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A back like Messam is hit or miss with his upright running, his power isn't coming from his lower body. If teams are prepared for him, he won't be able to do much cause they'll just cut him down. Usually after he gets cut down a few times he tries to find open space running east-west and then he's really ineffective. Clearly our D was a little stunned when he started getting the ball. They still stopped him for little gain quite a few times and didn't give up any TD's when he was in the game.

Fumble wasn't caused by anything but poor ball security. If he's holding the ball properly and securely, it doesn't fly out. It's football, you have to carry the ball in a manner in which you can absorb impact without coughing the ball up. Work with him on ball security, or scratch him off the list of returners.

Happy in some ways that they beat themselves. Should be a good lesson. They didn't get beat, they lost. The mistakes are relatively fixable (passing from empty backfields way too much being a huge one in terms of slowing down the pass rush). The defense continues to give up nothing in terms of points. I'd like to see them run the hurry-up offence consistently throughout the game to control the tempo more, especially when the opposing pass rush in that effective. Clearly need a running back.

Grigsby is Dorzon bad as a tailback. I'd dress him as a WR over Bryant though. He played WR quite a bit last night and was good.

Should never have went to that party at Mike Duffy's house....

Is Kashawn Fraser back? Who plays if Fraser and Anderson are both out?

That's probably a $15-$20 cab ride each way to and from the casino! Jump on a 160 or 161 (To U of M) bus, it stops all over downtown within a couple minute walk of your hotel. That will take you right to the stadium. They add a ton of buses on gameday on that route in the couple hours before and after the game. You have to pay $2.55 on the way to the game, it's free on the way back. Balmoral Station is close to your hotel, MTS Centre too. Those routes stop there. And if you want to gamble, go to the Shark Club.

Troy Smith is not a running QB. He is a pocket passer who has some ability to scramble. He ran for about 40 yards per game at Ohio State. The problem is that he isn't good as any type of QB, because he has no consistent accuracy no matter where he's throwing from. They are paying him a lot too. I wouldn't be surprised if he's making more than Willy. I find it hard to judge Dinwiddie given Smith's obvious issues. I watched a decent portion of the game against Toronto, and Smith was just sailing the ball past open receivers, missing wide-open guys in the flats and on bubble screens that were well blocked, even on deep balls his supposed strength. Several times he had Duron Carter 1 on 1, but couldn't even give him a shot to make a play on a deep ball, and Carter has one of the largest catching radii on either side of the border.

Watching that play again, I like that they didn't roll Willy out. For one, you cut off an entire half to 3/4 of the field by doing that, plus you also give defenders better access to disrupt the passing lanes. Westwood was yelling about that on the radio yesterday, why didn't they roll Willy out, but didn't seem to put any thought into the pros and cons of that in terms of passing the ball. If Lefevour was our QB, I'd probably roll out. Looked like they were matching Hamilton in the box, Bryant and Feoli-Gudino came up to the line on the right side to block as Hamilton overloaded the weak-side opposite Grigsby's alignment, clearly defending any off-tackle or sweep type running play. 3 guys in the route, Willy can read all of them from the pocket. Kelly and Denmark run a post corner, Kelly is covered coming into the middle of the field, where more bodies are, not an option, Denmark is covered on his corner, Grigsby is in the clear but the DE who is covering him is chasing wildly and in the passing lane. Willy makes an amazing adjustment and throw to lead Grigsby into open space and drop it in on him. Only thing I didn't like about that play was the line call. Slide protect left/strong when Hamilton has the offensive right/weak-side overloaded in case the Bombers try to run Grigsby off tackle. January, Greaves and Morley all ended up blocking the same guy when 2 Ticats from the right side of the line (essentially Willy's blindside with the route going to the left side of the field) came through as Bryant and Feoli-Gudino ended up blocking them 2 on 3. January, Greaves and Morley would have still been 3 on 2 had Gascon-Nadon not bailed into coverage.

Adding another quarterback who cannot pass can only help.

Here's the pace of our receivers, RB and QB through 6 games. Nick Moore: 75 catches 1088 yards *adjusted for missed game Clarence Denmark: 63 catches 924 yards Aaron Kelly: 72 catches 1092 yards *adjusted for missed games Julian Feoli-Gudino: 60 catches 543 yards Rory Kohlert: 33 catches 393 yards Nic Grigsby: 69 catches 670 yards 240 carries 1029 yards Drew Willy: 381-582 4986 yards 21 TDs 12 INTs

It'll be ready for the Pan Am games. Bonus for the CFL if it's ready before then.

I don't know who was responsible for calling the last play of the game but that was an insane choice imo. They only needed 3 yards to score, a quick slant in and a bullet to Denmark has better odds than throwing a rainbow across the field to a RB. I was virtually stunned when that play succeeded. The middle of the field was full of bodies. It's cover 0, you're basically giving Grigsby the opportunity to outrun a LB, or in this case DE that Hamilton put on him. The ball was thrown high and dropped in because the defender was underneath the route, that's just a brilliant play by Drew Willy.

Sounds like the guy who was wearing 13 here last season.

I'd love to see Stoudermire get a look, sit Unamba. Not sure why they'd add Stoudermire if he's not playing. With the ratio situation, at various points we can go all import at DB, LB or DL.

Not sure where they had him on the depth chart, but Kelly has played exclusively slot this season, and been fairly productive. Denmark had been playing boundary WR before all the injuries. Not a fan of Romby. Reminds me of when the tube of toothpaste is basically empty and I twist it to squeeze anything that's left out. That's where he's at in his career. I'd be surprised if he makes any difficult catches.

My favourite part is how quick the other players switch to blocking when we turn the ball over. They aren't surprised by it.

Geez and I thought he was released because he refused to move to LB. He got released because he was facing marijuana possession charges. The LB controversy was in 2012.

McMaster is in Hamilton. Like 10 minutes away from Tim Hortons Field.

Hefney didn't have an attitude problem as much as an opinion which became a media talking point. He felt that he was more valuable to the team as the weak-side HB than SAM, but he played SAM and played it well when he was put there. That was when Burke was scrambling and moving everyone all over the secondary because the career years everyone had in 2011 didn't happen again in 2012, imagine that. Maybe should have adjusted the scheme.

They also built a ridiculous number of golf courses everytime it was somewhat popular. And really, golf will always be a niche sport. It takes a long time and a lot of practice to even be moderately good at it, and you have to spend 3-4-5 hours at a time to play a round. I kind of fear that indoor soccer will be the golf of this generation, build a bunch of facilities and have no demand for them in 20-30 years. At least those indoor soccer facilities can be repurposed.

And no pocket presence, combined with the deliberate release. Even with all the terrible QB's we've had over the years, I can't recall anyone getting hit nearly as many times in mid-delivery as Brink. He'd be a very good CFL QB if that improved.

We've only brought in...what...10 RB's since he said he signed here?

Yes. The industry of sports figured out how to monetize television broadcasts, led by the NFL. It's worth more to have the skyrocketing rights fees and eyeballs for advertising than the couple thousand people (which could be less or more depending on the city) who might choose to go to a game if they can't watch it on TV. IMO, several teams are missing an opportunity to get more butts in seats. Bombers are a prime example. Those corner endzone seats that never sell should go for $10-$15. Get people in the building, get them buying concessions and merchandise, maybe even provide a good enough experience that someone comes back in a more expensive seat. Better to sell that seat for $10 than have it sit empty for 9 games.

It would be a much better program with a lot more ground covered if they took questions via Twitter and e-mail. Just taking the preamble from the questions would probably add several minutes of actual show time.