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Agudosi also triggered my positive memories of Grey Carr -- a big gangly receiver who can turn 50/50 balls into 75/25 balls and who has a real smooth ten-yard stride...

I wasn't behind the bench -- I was in the last row of the lower bowl behind the Lions bench, and when the giant wall of blue rose up on our 3rd down stop I realized my mistake. Next year will be in the Blue section! BC Place has been an awful place to watch Bomber games for me. In the 2016 WSF and the 2017 regular season game the Bombers were anti-clutch, blowing 10+ point leads in the fourth quarter both times. hell, in 2013 we blew a lead to lose in BC Place, which is remarkable because I don't know how often in 2013 we actually led a game. In fact, I've seen eight bomber games live since I moved to the West Coast. They were 0-7 in those games before Friday. That win was even extra sweet for me because I've been waiting 20 years to see a Blue victory live. Needless to say, that Rhymes reception gave me a trauma response and Parker is now my favorite Bomber. He was channeling the spirit of Joe Lobendahn there!

I expected great things from Agudosi, the way Collaros likes to sling it downfield I figured a giraffe like him would prosper in game action. but for whatever reason, that didn't happen. ADS might be another Terrance Frederick -- when I saw TF play I thought the Blue had a real gem of a find. But he was cut in the offseason.

remember the dark days of 2013 when the Redblacks couldn't even find someone to draft from us? (and I have no hard feelings towards Desjardins for pointing out the reality of the situation; our talent level was brutal then) Now our cuts are immediately popping up on other clubs. why the hell did we cut ADS? dude looked like a real asset. Or was he a practice roster poaching?

Solid response, but yeah, this did not look like a dude who wanted to discuss the virtues of Colin Kaepernick. speaking of, there are Kap -> CFL rumors around Montreal right now.

coming home from the game on Sunday, I told the US border guard that I was up watching the Bombers beat the Lions. the guard admitted he knew something about the roster rules in the CFL. "Up there you gotta play Canadians but in the USA, only the best players play!" he said. What I thought of saying: "Yeah, the NFL works just like the US Border Patrol: only the best of the best!" What I said instead: nothing.

a weird thing about 2023: With the Riders, Stamps, and Elks all cratering this year, the CFL interconference record is 17-12 favoring the east. Doesn't happen very often that the east is better than the west. There's only three more interconference games left to play so "east wins" will be your final result.

Is this the video you're talking about? couldn't find any such videos on bluebombers.com. this is fascinating stuff -- I never noticed that the Bombers only ran counter plays to the left side and never to the right. and the part at 2:25 is pretty funny.

Mars ain't no place to raise a gin

After the first half I was thinking the MOP was VAJ's to lose. 250 yards passing at the half -- he was filleting us. But yeah. Brady O was special tonight. We fed him and he feasted. Just loved that package that put him out in space as a receiver.

At the game. The University of Washington marching band is playing here. They're up from Seattle too!

I'm going to this game! Just got my tickets.

that's some vintage Kerwin Bell play from Dolegala. Go on a garbage time rampage and pull within one score with 0:10 seconds to go.

Saskatchewan secondary has been awful lately. Like 2005 Bombers awful ... so bad I feel kinda like a bully for laughing at the gr55's clown music comment.

Lions need to pull Adams now

so this post made me curious and I did a little research: the odds are with the Argos -- in the past ten years, there have been 18 Grey Cup finalists and 14 of them were division winners. The exceptions: * 2021 (the Argos lost the EF) * 2019 (the Roughriders lost the crossbar game.) * 2013 (the Stamps and Argos both lost their divisional finals) The worst all-time collapse of this nature is the 16-2 Eskimos of 1989, who got sniped in the west final by the Roughriders, who went on to win their second title stripe in franchise history)

I haven't followed the Argos closely enough this year -- have they faced any big adversity? Tough injuries, position controversies, that kind of thing? You could say that their weird backloaded schedule is kind of adversity, but they clinched so far in advance that they're going to be able to give all their key players multiple bye weeks leading into the playoffs. I guess the early clinch is a form of adversity -- are they going to stay a high-performance outfit while playing out the string? anyway, I'm so stoked for this week's game; outside of a championship game this is sports drama at its best.

such a weird game. massive storylines abound and it's been awhile since the Bombers entered a game with so much to prove. but at the same time this is almost an exhibition game, for all the impact it's going to have on the standings.

has there ever been another CFL team that wrapped up their division in mid-September? Usually we hear about teams resting guys in the final 2-3 weeks but the Argos have to keep their game fresh for six weeks of nothing games plus the semifinal bye.

some clean well-played football tonight.

Hell, I root for any exciting young QB coming into our league, no matter the passport or team. The CFL as a league can't prosper without good QBs.

Isn't that true for all OL? Can any one OL turn around a line that doesn't already have the other pieces in place? I think back to when we signed our GOAT tackle Bryant in 2014 and our OL was still terrible and got Willy killed.

Yeah but say you're a DC and you're game planning for a big game vs. the Argos... now you have one more thing to plan for and one more thing the players have to absorb in film study ...and maybe when you play them the Argos run a different kind of play out of that alignment... (I don't know anything about football, do coaches play the long game like this, selectively exposing concepts to try to influence future games?)

Have never been so glad to see a QB2 taking the field. Hang another 21 on em Dru!