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He was good but I think the result would have been similar Streveler. I don't think this QB issue/situation is going away anytime soon, despite what O'Shea thinks. I feel like we offered up Montreal as a sacrifice to Nichols, got him to look good so he can keep the job, and now we can just go on pretending like everything is fine. Montreal is a bad, bad team. The Bombers should have beat them easily, especially with the defense swarming and Manziel playing poorly. The offense continues to be inconsistent and that issue was magnified when Harris got hurt.

Lapo is a BIG part of the problem. Once again our offence is anemic in the 3rd quarter as the opposing defence makes the necessary adjustments and Lapo keeps doing the same thing over and over again. Watch the last TD drive. He finally wakes up and starts calling some quick hot routes and POW all of a sudden were putting together some first downs and moving the ball. But unfortunately it took him almost an entire half of football to figure it out. That's a huge problem. TSN put up a graphic during the game that showed we score twice as may points in the 1st half vs. the 2nd. That's on Lapo.

Nice clean game, did not force plays, put together a big time consuming, point scoring drive when we needed it in the 4th quarter, and delivered on the kill shot on 2nd and long to ice the game. Played with focus and fire. Thanks for settling things down with the team and this bi-polar fan base, good job (and you throw a spiral a million times better than Johnny "Quack quack" Football). Go get 'em next week!

Did he run off with your wife? You're shtick is getting old. Can you at least keep you incessant bitchong and moaning out of a positive thread? Do you go through life and piss on every parade you come across? Do you just walk around and shout and shake your fist at random clouds?

Johnny Football was Convicted and sentenced to A night on death Roh

I don't know what everyone is complaining about. The Bombers played great, they were sharp, focused and disciplined. Best game I have seen them play in a while and Sayles making the game clinching play, what more could you ask for?

So in other words, when everything else on the team is going well and Nichols doesn’t overtly screw everything up, he’s fine. Pardon me while I celebrate.

Thompkins leveling Branden Dozier was really fun to watch. I like Thompkins- dude is a baller.

Edmonton only 7 points in the 1st half? What? Put Kevin Glenn in. Cut Reilly. Fire the OC! Fire the coach!

Unlike the Bomber game against Ottawa where the Bombers had 11 penalties and kept Ottawa’s drives going, the Bombers had 1 penalty in this game. They stuck to football. Kudos!

Nichols was really good in the 1st half and overall it was a better game for him.

Oh please. He found guys when he needed to and even moved more than he has all year. He didn’t force the ball once and only ate a sack twice. 0 ints 1 TD and a 118 efficiency rating you don’t get that if you are making bad decisions.

Watching that game how can people really pin it all on Nichols when it's plain as ******* day that lapo calls the worst game ever. Yeah he can draw up a good looking offence but the man has no sense of how to call a game.

Yeah, and Bowman is only 145 yards away from what else you told us...

Bottom line is, you have to think that Streveler wins that game too. O’Shea puts Nichols in that spot, he wins and now I don’t see a situation where he loses his job the rest of the year.

Agree - Injury report will be very critical. We don't have much hope with them in but without them we have zero hope. All that happened tonight is that the Bombers beat the worse team in the league and the score did flatter the Bombers IMHO.

Just as long as Skunk doesn't call the guy Big Chris. Seems like a lot of unexplained & unwanted Man Love there.

As opposed to carrying on with the slings and arrows directed to everyone with a pulse had we lost that game? That’s who we played. That’s who we beat. It was never in doubt. Are some of you pissed that we won? Do you think anybody who beats Montreal has second thoughts because it was Montreal? No, I think they play, they win, and then they move on to the next game..like we will.

Im a Nichols fan... but last night was worrying - as soon as Harris was down, we fell apart. 250 yards against Stubler is nothing to crow about... zero interceptions is good for sure... but I'm not sold on Nichols at all.

Bombers came into that game so full of themselves that they thought Calgary would just roll over. They had no respect for the Stamps. Ritchie didn't have the team ready to play as they were too busy showing off in font of the cameras & talking trash into the mics all week. I remember being ticked off the entire time that Ritchie didn't put a lid on it. No way Calgary was the better team & yet they won.

Edmonton’s defence I would put it behind the Als

Key point being below .500 in 5 seasons. What pro coach in any sport survives that? It’s not an overreaction based on one or two seasons, it’s a trend. Nice guy or not, stubborn or not, poor coordinators or not, that’s not succeeding.

There's such a thing as appropriately confident and self-assured, and then there's just flat-out delusional. Our coach is a nice guy who is the latter. While I don't share J5V's vociferousness about him (that I felt for Mike Kelly or even the hapless Burke), I certainly find it curious how many folks are seemingly eager to defend this paragon of mediocrity. I mean, **** guys, the man is 3 games below .500 over a 5 year career with not a single playoff victory under his belt. Is that good enough for y'all?

I can't believe people think Nichols played well. The only difference between this week and last game is he turtled instead of throwing picks. He panicked early and often, showed no patienxe or creativity in the pocket, and would have been sacked more than Manziel if wasn't for those multiple 1 yard "runs' to nowhere. I was a Nichols supporter before this season, but I have zero confidence anymore that he can come through for us against a good team.

1. Roe best game by a DL member this year 2. Nichols made the throws he had to. 3. Thompkins was told all week Walters can’t find any import receivers HH Alexander excellent pass break up on a deep ball several sure tackles around LOS

3 stars: 1. Nichols. Best game of the year. Didn't throw any picks. Hit the deep balls. 2. Thompkins - Made a bunch of plays and a couple of hard catches. 3. Wolotarsky - Clutch catches for a guy that defenses mostly ignore. Happy Honker - Sayles

Your ignoring the other great 4 punts.

Being there live, I would say not impressed by Manziel. He can run but man he throws a lot of ducks and off his back foot a lot.

Had 45.7 average coffin cornered one and almost had another one.

The Montreal defence is a heck of a lot better than it was in July. They have some really good DBs. As much Henoc gets crapped on here he is a solid MLB. They have couple real good DL especially 97 not sure his name. They are going to keep Mel in every game down stretch. Saying that thought Nichols was really sharp last night.

A few thoughts from last night's game: The only thing the Bombers proved was that they are better than the Al's Nichols was not much better than Manziel, and Manziel was not good at all Bombers still cannot make half-time adjustments to the offence Thompkins can play well in thus league. Harris's brittleness has to be a growing concern. Even if the Bombers manage to make the playoffs, they will be one and done again. Nichols was better but he still ain't good.

Are you seriously crapping on Medlock now? You got issues bud. 😕

After beating MTL tonight I'm feeling pretty good about the rest of the season. We just need to beat MTL in the crossover and then beat MTL in the East Final. And can you imagine if we face MTL in the Grey Cup? Such good emotions right now.

Darvin adams flat out dropped that deep ball. The throw by Nichols was fine.

It can be both. It’s painfully obvious that Nichols can’t improvise and if his first read is covered, he’s sunk. Sure, a great OC would do more to help the guy out but there’s only so much you can do with a QB who is so bad at making decisions.

Honestly the hate on guys have for Nichols is getting old. He is not a flashy qb but with a good d and when he is running a steady ball control offence that doesn’t turn the ball over it makes for a winning combo. the only qb’s that are better are Riley and Mitchell with Masoli possibly ahead of Nichols but he has yet to win anything. He proved his worth in the 4th with the drive that led to a big field goal and by not turning the ball over. ill conceed Montreal is not a good team but they have some solid players on D.

It was a great pass. He should get some credit..after all the flak

That DB made a great play at the right time on that ball. That definitely wasn’t a drop. Sometimes the Play is made by the other team

Been that way ever since he got here. He's not an elite receiver. He'd be the number 3 receiver on most teams. He is supposed to be our best & deep threat. He's not either.

Heh, heh. Long-term injuries to those three will give the Bombers the perfect excuse to bring back all the coaches next season.

Lost his running game with Harris & Demski out. Demski is also a part of the passing attack so it really crippled us offensively. If they're out long term I can't see us winning another game thuis season with the teams we play.

Bombers add to their impressive list of quarterbacks they've beaten this season: Drew Willy, Jon Jennings, James Franklin (X2), Jeremiah Masoli, and now Johnny Manziel. Nichols played as to be expected in my opinion under the circumstances. Very vanilla offence with the exception of maybe 2 or 3 plays. No turnovers was nice to see but you also need to account for the opponent and the fact we led all game. No killer instinct on this team. The third quarter and first portion of the fourth was difficult to watch. If they play like they did tonight next week in Edmonton, the game will be over at half time. It's almost embarrassing how badly this team has misused Kenbrell Thompkins this year. His route running, hands, and ability to come down with contested balls is far and away better than anyone we have. Watching Darvin Adams drop balls at the slightest hint of contact is getting a little old. Back to back punts of 35 and 29 yards certainly didn't help the situation in the second half. The graphic showing our points scored in the first and second half and where that compares with the rest of the league is just more evidence of how bad this coaching staff is at second half adjustments. Fingers crossed the injuries to Harris, Demski and Bighill are minor. If not, we're in more trouble than we already are.

What I noticed: You guys exaggerate on how bad the whole team is. IMO the glaring issues is Nichols , Randle and that soft Zone we run. Bowman was wide open all night by design which was stupid. O-line had a great game D-line had a great game Thompkins is the real deal, Wolitarsky the same. We had a few bad drops but for the most part those misses were all on Nichols. Nichols is still shell shocked... that bad sack on the first drive he gave up and several questionable decisions. I can see why he's trying to be the next Buck Pierce going head first.... but he's moving waaaaaay slower then Buck ever did. The score flattered Manziel big time. So many wobblers and he had two pick 6's that didn't go through and the fumble in the end zone. If he didn't have the lucky breaks tonight this game would of been a big time blow out. Manziel can at times have a rocket arm and other times throw the worst Russ Michna passes ever. I don't see him in this league after this season. Refs actually called a good game for once. At the end of the game when the camera panned to Nichols and Streveler walking down the sidelines after the TD... the boys were smiling and energetic with Streveler and very ho-hum with Matty....

I'd rather let BC paying him $200,000. He hasn't been much of a difference maker.

The Eskimoes and other good teams get more creative as the game goes on. LaPo gets less.

George Reed average 15 carries a game for his career and 1.44 catches per game. Did you walk to school uphill both ways too?

We might need some punt singles for offense.

Cuz he played like **** last year

What massage parlour does that? Asking for a friend.