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70% was pretty average kicking performance for Westwood's era. Paul Osbaldiston was career 72%, Mark McLoughlin 74%, Terry Baker 72%, Prefontaine 72%. McCallum was a 70% kicker for the first decade of his career. Something happened in 2006, suddenly the leading kickers were 80%+, and since 2011 we've had multiple 90%+ kickers every year. This year, there were four, and Medlock just missed with 89.6% It's amazing how much better kickers are now. Maybe it's like goaltending, where the coaching suddenly got a lot better?

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people are talking about Mike Reilly moving west, but does David Braley have the scratch to make it happen?

Reinebold lurking in the Lions org, maybe Hervey promotes from within and then whoah time is a flat circle.

like that overhead shot on the QB sneak, really a great camera angle for that play.

whoah, that long sideline toss to Burnham was uhhhhgly. Lulay really looks like a guy in the twilight of his career.

This is how I have always pictured you, man.

It ain't easy being a lefty! I could use a couple extra hands here -- it's hard to endorse my Soros cheques at the same time I'm swinging my antifa hockey stick and drying my snowflake tears... Hopefully the commies will set up some genetic engineering programs.

My HH goes to Dunigan for doing his best to rescue the TSN broadcast. Love listening to Matty watch football ... half analyst, half lunatic fan.

somehow this was the game of the week.

The depth chart. Nelson and Lankford are in Adams' spot. Couture and Gray in Chungh's spot. Dressler listed as a backup behind Washington. there's 22 internationals listed, so two will be left off the game day roster. Guessing that's Lankford and Dressler. O'Shea mentioned he wanted to see Wild do some long snapping...

The good news is that the Spokane County sheriff forwarded the holy war manifesto to the FBI. Who knows how seriously they're taking this stuff, though, with that terrifying column of refugees marching through southern Mexico... Googling back on the Spokane sherrif, a guy named Sheriff Ozzy, the dude is well acquainted with crazy fundies and militias -- in 2011, a white supremacist tried to bomb the MLK Jr. parade in Spokane with a serious-ass fragmentation bomb, one seeded with rat poison to prevent wound coagulation. To bring it home for Winnipeggers, Matt Nichols' college, Eastern Washington, is in Spokane County just south of Shea's legislative district. (of course, not saying that Nichols is part of any of this bullshit, just laying out some geography)

Today in dipshittery: Idaho school teachers made a "border wall" costume while others posed dressed as Mexicans with giant sombreros and mustaches behind it. https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/article221015995.html Their district is about 10% Hispanic kids.

Trump's people do fear, they don't do numbers. 3500 refugees 1000 miles away might as well be the entire host of Genghis Villa pressing up against the gates of Nogales, their catapults bombarding Phoenix with dynamite and the corpses of pestilent cattle.

woops, yeah, my bad.

Bomber roster (https://www.bluebombers.com/roster/) is lagging the reports I've seen that have Spooner moved to active, Chungh put on an injured list, and Gray set to play Saturday. I wonder what combination of Couture, Spooner, and Gray lines up for us on Saturday? Guessing that Couture takes Chungh's spot, Gray is the sixth man, and Spooner the odd guy out? We normally only game-roster 6 OLs.

Nothing but upside for Poop here .... this move worked out great for Terrence Jeffers-Harris.

Dressler's consecutive receptions streak will be fine even if he doesn't play, it's survived lots of missed games so far. WD7 is gonna be huge for us in the playoffs. Guy is a threat everywhere on the field, even between the tackles. He's 100% veteran pro, he's not gonna rust up if he takes a game off. Let him take a veteran week this week. I'd sit Harris too unless he's got a cash bonus riding on the rushing title -- if he does, then get him his eight yards and chain him to his bike. He's done so much for the team, don't mind seeing the team give him a little back. Or, better yet, sit him and pay the bonus anyway. Adams too, sit that guy down. We've got Lankford, let him run wind sprints on the boundary all game. No way we win any playoff games without both Dressler and Adams healthy.

And this after a week featuring three terror attacks by white dudes.....but I guess those white dudes didn't target OUR PEOPLE.

This long twitter thread looks at "eliminationism" -- the portrayal of one's political enemies as subhumans. spolier: attacks on immigrants, black people, Jewish people, LGBTQ folks, ethnic minorities are intrinsic to American politics. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1057678153252929536.html

I think that detailed position by position analysis breaks down when it comes to the Riders. They win games they have absolutely no business winning, and that makes them dangerous. Seriously, a 12-6 record from a team with a busted Collaros and the erratic semi-talent Brandon Bridge at QB? And with Canadian depth that looks like the 2013 Bombers? No denying that Chris Jones made some chicken salad in Regina this year. GO CFL

per Trump, it's the synagogue's fault for not having armed security. Because that's America in 2018: if places of worship aren't armed camps, then they're getting what they deserve. Besides, there were good people on both sides.

fair enough ... better to say that it's the first time in a long time we've beat Calgary in a game that mattered to both teams ... last year the Stamps had already wrapped up first and they started Buckley, who was awful.

I am super pumped today because yesterday was the first time we've beaten Calgary in a game that mattered to both teams since the Mike Kelly era. 2017, we beat them in the final week, but they'd already sewn up first and started Andrew Buckley, who was terrible. 2014, we beat them in the Robert Marve snow bowl game, but we'd already been eliminated and they'd already clinched 1st. 2009, we beat them in Week 2. We won an onside kick to start the game, Sidiq Shabbaz beast feasted, and Stefan LeFors threw a couple TD passes.