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I guess they wouldn't be made if they didn't work, but man I hate those stupid commercials. They make me pine for the Wendy's official hamburger of the CFL commercials I hated a couple of years ago.

They are all repacious bastards. They all owe someone, either big companies or trade unions or both. Folks want change, but will the Liberals and NDP split the left vote and give Harper a majority? Think a 76 cent dollar's bad, that would be a high point with NDP policies in place. Don't want to go there at all. Trudeau the PM was bad enough, his son only has the name, not the political smarts. Looked great to the liberals until he opened his mouth a few times and has lost a lot of his lustre. I'm not a Harper fan, but I'll hold my nose and vote conservative again. The other two parties don't have enough things on their agenda's that I support.

I don't think changing HC's at this point in the season will do very much. Regina's still going to be working with their 3rd or 4th string QB both of which have very little experience. I'd take Benevides over PLAP and I'd still pull the trigger after the Argos game to give the new HC the bye week to make changes.

I felt pretty good about my Montreal pick in the first quarter, but they let me down by fumbling their chance at a win away.

Muamba wasn't ready when he got his first starts and we didn't have any other choices but to play him because we made the decision to go NI at MLB. He became a good MLB fairly quickly. Hurl's in his 4th year. By that time, Muamba was in the NFL. He's been a starter in Regina, but lost his starting role, which made him expendable to them. We picked him up in FA, gave him the MLB job and paid him like a starter. Hurl had a good game last week, but it's his only good game as a Bomber. I like Hurl on special teams, but I don't see the comparison to Muamba as valid.

I don't think Smith was anything special, but he's better than Sunseri by a long shot. He can run and beat the rush some of the time with his legs, but his accuracy was poor and accuracy is the #1 thing that a QB needs to be successful.

I completely agree with your first statement. Regina didn't let Willy walk.Willy was our 3rd choice. We'd already tried and failed to get both Collaros and Burris. He's doing great. Nothing the matter with him being our 3rd choice. Funny that you can see when others massage the facts, but you can't see it in yourself. The order the QBs came on the market doesn't mean he was third choice - it means he was the third available. There were a number of reports before any of the QBs were available that the Bombers were very high on Willy.For the billionth time on this forum, they were always going to bring in Willy, but they were also trying to bring in one of the other guys. If Burris came, it was gonna be Burris with Willy as back up last year. That's been in the paper a lot. McManus was a huge DW fan and they were always going to bring him in no matter what. You can be wrong for the billionth time if you want. There's no way we could have got 2 of the top 3 available QB's when other teams needed a starter too.

I completely agree with your first statement. Regina didn't let Willy walk. Willy was our 3rd choice. We'd already tried and failed to get both Collaros and Burris. He's doing great. Nothing the matter with him being our 3rd choice. Funny that you can see when others massage the facts, but you can't see it in yourself. The order the QBs came on the market doesn't mean he was third choice - it means he was the third available. There were a number of reports before any of the QBs were available that the Bombers were very high on Willy. Very high doesn't magically make Willy our first or even second choice. If he was our obvious 1st choice, there'd be no reason to even give Burris an offer nor to give Collaros an offer that's rumoured to be higher than the one he accepted in Hamilton.

I completely agree with your first statement. Regina didn't let Willy walk. Willy was our 3rd choice. We'd already tried and failed to get both Collaros and Burris. He's doing great. Nothing the matter with him being our 3rd choice. Funny that you can see when others massage the facts, but you can't see it in yourself.

I got that too. Changed to US eng and deleted the Canadian eng and it worked after that. Nice error message eh?

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.