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The TSN people mentioned at some point that Lapo couldn't get into the mad scientist part of his playbook because his offence simply wasn't on the field long enough. I think the guy needs a long slow grinding offence like his Winnipeg one so he can do all the little setups that unlock the kill shots. When it works, it's great, but too many things have to go perfectly right in order for it to work its best, so it is fragile, and its failure mode looks terrible. We have seen Lapo completely change up his offence ... that snow game against Calgary in 2017, the game where the Fever was the surprise starter. It looked like high school, lots of wishbone and I-formation and option stuff, extremely vanilla. I think Fever threw the ball like ten times that day, and we won (tho largely because Calgary had already locked up their playoff spot and started their canadian backup, who was terrible.) So Lapoisn't completely inflexible. Parachuting a new hope rookie QB in midseason -- totally a Rough Rider move. I hope there's more than a dozen fans in the stands at the end of this season, this is looking like 1988 in Ottawa.

hey, he did the research!

I can't have been the only one thinking of this:

Week 7 Bombers at Antlers (guest poet: James Wilder, Jr) flex flex flex flex flex: flex flex flex flex, flex flex flex! oh ****, did we lose? Bombers at Antlers (regular idiot) Athletic QB lays trap for Blue! Alas, he's no Rocky Butler.

Sees the speedflex name, goes into flexxing frenzzy! flexflexflexflexflexflexflexflex

Biggie blew up Wilder in the first quarter for a loss or a very short gain and did a little bitty flex afterwards that is gif-worthy.

gotta give Bailey some love, ppl here were lumping him in with Nelson as a guy who should be cut or benched but the dude balled tonight.

is it just me or is tackling bad across the whole league this year? istr people saying that no-contact practices would lead to bad tackling...

Biggie clowning Wilder. love 2 see it

remember remember the bombers of November .. 1987. Best team Cal Murphy ever coached, according to the man himself. Laid an egg in the playoffs. so many teams win the Grey Cup after indifferent regular seasons.

the challenge mooted.

450 yards and no TDs. That's such a CFL 2021 stat. there's the Lucky sweep! #lapoball

"start the process of decertifying the election, or whatever the correct legal remedy is." that is some sterling work by trump's attorney there.

that reminds me of what my dad told me on my wedding day ... "son, don't toss ugly floaters off your back foot into the middle of the field," he said.

Panel is lit like they've been hitting the laughing gas. Can't blame em after having to pump the tires on yesterday's snoozefests.

good crisp drive for a FG. Can't be that casual in the final minutes, Lions. More entertainment in this game so far than in both games yesterday.

Nice to see Andre Bolduc doing good work in the league. when I was a Rough Rider season ticket holder in 1996 the RRs had to start him at RB because they were down their two regular RBs and couldn't afford to bring in anyone else. He had not played RB since high school. They won two games with him at RB, averaging about three yards a carry. Good times. Some days I can't believe the CFL still exists.

good lord Mike Reilly throws a nice deep ball. hit Lucky perfectly in stride.

Forde and Smith not a great pair to call this game ... like both these guys but they're too sedate to pair well with each other. need a Neilson or a Dunigan in there. good job on Smith and TSN getting the clarification out there.

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.