Fatty Liver

Sherritt comes over the top and nails Franklin directly in the head with his helmet dropping him. How can they ignore those head-shots?

The O-line did not solidify until they inserted Bond at LG and Hardrick at RT which coincided with Nichols taking over from Willy. Before his major injuries Willy was pretty much fearless. Go back and watch his early performances in B+G.

This could be the very strand the NFL uses to build their defence upon to fend off player lawsuits.

That has not been verified yet, he may have tried to cross the highway in front of the bus and blew a shift stranding him across the road so it very well could come down to a lack of training and driving experience. Either way it was a tragic accident with no intent. Here is the definition of criminal negligence from Wikipedia. To constitute a crime, there must be an actus reus (Latin for "guilty act") accompanied by the mens rea (see concurrence). Negligence shows the least level of culpability, intention being the most serious, and recklessness being of intermediate seriousness, overlapping with gross negligence. The distinction between recklessness and criminal negligence lies in the presence or absence of foresight as to the prohibited consequences. Recklessness is usually described as a "malfeasance" where the defendant knowingly exposes another to the risk of injury. The fault lies in being willing to run the risk. But criminal negligence is a "misfeasance" or "nonfeasance" (see omission), where the fault lies in the failure to foresee and so allow otherwise avoidable dangers to manifest. In some cases this failure can rise to the level of willful blindness, where the individual intentionally avoids adverting to the reality of a situation. (In the United States, there may sometimes be a slightly different interpretation for willful blindness.) The degree of culpability is determined by applying a reasonable-person standard. Criminal negligence becomes "gross" when the failure to foresee involves a "wanton disregard for human life" (see the discussion in corporate manslaughter).

Improving QB performance always starts with improving the O-line play, the Als could roll through 30 different QB's and it would look much the same, I don't think Streveler would look any better in that situation. Once the O-line is solidified almost any competent QB can begin to go to work executing the plays in the play-book and move away from ad-libbing sandlot football. Willy is in a very bad spot, he requires very good O-line play to execute even moderately well and he's terrible at sandlot play.

Mike Reilly

This season seems to be lacking barnburners.

Time to give Davis some reps.

Marcel B. spent 8 of his 9 lives in Wpg. trying to duplicate that offence for Willy and failed miserably.

Edem?

The offence has to be built around the concept, they can't just switch to that style of D like flicking a switch. I've been waiting for a dog's age for the pendulum to swing back the other way and bring back a more balanced attack, maybe old June will prove it's a worthy pursuit. No more empty backfields!

I don't understand why he hasn't brought back Vince Young, Jones gives up too easily.

I think that's going to make all the difference in the world, BC will not be continually running max. protection and Jennings is nowhere near as efficient as Masoli. June Jones should be congratulated, he's brought back an outdated offensive plan and is kicking butt with it.

What's becoming abundantly clear is the D. has not improved enough to compete with upper echelon teams like the Ti-Cats, Stamps and Esks.

At one point the Bombers were paying Willy $400,000 plus to do what he does, now I doubt he's earning 1/4th of that salary and he's struggling to hold a job on the worst team in the league.

I'm convinced Jones has thrown in the towel and is looking to get out of his Rider contract before next year's salary restrictions cut into his pie, a 1-7 start will virtually finish him off.

I'm disappointed they are not using either Demski or LaFrance more as a distraction like they used Flanders, not enough activity in the backfield leaving Harris to fend for himself. When the other teams can key on Harris exclusively it's not hard for them to limit his carries to a 4 yd. average as he's not that elusive.

Riders were within 2 pts. of the Als at one point late in the 4th Q. in a sold out Mosaic stadium in a town where people really don't have much else to talk about and yet Jones at no point thinks to put Bridge back in the game to try to salvage a victory. Bridge is not much of a QB imo. but there is no doubting his physical ability, he can throw the ball a mile and he can run like the wind. Somewhere in his mixed bag of QB skills and experience I believe he had the wherewithal to put together enough plays to defeat the Als. and yet Jones decided early on not to explore that possibility and pissed away the second half playing Watford.

Unbelievable they keep marching him out there, one day soon he'll be gone for good and the Al's. will begin their ascscent.

Bit of a chicken/egg scenario your're creating. If the Offence wants more time on the field they need to produce first downs consecutively, not look to the D to give them the ball back just so they can go right back out and squander another opportunity with a 2 and out. Obviously they lost as a team but considering the temp. at field level last night was extreme with added high humidity these conditions exacerbate the T.O.P. difference and once the front 7 were bagged, the DB's were basically left on their own at the hands of Masoli.

Unless there are other roster issues to deal with, I think it's clear that Lankford offers more consistency and has more break away potential than Moe as a K.R..

Are they running wide sweeps to honour the memory of Jay Washington? If so please don't desecrate his memory.

Cause he's a good player and always has been, maybe watch him actually play the game instead of spouting the groupthink line.

Yah, you can pick them out because the Japanese players have really short legs, but so did Normie Kwong and he did alright.