johnzo

what happened to all our running plays with the sideways motion that widened the D so well last week?

you gotta wonder why they've got their injured QB out there running that sneak.

two score game again ... Blue doing just enough to keep this turtle race going.

just once, tho. Bennett not looking real comfortable out there even when he's making positive yardage.

yep.

Mike Miller, 1 carry, 1 first down. Dude is like a free first down coupon you can cash in once per game.

ordinarily I am pretty forgiving of the officials because the game is so fast and they have only two eyes but godammn how do both the line judge and the eye in the sky miss that? total breakdown there, a bust in the officiating.

lights out D and solid covers on ST keeping us in the field position battle, hopefully we can weather the Lapo doldrums.

that is some classic 13th man action, crowd forcing a time count on the home offense.

hope some of you bet "over" on Bomber passing yards at the start of the second quarter.

now punting for the Roughriders, Veteran Leadership

nice breakdown by Suitor showing how the roughie DBs are playing run-first.

get those four stripe DBs on their heels, that'll open up some space for Harris / Demski / Streveler.

to be fair, Demski had just one guy to beat in space on that play and he's capable of winning that fight ... he just didn't. and if you lead him, that's a pick or Demski gets blown up and its incomplete.

Alexander coming downhill makes a play! Bombers are all about capitalizing on those mistakes ... make em pay!

yeah, good point, I missed that on first viewing. Loved the second episode. Mandalorian vs. an entire Jawa sandcrawler was the Star Wars showdown I didn't realize I needed.

can you get mutual offside calls on a play? or is just the first offside flagged?

man I did not realize how fundamental a muscle the oblique muscle is ... respect for gutting it out with a broken core ... let's hope the Bombers see to it that Fajardo can start his rehab / recovery promptly on Monday morning.

Drake navigates to Fajardo's kitchen!

I'm hoping that they unmask Pedro Pascal soon, the guy has acres of charisma and screen presence, the mask is a cool look but it's hard to really get a sense of the character thru it.

I thought it was ok. The show did enough to keep me watching and I was definitely intrigued by the ending.

The 1987 Eastern Final was a goddamn nightmare. We lapped the league that season and we laid a total egg at home in front of about 12,000 fans. What a terrible way to end the Tom Clements / Willard Reaves era. The CFL's semi-lucrative TV contract ended after that season and a ton of talent was cut from the league. That year put the whole league in a near-death spiral that it didn't really pull out of unti the Radically Canadian years. The 2011 Grey Cup was a heartbreaker. Played on my birthday, the only Bomber Grey Cup game I've ever seen live. Bombers hit the snooze button five times before making the game a bit interesting in garbage time ... then Odell Willis dropped a sure pick six and Andrew Harris put a fork in us on the following drive. The recent regular season win against Calgary was kind of a big deal for me. I'd written the Bombers off, they were down to their emergency QB, playing Calgary in a game that mattered ... a sure recipe for annihilation. But then they gutted it out and better yet they repeated it two weeks later when it counted. That Zass Strevelaros combo could become a Bomber legend in 2019. So stoked for Sunday!

re: Collaros outplaying Nichols ... Collaros had a totally Nichols/Lapo type game in the WSF ... pass for under 200 yards, keep the ball clean (tho he got real lucky a couple times), complete a couple bombs to Adams (the 36 yarder counts as a bomb to me, that was 36 yards in the air and no YAC) and otherwise he just distributed the ball in very safe ways to our playmakers. FWIW, I think Nichols would've won that game as well. Nothing that Collaros did was outside Nichol's envelope. And maybe it's just that ZC is new to the Blue, but Nichols was smoother at handling all the Lapo misdirection than Collaros is, there were a few times when ZC was just a bit out of sync with the sweeping receiver or the tailback and that hurt some plays.

I winced when I saw him out running patterns on the wildcat plays. I guess that's a lot less dangerous than short yardage, but still.