Captain Blue

Sask getting some nice breaks here. Intentional grounding call after they were offside, and then a very soft OPI on Hamilton too.

It's been 5 games, so yes the sample size is small. Three high scoring games (30, 56, 41) and two low scoring games (17, 17). And, like I've said, this past one was clearly an awful outing for all involved.

First in total points. Fourth in passing yards and first in rushing yards. Second in pass TDs and first in rush TDs. All this with a rookie QB starting 3 of 5 games. I don't dispute we have sunk plenty of resources into the offensive side of the ball. They have, for the most part, played well this season.

He is one of, if not the best, offensive coordinator in the league. His offense has consistently been one of the best in the league in points and yards the last couple years. His offense is creative, both in the pass and run game. Look at how he has crafted his game plans for Matt Nichols and Chris Streveler. Dude had a bad game. It happens.

I liked both decisions to go for it on third down, but hated both play calls. Third and inches should have been a sneak. Third and 2 needed to be an actual play rather than a QB dive from shotgun.

Nice of the refs to call the game tight all game until the end.

If LaPolice calls a freaking QB sneak we win this game. Offense should be embarrassed and Matt Nichols better get on track. He was awful all night.

Looking back, it is interesting to see how different our defensive philosophy was for BC rather than the Hamilton game. It will be interesting to see if its a trend too now with BC right up again. We brought a ton of pressure consistently against Hamilton and were torched. We relied heavily on a four man DL rush against BC with much better results. Jennings still had time to throw, but struggled much more to find an open receiver.

Buono continues to show what a clown he is. Win or lose, he never fails to show his colours. Glad we smoked them.

As long as whoever takes over doesn't mess with our jerseys, I'm fine. Took too long to get to these nice royal blues. Best uniforms in the league.

I don't think I've been as anti-Hall as some other posters, but this game I was all over him. How embarrassing was it to watch Masoli just play pitch and catch over and over again? Receivers running literally wide open constantly. We kept blitzing constantly too with no success, so we couldn't get to the QB or stop the QB. We have changed the players and I truly believe in most of the defensive unit. There are good and great players on that defense, and we are not using them correctly. Move Loffler to WIL, move Leggett to safety and swap Fogg and Alexander back to CB and HB. Overall, just a poor game from pretty much everyone. LaPolice couldn't get the offensive gameplan in sync, Hall's failures obviously noted above. But O'Shea too had some big mistakes. I thought on the late fourth quarter Streveler first down run he should have challenged for a hit to the head - the ref had thrown a flag for holding and that was a huge momentum killer. Went from 1st down near the red zone to 2nd and 20. Streveler took a couple late shots in my opinion. CFL refs suck and the sky is blue. Even TSN had an atrocious night. Live mic stuff remains mostly useless. I do love how they constantly apologized for all the F-bombs, as if they didn't expect that that would happen. The camera guy was lost on a bunch of plays in the first quarter too. Black and Forde basically didn't comment on the game at all, opting just to point out how cool live mics really are.

I feel like Lankford being moved to the PR is an overlooked roster move of the week. I for one didn't think they would do it. Osh and his staff always have seemed to love Lankford, and he has never fully lived up to their faith in him. His fumble last week probably hasn't gotten enough attention for how it altered the game.

Montreal's offense looked awful yesterday. Our defense should rack up some sacks. I expect a better outing against Willy, or whoever ends up with playing time. Streveler will have his challenges against a Stubler defense. Jennings wound up with a great completion percentage but only 183 yards. Hope we see more pocket movement for Streveler. Make them fear the designed runs and zone reads.

Had to chance to go over the game again and I'm still left with the impression that "the other guys get paid too." Even on their two point convert Gaitor had good position, hand up for the ball between the receiver's.

This game feels like your weekly reminder that the East sucks. Sure seems like the West spends the season beating each other up while the East just figures out who is not the absolute worst.

Where do you usually find these on their website? I can never seem to find their location

Can't challenge PI calls anymore. You can see the DB push the WR slightly which caused him to fall. By the book, probably a flag. I was just skeptical because I think that play at that time very infrequently draws a flag.

Randle had coverage and just made a mistake on the first long TD of the night. I don't think there is anything a coach can do for that. Randle usually makes that play and probably will in the future. Similarly, if it was a quarterback other than Reilly we could have had a few more sacks. Or at least a few holding calls. I'll re-watch the game again later but my sense was that it was just two teams that went back and forth with hot and cold spells. The defense let us down at the end but there was a good chunk of that game where Edmonton couldn't get anything going at all.

We lost by 3 to a good team that needed a stupid PI call and a two point convert to even have a shot. Both sides of the ball really struggled at times but we will be fine.

Does TSN bother to wake Rod Black up for the second half?

Streveler needs to pull one of the read options and take off wide. He has tons of space.

Bombers basically did everything wrong early in an attempt to get blown out. Randle falls down, Streveler throws a pick, Lankford coughs it up. The fact that we are only down 10 right now with this long delay is a miracle. Offensive gameplan needs to be fixed ASAP. Getting Streveler in some really bad spots. Needs more read option.

I honestly just hope we don't get blown out and that Streveler looks half decent. Can't see Edmonton losing to a rookie QB, so I just want to have some hope for the upcoming weeks.

I think the rankings are mostly fair. The West is so good and so close that I don't really think anything is unreasonable. That said, this team has also won the second-most games over the past two years, so I think confidence in the team is also fair.

They really seemed to turn on Alex Ross quickly.