Brandon

So what's the excuse for last season when he had an experienced O-line that gave him time and he still was off on many of his throws?

I'd expect a 9 year vet to be able to make a pass over 5 yards and without the receiver having to contort or dive to catch the ball. Their is reason why people have zero patience with the guy anymore. The easy stuff shouldn't be such a massive struggle for the guy to perform. He shouldn't require every single player around him to be playing at an all star level just for him to make a few passes.

The o line in Toronto was great. Harris had huge holes and Nichols had time. Stop making excuses. As I said before he had time and kept throwing way off the mark. The Gumby comparison is absolutely perfect.

Considering the limited amount of pro training he's had... I dare say he was already more entertaining then guys like Bobby Lashley and Brock Lesnar. Also looked very off the juice which I guess is a good thing?

I just can't buy the play calling excuse. Are you suggesting that LaPo is calling for 4 yard dump offs to Harris and having all of the receivers running routes as decoys? I keep bringing it up but last year when Streveler was in , immediately guys like Wolly started getting targeted 10 - 15 yards down the field on plays that start out exactly like the ones that Nichols run. Also you can't fault LaPo when Nichols has time in the pocket and his receivers have to dive, jump, fall back just to catch the ball. If I were to put a blame % between the two... it would be 80% Nichols and 20% LaPo. My only gripe with LaPo is that he doesn't use more sweeps and other plays (i.e. hand off to whitehead) when it's obvious late in the game that they will be running up the gut.

Cain Velasquez looked damn good in the ring! WWE should get on that before AEW scoops him up!

I don't know each off season they speak about how Matt Nichols is in better condition (lost weight gained muscle) and how he has studied film and etc... etc... I think the issue with Matt is mostly mental and a close 2nd is his athletic ability. The whole game manager is a nice way of saying "White guy with limited mobility, limited arm, smart brain". It's the same BS when they call every black qb "True athlete" meaning "Strong arm, great mobility, dumb as a door knob" See Jonathan Jennings.... Everyone craps on Streveler running to much and crap on his throwing mechanics.... at least with Streveler the guy is a bull dozer and has good speed so late in the game when we need only one first down he's much more likely to roll out and bull doze his way for 10 yards then Nichols doing his patented panic and throw a ball into the turf for 5 yards.

Lol I don't see a chance of us going after Arbuckle.

Zero chance of Streveler starting barring a Nichols injury. I don't see him getting game time this weekend unless the club is absolutely getting pummeled and they'll put him in with 4 minutes left so he can hand the ball off to kill time.

Anyone looks good compared to Nichols. The last few games his throws have been looking very Alex Brink like....

1 - Not quite the same, Willy was beaten down and had zero time to make his reads/throws. With the lack of mobility Willy couldn't buy time to make a pass. When the o-line started coming around Willy was already completely shell shocked. Nichols has the friggin time... the guy simply doesn't have the arm , the legs, the confidence to make tight throws. 2 - I think people are over exaggerating the crapping on Bighill. While he hasn't been rock solid he's far from playing bad. I think a lot of the bad look comes from the completely open 10 yards down the field zone that the Blue allow. 3 - Those three teams only put the back up in because of injury. What makes no sense is that this team did sprinkle in Streveler last season and a bit earlier this year in a few series to mix things up. Why in the bloody hell would they not do this when Nichols is absolutely tanking and can't make a single first down? It blows my mind? Would it kill them to at least give Chris a shot?

I gave up on him last season, if a QB can't make a simple routine pass despite having time to throw the ball.... that's enough for me to jump off the bandwagon. Last season our receivers continuously had to dive, scoop, stretch , jump just to make a routine catch. So rarely did they get the ball in the mitts. This season Nichols struggled with the same but at least he was making accurate deep throws. The last two games is a lot like last year.

Well it was obvious that the first play was going to be an inside hand off to Harris. I don't understand why they didn't try anything with Whitehead or at least pitch it to Harris. 2nd play was your typical Nichols panics throws a terrible pass that's well short of the first down marker and throws the ball in a crap location where the receiver has to go down to get it. Why Matthews isn't getting the call on a 9 yard curl blows my mind.

I give Nichols one more game then it's tandem time

It's not mechanics of his throw or his leg.... it's all in the head with a dash of having very little athleticism

I'd assume he had a signing bonus, so it would be more so Nichols , Matthews, and someone like Roh?

What ever happened to Unknown Poster?

1 - Harris 2 - Roh / Jefferson 3 - O-line Bonus - Nichols for making it clear that we move in a different direction next season

Seriously trade anything and everything to BC for Reilly just for one season. Easily we win this game if we had Reilly.

It's not like LaPo is calling passing plays where Nichols only has one guy to throw to. He has the time and just ******* can't hit a target at all and/or dumps it off poorly to his check down receiver. When Streveler is in he ******* chucks the ball down field and while some of the throws are risky he at least gives the receiver a chance to make a play. It's not Lapo this week,, this week is **** stain mcgee nichols who can't hit anything.

How about we trade Nichols and a 1st rounder and whatever else it takes to BC For Reilly... dear lord go all in this season.

I doubt it, the guy has had more then enough chances to be clutch and has failed way more then not. This team will move on with Streveler or McGuire down the road.

This team will be fighting Saskatchewan for a playoff spot because Edmonton and Calgary are way more polished then this ****.

And they lost. Well I'm guessing those swollen heads will come back down to earth. Maybe they'll get their heads out of their asses and realize they aren't king ****.

My wife is not liking the amount of profanities I'm spewing