squishy35 wrote:Would love to see Dave Ritchie back as a DC.....
Seeing as he retired 8 years ago and is now 77...
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DanoT wrote:squishy35 wrote:Would love to see Dave Ritchie back as a DC.....
Seeing as he retired 8 years ago and is now 77...
squishy35 wrote:DanoT wrote:squishy35 wrote:Would love to see Dave Ritchie back as a DC.....
Seeing as he retired 8 years ago and is now 77...
Yes... of course... I suggest he would run a better Defense than Mark W. I don't think his Age is limiting......
Scary thought alright. Lions haven't had much luck with local ownership. We've had 4 private owners since the days of community ownership ended in 1989. Pezim and Skalbania were local owners. Comrie and Braley weren't.Toppy Vann wrote:I don't fully agree with the owner has to be from Vancouver. We are lucky to have an owner not an idiot. We could have a lot worse as those of us who know the CFL for the last 20 years or more have witnessed including right here in BC.
Well, everything except for that button at BC Place that reads "Roof Open."WestCoastJoe wrote:Wally's fingerprints are all over everything. Everything.
TheLionKing wrote:I am somewhat pleased to hear that there is some conflict between the Head Coach and the GM. Maybe Jeff Tedford is finally asserting himself and is fed up with Buono interfering.
Couldn't be said better. Winning during the early years of the Buono regime masked a lot of his deficiencies or at least minimized them as the Grey Cup win in 2011 masked a number of seasons of demise. But there have been many signs along the way that there are issues with Wally. Power, over control, manipulation, deception, denial, confusion, pervasive miserliness, and the creation of an environment of sychophancy all are red flags of underlying personality issues.MexicoLionFan wrote:TheLionKing wrote:I am somewhat pleased to hear that there is some conflict between the Head Coach and the GM. Maybe Jeff Tedford is finally asserting himself and is fed up with Buono interfering.
I agree completely. Through all of this mess Dano and I have been Tedford's hardest critics because THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE HIS FOOTBALL TEAM and if its not, you give an ultimatum one way or the other. These rumours are finally showing that Tedford is not taking this mess lying down. I remember Tedford's comments to the press after an early season loss when our Defence was lit up in MTL and they self imploded all over the field...
"...well, we didn't go offsides near as much this week, so that's something..."
Was I alone at the time thinking that Tedford was in disbelief over Mark Washington but had no other option other than to "grin and bear it"? The same thoughts crept in with the Special Teams when he had to essentially take them over 6 weeks ago. And now he is being let down horribly by his own friend and colleague George Cortez. Cortez's play calling alone caused two massive collapses with Jennings in as our QB in EDM and at home last week. Tedford MUST feel like the little Dutch boy with more leaks in the dike than fingers to plug them all with!
This information about Wally spreading through the media does NOT surprise me at all, in fact, when everything finally comes to light (say in another couple of years) I strongly believe that it will lead to a major revision of Wally's history, as there are going to be some MAJOR skeletons revealed in Wally's closet when all of this finally leaks out. Benevides was nothing more than a "shadow coach" for Wally, while he held both Chapdelaine and Stubler back from truly running their own units the way they wanted to. And as for his underperforming assistant coaches that somehow maintain their jobs because his players never seem to execute for him, well, that's a book unto itself.
But I really believe that Wally's greatest harm to the Lion's franchise is the widespread talk around the league amongst the players that playing under Wally is NOT an option for them. We have been squeezed out of the FA market for quite a while now, and its going to take some time to build a new league wide reputation here.