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My wife is losing her mind, she's so excited. We're booking flights this week and will be ready to go. Now, about finding some kind of Grey Cup-esque pre-party the night before the game. Can't freaking wait....

Some are not getting the reference

So, what would have happened if the Bombers put Harris on the one-game and he ends up being out for the season? You'd be on here saying the Bombers wasted SMS money and should have put him on the 6 game. The Bombers don't lie about injuries. They just provide minimal details about the injuries and are always optimist regarding the player's status.

https://3downnation.com/2021/08/03/3downnation-contributors-fearlessly-predict-the-2021-cfl-standings/

All I know is we should enjoy Alford while he’s here. I’d be genuinely shocked if he was here next year. Legit Juran Bolden vibes.

The lapo love in interesting. He was a boring coach who thought he was the smartest guy in the room. He has a hand in how bad Ottawa is. Eventually u realize after 3 or 4 head gigs... he's not a leader tho Some guys are good prep cooks and not good chefs.. to me lapo is that.. a good prep cook or coordinator but a bad chef aka coach. Lapo just doesn't inspire.

Easily the most dominant performance I've ever seen in person. That was a beatdown for the ages. Who else is excited for Dec. 5th?!

Memories are made of this: https://www.cfl.ca/2021/10/25/bombers-dominate-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/

Mike Ludwig - Hot Take, you suck, blame yourself!

I am definitely in favour of giving them equal reps right now. Two different styles and confident in both.

With Lapo i really think his stubbornness can be confused with arrogance.

you'll rue the day!!!!!!!!

I said, 'well I think you guys are making a mistake, but that's up to you guys and thanks very much' and packed my bag and came back home,” Desjardins said. Douchebag. Good riddance

I legitimately thought that was a "Fake Marcel Desjardins" twitter account.

That could mean anything

Out of his own mouth he said he was going to give Alexander the ball but the Lion was too close. https://www.bluebombers.com/2021/10/23/willie-jefferson-post-game-10/

I thought this was the crapping all over arrogant Desjardins thread? After those expansion draft comments this whole situation looks great on him.

Alford will be a runaway ROY of the year.

The beauty of this team is how, especially on defence, we have played a rotational system, so going forward a platoon-style approach would (a) give everyone consistent reps so as not to get stale by sitting and not playing (b) get some extra rest and less chances to get dinged up to the usual starters, and (c) help our back-ups be ready to assimilate more seamlessly if (knock wood) a starter goes down. This is the luxury of clinching in week 11 that few teams ever get. I just remember Dave Ritchie always saying that the sitting of starters in 2001 was the worst thing he could have done and never again would he allow rust to set in. Even after losing Milt in 2002 in week 18 he stuck by that principle.

What a mess in Ottawa.....as for the next GM, Herb Zurkowski in Montreal is beating the drum for Duane Forde. As good as DF might be one day, you don't take a pure rookie GM with zero front office experience and hand him this mess. They need an experienced hand on the rudder. If you're going to take someone from TSN, it's likely Barker...

But how long since he's seen "live bullets", as they say? Hasn't played an actual game since the Grey Cup, likely.... vs guys that have been there for 11 weeks now. Trust me, I'm a Winston Rose fan, and fully trust the coaching staff to have a plan, but it's not as simple as "Rose plays immediately and will instantly make them better"...

The experience of being on those dominate Argo teams probably a good thing for O'Shea on how to handle the next few weeks.

I did like how we mixed it up with more runs to Bailey/Demski/Augustine. The one sweep to Bailey worked nicely, they then ran the same play but this time handed it off to Oliveria and the defense completely bit on Bailey which gave Brady a nice hole on the left to run through.

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I like that Brandon Alexander force on Reilly that caused him to throw up the ball for the Jefferson INT. The BC running back doesn't even try to block Alexander because he doesn't even see him, he's into the backfield so fast. That's a play you don't see very often.

This is really what they did this year. Some players, with no business taking a discount for their services, still took a discount. Quite the team Walters has built.

QFT. The 1 game is almost entirely for guys who wouldnt play if they were 100%. Any regular contributor who isnt a rookie goes right to the 6 game. Putting a guy like harris on the 1 game vs the 6 game provides nothing at all. Putting him on the 6 game gives us a worse case scenario of saving 6 weeks of his salary cap hit. Thats pretty good value for costing nothing.

I'll take Peterman back.

Was just going back over some of the media bull$hit from the start of the season.....'Bombers are old'..... 'I've picked them for last in the west'.....'Hamilton is the team to beat'......'Teams don't repeat and are usually a long shot after a Cup win'......'They'll be lucky to retain a lot of their top talent in 21'...I won't even give you our vegas odds or the Bodog baloney........Just some of the stuff that was out there at the beginning of the year....Those no mind prognosticators must be choking on all of those crow feathers right about now.....I luv it..

Fixed it all!

I don't care who wins the East. All I care about is Winnipeg winning on December 5th and December 12th.

Marcel comes off as arrogant in that piece.

trying to determine who's going to come out of the East for the GC is a fool's errand at this point. Impossible to call it, because it's such a dog's breakfast over there. Anyone can beat anyone on any given day, and virtually impossible to tell from week to week.

I don't care anymore.

Incompetent? Yes. He's not HC material. Arrogant? Nah.

Yup, in his own words. I misinterpreted his actions completely. You were correct.

I can't believe I'm saying this but I think I would prefer they just left Rose ready to back up anyone in the secondary who gets hurt and otherwise leave the current roster alone. We've given up what, three passing touchdowns all year? At least one of those was to Josh Miller who looked out of his depth to say the least. As great as I know Rose is I can't help but ask: why change anything if it is working so well?

Burnham is a class act & loyal to the Lions. I can't fault that. Walker OTOH is a player for hire like Muamba.

LaPo used to run that fly sweep to Weston Dressler at least a couple of times a game. The guy got lit up more than once & we lost him to injuries because of it. He wasn't fast enough. Our OL wasn't good enough & LaPo was too stubborn to stop. With Buck, we don't see that play as often & Rasheed Bailey's a bigger body who (hopefully) can take the pounding.

Wilson blowing up BC run play.... Reilly sacked by entire Bomber D line.... Grant finds seam on punt return... 30 yards to BC 35...... 2 passes to Demski, has it down to the 15... ZC puts it up in end zone, great grab in traffic by Lawler - TD! Mortician hits the XP.....Blue up 7-0 Reilly under more duress, 2nd down incomplete...... ZAC finds Adams slanting down the field.....huge gain to BC 31.. Demski sweep for 9.......BC then offside..... Zac post pattern to Bailey, who makes nice reachback catch.... ....and bounces off the goal post - TD!! Classic as post routes go, I suppose.....14-0 Bombers Butler doing some good running for the Lions..... Nichols knocks away 2nd down pass.... Blue driving....but McGuire fumbles on 3rd and 1...... Rainey gets off nice punt return....but Lions tagged for holding... Reilly running for his life away from Jefferson.... ....next play... he gets popped by Richardson, while throwing the pass.... BC doing a pretty good job against the run.....their secondary, not so much... Bombers still sticking with the run game, though.... Leggo with beauty punt inside the BC 5.... Reilly sacked by Jeffcoat..... Blue offense has slowed down, but that D still playing shutdown..... Halftime. Not sure BC had 75 yards in that half.... Reilly out Rourke comes in.....and takes big hit from Alexander on scramble... Reilly back in. Just in time to get sacked by Tank and Wilson..... Zac finds Woltman for big gain out to the 50 yd line..... ....then finds Adams on the slant. Good to see production from Adams. Zac throws to Lawler....BC called on PI.....ball on BC 4. Zac incomplete on 2nd down....but Lions tagged with iffy roughing call Lions challenge the call - no dice. Olivera then rumbles into the end zone... .....for his first CFL TD! 23 -0 Bombers. Mortica with another XP... Rainey hammered on the kick return. Blue bringing the wood, again.... Reilly throws for a couple of first downs under duress..... Alexander comes on blitz, gets into Reilly's face...ball shot puts up in the air... .....grabbed by Jefferson, who has nothing but green space in front of him.... ....has time to style some....before reaching the end zone. TD. 30-0 Mercifully, Rourke goes back in at QB for the Lions..... Nichols snuffs out screen to Durant.....him and Alford are just great.... Rourke sacked by Jeffcoat....goes to bench with lower body problem.... Unmercifully, Reilly has to come back in. Now facing 3rd and 9 Lions go for it....why not. M Jones knocks ball away on Reilly bomb... Augustine comes in, bursts through big hole and rolls down the sideline.... ...for 55 yard gain, then Johnny takes pitch and powers for another FD. Zac finds Lawler wide open in the back of endzone for 3rd TD pass of the nite. 37-0. Getting pretty ugly for Lions....with no relief in sight.... Alexander and Darby take turns defending passes.... McGuire in......first pass to Woltman for first down.... After couple of incompletes.....another great punt by Leggo... Reilly completes a couple of passes, then sacked by Sayles... Grant takes punt..... busts through seam and has clear sailing.... ...60 yards untouched for the TD! 44-0. Getting ridiculous... Michael Reilly drags himself back onto the field.... ....thanks to 2 QB roster rule and Rourke nicked..... Mike flushed out of pocket, tackled on 1st down Jefferson knocks down 2nd down pass.....3rd and 12 Lions try to end the Bombers 4th quarter TD allowed streak Reilly puts up long pass.....almost caught - but not So much for that. Still no TD's allowed in the 4th.... A single off Leggo punt makes the final....45-0 Bombers are 10-1!! First place clinched early!! Hard to beat same team 3 times....unless you are the Bombers... Hard to drink even more gin.....unless you are Do or Die

Certainly, feel free to read this on your podcast. The tradition? Was attending Derick Armstrong's first game with the Blue, in 2006. Wanted to do a game report or summary or something, that was a bit different from what everyone else was doing. Out of nowhere, had a vision of the ole time UP tickers, on the side of office buildings - hence the usage of ellipsis, to end sentences and run on's to the next. Evolution? Did the thing without notes for a few years, but was getting harder to remember everything.... then tried copious notes - but this made it harder to watch/analyze the actual game. Finally decided to take only notes for the yardages gained and field positions - leaving me free to analyze the game and add "editorial content" later. Name? Was considering "This and That", but was reading a lot of English literature at the time......therefore it became "Odds and Sods" which is pretty well the same thing, anyways...

He was going to give BA the ball but saw a Lion getting too close and just got in the endzone. No harm no foul, but shouldn't happen.

I think Reinbold was the GM or at least was given the keys to everything. Was all show but no go. He was one of those who makes a good impression but can't follow through. I'll take a Mike O'shea type, quiet, not craving attention, gives others the credit, and very humble, any day.

Those 2 ints BLM threw in the 4th quarter weren't good plays by the dbs or anything, just absolute ducks tossed up by a qb who doesn't have the arm he used to. Honestly I want to see the Bombers play him because he ain't super mobile and if his arm isn't up to snuff he will get what Reilly got on Saturday night

Lapo is incredibly arrogant.

Any Manitoban complaining about the cold is not a real Manitoban. Bring it on... The colder the better. Manitoba based FXR makes some of the best winter gear there is. Get bundled up and have a shot or two of anti freeze and you're all set!

Can we send a Christmas card to the soon to be former Ottawa GM for taking LaPo away???

It's close. I remember during TC he was catching some flack around here. And I never understood it. The guy just produces.

Kyle Borsa, Regina Rams.