TBURGESS

I agree that you can't simply ask for less penalties because the Refs are there to enforce the rules and the players can choose not to break them. As for a max of 6 challenges... That's technically true, but the C'Mon center also stops the game on every scoring play and every turnover to take a look too. You watch a great play, then look for a flag, then wait for the C'Mon center to verify the play. In the meantime, the teams are going over the play on their IPAD's looking for something to challenge, which they often find and we wait for that to get figured out. I think the CFL got it wrong. Fans don't really want to wait after each big play to get it right. They don't want coaches being able to go on challenge fishing expeditions. They don't want fast challenges, they want the right outcome faster. Fans simply want the egregious plays overturned.

Kamar Jorden

Jennings is a gunslinger and they always end up with more Int's. If they're good, they also end up with more big plays and more TD's. One of the reasons he hasn't been as effective this year is his O line. Put any QB behind that O line and he's going to make mistakes because he doesn't have the luxury of time to make his reads or of short 2nd down conversions.

BC's O line is their Achilles heal, but they can make enough big plays to make up for it. They have great receivers, which means we can't just take one guy out of the game. They also run the ball pretty well. This will be the biggest test for our defense so far.

Gotta say I like Austin. Is he caustic? Sure, but everyone on his team knows exactly where they stand and that's a big thing for players. Hamilton's problem for the last bunch of years has been injuries. Last year they led the league in man games missed. It isn't any better this year either. If anyone goes by mid-season, it should be Jeff Reinebold. No one on that defence seems to know where they are supposed to be or what they are supposed to do. Right now, the Ticats are the worst team in the league. I expect BC to win this one even tho they are playing their 3rd eastern game in a row and it's the Ticats home opener.

Other random fans without any real info of their own then laughing at them are on my top 10 list.

SJ Green

Dee's gotta Dee. It's been settled for a while, you will make **** up I didn't say then complain about it. I complain about you making **** up yet again.

I'm on the fence on this one. I like our O line, RB and Receivers in general more than Toronto's, but Ray and SJ Green can take over a game all by themselves. I like their defense in general more than ours (68 points allowed in 3 games vs 69 in two, 14 Sacks to our 4, 379 Avg yards against to our 401) and I'll take their coaching staff, especially Trestman over ours. I didn't think they'd be as good as they are this early in the season. Should be a good game, hopefully with the right outcome.

Jennings is another QB who plays really well behind a bad O line.

Hamilton looks horrible. One scoring drive in the whole game. Huge number of big penalties. Looks like Rein-dolt's only a good special teams coach. Give him any more responsibility and he sucks. Collaros looks shell shocked. Happy feet and poor throws. He needs to get it together or it will be a very long season for the Ticats. This one was closer than it should have been. Take away the 115 yard pick 6 and it's 37-13 and that doesn't account for the Riders getting any points without the pick. Rider had too many penalties and made too many mistakes, but it didn't matter cuz Hamilton made more. Funny to think that the Riders would most likely be 2-0-1 if their kicker played just a bit better.

I don't agree on this one. Harris is a very good back who should be used more, not less. Dude's a flat out player who tries to get the most yards he can on every single play. Establish Harris as a runner and a receiver and the rest of the offense will come together.

3 stars: Dressler - Did everything they asked of him. Harris - Ran hard and caught a bunch out of the backfield. Health - 2 picks, but I still don't know who BLM was throwing to on the second one. HH - JFG for getting a TD, but why the heck are we trying to throw it deep to him?

Refs still call the D for PI when the receiver initiates contact. Gotta get rid of that too.

The comforting lie guy has already cornered the market.

More stuff you make up just to complain about. FTR: I never surprises or hurts me when folks make stuff up or complain about my posts.

Twice in one game? Nope, that's not the sign of a good QB having a great game.

This thread started when folks said how great Nichols played. If you read those posts, you'd think that we'd just routed the Riders or even a good team like the Stamps. None of the negatives were mentioned and folks got upset that I dared to even mention the other side of the story. It quickly went from complaining about things I didn't say to simply complaining about me in general. I let it go until BlueAndGold84 & BigBlue204 started it back up by quoting a day old post. Hint: Just let it go and don't bring me back in if you don't want to read what I have to say. I get it. You want to make stuff up I didn't say, complain about it and start this all over again. If you read my very first post in this thread you'll see I started with "Nichols had a great 20 minutes last night". I'd call that positive. You'd think we lost by a couple of scores? Really? That's not even possible in OT. If you want to complain about something? How about complaining about how we often start slow or let other teams back into games we should win going away?

O'Shea and Walters are the only coach/GM who have seen Hurl as a starting MLB and they also saw Kuale as a starting MLB.

Of course we might have scored a TD. That's why I said most likely outcome. I'd rather have seen the Riders make that OT FG and us win by scoring a TD so it was our good play rather than the Riders bad play that won us the game.

I don't see the Riders winning even half of their games. They've already let 2 winnable ones get away and I'm fairly certain that they will end up last in the West. But... Either the Riders are no where near as bad as a lot of folks around here think they are or we are no where near as good as those same folks think we are. If their crappy kicker could simply make 'easy' FG's, they'd most likely be 1-0-1, good enough to be tied for 2nd place in the West, which would leave us 0-0-1 and on the bottom. Notes: It doesn't mean everyone else is good and the Bombers are bad. It doesn't mean that I'm unhappy that we won. It doesn't mean that I was unhappy in the 90's when we won big. It doesn't mean that I wonder why folks think I'm negative. It doesn't mean anything at all about all the other QB's in the league. Did I miss any?

I voted for Rein-dolt. Nice guy. Great to talk to. His players loved him. Gave him too much too soon and he imploded. Second in my mind is Zaleski. Historically bad teams. Third would be Kelly. We didn't learn our lesson with Reinebold and gave Kelly full rein. Horrible coach. Horrible to the media and the fans. Immature. Jones .5. Fourth... Tim Burke. I'll never understand why we kept him around for 2013.

He's played 73 CFL games and this is the first time that I've seen him looking like a starting level MLB. 1 game out of 73 doesn't mean that folks were wrong about him before the last Riders game.

I think the slow start is because O'Shea teams generally start slow. It's nothing new and I expect to see a bunch more slow starts this year. Same story with teams coming back on us in the 4th.