ShyGuy

His best game (5 catches for 127 yards and a TD) came in the first week with Streveler. 2 of his best games and half of his TDs have actually come when Streveler was playing.

This is 2025 we don't do media literacy anymore

Depth charts out for tomorrow and the Riders have 7 changes with Sayles as GTD. That seems like... Alot at this point in the season

Its a bit of a meme at this point because this game was such an outlier. FWIW Collaros specifically called out Hogans game plan in his post game availability

I mean... His top 5 list already has 6 people. McInnis and Smith both stick out to me. Two WR2 playing with an MOP candidate who have been healthy most of the year.

The unfortunately thing for the rest of Canadians in the league is that as long as Rourke plays average at QB he is probably going to suck up all the oxygen in the room for MOC. To his credit, after an incredibly rough 2024 and not the best start of this year he has turned it around, although last game for him was a stinker. I think whoever finishes stronger between him and Bo will end up MOP. I don't think Arbuckle will have the stats to pull a Bo from last year and insert himself into the discussion... although if Rourke falters a bit the Lions might end up nominating Hatcher. There really isn't anyone compelling from Calgary or Edmonton or Saskatchwan in the west. I think the Bombers MOP is for sure Brady but I can see how the media might pretzel Demski in there.

I develop software and I found these articles really hit home my issue with AI https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/ I am good at my job... so I can effectively use AI to be even better. I can guide it down the path to scaffold out code, if I am stuck as to where to go I can ask it questions about best practices, if I need an example it can give me something that is close enough to where I need to go. When people are lazy or don't know what they are doing, they go into ChatGPT or Cursor or Replit or whatever and are like give me a thing. And then I am provided that thing, or the concept of the thing and am told to make it a reality, but the reality is it is so far away from being production code it would be easier just to write it from scratch! And then it would have documentation, and there would be a process... and someone would know exactly what it does

For some reason some moron left Brady off the MOC watch article on CFL.ca https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/01/most-outstanding-canadian-watch-whos-the-front-runner/ He is only 13 yards back from leading the league in Yards from Scrimmage on a team that is middle of the road in net offense despite missing 2 full games and all but a single drive of another NBD.

J Jones and D Mitchell is a perfect example of the duality of fans. D Mitchell was a dud signing that O'Shea didn't want to use and was a mark against Walters J Jones was a great signing that O'Shea didn't want to use and that is a mark against O'Shea Pretty much pick your horse and ride or die with them🤣 Neither player could crack the roster out of training camp... it just happened that there was an apocalyptic amount of WRs that went down and more or less forced O'Shea's hand and now Mitchell is on the AR and Jones is on the scrap heap. Not outside the realm of possibility that if there was a significant run of injuries at LB Jones would probably still be around. TBF there definitely seemed to be a bit more noise about why Mitchell wasn't on the AR as opposed to Jones so who knows what really was going on there.

https://www.cfl.ca/2025/09/29/kpmg-playoff-probability-which-team-is-the-grey-cup-favourite/ Bombers favoured to win the cup in this model for some reason. Also better than even chance to host a playoff game. Looks like they expect Calgary to be the cross over team

Get Wab on the call and trade for her as well

Is anyone super familiar with the nuances of CFL Scoring. From the teams stat package, this is how the final play of the second half was scored (00:03) Shotgun #19 B.Mitchell pass incomplete short middle to #89 K.Lawler thrown to WPG-03 broken up by #1 D.Nichols, TURNOVER ON DOWNS. On that play, it was tipped at the line of scrimmage (by WJ I think) and then Lawler was tackled and initially a flag was thrown but was picked up due to it being tipped. Does a tipped at the LOS ball not get counted as a knockdown? It looks like the KD was awarded to Nichols. It also looks like because this happened at the end of the half, the Bombers didn't get credited with a turnover generated? The team stats package again has Hamilton at 1 turnover (on downs), which again happened in the 4th. The League Stats aggregation has the Bombers TO ratio moving from -9 to -8, so they think only 1 turnover happened as well. The 'result' of the drive is also listed as 'End Half'

It's too bad as long as Rourke is a top 4 QB he is going to suck up all the MOC talk as well. Brady is on a 2000 yards from scrimmage pace again. He is 13 yards back from the YOS lead and he's played 2.9 less games than Rankin. BC and Edmonton defenses were a mess in those games he missed as well. Only thing he is really missing is the touchdowns that Streveler loves to vulture

It's too bad the Bombers couldn't find a way to hold on vs Calgary in the third game and win one of the back-to-back with the Riders. As it is I don't think the Riders have it in them to lose out and let the Bombers sneak into first... but I do think the Bombers end up with a home playoff game.

The West feels completely wide open right now Lions and Bombers have both had stretches where theyve looedk terrible, but they are the ones who are on the winning side of the ledger right now. Saskatchewan can't trust their kicker, Harris is looking lost and the only team they've beaten in over a month have been the Bombers (and not very convincingly either sadly). Stampeders are trying to emergency drop in players to fill gaps in their injury riddled defense, Adams is looking like a deer in headlights and in their last 3 weeks (all losses) they are something like -60

If anyone is curious... the CFL Media Guide has the fastest TD from Start of game at 0:12 and the play by play recorded the convert at 14:48 so that seems like it ties it. Not sure if they would put it first on the list because its the longest at that time, or last because its the most recent. FWIW the record book lists 9 TDs scored on the opening kickoff (from 0:12 to 0:15) and Winnipeg was involved in 5 of them... Winnipeg was also on the other side of the 2 fastest offensive TDs. I'm not sure if there has only been 9 on the opening kickoff, or they just decided to list 9

Lawler has been talking too much **** lately to only put up 2 receptions on 9 targets Too bad Brady didn't quite make it to 100 yards rushing, but 150 all-purpose yards means that he has an 80 yard cushion on Rankin for the lead in Yards from Scrimmage, if he keeps this up he probably has a good shot at clearing 1800. Bombers almost have a nice path to a home playoff game... 3 games left, Edmonton away and they might already be eliminated. Sask at home who might already have clinched the bye and then Montreal at home who are effectively 2 games behind Hamilton with 3 to play so they might be locked into 2nd, just have to win out and hope Calgary drops 2/4. I wonder how many times the opening kickoff has been returned for a TD. That is all my 9 year old daughter has been talking about since it happened, the fact Vaval did that blew her mind

Why did the Bombers have to play the Stamps 3 times in the first 10 weeks and not 3 times against the team that is playing now. That last second field goal in the third game might be the difference towards a home playoff game the way things are shaking out.

Only two Nat DT's. Has anyone checked to see if O'Shea is okay?

Everyone in here talking about old-time football. WTF was going on in 1975. From the game notes for tomrorow Winning With 3 Completions: The Blue Bombers won last week despite having just 3 completed passes on 8 attempts for 54 yards and a 9.4 Rating. The last club to win a game with 3 or fewer completed passes came on September 24, 1975. That day Winnipeg was again involved when they were just 2-of-11 for 62 yards and yet defeated Hamilton 34-32. With Chuck Ealey at QB, Winnipeg rushed 54 times for 349 yards that day. Of Note: Hamilton went 3-for-12 in a 1974 game and won 11-10 over Ottawa. 8 Pass Attempts: Last week Winnipeg attempted just 8 passes for 54 yards and a 9.4 Rating. The last time that ANY CFL club tried as few as 8 pass attempts was by Winnipeg themselves on August 26, 1975 vs Calgary. That day behind QB Chuck Ealey they tried 8 passes completing 4 for 99 yards in a 25-22 win. That day they ran the ball 39 times for 237 yards.

Are we really advocating that the solution to the issues the Bombers have with their back-up quarterback is to utilize an offense that had its day in the sun in the NFL 15 years ago?

The game against the Lions was a pleasant surprise But in the other two wins, DST has 2x the touchdowns of the offense and Streveler has 4 turnovers... that's not exactly a recipe for winning football.

Something weird about seeing Drew Wolitarsky on the TiCats injury report under "load management" when he's only been dressed for 2 games and hasn't recorded any stats.

No one has been able to describe even a single reason why the NFL has any interest in any business that is CFL related. The NFL already has a feeder system, it's called the NCAA. The vast majority of players coming into the NFL are from there, there are maybe a handful of players who fall through the cracks and end up in the CFL and then get another shot that way. Heck, with the advent of NIL there are probably 30+ teams that are paying more to their players than a cap-compliant CFL team would be paying to theirs. The only two markets they probably care about is Toronto, which has close ties to the Bills, and Vancouver, who seem to favor the Seahawks. Winnipeg is reasonably close to the Vikings, I'm not sure what East of Ontario favors but i'm guessing whatever team is dominate the time... I can't imagine Quebec catching on with an NFL football team. Alberta and Saskatchewan are both quite far away from any NFL markets, and not desirable media markets.

CFL already has two rules that help in the red zone... major penalties are no longer applied at half the distance and that a big one, and 1 yard off the LOS for defenses is huge... RZ production is up 4.4 points over last year so far this year.