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tackles are more valuable the closer they are to the LOS. You gotta take them with a good dose of observation as well. If a guy is getting lots of tackles 20 yards downfield that's a problem, if he's getting lots within 5 yards that's good.

seeing how the bombers came out after halftime I want to put some faith in our coaches making good adjustments. Now just up to the players to execute.

Not to mention that as the game wore on those sweeps became much less effective as the bombers knew it was coming and made sure guys were in position to stop it. Thinking that Montreals offense being new caught them napping a bit early on but as the game went along the bombers D started sniffing those out.

yes... but that one on 3rd down in week one he definitely had a case because it was text book PI that wasn't called. Denmark is another guy who protests too much about PI calls. Would much rather they just keep fighting and hopefully the refs don't have their heads in their asses and will make the calls.

It's true, and it's going to be the exact same gameplan all year for teams facing the bombers. stop the run and laugh when Pierce thinks he can beat you with his arm. The qb position is such a liability for the bombers right now that it makes the offense much easier to defend. Pierce NEEDS to have success passing the ball if this team has a hope in hell of ever getting a consistent running game going. He had the receivers open to make plays passing last week, now he needs to actually hit his targets more consistently.

I'd keep Edwards around for the veteran presence, I'd just stop asking him to be one of the teams top receivers, which based on last game is happening anyway, although Pierce does seem to be a guy who loves throwing to Edwards,probably a lot of trust there

How many points did they get in the fourth quarter? how many first downs did they get? How is that anything but a dismal failure? I know you like to believe everything is fine but PIerce was absolute **** in game 1 outside of a few drives and a big part of it is that he's not a good enough passer to beat teams with his arm. Back in his best days if the blitz came he could simply run the ball himself and make them pay, but now when he hook slides when guys get within 3 yards of him he's no where near as effective a player.

Pierce wasn't making plays to nullify the blitz. Case in point: when they were backed up on the goal line... bombers had a good play call pierce threw the ball at the fullbacks feet so he didn't have a chance to make the play. Next play he threw the ball at edwards feet and didn't give him a chance on it either. Wasn't the only time the qb failed to make the defense pay for blitzing. Right now trying to stop pierce from running is making him very easy to defend via blitzing because he's not getting the ball away quick enough or accurate enough to cause teams to slow down. Kevin Glenn was actually really good at slowing teams down by throwing quickly.

well that is precisely the point of blitzing... bring more than can be blocked and force the qb to get the ball out quickly and accurately. There weren't many times when a blitz came and someone was just flat out missed. happened a couple times but it wasn't a common occurence, most of the pressure was montreal simplying bringing more than the bombers had blockers. That's the other difference, the bombers were bringing pressure with primarily 4 man rushes, much less blitzing.

Especially when you consider that it required quite a bit of blitzing for Montreal to get pressure on Pierce, and blitz pickups it seems to me are one of the things that takes time for offenses to really nail down. Would have liked to see them get simpson some more running room but at the same time the bombers didn't really stick with the run game enough either.

I recall one play where basically every bombers d-lineman wound up piled on top of Calvillo... lot of the shine really came off the montreal o-line after that game.

how ever last season hamilton had all sorts of problems getting pressure on qbs so I'd be waiting a bit to see if hamilton is poor on the d-line and how the argos o-line fairs against a possible stiffer test before making any real judgements there.

spin harder. you know damned well that's a disingenuous argument. but seriously maybe you just don't read weicek enough if you really think that was his point.... he is very negative and a lot of it does stem from him not liking the CFL (he's said this before) so he doesn't care to look in depth into anything and he's a sour person so he always takes the worst case scenario with every bomber loss.

but there's a big difference between saying that, and saying what the article actually said. He brought up the 52-0 preseason loss like it mattered... not a lot of roster players were in that game. It also seems to indicate that both Hamilton and Toronto looked good in week one which may be true of their offenses but both defenses looked like garbage.... Then he trots out the teams go to die in BC place and all sorts of other things. It's not just as simple as saying "the CFL is tough, gotta get some wins early" it's saying "this team sucks and if they don't win now they have no hope in hell of winning this season" It's not surprise you don't mind it, you are already of the opinion that the bombers suck ass so it's just confirmation bias to you.

It's not about wanting sunshine and rainbows, it's about wanting a good balanced piece. No overly positive or negative slant, just tell it like it is. And insisting that these guys suck and if they lose this week there's no hope of winning much at all is not that. There's only one team, maybe 2 that didn't show some pretty massive holes over the first week, majority of the teams look very beatable.

But it's not even flames or nothing, no one cared about the flames before 04 right? Now that Iginla and Kipprusoff are gone and it's shaping up to be a real rough stretch ahead for that team with the fat fool Feaster in charge you can expect to see that bandwagon empty too. Calgary is very much a bandwagon town is what I've noticed in my time here. If it's hip to be a fan everyone is a fan if not then no one cares. I'm doing my best to convince everyone I know who isn't already a CFL fan that it's good times but it's a losing battle sometimes.

The thing that pissed me off most is that you can see that he's not a CFL follower and just a race track guy. All the talk about odds and crap like that... Get the **** out of here Paul. The CFL is one of the most unpredictable leagues out there, odds don't mean a god damned thing. It's not his fault though, he's admitted that he doesn't give a rip about the CFL so why is the free press expecting him to be able to properly comment on things in that league?

well we can chalk that up to a bad attitude right? Athletes with a good attitude take care of themselves and keep themselves in good shape.

I don't think that it makes any statement on how far the scouting has come. TJH was a real good player for the bombers, but he got an attitude about having to return rather than being released so he could chase the NFL dream and it ruined his career. Not the first time a good player has been tripped up by a terrible attitude. And Carr was a good player for us as well, What this really shows is how much Mack has just gone about building up the depth on this team.

I'd be tempted to do that too.... and last year without hesitation, but Denmark was pretty good last week so I am not so sure I'd do it right now. I love me some tall receivers, but Denmark has a lot of skills that could make him a really dangerous player if he rebounds from a bit of a letdown year last year.

They got a ton of pressure on him last week and knocked him around and he looked overall pretty ineffective. What the bombers need to do is cut out the turnovers on offense and find some consistency there and they will be fine. QB position let them down in week one and it's pretty much as simple as that. I have no doubts based on what I've seen in the opening week that the bombers defense can keep this team in games with even a modest offensive output providing that turnovers don't become a major theme.

I didn't like the way he backed out of the supposed agreement he had with the bombers, but I did always like him as a player and it's quite frankly shocking to me that he hasn't stuck in either Edmonton or Regina considering how good he was for the Bombers. No regrets at all having him replaced by Matthews who is obviously a better player but still, makes you wonder why this guy couldn't stick somewhere else.

yeah the seats at mcmahon, especially the benches in the end sections are not comfortable for us tall folks. It's a stadium that is really showing it's age as well.

There absolutely is a giant sense of apathy towards the stamps that seems to have been growing for the past couple years. 26000 might seem good on the surface, but it's really the fact that despite having a good team the attendance is dropping and fans seem to be quitting on the team, at least in the sense that they're not willing to go to the games as readily. Not sure what the solution is but it'd probably help to engage the community a lot more.

Not going to mess with what worked last week so I'll ride the Cornish train again.