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The emotional argument is about the only long-term one. There's no economic benefit on a region to having pro sports. Most of the jobs are comparable to working retail, and very few are full-time. Like Noeller says, there is the short-term benefit of building it. I fully agree with using public money in many cases, I just hate when they try to make it seem financially sensible. In reality it is tossing money into a financial black hole. Fair enough and like you said a lot of public money goes into projects that will never return that money to the public purse, just be honest. Otherwise you end up in the mess we've been stepping in for half a decade now.

Basically. Also strengths and weaknesses. Better vs run or pass type stuff, or a specific role. But clearly for most guys if you can limit their snaps a bit you're going to get better production from them when they are in the game and have guys relatively fresh in the 4th quarter in terms of DL. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find any DL playing more than about 3/4 snaps on either side of the border nowadays, you'd be looking at JJ Watt and guys in that echelon.

Who's our boundary WR? Non-factor against the Argos. One injury and we're playing projects. Westerman has 6 of 8 sacks by our entire defensive line. Where's our import rush ends? I'd give Walters about a C+. We continue to have the same depth issues over and over.

They needed a younger version of Suber? Can't cover, good tackler.

Have you looked at the rosters? Thomas is in the top half of NI DL who are playing. Obviously he's not an every down guy and would only ever play that role if 2-3 injuries happened in game, so basically never. But for 25 snaps a game he's a very good player.

i am not writing off the season nor am I am troll as someone suggested. However, I am concerned about where this team and this season is heading. The purpose of this post was more of a 'what if' scenario because the Grey Cup is in our back yard and I belieleve tha twhile they made big moves (picking up Stanley Bryant, Picard and re-upping Willy) that was done with a 'rebuild' in mind. How much different would this team had looked if they had gone into the offseason with a 'let's get a cup this season' and rebuild after. I know people on here like to be pragmatic and are very rational but on this bye-week with no game to talk about I thought why not pose this question. Thanks to those who have taken this post it in the good nature it was intended. Signing Picard for 200k and Bryant to a lesser extent are not rebuilding moves. Picard would be lucky if he could make it through this season, he's done. He's not going to be playing in a couple years for sure. How is that a "rebuilding" move? Just does not make sense.

I don't get his point. The offense never really drove the ball after the first drive, that one was keyed by Marve scrambling. The TD was a 55 yard RB screen pass, just about the most vanilla play in the book. I never saw anything but "vanilla," and that's probably mostly due to Marve's comfort. He's not going to stay in the pocket and move through his reads like Willy does when he gets the chance from his OL. That means your intermediate and deep passing game is going to be almost non-existent. I guess putting him in a situation where he would almost surely fail is the better way?

I don't understand why any famous person who isn't directly making money off of social media, like a CFL player, uses a Twitter account. There's really nothing to gain.

Seems MB can't/won't/doesn't know how to adjust in the 2nd half. How many times has our O come out, looked pretty good if not great only to slow down and then come to a complete stand still as the game goes on. I get that Defenses can and do adjust. But why doesn't the Offence adjust to them as well? They do. I lean more towards the rookie QB puking his guts out and injuring his throwing hand having a huge impact. He had a hell of a time going downfield and seemed a lot less willing to both stand in the pocket and extend plays after he hurt his hand. One thing I've noticed Marve do when he hits a wall in every game he's played for us including pre-season is the chuck and duck. At a certain point the hits change how he plays.

I've been told by someone who coaches football that it was a read option play, and that Marve did make the wrong read. But still.....why a shotgun snap play that has us starting so far behind the line?? That's more wrong than anything Marve did. We've all seen that shotgun play on third and short described on TV as the wrong call, because you've made it third and medium instead. It was a read option play. But with that amount of time left. I don't like the idea of giving a new starting QB an option....run it or throw it. AS in hand the ball off or drop back and toss it. No play action, no read option. The only thing that makes me hesitate calling a run play there is the amount of time left in the game. Otherwise it's a fine call. You need to give your QB options pretty much all the time, but particularly in those late game situations because defenses often guess as to what the offense will do based on their tendencies in that game and defend heavily against certain plays. You also want to call a play that your QB is very comfortable with. It was all kind of a scramble and who knows how it would have played out if Marve had more prep time that week. Probably run a similar option play with a read on one or two receivers pre-snap to see how much cushion they are being given, allowing for a quick hitter to get the first down, or if there is press coverage allowing for a deep shot.

Because the defense mirrors the offense, the defense adjusts their gaps and coverages. Nobody is going to let you overload one side. That play might have worked that easy in the days before gap control, but now you'd need someone to make a mistake every down to get 5 yards.

Calgary wouldn't want those guys for what they are making. I bet Simmons gets cut this week or next.

This can't be right. The rest of the league has more than 1 defensive TD for sure, the Bombers have one, I believe Edmonton and Montreal have a few. Toronto scored a special teams one on us this week.

a. block the inside guys so that the rush has to come form the outside b. roll the pocket left or right c. hit the hot pass routes d. draw play up the middle e. buy the QB a condolence card after apologizing profusely f. get another QB onto the field after carting the previous one off This is what they are missing so often, and that's not scheme, that's basic. Also when guys get plain beat there's nothing scheme can do. They could run more screens, but our OL can't block anything right now. Our RB's lead the league in yards after contact for a reason, and they don't even have a lot of yards. Pretty much all of them are after contact, it's truly pathetic. Walters needs to make a move on this bye to get a couple OL in, probably imports. I agree with most of this but you can't ignore the fact that MB empties the backfield a lot. Add to this fact that other teams realize that bombers don't run screens very often and that's a perfect storm. A new OL probably won't change that... Again, that being said, I'd bring in an import Centre and put Picard on notice. And another import LB for PR. Pick up one of the vet DL that are sitting at home too. It all depends on what they are facing. Hamilton puts 7-8 guys on the line of scrimmage pretty much all the time. They usually rush between 3 and 5, but you don't know which ones are coming and which ones are dropping into coverage. So you have guys dropping into short zones from the line of scrimmage. Trying to run screen game against that would be counter productive and likely lead to turnovers. Edmonton is pretty similar. You gotta get the ball on the outside or down the field very fast. Against everyone else the screens to the running backs have been plentiful, it's too bad Cotton's dropped about 6 of them. Having extra blockers only helps if everyone executes their assignments. You could have 9 guys lined up to block and if Picard and Neufeld miscommunicate or get flat out beat it won't matter. Maybe they can line up Pontbriand and Cronk behind both guards to at least provide some difficulty to opposing DT's.

I'd interview Himebauch, Dinwiddie, Jarious Jackson and Khari Jones. Chances are most of those guys wouldn't leave where they are now to come here in the upcoming off-season.

Burris started with Calgary. He was a "castoff" signed to a mega free agent deal by the Riders in 2000.

Why would you do that? The defense has been lights out for a month. Hurl is doing his job, which is often to take an inside gap and play through there. The Bombers are playing the 5-1 front a ton, they call it "Cowboy," with Hurl right up at the line. Bass is making plays from his spot 5 yards back of the line. Not sure why people are continuing on Hurl. He's not a problem, actually playing quite well. Personally I think Bass can cover a lot more ground sideline to sideline so swapping him and Hurl in this defense makes no sense.

Fans here would hate Chapdelaine. "Why don't we run the ball" would become the popular refrain. He's actually quite similar to Bellefeuille, except he loves the bunch formation and combo routes. Runs a lot of empty backfield.

That's kind of normal league-wide right now. Marve took a forearm to the head on the first play of the final drive against the Argos and had a few outside the pocket where he got hit by two guys with the second guy coming in very late. Lots of dirty shots on QB's, and not many flags for the actual shots that are the ones likely to cause injury. IMO the Bombers get it worse than most teams because they don't respond to that stuff physically on either side of the ball. Would be nice to see that spark.

a. block the inside guys so that the rush has to come form the outside b. roll the pocket left or right c. hit the hot pass routes d. draw play up the middle e. buy the QB a condolence card after apologizing profusely f. get another QB onto the field after carting the previous one off This is what they are missing so often, and that's not scheme, that's basic. Also when guys get plain beat there's nothing scheme can do. They could run more screens, but our OL can't block anything right now. Our RB's lead the league in yards after contact for a reason, and they don't even have a lot of yards. Pretty much all of them are after contact, it's truly pathetic. Walters needs to make a move on this bye to get a couple OL in, probably imports.

Nope. 3rd in the East has 4 wins. Bombers have 3. Tied for 3rd in the West.

17-14 with a quarter left seals the deal? Hajrullahu is not a good punter. He's got a big leg but his directional kicking is too inconsistent. The cover team sets up to cover the kick going to a certain area, when the kick is 15 yards wide of that, the returner has a bunch of field to work with and basically one guy to beat before the kicker. He's also inconsistent in terms of how long it takes him to get the ball off. We've had 3 blocked and many more close calls. Ideally we'd have a punter who is a punter. Lirim should practice his punts between the 20s as much as he practices the coffin corner, cause those are the ones that are killing us.

I like the idea of Wade because he'd kick some ass. Enough of this "need to look at the film" or coddling the players. You don't perform...you're cut. You should watch some of Austin's post-games from the last couple years, most of them are up on Drew Edwards blog. Extremely rare for coaches to single out players publicly, and even "kick ass" coaches in the opinion of the masses don't do it.

Sounds like your neighbourhood was the first to be fogged for mosquitoes tonight.

My guess is that they had the next play in to Marve if it was 3rd and longer than a couple yards or a first down, same play, before that 2nd down play. Hard to really prepare for the scenario they ended up in with it being 3rd and almost 2 yards. Harder with a very inexperienced QB who was obviously fighting pretty hard just to get through the game at that point. The read option wouldn't be a bad call because you are isolating one defender and giving two of your better guys with the ball, Marve and Marshall a chance to get it done. By that point it seemed to me that Marve's ability to throw more than about 7-8 yards vertically down the field was severely compromised. Hard to prepare??? Maybe if your soft in the head but not for anyone on the staff of a professional football team it shouldn't be. And Marve wasn't having any trouble throwing more than 8 yards, he just completed a 19 yarder. 3rd and almost 2 when you're in hurry-up at 24 seconds is pretty unusual. They had to switch out of the play they had called for either 3rd and long or 1st and 10. Not easy for any QB to get organized, worse for a rookie. You think they ran through that scenario in their one practice in a thunderstorm this week?