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Spotted them an early touchdown and then NOTHING. Nice Grey Cup sequel, 620 days in the making.

Lock of the Week holds its breath...

I think you can go a long way when Jeff Hecht isn't your safety. Our two epic collapses in 2019 that got made into CFL-in-40 games in 2020 were necessary medicine to get Brandon Alexander into the right spot.

playing that field wideout position, he's never going to get a ton of throws, just enough to keep the D honest.

not the body language you want to see when you're down by two scores in the fourth. Ticats looking gassed.

swell blitz pickup there.

yeah! give those hogs a chance to run block, they're feastin.

love seeing defensive lineman getting downfield, making plays.

ah just watched the replay, LOS was around the ten and ball hit just over the five. yup, missed the grounding.

if the ball lands beyond the LOS, is it still grounding?

love how Mike Jones attacked the block on that play, nearly blew it up before the 1st down.

yeah, no wildcat either so far and Lapo loved that wildcat in 2019.

it takes a team to make a Milt. I really wonder about the extra year to train and heal factor. Everyone on the field must be feeling the best they've felt in their professional lives right now. whoah, Reilly is hurt? Hard to imagine how bad the Lions will be without him.

I'm okay with that call. 53-yard first attempt of the season with a dangerous guy back there waiting. Milt's wardrobe people are in midseason form. love that champagne bowtie.

love seeing a receiver get interfered with in the endzone ... and make the TD catch anyway.

yup, Zac is Tom Clements out there. Bailey needs to be more like Jeff Boyd tho.

nice burst to get the first! Oli looking like he belongs now that he's getting the blocks.

got a tear in my eyes folks. we're back baby!

James Wilder Jr. is my guy gonna see how "starting RB facing worst team" plays out

I ran the numbers a couple seasons ago and the average CFL team will game roster 10-12 different receivers in the course of a season and the most snakebit teams -- like Calgary in 2019 -- will have to roster 15-16. Receivers get hurt a lot, those little guys are vulnerable out there, and it doesn't take much of a knick to turn a 4.3 burner into a plodder or to screw up their hands. So it seems like having up close knowledge of your first wave of emergency signings is ... prudent. No matter how much you like your top receivers, you're never going to get sixteen games out of all of them. (one of the things I will always remember about Terrance Edwards is how he looked so slim out there compared to everyone else on the field, and because he was our only pro-quality receiver for a long stretch, we'd have him run tough possession routes into the middle and he would just get creamed over and over. Guy kept getting back up and his play never flagged. Big respect. Hope he's okay these days) that Grey Cup was such a complete win. for all people piss and moan about Lapo, he called a masterful game and Hamilton had no answer. Just look at the blocking scheme on Harris' first TD, it was drawn up absolutely perfectly with Bailey pancaking the Hamilton DE and springing 33 all the way to the endzone untouched.

Forbert having a rough rough game. Playing like Brock Ralph out there, touch the puck, fall down.

got shot #1 of Pfizer today. I can feel it working. My 5G microchip game is already way stronger and I have this weird impulse to go mow Bill Gates' lawn (he lives across the lake from me)

that's such a great story! I've always heard good things about him.

Yeah, I miss Wittman too. For me, his all-time call is "ELLETT LETS IT GO, SCORES!" Always liked Slack, it's crazy watching him run and move so well with his bone-on-bone knee. Wonder how he good he could have been with working hinges. re: QBs getting worn down, I was watching the 1986 Western Semi, us vs. BC, and both Huff and DeWalt took a ton of hits that would be RTP today. It was quarterback tee-ball back in those days, QBs getting torpedoed by guys who were 3-4 steps away when the ball was out. Man, that was a heartbreaker of a game ... Bombers discipline was terrible, Willard Reaves got kicked out of the game, penalties and turnovers killed every bit of momentum we had, Jim Zorn got humbled, and when Huff finally got it going in the fourth, we had no RB1 to bash in the tying touchdown from the four. But damn, Huff could hurl the ball all over the field. His rainbow throws to Tuttle and Murph in this game are things of beauty.

Tons of vintage CFL games turning up on youtube, like this one from 1995. I'm not 100% sure but I think it has Milt's first two Bomber TDs in it. It's his second game and the announcers don't mention if he had a touchdown in his first or not. He has a couple funny rookie moments in the game, there's one bit where he and his return partner get all Keystone Kops. Ugh, those navy helmets, what were they thinking? Anyone else getting their CFL fix via old games on Youtube?