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Once, just once, I wish someone could write a post without creating facts to justify the narrative floating around in their head.

Only two decisions I really have an issue with are having Picard on this team as a player when we have a guy who is ready to play, who might actually be able to block someone in Goossen and the amount of zone our D plays once the other team is in the score zone. Basically a guaranteed TD if you can get there against the Bombers.

I agree. I never want coaches to bring in people they are comfortable working with. Once they learn each other's wives names, it's time to move on.

If you've ever been to a practice and seen how attentive the media are it would be hard to call out O'Shea for not telling the truth based on Irving's "observations." Do people really think there's a Marve conspiracy? If they didn't like him he wouldn't be on the team.

There are many factors. The worst one at IGF is drainage and where moisture collects. Concrete is poured to handle a certain capacity as well, it's not all the same. They actually had to do a bunch of cutting and re-pouring work on the concrete to get their occupancy permit before the first events at IGF because of the faulty design, not enough egress or capacity to handle eqiupment that had to be moved across it. So there was a rush to pour concrete in many areas of the building.

Winter starts on December 21st. A three season stadium should be able to handle a Grey Cup without tens of millions of upgrades. Wan did a poor job, and everyone lied to each other and the public. This will be in front of the courts for a decade.

Cuthbert is having a rough start to this season. A few times in each game I've watched he's been caught by Suitor bellowing about why a coach isn't challenging when it's a scoring play or turnover or misunderstanding a rule and bellowing about it. Best thing any PBP guy can do is stick to PBP.

A lot of assumptions, you know what those tend to do.

Oh did he? I thought it went over his head. Either way it was just plain bone-head. He was snake-bit that entire game. Yep, and at that point he should have recovered it ASAP, but he flubbed it again and we were about a half second away from the Calgary cover guys having a shot at a free TD. Just a real stupid game for him all around.

I was going to bring that up. So the refs blow it and call the Paredes convert good when it clearly missed, so thankfully it gets taken back by the Command Center on review and now it's 16-15 Bombers. Then on the next play, Paredes kicks it off and the ball goes over Stouds head and is rolling quickly out of the back of the end zone. Instead of just letting it roll out, Stouds picks it up and walks out the back of the end zone, thus conceding a single point, for absolutely no reason whatsoever. If he had just let the ball roll out on its own, no point. I get that LH missing the convert was big, but if Stouds had just let the ball roll out on that kick-off, Calgary wouldn't have gotten a point. It was just stupid. I was yelling at the TV "NO!!!!" when he picked it up two yards from the end line as it was rolling out. My father in law, the Lions fan, who never misses a chance to rub it in, said "Winnipeg coaches need to tell their kick returners about the rules on kick-offs. Clearly that guy doesn't get it." I just sighed. Something I've become very good at over the years. Stouds just committed too many stupid mistakes in that game. Veltung has my vote as the kick returner going forward. Stoudermire had already touched the ball trying to catch it around the Bombers 6 yard line. He shouldn't have tried to catch that kickoff at all.

On the last FG sure, but missing that convert after the offense puts 6 on the board to respond to Calgary's only big drive of the game is unforgivable. That is his fault, and only his. No one seems to be calling out Paredes for missing a convert... I don't care about Paredes, I care about the Bombers.

On the last FG sure, but missing that convert after the offense puts 6 on the board to respond to Calgary's only big drive of the game is unforgivable. That is his fault, and only his.

And the blockers actually did their jobs properly on that kick. Calgary had one extra and they made him take the longest route. Hajrullahu bobbled the snap and struggled to get the laces up giving the guy off the edge an extra second. If he handles that snap like every other one on the night, it's not blocked.

The coaches probably had nightmares after watching how many stops occurred on QBs who take the sneak straight up like Marve and struggle to get any push. Marve is more of an option style runner. I'm sure they still have packages for him.

Terrible special teams plays, really individual brain farts by two players, Hajrullahu and Stoudermire, put 15 points (2 TD's and a single) on the board for Calgary and knocked 2 points off the board for the Bombers. Offence and defense played well enough to win, and win handily. That's a positive, which makes the negative plays that lost the game much more aggravating.

Well, don't really think it matters to compare the two events. Stoudermire made a really stupid and selfish decision. I appreciate that he wants to make a big play to win the game, but he took 10 yards away and wasted enough time for at least two plays running around. That's pretty huge when you need a single to tie, field goal to win. From the 40, they need 25-30 yards to be in good field goal range. With 37-38 seconds you have at least 4 and probably 5 plays to get that. Reasonable chance of winning. From the 30 with 30 seconds, you have 3 maybe 4 plays to get 40 yards.

At least McCallum got some points tonight. Being down 13 or 10 with under 3 minutes really makes no difference. Weird passiveness by Chamblin.

Plus the DB didn't have position to justify contact. If you have to reach out and grab someone it's a penalty. Probably should have been illegal contact though as the grab happened fairly early in the route.

A jersey with reflector tape on the shoulders cannot be praised.

Wow. Stamps wasn't even close to catching that ball. Austin missed a gimme challenge there.

That's irrelevant. Unless it's a passing play, the RB is his responsibility. In a gap control defense, the responsibility for everyone in the front seven is to fill their gap and then work to the ball, including the MLB. The RB is everyone's responsibility if he has the ball.

Fraser's worse. He's a DT tweener, too slow to play DE in the CFL. Caught making an inside move by Cato a few times and didn't have the speed to get anywhere near the ball, blew contain. They really need to get a pass rush going. It's probably the only defense against the pass this season that will be effective over the long haul. Other than Gibson a few times our DE's have had zero positive impact on the game, not even making QB's uncomfortable and doing zip against the pass without a halfback blitzing.

Sounds like Stoudermire in for Adams, keeping Veltung on as well. Collins in for Turner, Harlan on roster too. No change to OL.

If they run that triple option with Marve, Marshall and Cotton they'll get in at 75% of the time. That play is indefensible from the 3 yard line, only killed if the QB makes a bad read.

And if the CFL has that attitude they better hope the TV deal $$$ keeps rising exponentially, because if you're talking diehards who will go no matter what you're looking at 20,000 per city in the West and significantly less in the East. Gate revenue will be stagnant at best. They are in competition with many factors for getting butts in seats, including TSN now.