TBURGESS

BC wouldn't take Willy and his contract (400K) straight up for Lulay and his contract (200K). In fact Willy's contract plus what he's shown on the field probably makes him untradable.

Man it's depressing to have to be talking about when we euthanize our HC after week 2. There are lots of reasons to do so, but that doesn't make it any less depressing.

This post tells me all I need to know about you.

It's all on the players? Our D line Westerman (17 Sacks), Cummings (8 Sacks), Shologon (7 Sacks), newbie get 1 sack in 2 games? I doubt they forgot how to play so I have to assume it's coaching. Bass was 5th in the league in tackles last year. Wild was good enough to get an NFL look. Randle's a shut down corner. Leggatt would start on almost every team either at safety or LB. We weren't that good on defense last year, being 7th, 8th or 9th in a lot of categories. Personal wise, we're good enough to hold Calgary to under 200 yards rushing and 350 yards passing. Scheme is coaching. Being ready to play before the 4th quarter is coaching. On our O line, Bryant came in as an all star player and hasn't looked like one since he got here. Sorenson and Greaves weren't good enough to play for us, but are good enough to get Grey Cup rings in Edmonton. All three guys played better on other teams. I have to assume that 2 guys didn't magically get better when they left and that one guy got magically worse when he came here, so I blame it on coaching. I also blame it on Walters not bringing in more NI OL either through the draft or FA and for getting rid of NI's who are serviceable in the short term for futures like draft picks. Harris is a top RB/Receiver. Smith is an almost 1000 yard receiver. Dressler and Adams too. Folks were crowing about how good our receiving corps was going to be this year until they saw them actually play. We have 'the most accurate FG kicker in the history of the league" as the Bomber like to say every time they talk about him. The players we have can't play our schemes? That's on the coaches and the scouts, cuz they were brought in to play our schemes and if they can't do it, then change the freaking schemes to something they can play in.

Actually that's also the Jeff Rein-dolt story. He was BC's special teams coach.

Consistency is only good when you're doing the right things. It's terrible when you aren't on the right track, and we are off the rails. We kept O'Shea for consistency last off season and MB the year before for consistency. Both moves will likely have the same outcome. No better than the last year.

So far, BC's better than I thought they'd be. If they look that good against Hamilton, then the Stamps are better than I thought they were last week, which isn't good news for us. They're on top in the West, but it's way early on in the season.

At this rate, I'll be done after the first 5 weeks.

Interesting games last night. Ottawa looked very good again. Montreal took way too many penalties which cost them the game IMO. Carter made a great TD. Campbell shouldn't have been on the field and he should get an Oscar for his 'fall', but Carter did initiate contact and fines at a minimum are still coming for that play. Toronto scored 2 TD's before the Riders even showed up. One on a great punt return, the other on a blown coverage. Looked like it was going to be a long night for the Riders. Toronto also scored when the Riders fumbled the snap on a 3rd down gamble. Durant, despite not playing for almost 2 years, working with a new OC, and only having 1 receiver that he'd worked with before still looked good until he ran out of gas in the second half. Considering the number of changes in Regina, I was expecting them to be worse. If Durant stays healthy, which isn't likely IMO, they'll be in the mix. I have to admit that they looked better than we did in their first game.

I've been wondering that since May. Would be nice if we got an injury update on him.

1. Get the ball to Harris early and often. He wants to put this team on his shoulders. We should encourage it. 2. Attack BLM. We've got the D line to do it and they don't have a great O line to stop it. Every QB will make mistakes if you hit and hurry them enough. 3. Get the entire team ready an hour earlier. Hopefully it will mean they are ready to play from the start of the game instead of the start of the 4th quarter.

Player wise, last years O line was better than it performed as a whole, which comes down to coaching. We decided we didn't want Sorensen or Greaves and they got Grey Cup rings on Edmonton. Those kind of decisions rarely are on the GM. The coaches tell him what players they want and don't want. The GM gets as much as possible for players that aren't wanted anymore. Better OC would have helped the offensive performance even with a below avg O Line and an average receiving core... the OC decision is O'Shea's. QB depth is on Walters scouting department and on O'Shea/MB's talent assessment. Walters did make a trade mid-season last year to try and fix it. The fact it didn't work isn't on Walters. He got the best available QB he could.

I like Walter's work, other than his scouting, much better than O'Shea's. I do think we had the player talent last year to do better and the player talent this year to be a playoff team. Walters has an extra year on his contract and GM's usually get to fire at least one HC before they get fired.

This sucks. Hopefully he's ready for the next game.

Fixed it for you.

Take the C train. Drops you off right across the road from the stadium. Don't have to fight the traffic in or out, not the car traffic anyway.

CFromhttp://www.oddsshark.com/cfl/power-rankings Team Name Rank Last Week Change Power Schedule Adjusted Power Ottawa 1 2 +1 +32.16 0.41 +13.32 Calgary 2 1 -1 +23.16 0.43 +10.04 Hamilton 3 4 +1 +11.99 0.53 +6.34 Edmonton 4 3 -1 +13.34 0.46 +6.10 British Columbia 5 5 - -2.25 0.53 -1.19 Montreal 6 6 - -9.69 0.49 -4.71 Toronto 7 7 - -22.61 0.48 -10.93 Winnipeg 8 9 +1 -22.56 0.53 -11.92 Saskatchewan 9 8 -1 -27.32 0.53 -14.44 FL FOOTBALL - POWER RANK

Nope. He was playing great. He had a hand injury and the way Harris was playing, there was no reason to put him back in the game.

Owens

There are also a group that only shows up after a win, generally to shout 'I told you so'.

Then he'll tape Willy up and throw him out again to take more beatings. (The story of Willy's first season in a nutshell.)

16 players on our roster weren't born when we won the Grey Cup lay time.

Willy's been in the CFL since 2012 but only has about a seasons worth of starts under his belt. He's a 29 year old sophomore when it comes to starts and that means he's still pretty green. He started out great in his first season with us, but has been on a downward trajectory ever since and that has to give thinking people pause. He had one of his worst games against Montreal last night. No touch on his deep throws and taking too much time to make his decisions. He'll hopefully get better, but he's certainly not earning his 400K+ salary right now. (Thanks Mr. Walters for paying top dollar for potential instead of for experience.)

Patience my ass! We blew our best chance for a win in the first third of the season and we didn't just lose it, we were owned in our own stadium by Montreal who everyone is picking for last in the east. Montreal made a bunch of mistakes that woulda/coulda/shoulda cost them the game, but we never took advantage of any of them. Our $400K QB played like a $100K QB until the game was out of hand then threw a couple of bombs that made his stats look decent. Our shiny new OC who was supposed to lead us to the promised land finally unveiled his new offence and it totally sucked even tho it wasn't vanilla. Much more of this kind of play and the O'Shea death watch will be on if it isn't already.

http://www.bluebombers.com/game-day-position-charts/ go to today's game and click on Depth & Roster