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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.

Kinda gives some insight into how mercurial coaches are, even if they have a chance to coach the team that is god's gift to professional football with the greatest fans who ever wore a blank jersey.

Have you ever seen him take reps there? I know it was suggested by a few people (myself being one) that a move to centre would probably be the best career move/way for the team to use him offseason, but I've never seen him there.

The Riders Canadian problem was quite predictable. The fans should be calling for Taman's head, not Chamblin's.

I'd much rather the utility guy be someone who can snap the ball when none of our other OL have that experience. But what happens if a tackle gets hurt in game... I don't think Goossen, Greaves, or Chungh have ever player tackle... What happens if the centre gets hurt and you have no one who has any experience snapping? QB-Centre exchange is priority #1, can't do anything without it.

I'd much rather the utility guy be someone who can snap the ball when none of our other OL have that experience.

I'm not a fan of any early weeknight or non-weekend games at IGF. It takes too long to get in and out. A 6 PM Friday start and you're turning a lot of people off, especially when you consider how much energy they are putting into trying to be Manitoba's team now. On the other hand, a 7:30 Thursday game turns a lot of people off once they realize that they'll be getting home at midnight and have to wake up at 5 or 6 the next day, not very family friendly either. Winning can solve these issues, but better scheduling can help too.

Agreed. I mean they have it in curling with Hog line infractions. How someone hasn't figured out how to put the technology into other sports yet it strange. The only thing with something like a laser is you can break it with your foot and not the ball (See the reply ) I can see in hockey, them installing the same technology into the puck as they have in curling and once it crosses a certain line it lights up. Would take a lot of guess work off the refs. Not sure how they would do that with a football. But if there are any inventors out there that want my idea I want a 30% royalty The technology for curling is a bit different as it simply records if the players hand is still on the handle of the rock as it crosses the hog line. Where do you put the sensor in the football? The ball only needs to touch the goal line for it to be in, you would have to make the entire football able to become a sensor and that seems like a near impossible task. The solution to me is to accept that there will be human error in the officiating and just deal with it. Ditch all the reviews and just let the refs do their job and hold them to a standard FIFA has a few different "approved" goal line systems and I'm sure they'd be easily (relatively speak) adopted to football .. that said, you'd likely see it in the NFL long before it was adopted by the CFL .. interesting little overview of how that stuff works: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/16/world-cup-goalline-technology-football-brazil-2014 Most of those are still camera based and won't work as well in football, and one of the magnetic ones requires the frame of the goal to use it. I suspect the cost for the one that might work for football is prohibitively expensive for a league such as the CFL. We just need to stop pretending that there is a solution to take human error out of the officiating and accept that mistakes will be made. I have no evidence to back it up but I would suggest that the quality of officiating is lower since replay was introduced simply because the refs are using replay as a crutch. Doesn't matter if they make a poor judgement, replay will catch it. O'Shea basically said that last night. The officals will rule it a scoring play to make it an automatic review. The only problem with that hedge is that the initial call has to be overturned irrefutably. It's like being assumed guilty for a crime and having to prove your innocence rather than the other way around.

So will a 6 PM start.

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Owens being very careless with the ball again. Gift wrapped an INT and then fumbles.

Should a replay official be allowed to rule something a touchdown if they don't actually see the ball cross the line, but they guess it did? It seems weird to let the replay official guess at the real outcome of a play if it's uncertain. If replay is uncertain, I want them to just go with the call on the field and move on. No, but IMO the standard is too high for the replay official to actually make the right call. Replay is useless for the most part. I don't want the officials on the field guessing either.

No an offense losing the game is when a qb tosses a couple dumb ints like Cato did. The offense was fine, the Montreal D is good. Now the Bombers D on the other hand, that damn near lost them the game if not for a pick 6 and the blocked kick TD. I didn't think that Bellefeuille called the best game last night and his game planning (from week to week) is inconsistent at best but I will say that the offense didn't do anything to lose us the game. They took what was given to them and didn't back down when things got physical .. guys responded when they got "punched in the mouth" so to speak. The offense still has a long way to go. To me, it's not going to be able to play consistently like they did in Regina until that interior OL gets fixed. How many times did Cotton have to fight through contact just to get back to the LOS? That's ridiculous. We know what guys like Willy and Cotton can do when that interior OL plays well, but when they struggle plays are over before they even really begin. It's nice to win games, but clearly not sustainable at 400+ yards against and an offense that can't protect/control the inside gaps. Hopefully we're one of the teams that gets better this year instead of falling off the map after Labour Day. Noeller and I have talked about this a lot, when was the last time this team had a better fall than they did summer? Too often it's been a better summer and then falling apart at the end of the season. Would kill to see the team be one of the hottest teams in the league down the stretch for a change. 2008 and 2009.