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If that's a penalty they could call illegal contact every play.

Lapo's screen game is not dynamic at all. You can read it right from the snap.

That's not a problem at all, would be perfect to run a bunch of 6-7-8 minute drives. Lapo has to keep running.

Why do we keep running crossers and screens to guys who can't break tackles?

Whitehead is a lousy player.

Great SAM blitz there.

Lapo absolutely kills the O with shitty first down calls. Run options, you've got the two best runners in the league.

Bombers need to adjust to deep ball and take more disciplined routes in pass rush.

Alexander got torched on the first play, double posts he jumped on the inside one Begelton and Rogers is all alone on Taylor with no one over top.

Apples to oranges. Bombers are in the West. Montreal is in the East with two historically bad teams in Toronto and Ottawa. Toronto has one of the worst defenses in modern CFL history and Ottawa has one of the worst offenses, worse than the 2013 Bombers. Even the worst two teams in the West who are not very good in Edmonton and BC are nowhere near as bad as those two. The Alouettes would have to be exceptionally awful to not finish 2nd in the East over 18 games. It's not that great of an accomplishment. Winning in Calgary is an accomplishment, but that historically bad Ottawa team also won there this season.

I think you're 180 degrees turned around on this one. We've had pretty significant turnover/offensive struggles vs Calgary our last several meetings. That tends to lead to opposition points, but for the most part the Bombers haven't had trouble containing Calgary's offense over the past few years in terms of points. I believe the magic number is 30, and that's 30 designed rushes for Harris and Streveler combined. If the run isn't established and relevant in the whole game the Bombers won't produce enough first downs to win, even if they score 20 points in the first quarter.

It's just insurance. 95% chance we don't have to make a claim, but we've now made sure we can't make that claim if we need it. And at that point, the 5%, the kick in the nads is going to be that they insurance would have come at no added hit to the cap or chequebook since Collaros is being paid the same to stand on the sidelines in street clothes and he would be to stand there in shoulder pads.

I agree. Those imports and then you have Wolitarsky, Demski and Petermann platoon through the 2 spots. Whitehead could only stay on if they trusted him to be the primary returner. Thus far Grant is much better at that role.

Literally makes no sense unless he's not medically cleared. 1. He's getting paid a game cheque. 2. The 3rd QB spot can't be used for a player elsewhere on the roster. So we are playing a player short. Even if Collaros doesn't know the offense at all, would we not want him to play if both our #1 and #2 QB's got knocked out? I can understand not elevating the PR QB because of cap space.

Better not see our guys falling on their asses after this kind of stuff.

Are the Als here currently? If not they are going to have a tough time getting into the city after noon today. And as I write this and look at arrivals board, all flights between Winnipeg and Montreal today are listed as cancelled.

Collaros makes some warm and fuzzy because his name is recognizable, but he truly has been awful since he returned in 2016 from having his knee wrecked in 2015.

This is a total false equivalency. It's not a rebuild. The hope is that if we had a QB who could complete a pass in the playoffs last year we probably win the Grey Cup. That's how close this team is. And if the marketing department is running the football operation I don't have a lot of hope for that football team.

So we aren't re-signing Collaros.

I haven't heard O'Shea or Walters defending Lapolice at all this season. Have heard them defend players on offense. Reading between the lines there, sounds like there's quite a bit of disappointment in the lack of evolution in the offense regardless of how much cap space gets plowed into playmakers for Lapolice. Have heard O'Shea defend Hall and explain his trust in the scheme. I doubt there's any change coming there if O'Shea remains, and I don't really think there needs to be any. The D has been spectacular given that we have rarely fielded a consistently functional offense, and have plundered the D more and more each of the last two off-seasons. Hall is pretty close to retirement though, think that's more likely than a firing.

Yeah except Buck didn't join us with 3 games left in the season having been out for basically the entire season and now on a 3rd team.

Basically just downgraded our 3rd rounder by 12-15 picks to a 5th rounder.

Wonder what the price for MBT was. The Argos can't want him going forward. MBT has been better than Collaros recently and has at least played this season. I don't see what Collaros can offer having been out for about 5 months and struggling all of last season when he did play, sure his W-L was good but Sask was scoring by special teams and turnovers at CFL record pace.

Maybe but Streveler is a totally different kind of QB. He'd really have to develop cohesion with a group of receivers and the ability to make great pre-snap reads and quick throws. That's all run and shoot is, if we see this, we're throwing here and the receiver changes route accordingly. The receiver and QB need to read the same things. There's not a lot of RPO and someone like Harris would be totally wasted in a Run and Shoot. Also really focused on cutting down the reads and cutting the field in half for the QB, easy reads, easy throws. Can be really killed by a great zone defense, but it seems like teams have a lot of trouble scheming zone lately and prefer to just blitz wildly.

Look at his QB's, and look at his record, and his consistent results over a relatively long period, and now think about the rest of the market for head coaches. He's a commodity. It's not a black mark on the head coach to lose playoff games to better QB's, that's an organizational problem. Who do you think is tops among available coaches for head coaching positions? Rick Campbell? Following an open revolt in Ottawa? Tommy Condell? He was garbage until June Junes taught him Run and Shoot, no guarantee he's going to be able run a whole organization. Lapolice? A guy who hasn't developed a half decent QB or playmaker in 3 football lifetimes. Dinwiddie? Kavis Reed? Mark Washington? Reinebold? Mark Kilam? Not likely after the disaster Calgary's special teams have been this season. O'Shea is pretty clearly the top of the head coaching market if available.