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Nope but one would assume he didn't fit in to the culture of the team, WHo knows, maybe had another opportunity elsewhere, maybe didn't like winnipeg? maybe expected to play right away? lots of possibilities and my guess is we never really find out the true reason.

Section S was fun but... it was distracting for sure. Section S got ruined for me when i went to a game and i saw a few 40-50 year olds sitting in there acting like they were 20. Hogan was cool but man, that guy is a good example of what ruined it for me. Got lame when i realized that The "student" section wasn't just for students.

Being at the game gives you a different perspective to what actually went down, In the section, lots of people when something went wrong, blamed Willy but... don't really understand that it takes the oline to execute and the receivers do get open and when they do, catch the damn ball, not sure some understand that. I think, yeah i'm going there, not a shot at those people but i think when the team is winning (3-0) there are gonna be people at the game who really just have no clue LOL. Several in my section (seriously) good section though, great seats, awesome stuff but... man not the smartest football people. Say what you will, not much to cheer for last night but still was a good time at IGF. Bombers just, i guess you can say, didn't execute, that's not just on Drew Willy, what can he do? catch the ball himself? get open himself? Nope, but the entire team just didn't get the breaks, so many dropped balls it's insane actually. Flubbed opening kick off set the tone, the grigsby can't catch "fumble"/ interception eventhough it was entirely on Grigsby set the tone even more minutes later, Lirim off the post from damn near the 50 with a slight wind in his face, off the post. Just sums it up really. Didn't catch the breaks, and the receivers couldn't catch the ball. Never mind breaks, we couldn't even catch the damn ball last night on Offense. D? played well, but had issues tackling. But played well considering they were on the field for 38 minutes, 10 of that though might have been because they couldn't tackle. What could go wrong, did go wrong? One of those games, our first like that in 4 games?? Ridiculous but if we go 3-1 every 4 games, we won't, but if we do, we are 14-4. LOL. Just chalk this one up to our first really bad game of the year.

Willy's game was.. Have time, Receiver drops ball, have time, nobody open, have no time, sacked or dump it off to the nearest guy so no sack happens. Maybe one or 2 iffy throws, throws that maybe "he'd want back". 14/27 for 180. no TD. 1 pick. Pick was Grigsby not being able to catch, had space if he could tho and just needed to make willis miss.. Had legit 8 drops probably, no bs. Those 8 drops included probably a guaranteed touchdown by JFG, and a fumble by moore. Willy played well. Made the right read when he had time, just problem was, the receivers didn't play well at all.

at the game JFG stopped running actually, he slowed down, if anything JFG misjudged the throw a wee bit. It was pretty obvious in person, He got his hand on it, he stopped running for a few seconds, If he didn't, Touchdown. I'm going to say it, Watson makes that catch and scores,JFG has been good but Guaranteed Watson catches it and scores. JFG has been a very nice surprise though, not really much press when we signed him, but has turned out nice for us.

Reilly played well, by that i mean he used his legs well, he ran well, didn't do much else well though. The main issue i saw was that when our guys had reilly, they just blew the tackle, happened lots, reilly was stopped lots of times for barely any gain, (not enough for the first down at least) but.. didn't go down. Poor Tackling, Zach Anderson was the only guy who knew how to tackle. Really, we had lots of issues last night, no need to "blow things up" or "cut guys".. Gonna be lame here but.. Football comes down to execution, last night both teams struggled actually at execution, the bombers just struggled more. Couldn't catch, Couldn't return, couldn't tackle. Edmonton wasn't that impressive. Maybe the big crowd made guys nervous? i dunno, but even during warm-ups i noticed something, Cotton and Grigsby both had a hard time hanging on to the ball, They were the ones bobbling or dropping balls all warm-up. Not sure why, but... Oh well, we are 3-1. Who expected that? Anyone saying we need to cut guys right now.. man, Just stop it. I'm just going to add, Iike our Dline, Turner and Anderson in particular, IMO, if anderson had a good night, so did Turner and vice versa but.. Honestly, i think we could really use a guy like Alex Hall, a pure pass rushing defensive end, we lack that and i think if we had it, our Dline would be very very good instead of just good really. Turner and Anderson and Vega are solid, Peach is good depth but i really feel we are missing that dominant pass rushing defensive end.

Wylie was there, do believe during the game he was up in the box though, Charbs was on the sidelines i believe but Wylie definitely was there. Oline has a couple holes, but it has potential when greaves gets back to be pretty solid i think, not blaming howard just IMO, oline works as one, needs consistency to become good, pretty tough when Greaves, is he our best offensive lineman? I think i'd say he is, is injured, disrupts the line a bit, didn't play too bad first 2 games did they? Might have just played the best 2 Dlines in the league back to back??? Halftime comment: They need to do something about the concourse, it's just way way way way too packed at times. Lots of people just standing around doing nothing too, I understand people want to get up and stretch and do that but man, they need to somehow find a way to keep it under control a bit more. Insane.

thought west and briggs were noticeable on special teams actually, they don't really play so why worry about them, i guess what it shows is our lack of canadian depth. That's not a fix we can just snap our fingers at and improve. Besides those guys are very valuable special team players, They arne't asked to really contribute on D that often if at all, They are there primarily for special teams, you could probably call west a safety if they wanted too, hell if they really wanted too, could call cornell a fullback, pretty irrelevant what they call them when they are just used for special teams. We lack depth though big time, can't just replace them.. cuz like others have said, with who? What 2 canadians do we add or 3 canadians we add when we remove those 3 canadians? Oline? why? they don't play special teams.

Willy - had no time to throw, when he did, had no one to throw too, when he did have someone to throw too, that player dropped it, flat out dropped it.. stopped running their route like JFG did early in the game and or just flat out dropped the ball.Willy wasn't the issue at all, Oline had problems though, not just one guy either, receivers couldn't catch, grigsby couldn't catch... cotton sucked at returns. I mean really, esks didn't score an offensive touchdown until the 4th quarter i believe and i believe it was right after the bogus call on washington even. They didn't exactly kill us, ESKS aren't that good, we just simply put... RB, OLINE, RECEIVERS, Returners didn't show up. Willy played pretty decently, maybe it doesn't come across on TV and maybe if i watched at home i would think Willy wasn't that good either but being there in person, you can see they guy had no one to throw too. Seriously, people in the section were like throw the ball willy, in my head i'm thinking? to who? cuz nobody is open at all. Kind of amused me near the end, throw the ball willy, he does... DROP by our guy... summed up the night.. Willy, when he had time to throw (not often) made the right throw i thought and right read, it's just that nobody was open and when they were, they dropped the Damn ball.

Starting to come around but... as i said in another post, does seem a little confusing at times, is that a call? isn't it? I'm not 100 percent sure all the time and i should be. Hey man, you did the flag raising the first game right? what's the deal with it? cuz last night they only got it half way too.. Is that as far as it can go??

Sorry but it's really not as simple as that at all... You know for a fact if a bomber hit him while he was down, it would have been a flag so really.. whats the bombers to do in that situation? Again sorry i've read some of your posts and i'm not sure how you can say some of the stuff you have been saying,for example saw you say willy didn't throw the ball enough, you weren't at the game so... how do you know who was open and who wasn't? Cuz i was and i'll give you a hint, the reason he held on to the ball and "looked like the rookie qb he was" was because NOBODY was open and when they were? He'd hit them and drop it, saw you call the JFG throw in the first an overthrow? Funny happened right in front of me at the game and JFG stopped running and got turned around, if he kept running ,touchdown easily cuz the nearest esk was 2 sections away. Anyway though, really not as simple as you think it is.

Was at the game and was kind of confused at times wondering what was a penalty and what wasn't. I don't really get how the offensive player(white i believe, the esks rb) can lead with his head and not get a penalty but last game we got a defensive call against us for basically leading with the head too. That and the roughing the passer calls are just mind boggling at times, really makes you wonder, went both way toos, some really weird calls against both teams, thought the demond hit on stamps was good and didn't think there needed to be a call on it, stamps was allowed back in the game too so really, how hurt could he have been, yeah he was carted off after but they let him back in a couple times... no flag until stamps starting rolling around on the ground, BS in my opinion. Also the fumble by bowman, thought it was indeed a fumble, but guess not.. Refs do seem to be very flag happy for both teams. Does slow the game down a tad though.

But we won and the D where 2 of those spots were changed up, Sherman at LB, Sears at safety looked pretty good doing it. Yeah starting 3 IMP is not the way to go but.. It's not like it hurt us that much. If at all really. 3-0. 1-0 without greaves vs a good Montreal D, a very good Montreal D.... One of the best in the league really, the best?? Not too shabby

Goosen can also play guard. If Morley is doing the job at center as he appears he is so far then why get rid of him if he has a good season? Sign Etienne & deal Watson? If Etienne was so good, then how come he got traded from here, cut in Saskatchewan, not resigned by the Riders after Getzlaff went down or signed as a FA by any other CFL team? Other teams want depth at receiver, too. Holy crap, that's the dumbest suggestion I've ever read here. What's great is that we're 3-0, and all of a sudden Morley's getting a pass, after 4-5 years of ineffective line play. I'll give him this, he's been better this year at C than he was at G. Your point is made. But Morley's a proven commodity, and a proven below-average one... we can't settle for that when his game inevitably slips. We've settled since 1990 and look where that's gotten us... Given the opportunity to retain the injury prone Watson or deal him for the younger NI OL Watman... I take it, with some kind of draft picks/whatnot attached to even the deal out. To keep ISO happy, Etienne can keep his farm job, and we'll sign someone else to compete with Carter for the NI WR backup job behind JFG and Kohlert. How long is watman signed for? If he's a free agent, we may just get him in the off season for "free".

lol was at the bomber store today with the girlfriend, seriously just saying but.. the bomber store is really the only place you can get clothes at that actually don't suck. We went to River City near Polo, 98 percent of that shop is Jets Stuff, what the heck really, had more rider "clothing" than bomber stuff, made no sense. Anyway, while we were there several bombers were leaving, turner,sherman,anderson, sears, suber, several others also... but at the bomber store, we were there for a good 30 45 minutes cuz shopping for a girl is difficult And yeah, seriously, tons of people, lots and lots of people. Bodes well for tomorrow for sure. 3 rows up on the main bowl for myself, will be fun, honestly, Well over 30,000 im sure. +29, no rain, south wind.. Yup gonna be a beauty.

The D stepped up when they had too and put 14 points on the board themselves... how can anyone blame the D when they actually stepped up when it mattered.. so did the Offence actually, went pretty cold for a while, a long while actually, if the D didn't step up, that last drive of the game wouldn't have mattered.

I don't get why some want to "hate" on johnson, what did the guy do really? In the NFL, he was a showman, had some fun, woopedidoo.. yeah a couple off field issues but man what football player doesn't have off field issues, the guy doesn't need to play up here, he's loaded, has all the money in the world, is playing for the love of the game.. and regardless is good publicity for the league... say what you want but the als signing johnson is probably the biggest PR move in the history of the CFL, you got a name player people in the states know and are well aware of, it could be worse, its not like he's killed a guy or anything like that... hugging a ref? yeah i thought he should have been flagged too or fined, just cuz you can't touch the refs really but... declining an interview? who cares.

oh i dont know man, they are playing calgary, it's not like they are playing ottawa or someone like that.. I think it's a pretty safe bet that calgary will destroy hamilton.

PR's have been expanded this season, qb depth is a good thing to have. No need or reason to read in to this any further than what it more than likely is.. a depth move. a practice roster move. That's all. Is odd they "hyped" this one sort of but... whatever.

Toronto and Ottawa.. Durie out, Owens out, barnes out... Ottawa wins their first of the year.. gonna say 30-17 Calgary and Hamilton.. LOL do i have too? Calgary in a wooping, i'm thinking 50 -10, probably could be more but BLM will be pulled early to get Tate some reps Bc and Montreal.. That montreal D is solid, don't think BC's oline is very good, thinking Montreal by a touchdown Edmonton/Winnipeg.. Tough call but playing at home, i think the bombers pull it off, probably something like 38-25.

Hockeybuzz isn't very credible, that's eklunds stuff and that guy is wrong 9 out of 10 times.

How many strikes until you are out?

Agreed. Probably rank them 4th or 5th right now.. Middle of the pack. Probably 5th actually behind Montreal too.

not surprised at all, saw this coming a while ago. Unfortunate for Mr Ford but... it was pretty obvious this was bound to happen. Best of luck to Will in his future, i doubt that future includes another CFL team.

Greaves is no surprise cuz O'Shea already told us he was out for weeks. Most folks glommed onto the #2 but it looks a bit more serious than that. Greaves was our best overall o-lineman. Hopefully, he's not out as long as I first suspected - 6 to 8 games. Watson is a chronic so his status will always be somewhat doubtful so I hope he's either traded for an asset or somehow regains his physical health. Legget is a real downer cuz it causes a number of defensive shifts. None of them make it as good as when he's playing safety. just lol at this entire post... a few weeks is 6-8 in your mind? trade a chronically injured player.. yup for sure. Man, i swear to god, i get dumber reading your posts. Not a shot at you or anything but just the lack of knowledge and just total guessing game you play is becoming ridiculous.