Colin Unger

Also.. is it time to bring back Chris Smith onto the roster? With Brady being banged up again there's the risk of him leaving the game and we need more than just Johnny O... Whitehead could replace JJ and Smith could replace Whitehead in the return game and backup at runningback. I don't actually think Whitehead is a wise returner anyways. He doesn't dart in and try and grab balls (😇) which would obviously lead to a no yards call whether he catches it or not. Instead letting them bounce and losing the team an easy 20 yards. With all his years experience he also screwed up when returning that missed field goal out of the endzone which really put us in a situation where we needed a unlikely drive to win when we could have been in a position to just pick up 30 yards for the win.

Kolo seems to need the support of Randolph at guard to play at an acceptable level. I hope if Bryant can't go that we start Vanterpool at LT and Randolph back to guard. I wonder if we end up brining in a Canadian offensive lineman this week who can get ready to backup and be on the double TE formation? Or do we convert someone like Schmekel, Davis, or Sampson??

As frustrating as O'Shea is for always taking the points and always running the boring less aggressive clock management late in games with the lead... Other coaches around the league look pretty emotional these days for some of their un-Oshea-like decisions. Not only this game but the riders coached themselves out of a win. Instead of taking a sack on the 1 you run the ball twice and there's likely no time on the clock when Toronto returns the ball and they likely aren't quite in field goal range either. Dinwiddie also looked bad for not taking more field goals. Looked like an offensive head coach who was more frustrated with his offence then he was trying to win a game.

Is there a clip anywhere of the Alexander interceptions with the best replays?

I wonder what Geoff Gray is up to? Maybe he can come in and be our 7th lineman and TE package guy.

It would be as a backup and TE package guy. Im assuming Randolph at right guard and Vanterpool at left tackle.

I guess we find out now how hurt Neufeld is?

The problem with the new reply interpretation is that now we have no idea what to challenge or not. We have to imagine what they might think is obvious and what is not. Before you would challenge when there was video evidence of an incorrect call.

We picked the right year to get off to a horrible start. This is the biggest competition we have in the west??

It almost seems like the versatility of Adams worked against him in his battle with Woods. He was able to fill in with the need at DE and now that there's no need well Woods has established himself as the starter. Where are we at with Canadian receivers? Desmki went down. Is it possible neither Woli or Desmki will go next week and we may be looking at adding another import there?

I don't disagree. I also like Adams a lot and hopefully this is the opportunity for him to go back in.

From the two of Adams and Haba I'm personally happy that Haba is back. I don't think that Adams has a serious future as a defense end. I view him more as a DT who can fill in at DE. Adams could ride the bench all year and he'd be able to step in a play DT next season and be fine. We know that already. We've been finding and replacing DT's for years now with great success. Haba is a pure DE. I think Garbutt is more of a natural DE who can fill in at DT. The opposite of Adams. The focus needs to be more on developing DE's as Jefferson isn't getting any younger and I don't see a long history over the past few season finding legit DE's. Any of our former DE recruits signing big contracts with other teams like our DT's have?

I'm looking at a somewhat likely scenario where labor day can be a first place showdown between Winnipeg and Sask. - Argos with Kelly beat the Riders next week in Toronto. - BC loses one of 2 games to Ottawa - Winnipeg beat Hamilton in Winnipeg. If this happens the winner on labor day is in first place. Probably not as serious as most in here hope.

I don't see Rourke waiting too long to come back to the CFL. He likely needs to be making money at this point in his life. He spent three years in the CFL on a rookie Canadian deal making next to nothing. 1 year in the NFL where he made decent money. Career's are short and he could be earning 650k plus a year in the CFL. Financially its time for this guy to make home somewhere, buy a house, make investments for life after football ect.

I like Dante Mastrogiuseppe who we had in pre-season. With all these teams using global punters there's gotta be a supply a decent Canadian punters out there. Would Bob Cameron even have made the CFL during these times?

From PFF this week. Winnipeg Blue Bombers (Up 1) LT Stanley Bryant LG Liam Dobson C Chris Kolankowski RG Kendall Randolph RT Eric Lofton • Winnipeg's group was the top-graded run-blocking offensive line in Week 9, finishing with grades of 73.9 overall, 73.3 in run blocking and 74.1 in pass blocking. • CFL rookie Keith Randolph got his first start this week at right guard and was stellar. Randolph earned a 79.3 pass-blocking grade with zero pressures allowed across 35 snaps. • Bryant (73.6), Lofton (72.9) and Kolankowski (72.4) all had stellar showings. They each ranked among the four highest-graded offensive linemen of the week.

I’ll be going with redblacks d in draft kings this week.

A receiving core of Wilson, Whitehead, Lawler, Clercius, and Desmki looks nice after what we've dealt with most of the season.

Can't imagine Josh Johnson isn't the player taken out. Can't imagine we remove Whitehead or another Canadian.

Its hard to see much of a path for Woods. You need to register stats to get enough attention to receive votes and he's yet to register a sack. Its just hard to imagine a guy who average 1 tackle and 0.0 sacks per game winning any awards. Adams would have more of an opportunity especially if he continues to pick up sacks in a season where there is no runaway sacks leader. He could potentially lead the league in sacks or come close to it in the same way that Wilson could lead the league or come close to the league lead in receiving yards. If Adams ends up with 8 or 9 sacks and Wilson ends up with 6 touchdown and 1003 yards or something like that then I think there would be a lot of debate as to who deserved the ROY nomination. There's this sentiment that Wilson might just get over 1000 yards. However, despite struggling in his first 5 games to gain much traction he's actually on a pace for 1150 yards right now. Its not impossible that his last 9 games look more like his past 4 games and he ends up closer to 1300 yards or so.

My sense is that most have already decided to cast their MOP and MOC vote for Tre Ford. 🤣

Barring something majorly changing Wilson will end up our ROY. Doesn't mean that there isn't a long list of honorable mentions. Might very well be that Wilson gains serious traction for being the league's top rookie. Defensive player of the year - Ford Top Canadian - BO MOP - BO/Wilson Special Teams: Castillo

Paul Friesen from the Winnipeg Sun. ”The next time the Bombers take to the practice field, a familiar face should be back in the lineup: that of star receiver Kenny Lawler.”

Looks like Canada’s men’s basketball silver metal hopes will largely come down to luck of the draw. Because Germany had a weak group they were able to rack up a huge point differential and will end up with the 1st or second seed along with the USA. So those two teams can’t end up in the same side of the playoff bracket. The draw in Canada’s group will determine if they end up in the USA or Germany side of the bracket.

Is there an explanation why BC didn't attempt that 48 yard field goal and went for a fake instead? I'm not convinced just gambling with Vaj out of the shutgun wouldn't have had a similar odds to success then trying something like that against a Mike O'Shea coached team.