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Should be 21-0 after one quarter. Edmonton has two yards total offence. C’mon Bombers, that is less than acceptable!!!!!! That punt is happy honker worthy!

Would love to see a defensive shutout this quarter. Edmonton has zero yards rushing,zero yards passing so far.

CJOB live stream radio feed is 3 plays behind the live stadium action. Kind of frustrating.

So a dropped pick 6, failed 3rd down and no Harris on the goal line. Cut Alford, McGuire, and Pierce. Bomber scapegoats of the week

Geoff Gray has sat on our injured list all season to hide him. All teams do it, if the league had a real problem with it they’d crack down. Just like the soft penalties for salary cap violations, they don’t really care.

Jerry: “Kramer, what are you doing?” Kramer: “Well, you know, I’m uh, dominating!”

Please don’t tell me you are on some kind of watch list.

And this team may very well win the World Series this year. Certainly the AL favorites.

I use Safari as my web browser.

I’d laugh at this, but you know that we are going to get a bunch of paranoid idiots shooting sparrows out of the sky now.

Ok, for some reason I am not seeing an “eye” icon above the text box. I get the bold/italics/underline group, the emoji icon, the link paper clip, and the paper with magnifying glass, but that’s it. No eye. Any ideas (yes, you can all guess I am over 50 and can barely set the clock on the VCR)?

Wow, you are really gonna feel my wrath now, especially for that “purple monkey dishwasher” comment! Seriously, much obliged for the guidance.

If anyone never read Paul Friesen’s Winnipeg Sun series on the Grey Cup run, his book “Against All Odds” on sale at the Bomber Store gives a really neat insider account of how it went down, and gives some great insight into just how tough it was for Streveler. And for those who aren’t fans of Friesen’s writing (it can be somewhat simplistic here too, remember that he has word counts with his articles, unlike my posts, lol!) I understand that some of the proceeds go to a good cause.

How do you do the hidden comments feature? Don’t want to splinter off the Movie thread, it should stay here.

I know he sees the problems, but sometimes it comes out as “there are always outsiders coming around to tell us how to run the league, they will not make it better”. I get what he is trying to say, but at the same time all avenues may need to be explored given where things are at, even distasteful ones to the purists (and I count myself among them). Anyway, respect others who read his comments differently than I take them. Could just be my biased interpretation. Naylor’s approach that “well clearly the NFL model is the ONLY obviously right way to go, we are blowing it by not bowing down to it” leans too far the other way, and sure looks agenda driven from his perspective. Just trying to figure out exactly his agenda is.

The team got fat and sassy over the course of those 12 wins though. Charlie Roberts felt underused and disrespected and staged a distracting walkout. Ritchie did not know how to keep the team’s focus and rested starters down the stretch which led to complacency. They flat out disrespected Calgary by going with a scrub team in game 18 and Calgary needed that game just to get into the playoffs. And Calgary used that new life to carry a chip on their shoulders saying “you should have killed us when you had the chance, you thought we were no threat, now you are going to pay for your mistake”. Then a flat East Final performance that they did not react too seriously enough, and players measuring their ring sizes all week in Montreal in front of fans, media, and opposing players before the game. We all saw the outcome. In 1984 that team had serious challengers. BC were also a powerhouse. Edmonton was fading but still had leftover weapons from their 5 time Cup champions and Dunigan slinging it at QB. Toronto was the East favourite and also strong. This team would do well to treat the Riders, Lions, and Tiger Cats as threats who can up their game at any time. They know Toronto can beat them, and Montreal has given us fits at times. Be humble, be focussed, tune out all the noise, good and bad, and let the play on the field do the talking. O’Shea, Walters, and Miller have done a solid job of instilling that from the top down.

My brother went to a Bills game and he said it was the greatest football game he had ever seen. When I asked him details about the game he really couldn’t give me any. His entire opinion was based on the pregame experience with the fans. That is something that the CFL just cannot provide, with liquor laws as they are. And I think that is the perception that hinders the league in Toronto. It’s a mindset that “it’s the NFL so it has to be the coolest”. I have attended 3 NFL games live, one being the pre-season debacle in Winnipeg (I got free tickets, and still feel like I overpaid due to the time lost watching it). It is loud as can be and the tailgating is neat, but as for the games themselves I was bored more than not. NFL sells the spectacle. And they have the best athletes because they pay the most. I also hate Naylor’s pandering to the XFL process like it is the only way to save the league. Spring NFL-style football has been tried countless times and it keeps failing. USFL had a shot because it could compete with NFL salaries at the time and in the beginning was not trying to be a direct rival of the NFL, but now WLAF, World league, NFL Europe, XFL 1, 2, and 3 (am I missing any) all come and go in rapid suggestion. Why Naylor thinks this is a sound model to re-brand the CFL as is beyond me. Unless he hopes it is a MLSE springboard to an actual NFL team in Toronto and he can get in as an in house club media rep a la Tait or Lawless. However, Bob Irving’s opposite take is not the right approach either. His spin is “this league has been around for 100 years, it doesn’t need saving, it will always be around” is a little too blind to the financial problems facing it in modern times. Keeping things status quo because it is how it always has been that way is wrong-headed too. I don’t know what the cost of running a pro football team is. The Bombers’ open financial books seem to peg it at around $30 million a season, with only 18% going to player salaries. I know NFL teams push in at around $108 million on average. Unless we get a Sportsnet to come in with a ridiculous TV contract like their NHL billion dollar deal, then ticket prices will carry the load. How much can teams cut costs, and what is the effect (we can kind of see what no advertising or marketing dollars in Toronto looks like)? And to answer the question of what properties Sportsnet owns (asked earlier) they have NHL rights in the fall and winter and Blue Jays rights in the spring and summer, so they may be disinclined to pick up the CFL as a competing enterprise. With no competition, TSN has no need to spend more on its product.

I am happy being THAT team as long as they just treat it as business as usual. Don’t like seeing any Swaggerville or “good team but a bunch of jerks” portrayal. Be the team that no one can find anything to criticize about except for “it is frustrating that they are so damn good and so humble at the same time”.

So, WOW! Definitely see it in the theatre. Lots of stuff to digest, some surprises for sure and if you are a savvy Bond fan you will see and hear nods to the past franchise that also act as a bit of a tell. Won’t spoil anything but there is discussion to be had. Not sure how to do the hidden comments thing here. I would recommend it as another really solid Craig entry, maybe just behind Skyfall.

I don’t think Adams will ever get the due he is owed for his downfield blocking skills. I can’t recall anyone better as a receiver, and it just does not get brought up enough. Just another sign of the team identity that we are lucky to see with this squad.

I had thought to post this too, but did not. Not because of some attempt to look classy, but because I could nor type fast enough to beat Noeller to the punch(line). I’m sure your girlfriend is a lovely person. Nice to see her fraternizing with the Elk players and giving their male libidos some positive vibes. Charity work is important. Let’s not get cocky. I don’t want a single 2001 vibe around here.

Let’s hope. But it seems likely.

Well, if there has been a weakness seen in this defence, it has been giving up yards against the run at times. Here’s some pessimism for you - if this offence is not as well built for bad weather as the 2019 squad, what does that mean come playoff time if we have cold and snow?

Clear as mud.

If he is content to sit on the practice roster for now, keep him here for depth until you absolutely need the roster space. If he is unhappy in that role then the hard talk about his future can happen.