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O’Shea is doing an awful job today, just going to throw it out there
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William Powell
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10 minutes ago, Sard said:
I watched a replay of that one very closely (1:40 on the video below), and while I saw 2 guys jump, they were set back when they started, so they may not have actually crossed into the neutral zone before the snap of the ball. From the angle shown, the guy at the bottom of the line (40) was very close. An argument could be made that it was a 50/50 call by the ref, but I think he did end up offside, so yeah, missed call.
Personally I don’t really care about the call, I think the main takeaway is that Collaros obviously thought it was coming so he hung up a jump ball on what he thought was a free play.
Much easier to forgive that kind of mistake compared to the kind that Arbuckle made when he gift wrapped a pick for Deatrick Nichols.
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1 hour ago, TBURGESS said:
Well that made me laugh out loud. 😆
Common sense is what puts the team who beat Hamilton worse ahead of the one who didn't.
Common sense is what puts the team who has allowed 13 points this year against two fairly talented teams ahead of the team who handily beat one team and almost blew a 3000 point lead in a single half of football to another.
The sad thing is, I guarantee had the Bombers won week 1 the way the Riders did, you’d hold it against them.
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I think a couple people got extra strikes. Four or five people had no strikes after week 1, can’t be just 2 with 1
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50 minutes ago, TBURGESS said:
1. Riders: Faj-J-J is almost as good as the Riders fans think he is. The OL hasn't been a problem... yet. The injuries haven't either. Beat Hammy worse than we did.
2. Bombers: Haven't played a top half team yet. Our DL and OL are top units. Our kicking is still in flux.
3. Als: Only 1 game against a bottom level team, but looked great for the first game in forever.
4. Argos: 1 and 1 against Wpg and Cgy. Vet laden team with below average QB's. I expect them to drop next week.
5. Lions: Reilly is the difference maker and their coaching and D are way better this year.
6. redblacks: Got a win.
7. Ticats: Played the top 2 teams and lost both. Banks hasn't been the difference maker he was.
8. Stamps: BLM has been bad which makes the team bad.
9. Elks: Couldn't even beat Ottawa.
Ah yes. I remember this old argument.
”haven’t beaten anybody good yet”, yet you don’t mention that for the Riders despite one common opponent and a win over (in your own quoted opinion) a lesser opponent than who we beat.
Never change.
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44 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:
If a coach approaches the field goal with the attitude of “if we miss this” then that screams to me a lack of confidence in the kicker, or the kicker themselves are saying to the coach “I can’t make it from here”. All teams have a dangerous returner who can bring back a field goal. At best this is an ultra conservative coaching approach that is playing not to lose rather than to win, which from your past comments on Tim Burke and LaPo’s offensive schemes is something you absolutely hate. In a one score game in the 3rd quarter, you should want points on the board, not give them a long field to march. Maybe with one minute left I can see it, but too much game left to ignore points. I’d it was a 55 yarder I could accept the logic, but I’d your offence gets inside the opponent’s 40 yard line in today’s game with kickers as refined as they have become, I think you should expect to come away with some points.
But even an easy kick should clear 42 yards, no? Otherwise, as 17to85 said, you give that dangerous returner a chance to run it back, which is apparently O’Shea’s strategy to avoid according to him. Looking at Crapigna’s history, of 118 career field goals only one has been over 50 yards, and only 3 more have been over 48. In today’s game, that’s a weak leg. We’re we spoiled by Medlock, sure, but Bede, Paredes, Lauther, Ward and Whyte can all hit beyond 50 comfortably. It’s a big advantage to give up. Either Legghio fixes his accuracy, we trust Crapigna to kick something beyond 45 yards (hardly a big ask) or we start shopping for a new kicker before this habit of letting teams hang around bites us in a close game where we passed up on points. Just my opinion.
Nobody is returning a missed 22 yard chip shot. That’s not a factor whatsoever.
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6 hours ago, TrueBlue4ever said:
A field goal inside 50 yards (certainly inside 45) is not considered long in today’s league, and we have passed up on 3 of them so far. And judging by how Crapigna kicked those pair of 22 yarders, I’m seeing why they don’t trust his leg. He didn’t clear the end zone on either of them.
And if we have such faith our defence is going to get a stop, then it shouldn’t matter if we pin the opponent inside the 20 to start, or give them the 35 with 3 more points on the board.That’s not how kicking works, you don’t just try and slam a chip shot to see how far you can kick it
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23 hours ago, Mike said:
I’m gonna go Kyran Moore
It’s so easy
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Our offence is going to be what it’s going to be.
Darvin and Lawler will be a very solid 1-2 combo, Demski is going to have a lot of ups and a few downs, the rest of the weapons will be probably more downs than ups until we hit the cold weather and our team identity can really be that ground and pound hit em in the mouth style offense with Oliveira and hopefully Harris.
Our defence is our ticket back to the Cup. They’re incredible.
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38 minutes ago, stevethe3rd said:
The story line of the season for the Riders is the mono outbreak on the OLine. They have 2 or 3 guys down with it already and could potentially have more diagnosed in the coming days. With people taking time off it might be hard for them to field an oline. I heard they only had 6 at practice this week becayse of mono/injuries.
Maybe they shouldn’t have been kissing so much after an average performance
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I’m gonna go Kyran Moore
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First star goes to Rasheed Bailey for sure, huge TD grab and his halftime interview had my dad tearing up - for those at the game, he said his family is dealing with the very severe medical situation of a close family member and he was hoping to give them something to celebrate for tonight to give them a moment of happiness. Great stuff.
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3 minutes ago, Brandon said:
I was only able to catch the game on the radio. Doug Brown is significantly less ******-y then he used to be. Irving as always was a charm to listen to.
From the sounds of it... Jeffcoat and Taylor were lights out by far the best players tonight. Sounded like Alexander also had a great game.
Only guy who had issues was the rookie in the secondary (Miller?)
I would say Nichols was far better than Taylor, although I was very happy with Taylor too.
Jefferson, Jeffcoat, Kongbo and Sayles all had big nights on the DL.
Briggs had a few nice plays too, although I’m hoping Wilson/Rocquemore can play in week 3.
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4 minutes ago, Eternal optimist said:
The real question is... how much long term damage did they just do to Mike Reilly? I am by no means a Lions' fan, but I'd rather beat them fair and square than have him sit the rest of the season due to poor personnel management. Guy was clearly in pain and not fit to play, but made a gutsy effort.
It was awful seeing Campbell get interviewed at halftime and say “the most important thing is to do right by Reilly and his health and that means Nathan plays” and then have Reilly jog out to start the second half
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Honestly the league needs to come down hard on BC for whatever the hell it is that they’ve done tonight with their QB situation.
Ridiculous
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I wonder how hard the league comes down on BC for this
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GDT - Week 3 - The Champs @ Argos
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Jones is doing well, it’d be nice if our edge guys could get a body on the runner so he’s not having to challenge downhill runners every second snap