Blue_Dragoon

Time for football! I had no interest in watching a concert tonight.

It looked like week 1 football. Ugly stuff but we weren’t any better. I hate the Riders but have to admit their D looked good. I’m still not sold on Fajardo though.

The Saskatchewan players definitely seem to be getting a lot more protection from the officials with UR calls than we were last night. I wish there was a bit more consistency.

I also thought Rutledge looked pretty good on the other side of the field.

Not to pile on but even last year when Rose became available I wasn't sure Jones should have come out of the lineup. That D was all time great so I questioned the need to change anything even for an all star like him. I felt even then that Rose became our weakest link in the secondary from that point onward (though it never got as bad as last night). Still cheering for the guy 100% and hope he regains his 2019 form for us.

Dru Brown!

Why should their ownership do anything? Isn’t there incoming sharing in place now? They are practically incentivized to cheap out and offer an inferior fan experience and if they lose gate revenues it’s fine because ourselves and Saskatchewan will pay to prop them up.

Exciting first game of the season.

Our depth chart definitely looks a bit thin at some positions.

LaPolice will have to call Flanders out of retirement for the second time.

Yeah. Adarius Bowman and Chris Matthews come to mind.

I recall some people online even suggesting that the CFL had a hand in making the trade happen because they wanted Toronto to be in their 100th Grey Cup game. It was a trade so dumb that nobody could believe that it could have happened without some shadiness somewhere in the background of it all.

I would still love to have him back. He was so good in the middle. I thought our whole defense suffered a noticeable drop off when he was out injured. They were still great but he made them that much better.

Especially when we had an illegal hands to the face penalty called against us not long before that. It's unfortunate that it always feels that a team has to be three or four plays better than the opposing team to counteract the routine blown calls by the refs. Duke Williams "catch" in the West Final is a perfect example of that. Thankfully, the Bombers were always that much better. That's why we can post wanna-b-fanboy's image here instead of a comparable imagine showing up on another team's forum.

We do have a huge to do list still but we're off to great start!

I don't like Trevor Harris. Never have. That said I would take him over a completely unproven commodity. Hopefully we can get a deal done with Collaros and not even have to consider it.

It's great to finally see us signing back some of the cornerstones that lead us to two straight Grey Cups. One thing I was trying to do was find a consolidated list of who we have signed for next season's camp that would update as new signings came in. I'm obviously following our new signings as they happen but I'm not 100% sure on which players have contracts that didn't expire for 2022. I had read that we had just one of these on offence (Demski) but I'm not sure about defence. Since I couldn't find one I thought I would do a very simplistic version right here that we could potentially update as players get signed. Something like this: Blue Bombers under contract for 2022 camp/season: Offence: QB - RB - REC - Demski*, Blake Jackson O-Line - Hardrick FB/TE - Defence: D-Line - Thomas*, Jefferson, Jeffcoat LB - DB/S - Special Teams Kicker - Punter - Other - * Denotes non-import This is probably not a complete list and I was hoping people could fill in the blanks on who I am missing. Either that or post a link to somewhere that has the info already. Thanks!

That looks like it was Jeffcoat who steamrolled Banks on that play.

Why they don't have to explain their calls after the game is beyond me. No accountability to the fan base. Really they should be explaining these things in game, in real time, but that is definitely hoping for too much.

I forgot about him. You're right, I now remember being shocked at the time that the Bombers landed a big name FA. It was such a rare happening back then. Stanley Bryant was also a surprise. That did seem to be the start of our slow but steady shift towards becoming a respectable franchise again.

Today's result of barely squeaking through despite a lot of mistakes was probably the best result for us. If we had any chance of going in overconfident that should be gone now. I'm glad the Ticats are the team we get to meet for the Cup. This match up is intriguing in so many ways.

They won't. He's in the perfect place for him. He's playing for a coach who admits he can't control his players and a fan base who revels in having douchebags represent them.

Oh I definitely agree. I just feel our advantage would be even greater with good weather. Again, I agree. I do fear that the mistakes the Riders are hoping for are more likely to occur under poor conditions.

Bad weather is definitely the Riders best hope. The one positive is that it does also mitigate the one advantage they have on us, kicking. I have no faith in our kickers but at least their kicking game should diminished enough that they'll lose much of their advantage here.

Good thing the Argonauts are apparently exempt from following league rules.