They are the hard questions being asked everywhere in Bomberland, including by those in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers locker room still sporting bleary eyes some two days after Sunday’s loss in the 111th Grey Cup.
Poor Ed Tait, finally got out of the fetal position and wrote an article about his beloved Bombers getting pounded in another Grey Cup.
And the 7 teams that didn’t even make it to the cup have the same hard questions. It’s like saying water is wet for the Bombers only.
Ed Tait is the senior writer/reporter for the Winnipeg Footbal Club, employed by them. He is paid to write positve articles about the Bombers.
Perhaps you should be aware of the facts before you take shots at teams you don’t support.
Bombers have appeared in the last five Grey Cups, winning two. They were barely out-scored in two. So suggesting they were “pounded in another” is also not factual.
As no other team has matched the Bomber’s five year success I can understand your jealousy.
You have my condolences.
Which Western teams went to the Grey Cup between '72 - '83?
He was talking about recent Grey Cups.
Since when did water become wet. No wonder the Riders lost the West Final. We had no idea😁
It isn’t about how many times you get there…ya gotta do like Toronto has in their 3 appearances in the last 7 years and win when you get there.
A 3-2 edge. If O’Shea wasn’t such a sentimental bonehead and dressed 2 injured players, they would of wrapped last year’s game. As it was they looked like they were going to win until Montreal just scraped by being second and 18 at the end of the game. A lousy placekicker blew the 24-23 2022 Cup.
Recent? The Stamps had a run of 5 GC appearances 2012-19 & won 2. Bo’s Stamps were 84-22-1 over those last 6 years, the Bombers 61-25 on their current run. They never lost 3 in a row.
Bonehead decisions by O’Shea certainly had to do with the loss last year, as you point out. Same excuse with Collaros this year. Bighill wanted to play last year, Zach finish it off this year. Who’s the boss here? Who decides if you’re good to go? To top it off, on the Brissett TD that started the rout the Bombers only had 11 men on the field. But that’s not the reason they lost. They’re not as good as the Argos - even with Arbuckle in the lineup. Until they GET that & make some hard decisions on a few old guys, you’re probably looking at the same story. Making it to another CUP & losing - that isn’t a success story to me.
From the interviews it appeared that O’Shea had more to do with the decision than Bighill last year. I joked here before the game was O’Shea going to play Bighill and Schoen again. Under the Grey Cup rules you only get your name on the Cup if you play in it. I don’t think that the Argos are a better team than the Bombers but they were in the Championship game. Bombers fell apart after that dumb penalty that took away the blocked kick.
O’Shea is very loyal and that could burn them by keeping players around too long. Same with his loyalty to coaches. He kept Etch-a-Sketch around when he couldn’t do the job and only fired him after management said he would be fired if he kept Etch-a-Sketch.
A 3-0 record on the season, including a week 19 road win in Winnipeg for Toronto would seem to say otherwise…
Can’t agree more. You can’t overstate it - Zach was 0-1 vs each of the 3 Argo starters. If you can’t beat them @ home, away & on neutral ground during the season, I think it’s fair to say you’re not better.
If not for a questionable call on a blocked punt, this game would have been way different.
Not a call I even knew about, but a real penalty, as it turns out. The players (except for Wilson) seemed to know.
But it did happen and the result is valid.
No question it is valid but the call changed the momentum of the game - that’s the point.
Both players were jostling for the ball. Seeing it live at the stadium, it could have gone either way as a call - judgment call by the ref. Don’t believe it would be something that the Command Center could overturn. Major change in momentum there without a doubt. Nothing went right for the Bombers that day. Their luck(y) ran out at the Grey Cup.
When I watched the reply, I saw 19 push the Argo out of the way. Certainly can’t speak to what the Ref saw, in real-time. But, yes, the Bombers had a lot not work out. Tough interceptions, Collaros injury, Lucky drop the ball, Argos D control. Nichols getting a penalty for swiping the ball away from the Argo’s centre, then pushing him was just stupid. I’m a lifetime Argos fan, but I have always liked the Bombers. I’m a big fan of O’Shea. I was disappointed, the things that piled up on them in that game. Certainly happy about the result, but…