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1 nu jake. boy he brought it and the 4 man pressure was good 2 brady, carried the offence tonight. 3 vaval. letting the ball go through for no single and getting us the ball at the 40, busted a huge one and great all night hh the completion to wilson when we needed it bad crunch of the game to smith on kick cover awe thats dirty goes to tsn for making us relive the 01 gc honorable mentions, white, nield, perkins short yardage, and wj.

Extremely cold and extremely windy at McMahon. I haven't watched the video yet, but based on your posts, I don't think you guys realize how bad the elements were... It was like a playoff-time game, as confirmed by Zach on the OB post game. Just absolutely brutal conditions to play in. The wind was swirling all night and absolutely did change directions which is what kind of ****** the Bombers re: coin toss, etc. Defense and offense each took turns looking like all stars and then absolute hot steaming garbage. The stamps final scoring drive was embarrassing to sit there and watch. I, too, was fully expecting a fumble or INT on our final offensive drive. Credit to Zach and the whole offense for getting it done in the clutch. We have the best kicker in the league by a mile... Once they completed that pass to Pokey I knew we had won. McMahon is an absolute graveyard for us and has been for generations. That, combined with the weather, the fact that it's the first game of the year, on the road.... Just getting out of there with two points is a blessing. I really feel like next week at #FortHew will look better. Last year I walked out of McMahon at half time of that ludicrous "Stampede Bowl"... This year, redemption. Mrs Noeller was 0/5 in games attended last year and on the verge of being banned by me and @Coorsman from attending any further Bombers games. As the kick sailed through at the end, she looked at me and said "My curse is lifted!"... She may stay... For now. Go Blue.

Sorry Jake. Luv u bae.

I think we’ve been a little spoiled for the past several years. If we can’t get excited with a walk off win on the road in Calgary ( a place we’ve never won much at) over a team that beat us three times last year and had our number then I don’t know what to say. I’m that glad football is back and we’re going back home 1-0

A win’s a win. Eat **** Dickinson brothers.

Why the **** is Jake Kelly out there?

JT: I taught him that!

Definitely some things to clean up, tweak and hone but I loved the last drive, the play calling. You can tell a huge difference of having a proper OC this year co pared to Hogan.

can we keep wally in the booth and kick suitor out

We don't have a ton of insight on how the game roster comes together, but my gut says: a) Younger has fallen in love with too many role players. Most of whom have the wrong passport. We shouldn't need more than one of Wilson/Jones/Ayers really with the D we play. Two is already pushing it. Griffin is basically an every down guy now. Jones and Wilson almost never play 2nd and 5 together. Woodbey/Griffin we shouldn't need more than one. Woodbey/Ayers, shouldn't need more than one. Those Canadians need to become our role players. Smith, Shay, Stuart. b) Miller/O'Shea are in love with the same guys for their utility on special teams. Based on how we used guys last night we basically have Vaval, Ayers and Castillo as Americans who only play special teams. When we needed an extra guy on D, ******* Jake Kelly was the guy, not Vaval. If we sort out the guys in part A, we could dress a guy like Singer who maybe takes on kickoff returns and gives us cover for Vaval, plus some utility on O. Then we can use Vaval on D....because he's a guy who is also poised to breakout and is a playmaker in general. Getting him some D reps would be a major positive because we don't have a lot of DB's making plays on the ball. We have a lot of DB's making tackles. There's an opportunity cost to all these decisions. And as we saw, our D ******* blew for 2.75 quarters of that game anyways. For special teams, Brody Clark already looks like a ******* beast. First guy down there most kicks for us last night, think he had 2 tackles. You got Clark, Kelly, Shay, Smith, Hallett, Corcoran/Cobb, Chris-Ike, Cadwallader who are primarily cover guys. That should be more than enough combined with the starters. Ultimately, going into next week, seeing how that game played out. I'd turn Woodbey into Reese. Gatkuoth barely played, only came in when Ceresna pulled himself on the last drive and a few other reps sprinkled in. He's not a guy who is going to give us a lot of burst out there anytime soon. He needs some time. Hamilton doesn't run much. Against a different team I might consider Fletcher, but against Hamilton we need guys who can fly off the line in pass reps. DL of Ceresna, Lawson, Jefferson, Jenkins, Dixon, Reese, Gatkuoth is pretty solid IMO, especially for pass rush. Get Jenkins and Reese used to some 3 tec reps too. I'd sit Ayers for Singer. Give us some more options on O and in return game to make Vaval somewhat of a player on D too. Longer term if we really want some big bodies it would be nice to see a real TE style receiver on the team. Tons of American guys who are solid receivers at 230-260 lbs and can block a little bit too. Daniels is basically a 7th OL IMO. Very few routes he's going to win in this league.

I got to say. Zach threw a dart for 28 yards to Wilson In a brutal wind. He had a few balls come short but I thought he was fine. His stats were pretty much identical to Vernon MVP in June and July Adam’s Jr

One more positive- I don’t ever have to see Kolo on the ground playing nightcrawlers in a Bomber uniform ever again.

Credit to Ceresna, White, Nield for being factors in a big win Willie looking like he can be useful again as a rotation piece who doesn’t have to play 96% of the defensive snaps is huge Brady being Brady was awesome Vaval looking like a cagey vet Cons … our pass coverage aside from Holm and at times, Major … it was rough. Kramdi sucks at safety, Woodbey was lost all night, Nichols looking old, Moxey looking slightly less old. Hope that unit shores things up. Tony Jones and Kyrie absolutely useless in anything other than the most obvious rushing downs was a downer

HM to Condell, it finally seemed like we had an OC that understands the CFL game, and how to best utilize the players in his offense, not some guy that trying to reinvent the wheel.

VA at the end of the bench having a good cry, games over buddy go home

Great game from all the new additions, that's extremely encouraging

Perkins is a smart short yardage guy

Honorable mention to Sergio for coming thru in the clutch, again.

Kyle Walters Ceressna/Wllie Brady HH Sergio

Special teams key again. Calgary hoofs the ball out of the endzone, hands us the ball at the 40 with no time off the clock on the kickoff. Could have put a little air under that and made Vaval start from the 10.

Sergio Money

Vaval is just so fun to watch

Vaval looking like his rookie season wasn't a fluke

Dickie still a whiny *****, there's nothing there

I like to see him gets some snacks from the hotdog vender outside the stadium in the 2nd half.

or a JT/Korn value pack together

Great second half. Ceresna……what a stud. Collaros was tidy. Brady O a beast as usual. LB’s were meh. Secondary needs to clean some stuff up, but a lot of calgarys catches were contested and nice grabs. All in all encouraging.

Honestly it was only ugly cause it was the Bombers and we want them to dominate. If it was between 2 other teams we’d be calling that a good entertaining game.

awe that’s dirty award might also got to DD’s tremendously dumb challenge.

eat it va

Good thing Vaval knew that cause I sure hell did not

Ceresna has doubled his sack total from last year. Jake Thomas for coach of the year.

Better as the game has gone along

Ceresna paying off immediately. What a beast

Vaval is such a good returner...and he still actually learning..to think hes gonna be better still

Holy cow Vaval has matured as a player. He’s fun to watch, glad he’s ours.

Shut up Suitor. What a goof.

no it wasn’t. mci was blanketed they picked him up with a ball carrier and the ball was behind him. that was a terrible throw on a terrible force in the check down

If that was OPI, Rhymes would have fewer career catches than Jade Etienne.

Every time the camera focuses on Dickenson I just get angry.

He was the best to ever do it.

albertans have separated from the football teams

“He’s like a TE” (because he is a TE)

Wallace and Ellsbury opened a real nice hole for Brady on that run.

Crazy Legs Collaros shows up early

Pretty good start for the D, offside penalty didn't kill them

Oh have I got some news for you...