TBURGESS

Streveler

I understand your theory. I don't agree with it. Collaros was in the MOP discussion until late in the season last year.

It should be WOFO - Win Or FO

True, but that's not the reason the Collaros is playing badly. Even when we get ahead of the sticks with a 5+ yard first down, we aren't converting on 2nd down at a similar rate to last year.

Fixed it for U

I don't disagree that Brady O was a huge part of our offence last year, but that doesn't mean he's responsible for Collaros' bad start to this season.

He had less bad games last year than he's already had this year & we're only 4 games in. This week was the first week that he didn't have both Schoen and Lawler. He didn't have Lawler for the first half of last year. He didn't go weeks in a row last year without a TD pass. He's 9th in YPG passing. 4 picks, no TD's. He's 8th in completion % just ahead of Dru Brown. If you don't see the regression, then I don't know what your looking at.

He's very different now than he was last season. What are smoking?

Who would trade for Collaros right now? No one will take on his contract & he hasn't thrown a TD yet.

You think that the Collaros injury cost us the game? You should be ashamed of that opinion. Collaros was playing like crap. Streveler was actually a bit better.

To make it to overtime, we needed to: Make the 2nd longest FG in CFL history. Get our first passing TD of the year in a 70 second drive against the 'prevent' defence. Have Maier miss every single deep ball. Have Calgary continue to call the deep ball over and over. Have Calgary throw a deep ball instead of simply taking a FG on 3rd down. We've got 3 left against the 3-0 Riders, 2 against the the 3-1 Lions, 2 against the 2-1 Argos & 1 more against the best team in the league the Als. That's 8 games against the top 4 teams in the league.

BC was first down on our 1 yard line and chose not to score. That's why the score looked like we could have won it.

The Elks very close. They lost to the top 3 teams in the league in the last 3 weeks. Each game by a single FG. (I'll call the Riders a top team when they beat a team that has a win.)

Philpot - Montreal

Rich folks use OPM - Other Peoples Money

Win tonight and we're tied with BC. Lose and we're tied with Edmonton.

Prukop

How many times did MOS say we gotta start faster? That seems to be the players talking point for the week.

Brady O is the straw that stirs the drink. He consistently gets us ahead of the sticks with 5+ yard carries, which allow us to do whatever we want on 2nd down. Without him, our O is severely hampered. Lawler is great, but we were a very potent offence last year even without him. Can't say that this year. Our pass pro has been spotty at best this year, yet Buck keeps calling deep shots, which turn into shots on Collaros. He won't last past labour day at this rate. Collaros hasn't been on very much at all this year. I've always said that we became a great team the day Collaros started and we'll revert to a middle of the road team when he retires. Looks like I need to add or can't do it anymore. All that being said... All is not lost. We're 0-2. BC had to put 2 starting O lineman on their 6 game this week and their OL play was poor in week 1. It's a good chance that they lose this week. Even if they win, we're only 1 game behind them. The Riders beat Edmonton. Big deal. Everyone beats Edmonton. Even if the Riders win this week, we're only 2 games behind them. We can catch up labour day/Banjo bowl. Calgary beat Hammy. Anyone have Hammy as a good to great team? Nope! Next week is a huge game. Win it and we're back in the hunt right away. Lose it and we're looking up at all the Western teams except maybe Edmonton.

Edm was in the game until 2 minutes left. Way better than we did against Mtl a week earlier.

Who knows? Buck won't call passing plays for him.

Why are we having a wake for the death of the Bombers dynasty? Why are people pretending that they knew it was coming all along? (Mike & Booch did)

In the last 3 years, having the ball on the 7 with a minute to go needing a TD, was a guaranteed win for us. This year, against a bottom dweller with 2 rookie corners, we couldn't get it done. Last week, I blamed the loss on lack of practices for the vets & lack of TC playing time. I expected a full week of practice to change a lot, but it really didn't. Our O line was man handled. Our receivers dropped some balls. Collaros threw 2 picks, 0 TD's and 123 of his 285 yards were on two huge plays. The D gave up 130 yards rushing & 35 minutes TOP. DB's played better than last week. Note that this was against a first year starting QB who had only thrown 150 CFL passes. I'm pretty worried about next week against the Lions. An 0-3 start would be horrible if we want to be #1 in the West.

I wanna see Strev throw the freakin ball when he's in. Running all the time lets the D focus on it.