Blueandgold

This is a key point. Big misses in the losses against Montreal and Toronto (IIRC on that one).

You should also recall the fact that Dressler and Darvin Adams both got hurt in Nichols first start against Edmonton and we started a winning steak without Dressler, Adams and Ryan Smith.

I’m far from a Nichols fan, but if he doesn’t come in and play well for the 1-4 Bombers with the entire receiving core out O’Shea doesn’t make it through 2016.

The big issue is that our receiving core has been an issue throughout Walters/O’Shea’s tenure and it still is. I like Lawler, but Darvin isn’t a number one receiver and Whitehead isn’t an every down receiver. The fact that we have guys like Bailey (who looked like a perfect fit for our O in the BB) and Peterman sitting on the bench makes our receiving cores poor play and O’Shea’s reluctance to shake things up even more frustrating.

Guys who play hard like Peterman and Bailey deserve to be in the lineup over our putrid receiving core sans Lawler.

Why is Bailey not in the lineup and why was Chris Matthews cut? I’m beginning to sour on Hecht very quickly.

I just don't think a Matt Nichols led team can win in the playoffs against a team like Calgary. I do believe that a Chris Streveler led team can. Nichols did a lot of good things for us and helped take us out of the dumpster, but I don't think he's the QB to take us over the hump.

Taking Bailey out of the lineup was a bad yet expected move. He looked good against the Riders and deserved to play over Whitehead or even Lawler in my opinion.

This is exactly like the Toronto game. I thought we were over playing like this? Absolutely awful.

Missed XP and FG loom large.

Lewis pushed off, that’s OPI if anything.

Yup. It was a bizarre choice to decline that holding penalty.

We’re incapable of playing with a lead, the conservative nature of our coordinators is extremely harmful, particularly Lapo.

You gotta run a quick slant in or something like that when you know they’re blitzing.

Six yards is stuffed in the mind of Rod Black.

Wilson missed a gift on that play.

Apologize to Hecht.

Huge play by our D. Adams forced the ball on a play that wasn’t there at all.

Not to mention that Medlocks kicking is off today.

I’m usually all for being aggressive and kicking the FG but I would prefer to pin Montreal deep at this point.

Not at all, we had the ball with an opportunity to close out the game and did nothing with it (just like the previous week against Toronto). We got lucky that Calgary’s receivers all have stone hands and cost them what would’ve been a game winning field goal. Anyways, the point I was making is that all teams have “lucky wins” and you are what your record says you are. Calgary is still a damn good team that I don’t want to see in the West Final.

We had no business beating Calgary actually. We got extremely lucky.

Because Bailey and Peterman are better than Whitehead and Demski?

Should we even consider this a positive?

I become a bigger and bigger Streveler fan every time I watch him play. He’s an absolute bull rushing the football and can get first downs on plays that that QBs are taking a 10 yard sack.