TrueBlue4ever

Haven’t seen anything inspiring from the Elks yet this year.

I can’t. The inmates may be running the asylum in Regina, but their defence can keep them in a few games, and Chris Jones is in charge of a circus next province over. Cutting a quarter of your roster in one week for a major airlift, playing players out of position, and the fashion in which they have lost (multiple blowouts) and won (Hamilton literally handed them the win, Montreal blew a 19 point lead) shows me that Jones is more Nutty Professor than Mad Scientist.

Funny thing is the Riders may have the second best shot at getting to the Grey Cup right now. The East is yet again a dumpster fire, so the crossover is probable. Saskatchewan only has to be better than Edmonton to get in, and Chris Jones is too busy building an entire new roster each week to worry about a consistent game plan. Once in the playoffs, wouldn’t shock me to see them pull off a couple of wins given the eastern competition. A much easier road than going through BC/Cal and then Winnipeg. Then they waltz in to a home Grey Cup game where once again they meet the Bombers for another historic first at IG Field West: First pre-season game ever: Winnipeg ties Sask First regular season game ever: Winnipeg wins over Sask First playoff game ever: Winnipeg wins over Sask First West Final ever: Winnipeg wins over Sask First NHL game ever: Winnipeg wins (over Calgary, since Sask has no team) First Grey Cup game ever: Bomber Three-peat! Even if it meant having to put up with two Rider playoff victories, this would be glorious

Speaking of horrible colours, why is your avatar on a green background????????? For shame!

The correct answer is blue AND gold. The all-blue concept in 1996 created a lot of debate. Most of it hostile. A re-visit of all blue in 2014 created even more outrage. Plus, gold is the colour of first place. The colour of a champion.

The eye roll option gets created and the Collaros thread gets resurrected a week later. Coincidence? I think not! Now if you’ll excuse me I have about 30 pages of a two year old thread to add emojis to, lol.

Father Time is undefeated, and Wally Buono became very successful with the attitude of “better a year early than a year late” when moving on from players. But Bryant has earned the right to retire on his own terms as much as anyone.

Looking at your list of requirements: 1) “compete” is definitely do-able, “complete” is possible (maybe 50/50) 2) “all phases” - difficult 3) “error free” - unlikely 4) “disciplined” - on a scale, with “zero” being “no chance” and “10” being “guaranteed”, I’d ask if I could use negative numbers. This is where it falls apart for them 5) “us have mistakes” - as last year’s West Final showed, even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while, so it is a tiny bit possible even with our usual ball protection offence, but even those errors were not enough to derail us in that game 6) “parade of penalties” - we are the anti-Montreal in terms of discipline, so us melting down seems quite unlikely (and Montreal also being super-disciplined at the same time seems like a pipe dream) 7) “total stinker of a performance” - the great equalizer here. Short week, back-to-back on the road, coming off the emotional high of winning in Calgary, and for all the brilliance of an 8-0 record, this teams has somewhat played to the level of it’s opponent all year. Our best 2 games have been against the supposed powerhouses, and there have been warts in the others that have been the subject of discussion here. O’Shea has been great with getting buy-in with his “we are trying to go 1-0 this week” mantra, but have we truly walked in as strong favourites and buried a lesser team all year? Add it all up and I agree I can’t see it happening, especially since even if we stink Montreal has to play inspired ball at the same time. Would like to see a follow-up performance from us after a big win over Calgary that does not resemble the Elks game, though.

On the coach’s show (last week?) O’Shea was praising one of his players (did not catch the name, but I got the vibe it was a plug-in back-up and not one of the stars) saying he loved the player’s energy and that if he bought a jersey that’s a player whose name he would want on it. Someone texting in said that they wanted an O’Shea jersey, and he said “oh God, don’t waste your money on that. That would be a terrible idea”.

And it would get just as heated.

I recall an efficiency expert being brought in to assess costs at HSC. May have been the same person. They said the hospital needed to immediately slash $400,000 off the top and targeted shift nursing positions instead of middle management salaries. And guess what the payment to the efficiency expert was for their services? Yep, $400,000.

Local radio - pre/post game is Bob Irving, Ed Tait, Joe Poplawski, and Bob Cameron. Game call Irving, Neil Lumsden and Greg Marshall (player, not coach) for colour. Player features Joe Pascucci. Sideline Kelly Moore. Happy honker Jack Wells. TV - pre/post game James Duthie, Chris Schultz, Matt Dunigan, Bo Levi Mitchell, coaching analyst Paul LaPolice, features Dave Naylor/Stephen Brunt, play-by-play Don Wittman, analyst Duane Forde, sideline Sara Orlesky.

Here’s some potentially worse juju - is it too early to talk about an 18-0 season?

Everybody.

Outside run to burn the clock rather than pass here.

Was screaming for the time count penalty, but I prefer the result with Hallett.

Last score wins tonight.

Two, but one was the end of the half. If we trade scores and lose by less than 7, O’Shea should be asked why he opted to give Calgary the ball for both start of half kickoffs.

Ok, that’s……..better? At least the younger generation is attending CFL games.

Matt and Henry Burris did a great breakdown of Fajardo’s oblique injury before the 2019 West Final with Matt explaining how it affected throwing motion and demonstrating arm angle and release point on a thrown football. Totally understandable to the lay person but full of expert insight. I agree more of this would be dynamite on the panel.

Even if just a FG, would like to see the Bombers run out the clock on this drive and not give Calgary another possession.

Great YAC by Woli.

And a stop!