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someone knocked on the door and he couldn't go

Bring back the Dysoncam.

ftfy

It's just such a weird take because the riders are 1-1 against Montreal (who also did manage to beat winnipeg too) and 0-2 against the argos... so where is this tougher team hiding?

If this is the end of Andrew Harris' career then what a dog **** way to end it.

What do you have against the word yikes?

If you want a dumb as **** hot take you go to the all time greats.

Because it's a routine play from a routine distance and your guy is kicking 90%. You don't over think things in that situation. They played the entire last few plays to kick the field goal. All it came down to was he flat out missed. Nothing more. If he was that much of a bag of nerves on a straight forward field goal what might have happened trying to get cute on a punt?

Are they though? Are they really better than say Toronto or even Montreal? Regardless of 1 or 2 wins difference...

The formulas for sask is simple: offense don't **** up and maybe get a few plays and win through D and special teams. I think though that our D can force mistakes from their O more easily than they will get mistakes from us. I mean when you play the tight game a couple plays swing it so losses can always happen but I just don't see their offense being able to generate enough consistently.

No at worst you find out that as poor as he was he was still better than the competition.

The question is if BC sweeps the riders back to back and they fall to 5-6 are they still a tough match up or do they then suck? You want to talk about a team with a tough 2nd half look no further than Saskatchewan. They're going to be seeing an awful lot of bc, winnipeg and calgary from here on out. You put entirely too much emphasis in meaningless things such are in season records. There are 3 teams worth a damn in the cfl so far based in performance, not record and they are winnipeg, bc and calgary. We played and beat those teams 3 times in a 10 week condensed no break schedule. We get to play them 3 times in the more rest time back half of the schedule.

So what does that say about the riders coaches and managers that anyone can be better than this guy? I bet the results are no different.

Tl/dr/dc

And you're still stuck in the driveway. Nothing about what the riders have done makes them a tough opponent so it is still that same number of "tough" weeks on the remaining schedule with the added bonus of more rest for the Bombers. Easier schedule.

Who will become the new whipping boy for all the rider woes?

In his mind the riders eking out a barely over .500 record halfway through the season playing poor teams means they're a tough opponent.

Winnipeg is 3-0 against the good teams, Saskatchewan is 0-1.... so yay Saskatchewan because they lost to more shitty teams and beat less good ones than the Bombers?

And if we go by the have they beat the good teams criteria I think they are 0-1 against bc and haven't played winnipeg or calgary yet.

Who have they beaten? They came out of the cream puff part of their schedule 5-4....

Low bar.

Not to mention that the riders may very well be lower than.500 by the time we play them. And last time the Bombers played bc the narrative was that it was finally a tough team and they molly whopped them. And calgary has seen the Bombers play some of their beat games as well. This past game against Montreal was a trap game that they finally succumbed to. Grueling schedule, inconsequential opponent all that. And they still were in a position to win it but for a poor kick.

Surprised it was only a one spot drop.

Yeah a big part is that fans spent years kicking the Bombers when they were down and the success the team had was fleeting. Now that things are rock solid and there are back to back grey cups here everyone can't wrap their heads around it. Also jealousy. Pure unadulterated jealousy.

Edmonton couldn't do **** on O so it didn't matter.