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Crapinga for the Riders win! Fun game to watch.

I am picking RBs in OT.

Give me JFG over Demski any day.

Hopefully the officials don't get all flag-happy and they just let them play. Also, let's hope the outcome isn't decided on the result of some yellow challenge flag.

Bombers going Messam up.

Thanks for the update Sling ........ BTW is your moniker in tribute to Cal's son-in-law Samuel Mayorga Garza Jr.?

I'm one of the folks who wanted MOS and Walters both run out of town. Not because the record was 1-4 but because it was 13-27 with signs of retrogression. Now it is 20-27 - creeping closer to .500 - but not quite there yet. Is the MOS-Walters overall better than Joe Mack yet? Someone will know.

Was hoping for a tie.

7 games ago many around here (including yours truly) were ready to mop the floor with these guys. lol Are they anywhere near .500 yet? Someone said Walters and MOS had a W-L record worse than Joe Mack. Lets see how the club performs in the home stretch and playoffs before we do any more anointing around here.

Totally agree with this. McDuffie's return for TD was from around Winnipeg's 10 - that's 100 yards. I remember thinking geez, I hope they don't go right back to McDuffie, give the guy a chance to catch his breath - but sure enough. Boneheaded by Lapo or Nichols or whoever had the call on that one.

Bombers playing with confidence so this will be a good battle vs a good Toronto team. Hoping for a breakout game from Bombers offence as I think this will be an exciting and high scoring game.

Hope Harris doesn't push to go if he's not 100% - that hurts the team.

All good points. For me, where Bombers are right now, 11 games into 2016, reminds me of where they were at 5-1 at the start of 2014 with Drew Willy at the controls. All the attention was on Willy - new QB - at that time but the Defence and Special Teams, and placekicking contributed hugely to the win streak while the offence largely sputtered and often failed to score sixes. When our opponents figured out Etchevery about 1/3 of the way through 2014, and the offence continued its futility, the wheels fell off the bus.

Ooooops ... WBBFanWest already posted Jovon thinks Walters is a thief: Jovon Johnson ✔ @Mr_Consistent_2 Bombers won all the way around with this trade smfh they gave up nothing to get two very good players! https://twitter.com/wpg_bluebombers/status/775127555531759616 …

Probably good for Drew Willy and for Bombers to part company. Heath looked great for Argos today vs TiCats and KG a veteran QB behind Nichols. Good all around.

Getting back to Lawless says there is a trade market for Willy ............ Gurley for Willy has a nice ring to it. EDIT: 'Cept LeFevour got a win for the Argos and despite a couple of picks looks pretty good. Guessing any trade talk for Willy to TO will cool a bit now. 2nd Edit: Willy traded!

Yup. He has been and its been great to witness. But is it enough? Or do we need more? That is the question that will play out over the next 7 games vs some tough opponents.

That stat is for the entire season, I presume, and we were talking about Winnipeg's wins, which came in the first 1/3 of the season in 2014 before Bombers opponents figured out Etchevery's defence. So don't be pulling out a stat that has no direct relevance to the point of comparison under discussion. We were talking about Winnipeg's wins in 2014, not the whole season, which was a disaster. I've already pointed out elsewhere that if it wasn't for key scores by D and ST in 2014 our record would have been 3-13 with Willy at the helm. On Nichols vs Willy - I'm with you and will take Nichols over Willy any day because his reads are faster and he gets rid of the ball quicker. There are also legit questions about Willy's ability to read defences, period. But I feel that neither Willy nor Nichols have been carrying the team on their own the way Collaros or BLM can. Nichols does seem to have stepped up as a leader, has done a great job of protecting the ball, and the team has responded to the point where they believe they can win. They had clearly given up on Willy and I would favour dealing him to another team and going with Davis as backup. But I also share JBR's worry that the offence needs to step up if we are to be a real contender. Even O'shea said that after the game - another WIN! - yesterday.

The wins Willy got in 2014 were just like the wins Nichols is getting this year - they are coming due to lights out play by the D and special teams.

Loved watching Dieter Brock - a football warrior who threw a beautiful ball.

Willy's biggest problem in the first 5 games - they were numerous but consistent with prior inadequacies - was that his team-mates lost confidence in his abilities and therefore to lead and to win. That was obvious. And it was the main reason things turned around with Nichols in there, he gave the whole team a spark and helped them come around to the belief they could win. So if you look at the difference between games 1-5 and 5-10 in the context of Willy vs Nichols then that is it right there.

Or we can continue to win one game a time exactly as we have: decent QB management of the O with tempo, critical forced D turnovers when needed, and a placekicker who is money.

Waggoner out of position on the Lawrence return. Controversial call on Cox to give us life at the end. Crapinga's missed kicks loom large. Add it all up = W!

This edition of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers ... is just getting started. Victory this week (and next) and unstoppable after that.

If Dunk is correct, he says Bombers are likely to pay the most in the league compared with other clubs - $606k - for our 1-2 QB duo. Folks have been throwing shade on Nichols for supposed lack of red zone production, and yet, over the span of games that Willy started since 2014, Bombers scored something like throwing 23 TDs. That's somewhere north of $30,000 per touchdown if his previous base packages were as reported. No idea what Justin Medlock is paid, could it be around $200k? Whatever it is, he looks like an absolute bargain.