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AKA passing the maintenance costs on to the government.

That's a big blow. Jace was the best RT we had by a long shot IMO. I cringed when Tyler was put in for good reason.

You don't trade a starting NI for a backup Imp. If we want Simmons, and I'd like to think we do, we can either wait until he's cut, which may never happen, or offer a backup Imp for him.

How bout slightly better than Labbe and way worse than Henroc? He started off terrible. He's moved all the way up to adequate. At least he makes some plays now.

It ain't bragging if you can do it. Good on Hammy for celebrating on the sidelines when they're giving the boots to a team. It's a ton of fun to be on the good side of a 30 point win. I like Austin as a coach. You can always tell what he's thinking right away, he fights for everything he's got and he doesn't change no matter if he's up or down. Do something stupid, and he'll let you know. His team is a mirror of his attitude. I wish we had more of the win at all costs attitude ourselves.

WOW. Two horrible blowout games in a row. Hamilton beat up BC by 30 after going up 21-zip early on. Sound familiar? Is 52-22 better or worse than 38-8? Unless something changes radically, it's either us or BC for the last playoff spot. Nice to see the backup QB's get some reps though. Calgary's back. They looked suspiciously like last years team as did the redblacks. Don't know why Ottawa sat Burris at the half. He wasn't their biggest problem and DeMarco is worse than Brohm.

If he wasn't openly gay, there'd be no story at all. He'd just be another guy that couldn't make the jump from college to the pros. He'd have been cut when he left the Als the first time around and that would be it. If you want equality, which I do, then judge the man simply on how he can play football.

Close games come down to a few plays. The 70 yard punt return and the missed TD to a wide open Demark on the first set of downs are a 14 point swing that we couldn't overcome. Stuff happens. The real worry IMO is the fact that we self destruct when we make mistakes. We fumble on the next set of downs after the punt return. Then we turn it over on downs the next time we get the ball. Then we try to get cute on 3rd and 1 and turn it over on downs again.That's 3 turnovers in about 5 minutes. Can't do that if we want to be a .500 or better club.

I don't think that one was a PI flag. I suspect it was blocking before the receiver catches the ball, which is picked up if the ball is caught behind the LOS.

We played a good game. In it until the very end even without Willy, Cotton, and Adams and with Marve getting his first CFL start. Some great plays. Some really bad plays eventually ended up costing us the game. Good entertainment value. There's still hope for the season with Marve!

The Esks have the best defence in the league. They make a lot of QB's look bad, not just young ones.

Edmonton gives up an int, a fumble for a TD and another int in the first quarter but they hold Montreal to 9 points. Turn it over on downs in the 2nd quarter and end up down by 12. Get a TD back before the half and end up down by 5. Pretty much what we did last week, but we ended up down by 31 at the half. Shows you what a difference a great defence makes. They also miss 3 makeable FG's taking 7 points off the board. Still end up winning the game. Oh yah, that's with 13 players on their injured list including Reilly, Bowman, White, Simpson, Chambers and Coehoorn.

And the Monty and the Constellation Club where old strippers went for their last show and the Zoo and the Marble Club and the.... Wholy crap I drank at a lot of places.

If I'm Toronto's DC, I bring every type of blitz I have until the O Line and Marve both prove they can beat it. I'd have the DE's come in square to reduce the chance of Marve getting outside. I wouldn't spy Marve with a LB unless I really had to because I'd rather send them on a blitz or use them in coverage. If I'm Winnipeg's OC, I use the CFL standard ride and decide play a lot on first down and on 2nd and short. I call quick slants because Marve only has to read if the guy is open or not then get outta the pocket if he isn't. I throw in a few draws and screens. I make sure there are layered receivers so more than one guy's directly in Marves sightline. I make sure my receivers know their scramble rules because they're going to need them.

You wondering if things look better if you take our 3 worst games against the best defenses out of the stats? #HAHA I'll go out on a limb and say way better. Of course it doesn't matter because you can't take 3 out of 7 games out of the stats.

We don't need to sign anyone as QB unless we can find an upgrade out there. Our PR QB just becomes our #3 QB. If we really want another QB I'd sign Smith because he's the best available guy IMO. In fact, I'd probably sign him, teach him the offense then get rid of Brohm before the vet cutdown day.

Pull Willy for the 4th quarter sure, but pull him in the 3rd? No coach is going to do that.

The press release says '6 to 8 weeks is the earliest recovery time'. I've got a sinking feeling he's gone for the season.

The ghost of Rocky Butler disagrees with you. What the heck does Rocky Butler have to do with Drew Willy or Marve or Brohm?

Kinda what I expected, but I hoped I was wrong. Sucks for us and for Willy.

I'd like to see what Marve brings to the table, but I also believe No Willy = No Win.

If we'd play them even after the 21 points off of mistakes, then I'd say we played pretty well except for the first 7 minutes, but they beat us 17-8 after that and they shut it down at the half.

I'm not a Brohm fan at all. I was somewhat surprised that we re-signed him in the off season. I am a Marve fan and I hope to see him start this week, but I know that he's in tough because he hasn't been getting 2nd string reps and we've only got 1 practise this week. That's not enough time to make many changes to the offense to take advantage of Marve's strengths.

We didn't make a game of it. We scored 8 freaking points. We didn't take advantage of the 2 picks, one of which was a Hamilton receivers fault for knocking the ball up in the air. Hamilton sat back, let us complete underneath, stopped blitzing on most plays because they knew the only thing that could hurt them was us completing a bunch of deep balls. Hamilton's offense, after the two picks, played it very safe. They didn't throw the ball unless the receiver was wide open and took some sacks that they wouldn't have taken if the game was on the line. Hamilton was up 7 zip with zero TOP. They were up 14 zip with 1 play on the TOP clock. They scored enough points to win before the 5 minutes were gone in the game. Yet O'Shea and the armchair coaches want to talk about winning the second half by a score of 8-7??? The fact is that the game was over before the second quarter started. It was just a matter of how much they were going to win by. We won the garbage time bowl because we have so much practice at garbage time.

If we were to replace the OC right now, I'd go with Doug Berry. He's the only experienced guy I can think of who doesn't have a job right now.