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The one thing I really notice in terms of player skill level between the two leagues is that the NFL tackling seems way better. I notice many many more broken tackles in the CFL. I dunno, this might be because of the smaller field, making it easier for the D to rally to the ball since they're not as spread out -- but my impression is that most one-on-one situations in the NFL result in a tackle, whereas in the CFL it's not nearly as sure a thing.

Hey, here's an interesting thing I read in, of all places, a Friesen column: funny/weird thing was, we lost both those games. Man, the 2005 Bombers were a brutal team.

Streetheart or GTFO

yeah, this is a great thread title, nice work

Gifted a turnover at a critical time, let it slip away. Just a bad, bad, bad team.

real interested to see what Franklin does -- I don't think he's as bad as we saw against Hamilton, I don't think he got a lot of help from his OL in that game.

yup, that's the one. total clutch play, bringing it when it matters.

The one tackle he had was pure motor tho -- he was the first guy downfield, he got picked up by the blocking and was pushed well out of the play, then he giddied up and ran down the returner from behind. Love seeing guys make plays like that, it's like watching a DT make a tackle on a pass 20 yards downfield.

y'know ordinarily I'd be down with that but that Ticat-Argo game was so bad that I wish they'd just stayed with the Ricky Ray interview through the entire second half so at least they could reminisce about Argo highlights.

I would rather live a decade with Mike Kelly as the Bomber coach than a single season with Tim Burke. That 2009 team beat some quality teams and at his best Bishop was electrifying -- he had a couple 400+ yard games down the stretch where he was hurling the ball all over the damn field and simply couldn't be stopped. Plus you had the big Fred Reid game in there too. Sure Kelly was a psycho but his teams put up a fight, unlike Burke's.

Hecht plays DE too!

Whenever I hear Charles Nelson's name I think of this guy:

BC's snapping is slow-motion horrible, looks like Dom Picard is back out there.

Liked last year's road unis better.. those new Lions jerseys are pretty sweet. but yikes, orange pants..

what's just amazing/magical to me as an semi-old guy is that almost all of these places ... Iqaluit, Qikiqtarjuaq, Belen NM ... have google street view coverage. Nothing for Mary River, but according to google maps, there aren't even any streets in Mary River. love taking google maps vacations.

and now that pick off a ball that was lagging the receiver badly...

what I wanna know is are the Trews ready to go?

Nichols threw his second pick six right before halftime, and Streveler played the whole second half. When should O'Shea have pulled Nichols in the LDC? You don't think Bennett can make the team on merit alone?

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nice post! deep cut cuts deep!

What a great story, thanks for sharing it!

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Finally finished watching it tonight, I like the flippy guys/gals best and there was plenty of that, so I was happy. Really dug the joshi event, hope that AEW keeps pushing that. I've seen the Lucha Bros on TV a lot and live twice, I'm a big fan of those guys, and it was great to see them against a team that can go as good as they can, maybe even better -- most matches I see of theirs, they're slowing down because their opponents can't match their speed. It's a weird match when Pentagon is the slowest guy in the ring. Wasn't so much into the big name matches otherwise, after the relentless pace of the earlier matches, the main event felt a little slow for me.