a mix and match pick your poison and Bombers were flying out there.
The DB's were on point across the board, with unusually the weakest link probably being Deatrick Nichols. He was beat a couple of times where BC QB's just missed their intended targets. Overall he was still fine though. Holm was beaten a time or two, but made up for it with some nice plays as well. The corners were on absolute fire last night with Demerio Houston continuing to make a case for defensive player of the year with 6 INTs now on the year to go along with 3 fumble recoveries. Turning into a turnover machine at the short side corner spot. Rose was solid in his first game of the year as well. I'd like to highlight one particular play. Late in the first half there was one odd play where Lucky Whitehead made a great diving catch for 8 yard with about 1:30 left on the clock. Untouched he layed on the ground for a few seconds thinking Rose was going to touch him since Rose was standing right over him. Instead Rose just watched him. Everyone around me seemed confused, but I knew what he was trying to do. He waited for Lucky to stand up then just held him there. The idea was for Lucky to get up and Rose could hold him there for another 5-10 seconds to waste for time off the clock. I thought it was a tad too early to be using that tactic, but still a smart savvy veteran move. Ended up being for naught as Alexander intercepted Evans on the very next play, but obviously Rose had no way of knowing that would happen. I'm still not super happy with Radha Kramdhi at SLB. I was watching again to see if Darby would be rotating in and I didn't see it. I don't think Kramdhi has the range to be a cover man as a starter. Not sure what the plan here is, but it doesn't look like they are going back to Darby. If that's the case we need to find a new starting SLB as I don't think Kramdhi is it. Darby didn't help his case by taking an absolutely mind boggling stupid no yards penalty after he touched the ball on it's way out of bounds on a punt.
LB's looked more complete with Kyrie Wilson back. Really helps stabilize the run D as Mizzell was largely contained other than 1 or 2 runs. Brian Cole is getting more and more work on D and is showing that his impressive ST skills are translating. Bighill was having a night. He was even penalized for hitting (cleanly) too hard, always a sign that you're physically and mentally just pounding on the opponent. Much like I mentioned with the tackles, it's clear the effect a week of rest has on these veterans and re-emphasizes how important winning the division for the bye week will be.
Special Teams
Easily the weakest part of the night. Plenty to talk about here. Start with the easy in that Castillo continues to prove last year's poor showing was a one off and not a sign of age. Missed an XP sure but overall looks very solid. His kickoffs looked deeper than I remember and I looked up some stats last night. Castillo through 8 weeks is actually 2nd in the league in kick off distance, which surprises me. Boris Bede is lapping the field though over 72 yard per kickoff with Castillo at 68 and the rest of the league except EDM coming in between 65-68.
Sheahan continues to show off a new kind of kick each time he's out there. From the booming distance punts as good as anyone in the league, to rollers to the corners he's really showing off an impressive leg. I thought Liegghio was going to be the punter no matter what, but the Sheahan is showing off why the Bombers let him walk. Hard to argue with his results which place him just middle of the pack in average total distance, but had him 3rd in net average.
The problems start with the cover teams. Bombers let aggressively average returner Terry Williams burn them for some big returns. Even beyond the late returns after the Bombers and even Lions had let up quite a bit, the Lions were consistently starting outside of their own 40 on kickoffs. Some of that is certainly Castillo's low driving kickoffs, but the coverage teams need to be better. On punts is looked arguably worse as the Bombers struggled to shut down running lanes. The ST were missing some key guys like Mike Miller, Jamal Parker, and even recently acquired Jared Beeksma who had be a minor revelation on ST. But it's no excuse with proven solid STers like Maruo, Gauthier, Cadwallader, Exume, Burtenshaw, Jackson on the roster.
The worse part is the return game, IMO. It was an absolute disaster. Let's start with the onside kick. The Bombers were in the huddle preparing for the onside the entire commercial break right before it. It was a noticeably long huddle, someone I attend games with even commented on it. He had thought something was up on the return. It wasn't until they ran out did I realize they were preparing in case BC did an onside kick. Yet despite this when BC lined up the onside to the return teams right, the players looked confused and in the end Bombers were VERY outnumbered on that side of the field. Luckily backup FB Konnor Burtenshaw made a solid play on the ball, but based on the alignments that kick should have worked as BC had 6/7 guys barreling down on Bombers 3-5 guys.
Beyond that I have to talk about McCrae's returns. Bombers will have to find a way to get at least Jamal Parker back on the roster. McCrae bobbled almost every single kick sent his way, both punts and kickoffs. He didn't lose the ball at any point, he was clearly having trouble hanging onto it. Those struggles just getting the ball prevented him from having any success at all returning it. The run lanes were there, but it took him so long to secure the ball that things closed down on him. Unless he can get better FAST at taking the ball in the Bombers are going to need to look elsewhere for a returner until Janarion is back. Whether that's in roster with a Jamal Parker or Abu Daramy-Swaray or going out to get one one brought in (FA or maybe a returnee from camp like Amare Jones). Can't continue to worry about losing the ball on every kickoff and punt, that could end up hurting badly.
Overall
Bombers will refuse to call this a statement game. I won't. This was a statement, IMO, after everyone relegated them to 3rd status behind BC and TOR. That this Bombers team is still here and still to be feared. They have been the class of the league since 2019 and the have no desire to let that slip away anytime soon.
Onto a classic trap game in Edmonton. I expect that one to be close as Edmonton will be coming off the the bye with a new QB and everything in the world to play for. Whereas the Bombers riding the high of this high profile blowout will end up playing down to their opponent. It'll be hard to lose a game to Edmonton though.
Not too high, not too low. It's one of my favourite sayings. I said as much after BC clobbered us earlier in the year, it applies here just as well. Bombers weren't as bad as they showed after the 30-6 loss, they likely aren't quite as good as the 50-14 domination we saw last night. But damn if it wasn't fun.
Offence
I had a lot of great conversations with people before the game. We all were talking about how important it was going to be for the Bombers to establish the run, use the flats and screens to take the heat off the ferocious BC pass rush to allow the Bombers to open up the deep passing game Collaros loves so much. Buck and Zach decided to say screw that and decided to come out by punching BC right in the face and daring them to match. Have to say I approve of the Bombers execution. Collaros was on POINT last night. The precision on the deep balls was just wonderful right from the word go. Dropped a deep one out there for Lawler, Schoen on first drive and another to Lawler on the 2nd drive. 14-0 before some people had even settled into their seats at the game. Collaros had the one speed bump late in the game when he tried to force a screen pass that ended up picked and had one pass where his primary target was covered while he was rolling so he sailed it to McCrae that ended up dangerous, but otherwise didn't really miss any throws. As sharp as he's looked in 2023 so far. He was identifying the defenses and finding where the openings were. When BC dropped out he was taking the easy passes, when they came for him he was finding room over the top. Perfect execution. Glad that Bombers allowed Dru Brown to open it up as well late there allowing him some valuable reps as well.
The OL was the biggest improvement obviously. The Bombers were running 6, 7 or even 8 man protections ALOT, but it was a strategy BC seemed incapable of matching. The OL was helped out by crisper decisions from Collaros than we've seen so far this year, but they gave him the time he needed for those deep balls. The name I feel I have to highlight here is Geoff Gray. The interior got caved in last time they played BC and has been of a concern point all year. Last game against Edmonton Gray wasn't just moved out of the starting lineup, rather he was completely benched. They had moved him to OL7, barely playing at all against EDM. It appeared to be a message to him and did he ever respond today. I thought he was our best interior guy, saw him at 2nd level quite often, at one point he even finished his block with a pancake 8 yards downfield, right beside where the ball carrier had been tackled. He looked very motivated to retain a starting spot no doubt. Best game of the year for both tackles. Yes both were often given help by Dobson or Eli lining up at TE as an extra blocker, but even when left isolated against Betts, Menard, Teuhama the tackles were moving much better than in week's past. I think it shows you advantage of rest for our older tackles and how important winning the division will end up being.
Schoen and Lawler are as dangerous a duo as I can remember in any CFL WR corps ever. It's an absolute embarrassment of riches the Bombers have at WR and they were out there showing off last night. Even the Offensive PI called on Lawler which looked very legit live ended up being not PI when I saw the replay. And one of the more underrated plays happened on WPG's 3rd TD. The play before the TD Zach lofted a floater out on the corner to Lawler. Ball was out of bounds and not really catchable. Lawler turned around and made it look like he had a play on the ball when he CLEARLY had no chance of getting there. Lions corner Edwards-Cooper not being able to see that ball reacted to Lawler's catch "attempt" by dragging Lawler to the turf for an obvious PI call. That was all smarts by Lawler to draw that call. JC Abbott's backhanded comment in his 3downnation article was hilarious to me as the rest of the league is so upset by Bombers skill and depth at WR. Speaking of depth you have Demski who had another over the shoulder TD again. He makes it look so damn routine, but it really isn't the way that guy can grab it over the shoulder. Guys on pace to smash apart all his previous career highs. We didn't even see much from Wolitarsky and Bailey in this one as they were rarely called upon.
Oliveira has TD's 2 and 3 in the one and was 1 yard short of his season long rush on his 27 yard TD run. Wasn't called upon much, but effective when he was with the exception of another late fumble down the sideline. Needs to tighten up on the fumbles obviously. This one didn't hurt them even though Lokombo took it back for 6 points but we saw how it DID against Ottawa. Love his desire to get those extra yards and stay in bounds when Bombers have leads, but he simply cannot be doing it in a way that might result in him putting the football on the field.
Defence
Bighill ended up being the one knocking Evans out of the game, but the message was sent on play #1 from scrimmage. Willie beat his man clean on an inside move came downhill at Evans. Evans was forced to quickly throw it into the ground but he got absolutely plowed over by Jefferson. Exactly what you have to do to Evans. As soon as he starts to hear footsteps it's game over in that man's head. They may have only ended up with 1 or 2 sacks of Lions QB's, but the line rush was consistently disruptive and forced many decisions before BC QB's were ready to throw. Jeffcoat has an extra step back in his game, Thomas and Walker were collapsing that interior all night. Bombers were bringing alot of extra pressure with HB, S, and LB blitzes and doing with everyone from everywhere from Nichols to Alexander to Wilson to Cole to Maruo. It was a mix and match pick your poison and Bombers were flying out there.
The DB's were on point across the board, with unusually the weakest link probably being Deatrick Nichols. He was beat a couple of times where BC QB's just missed their intended targets. Overall he was still fine though. Holm was beaten a time or two, but made up for it with some nice plays as well. The corners were on absolute fire last night with Demerio Houston continuing to make a case for defensive player of the year with 6 INTs now on the year to go along with 3 fumble recoveries. Turning into a turnover machine at the short side corner spot. Rose was solid in his first game of the year as well. I'd like to highlight one particular play. Late in the first half there was one odd play where Lucky Whitehead made a great diving catch for 8 yard with about 1:30 left on the clock. Untouched he layed on the ground for a few seconds thinking Rose was going to touch him since Rose was standing right over him. Instead Rose just watched him. Everyone around me seemed confused, but I knew what he was trying to do. He waited for Lucky to stand up then just held him there. The idea was for Lucky to get up and Rose could hold him there for another 5-10 seconds to waste for time off the clock. I thought it was a tad too early to be using that tactic, but still a smart savvy veteran move. Ended up being for naught as Alexander intercepted Evans on the very next play, but obviously Rose had no way of knowing that would happen. I'm still not super happy with Radha Kramdhi at SLB. I was watching again to see if Darby would be rotating in and I didn't see it. I don't think Kramdhi has the range to be a cover man as a starter. Not sure what the plan here is, but it doesn't look like they are going back to Darby. If that's the case we need to find a new starting SLB as I don't think Kramdhi is it. Darby didn't help his case by taking an absolutely mind boggling stupid no yards penalty after he touched the ball on it's way out of bounds on a punt.
LB's looked more complete with Kyrie Wilson back. Really helps stabilize the run D as Mizzell was largely contained other than 1 or 2 runs. Brian Cole is getting more and more work on D and is showing that his impressive ST skills are translating. Bighill was having a night. He was even penalized for hitting (cleanly) too hard, always a sign that you're physically and mentally just pounding on the opponent. Much like I mentioned with the tackles, it's clear the effect a week of rest has on these veterans and re-emphasizes how important winning the division for the bye week will be.
Special Teams
Easily the weakest part of the night. Plenty to talk about here. Start with the easy in that Castillo continues to prove last year's poor showing was a one off and not a sign of age. Missed an XP sure but overall looks very solid. His kickoffs looked deeper than I remember and I looked up some stats last night. Castillo through 8 weeks is actually 2nd in the league in kick off distance, which surprises me. Boris Bede is lapping the field though over 72 yard per kickoff with Castillo at 68 and the rest of the league except EDM coming in between 65-68.
Sheahan continues to show off a new kind of kick each time he's out there. From the booming distance punts as good as anyone in the league, to rollers to the corners he's really showing off an impressive leg. I thought Liegghio was going to be the punter no matter what, but the Sheahan is showing off why the Bombers let him walk. Hard to argue with his results which place him just middle of the pack in average total distance, but had him 3rd in net average.
The problems start with the cover teams. Bombers let aggressively average returner Terry Williams burn them for some big returns. Even beyond the late returns after the Bombers and even Lions had let up quite a bit, the Lions were consistently starting outside of their own 40 on kickoffs. Some of that is certainly Castillo's low driving kickoffs, but the coverage teams need to be better. On punts is looked arguably worse as the Bombers struggled to shut down running lanes. The ST were missing some key guys like Mike Miller, Jamal Parker, and even recently acquired Jared Beeksma who had be a minor revelation on ST. But it's no excuse with proven solid STers like Maruo, Gauthier, Cadwallader, Exume, Burtenshaw, Jackson on the roster.
The worse part is the return game, IMO. It was an absolute disaster. Let's start with the onside kick. The Bombers were in the huddle preparing for the onside the entire commercial break right before it. It was a noticeably long huddle, someone I attend games with even commented on it. He had thought something was up on the return. It wasn't until they ran out did I realize they were preparing in case BC did an onside kick. Yet despite this when BC lined up the onside to the return teams right, the players looked confused and in the end Bombers were VERY outnumbered on that side of the field. Luckily backup FB Konnor Burtenshaw made a solid play on the ball, but based on the alignments that kick should have worked as BC had 6/7 guys barreling down on Bombers 3-5 guys.
Beyond that I have to talk about McCrae's returns. Bombers will have to find a way to get at least Jamal Parker back on the roster. McCrae bobbled almost every single kick sent his way, both punts and kickoffs. He didn't lose the ball at any point, he was clearly having trouble hanging onto it. Those struggles just getting the ball prevented him from having any success at all returning it. The run lanes were there, but it took him so long to secure the ball that things closed down on him. Unless he can get better FAST at taking the ball in the Bombers are going to need to look elsewhere for a returner until Janarion is back. Whether that's in roster with a Jamal Parker or Abu Daramy-Swaray or going out to get one one brought in (FA or maybe a returnee from camp like Amare Jones). Can't continue to worry about losing the ball on every kickoff and punt, that could end up hurting badly.
Overall
Bombers will refuse to call this a statement game. I won't. This was a statement, IMO, after everyone relegated them to 3rd status behind BC and TOR. That this Bombers team is still here and still to be feared. They have been the class of the league since 2019 and the have no desire to let that slip away anytime soon.
Onto a classic trap game in Edmonton. I expect that one to be close as Edmonton will be coming off the the bye with a new QB and everything in the world to play for. Whereas the Bombers riding the high of this high profile blowout will end up playing down to their opponent. It'll be hard to lose a game to Edmonton though.
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BobTheSolarsystem
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Feel like the Bombers already had their trap game this season... there's nothing in Chris Jones' coaching this year that makes me think he has a new strategy or plan to win
Holden Caulfield
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Tre Ford gonna start for Elks next week. Bombers have struggled defending rushing QBs in the past so well see. I think Ford will spark that O a little bit hopefully Bombers respond.
Stumbledore
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Not sure if you're trying to be clever, predictive, or are just confused, but the Bombers are 6-2.
FonRiesen
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Another CFL QB bites the dust - looks like Kelly is pulled after limping earlier in the half. Their backup is looking hard decent so far, though.
Edit: pick in the end zone... Rookie mistake... He's got a lot to learn.
Edit edit: and Maier is a putz - one of the worst (CFL) QB's at running I've seen in years...
And what a terrible mistake by TO's returner to give up the TD...
Edit: pick in the end zone... Rookie mistake... He's got a lot to learn.
Edit edit: and Maier is a putz - one of the worst (CFL) QB's at running I've seen in years...
And what a terrible mistake by TO's returner to give up the TD...
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BobTheSolarsystem
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Missed the game - kinda felt it was TO's trap gameAnother CFL QB bites the dust - looks like Kelly is pulled after limping earlier in the half. Their backup is looking hard decent so far, though.
Edit: pick in the end zone... Rookie mistake... He's got a lot to learn.
Edit edit: and Maier is a putz - one of the worst (CFL) QB's at running I've seen in years...
And what a terrible mistake by TO's returner to give up the TD...
Toronto (and Kelly) were always being overrated by TSN, 3downnation, and the like, anyway. Good to see them lay an egg.
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There's a reason the bombers don't - investing in quality Canadians is the reason they have been the best team in the league since 2019.
The designated national is a suckers bet IMO. making a team thinner on Canadian just makes them way more vulnerable to injury.
BobTheSolarsystem
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Huh?
Including Adam Bighill as a Designated National does not make us 'thinner' on Canadian talent - it just means we would not be locked into Jake Thomas/Cam Lawson on the DL and could rotate talent more easily.
Or allows us to roster Jamal Parker as backup PR/KR instead of having Burtenshaw on the field
The bombers are not suddenly giving up on Cdns just by using the rules to their advantage.
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Congrats to James Murphy as he becomes the 15th inductee into the Bombers Ring of Honour
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Saskatchewan was openly tanking last night. Makes the league look bad when both teams in a game are already looking ahead to the draft not even halfway through the season.
Stumbledore
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Tanking?
They sacked the Ottawa QB six times and won the game with a 54 yard FG. That's your idea of tanking?
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He's hurt. Got a hand/wrist injury in the pre-season. Heard he might even require surgery. Not likely to be a CFL option in 2023.
But it's certainly potentially the end of the NFL road for him. Might see him pop up in CFL in 2024.
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Holden Caulfield
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Chicago Bears sign LB Barrington Wade, who was cut by Winnipeg in training camp - 3DownNation
In case anyone was wondering how close things actually are between CFL and NFL. TC darling who struggled in pre-season and ended up released LB Barrington Wade has gotten another chance down south. The Bombers CHOSE to go with a combo of Malik Clements, Les Maruo, Shayne Gauthier, and Jesse Briggs over this guy, who is now back in the NFL.
In case anyone was wondering how close things actually are between CFL and NFL. TC darling who struggled in pre-season and ended up released LB Barrington Wade has gotten another chance down south. The Bombers CHOSE to go with a combo of Malik Clements, Les Maruo, Shayne Gauthier, and Jesse Briggs over this guy, who is now back in the NFL.
Stumbledore
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Hindsight is 20/20. Can you accept the fact that perhaps Wade was unmotivated and stunk during his tryout in Winnpeg?
Holden Caulfield
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Um what? Those guys were better than Wade in pre-season. Not sure what you are trying to say?
My point was that the line between CFLer and NFLer is so beyond razor thin. Wade couldn't make the Bombers, yet still gets a chance in NFL, this is proof of this.
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He did, he hit the threshold for the NFL basic minimum pension last season (~20k per year, upping with revenues, for life).
Or the Bears had an injury and this guy had the next best combine type results. It doesn’t necessarily mean he is a better player. Or even a better CFL player. When NFL teams sign players in August they most likely just bodies for the meat grinder.
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