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The one I'll be most disappointed to lose is Mack because he brings in some fantastic talent. Too bad his choices at head coach haven't been worth a damn.

Burke, Crowton, Mack, probably all the rest of the coaches too since a new GM will bring in all new coaches.

just blows my mind how selective that guy is when looking at pierce. Pierce is crap in the hamilton game but hangs onto the 2 good drives he had and throws every other players slighest mistakes out there... Goltz looks solid but says he didn't do some things well. Pierce does his usual thing which includes a lot of crap and it's best qb blah blah blah postive postive postive. If Burke were able to assess Pierce with the same critical eye he uses on everyone else this team would be a lot further ahead.

Burkes stubborn insistence that Pierce is the starter is going to get a lot of people fired.

now my question is, why can't he accurately assess Pierces performance?

The answer as it has been for a while now, is yes. What have we got to lose?

To me Kohlert is this generations Stoddard. Doesn't leap out at you but just keeps doing what he has to.

CFL website has Goltz at 13-15 for 170 yards no tds no ints... seems like there's something there, we know Pierce doesn't have it anymore and yeah some of those Goltz stats were garbage time but he's the most athletic qb on the roster, let's give him a shot and see if he gets better. Can't be worse than going down by several scores before the game is half over.

it seems like there is a real double standard when it comes to accountability with this team. Seems to me that he is much quicker to bench or replace defensive guys than offensive ones despite the offense being such an achilles heel for this team for years now. I mean we returned pretty much everyone on offense... how does that make any sense? Then after a month of crappy offense the only changes getting made are due to injuries... End the double standard and start benching the guys on offense who aren't doing their jobs.

I'd suspect that once people start getting healthy Johnson might find himself only on special teams.. How has sears looked being back?

and by stamps fans you mean rider fans right?

IF anyone really thinks the bombers don't want to establish the run I'm going to call them an idiot and be completely justified in it. They need to fixthe #1 problem first and everything else will fall into place. They need to get more from the quarterback position.

but 20 times per game is also reliant on the offense staying on the field, and when you can't pass the ball your offense certainly won't stay on the field. This isn't a case of the bombers being unwilling to get the running game involved, this is a case of the bombers offense being unable to produce and stay on the field enough to get the runningbacks the number of touches everyone wants to see. The offense is a complete trainwreck in terms of production. You can't establish the run when the offense is THAT ineffective. There's a reason so many people want to see a new qb, because the play from the position we've gotten in the first 3 weeks is crippling this team.

still relies on everyone executing it properly and there's still going to be times when the defense makes a stop and you're in 2nd and long. Need to be able to pick up first downs through the air in order to sustain any sort of offense in the CFL.

if the Hulk is anyone he is Bryant Turner.

oh you missed all the many many many posts that have done just that?

Nothing can be worse than some of the shitty games I have witnessed in my time in Alberta. Absolutely nothing.

Crowton made the argos defense look stupid late last season with the running game, I expect that it'll be the focus this weekend again. But the point still stands, you're going to find yourself in situations where the run gets stuffed and you have to be able to pass your way out of it.

and Burke said they called running plays on pretty much every first down in the 2nd half.... you can't establish the run without a passing game to back a defense off. Just turning around and giving the ball to simpson won't do **** all for the offense. Until you can pass your way out of 2nd and long, because you WILL be in 2nd and long regularly in the CFL, you can't establish and kind of offense and therefore get your running game more involved.

Think I read somewhere today that Durant was going to play.

but one of them was more no good than the other.

and the hamilton D has been good this season? That's the most damning thing about PIerce. He made the leagues joke of a defense look dominant last weekend. Just unforgivable.

I dunno, he had a chance to put together any sort of drive at the end and completely failed to do so. The defense forced a turnover, that won the game. 19 points is not going to win you any games in the CFL unless you defense is playing lights out, especially when the offense turned the ball over that many times.

well no in fact, that is quite incorrect. If you want to use just one game as the comparison then We got some very high points. 250 yards is not a good game by a qb by any stretch, it's adequate only if your runningback has picked up tons of yards or your defense is insanely good. The best single games by a bomber qb in the last few years came from Elliott, on average he was better than PIerce last season as well.

well considering eliott did not have the most ints it shouldn't be that hard. I'm not saying it was a high bar, I'm just saying that Elliott set the bar and Pierce hasn't reached that level.