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he was out there at the very end blocking on Augustine's runs, right in the thick of things. He got wrestled down hard by 44 Calgary after the play. makes me happy seeing a wide receiver challenge linebackers in the box at crunch time.

remembering Maier's first start last year -- he threw an astonishing wide-side corner route in his first quarter, put it about 50 yards on a rope, right over the DB's hands, hit his receiver in stride. The DB's eyes were huge in the replay. 90% of rookie CFL QBs who try that throw get it picked. It sure looked like Maier had some legit fundamentals to work with. Nice to see that wasn't a mirage. Love watching young QBs make a splash in the league, doesn't matter who they play for.

missed watching the game tonight so I'm just catching up on the cfl.ca highlights. holy smokes that McCrae TD catch. Landed right in his lap as the Calgary guy was PI'ing him. a lucky strike or a ludicrously good throw? Seems like Collaros gets lucky a lot, on those deep shots.

yeah, he was still playing with five minutes left in the laugher against the Elks. I was wondering what Campbell was doing with his prize kid there.

Hate to hear the news on Rourke. brightest new star the CFL has seen in forever and he loses half a season to a freak foot injury. Hope O'Connor has some game in him.

that Western Final last year, tho. pretty safe to say that without him running wild, the good guys don't make it to the cup. not to say the Bombers were mistaken moving on from him but I'm always going to remember that last vintage Harris game.

when you hear Albertans talk about senate reform what they're after is a situation like the USA where you have lawmakers who regions instead of people. do Albertans still talk about senate reform? I remember Preston Manning going on and on and on about the triple-E senate...

I can't really talk about how Trump ****** up the Iran deal or judge whether we are worse off for how he attacked it. I don't know enough about the effectiveness of the pre-Trump Iran nuclear supervision / management program. My uneducated take is that it seems like a very tall order to rein in the nuclear ambitions of a regional power with soft power only, but I know less about international nuclear proliferation strategies than I do about coaching quarterbacks. and believe me, I think Trump is human garbage and should not be anywhere near the levers of power, and I'm certain that many many many people in the USA have been imprisoned for less than he's done. but the GOP has always been garbage, from the anti-civil-rights Southern Strategy to "it's legal if the President does it" to "welfare queens" to Willie Horton to "greed is good" to "deficits don't matter" to "kick their ass, take their gas" to "MAGA" They deserve to have Trump jammed firmly up their asses. Unfortunately, the world doesn't.

I have respect for Cheney's stand, but her dad's war was a huge reason why we are where we are today. They are reaping what they sowed. I think Trump made a lot of hay among voters with his consistent stance against dumb foreign wars, and he kept that promise while in the white house. Zero dumbass wars is a good record for a Republican administration. To me, that is positive progress from Bush Jr, who thought he was a Roosevelt who could bomb the world into a peaceful state. note that I suspect that Trump was isolationist because an isolationist America benefits Trump's daddy. But to Americans who were pissed off about expensive, tragic, and useless military actions, Trump's record looks pretty good here. the one good thing about the Trump administration was seeing the worst people be abused by the worst boss.

man, even at 9-1 bye weeks are miserable. while we're talking about controversial topics, here's some news from Spokane about Matt Nichols' life after football. He mentions wanting to sign a one-day contract to retire as a Bomber but it didn't work out. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/aug/15/ex-eastern-washington-qb-matt-nichols-quietly-step/ I think that the org should honor Nichols -- he's definitely not ring of honor material but he was instrumental in turning around the program and I don't think we are a Grey Cup team without the wins and growing pains of 2016 - 2018.

I don't blame TSN for the loss. I blame the W jerseys and the blue pajama pants, those should go in the bargain bin atop all the Jason Vega cammos. dress like a champ? play like a champ. dress ugly? play ugly. QED

special teams tho Now I'm rooting for the million-dollar kickoff return giveaway winner.

Nick Marshall lol how shitty a team do you have to be to have guys ejected after a touchdown?

CFL top tier teams are delivering the goods. Now gotta root for Cornelius to go off on the Riders. I wonder what **** was freaking out about on the last run before the FG kick -- he was dancing around scooping with both hands.

have to be impressed with how well Rourke moves around the pocket. looks cool way beyond his years. you can add "onfield rabbits" to that list.

firewagon football! (OPI, never mind) canola ads and momtweets. if the CFL were any more downhome it would be in my root cellar.

game on. not gonna root for any team in particular. we can beat either of these teams. just going to enjoy a hopefully entertaining CFL game.

BC shaping up as a bully team; they can whip the little kids but can't run with the big ones.

what can you set up with that? fake the hitch and have Whitehead go deep when the DB jumps it?

seems odd to run a hitch screen where you don't put a blocker on the man directly opposite the receiver -- forces Whitehead to go inside where Calgary can rally. they've done it twice now. guess they're figuring that Whitehead can beat his man one-on-one.

BC replacement running back struggling -- drops an easy swing pass and falls down on a play where he had a bunch of room to run for a 1st down. gotta get that kid settled down.

settling in to watch Lions / Stamps. Think the Stamps are going to surprise here.

nice catch there by Tim "take a knee" White

The pyramiding rule: so yeah, you can see why the official called it, but it sure didn't look intentional in the replay.

just tuning in. I like the Argo look with oxford pants and cambridge socks. hope Harris isn't hurt longterm good luck to #81 Argos too. stupid freak injuries