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This confirms Dunigan's speculation some time back that the nature of Lulay's injury might well make Lulay's shoulder so unstable that even a minor impact would spell an instant replay. We may well have seen the last of Lulay- bad news for the Lions and the league.

For whatever reason, Vega was a non-factor in the Banjo Bowl and may have been better served to have been left on the shelf until 100% or close to it.

The Bombers missed a golden (and blue) opportunity to sell a lot of T-shirts last game if they had ones emblazoned with "I survived Banjo Bowl 2014" on them with spots where the score could be written in permanent marker- heck, even the gopher-humpers would have bought them.

And we were sooooo close.............

From what I could see at the Banjo Bowl, the Bomber O-line was decent if not great, but that comes at a price. We have three imports on the line and that cripples the team's ability to use the extra import(s) elsewhere.

The trash is supposed to be caustic enough to distract the intended victim, and there is a real thin line between that sort of thing and racism and homophobia. I would be surprised if, in this day and age, the players do not get a chat as to what is ok and what is not.

I'm guessing that Kuale was brought in due to his CFL experience and resume-on paper he looks like he ought to be a good middle linebacker, and should be good against the run. Reality is another thing altogether. Kuale is right in one respect, though- Leggett was making too many tackles at the line of scrimmage or 5 yards in, and the linebackers were pretty consistently being swarmed by the Sask O-linemen who were blowing right through the Bomber D-line. It seemed that the Riders were second and 4 most of the game, and that opened up all kinds of options for Durant. The Bomber D-line has to bear a good deal of the blame for the success of the Rider running game, but that does not excuse Kuale's ineffectiveness and dumb penalties. The whole Bomber team took a lot of dumb penalties.

Willy has all the tools but not the experience as a starter- he is the least of the problems we have. Surprisingly, Romby Bryant and Aaron Kelly both earned their paycheques today but Sask has a darned good offense and defence, and the Bombers could not consistently stop the run. The loss came because because of two plays: the TD kick return Willy floating that pass right into the arms of the defender.

I was at the game today and kept an eye on Kuale for a chunk of the time- especially when on first Sask downs when it was pretty obvious they were going to run. Kuale was consistently late to the party, frequently out of position and had little success in fending off opposing O-linemen. He has the size (230lb) and the meanness but doesn't seem to have the smarts. He is a liability to the team and if a better replacement cannot be found, the scouts should be fired.

Apparently they have added some 3000 temporary seats for this game. I hope we will still be in the game by the 4th quarter and will count it a minor victory if we don't get run over in the 4th quarter.

Could Elliott conceivably be worse than what they have now?

I bet Max doesn't even know. One thing I've learned from alcoholism & drug addiction that seems to unfortunately run in my family is, some people are born with addictive personalities. I battled my addictions over the years.... I smoked 2 1/2 packs a day for two decades till I quit in 1996 for good. I weighed 310 lbs because I ate like it was my last meal & would snack nightly on chips & french onion dip, nachos, KFC, McDonalds at all hours, mostly at night when my wife was asleep. Then I'd shamefully bag up all the eaten goodies, walk out to the garbage & throw it away thinking she'd never know when she did. I remember asking myself why I did what I did & had no answer. It was like those addictions controlled me as I couldn't control them. And then I'd feel like absolute crap the next day being sick. I drank too much but wouldn't classify myself as an alcoholic but it was close. About the only thing I didn't do was drugs too much... Well, today I weigh 210 lbs, I don't smoke & I only drink occasionally. I haven't been drunk in years... But seeing my dad & uncles battle the bottle & with my demons, I think we were born with addictive personalities... That's my theory anyway. Congratulations on your victories. If you want a clinical description, there are several, but the most common one is that some of us are afflicted with a gnawing sense of incompleteness and inadequacy and come to believe that some action or substance will fill that lack or at least distract us from it.

Probably because he liked feeling rich, good-looking and bulletproof. No one who hasn't been there can really describe the godlike feeling of euphoria.

And is likely headed to behind some.

I dont know first hand but imagine the hooker situation is better in Montreal than what we are going to round up here Maybe we could compensate with quantity what we lack in quality. Probably cost us a 24 Oh, you're gonna need more hookers than that.

I dont know first hand but imagine the hooker situation is better in Montreal than what we are going to round up here Maybe we could compensate with quantity what we lack in quality.

I think Billikudi is a tackle and I would hope he replaces Bryant Turner. I have not been impressed with him this year. Or any of the D-linemen.

We could take up a collection and do what the Bronfmans did one year when the Esks were in Montreal for the Grey Cup. They rounded up every decent looking hooker in Montreal and delivered free booze to every Esk player's room- probably Schenly's. The Esks players straggled into the stadium late looking like they were partying all night (and they were) and they were trounced.

Be still, my beating heart. Could Christmas come early this year?

Eskimo defence looked rather pedestrian. I always thought they were required to play on foot. Still, Edmonton look like they woke the bear up.

The only thing that's hard to believe is that we didn't try him at Centre earlier. Morely has been the target of a lot of bile on this forum and I was one of his harshest critics. He has been the steadiest and probably the best O-lineman we've had this year, import or not. That it took six years to realize that this was his natural position says an awful lot about the judgement of O'Shea's predecessors.

And I'll bet that Etch invested heavily in Blackberry stock.

I hate the hockey jersey logo on the front look. I don't mind them at all. Simple. Clean. Understated. Not a bad alternate jersey. Way better than most of the other hideous designs.

I agree that we are at real risk of getting our butts kicked at the Banjo bowl, which ticks me off because I bought tickets a month ago in a fit of irrational optimism. I suspect that Willy's ankle is worse than the club is letting on, but maybe because he is essentially a pocket passer that won't be too bad, but our O-line, receivers and run defence are very suspect. We may get to see one of our backup QBs in the second half, but O'Shea hasn't done anything like that to date, even last game when Willy was dinged up.

Surely you jest. He's not jesting and his name is not Shirley.