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twice Willy was sacked when the Bombers were in FG range and both times the sacks took them out of FG range. Willy has to get rid of the ball in those cases, those sacks cost us an easy six points. The more I see of Willy the less I am sold on him. He can't read a blitz and his release is so dam slow. I'm more worried about Picard making the line calls. After 3 games I see no upside to having him in there, the amount of guys coming through the inside gaps untouched is embarrassing. Picard can't block anybody so if he can't at least get the protections right he's doing nothing for us that Goossen couldn't do. I don't fault Willy for not throwing a pass when he can't even get his eyes upfield before he's being tackled. Rather take the loss of yards than have the ball going back the other way, even if it takes us out of FG range.

Is this to mean that you don't like the 4 guys on the DL right now or that you're upset that Walters hasn't replaced the three guys left over from Mack? Same with LBs are you not happy with the guys you have? It's a different defense than what they ran when LaPolice was in charge, more of a 4-2 front with a hybrid of Dime defense with Randle playing as a rover at times. I don't mean to single out just you 17to85 but would like to know what parts of the roster folks don't like here. You'd think it'd be happier around here with the Bombers holding down first place in the West, having a 1-0 record in the division and beat Saskatchewan once already this year. Plus you could still have this roster - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Winnipeg_Blue_Bombers_season#Roster It means the DL we have right now is not playing well, as a group and as individuals. Walters regime has not found a productive pass rusher in 2.5 seasons. Our interior guys are also struggling mightily through 3 games. They were running a 5-2 quite often last night and still getting gashed by the Alouettes run game. It was brutal. We were lucky that Montreal didn't stick with the run game, they could have 6 yards whenever they wanted. I guess you're analyzing this in terms of quantity, Mack vs Walters, still apples to oranges given how rosters change, but we're talking quality, what's actually happening on the field.

The media is the weak link, particularly the columnists. They get mad at any coach who doesn't nod and agree with the narrative they've built their column around before they even do the legwork, complete with a quote that fits just right. Same goes for the Jets. They are lazy as all hell. The Coaches Show with O'Shea is among the best we've had. If he gets a good question related to football, not bait for the soap opera, he'll give an honest and solid answer. Even after the cuts he was discussing what they saw in guys they kept, specifics and things they didn't see from guys who were cut. I enjoy listening to him on 1290 as well when he calls in for those interviews, they generally ask good questions.

How many times did Buck even have a concussion with the Bombers? He had multiple different injuries.

You're referring to Gibson or Johnson ? Gibson.

I don't get the point of this post. What does the composition of the current imports on the roster have to do with evaluating Mack's regime vs Walters' regime ability to find impactful imports? Given how quickly imports cycle through the league it's meaningless.

Not a fan of the DL changes. Taking out the only guy who's shown an ability to disrupt the QB, outside of a blitzing halfback, at all after 2 games is disappointing.

When was his "head wrecked" to begin with? If it was there's no chance in hell he would have been on the field at practice on Monday.

Beyond anything he tweets, writes or says, the fact that Friesen has the gall to tweet that he's uninterested and essentially negligent in doing his job (watching sports, watching the Bombers practice) just kind of sums up why I have zero respect for him.

I agree, but it would be very difficult to increase the number of young officials given the way football is scheduled in Manitoba. If you're playing football, it would be very difficult to also officiate it because basically all the games are on the weekend. They've started to get a little more creative with scheduling, but mostly due to lack of fields. I don't think there would be many teenagers who simply wish to officiate a sport and not play it. They should go hard at the guys playing majors (18-22) and push it as a way to make extra money.

About as good as they can do after the fact. IMO they should look at allowing the officials supervisor or the replay official in Toronto to buzz the head ref to make that call and other player safety/rough play calls if he misses it. Otherwise you're creating an atmosphere where all QB's are fair game.

After watching a bit of the hammy game and most of last night I have to agree with you... but it is only week 2... it literally takes half a season before we get a true grasp on every team in the CFLThe number of hot starts turning to crappy falls we've had recently, I'm more than happy to sit and wait for a team to play .500 ball as it grows together and starts to click around Labour Day. People really gotta chill. This site sucks after a loss....Are fans supposed to be happy after a blowout loss at home? Even when this loss is just all more of the same from this team? Just saying...this really is justified though. I really wish it wasn't. When you're 4-15 at home in a new stadium, I think it's fine to criticize. Seems the brass are not too worried about providing a quality product to their fans. Hard to be excited for home games when we're a joke at home. It's not the losses, it's the blowouts where it looks like the team gives up. This is incredibly irrelevant to today. What do you want them to do? Build a time machine and win some of those games? All they can do is work their asses off to win the next one. Bringing that up is meaningless to the team practicing today.

No offence, but that's up there with the 3 point convert among bad rule change ideas IMO. If anything the game needs to be simplified and less complicated to officiate.

Or Cato's game was a fluke. Guess we'll have to see if he threatens Calvillo's records. Cato was in Montreal's training camp so it was more like 5 weeks.

"I'd rather they force teams to go for 2 from the 5 than any other change they've made, but personally I'd just leave it how it always was and let the players decide the games, not the kickers." This whole chain of reasoning sounds frustrated and self contradictoryy Let me simplify: Creating more opportunities for kicking to influence the outcome of a game which is already heavily influenced by the kicking game is the opposite of exciting for me.

IMO the new illegal contact rule has had minimal impact in the actual game. They aren't all that strict with it, and pass interference is still wildly inconsistent in how it is being applied. Biggest impact has been the shift to zone defense in preparation for the perceived change.

Thinking about the Toronto-Saskatchewan game, would you have liked to see it end, after Toronto drove the entire field to score a major, on a missed 1 point convert? I wouldn't and that's why I really dislike the new convert. Kicking is already a HUGE part of the Canadian game without adding to the difficulty of the convert. I also think moving the 2 pt convert to the 3 just devalues points, and I'm not sure why teams aren't going for 2 more. The Bombers are a good example. That triple option with Marve, Cotton, Marshall that they run on short yardage would probably be about 80% on 2 pt converts over the long haul. I'd rather they force teams to go for 2 from the 5 than any other change they've made, but personally I'd just leave it how it always was and let the players decide the games, not the kickers.

They just did it in Regina. Regina wasn't brining the house every other play like the Cats They were sending 5 or 6 on most passing downs, and they have probably the best pass rushing end and tackle in the league. Hamilton didn't send much more than that, the Bombers just had the wrong gameplan. The Bombers handled it in Regina by using the backs just beyond the rush in the passing game and hitting hot routes with max protect on. Took way too long vs Hamilton to get into max protect even as it became obvious that just leaving 5 in to block was not allowing Willy to even get his eyes downfield. Ended with Willy out of the game. Greaves chasing guys and leaving his inside gap wide open did not help, along with Picard being unable to take on anybody when he gets isolated by a blitz or stunt.

Good news on Twitter right now. Mike Ritchott is coming back to town to play for the Rifles from the VI Raiders. Andrew Harris, Nic Demski potential there. Most dominant WHSFL running back since Demski for sure. Hell of a rugby player too for Grant Park. Bombers can use a territorial exemption on him if he doesn't end up in CIS. Had two 100+ yard kick return TD's in the same BCFC game last season as an 18 year old. Over 9 yards per carry last season. Would be nice to see the Bombers develop him as BC did Harris. Bring him in for training camp, keep him on the PR, have him practice with the Bombers while he plays his last couple years of junior. Pretty easy since they are in the same stadium.

They've already traded away their 2nd and 3rd round picks. Is there a 33 year old NI who hasn't played well in 2-3 years that Taman can trade the 1st for?

They just did it in Regina.

Who said that? It's a moot point anyway if they don't start apply the UR penalties in-game correctly. Saw another bad one today at the end of the game. Macho Harris ends up on Trevor Harris and pushes down on his head with all of his weight against the ground, gets up and head butts Whitaker when the Argos called him out on it. The "shoulda called it's" should be incredibly embarrassing to the league (particularly when a QB is lying on the field unconscious) and lead to a change in officiating. Guys like Bradbury need to get with it or go work high school football along with the high school basketball he already works.

Cuthbert losing it. Macho Harris should be tossed. Just headbutted Whitaker after he took a late shot on Harris way after the whistle. Player safety?

Not a catch. The ball is clearly laying underneath his midsection on the turf.

Ya, to be honest if a guy is at least making a play for the ball I'd always be fine with the PI being a 10 yard penalty and first down. It's the ones like the PI's O'Shea had to challenge vs Hamilton where the guy doesn't even know where the ball is and is just trailing the receiver and then stopping him from working to the ball that should be spot fouls. Could go to "intentional" (not playing the ball) and "unintentional" (at least making an attempt on the ball) PI.