Now it looks like it’s Lulay’s turn to take us the rest of the way.
LEOS ARE LOOKING PLAYOFF BOUND
I’ve contended, as have many others for most of this season, that our Leos have the talent to win the Grey Cup this season and given the tools to play to their potential, they would have been challenging Calgary for 1st place in the West. (rather than have been out of contention for a playoff spot for most of this season)
Now we have a great opportunity to get into the playoffs and win it all.
Our Leos find themselves in this positive situation also due to the slumping Edmonton Eskimos. While our Leos have won 5 of their last 6 games, the Eskimos have lost 5 of their last 6 games.
The major problem for the Eskimos for most of this season had been their Wally inspired passive soft corner zone defense, coordinated by Wally mentored Mike Benevedes. The Eskimos had been able to win in the first half of the season due to their Mike Reilly led offence.
Reilly only completed 13 of 27 passes and had a pass-efficiency rating of just 30.2, which is horrendous. In the previous week, Edmonton’s offence was only able to score 3 points in the entire game as Reilly only completed 54% of his passes for 154 yds. against the Bombers, while throwing 2 interceptions.But recently, the wheels have also come off Edmonton’s offence. Mike Reilly has not thrown a touchdown pass in over 9 quarters of football. In last weekend’s loss to Regina, Reilly threw 3 interceptions, the last one a Pick 6, in the fourth quarter, as Edmonton’s offence was only able to score 12 points in the game.
Mile Reilly has an interception rate this season that is worse than Jonathan Jennings 2017 season. However, it does not appear that the Eskimos will publicly throw Reilly under the bus as ‘being inconsistent’, ‘having deer in the headlights’ syndrome, ‘can’t read a defense’, not ‘smart enough’ or ‘dedicated enough’ and they would be wise not to.
The Eskimos have serious protection issues, as our Lions especially did in 2017. No quarterback can do it alone. Protection, scheme, play calling, game planning, and play design all factor into a quarterback’s success or not, whether its Mike Reilly or Jonathan Jennings or Travis Lulay.
THE BACKDROP TO THIS GAME – THE STORIES OF THE WEEK
“When you blame and scapegoat others, you give up your change” Robert Anthony
It’s been a most difficult year to be a young quarterback named Jonathan Jennings. He has been publicly shamed as not being smart enough to quarterback a ‘normal’ CFL offence by his offensive coordinator and shredded publicly before last week’s game as lacking the dedication needed to lead his teammates.“Words have the power to inspire or to destroy” James Maxwell
That shredding by Ed Hervey has continued to occupy Leos sports headlines this week.
Jennings must have been in a state of shock just prior to last week’s game, when hearing about Hervey’s comments. Now that he and his teammates have had more time to digest it, what will the impact be, for Jennings and his teammates?
Mike Reilly, Edmonton’s quarterback, had only started two CFL football games as he entered his 4th CFL season. He was still learning the game as a backup quarterback.
In Reilly’s first 3 seasons in Edmonton, as a starter, he never achieved a quarterback efficiency of over 90.It took Mike Reilly 7 CFL seasons before he threw for over 5,000 yds or had a quarterback efficiency of over 100.
Jonathan Jennings had a quarterback efficiency of 99.8 in his first 6 games as a starter in 2015, as a rookie third string quarterback and he had a quarterback efficiency of 102.1. in his first full season as our starter. In Reilly’s first full season as a starting quarterback in Edmonton he only completed 59% of his passes and had a quarterback efficiency of 86.9.
Even in Reilly’s second season as a starter in Edmonton, with 5 years of CFL experience, he only completed 62.4% of his passes for a quarterback efficiency of 88.7, which is in the ballpark to Jennings 2017 QE , a season in which Jennings was vilified, while playing behind a porous offensive line in a very predictable and deficient scheme.
Jarious Jackson (twice) and Ed Hervey have not only publicly criticized Jennings play this season but shamed and humiliated Jennings for his ‘supposed’ lack of intelligence and for his ‘supposed’ lack of dedication and commitment to his team and teammates.Reilly only became considered an ‘elite’ CFL quarterback in his 7th CFL season. Many CFL quarterbacks who became considered elite, took a number of years of experience to achieve that status.
No GM or Head Coach or Offensive Coordinator ever publicly shamed Mike Reilly for being inconsistent, undedicated, or not smart enough during his ‘challenging’ seasons.
Its not just Jennings that is being affected. What has happened will be resonating through the Leos team.
THE CONCEPT OF PUBLIC SHAMING
Public humiliation or public shaming is a form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person, It was regularly used as a form of judicially sanctioned punishment in previous centuries but fell out of common use in the 20th century, because it became considered a form of cruel and unusual punishment.
Its powerful stuff, as fear of rejection, isolation, and fear of banishment are ingrained in our DNA from our earliest tribal times, when being 'cut form the herd' and banishment from the tribe usually meant certain death.Public shaming, due to its humiliating aspects, has been documented as having serious negative psychological effects and devastating consequences. It can cause depression as well as suicidal thoughts. Publicly humiliated individuals can also develop a variety of symptoms including apathy, paranoia, anxiety, and PTSD.
Yet this despicable behavior has been used numerous times this season on a young quarterback and a young man who has been of good character, and who has always been accountable. This is a young quarterback who has given our Leos their only playoff victory since 2011. This is a quarterback who has led his team for 10 game winning drives, including that playoff victory.
After the loss to Hamilton, our only loss in the last 6 games, Wally Buono took to the airwaves once again to trash Chris Rainey, only a couple of weeks after he had publicly embarrassed him and benched him but at least the comments were based on his play. Hervey’s and Jackson’s comments have attacked Jennings intelligence and impugned his character.
Rainey ran a punt back for a touchdown against Toronto and Jennings played well enough for us to avenge our loss to Toronto earlier this season, as teammates as Travis Lulay and Bryan Burnham showed Jennings their backs in support.
But one must wonder about the longer-term effects to Jennings and Rainey’s confidence, which were already impacted by the previous public remarks they were on the receiving end of.
Will the fear of being public shamed motivate other Leos players or will it cause them to tighten up?
THE TWO ‘EDS”
One also must question the role of Ed Willes in all of this. He seems to have gotten a free pass. Hervey was out wanting the media to drink “the Jennings not dedicated enough Kool Aid”, as a scapegoat after the Hamilton loss but Willes didn’t have to drink it. He has a choice of what to print or not to print, what questions to ask or not to ask, or what story to write or not.
Ed Willes had to be more than aware, before he asked Hervey the question “Is Jonathan Jennings an elite quarterback” that he wasn’t and couldn’t be at this stage of his career.
Willes also knew the present situation - that Jennings was presently playing as a backup to Lulay. He knew Jennings stats. He also had to be aware that he had written himself, a long time back, that he did not considered Jennings as the answer to our quarterbacking and has always preferred Lulay as our starter.
Willes, to me, it seems, had to be asking the question, anticipating Ed Hervey would say “No, he isn’t”. Then Ed Willes could write the headline “Hervey Says Jennings is Not an Elite Quarterback”.
In the past, I’ve asked the question as to whether Willes was serving as a role of facilitator for the Leos brass, in terms of getting their message out. For this recent article, I ask the question as to whether Willes wanted to reinforce his previous views of Jennings or whether he just wants to publish controversial stories, no matter the potential cost is to a young man’s confidence, career, and mental health.But Hervey gave Willes three extra deserts with his answer
Ed Willes had a career dream, at some time, just like Jennings has a dream. Now that Willes is older, it seems all he has left is to facilitate harm to a young man’s dream, knowing that Jennings is not a jerk but a good young man, who has always been accountable and always ‘worn it’ for the team, no matter what and no matter how unfair.
Is this the kind of stuff Ed Willes would want to be remembered for as a sports columnist? Maybe it is. But it would be a good thing if he would give us some insight instead, rather than the same old boring quarterback controversy stuff.All Willes article has done is to create havoc, as well as embarrassment and pain for young man’s feelings, and for ‘WHAT’
Ed Willes - you’re a very experienced sports columnist. Surely you are capable of better. Jim Taylor gave us so much better. Jennings would have started one more game and then Lulay would have taken over. This was all so unnecessary.
Ed Hervey has not apologized nor refuted the statements from Lulay, Dunnigan, or Jennings agent, nor Jennings comments this week. Jennings refuted the comments after practice on Tuesday, saying he believes he’s one of the hardest working players on the team.
I didn’t expect Hervey to refute Jennings statements because he couldn’t. Nor did I expect him to understand hurt feelings either, other than anger. It’s like taking a color-blind person and asking him to see anything other than black and white.Jennings said, on Tuesday, that he prides himself on his hard work and character, and never thought that either would be questioned.
He also said he believed he was one of the hardest working players on the team. “I work my tail off, I’ve worked my tail off for four years”, adding that he also puts in video review at home in the evening.
I also have no doubt that Hervey wants every Leo to be a player that he has hired. That way, those players will feel a debt to him, in one way or the other. Jennings will never be in that category. By devaluing him publicly, it also makes Hervey’s choice of getting rid of Jennings, at the end of this season, more palpable to Leos fans.
Ed Hervey’s world, by his own comments, is cold and hard. Highly doubt he has ever experienced real joy but then I doubt that Buono ever has either. That’s why Buono has said there is no joy in winning but only that he hates to lose. There are some types of people who only feel good when they are bringing someone down.It also puts some fear into the rest of the players on the team - you could be NEXT.
But those types should never have power.
But I certainly can’t argue with Ed Hervey’s own statement:
“I didn’t come here to be fair”
No argument from me on that one. The means justify the end goal, no matter what 'means' are used.
Ed Hervey also said
Well Ed, that’s not being at the facility. Lulay said that he and Jennings go over tape together at home in the evenings. But that is not good enough for you. You want to see Jennings morning, noon, and night, knowing that he is at the facility.““I wake up at four o’clock at home and I work the phones”.
Get up at 4:30, go to the facility and work the phones. We want to see you and know that you are there. How do we know that you are up at 4:30 working the phones? We can’t see you. Therefore, we can’t be sure how committed you are.
Don’t take it personally!! It’s just that we know that all the great CFL General Managers are always at the facility early in the morning. They don’t’ come in late like you Ed!!! Or maybe that is an unsubstantiated comment.
Ed Hervey, in an article he wrote, as our GM for Black Heritage Month (while recounting his days growing up in Compton and Watts), said
You need to read your own words again Ed Hervey!! And perhaps also ask yourself the question of what the concept of ‘el mano’ means to you, too.“I love the challenge of building teams and building relationships and because of those relationships we’ve built over the years we were able to be successful with the players. I sincerely believe building trust in relationships goes a long way.
Don’t play games that all this came about just because you felt the need to answered a question 'honestly'. You talked to two media outlets about it. You could have said Jonathan is working to get better each day and for anything else I talk to him ‘el mano’, like I do with all Leo players. I don’t talk about my players behind their backs.
But you didn’t because this was the message you wanted out about Jennings was one that you wanted it out publicly.
The two ‘Eds’. Enough said.
AN UNSUBSTANTIATED RUMOR
There is an unsubstantiated rumor that Jonathan Jennings returned to practice this week lighter in weight because he went without Thanksgiving dinner to watch more game tape with Travis Lulay.
This rumor also coincided with another rumor that Wally Buono had waddled in to his first practice of the week, looking a bit heavier, appearing as if had enjoying a mighty Thanksgiving feast and that Ed Hervey arrived, as one of the last Leos into the workplace, looking like his jowls were quite a bit bigger than usual, after wolfing down second helpings of mashed potatoes and gravy.
But the following subtitle is not an unsubstantiated rumor. It was the second big Leo story of the week.Of course, those rumors could be just as false as the rumor that Jonathan Jennings has not been dedicated enough to his craft.
JARIOUS JACKSON’S PLAY BOOK STOLEN
Jarious Jackson’s computer, with a Leos logo on both sides and digital play book (the Little Orange Book) were stolen from his car on Saturday night, after the game.
Jackson had gone to a bistro after the Lions win against Toronto to watch a Vegas MMA fight and left them inside his car, availbale for a ‘smash and grab’. It also appears that Jackson had not backed up his work to a hard drive.
Lionbackers’ TheLionKing wrote: “Jackson should know better than to leave valuables in his car” and “I guess the thief is not a fan of RPO”.
Lowell Ullrich, who has some courage, as well as the ability to bring insight and levity to his football articles, wrote:
My best guess is that when the thief opens the orange cover, he will find that the inside of the playbook pages are colored in Regina ‘green”. Jackson’s playbook just has an Orange Cover and it really should be called our ‘Rider Green’ offensive scheme.A wise guy would see the upside when a laptop containing the keys to the B.C. Lions offence belonging to assistant coach Jarious Jackson was stolen out of his car on the weekend, given how the offence has performed at times this season.
Our plays so closely resemble McAdoo’s offence that they appear to be a carbon copy of McAdoo’s highly criticized RPO scheme, that has Regina fans beyond frustrated and sometimes in anguish.
Even worse, Jarious Jackson has criticized Jennings intelligence while not securing our team’s playbook and his game plans, notes and other important information. These are secret documents critical for team success (or failure if you want to look at it in a certain way).And to think that Jarious made out as if he was designing his ‘new’ offensive scheme for Jonathan Jennings and our Leos. Now that is a tasty color of lime Kool Aid dyed orange to dupe us.
I feel sorry for Jackson in one way, because I know how it feels to have my car broken into but in another way, it also shows that kharma can be a *beeotch*. Not smart of him at all.
There is a saying that what is good for the goose should be good for the gander. There have been a lot of goose (player criticism) without much gander coming back, as per usual in Leo Land. There is also a saying that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Is there going to be fallout from the behaviors or our coaching staff and GM over the many instances of them going public in devaluing our players? Only time is going to tell.
The above sets the environment as our Leos travel to Calgary to play the league leading Stamps.
The STAMP’S PLAYERS
The Calgary Stampeders were only able to score 12 points on Rich Stubler’s defense (remember him – they guy Wally got rid of to make way for Mark Washington) in their last contest. Bo Levi Mitchell only completed 58% of his passes for 199 yds against Stubler’s astute game plan.
Bo Levi Mitchell also threw 3 interceptions against Montreal, the same number as Reilly against Regina and Jennings in the second game against Hamilton. It sometimes happens, even to elite quarterbacks. Bo Levi Mitchell has had some excellent games this season and he’s had some poor ones – the reasons are often complex.
That’s what good coaches do. That is what the Stamps do.It’s how your team’s coaches react to those types of games that matters most. Do they create a ‘tire fire’ and ‘scapegoat’ and ‘sacrifice a player at the alter’ or do their coaches get into their offices and start looking at game tape - adapting and coming up with better game plans in the future?
The Stamps win first win defense. Their defense is far and away the CFL’s best defense. Their defense is in a league of its own, in terms of not allowing the opposition to score. That allows them to win, even when their offence is inconsistent. It’s their rock. Devon Claybrooks, mentored by Rich Stubler, has become an elite CFL defensive coordinator.
The Stamps offence is good too. They’ve scored the second most points in the CFL. Dave Dickenson, as Head Coach, also calls the offensive plays for the Stamps and he knows how to keep defenses off balance. The Stamps do a very good job of protecting their quarterback and have very good offensive balance in their play calling.
The Stamps defense is led by middle linebacker Alex Singleton, who leads the CFL in tackles and by Micah Johnson, who is now 2nd in the CFL in quarterback sacks. On offence, Bo Levi Mitchell distributes the football while Calgary tailback Don Jackson is dangerous and has an impressive 6 yd. average per carry. Parades, Calgary’s field goal kicker is accurate and can hit from long range if required.
OUR LEOS PLAYERS
Our Leos players are coming off a big win against Toronto, winning their 5th game of the last six. Jennings has been efficient as our quarterback in his five victories, while mostly playing a conservative game.
But he was also starting to air out the football a bit more often. In our last game, he made three long completions to Bryan Burnham, DeVier Posey, and Watson.
If we want to have any hope of beating Calgary, we can’t restrict Lulay to dink and dunk RPO – the Stamps defense will have our offence well scouted and prepared to jump our prescriptive routes.
Jennings was at his best in our home win against Hamilton, in the fourth quarter, when we abandoned our RPO and took away the reins that bind him. The same needs to be done for Travis Lulay.
Jeremiah Johnson ran for 118 yds. last game, as we finally got some balance back in our offence. Having Jennings throw 47 times while running the football 7 times in a contest, as we did against Hamilton at home is not the easy route to victory. It certainly won’t be against Calgary.
Johnson was finally used well against Toronto, we blocked well, and Johnson had a 6.2 yd. average on 19 carries. Johnson ran the football hard as well as skillfully. So, we’ve benched him and will start Sutton.
Bo Lokombo continues to be impressive, Herdman continues to play very well too, and showed us last game how hard he can hit. Awe showed improvement last game and it looks like Sol E, who has the same agent as Jennings, is in no hurry to return.On defense, Odell Willis and Shawn Lemon are tied for 3rd in CFL sacks and Devon Coleman is coming off another monster game.
T.J. Lee continues to lead our defense in making big plays while our corner backs, Anthony Orange and Winston Rose are tied for the league lead in interceptions, most of those coming off when we are playing man coverage.
Ty Long’s positional punting was impressive last game and Chris Rainey, by not running it straight up the gut, as instructed but by making two jump cuts, showed he can take it to the house last game, like in his ‘good old days’ before his confidence got shot.
COACHING AND LEADERSHIP
Same old won’t cut it against Calgary. Same old hasn’t cut it for our B.C. Lions for a long time now. Calgary has been the flagship franchise of the CFL, since the arrival of John Hufnagel in 2008 and has continued to be, with Hufnagel retaining the GM’s job while his protégé, Dave Dickenson, as his Head Coach, has continued to ensure the Stamps are the best team in the CFL.‘Same old won’t cut it against Calgary’
Meanwhile, here in B.C since 2008, Wally Buono has around a .500 won/loss percentage as a Head Coach - not been difficult to attain while feasting on weak East Division weak teams during his close to his 6 years on the sidelines since that year.
Our Leos have only won one playoff game since 2011 and that was in 2016, when Jennings led us to a come from behind win against the Bombers, after a disastrous showingby Mark Washignton’s defense in the first half of that playoff game.
MORALE AND TRUST ARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR SUSTAINED SUCCESS
As Lionbackers, from our own work experiences, most of us will know well, how it feels to work in both a healthy and an unhealthy organization, at some point in time, in our careers and work lives.‘Leadership is the wise and very careful use of power’. Character counts and it counts most, when it comes to leadership’. John Drysdale.
Healthy organizations lead to high levels of morale and initiative. Leadership in these types of organizations is based upon the leader’s knowledge, adaptability, and ability to inspire, in achieving the organization’s goals. Employee input is sought at various times and employees are viewed as valuable rather than easily replaceable.
It adapts to opportunities and change. Employees have good relationships with management that are based on trust.The organization is characterized by teamwork and goal sharing. It utilizes the strengths and talents of its employees, rather than being too rigid, in terms of its systems and procedures.
Unhealthy organizations operate very differently. They tend to be organized similarly or have aspects of cults, strict religious organizations, clans, and gangs. Control, Control, and Control is a major goal of these types of organizations.
The leader of this type of organization is usually a rigid, manipulative personality who demands submission. He’s the ‘apostle’ type who also demands rigid obedience. This type of leader rules through fear, intimidation, and repercussion.
Independent thinking is very discouraged and is also punished. Everything is simplified into black and white. A double standard operates - there is one standard for the followers and another for the leader(s) who can do almost anything wrong. Anyone else can be rebuked, punished, shamed, or made an example of, whether fair or not.An employee or two or even more, will from time to time, is ‘sacrificed’ to ensure that intimidation and fear rule the roost. Any questioning of the leader or the systems that the leader uses are viewed as a threat and the person is considered a heretic. Punishment, fear of rejection, scapegoating, public shaming, and humiliation can all be used as weapons for compliance.
Loyalty to the leader is demanded rather than earned.
The leader does not ‘lead’ through knowledge and inspiration but from the formal authority of his position and the fear of the consequences he is more than willing to hand out. Any individuality is viewed as a threat. Bland conformity is demanded. Creativity is considered a bad word. Everything stays the same.
The catch phrases of the leader are repeated almost endlessly as a form of mind control. The emotions of employees are not considered because the employees are not viewed as individuals but rather as objects or ‘pieces’ to fulfill the leader’s goals and ego.Anyone who challenges the organization’s rigid doctrine or systems, or procedures is automatically branded as an enemy. The disciples then do the dirty work on behalf of the leader (as a few Lionbackers would know)
Over time, employee morale and confidence diminish, the leader’s power becomes even more absolute. He then may operate more and more like a tin pot dictator of a third world country. (and not benevolent, like Toppy
A toxic work environment can develop, whether the employees realize it or not and they often don’t, because it becomes their ‘normal’.
The Calgary Stampeders organization, to me reflects a healthy work organization.
I will leave it to you to decide on whether our Leos organization would be considered healthy or not.
STRATEGY FOR THIS IMPORANT GAME
Rigid systems, on offence, defense and special teams will not give us a chance against Calgary. The Stamps put up 32 points in the first half in their last playoff game against us while we failed to score. They usually beat us, often badly. There usually is little difference in the talent between us but there is a huge difference in the coaching and systems utilized by both teams.
On offence, an overdose of RPO, will be like swallowing our own poison.
On defense, we saw, once again, last game, that reverting to passive zone defense, when we had the lead, was a recipe for potential disaster. Doing so allowed the Argos to mount a fourth quarter comeback.
GAME PLANNING
To beat the Stamps, we’ll need an outstanding game plan, outstanding play calling, and in game adaptability. “Run ‘er up the gut, R(eally) P(redictble) Offence is not the answer nor will ‘bend but don’t break passive zone defence get it done. Calgary will dissect it.
Players executing predictable, simple, tired systems will not do it either, no matter how high a level of execution the players perform at. Nor will adding additional pressure for players to ‘make plays’ overcome the chains of our scheme and play calling be enough.
Nope, what this game really needs, for a win, is not for Lulay or Jennings to look at more game tape but for Wally to engage in less interviews and watch more tape himself.
The the long, long shot would be, that he will have a moment of clarity within the fog. If he could finally see, from the tape, that 'same old' is not cutting it, then the next step would be to adapt, or at least give his coordinators the ok to do so. (and see if they can)
I won’t hold my breath for any of this to happen because same old, has gone on for so many years, in terms of game planning. But miracles do happen, or at least they say they do.Hopefully, McAdoo’s playbook, which Jarious has probably asked him to mail a copy of, won’t arrive in time and he will have to come up with something else (and anything else would probably work better).
WRAP
Its football. The ball bounces funny sometimes. Even being the most predictable team in the CFL, unpredictability can happen, as it did when Jennings gave us the miracle finish against Hamilton. Until the game is played, you never know for sure.
I thought our Leos would start Jennings on Saturday night, that he would take a pounding and a beating, and be given the blame for the loss. Then we would start Lulay against Edmonton.
But as it stands right now, Lulay will start against Calgary and for the rest of the season. It’s a good thing to be starting Lulay and letting Jennings have the pressure off. He’s helped us get a lot of wins lately and with all the stuff that has been going on about him, it’s better for him to be on the sidelines helping Travis.
We likely will never see Jennings play another game .in a Leos uniform if Lulay stays healthy. This also may be the swan song for Lulay too. He may become an assistant coach in the future. I would rather see him coach elsewhere if Wally returns. Being ‘mentored’ by Wally as a new coach is not good thing but perhaps, with a good new Head Coach, his future would be better here.Travis also has more experience and right now, with all that is going on, he is also the better choice for that reason too. He also has that rare confidence to yell back at Wally. His experience will help him, should our Leos brass choose to scapegoat him or attempt to make him a sacrfice too. I don't think they will. Lulay is not Rainey or Jeremiah or Jennings - he won't take it and Wally and Ed know it.
Lulay and Jennings, from all accounts, both have had the same work ethic, arriving early, doing extra work before and after practices, and studying tape together in the evenings.
Both Wally and Hervey raved about Sutton. As Jeremiah Johnson, coming off one of his best games of the season is sat out, it will be interesting to watch Sutton play, as he starts at tailback against the Stamps.
There is incredible talent on this team that has often been wasted this season. On occasion, outstanding talent can overcome the worst obstacles. But the frustrating part is that its not the opposition that is giving our talent its toughest obstacles. Those are coming from the leadership inside our own tent.
In a short video clip placed on the Lions website by the Lions p.r. department this week, Wally Buono said the following:
“If comments bother you they shouldn’t. It doesn’t matter what somebody says. What matters is what you think of yourself”.
Wow, and to think I’ve always seen Wally as highly defensive when reacting to comments about his own accountability.
Well, that is good news for Buono disciples. No need to defend him or attack his critics anymore. Seems as if you are not needed and you have been wasting your time on his behalf. Its only what Wally thinks of himself that is important.
Said so himself.
Its autumn. Its football weather. The dew is on the pumpkin. No more dinky dunking. Time to bang a gong and get it on. We have some really outstanding, exciting Leo players to watch play. It’s a great time for football!!!Here is your opportunity sports writers. You just don' just have to throw Leo players under the bus, like you've done in the past. You don't have to fear Wally anymore. He won't care what you write. If you say anything critical about him it won't bother him. He has his own opinion of himself and that is all he says matters.
Go Leos!!