Mike

I basically just come on here to do administrative stuff lately, I've found it quite painful to read a lot of the posts lately from a personal perspective.

Can it get any worse? Wow. We lost by one score in his first game back off a season ending injury. I think some of us are getting ahead of ourselves here.

Andrew Harris

Been painful to try and read some of the commentary on the forum. I understand why people are frustrated, but it doesn't make it any easier to read all the sky is falling stuff that filled the threads over the weekend. We lost on Friday - indisputable and to say we put in a good showing would be a stretch. But that's just about where the comparisons of this year's offense against last year's start and end. When I watched our offense last year, I saw an OL that couldn't block, predictable play calling and an unimaginative, uninspired effort. I didn't see receivers getting open or an offense that I thought was capable. What did I see on Friday? I saw a QB who had a terrible showing. But I also saw an OL that gave him adequate time for the most part, I saw receivers getting open, I saw play calling that made sense. But it all unraveled because our QB couldn't hit the open guys when he needed to. Last year, we'd frequently go two and out because we'd run a 6 yard curl pattern on first down then run square into the back of the line on 2nd down for no gain. On Friday, I saw us go two and out because Willy was missing the plays that were there to be made. There's a clear difference. I went back and watched the game yesterday. He missed Adams twice. McDuffie once. Smith twice, including one that would've been a sure 75 yard touchdown. The plays were there to be made because our QB got the time he needed to throw, the play call was the right one and the receiver got open. The QB just simply didn't make the throw. That wasn't the issue with our offense last year. Considering our QB has shown a history of being able to make those throws in the past, I'm willing to cautiously chalk up that game to a poor QB performance. My hope now is that we see starting on Friday that it was a one off. Call it garbage time all you want (it wasn't) but I'm glad he at least got things on track in the fourth quarter because we needed something to build on. To see him come back after all those off target deep balls and connect with Adams for once and Davis for another one late in the game was something that will be very important for Drew. Now on to next week. Willy has to be better. Simple as that.

Saskatchewan

Most will paint last night's offense with the same brush as last year and the year previous, but quite honestly our OL and our play calling were fine. I was impressed with Lapo and I think Willy got adequate protection. He played terrible. He flat out didn't execute the plays that were there to be made and if that's our trouble right now, that's a lot better than a broken offense with the inability to protect our QB. There was a play in the second quarter where Willy had Smith on a seam route and simply overthrew him. If that ball is on the money it's a 75 yard touchdown. He missed a wide open Adams twice as well. I'm willing to let that one be chalked up TJ a bad game. But no doubt he needs to get better. He worked through it as the game went on and was a lot better in the second half but we need a better effort from him all game. Lets see how next week goes.

I don't understand why we would ever want to dump defensemen for forwards, other than this whole expansion draft talk. We walk away from the draft with Laine and Tkachuk? Great, where the hell do all these forwards play? Without getting into line combinations, that's Laine, Connor, Wheeler, Tkachuk, Little, Perreault, Ehlers, Scheifele, Dano, Armia, Lowry, Copp in our 12 - not factoring in Stafford (who will be gone) or any of our forward prospects. If anything, we need to be condensing the amount of forward prospects we have, not trading potential #1 D-men for more of them.

That's a scary defensive line but holy cow is their OL as iffy as ours. Jacob Ruby on the blind side? Good luck with that all night, Westerman is going to eat his lunch.

Can we add my picks? lol I totally missed this thread but I wanted to roll with Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary the rest of the way. Not worried about missing yesterday's game as I picked Toronto anyways.

I would assume Gauthier

And to all the people who question our Canadian depth - is anyone worried that we aren't using more than one DI on defense tomorrow? No? Canadian depth allows us that luxury.

I want my Westerman

Laine, Matthews, who cares Like Floyd said, at least we're not debating lower level guys. We get one of the elite.

OK forget being clever I'm going with Harris.

I think the assumption is that if they didn't accept PR spots in BC, they won't in Saskatchewan either.

BC 12-6 Calgary 12-6 Winnipeg 10-8 Edmonton 8-10 Saskatchewan 5-13 Toronto 12-6 Hamilton 9-9 Montreal 7-11 Ottawa 6-12

Pretty sure Adams will go. Worth noting - Montreal is also starting two rookies in the secondary.

They'd be insane to let Franklin go for free.

They're keeping Castillo as insurance. Big deal. Not the spectacle it's being made out to be.

BC cut T-Dre Player, 2nd round pick in 2014, who started 9 games for them at right guard last year. 24 years old, born in Winnipeg ... is there any reason this kid doesn't immediately join the Bombers? This is exactly the stroke of luck we needed if we can bring him in.

I think the best we can hope for Macho is that he doesn't suck ALL the time.

yes

I'm not going to be surprised if he's the only "surprise" cut.

Bucknor being cut doesn't entirely surprise me.

I assume you're very knowledgeable about your job. It would be nice if all of our media were also. Seems like it SHOULD be a prerequisite.