Game Day Thread- Week Seventeen, GAME 15: Winnipeg Blue Bombers @ REDBLACKS October 5th, 2018

[M.O.A.B.]

This game is slowly slipping away from the Bombers

[Captain Blue]

I don't know how the refs can't see that's a catch. 

[deepsixemtoboyd]

The bombers just got jobbed on the challenge; however, O’Shea missed his chance for a most impactful challenge earlier.

Bad coaching.

[BomberBall]

That was a catch.  What an absolute embarrassment.

[M.O.A.B.]

Nice job D. 

O needs to score TD here. 

[deepsixemtoboyd]

 Technically speaking, they may have got it right; there needs to be irrefutable evidence to overturn the call on the field. I am not sure we 100% met that standard. What bugs me, however, is on the earlier challenge from Campbell where they did over rule, there was also not definitive evidence.

[MOBomberFan]

Just now, deepsixemtoboyd said:

 Technically speaking, they may have got it right

They technically got the challenge right. They got the call on the field wrong.

[deepsixemtoboyd]

 Well, penalty aided or not, that was a big-time response by the Winnipeg offense. 

[M.O.A.B.]

Good job WD. 

[deepsixemtoboyd]

Just now, MOBomberFan said:

They technically got the challenge right. They got the call on the field wrong.

 Yes, on that I believe you are correct.  I was merely commenting on how they are supposed to call the challenge. That said, the CFL officiating has been wildly inconsistent on this issue and have never gone by their own rules: namely, the standard for a overruling of the call on the field is  irrefutable, definitive  evidence. 

[JuranBoldenRules]

10 minutes ago, deepsixemtoboyd said:

 Technically speaking, they may have got it right; there needs to be irrefutable evidence to overturn the call on the field. I am not sure we 100% met that standard. What bugs me, however, is on the earlier challenge from Campbell where they did over rule, there was also not definitive evidence.

The challenges are horrible.  And it's horrible that the coaches only get one win or lose.  Should be unlimited if they keep winning.  They try so hard to use it on an impactful play that many times they hold the challenge when there's a play they should challenge, especially earlier in games.  There's been at least a half-dozen plays in this game that should have been challenged.

[deepsixemtoboyd]

 Those two series where we were struggling to protect the football now seem like an aberration… Whoa… Big balls play by Nichols right there. 

[NorthernSkunk]

3 minutes to go time for matt to own the game...

[deepsixemtoboyd]

9 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

The challenges are horrible.  And it's horrible that the coaches only get one win or lose.  Should be unlimited if they keep winning.  They try so hard to use it on an impactful play that many times they hold the challenge when there's a play they should challenge, especially earlier in games.  There's been at least a half-dozen plays in this game that should have been challenged.

I can’t agree with this. I feel the game is improved by limiting the challenges. There were a lot of fishing expeditions going on.

In terms of your point that there is now a significant amount of pressure on which play you’re  going to use that challenge on, you are 100% correct.

But by that standard, why wouldn’t MOS uses his challenge on a play that would’ve moved the ball down to the 1 yard line with a fresh set of downs? He has also made several mystifying challenges in previous games that would give us a first down at her own 35 yard line in 2nd quarter.

It’s these type of decisions that leave me questioning our head coach.

[deepsixemtoboyd]

All that extra time of possession...

[deepsixemtoboyd]

Needed a few more 7’s...

[M.O.A.B.]

Should be incomplete. 

[M.O.A.B.]

The refs and the command center are trying to help the RedBlacks win.

[White Out]

God damn it. Ritchie Hall and our D ladies and gentlemen.

[voodoochylde]

Playing not to lose and we piss away the win.

[M.O.A.B.]

Dang! dang! dang!

[bustamente]

In the end they couldn't get to Harris and he torched them

[Dragon37]

Well it appears that they have choked

[deepsixemtoboyd]

I had so hoped the D had turned the corner based on last week. 

[deepsixemtoboyd]

Okay.. come on this f’in D… Make one stop.