Eternal optimist

The Conservatives know how to spin their financial statements, by setting up a provision for the loss now, its a political win-win for them. They get to blame the NDP for the current loss provision whilst its still fresh in the minds of the public. If they do get an anchor tenant in subsequent years, they can then reverse some of the loss, resulting in a lower deficit for them (look what we did!). If things really get rosy, they'll be able to get an anchor tenant in the election year budget, thus further reducing their deficit for that year. A savvy individual would realize this as an "other item" on the income statement - but the general public will likely just be told the overall deficit (or surplus) for the year, in comparison with the deficits run by the NDP.

Is a math skill testing question involved as well? That would also dilute the amount of Rider faithful eligible to vote.

Personally I despise the "first down" chant. I find it very stupid, when our team is on offense, a polite applause on achieving a first down is appropriate. The forced announcement amps up the crowd exactly when they don't need to be loud. When we're on offense - our crowd is supposed to be quiet. Nothing is more frustrating than hearing fans celebrating/going crazy whilst our offensive linemen are giving the universal "shut up we're trying to call plays" signal.

Agree with your 3 stars. HH - For me, the fans on the away side for being absolute menaces to the Redblacks. Their players were too busy mouthing off to the Blue faithful to realize they were getting their butts handed to them by the Bombers.

Touché.

Combo breaker - TJ Heath.

Flashbacks to Nic Grigsby...

I don't know about anyone else, but I just watch the game on mute while streaming CJOB for Irving / Brown. Sure the timing is a bit off, but the calls are way better.

Well, they'll likely play it pretty close to the chest, we'll probably know if Tate is playing if he travels with the team to Winnipeg. For others that are curious, heading into the game today, their depth chart at QB was: 1. Drew Tate 2. Ryan Lindley 3. Danny Collins The obvious guess would be Lindley if Tate can't go. I doubt they'd airlift in someone if Tate's injury is only temporary (day-to-day), especially on a short week.

Jennings in typical mid-season form.

Edmonton on a 5-game skid now, yikes.

I'm just saying, if it was me, I would've done it before the 50/50 draw, or between the 3rd/4th quarter. More people would've been in their seats then. Probably some contracting reason with TSN or something why they couldn't do that though.

Yep, Stephen Jyles, kicker Grant Shaw and a 2012 first round draft pick. Edmonton then traded that first rounder (which was 2nd overall, ended up being Jabar Westerman) to B.C. for the 14th pick (which became Justin Capiccoti) and the 38th pick (which became Ryan King). Toronto was later charged with blackmail and extortion.

It's the Riders we're talking about here, I don't think that's ever the case. As for Hamilton, they still have 2 games against Montreal, so they could win the season series there. They also still play Toronto and Ottawa once more each and right now the Ottawa/Hamilton series is split 1-1. The wheels haven't come off for them just yet, but they'd certainly need to start stringing some wins together. Does anyone know how many years are left on Collaros' contract? I agree trading him away if he's gone in December, but I'd be hanging on to him otherwise. I've seen too many Bomber seasons go down the drain because we had a backup that had a pulse and nothing else.

I think people are forgetting that Hamilton is still in the playoff race by virtue of the weak Eastern division. Right now, they're 4 points out of second place with a game in hand on their entire division. Not saying I think they'll turn it around - just that their coaching staff probably shouldn't write off this year just yet. If Hamilton traded away Collaros and Masoli goes down, who do they turn to? Their current 3rd stringer is Everett Golson.

Suddenly the self-proclaimed loudest fans in the CFL (which scientifically has been proven false) are nowhere to be found.

Sep-9-2017 Blue faithful show green Just how loud Winnipeg is With Glenn's patented picks Also fun fact: Moe Leggett had a pick 6 off of Glenn when he was playing for Montreal last year.

To be perfectly honest, I'm surprised Saskatchewan knows what decibels are, and how to track them.

Y'know what I'd say to the Rider fans that say this game was closer (causing higher decibels)? This is your inaugural season at Mosaic, Winnipeg's 2013 season stunk all sorts of ugly, but that home opener against Montreal was loud.

1. Leggett. Has to be. 2. Nichols, another huge game, minus his fumble. 3. I'm gonna go with Darvin Adams - although the entire receiving group stepped up big, he had some huge early catches to extend drives. HH to the fans at the game that had a giant sign that said FAKERS and all the fans that had red cards at the game. Bombers showing the Riders what they are, fans calling them out on it - FAKERS.

Roc Carmichael couldn't find Where's Waldo in an elevator, let alone any receivers. That guy was always getting burnt.

First off, nobody ever deserves this punishment. Ever. Secondly, I understand your gripe with the our defensive struggles; but I would argue our league is just having an abundantly offensive year, I've summarized the points per game, by team, below: Team Points per game Calgary (8-1-1) 18.70 Ottawa (4-6-1) 25.00 Saskatchewan (5-4) 25.22 Toronto (4-7) 25.27 Montreal (3-7) 26.30 League average 27.19 B.C. (5-5) 27.40 Edmonton (7-3) 29.50 Winnipeg (7-3) 31.60 Hamilton (1-8) 36.89 (source: http://www.oddsshark.com/cfl/defensive-stats) So, based on this - Winnipeg, on average, gives up 1 field goal more than the league average. It's also interesting that 3 of the "better" teams in the west (us, B.C. and Edmonton) all give up more points per game than the league average, yet have some of the better records in the league. Not sure if its valid, but it'd be interesting to see the points per game of the eastern teams versus western opponents, since I'm fairly certain that some of the low-scoring east-east affairs have caused their numbers to be artificially low (such as the Als 21-9 win over the Argos).

Honestly, I never expect the Bombers to win the LDC. That's not a knock against the Blue and Gold, it's just that Saskatchewan at home on Labour Day is the Bermuda Triangle of the CFL, bad teams win, weird things happen, cousins get kissed. The sky isn't falling.

LDC showdown: Hall's unorthodox new scheme?... Called "blown coverage"

They could score 40 points off of rouges for all I care, long as they find a way to win. Offense isn't the problem here... (yet), I think as a team though this problem only gets compounded as the season goes on (and gets colder). Our current team reminds me of Hamilton's 2011 team, high-flying offense, scored tons of points, got scored on tons. The problem though is when you play in November, especially outdoors, that fancy offense doesn't run as hot, and that's when our D really needs to step up.