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Looked more like a no-offense huddle.

Bouquets to: Drew Willy, Darvin Adams, Khalil Bass, Pat Neufeld, JFG, Veltung, Sam Hurl (sort of), Richie Hall, Marshall and all the fans who sat through the rain Bricks to: Dom Picard, Lirim Hajrullahu, and the refs who are doing their best to slow the game down

BC has a mediocre (at best) O-line and about the same grade of D-line. On balance, we ought to be better on both sides of the line of scrimmage and if we can't beat them, its gonna be another long season. So, whichever side registers the most sacks ought to win, and there is no reason it shouldn't be the Bombers. I predict a see-saw first half with the game decided in the fourth quarter. If Willy gets racked up again, all bets are off.

That's my point. "Better than Brink" did not equal "good QB", just like "Marve is better than Brohm" does not mean "Marve should be starting because he's so good". Many who want rid of Brohm think that Marve will come in and light it up, but like Elliot he could quite easily stink it up, and the coaches must believe that is the case based on not playing him and explaining how he is deficient in the areas they need him to be stronger in. Elliot's riskiness was not just riverboat gambler mentality, it was a fundamental inability to read the defence and exploit it. That was proven by the lack of success on any other team that took a chance on him afterwards. He was not a good QB, and "better than Brink" was such a low bar that people falsely elevated his ability to play because of it and pinned unrealistic expectations on him. I fear the same scenario with Marve now. My point is that Elliott hardly stunk it up, he moved the ball effectively but threw some ints in the red zone. Rather than working to correct that as a normal coach might do, he got the under the bus treatment cause the coach was pissed off as he often was and he liked to bury players who displeased him. Elliot had the tools but he was playing against a stacked deck. He was on a horribly inept team with dreadful coaching. He may have been trying to win games all by himself and forcing the ball because it was the only chance his team had. Yes, he likely ignored the coaches but I really can't fault him for that.

Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be.

Some misguided sailors posters on this ship board still think they can pull a fast one on me. Well, they're very much mistaken. Oooh,ooh a Caine Mutiny reference! Who's Captain Queeg? or Hardball?

Wow. The Riders are just snakebit this year and thats all there is. They could be looking at 2 and 16 this year but the funny thing is that this might buy Chamblin mosre time. How can a team compete with their number one and two quarterbacks on the shelf? Oh yeah, we went through that not too long ago and there was no sympathy from other teams.

Sounds like this signing has some promise but lets see how he shapes up. If he has the same learning curve as our QB's, he ought to be a started by 2019.

The only reason that we are not #9 is that the hapless Riders continue to implode. The Big Bluejust can't fall any lower because of them, but a win tomorrow would boost us into the dizzying heights of...seventh place. We ain't gonna get it for free because the BC Pussycats seem to be getting better every game and we ain't.

Isn't willy starting? I'm betting that Willy will start and be pulled for Brohm if things do not go well. When things go badly for Brohm, O'Shea will do nothing.

Marve or Davis(?) may or may not be the best alternative if Willy goes down or is ineffective, and all but CNIB clients have twigged onto the fact that Brohm is NOT the answer. It is a complete puzzlement as to why 0'Shea et al haven't figured this out. As bad as Brohm is, if Marve is worse, he ought to be dragged out in the street and shot immediately. If our recruitment people cannot find a QB who is better than Brohm, they ought to suffer the same fate.

FYP Works either way. Can't he do both? Pleeeeaase....

I feel much better now.

It was actually Dunigan on the colour, and it was something like "if Winnipeg wants to run the ball here, they should probably take a look at the nine guys that are standing on the other side of the line expecting it to come." Then Matt went ape-**** going on about how great the Edmonton defence pounced on Cotton. Of course they looked awesome. They knew it was coming and there weren't enough blockers to counter-act the rush. A five-year old would have seen that that play wasn't going to work. And what's frustrating is that we do this, over and over again. No adjustment. No learning. Just repeat and fail, repeat and fail. I stand corrected. Still, this scenario about the Bomber offence being painfully obvious to all and sundry is all too familiar for too many years.

The predictablity on that running play was so obvious that I believe even Suitor called it. It looks like Mr. Bellefeille has outstayed his welcome here.

Do you honestly think even if he sucks, he will Boltus himself off the roster? It may take MB being shown the door before this happens. I suspect this will be the case, but I fear what it will do to team confidence if Brohm either starts or comes on in relief and craps the bed as his history predicts. We fans huff and puff but the real damage would probably come in the evaporation of whatever respect the players have left in the coaches (and GM) to make the team competitive. One more shellacking at the hands of a mediocre team like BC would be really hard on the players and might be enough to convince them that its next year country.

If you look at play execution, discipline and tackling as bellweathers of how ready the team is to play, the Bombers got a solid "F" last Saturday. Even while Willy was still in the game, they were tentative as all getout, but as soon as Brohm came in, the whole team started playing as if they did not expect to win. And they didn't.

So far as I can recall, Cotton has been running as hard as he can and not hesitating, but as Saturday's game wore on, he was being met by 3 or 5 defenders right at the line.

If an athlete cannot crack the starting lineup in 7 years, it is never gonna happen, no matter what the sport. If he's the best backup McManus can find, that's just sad.

I cannot imagine the misery it would be to sit in the stands for that match-up. I would prefer 3 hours of root canal work, or a colonoscopy- at least you can be numbed for that.

Brohm's stats can't get any more damning than that. If the coaches still believe he can lead the team, there is something terribly, terribly wrong.

Whatever kicks Stoudemire did field, he had virtually no room to move before the Esks were right on top of him.

I've been a Bomber fan for some 40 plus years and I've been there through good seasons and bad. With that experience, it gets easier to see when a team is going though a rough stretch and with little hope for improvement in the short term. By the way, I was complimentary to the 'Cats as well, but they have not been the subject of ridicule in this forum as the Riders have. I was comparing the effort and execution of the Riders to the Bombers in their most recent games, and that is a valid comparison.

We could put up with Brohm having the personality of flatulence in a closed elevator if he had the right stuff, but if he does, he must be saving it for the prom.

The way things look at the moment, the Riders would be rated higher than the Big Blue, even though the Riders haven't won a game to date.