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Maybe Marve has some chemistry with Jhomo Gordon, but Gordon sure looked clueless in terms of where he needed to be to make himself an option for the QB in the pre-season. Not a reliable target for a green QB. At least he'll have Moore, Denmark, Kohlert, Feoli-Gudino who are pretty solid technicians.

Even 10 pounds lighter Turner is not undersized as a 3 technique. Most of them are in the 255-280 range, and the guys on the heavier end are significantly taller than Turner. The guys they have replacing him are around the same height and 10 pounds lighter than him. I don't think his poor play has much to do with weight, I don't think he's played well for the last 2 seasons and he's always been a far better pass rusher than gap filler vs the run.

I think that's a pretty apt comparison. You gotta qualify it a bit though, Bishop who won games in Regina and Winnipeg was a more refined passer still with many shortcomings. I'd compare Marve more to Bishop early 2000s with the Argos. At that point Bishop was a huge runner too. I'm thinking a typical Marve statline will be 19/35 230 yards 1 TD 2 INT and 60 rushing yards. He'll probably have the odd spectacular game, but he'll need a lot of help from special teams and defense to win games.

This makes no sense. What difference does it make where your QB's came from? I care more about how they play. McManus also did nothing as a Blue Bomber and had a hall of fame career as a "castoff" playing for other teams. Kind of kills your whole idea, doesn't it?

Exactly we are 0-3 against the best two teams in the league only have to face Edmonton once more at home. 3-1 against the rest of the league. If we can win 7 or 8 games in the next eleven, we should make the playoffs. I doubt that a 9 and 9 season even with crossover potential gets us there with three teams in the east already with 4 wins. Gonna have to start counting the free squares on the bingo cards to see what our chances are for the post season. Too many divisional games left in the East. There won't be more than two teams above 9 wins.

Nick Moore. I'm talking more about the RB position. Cotton will be out definitely. So I'm guessing Marshall will be the starter. We carried 2 import RBd since Day 1, so who will be the 2nd RB this Friday? Moore will probably be back this week and I'm hoping Adams is good so they can go 4 Imp rec. Normand for Bastien. Moore for Cotton. I'd only put a 2nd import RB on if Stoudermire is coming off the roster. Marshall has shown over the last three weeks that he can handle being an every down back, Normand can play a few snaps and be available if Marshall goes down. I think they'll put Scott on though.

Nick Moore.

Willy has pass rushers in his face by the time he gets the ball in the games vs Hamilton and Edmonton over and over again. That's just poor OL play. You can't even tell what the playcall is on most of those plays because Willy is running for his life or being taken to the turf before anything develops, he has no chance to get his eyes downfield. Flipping to quick game wouldn't matter if your QB isn't even given the time to set and throw from the time the ball is snapped. Even against BC who didn't have a great pass rush he was making a lot of throws with Picard being blown back right into him off the snap. Picard's not even smart enough or willing to tie the play by hitting the dirt. Realize your limitations. The TD to Adams vs BC is a good example, Willy tossed that bomb just with his upper body because he had no chance to step into that throw with Picard in his lap. If you have 2 guys on the field who can't block anybody and make mental mistakes on top of that, the rest of your offence has no chance to do anything consistently. Laurent and Hall didn't even have to steamroll Picard or Neufeld on many snaps yesterday, they just straight up came out of their stance and surged through their gap without as much as a speed bump to hurdle. How the hell does that happen on the inside? Those guys aren't even extra rushers, they are the freaking DT's! Those guys are accounted for first and foremost in the protection. Picard is here as a veteran presence, he's never been able to block CFL DL, he's been a reliable snapper. His snaps have been terrible this season and there are tons of mental breakdowns on his OL. Is Goossen that bad? This needs to be addressed ASAP if they have any aspirations of winning more than 6-7 games this season, because even as the rest of the team gets better, that OL, the C and LG spots in particular, are going to hold everything back.

You left out the three TD passes... Once you realize that Ham offence barely had the ball in the first quarter, those are good numbers. Two of our sacks were only because Collaros was looking end zone in the last minute of the half Where was Hamilton on the field when those plays happened? Pretty sure they weren't reaching the endzone, even if they could have pulled Michael Bishop off his couch for those two plays.

The OL couldn't put more than 2 decent plays in a row together. Limiting factor on this offense, doesn't matter if they bring in Mike McCarthy or Dave Dickenson or Vince Lombardi to call the plays. Bellefeuille has a history in the league so you can judge him on that, but hard to judge the job he's doing here just because that offensive line is so awful. When your QB has a guy like Laurent two steps away from him by the time the snap is in his hands it doesn't matter if it's a screen, shovel pass, or what hot routes he's called pre-snap, the play is over.

Couldn't be any worse.

If there's a ratio change that involves having Greaves, Picard and Neufeld on the field at the same time our quarterbacks won't be able to afford their life insurance premiums. We need some better import talent before it's even an issue. Kashawn Fraser isn't better than Jake Thomas or Ivan Brown. Pull Danny Mac away from the lounge and his schooner. Time to get to work.

Maybe they should play those guys.

Hamilton has a way better DL in terms of outright talent and they'll send anybody on a blitz. BC didn't really send more than LB's. I don't like that they are leaving it on Picard to guess as to who Hamilton is sending, just block it up from the inside out and give Willy a chance instead of rolling the dice.

Well sure, they're just doing what they were told to do on that particular play-call. That LB wasn't supposed to be there and neither had a clue that he might be their responsibility. If they were that stupid they wouldn't get anywhere near professional football. That's like saying a left winger in the NHL is too dumb to realize the high guy on the left side of the ice is his responsibility in the D zone whether it's a D or a forward who slips back. The play call rarely has a specific protection called unless it's a rollout. Picard and to a lesser extent Willy are setting that at the line based on the front.

They play guard?

This is a baffling thing about the Neufeld trade... he was like that in Sask as well. He only looked good at RT but he's never gotten a look there. I was a Picard fan, but sure is looking like his best before date has passed... then again, whoever we plug and play - for years now - just seems to deteriorate... remember when Jones, Knapp were our saviours? Teams know that if they load the box Bellefuile will crumble... why abandon the run in this game? It was working and the score was so out of hand, just take it one play at a time... Neufeld didn't look good at RT, he hasn't really looked good anywhere as a Bomber for more than a game at a time. I watched the entire Riders-Stamps playoff game from 2012 when we got Neufeld and the Riders almost always had a back or tight end on his outside hip widening the rush lanes and helping him out, he still struggled to find a block and get his hands on anyone. That was before he snapped his leg. I doubt his mobility is any better. He's better matched physically with ends in terms of strength but doesn't have the athleticism to stop them from turning the corner on him at 5 yards. Hamilton wasn't really sending a ton of rushers in terms of numbers, they just disguise who is coming very well. If the Bombers went into a basic pocket protection scheme, protect inside gaps and give the QB a chance to read the blitz and hit hot routes behind it they would have had a reasonable chance to move the ball consistently. You gotta block gaps, not players when teams are sending anyone on a blitz, that's the only way to give a QB a chance. Also might have simplified things to get the OL on the same page. They seemed completely confused and out of sync, Neufeld in particular stood out as chasing guys far away from his basic responsibility to his inside gap and not moving in sync with the line when they went to slide protections at times when Picard called them to meet the blitz off the edge.

No kidding. People get caught in the "if this, then that" cause and effect trap. Austin is coaching a great team. Austin yells and turns red, coaches who yell and turn red win. When he was coaching an average team (I realize they ended up in the Grey Cup from the weak East) everyone called him an idiot for his outbursts just like they call out O'Shea for seemingly being soft on players. O'Shea is coaching a team with flawed personnel. No amount of yelling at a Pat Neufeld or other guys who blow assignments mentally or physically is going to make them better football players.

Just cause O'Shea doesn't have every capillary in his face burst when he gives someone **** doesn't mean he doesn't give someone ****. Pretty much everytime someone takes a UR or otherwise stupid 15 yarder or when Stoudermire does his stupid crap, O'Shea gives them ****.

Will probably be a good game. Both killed by Edmonton, both really close with Calgary and Montreal. I don't believe Ottawa will put up much resistance to Hamilton either. The Bombers, Ottawa, Montreal and Calgary are pretty even IMO. I think BC and Saskatchewan are the worst teams right now. Hamilton, Edmonton and Toronto are the best teams, Toronto is a little inconsistent.

Bellefeuille and to a lesser extent Willy holding onto the ball too long are the problems with protection. The actual OL isn't the primary problem. Flat out wrong. Willy had guys in his face when he got the snap on numerous occasions. About the only sack he took where he held the ball for even a remotely longer than he should have was a 2nd and 20 when he needed extra time to let the guys downfield get open to try and convert. The OL is the entire problem with the offense. It is abysmal and was even bad by the low standard they've set for themselves tonight. They looked like they were running different plays than the guy next to them far too often. Nobody should ever come through untouched between the inside gaps of the OT's and OG's and it happened at least a dozen times tonight to all 3 QB's.

Would have loved to see Maas here... but signing Ellingson, Jackson, Sinopoli, Price, Rogers solved Ottawa's offensive problems... When they play average teams like themselves or bad ones. Killed by Edmonton, likely to be killed by Hamilton and Toronto.

Here's my beef with the whole OL thing, Bomber specific and the league to some extent. Why put guys out there who you know can't do the job? Priority #1 for the whole team, not just the offense needs to be protecting the QB. Especially for a team like the Bombers who are obviously reliant on Willy to be able to compete. Use 3 imports on the OL if you have to, and bring in an import who knows how to play the interior positions, not just a tackle who you're going to slide inside and be just as bad as the NI guy. Neufeld clearly missed a lot of Picard's calls or just wasn't in this game. A lot of slide protections he just opened up out of his stance like they were doing a regular pocket with no movement, other times he chased guys off the line which opened up his inside gap and completely killed the play. When he does get his hands on somebody he's a below-average blocker. Picard is worse. If Goossen truly isn't an option at this point he must be just terrible. If I'm Walters I'm looking at getting import help for the interior.

All the big mistakes, the direct to points ones were individual breakdowns. Hard to call out the response of the whole team based on that. Hamilton's offense didn't do much. D responded when they got a chance. Banks didn't do much. OL just isn't good enough to sustain drives, mentally and somewhat physically. Stoudermire is an idiot who is trying to do too much. I have no issue with about 40 of the 44 who played today. Get a LG, C, KR who are average to good CFL players and this team is in the 9-11 win range.

I think it is for the most part. The OL is horrid, Stoudermire keeps doing stupid stuff. Defense showing signs of being very solid and resilient, only really one TD on them today and it was a big play.