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It was an 8 and half minute drive, not a few plays then a TD. More than half the 1st Q was done and we still hadn't seen our offense. No idea if Willy would be OK or not at that time. Not many 8.5 minute drives in the CFL ever.

I'll bet most folks had a here we go again feeling after BC's first drive. I know I did.

I agreed with Matty... that was PI. I thought we hit the receiver before the ball got there. Touching the ball at the same time shouldn't make any difference to the call, but you're probably right... it did. Nice the we got one to go our way for a change though.

We don't match up well against Hamilton or Edmonton. They both bring tons of pressure in waves from lots of different angles and confuse the offense. It will take a really great game to beat either team or a breakdown from them IMO.

Neufeld was a huge upgrade over Greaves. I just hope he can stay healthy this time. Daniels back at RT was a huge upgrade over last week. Best game by the OL all year IMO. Willy had his best game as a Bomber. Who knew he could run like that? Certainly not the Lions. First time in a long time that we don't have one of the worst starting QB's in the league. Sure, it was just BC, who've only beaten the Riders, but we looked like a competitive team last night. Our big plays looked more like plans than flukes. Best game we've played this year.

You don't have to wait if you don't want to. You can download the ISO, burn a DVD and install that way. BTW 1: Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to share updates. Change the default in update advanced settings to PCs on my Local Network. (http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015/07/30/windows-10-steals-your-bandwidth-to-send-other-people-updates/?utm_content=buffere8d55&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer) BTW 2: Use the Privacy Settings to change the default behaviours to make your Windows 10 way more secure. (http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015/07/29/wind-nos/?utm_content=buffere88f1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer)

The obligatory I told you so's and the Eat Crow postings would take up a lot of space too.

If I was running the Riders, I'd give Troy Smith another chance. At least he's got some recent CFL experience. I wouldn't be interested in Brohm at all.

Funny how a Windows 10 thread turns into a Mac vs Windows debate. What? No love for Linux? I've been testing Windows 10 since the first public Beta and I moved my daily use machine over to it yesterday. Only problems so far have to do with Ubuntu & Suse Linux under Hyper-V. Kinda esoteric so I don't blame Microsoft for it and I'm sure it will be fixed by the end of the day. If you're a Windows user, I'd back everything up or use the cloud for storage and update in a week or two once the major problems have been found and fixed. If you find it's running slower than it used to, turn off some or all of the live tiles. I like the Edge browsers speed, but can't switch over to it without losing all my Chrome/Firefox extensions/apps. BTW: Make sure you've got lots of free space before you try to upgrade. It says it needs 40G, but I couldn't get it to work in a VM with that much free space. Added an additional 20G to the partition and it worked just fine. Really bad error message too.

I hope he's good to go and that his mobility isn't impaired or else he could get seriously injured because BC will come at him with everything they've got to try and get him out of the game.

Wonder if Greaves or Goosen will be the 6th? Which ever one it is better be ready to play the 4th quarter.

I think a lot of folks are forgetting that Marve hasn't getting many(any?) reps in the last 2 weeks. We had 1 day of practice. That's not enough for Marve to leapfrog Brohm or to give Marve a good chance at being successful. That's probably what O'Shea meant by there's nothing Marve could do to get the start this week.

Of course Marve's green. I don't see anyone suggesting that Marve isn't green. The answer for that is to play him so he gains experience, not to keep him on the sidelines then say you can't play him because he's green. I know I'd rather see Marve get experience then experience what Brohm has to offer. Marve was a rookie last year and he played well enough when he got his limited chances to see the potential. He's not a rookie anymore and quite frankly, that's not an excuse for not playing him anyway. It should be about who moves the team better, who scores the most points and who the team gets behind and that's not Brohm. It's not going to ruin him either. Think playing Cato, a raw rookie, is ruining him? Nope. Didn't think so, If Marve goes in and stinks up the joint, yup... some posters will be ready for the next QB. Others will point to the small number of reps he's had in practice and the fact that he's working with an offense that's designed for a pocket passer. Most will understand that he needs more experience. Heck folks around here are happy with him and he's only a 50% passer so far so the bar has been set really low.

You're right. I read 54% and thought I typed 54% but 64% came out.

It would be in the best interest of all parties if O'Shea would pro-actively address this **** storm and clarify Marve's status in his pressers instead of letting rumours rule the day. I'm afraid it's way to late for O'Shea to proactively address it.

I don't understand the Marve hate around here. Some folks want him to fail just to shut up the folks who want him to succeed. We're not talking Marve vs Willy here. We're talking Marve vs Brohm! Think about that for a second. Let it sink in. Marve vs Brohm. Marve, a 50% passer with an 85.4 rating vs Brohm a 64% passer with a 53.8 rating because he's thrown 5 Ints and no TDs. If we had Tate or Harris then no Marve for sure, but we don't have them. We have Brohm.

Brohm's yet to throw a TD, has thrown several INT's, hasn't moved the offence, and the whole team goes flat when he comes in. How much more rope do you think he needs to hang himself?

Typical. Make up a story from your imagination. Say it's happened before in other places with other players and other GM's. Then try to change the conversation from 'Nice Story but you got no facts' to 'Why did it happen before then'. It's your story, so it's up to you to prove it happened, not up to others to prove it didn't happen. BTW: Franklin emailing teams trying to get a shot makes it very unlikely that your story is true.

I think Willy's overrated and he's above criticism on these forums but... He's definitely our best QB by a country mile right now. Brohm shouldn't even have a job with us. Marve, who I like, hasn't got enough experience to even be in the conversation to be compared to Willy. Change out OC's (Been saying that since we kept MB during the coaching purge) and we'd probably see a better Willy than we do now.

How about Wally Gabler or Wably Gaylor as we called him. Horrible QB. Just freakin horrible.

They may not have had a choice. He may have pulled a Jeff Fuller and told the Bombers he had no intentions of signing here, in which case they are required to drop him from the neg list. That's also how Cato ended up in Montreal. Nice story but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Franklin was trying to find work in the CFL as a raw rookie. Edmonton with Reilly doesn't sound like a better place to get a chance than Winnipeg with Willy. More likely that we were 'happy' with Willy, Brohm, Marve, Portis so we didn't need another QB.

Harris

There are fans who love to win and hate to lose? Yup, pretty much everywhere in sports. Some fans get too high after a win because we're starved for wins and we don't get enough practice in reacting to them. Some fans get too low after losses because we've seen way too many losses around these parts and there is a sinking feeling that we're going to see more. These things aren't unique to Bomber fans. The same thing can be said about any group of fans, especially fans of teams who haven't done well for a while.

20 pages of glee that the Riders are losing more than we are. The longest active thread around here. I guess this is what happens when we've got very little to cheer for Bomber wise.

I remember Mike posting that Franklin was on our Neg list before when I suggest we pluck him off of Edmonton's PR back in week 1. Considering our current backup QB's, letting Franklin go from the Neg List is a bit of a facepalm moment.