Today’s Bomber Report

Posted: 1:00 AM CDT Tuesday, Jul. 6, 2010

Walking wounded

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Walking wounded

DBs Alex Suber, Brandon Stewart and LaVar Glover all skipped practice Monday but are expected to be good to go this week. But Keyuo Craver has suffered a torn ACL and will be out for a while. Returning were DB Clint Kent, receiver Jabari Arthur and OL Ryan Donnelly.

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Long-snapper Taylor Inglis — KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Long-snapper Taylor Inglis

Argo watch

Toronto will likely be without starting safety Willie Pile (hand) this week and his backup, Jeremy Unertl, is also out with a hamstring. As a result, the Argos have re-signed Dwaine Carpenter, formerly of the Calgary Stampeders.

Quotable

"It’s a big disappointment but, at the same time, it’s only one game. We have 17 more. Nobody makes the playoffs in the first week of the season, and nobody wins the Grey Cup in the first week of the season." — Ticats QB Kevin Glenn.

–– LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: In the wake of Friday’s long-snapping woes, the Bombers released rookie Adam Bestard on Monday and added former Edmonton Eskimo Taylor Inglis (6-3, 252, Edmonton Wildcats), a five-year CFL vet, to handle the chores. Interestingly, Inglis’ dad Gerry was the Bombers’ long-snapper in 1978-79 after beginning his career with the B.C. Lions.

Released by the Esks in training camp, the 26-year-old Inglis had returned to his gig in commercial real estate and came back from a fishing trip Sunday morning to find his phone loaded with voice mails and texts from the Bombers. By that night he was on a plane.

"I did enjoy my week-and-a-half vacation, but I’m back and ready to go to work," he said. "It was a little awkward looking at blue and gold and not green and gold, but my dad played for the Bombers in the ’70s and so it’s kinda neat to — I don’t want to say take the reins because it’s been 40 years — but to step in and play the same place as he did and hopefully have the same experiences.

"(Gerry) is a Bomber fan; he’s a Rider fan, too, though because he’s from there and was born and raised there. Obviously, he was an Eskimo fan when I was there and we’ve lived there and had season tickets for a while. But I don’t think it will be hard for him to make the switch back to being a Bomber fan."

Somewhat taken aback by the media attention after his first Bombers practice, Inglis outlined the life of a long-snapper this way:

"I prefer to fly under the radar. If you don’t make any mistakes, if you’re not sending the ball over the punter’s head or rolling them back on field goals then you’re doing your job and everything’s good and nobody knows the difference. If this is the last time you guys talk to me for the next five months I’ll be a happy man."

— FREE STUFF: The Bombers are encouraging fans to bring a "tin for the bin" and get their picture taken with the Grey Cup as the Purolator Tackle Hunger promotion stops in Winnipeg. As well, because Winnipeg was named the Slurpee capital of the world for the 11th year in a row, 7-11 will be making a special trophy presentation to the city and will be serving cake at the gates and giving the first 2,000 fans a limited edition 80th anniversary Big Gulp Slurpee mug.

— NUMBERS GAME: Buck Pierce’s 133.9 QB-efficiency rating — an absolutely sparkling number — was actually the second-best rating in the CFL in Week 1. Saskatchewan’s Darian Durant finished at 140.4 after completing 29 of 44 passes for 481 yards with five TDs and zero interceptions.

— Ed Tait