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OL was not good vs Hamilton, but was fine against Toronto. Nichols did not see a lot of heat, had tons of time and was cycling through his reads then dumping off to Harris. Really issue comes down to Toronto playing quarters coverage and taking away deep shots, Bombers have very little intermediate passing game with lack of trust in Nichols to hit tight windows, throw behinds and other throws that potentially put ball in harms way if slight bit inaccurate. That intermediate passing game is really important in having a balanced offense, if it's not there very easy to defend passing game in general. Bombers have the receivers/backs to do damn near everything, you've got Lawler, Wolitarsky, Matthews who are BIG targets. You've got Whitehead and Demski who bring a lot of speed and YAC potential once they have the ball, you've got Petermann who can do everything but is especially reliable in the middle and also a guy who tends to gain YAC, they had Rasheed Bailey dressed who looks to profile as a thicker Denmark type of steady guy. If a QB can't make the throws to enable this offense to function pretty seamlessly I think that's a tremendous problem in isolation of the rest of the team. Lapo's excuse for not riding Harris at 20-0 was incredibly faulty and gives some insight into his mindset. Mostly it's just sickening to hear the excuses given what he has to work with. See bluebombers.com.

What separates average from great? It's the ability to make the two or three throws a game that separate winning from losing. Often this is just a matter of stringing together 2-3 first downs at a certain point in the game, regardless of earlier mistakes. Even when Nichols has been playing well he's often outdueled in this regard. Putting up a bunch of TD's in the first half is often not enough.

Harris has a problem scoring points. He's a perfect fit in Edmonton in the tradition of Ray, Maas and Reilly.

He hasn't really done it in a long time. We get pretty excited about average QBing after last season.

Sure. We could have a QB making what BLM or Reilly do if we dropped say Neufeld and Matthews. It would probably be worth it. Problem is attracting those guys. I don't believe either were truly testing the market. Reilly wanted to go to BC, BLM was Calgary or NFL.

Lapo is an overthinker. Almost every week we come out with a tactic that works in terms of misdirection, Harris, something that's working easy, and then he shifts away from it and never goes back.

Calgary has no shortage of weapons. Each game they've dressed 2 RB's who are excellent. They have a bunch of receivers, probably the best overall slot in the league in Eric Rogers.

BLM lost to Ottawa at home, even though Ottawa turned the ball over like 5 times.

Step #1 is to install a game plan with a set of plays for Streveler and give him reps in practice so this is possible. Lapo will not do this, and if Streveler gets into the game he's running that jumbo package or the plays installed for Nichols, straight drop backs that most QB's in this era really struggle with.

Hall has one problem and that's scheming and calling blitzes. Most of them are predictable and shown pre-snap which basically renders them useless. He loves to blitz on passing downs and that usually entails blitzing 2 out of WIL/MLB/S which means the D has a level of pass rushers and a deep level of DB's on top of all routes but not attacking slants and crossers. That scheme is getting chewed up by YAC and giving up way too many 2nd down conversions the last two weeks.

Yep. FG’s generally aren’t live too. There are way fewer special teams plays in a NFL game.

Told ya...game ends on turnover.

That's PI on Loffler.

This game is gonna end on a turnover.

Probably hoping he's wide open but really want someone who can make the play up high to get that ball.

Gotta ask yourself why JFG is running that route...had a shot at it.

Campbell is pretty close in the category of head coaches a few utensils short of a place setting.

Davis is pretty accurate midrange between the hashes. Past and outside that really bad.

Adams takes a lot of abuse when he runs.

Looked like Bray landed on the ball. No catch.

Fajardo is starting to look legit. He also doesn't have as much to work with as most QB's. There's really no excuse for Nichols and the Bomber O. Like we brought an NFL/CFL vet who started for the Grey Cup champs last year onto the roster yesterday to be an injury replacement. I don't think it's possible to have more talent under cap system.

Pretty much over the season he has. Nichols has the TD passes but he's starting to catch up to the turnovers making it a wash.

Yes only way to advance a fumble like that is if it’s fumbled into the end zone, if someone else on the O recovers it’s a TD...rest of the field it goes back to where ball was fumbled if it’s fumbled forward.

The other issue is that MBT fumbled and one of the OL recovered. By rule they can’t advance the ball from where MBT lost it unless he recovers it or the Bombers clearly possess it.

Lenkov’s were jock sniffers with little money. At least the league is taking its time because better to do it now than have new owners default and go right back to square one of league ownership. What the league really wants is someone with money and Lapointe.