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League needs to get serious on the after the whistle stuff when guys are tied up or on the turf. Looks like we lost Demski and Whitehead both to very late hits on very vulnerable players already engaged/on the turf. No flag on either, see if anything comes supplemental. Both are guys who are very marketable in terms of butts in seats and TV. There's enough probability of guys getting injured in legal physical play, the league needs to get rid of the stuff that is not during play.

Well in the end they got Jyles, Grant Shaw and a 1st. Bombers traded those 2nd rounders for 3rd overall pick.

Probably both 2nd round picks in 2012 the Bombers held and something else.

Probably Griffiths, but no news on Hecht.

And really that spot on the roster is for chasing kicks. Griffiths at 295-300 isn’t going to do that, might get a few reps on D and play on return teams.

Fenner is playing field corner though. I think he’s doing pretty damn good considering the coverages Hall plays with at least two blitzers on most passing downs. Grymes and Roberson are playing the boundary, they have less space to cover and more ability to make plays on the ball. Fenner almost always has to play on top of routes and can only cut off routes into the field, but the main job there is to not get run by.

And opposing defences are demonstrably different in how they are playing against the Bomber passing game. There's a good picture on Twitter showing 3 DB's and the SAM of Ottawa lined on the side of the field with Demski in motion and Whitehead on the line on the play where Demski got his TD vs Ottawa, 3 of them were bracketing Whitehead and Pruneau went with Demski.

Bighill needs to run around a fair amount. The hamstring stuff is not something that can be fooled with. Needs to show the initial minor injury is basically healed otherwise it’s a big risk.

Too much booze money with all he’s saving on hotels.

Ottawa basically doesn’t have an offence. They need to figure out how to win 12-10.

The play calling does those guys no favours when it’s straight dropbacks, by far the highest degree of difficulty for pass blocking, also not much running which doesn’t encourage physical engagement.

Yeah 4-0 is nice and might have benefits down the road in terms of seeding. Really what they are building towards is the ability to beat Edmonton and Calgary in November. To do that there can be no “letting the foot off the pedal.”

Would like to see more variety in the run game for the exact reason of moving the game along with a 3-4 score lead. I would be running hardly any straight dropbacks in that scenario. Pass should be off playaction or RPO, there should always be a run option shown to the D. And the reason is you don’t want to let teams hang around. Toronto had no chance because at all times at least one phase of their team is awful. If we have a 20+ point lead at half to Edmonton, Calgary or Hamilton what happened in that 2nd half yesterday can’t happen. They could legitimately run that lead back. I think at the point where Nichols went out for the rest of that drive would have been the right time to go that. It would likely be led by Streveler, it would include Harris but also make use of the back up tailback and Demski, Whitehead a few times on option plays. Lapo’s gameplans and playbook each week always has a very narrow focus, which is a good idea because the players are really prepared but it is also limiting in some ways. It’s good that the team is comfortable in close games but it’s not a bad thing to stomp on the throat either.

Wouldn’t even think about that if haven’t managed to score TD and down 27.

Tempting fate leaving Harris in.

That’s two sacks. The other 4 he’s held the ball for 4-5 seconds before he’s even hurried. Esks aren’t even trying to contain him just straight rush, no scrambling.

Does Reilly have a broken leg? What happened to his mobility?

Small victories I guess

5 yard challenge

Zero effort by Carter...half-assed route and half-assed attempt at ball when it arrived.

Six missed tackles on that TD

Foucault is just awful...at guard or tackle.

That was mostly because Harris did a little hop on that pass and planted on one leg which then got hit.

Might as well start scrambling Reilly, you're getting smoked anyway...at least gain some yards.

Umm...grounding?