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Looked to me like the Bombers had the block on pretty consistently when the Ottawa's were punting. Maher also started taking quite a bit off his kicks after Woods return, Ottawa's special teams looked genuinely afraid of the Bombers having something odd on. You could see them lining up man on man on both punt teams, being real careful, which I guess is an effect of having O'Shea as our coach. Renaud had a bad day. No wind, no reason to hit kicks under 40, even for placement. Pretty sure our punt cover guys can cover a 45 yard punt.

I'd much rather our guys tackle properly and wrap up than go for big hits and watch guys like Burris bounce off of them and run for 20 yards at a time or open up a whole side of the field for a pass by rolling off the hit. That's a real bad habit, one that a guy like Willis has, hitting but not tackling.

4th place in the West is probably a better place to end up than 3rd in the West.... The East is truly awful.

Austin should write a book on how to ruin young quarterbacks. This is awful. When is the last time Gable took a handoff?

Perfect example of this is the Craig Butler hit on Pierce in the Banjo Bowl. Hit him in the chest, impact rose up and Pierce's helmet flew off. Did Butler drop his head and launch the crown of his helmet into Buck's jaw? Are you implying that's what Willis did? It's exactly what he did. Initial contact was shoulder, but he knew exactly what he was doing, he's got the paint from Collaros' grill all over the top of his helmet. It was a kill shot, one that probably lost his team the game anyways. It wasn't late, but he drops his right shoulder and head in his last stride before contact, and launches himself into Collaros so when he leaves his feet he drives his head right through Collaros facemask. Kind of funny that it wasn't called given the increased emphasis on headshots regardless of the initial point of contact this season.

Hamilton's OL has settled down somewhat too.

Perfect example of this is the Craig Butler hit on Pierce in the Banjo Bowl. Hit him in the chest, impact rose up and Pierce's helmet flew off. Did Butler drop his head and launch the crown of his helmet into Buck's jaw?

Willis will get the maximum fine for that, but no penalty. Can't lead with your head, especially when you're leading with it into someone's face.

Edmonton's slot was 5 yards offside....

Landon Rice. I played on the provincial team with him my last year of high school when he was in grade 11. That was a pretty good illustration of why you need to pass protect from the inside out. Obviously he's really worried about Sewell just beating him with speed through his outside gap so he's cheating a bit. Huge gap for a potential blitz there too if he keeps that up.

They need to get some movement going on offence, Hamilton. Misdirection and get Collaros and the pocket moving.

BC is giving these games away, literally. Montreal on their own haven't looked that good, their D is good for sure, IMO they'll win 2-3 games on the back of the D. But over 18 games they'll spend way too much time on the field.

I'm more of a 4-bit art kind of guy.

Both of our import OL who aren't playing are better than this stiff the Lions have playing LT. How the hell does a guy that bad even get to game day? He's had a dozen plays in this game where he doesn't even move out of his stance. He's making Jordan Taormina look like Jonathan Ogden. Glenn has no confidence right now.

Really doubt they could put the games into other cities on that short of notice. They'd have to eat a lot of money in terms of flights, hotels etc. They'll play in a parking lot with lines painted on it before that.

Jovon was over the top most of the time last night, covering a deep third.

Now if he can learn to defend a pass, he'll be a good DB.

He's usually the 2nd returner on kickoffs. The big adjustment the Bombers made on kickoffs, and this was with Woods too after the first quarter, was to test the Redblacks contain to the width of the field rather than run behind the wedge.

This. He made a really strong catch coming into the field, I believe his first of the game, against zone that was very encouraging though. If he can do that over 18 games, we'll be in good shape. Interesting that he's exclusively playing slot so far. Willy made the great pre-snap read on the blitz that left Kelly 1 on 1 for that bomb to close it out. Teams might learn the hard way about Willy's ability to make a read and a throw.

That accidental PI was total crap. It was either full PI or nothing. IMO the ref who tossed the flag thought he made the wrong call and ended up going halfway. The Ottawa DB had his arm on the Bombers receivers back they whole way down the field. Did he impede him, debatable. Accidental is when they trip over each others feet or something like that.

I'd rather Goossen at centre and Morley at guard if they are both starting.

Yappy too. It was funny, Jovon was beaking the Bomber bench pretty hard whenever he was on that side of the field, and he got it back pretty good from Demond Washington at the end of the game.

I would suspect that the TOP stats are the reason for that. Have the ball more you have more chances to go 2 and out. TOP isn't the number of possessions though. Generally there isn't a difference in the number of possessions teams have unless there are onside kicks or turnovers on special teams. Everyone has the same number of chances to go 2 and out in most games.

I don't get the original joke/point. Etcheverry doesn't know what a blitz is? If anything the opposite is true.

Maybe I misread but I thought I saw something like 80 of his 120 yards last week were after contact. That seems way off from my viewings of that game. He's made people miss clean, often with a spin, and busted contain like crazy, but has barely broken any tackles, basically has gone down with any contact. They must be counting any time he runs by a defender as "contact."