TBURGESS

If the team plays like it did in BC, we win. If they play like the first 4 games we don't. Calgary's a good team. They'll play the full 60 minutes. BLM won't get confused by our defence. IMO Carey is the best RB in the league. Should be a good game.

Rourke hasn't been 'figured out'. We got in front on the first play of the game. We took the run away & forced him to throw on almost every play. Our DL beat their OL consistently and made Rourke throw early. We gave him a lot to process. He'll learn from it and get better. He's got the best long ball in the league. We played the best game we've played this year by a country mile against BC. First time the O line dominated. First time the Offence clicked. First time we had a running game. First time we looked like the top team in the league.

1. Collaros - MOP type game. 2. Schoen - Rookie of the year so far. 3. Grant - TD on the first play killed the Lions confidence. HH: Rutledge - Pick and Fumble to seal the deal. BTW: I loved the win. Even sweeter when you don't see it coming.

The Riders should cut Marino and the league should let other team know that they can't sign him. That would send the right message.

If Calgary wins, they're 4-0. That's 2nd place behind the other & 0 team. No way you have a 4-1 or a 3-1 team ahead of a 4-0 team.

Last year, it was known. This year, not so much. The winner of the game gets first. The loser gets somewhere between 2nd and 4th depending on how the Riders and the Stamps do & I expect both of them to win. A tight game and the loser gets 2nd, maybe 3rd. A blow out and the loser gets 4th.

Both teams are looking to answer the same question. Are they a top team or just a team who has played bottom teams? Both teams are playing against the best defence they've seen this year. Both teams are playing against a good team for the first time this year. Do they rise to the occasion or does the pressure get to them? Can they up their game or not? BC's got the home advantage and Winnipeg has the short week. If the Lions want to be number 1, they pretty much have to win this week.

I don't have have to imagine it. My buddy, thinking he was being funny, kicked more than a box of cards out from under my arm. Cards everywhere! Not only that, we only got 10 compiles to get it right before we had to hand in the results. I lost 2 just getting it back in order. Still got 100%.

They should trade for Arbuckle so Evans has someone to wipe his tears away.

You're watching it with blue goggles on. The ball didn't touch the ground once let alone twice.

James Butler

As I saw it: Houston catches the ball, but doesn't survive contact with the ground. The ball doesn't hit the ground, so the play isn't over. Banks picks the loose ball up. Once he has control in the end zone it's a TD. I couldn't tell if the ball touched the ground when Banks had it between his shins, but my best GUESS is it didn't. Not enough to overturn the TD for the command centre.

I was talking about the short week, the travel, no Burnham, Ottawa's week off to prepare, Powell back... I thought the PI against the Lions in the end zone on 2 point conversion number 2 was a questionable call. Which 3 are you talking about?

Pretty much everything was against BC and they found a way to win. Rourke had his worst game of the year. Two picks and a fumble. Most of Ottawa's points came off those mistakes. I'm very much looking forward to next week's game.

We barely beat the 6th ranked team and they should have won at least one of the games. We won because of their mistakes in the first game, not because of our great play. You say that's because the Redblacks are a good team this year, not that we didn't play well or that we're not as dominant as we were last year. Tonight, we'll learn more about both the Lions and the Redblacks. Are the Redblacks the 0-3 team that I think they are or do they beat the Lions to prove they are a good team that just got beat by a better Bomber team? The Redblacks have everything on their side. A bye week to prepare. The Lions are on a short week, without Burn-em, playing on the road for the first time. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens.

How 'bout there's a problem with the Keyboard to Chair Interface?

I've picked the Bombers to win every game this year and almost all games last year. I'm not sure why you call that is 'the sky is falling'. This year when I said it doesn't matter how we get wins as long as we get wins, some ID 10 T said that's what happens when you leave your computer unlocked. I haven't complained about any signings or trades or players we've lost, but you still paint me with the same brush as a few years back when we weren't dominant and folks were saying we were, even tho the facts weren't on their side. We're in a great run right now. Dominant for a year + a playoff run. Happy now? You're giving your "what if" scenario's equal if not more credence than actual facts, which is silly, but extrapolating your 'what ifs' and calling that logic is hilarious. Ottawa's record is 0-2, good enough for 6th in the power rankings. They didn't beat us back to back, but if they did, I'd certainly think they are a better team than I think they are right now. If they end up above .500 I'll have been wrong about how good they are this year after two games, but that doesn't change the fact that they are 0-2 at this point in the season. Either of us could be dead wrong about the Redblacks. So what?

It's just the same old lame joke told for the thousandth time by folks who have nothing new to say.

James Butler

The reality is that Ottawa is an 0-2 team, they aren't going unbeaten for the rest of the year & I didn't call them a garbage team. FTR: My guess is they're a less than .500 team and that most of their wins will be against eastern teams.

Et tu Mikey? I thought you were better than that. No, I didn't say any of that. No, it's not funny. No, you're not making a point. Neither BC nor us has played a top tier team. The two teams we've played have zero wins between them. The two teams BC's played have 1 win between them. We squeaked by Ottawa twice, a big part is the redblacks mistakes rather than our great play. We beat Hamilton convincingly by a pair of TD's. BC's hugely outplayed their competition. They even scored 24 points in the second half of the Toronto game when they were missing Burn-em and Butler. Others: As for the Flutie comparison, note the "if statement". 17's right, Rourke will have to do it consistently for at least a season before the "if statement" is true. If that happens, he'll be in the NFL as soon as his current contract is over. Will Rourke become the next Flutie? Only time will tell, but he's off to a great start. I love watching the best teams battle and that's what I'm expecting/hoping for next week.

BC's looked crazy good so far. #1 offence and #1 defence. Rourke's numbers are off the charts. Teams have film on Rourke from last year, but he looks like a different QB this year. If he keeps this up, he's in Flutie territory. BC destroyed Edmonton who looked way better against both Calgary and Regina. BC also destroyed Toronto who barely beat Montreal. I'm looking forward to our game against them in a couple of weeks. It'll really show who is the best in the west.

Toronto doesn't worry me. It's BC on a short week with a long travel that does.

I agree that should have been called too.