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Outside of two very bad decisions, Nichols was playing fine. They were moving the ball without too much trouble, he just tried to force a throw when he didn't need to, and then he made a bad decision rather than take a sac. I don't think Nichols has been playing all that poorly the last few games, just making a few bad decisions that have cost the team. If he even had one of those back in the Banjo bowl, we win that game.

Back in 2011, the BC Lions started the season 0-5, and went on to win the whole thing. That's the most recent example that I can think of with regards to big comebacks for a team.

Uniform re-design every few years is a part of the business. If the teams all stayed with the same uniform year after year, Jersey sales would be way down.

I was answering the question about who is in Winnipeg because of O'Shea, and the answer is Bighill.

I believe that Bighill straight up said that he wanted to come play for O'Shea.

I believe the stat that Bob Irving quoted on the radio yesterday was 24 points after a drive extending penalty by the Bombers. Take all those penalties away and Ottawa only scores 20 points. I know a game wouldn't actually work out that way, but that's a lot of points that we helped them get. Cleanup the penalties on D and it's a much different game.

No, they scored on 4 out of 6 opportunities.

Actually we stopped them twice, but took a couple of dumba$$ penalties to give them a 2nd shot at it.

Even Special Teams wasn't great though. How many of Medlock's punts were between the hash marks? Good solid punting involves keeping it between the hash marks and sidelines. For the most part the kick cover teams did a decent job, but even they had some misses towards the end.

We're talking about mascots so that wouldn't be all that far fetched now would it?

Snoopy was a fighter pilot.

That's not exactly true... there are many examples of bi-plane bombers from the earlier years of aviation... A couple of examples include the Hawker Hind Biplane Bomber, and the Vickers Vernon Bomber.

I thought Manziel ducked into it, so I think a penalty and suspension would be too much. The defender didn't lead with his helmet either, I think it was just one of those hard plays that sometimes happen rather than any sort of intention to injure. I could be wrong, but that's what I saw.

You are correct, Reilly was pulled from a game by the CFL eye-in-the-sky. Reilly ended up being cleared after going to the quite room for evaluation. Maas was livid that he got pulled at all. There's no way that JM should have been left in that game after the hit. Even if the training staff on the sideline didn't keep him off, the CFL should have required an evaluation.

A few years ago the slogan for the league was "No lead is safe", which is very true in the CFL... the number of games that go right down to the wire is surprisingly high, even when it looks like one team is running away with it.

TSN pays the league $40-million per season for the TV rights, which equates to about $4.4-million per team per year.

That was the Hillarious House of Frightenstein wasn't it?

Duke Williams pushed off all the time last year. Haven't watched enough Edmonton games this year to see if he's still doing it though. No question he's a receiver with good hands, but I felt his value was inflated a bit last year because he was able to get away with the push offs.

If we were betting in a pool for this, I'd say 4 plays.

It's not about criminal offences, it's about violence against women. The league has taken a big stand on that, so they take any situation related to that very seriously.

For those of you using your PVR, remember that the game is on TSN3

There's a whole other thread about it.

Can somebody tell me why there isn't an illegal participation penalty on Toronto when Dressler made the catch near the sideline at around 30:09 in the above posted video? The guy clearly stepped on the line, so why is he allowed to make that tackle?

They've had the wire cam at a few games this year so far... I want to say in Hamilton and Toronto. I think it's coming to the rest of the league, likely costs making it take a long time. I think a drone is a bad idea because of the possibility of a dead battery in the middle of a play.

Pretty sure it was Dickenson in Calgary who was abusing the Illegal Contact challenges. Had a receiver away from the play run over a defender on every play so that he had it in his back pocket if a pass went incomplete.