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This is why I love the CFL. Lots to work on for the Bombers, lots to work on for the refs , like every week

Also, declaring something a statistical outlier doesn't equate to declaring something statistically insignificant. Get some book learning people. And in light of TBURGESS liking multiple posts of mine in this thread, I retract all my statements.

You're looking for the negative in my posts. Pointing out how a stat is misleading, while continually giving Lankford credit for performing better than I'd perceived is like the opposite of spinning something negatively.

No I'm not. I'm pointing out that trumpeting Lankford's statistics after 4 games is misleading for numerous reasons. But, as I keep pointing out, he's doing better than most of the board, myself included, give him credit for.

If Lankford finishes the season with 4+ KO return TDs I'll be shocked. But that's what he'd need to keep his current pace. At this point in the season, 4 games in, it's a statiscal outlier that distorts his statistics significantly. Get me all his return data in excel format and I'll do a proper statistical analysis. But all it will show is that the sample size is too small after 4 games to make any real conclusions. Also stats are for losers.

Acknowledging me personally after every return would be nice. Like I said I thought he was doing much worse on kickoff returns, so he's cool in my books for a while.

1 play accounts for almost 20% of his output. It's a significant statistical outlier that needs to be mentioned if we're talking stats. Who's trying to disregard it? It was a great play. His numbers are good primarily because he's been healthy, taking all the kickoff return attempts, and because he scored a TD. That's 100% true. His kickoff returns are middle of the pack average when you eliminate the outlier.

The 105 yard return TD, and the fact that Lankford has returned every kickoff this season for Winnipeg really throw this stat off. He still leads in yards without the big one, but his average falls to middle of the pack. Most other teams have a 1A & 1B returner on the stat sheet. Plus projected stats after 4 weeks rarely pan out. I definitely thought he was doing worse though.

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Anecdotally, In the 5 years I played youth and high school football I had 2 concussions, 1 major. In 12+ years of playing rugby(high school, provincial rep, senior mens in Canada, Aus, and NZ) I've had 0 head injuries or concussions (knock on wood). They still happen but it's usually from getting a knee to the head around a ruck. Safe tackling to keep your head and neck safe are the first thing taught when playing rugby.

A shoulder charge is not a tackle. That's just a definition. Doesn't take years of football experience to understand word definitions.

Do you have inside knowledge of why TheSource has so much time to post all the sudden or something?

Are you telling me O'Shea doesn't get all his info on the team via Tweets posted on this board and by watching 1 game a week? But that's all you need to make personnel decisions for a CFL team!

Making it a rule that tacklers need to wrap to make a legal tackle would help. It would cut out defenders just throwing their body like a projectile at the ball carrier to try and knock them over. Most of the DB's in this league need to learn how to properly tackle. This is mostly just a pet peeve of mine though.

My (likely wrong) understanding is basically Field is the wide side of the field from where the ball is placed, Boundary is the short side of the field. On the big CFL field, field side throws are long throws, lower percentage second read options, typically. Boundary are shorter higher percentage passes generally. Locking down the boundary side as we are forces more difficult pass attempts, and lets the safety cheat a bit too probably. Get well soon Bruce

Talking politics on the football forum should be an automatic 1 month+ ban. You people are insufferable. PS. Gif threads are still lame. You old farts don't even do it right.

uh oh.

Definitely that. Not like your a super shitty coach or anything Chris.

I heard he's accusing Bob Dyce of wiretapping him too. Terrible!

PM'd you the dirty details of where to find streams. I recently got back from a vacation in South East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand (B&I Lions tour 2017!), and can confirm yaretv does not work in Indonesia. A brief look at a map would have informed any one of the people in this thread of this fact (I may have learned this trying to stream a game in Indonesia, after not taking a brief look at the map). Didn't have a chance to try and stream from the SEA countries I visited where it is available, Bombers weren't playing that week, so I can't comment on the service, as I'd mentioned I would try it in the thread where it was announced. Might get to China/Korea before the end of the season, I'll definitely try out the yaretv stream if I do.

I assumed this would be a Sara Orlesky appreciation thread.

I'm out of town on business next week or I'd be there ?

I just hope everyone has fun out there tonight. They're all winners.