Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach, Doug Berry, the man who released Troy Westwood for reasons only he, himself knows for sure, now looks pretty dumb.
On Tuesday, Berry confirmed that non-import punter Duncan O’Mahony, the man the Bombers brought in to replace Westwood, had suffered a fractured toe. He broke his toe while staggering to the biffy in the dark on Sunday night. Seems he couldn’t find his way, stubbed it and fractured it.
It’s now unlikely that O’Mahony will play on Friday night when the Bombers open the 2008 Canadian Football League season against the Toronto Argonauts at Canad Inns Stadium.
O’Mahony missed practice on Tuesday and Wednesday so Alexis Serna handled both kicking and punting duties. Berry also had rookie receiver Aaron Hargreaves take some turns punting, but when Berry decided to keep O’Mahony and cut import Brian Monroe, he made another huge mistake. At least Monroe has a strong leg. All O’Mahony has, well, you know…
The soap opera is no longer dramatic. It’s now a comedy. As we said last week, it’s OK to cut somebody, but if you don’t have someone to replace the guy you’ve cut, wait until you do. Berry didn’t wait. Now he can only hope his kicker — a guy who has never kicked in a prairie wind — can punt half as well as the guy he cut.
Frankly, after the way O’Mahony punted in last week’s pre-season game against Montreal, Serna probably punts just as well already.
There was some talk after practice yesterday that O’Mahony could be available to play on Friday. Now, that would really be funny. Here’s a guy who struggled in a pre-season game while he was healthy. He’d be frickin’ slapstick amazing with a broken toe.
Of course, if the Bombers hadn’t cut the guy they cut, none of this would be an issue.
What was once a soap opera is now a cartoon.
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