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trap game

Week 7 Stamps @ Hamilton Huffer, D!ck and Bo exiled from football heaven; Stamps' paradise lost. Week 7 Argos @ Saskatchewan Dear coach Dickenson: Please put Jamal Morrow in, -- signed, Suitor's boner.

Kate Beirness is all out of lipstick apparently. Lovin how she calls it the way it is.

ouch, that was a pretty feeble attempt at a lead block by Hamilton #20. Could've sprung his QB for a first down, there was all kinds of room there.

naw, they really lean into the violence. there is some brutal brutal stuff in that show. the thing that made me say uncle was

hey, I'm just watching Boardwalk Empire now, finished the second season last night. It is peak **** and gore HBO, with lots of really grisly violence, esp in the second season. I'm taking a break from it because really it's too much. It's much more casual about violence than Breaking Bad ever was. The plotting and cast are top-notch tho. It's gripping to watch.

I wish I had time and data to run the numbers on the winning percentage of CFL teams in games where their starter is making their first start. Whatever it is, I bet it is not great.

wow, this is a great story ... what a different time!

Forde is not normally my favorite, I want more of a character in the color role and he doesn't have a ton of personality that I can detect, but I'll pay more attention next time I see him paired up with DN because on paper they'd work together. DN just seems like such a massive dork for football, love that vibe of someone who loves the game and can fill airtime agreeably. While the guy is no Cuthbert yet he's a real breath of fresh air for TSN.

yeah, dude is a journalist, or is at least journalist-adjacent. I'm actually curious what the league says about any controversial officiating decision, so good on him. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Rod Smith and Matty are the best team that TSN has right now and it ain't close. Rod drily tells you what happens and then Matty hypes the living **** out of the play or calls bullshit on it. It's a great dynamic. Farhan Lalji wasn't too bad with Dunigan either last weekend. I think the new guy Dustin Neilson is pretty good too but I don't think he and Dunigan would work well together. too much of the same kind of energy.

Jim Zorn, another weird Bomber QB story. Signed after an illustrious NFL career when Tom Clements was hurt in 1986, we wound up not needing him much because Hufnagel got on a roll. Zorn did replace Cameron as Kennard's holder, he was a top-flight holder apparently. When he did get some playing time, in the garbage fire of the 1986 final vs. BC, he struggled mightily. My favorite part of this story is the part that someone here on MBB told me after I spotted a Zorn jersey in the stands, apparently he still has friends in Winnipeg. gotta love this league. Steve Pelleur was another NFL guy who showed up briefly in 1995, after three years out of football (!) He got hurt and that was the end of his career. overrated? who is out there pumping Kerwin Bell's tires? Does anyone have fond memories of a Bell game? Did any of those garbage time flurries turn into garbage time miracles?

Fave obscure bomber: QB Jay Walker. He got a single start in the garbage time of the Reinebold era (JR was already gone but you know what I mean) and it was a work of art, the best QB play we'd seen in years. After that he wanted to be paid like a CFL starter, the bombers balked, he did not re-sign, and Kerwin Bell was our QB the next year. Always wondered what would have been with Jay Walker at QB in 1999.

discipline is also playing to the edge of the rulebook .. no one on the Bombers crossed the auto-disqualification line. they did some dirt but none of it rising to the level where the officials didn't have a choice but to toss 'em. veteran savvy. that said, I wouldn't mind seeing helmet tear-offs like Harris' get added to the list of no-discretion DQs ... that's a real dangerous looking play. No place for it in the game. also wouldn't be surprised to see supplemental discipline handed out this week.

Cheaper travel. The CFL can't be flush with cash right now, I bet this is an economy move.

Rick Campbell really looks like he wants to twist the knife on the redblacks ... pay Marcel back for hooking the can to him after the 3-15 Jennings/Davis season.

Reilly is a game wrecker.

Champs get the hardest schedule, I guess.

Milt rightly calling out Flanders for jogging that 2nd down play out of bound two yards short. Your RB can't play like that.

Biggie in the mix too, he's playing lights out.

yeah, I think that's a gap in the rulebook. it calls out a few specific things like punching that will result in an auto-DQ, but everything else is ref's discretion.

per Tait's game recap so he could play next week against Edmonton.

Matty getting sombre, tells it like it is, prayin to God we come together.

Don't we have an American kicker cooling his heels in quarantine right now? Ali Mortada is on our suspended list .... tiny guy originally from Sierra Leone. Signed the last day of August.

losing Abdul Kanneh for six has got to hurt ... they're down another starting db too. agreed on Dunigan. drunk uncle Matty is the best football company.

the change from Hecht to Alexander in 2019 was like the change from Willy to Nichols in 2016 -- suddenly we were a different team.