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Whole practice roster is receivers and DBs nearly. Sounds like Fenner will be out again and that's a huge loss.

Time to put away the Jump to Conclusions mat.

Based on the contract players sign they have no hope of suing for wrongful dismissal. The only thing that’s kind of sketchy is the league refusing to register a contract if he signed elsewhere, could be viewed as collusion, but I believe they covered that in the last CBA negotiation.

He's never been good at catching the ball on fades and corners. His best routes are ones into the field.

Yep, but he has those plays ready and scripted no matter what, he's not adjusting. He'd be adjusting if he stuck with what worked. He's going to run the plays he's scripted no matter what. Like a double reverse off a wildcat formation to Simonise when he's up 17-0 on 1st and 10. Why run that there? That's a play you run when you're down 17-0. Huge risk of a turnover.

His problem is the opposite. Lapo is a gameplanner. If his plan succeeds he looks like a genius, but he really struggles to move off the plan he's made and the plays he's installed that week. The best offense he coached was in Saskatchewan when Grandpa Miller could give him a kick in the ass and oversee his playcalling. Without that he's been extremely inconsistent right back to the minute he walked into Canada in 2002. Lapo is a C+ coordinator who can be an A+ and an F in the same game.

When they took the ball away right after the O turned it over on Saturday?

Loffler has plenty of opportunity to make plays. He’s whiffing.

Especially when your offense turns the ball over 4 times in a half. How many times did the D get the ball back in that game? How many times did they set the offense up with great field position off a takeaway? The offense reasonably should have produced several more TDs and this game should not have been close. The defense did their job.

I’d rather see Simonise and Petermann. Use the import spot on D right now, go all import D.

There has to be some concern about some key players and their performance thus far, 5 games in. Adams has dropped a ton and put our defense back on the field as a result, cost us many points. Bowman is a non-factor. Loffler is averaging less than 2 tackles per game. That’s absurd for a safety and especially one that plays his style, he’s not a cover safety. More than that he hasn’t made an impact play, a positive one, yet this season. He has missed a slew of tackles that kept our D on the field. Nichols has been unproductive and at times brutal in both 2nd halves he’s played. Worried about hits? Can’t get 100% on his throws due to the knee? Whatever it is they better figure it out.

Nichols literally couldn’t make a throw in the 2nd half. Play calling to account for that would be basically not relying on his arm at all. That’s pretty hard to do in Canadian football. That was Max Hall level QBing.

Here’s an idea, let Lapo draw up the game plan and call plays in the first half and turn over play calling to Buck or the RB coach in the 2nd half. Help Lapo get out of his own way.

People really want a field goal on 3rd and a foot? There’s no coach in Canada who kicks there. The 3rd and goal from the 2 is a bit of a gamble, but it was a horrible play call running a search play right into a stack. Probably should be running more option with Streveler and Harris/Demski and giving him pass options too. Lapo made Streveler one-dimensional tonight and totally took away the reason he’s been successful.

Crazy thing is how both games the offense/Nichols just tanked in the second half. He made a number of excellent throws in the first half and couldn’t hit anything in the second, even when Bowman had 10 yard radius he way under threw him. Wonder if he’s aggravating his knee as he tires and can’t get much into throws later on.

Any one of those drives goes for points the Bombers win. No confidence in Nichols right now for me.

Can touch his head and they know that. It’s the rule. Stupid to do it. The Wild one was a bad call, other two were easy.

Yep, combine that with throwing picks and hard to overcome that kind of QB play. He looked great in the first half though, made a lot of throws right on guys in coverage, several of them dropped. To me it looked a lot like BC was reading keys in the plays we ran and were all over the routes in our passing game in the 2nd half. Doesn’t excuse the absolutely boneheaded decision to throw the ball right into that by Nichols on all the INTs. Throw it away. There was also no excuse for not running Harris or play action on every first down play. BC was so worried about him and couldn’t stop him. Playaction opened up a few plays but use it and the run way more.

D took a lot of dumb penalties and gave up way too many second and longs. But giving up 20 points should be an easy win and should have been tonight. Bombers O easily left 20 points on the field if not more.

Nichols can’t throw deep from the pocket. The league knows it. Lapo has to run a lot of misdirection to get Nichols the time and space to go long. The misdirection stops and our passing game stops with it.

Nichols needs to make a throw in half a game. Brutal 2nd half for Lapolice. Could not finish the couple drives they had and BC knew what was coming for th most part. Loffler needs to make a tackle on 2nd and 12 draw plays and not launch himself at shoulder pad level of a running back twice. Bombers seriously need to get a safety who isn’t a liability.

What’s wrong with Corney? They need to keep that guy out of the weight room so his body lasts. 2 imports have to sit, interesting the number of Canadian receivers on the chart, almost makes you wonder if there will be a surprise healthy scratch. Hard to believe Lulay is starting after seeing the brace he was wearing during the game last week.

Dom Davis is not mobile. Sad to see even Milt making that assumption.

BLM down after a late hit at the knees. IMO that kind of hit should be an ejection.

Ottawa's offense is 90% Harris to Spencer tonight, and Calgary is all over it.