OK, it IS Willy ...

[wbbfan]

Just now, Brandon said:

Only for them to not go back to him in the 2nd half....

no joke. it was some thing like 15 carries in the first and 6 in the second. completely gave up on the pressure release and screen to him too.

[Goalie]

Willy has sucked. But get over this idea that he's the only one that sucked. Our OL wad awful. We had zero zero run game. Tonight was andrew Harris first 100 yard rushing game and td as a bomber. Willy has sucked but so did the OL. Tonight.  Hey. Nichols still took some hits... some late. Some good clean ones. I'm just curious tho and I'm not taking anything away from Nichols but let's say the Esks dB does pick off that ball there... the one he dropped... the floater in to double coverage... are we still praising Nichols.  He had a really good game. Let's see him do it again. Against Toronto no? And their rookie QB 

[Doublezero]

Drew Willy's shortcomings have been obvious to all, including his team-mates. Don't care if I see him again. Nichols put points on the board, provided some spark and played with energy and tempo, managed the offence and did not turn over the ball. That's what you need. O line also was inspired to play hard with a determined QB. Rooks on D stepped up big-time.

[Goalie]

I like Nichols but he's a proven commodity. One week he's good next he's not so good. Maybe things have clicked for him tho but seen it last year also with Nichols.  One good one bad. And his bad is worse than drew willy bad. 

[Blueandgold]

2 minutes ago, Goalie said:

Willy has sucked. But get over this idea that he's the only one that sucked. Our OL wad awful. We had zero zero run game. Tonight was andrew Harris first 100 yard rushing game and td as a bomber. Willy has sucked but so did the OL. Tonight.  Hey. Nichols still took some hits... some late. Some good clean ones. I'm just curious tho and I'm not taking anything away from Nichols but let's say the Esks dB does pick off that ball there... the one he dropped... the floater in to double coverage... are we still praising Nichols.  He had a really good game. Let's see him do it again. Against Toronto no? And their rookie QB 

Nichols scored more points tonight than Willy has in any single game all season. 

Willy managed to score multiple touchdowns in a game ONCE all year and that's because of Masoli coughing up the ball like no tomorrow. He's been god awful, aside from Toronto & Montreal, I would take TWO Quarterbacks on every team in the CFL over Willy based strictly on their 2016 performance. 

[gcdrought]

Nichols was an obvious improvement and gave the team an immediate spark.  But I thought the whole team was fired up from the start.  Great to see...finally.  Now let's follow it up with a couple more wins in a row.

[Blueballz]

Nichols seemed to make quicker and more decisive throws...too bad Dressler went down cuz our offense was really clicking then

[iso_55]

No more Drew Willy.  Don't want to see him start another game for us.

[wbbfan]

3 minutes ago, Blueandgold said:

Nichols scored more points tonight than Willy has in any single game all season. 

Willy managed to score multiple touchdowns in a game ONCE all year and that's because of Masoli coughing up the ball like no tomorrow. He's been god awful, aside from Toronto & Montreal, I would take TWO Quarterbacks on every team in the CFL over Willy based strictly on their 2016 performance. 

nichols put up 1 td. medlock put up 17 points

[Goalie]

And not to mention .. loffler and Frederick really stepped up on D 

[Blueandgold]

1 minute ago, wbbfan said:

nichols put up 1 td. medlock put up 17 points

No our offense put up two touchdowns, not to mention that all of our points aside from the last FG were on hard earned drives. No starting at the Esks 30 yard line.

[Goalie]

Medlock put up 18 lol 

[wbbfan]

1 minute ago, Blueandgold said:

No our offense put up two touchdowns, not to mention that all of our points aside from the last FG were on hard earned drives. No starting at the Esks 30 yard line.

we had decent field position a bunch of times especially in the first half when we really played well. Our offense put it up, 100 yards rushing in the first half but medlock still put up all those points. we werent kicking 55 yard fgs either. our red zone production wasnt strong. we should have put up 50 easily.

[KptKrunch]

Only thing I'd be cautious of - but first great game by Nichols and the Bombers - loved Nichols little jest to the Esks' bench after his TD throw in the second half - but Edmonton got beat up good on Saturday, had two days of practice, and their best cover guy is playing on one leg (Watkins). 

I want to see how the bombers perform over the next few weeks but I'm in Nichols' corner. He had a lot of bad luck when he was here in Edmonton, and this is his last good shot IMO to be a starter in the CFL and I hope he take full advantage of it. Now about that Eskimo Defense ......

[Goalie]

Yup. Game was way closer than it should have been.  Anybody sick of tsn tho? So ridiculous.  Hanging off Reillys nuts all game long. Dude sure looked good in garbage time tho.  Padded his stats nicely there. 

8 straight 300 games. Yet if it wasn't for hall playing prevent D at the end... under 300. 

Edited July 29, 2016 by Goalie

[Blueandgold]

2 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

we had decent field position a bunch of times especially in the first half when we really played well. Our offense put it up, 100 yards rushing in the first half but medlock still put up all those points. we werent kicking 55 yard fgs either. our red zone production wasnt strong. we should have put up 50 easily.

Medlock put up those points because our offense drove the ball something that Willy wasn't doing. Longest field goal was 42 yards.

No doubt that it would've been to have better red zone production, but I was still happy with our offensive performance. I can't say I'm really sure what you're arguing. 

[wbbfan]

3 minutes ago, Goalie said:

Medlock put up 18 lol 

your right i forgot the one single

[wbbfan]

3 minutes ago, Blueandgold said:

Medlock put up those points because our offense drove the ball something that Willy wasn't doing. Longest field goal was 42 yards.

No doubt that it would've been to have better red zone production, but I was still happy with our offensive performance. I can't say I'm really sure what you're arguing. 

willy did drive the ball just not consistently and not for scores. Our offense drove, with a heavy heavy dose of harris behind a very good ol. 

nichols didnt score more points then willy. Our offense scored more then any game previously but with running and kicking. Willy lost by 4 to edm with 22 yards from harris and poor ol play. 3 or 4 sacks and 2 fumbles.

Edited July 29, 2016 by wbbfan

[Fatty Liver]

32 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

would have been nice to have that OL play the whole year.

They  could have if some one on the coaching staff would have looked at the roster realistically and predicted the inevitable failure of the Natl. depth on the O-line.

[wbbfan]

1 minute ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

They  could have if some one on the coaching staff would have looked at the roster realistically and predicted the inevitable failure of the Natl. depth on the O-line.

bond wasnt healthy earlier in the year though his coming in and hardick sliding over was huge. 

[Blueandgold]

2 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

willy did drive the ball just not consistently and not for scores. Our offense drove, with a heavy heavy dose of harris behind a very good ol. 

nichols didnt score more points then willy. Our offense scored more then any game previously but with running and kicking. 

I said that Willy scored multiple touchdowns against Hamilton, but I realize now that he didn't. So yeah Nichols did something Willy hasn't, scored two offensive touchdowns in a single game.

Do you honestly think that we score 30 points tonight with Drew Willy starting? 

 

[rebusrankin]

Borrowing from Grandpa Simpson but it was a little of column A (Nichols) and little from column B (OL).

[White Out]

So is the narrative now that the OL finally showed up, just in time for Nichols?

Edited July 29, 2016 by White Out

[blueandgoldguy]

13 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

nichols put up 1 td. medlock put up 17 points

And what's your point?  Nicholls generated Td drives of 67 and 80 yards.  He showed he is capable of moving the ball.  He also generated drives that resulted in short high-percentage field goals for Medlock.  Meanwhile Willy has yet to generate a TD drive longer than 35 yards in 5 games outside of garbage time.

[wbbfan]

3 minutes ago, Blueandgold said:

I said that Willy scored multiple touchdowns against Hamilton, but I realize now that he didn't. So yeah Nichols did something Willy hasn't, scored two offensive touchdowns in a single game.

Do you honestly think that we score 30 points tonight with Drew Willy starting? 

 

With that ol yeah. But maybe chemistry needed a shake up. But the production is in huge part to the ol and harris more then nichols. He could have easily had a couple picks. 

Remember hamiltons D is much better then edmonton, and with willy we put 26 on them.

Edited July 29, 2016 by wbbfan