Deiter Fan

You wanna kill me, is that it? What did I ever do to you? 😵

I guess I just don't see making it to the playoffs that major a feat when 70% of teams do it every year. Sure it means you're not a raging dumpster fire but it also aint no miraculous achievement. I will grant you the season isn't over by a long shot and we have a chance but he better get this team rallied and fired up for the last 4 games or they'll promptly be shown the door in the playoffs.

He may find he held a stronger bargaining position mid-season than he will at the end.

I have very little doubt that if he's able Matt comes back next year...and even if Chris lights it up the rest of the season and takes us to a cup Matt will still get preference. I just don't see O'Shea allowing Matt to lose his status because of an injury. If the battle in camp is remotely close even if Chris shows a bit better I contend Matt would still get the job due to experience and loyalty.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. - Thomas Sowell

He made the tackle on another pick he tossed a few weeks ago and I thought the same thing then. He doesn't just drop his head , get dejected and give up. It means his attitude is "it's about the team". Will he develop into an elite pivot, well, I don't know...but there's lots to like about him

After last week's meltdown I was pretty choked. Because of that performance (and the other 2 similar losses that preceded it) I had no expectations of anything approaching a dominant performance last night and didn't feel near as bad then or now. From a psychological POV the #1 reason for sadness/disappointment/unhappiness is...un-met expectations. From that perspective your solution absolutely makes the most sense/will do the most to shield you from the feelings of disgust

No argument there

We've played 16 games this season?

More like a microscope.

He gets slack because he's shown promise and has only started 9 games. I doubt very highly Matt would have shown any better tonight with the same play calls.

I don't know if I'm "so much more confident in him"...but I am no less confident in him. He made good throws tonight with the routes he seemed to be given. Unfortunate to have a couple called off by penalty and a few poor efforts by receivers. He showed as much poise in the pocket as he was allowed by the O'line...and the Cats did a good job of shutting him and Harris down. Have to give them some credit. We didn't just get out coached tonight...we got out played too. There was no fire in this team after the Cats responded with that TD in the 1st. But I'm still ok with Chris.

I think he did ok with what he had to work with but it's tough to tell on tv what the receivers were doing. I found it coincidental that like so many times before with Matt the go-to was in the 7 yard range regardless how far the 1st down marker was.

I swear to god on 2 and 19 for Hamilton I said to myself..."watch this"...

Some pretty lazy analysis by the panel. Frankly I'm pretty unimpressed by TSN's CFL analysis...period. I'd like to see a little more focus on dissecting play calling.

Spoken like a man who remembers better days. Bless ya 🙏

Cleary I did. I thought you were going for irony and failed but apparently you were going for condescension and succeeded. My mistake.

Can I come over to your place and look through your dresser drawers and closets...maybe have a look in your computer and phone? Valuing one's privacy/anonymity is hardly cowardly. It's rational and reasonable.

Timid is literally a synonym for cowardly. Which is why I labeled the debate as one of semantics. I am intimately aware of the ability of words to harm, assuage, manipulate and motivate...a sentiment eloquently expressed in this quote from the final Harry Potter movie... “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” As I said it's a semantical argument and one I am perfectly willing to forgo for forum harmony...so I'll leave it here...one act, one moment, one situation does not define the breadth, scope or character of a man. It is possible to behave heroically in one situation without being a hero and it is possible to behave cowardly in another and not be a coward and I recognize that not everyone will perceive it the same way. Cheers.

At the risk of backlash from injecting myself into a semantical discussion... It is completely possible to be timid, scared or even cowardly situationally without it defining the entirety of a person's character. You should see me when a bat gets in the house. Every one of us knows of a qb that has, at some point, become gun-shy. Hell I bet every one of us has commented on how Drew Willy's experiences changed him as a qb but I doubt any of us would consider that those effects translated to the rest of his life/character. It really is unfortunate that this happened to Matt because after the stellar performance he put up not long prior to his injury he may have been well on his way to exorcising any demons he may have been harbouring.

Timid? Desperate? Pusillanimous? 😝

Fans know he's young and very inexperienced. I think if he continues to shows the type improvement he has thus far through the rest of the season, even if we don't make it to the dance, he'll be cut a good amount of slack. I think fans get pumped up by his hard-headed, breakaway style and I think they see promise in him. This will buy him a fair amount of goodwill and time to grow into the role. If he shows well through the rest of the season (regardless how the team manages in the playoffs) I think the job will be his to lose. Having said that...if Nichols comes back next year there will be quite the battle in camp and if he can show his shoulder is up to snuff and it's close I think management will go with him. I think the thing that bugged fans the most was watching Nichols throw the ball away or turtle when he couldn't make a read or pull the trigger. With Chris at least he has the ability to improvise and scramble out for a gain. Fans will appreciate the effort, I think.