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Well and confusing as hell for casual fans and diehards. Hamilton ball, TD to tie, no wait let's have a review, actually First Down Montreal. See you tomorrow for Friday Night Football.

Maybe if they flub the snap, otherwise pretty impossible, and if that's the rule there's no way teams are going to try to block punts.

Montreal should get all their useless players to retire one by one week after week.

Because the kick crossed the line of scrimmage and the Als player was not onside. It's basically like any punt if it crosses the line of scrimmage even if it was tipped by the defending/returning team.

The CFL sure is good at ruining the on-field product with overbearing rules and subsequent terrible officiating.

Game over on a stupid rule.

**** the kickers, if you can block the kick they might get hit.

And Hamilton gets a chance. Blocked punt + 15 yard no yards. Another stupid play by Montreal.

Hamilton had 3 guys loose to get that kick. Hajrullahu kicking it out of bounds did them in. He could have kicked it halfway to the numbers and Hamilton probably would have scored their TD right there so long as Logan doesn't make the tackle.

Montreal had less guys on the side of the field Hamilton kicked to than Hamilton did. Holy man disorganized. Montreal had two guys deep.

Either TSN's camera angle is weird or Hamilton's slot is always like 3 yards offside.

Way late...just pure stupidity there.

Didn't survive the ground, didn't have full possession before, needed to survive the ground.

Should be running option with Adams, his leverage on the sneaks is brutal.

Actually insane that the Argos cut Van Zeyl...cut Wilder if you need cap space, he's not even an average tailback.

Hamilton's OL is very good. Coombs is getting 5-6 yards before he even has to encounter anyone.

Als needed 7 there.

Maybe a different guy named Greg Ward gets into some trouble an speeds up the process.

For me: Hamilton Winnipeg Ottawa Edmonton Calgary BC Sask Montreal Toronto

The Argos and Als both look far more disorganized than any team I can recall in a long time, like worse than Burke’s Bombers for sure. Crazy thing is that they both have quite a bit of talent. What’s killing the Argos roster wise is Popp’s fascination with size over ability. Popp really lucked into Tracy Ham and Calvino providing him with a career. He’s been brutal when he’s actually had to try to build a team. The Argos and Als did have training camps, right?

Disagree. No offense is designed to go completely stagnant. They are spending quite a lot on guys like Matthews, Adams to have a QB who can make a throw, they were in the market for receivers in the >$200,000 range. Sure they don't want to turn the ball over, but I think they'd like to have more than 2 first downs per quarter.

It's more of an advantage for the pass rushers, they should have more in the tank than the OL and therefore be more effective. I can't see any of these guys having an attitude about playing in a rotation, everyone does now and even down to younger ages. I watch Jefferson and just see a freak who's not really a defensive player. He has no technique aside from using his length and speed rush to try to beat tackles around the edge, he's always trying for the ball, which leads to spectacular plays he can make, but down after down he just kind of floats through the game. Once the ball crosses the LOS or leaves the QB's hand he just stops moving. Meanwhile Nevis is 8 yards downfield tackling receivers. I think maybe he needs to make a big play to get fired up and then they'll come in bunches. I agree with the post about letting Jefferson play more of a "wide 9" type of OLB that you see in American 3-4 schemes. On a passing down have him behind a 3 man front take a look at the protection and pick which edge he's going to rush from, behind either Jeffcoat or Roh.

I don't know how Kowalski assigns some of those routes, but Alexander's targets/catches look pretty low to me.

Our scoring has been hugely reliant on field position, which I mean to an extent everyone's is, but ours even more. Since 2016 the Bombers have been both the top team in special team exchange (punt kickoff & return net) and tops in turning the ball over on D. Nichols was hugely efficient in the redzone in 2016 and 2017, lackluster last season. Streveler became a significant factor for us in those situations last year and scored a lot of TD's. Nichols has been very efficient when we've got to the redzone in 2019 through 2 games, and that's obviously very important. If the factors controlled by ST and D aren't at that "best in the league" level we really struggle to win. When we play the top teams in the league, past few years that's Calgary, Hamilton, Ottawa, Sask last year, we really struggle to win. There's no margin for error, but those phases need to play at a crazy level to give Nichols a huge margin for error if we have a shot to win. Extended drives don't happen often for this offense. There's also a very troubling tendency to go very long stretches with very few first downs and many consecutive two and outs. This allows teams to make comebacks against us, even when we have a 2-3 possession lead and really need just one score to close it out. There is a tendency to blame this on the defense but what happens is field position gradually becomes worse and worse. We hand the opposition 7-8 possessions with essentially no push from our offense and it's not surprising that they put up 2-3 scores.

Adams throws leaning back without his feet set and the half speed pass is easily picked off.