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Finally! After a great off-season of signings, coaching changes and waiting, its game day!!!! Road to the cup starts today, LETS ******* GO!!!!!!!!!!

Adding Jake Ceresna to the DL changes the complexion of that unit and the D so much. Hard not to be stoked to see what they can do.

Feel really good about this year. Not sure if we'll win tonight but that won't change how I feel about the overall picture. I really like the improvements on D and having a legit OC and the two best offensive tackles in the should be enough for a pretty significantly improved offence.

The possibility of a fully functional DLine rotation alone, is cause for celebration. Make it happen Coach Thomas!

Some of those games were like a football to the groin.

I'm really hoping the extra American on the OL makes up for one less American with the receivers... we all know this offense thrives on Brady rolling and Zach having time to operate... a top notch OL dramatically helps both of those things...

Let's go Bombers!

Wheatfall with a game losing fumble and Mitchell the target for a pick six. I doubt we miss either of them.

Condell was 4-14 with the Argos the year after Ricky Ray retired where they trotted out McLeod Bethel-Thompson, Dakota Prukop and James Franklin as their quarterbacks. He went 8-10 with Hamilton the year after Masoli left with two prior Grey Cup visits and they had Dane Evans (who we broke) and Matt Shiltz as their quarterbacks, then went 8-10 again the next year after they brought Bo to town and he only played a third of the season. Then he went 4-14 last year with Dru Brown and the QB carousel in Ottawa. Nowhere near as bad as JBR made it sound.

It's very possibly hopium but I have one whole complaint about the defense so I'm pretty excited about what that could look like this year. I like the pieces we brought in - Jenkins is a monster physical presence on the edge and I think it's crazy to think about the idea that on any given snap, you might be a tackle lining up against either Willie, Jake or Kydran. That's a lot of different tools in the toolbox to contend with. Another year of Woodbey is something I'm excited about, he gives me a lot of Adarius Pickett (with an extra 25 pounds) vibes and I genuinely think he could be an all-star on the back of a ton of splash playmaking. Our secondary seems like it's got the potential to be pretty exciting and I do like that we have a ton of versatility in all three levels. Our offense both scares and bores the hell out of me. I know that we've got big pieces (Brady, White, Demski and Pokey) but we have so many questions - the Broxton to RT is a move that I don't think we discuss enough as being risky, rookie American center could be less than ideal, our depth is about as thin as thin gets, our utility players seem like there's a good shot they're incredibly useless - so I'm just not sure how that all shakes out. I trust in Condell but I'm whelmed currently. Maybe we see Brady get 1800 yards all purpose and White/Pokey both go for 1000 while Demski/Nield provide 700-800 each but I just don't know if I see it.

I like his competitiveness too. But I don't think he'll be the best as long as Rourke is around. It's hard to ignore Alexanders W/L record, but I just don't see the same pure arm talent, and his defense got him out of a few jams last night including giving him essentially 10 points. It's close, but I'd still put Rourke above him. Give Rourke the MTL defense and the results are likely similar. I guess if you want to ignore all of Banks' production on O. Has Grant ever passed 300 yards rec in any year? Banks is far more accomplished as painful as that is for me to say

Just ******* win, baby.... #FortHew

Here's hoping for a better showing this year. Go Blue

With significant changes on the line this year, it may take time for the starting five to gel - However, pound Brady until that happens, and even when it does, time for more Brady ball. His usage last year by Hollywood Hogan was criminal.

‘Everybody else is playing for second’ year. Lessss go.

Dammit if Wilson isn't a pretty good colour guy.

Season KICKOFF!!!!! three games. big whoop.

Always tough playing against Vernon Adam’s in June, less worried about him in October or November..

If you can't win with Dakota Prukop then what good are you?

Only three games for each of the first two weeks of the season seems like an odd scheduling choice, no? We don't even need a guru. Barely competent might have got us back to the Grey Cup last year.

Condell has as many 4-14 seasons on his record as +.500 ones. So the experience is there....but the results throughout his career have been mostly unimpressive. He's no guru. IMO our offense being in the top half of the league is going to rely on Oliviera having a 2000 yard all purpose season and that's a tough place to start from. OL should be much improved. But the lack of Canadian depth there to start with is fear inducing too. Are they eventually going to tell Younger he can't have ALL the Americans on the roster? Does Ontaria Wilson have #1 receiver in him? Looks like we have 3 #2's but no one that really strikes that big fear in anyone, all manageable if you're game planning against us. No one who is going to make the big plays no matter what.

Wheatfall had a bigger impact, tho!

TSN's narrative for that game was all about Lawler and the effect he was having on the game. Forgot about the Als.

Myron Mitchell looking like a somewhat legit receiver for Hamilton. Cannot wait to see Connell's offense so I never have to think about Hogan as OC again.

He's already there in our hearts

Especially when they keep moving the season earlier. BUT - they don’t care. The league cited viewership numbers when making the change, not attendance numbers.

No issues for me today.

I think it's probably safe to say at this point Eli will never start except in emergencies... He's 30 years old and never been more than a 6th OL.... If he didn't win the job out of camp when it was open then he's never going to.

What excited me in pre season was that we were pressuring the QB. For the last two years it seemed like we had absolutely no push and no pressure on whoever we played. It will be nice to make a QB force a few throws every game.

I just want to see a win and a vast improvement on our anemic offense. Bryant's age does concern me and I really hope he gets pushed by Randolph. I am excited to see what Ceresna does to the D line... And I am stoked that there is no Jake Thomas on the roster.

I'd like 2 of those 3 and a guy who can really dominate a game from the X spot to build an offense around. They will be missing that again. The ideal receiving corps for Collaros is a big sturdy X who can be a threat at 3 levels (Lawler, Adams), a big sturdy slot or Z (Fantuz, Wolitarsky), a couple sneaky route running playmaking slots (Schoen, Demski, Tasker, Wilson), a speed/YAC guy (Bailey) and another big body (Ellingson, Bakari Grant). I think we have 2/5 of those things and we're hopeful Nield can make it 3/5. And we need everyone to stay healthy.

technically a receiver should never stop moving, especially if for whatever reason the QB has to go off script

Hot Take. Zach gets hurt. We trade for Dru after giving TE a few games where he shows potential and wins 1 loses 1 wins 1 loses 1 type thing. Dru comes in and goes on a run ala Zach where we end up winning the cup in Calgary and TE like Streveler plays a pivotal role in the finals where he hits Corcoran for the winning TD on a 3rd down gamble with seconds to go. Hotter take cuz click rage bait. All players Booch endorse eventually get cut.

I'm excited.... I think the offence will be massively improved, can't overstate the impact of adding Tim White and Broxton, and the departure of Kolankowski + the demotion of Hogan... I think Zach is going to go to Tim White 10+ times tonight

Bryant at LT concerns me. He’s arguably the best ol in CFL history, but he started to show signs of his age last year and he’s only going to get slower. Overall I think the line will be good, but that’s something I’m watching. I agree with others who have said we’re an American receiver injury away from big problems. Will we run Perkins at wr now that Streveler is gone? Edit: overall I think we’re a better team than we were last year.

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Potentially last hours of feeling ridiculously optimistic about the season. I’m so ready to keep believing, though. GO BLUE!

Not exactly underneath but yeah less of a jump ball/long radius guy. He’s good at finding open space and can stretch the field a little bit. I’d kind of compare him to Clarence Denmark.

Manitoba boys had a big night for both teams as Carolina ties it up at 1 game a piece.

Buck Pierce called the plays when Mitchell played for us. He was cut in camp last year.

It's like watching Winnipeg East, did Hamilton scout any of their own players? 😆

He had one really amazing season as a returner and 2.5 great years as a receiver. It's a pretty low bar if he's in. They better go back through the past 40 years or so and make sure they get everyone else in if Banks is in.

I can't help it. I find Alexander insufferable.

Ya I mean. Based on speedy B going in, Janarian Grant must then since basically the same but won a cup. Is Keith stokes in the hall? If speedy B is, stokes should be also. Wow Tyler “special” Snead. 131 yards not even at the half.

Our O definitely needs what they call big plays. Definitely didn’t have enough of those last year. Also Zach needs to not make dumb throws and decisions. He does that at times tho. Brady ball should be all 4th quarter and ideally by then we already winning by 2 scores plus cuz the O has already scored a few TDs. They ain’t gonna run 30 times and pass 9 times this season tho.

Speedy B off to the cfl hall of fame. Not sure honestly about that one.

There was only really a Kerwin Bell year...1999. He was toast pretty early in 2000.

Hey I was living in Calgary during the Kerwin Bell years. Some pretty tough games to sit through.

Time for my wild prediction of the year before the season starts: Jake Maier plays well enough but not great in Ottawa, in game 4-6 Dinwiddie gives Dru Brown the start and he gets concussed and sidelined in his first start. Maier returns to action the next game and begins playing better while Brown languishes on the bench. In week 13 Zac Collaros suffers a season ending injury, and Elgersma gets the tap to start. After a couple games TE suffers a broken foot leading to a Winnipeg QBing crisis. A trade for Dru Brown is worked out with Ottawa bringing him back to the Bombers. Brown catches fire, while at the same time Winnipeg shuffles the deck on defence to tighten it up. Bombers who are 3rd in the West go on the road and begin a heater culminating in bringing home a Grey Cup. Taylor Elgersma, plays a pivotal role on a broken foot throughout the playoffs as the Bombers change of pace QB. At the Grey Cup parade both Taylor Elgersma and Chris Streveler show up shirtless and wearing fur coats and smoking cigars. Life is right in Bomberland again. (I would like to note that I am not wishing injury on any QB in this post and would hate to see this exact scenario roll out with the exception of the Grey Cup part)