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Was Denmark replaced by better talent though? Injury prone is still something that you can give 2nd chances too and the whole point with lirim is that he had a good rookie year and poor sophmore year so you could in theory say the poor 2nd year is the anomaly and give him a chance to redeem himself. Not the only guys Walters has moved on from quickly either and I doubt they are the last. Guy is quick to move on.

Well there's Arugula, Denmark and Moore from just this past offseason.

TSN has a problem where they think the game on it's own isn't enough of a selling point so they have to add in all the extra crap. It's nonsense. let the game sell itself, a good example would be the Saturday night game between Calgary and BC, that game was exciting from the get go and the finish can not be beat. I am glad I was in the stadium for it rather than having to listen to TSN try and push a bunch of un-needed hype.

but by not piling on Willy and proclaiming him the worst person in the world! you are just a blind Willy defender.

But sometimes guys have bad seasons and bounce back, I never doubted that Arugula would bounce back, but Kyle Walters has a history of not giving guys that chance to rebound.

I always felt that Denmark was a guy worth giving a shot to bounce back. He may not be a #1 guy but he did some good things for this team in the past.

The thing that really stood out about jennings to me was how easily he can fire a hard pass down field. Good strong arm on that guy and lots of ability to make things happen on the run but he definitely forced things at the end. He wasn't trying to throw out of bounds he just got pressured and didn't get enough on it. OT he tried to force it again and it cost him.

That might be the gin

Yeah i won some tickets to the game and the crowd was pretty into it at the end but there was a smattering of boos in the middle of the game and some general Calgary fan ass hattery throughout. I did laugh at all the people leaving. Missed a hell of a comeback.

Anyone still going to go to bat for Gale?

I still think he's too passive but it was a good game plan, I also think that the esks shuffling bodies around on their offensive line helped a ton too because our defensive line won the battle on the line of scrimmage pretty decisively. Reilly was flustered and that rarely happens.

To be honest I think when we blow out the ticats they'll give O'Shea the extension that has been waiting for go.

Jesus tap dancing christ there is a growing amount of butt hurt in this thread

It's a worthwhile question. I know the coaches have their stock answers but if a one qb system isn't working.....

Oh sure in an ideal world you have a great starter that takes all the reps because he's that good... but we don't have that guy, what we have are Willy and Nichols and maybe, just maybe looking at things that worked in the past can be a blueprint for things now. We know that both Willy and Nichols are capable of good play, but it appears that right now neither one is capable of doing it on a consistent basis, so why not platoon them? This idea that you have one guy and one guy only is a new one, that doesn't mean it's better. Trying to stick with one guy hasn't been working here for years, why not try something different?

was actually a discussion started about Dresslers injury and a possible replacement.

lots easier to talk **** when you are physically dominating the other team as the Bombers did last night.

No, all that is meant to say is that people are only looking at the positives. Nothing to do with comparing one guy to the other, just that people are dismissing the errors that Nichols did make and only looking at the positive. Balance is the key to everything, I am simply trying to provide it.

well the past as in 30 years ago

Walters has a history of that though. moving guys with a big pay day and signing a new guy if he feels the performance isn't up to the pay grade. Doesn't really seem to believe in giving guys a chance to redeem themselves.

As always there are people who like to put their opinion out there but don't like to have to defend it. There are also people who like to challenge people's opinions and make them defend it. Circle of life on the internet.

Oh don't worry I am enjoying it, just trying as always to provide balance and an opposing viewpoint.

Truthfully I hope that they opt to use both qbs liberally the remainder of the year. I don't think there is any harm in doing so and I've said that for a couple years now to be honest. If a guy is struggling give him a break and put the other guy in and see what happens, you can go back to the other guy if you think a couple series on the bench helped or if the other guy is doing well leave him in. Just give opposing defenses something else to think about. Dunno why coaches are so reluctant to do that these days. It worked very well in the past.

and I say if Willy had the kind of support from the run game that Nichols had last night we could have done exactly the same. See I'm not obsessed with defending Willy, I am trying to make people like you see that trying to pin it all on the qb is narrow sighted thinking. There are a lot of things that combine to make a team lose games and part of it is the years of getting his ass kicked by not having that run game to lean on and not having an OL that can keep him from getting cranked game in and game out that puts Willys confidence into the shitter. But here's the thing, you can rebuild a guys confidence and a confident Willy is a better player than Nichols.

I think the people who are trying to make it Willy vs. Nichols are reaching too hard. No one has said Willy hasn't had issues, that's an invented argument from the people ready to string Willy up in the town square. All people have said is that there is more going on than JUST the qb. Hell there were issues with the offense last night too. They were still terrible in the red zone and given how lopsided the TOP was in the first half they really should have been up by a lot more than they were. Lapo still got really conservative in the back half of the game and it nearly cost them. Nichols made a poor decision to throw into coverage late but was lucky it was dropped, if that had been Willy it would be all people talked about. So why does it have to be this huge thing about the quarterbacks? The team stepped up in a lot of ways last night and it was a good win for them. I really liked what the defense did against Reilly. They were living rent free in his head. Best game of the year by those guys as well. DL really stepped up and made life uncomfortable for Reilly and the coverage was there when they really needed it. Medlock as predicted when not asked to kick from 50 yards all the time was money.