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If O'Shea has anything to say about it, yes.

I also feel sorry for Nichols. He is not the anal aperture like Casey Printers but this is a results-driven process, and he has lost something and is not the same quarterback of last year.

Probably not. He will ascribe it to just not having been given enough time. Like problem gamblers for whom the gambling is not the problem, its the lack of more money.

I think you overestimate O'Shea's willingness to adapt. I quote Red Green,"Everything can be fixed with duct tape. If that doesn't fix things, you are not using enough duct tape."

Contrast the ducks that Nichols threw for the most part against the dart Streveler threw into the end zone.

Apparently not to O'Shea.

Again.

There is a quotation in therapy, "If nothing changes, then nothing changes".

Just keeps getting better and better....

Ummmm,,,,,,,,look at the final score?

If the Copper Kettle downtown is still around, they used to be pretty good.

Some sacrifices are necessary, and the Bombers look to be 50-50 about making the western playoffs right now anyways. Going into next season with a defence directed by Hall is unthinkable- except to O'Shea.

Insulting the opposition team, their fans and their city is par for the course. For example, when I was passing through Regina a few months ago, we stopped at Costco there for gas and to stretch our legs. The wife (she who will be obeyed) found an item she liked and we lined up at the cashier. The lady ahead of us was a pretty average (for Saskatchewan) looking gal but when she got to the checkout she smiled at the cashier, the scanner immediately rang up a set of cookware..

I vote for "misguided loyalty mixed with rigid thinking"

The problem is not just Hall, but the fact that O'Shea will not replace him. And now the offence has gone MIA.

Remember that this Ottawa offence thrashed the Bomber defence. Goes to show you how bad Hall's defence is and also that Stubler is not senile just yet.

There had better be some changes. The offence has been flaccid for too long and the Bomber offence will be facing one of the best defensive coaches in the CFL

Its not just the losses that have put O'Shea on the hot seat. Its the downward trajectory this year, two consecutive blowouts going into the LDC/Banjo Bowl series, his (at least perceived) unwillingness to dump unproductive coaches and players and questionable player management. None of these are fatal by themselves but they do add up to problems. If the Bombers get blown out in Regina and lose again in the Banjo Bowl, O'Shea and Co. are in trouble.

I think this will be an entertaining game.Montreal has nothing to lose.

By comparison to the rest of the Riser O-line, yes. However, unless I am mistaken, the Riders have allowed the second-lowest number of QB sacks, remarkable given the quarterback situation there.

Yes, unless there's a bone sticking through his skin.

There's a weird sort of symmetry at work here- we're can't make mid-game adjustments and we can't make mid-season additions to the team.

I wonder if there is a league stat about when a QB pressure actually disrupted a play where the down was lost.

FFIFY

There is a big difference between "better" and "good", particularly when you compare the Bomber track record over the past few years to say, Ottawa, Toronto and Hamilton. How many years of "better" are you prepared to accept?