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For sure. McCrae is a nice guy to have on the roster but unless there's a rash of injuries he'd spend this game standing on the sidelines. They've shown that they won't pull off a starting receiver for him or anyone else this season. He might get on the roster anyway if Bailey can't go. I might have kept Walker on over Clements. I'd bet we'll have Briggs/Gauthier on the field almost every down anyway.

Butler doesn't really scare me with their interior OL. Suspect they might run some funky stuff with Pipkin if the pass game starts out cold.

Crave is just an arm of Bell like CTV and TSN. Streaming instead of sports channels will be death for a lot of sports...basically all of them short of the NFL. Even the NFL is just dipping its toes in that pool. 100% of their games are still available OTA in local markets. Eg if Minnesota and Tampa are playing on TNF or MNF one of the local CBS/ABC affiliates carries the game over the air. The whole point of those sports channels is that people/commercial places just leave them on the in the background. There's significant value for advertisers there. Streaming you'll need people to seek the programming. The streaming sites aren't really great at marketing live events. Unless they come heavy with rights fees the value of advertising for sports leagues will be so poor that it won't be worth it yet.

Remembrance Day was a Tuesday that year. ESF was played on the 11th in 07.

Holm or Lawrence will be active and Kramdi is out. Too bad they are taking Walker out. I think he’s a guy we need vs pass and run in playoffs. If the DL keeps Rourke moving the secondary won’t be primary.

The special teams coach is almost always the guy who gives options, monitors clock too just in case head coach distracted by other things like penalties etc.

McCrae will likely have less reps though. If we have all the receivers back he’ll only be returning kickoffs which we won’t have much of. I’d rather have the full DL rotation for a game where pass rush could likely be a deciding factor.

I think we'll have a normal number of DB's but will keep Adams on along with Walker and Sayles. A little worried they'll keep McCrae on over a defensive player but they usually beef up the DL for playoffs.

Key will be to make Rourke move and don't give up the easy ones underneath. He's done nothing the past two weeks when he had to move off his initial drop (sometimes where he takes the snap if it's a 5 step).

They had the momentum after BC hit the one long one for 37 but then their defense held and cause BC losses. Then the next O drive they are driving in to tie, hit 3rd and 2 and instead of making it a 4 point game to put the D back out which had 4 sacks in the previous 2 BC series, try to get BC to jump, use a timeout, then run a play 3rd and 2, hand the ball over. BC scores and Dickenson goes all pass.

Calgary handed the momentum to BC early in the 2nd half with the stupid 3rd and 2 play. Their D has also not adjusted at all.

Just no coverage by Calgary on routes at that 7-10 yard depth and that's all Rourke is throwing.

No ability to reset and throw for Rourke. Let him take the snap and stay at that drop, don't challenge the low intermediate routes and he's fine.

Now Calgary going to forget the run here too.

Literally every pass from Rourke is at 8-9 yard depth and Calgary is just sitting back. Sit at the sticks and make him throw the ball downfield. Pipkin wasn't ready for that hit. Now he's going to want to stick to the wedge.

That's PI. Ball isn't deflected.

Stamps D not going to win by covering turf. Had BC on the ropes and handed game back.

Rourke hasn't thrown over the top aside from a pitch and catch on a double move. So drop out and play soft? Force him to throw by someone, not just right to his guy.

Dickenson wastes a time out and 3 points. Need to play the long game here, don't let BC get to a point where they don't need the pass. Dickenson is not a great coach.

There are other facilities, there are other weekends. Planning an event like this in August when the Bombers were firmly in first place and extremely likely to host a playoff game on this date was a major screwup by whoever made that decision. Completely foreseeable problem the organizer caused themselves.

The East All-Star OL is worse than the Bombers OL, probably Calgary's too. Ruby and Rice aren't top 10 players in their position.

Kind of shitty that the Grey Cup is being treated as incentive for potential owners and/or bailouts. Maybe time to reward the cities more that support the league and give some incentive to others to get on board, actually market their teams. I'd rather have a 9 year rotating schedule than the BS we have now.

Riders 5th in the West next year. Don’t care who they sign.

It fits Hufnagel’s dry humor type personality perfectly though. The reason it was effective is because it’s so unexpected.

What a waste of reps to have a guy like Dom Davis, or even Pipkin for BC, in these games. This is why no QB's are developing.