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Might be adding fuel to the fire here... but just some stats on Nichols vs other QBs after Week 5: 1. Most TD passes in the league (10). 2. His completion accuracy (69.4%) is right around league average (67.9%) 3. He's only thrown 1 interception to-date, the only QBs who have less is Trevor Harris and Nick Arbuckle, Arbuckle also has considerably less playing time, so I'd attribute his low INT total to that. 4. Winnipeg's offense successfully runs the ball... alot! Of our total offensive plays (204), close to half of them (95, 46.57%) have been running plays, which is 1st in the league. We're the only team above.500 that currently successfully does this, the two other teams that are run-heavy are SSK (104 running plays, 228 total offensive plays, 45.61%) and MTL (99 running plays, 213 offensive plays, 46.48%). After that, there is about a 10% drop-off in run-play % with each other team running the ball less than 40% of their offensive plays. 5. Although it is true we have 2nd most 2-and-outs in the league (24), the league average is 19, we're within 1 sigma of the league average, essentially meaning our offense is pretty much middle-of-the road in terms of 2-and-outs. 6. His completion % for deep passes (38.10%) is 3rd-worst in the league, though it should be noted he doesn't shy away from it (21 attempts, league average 21.3 among qualifying QBs). Interesting note here though, Reilly's deep pass completion % is only 28.13%... only QB who is worse is Mitchell (20.00%) though I'd attribute that to him playing hurt. 7. There does not appear to be any correlation between 300+ yard games and team winning percentage (R^2 value = .0872) league-wide, suggesting that this stat is practically irrelevant with respect to wins league-wide, not just for Nichols who is 4-0 with 0 300 yard games. 8. You guys made me late for work.

If you had to work with Rod Black all the time you'd become disinterested too.

the stadium is in a phenomenal spot, and I don't buy any of the bullshit surrounding it's location for one second.....it's always going to be inconvenient for someone. I LOVE where it is....

the stadium location is a dumb reason in any context..it was an inconvenient location for me before...and thousands of others in area of city where I live...but we all went....so now if it's a matter of being inconvenient for the St James/Charleswood/polo Park area crowd, and they choose to not go anymore...then they were never true fans. When I lived in Oakland/San Jose areas going to a pro event was usually a good hour..hour and a half venture (one way) on most occasions....so stadium location in a smaller city is a pathetic excuse if you ask me

Cuthbert is as good as it gets

Stadium location is an easy excuse and not really valid.

My riderfan sister in-law has stopped sending fun texts about our respective upcoming games .....I hope Saskatchewan gets curb stomped football wise this weekend.... lol.... I am still texting her.

He honest to God thought he was down. I will give him slack for that once.

Yeah the CFL needs to adjust the prices in my opinion. Costs have gone up and up but the entertainment value has remained static. Make it a more accessible experience for families and cheapskates if you ask me.

Absolutely not! The back and forth between TBurg & USABomberfan is riveting...

If I've told you once, I've told you a hundred billion times..... don't exaggerate!

stuff like this is just gross to me.....she's a mom and a wife. If you're older than 25, this type of comment is beyond creepy.

Cause if they praise her she might sleep with them!

I didn't care for Sanchez too much when he started, but now I can tolerate him. I much prefer him to Jock who I found quite annoying and usually anti-Bombers. Cuthbert and Dunigan are my favorites but I've lost my appreciation for Ford who almost seems disinterested sometimes.

Anyone who goes by "Chez" or "Chezzy", I'm completely out on.....no thanks.

6 Straight at Home?: The Bombers look for their 6th consecutive home win - the last time they did that was in 2002-03. The Blue Bombers have won the last matchups as well 5 of the last 6 vs Ottawa. All 5 wins have come with Matt Nichols at QB - overall however he is 5-4 vs the REDBLACKS for the Bombers. Two weeks ago, The Bombers won 29-14 in Ottawa and seek to sweep the series for the first time since 2017. Nichols vs Jennings: They have started against one another 6 times with Nichols coming out on top in 5. Jennings has had 3 of his best 6 career performances come against Winnipeg (422, 408 & 372 yards). The Bombers have trailed for a grand total of just 9 minutes & 24 seconds all season long (vs BC in Week #1). Their scoring edge thus far in the first 15:00 of games is 42-7. Game Notes...

He is technically not a healthy scratch because he is still on the injured list. I'll be shocked if he isn't in the lineup next week. Just being cautious and giving him lots of practice time before reinserting him into the lineup.

MY TV IS ON ! I can't wait to see Matty drop a ton of dimes tomorrow night....... !

He can have the win for all I care, but doesn't matter. I've permanently taken my position on the Nichols deep balls and I'm not going to change my mind NOT NOW NOT EVER!

Apparently that is the same as driving a guy who was out of bounds head first into the LED board

They blamed the NDP instantly, just playing by the rules that the right wing established 4 years ago.

I'd rather see BC win. I hate the Riders.

I left Rogers two years ago and they still send me a statement every month showing that I have a $20 credit. I asked them to just send me a cheque and they said that the credit is only transferable to another Rogers account. So instead I just let them waste money on postage every month sending me the statement.

Well speaking for Calgary... there's nhl, CFL, whl and lacrosse... that's about it right? I guess they got the new soccer team but does soccer really count?

I can’t imagine we’d be sitting Matthews if he’s ready to play. Slow start to the season or not, we’ll need a productive Matthews for our O to play to its full potential.

Glad Hecht, Yoshi and Bighill seem good to go.

Healthy scratch in the same way bighill was a healthy scratch last week no doubt.

Same scenario across the entire league. Here in Calgary game day prices are so high the walk up crowd doesn't exist anymore. Then add in high concession prices & the games are all on tv. People stay home. The CFL is for the most part sticking its head in the sand & ignoring the issues.

yeah disappointing that Matthews wasn't back in...must be taking that extra game precaution..look forward tho to see Walker get some reps with the offence

I have a friend there. The problem is that the ST ticket base keeps going down every year and it is at its lowest point now since the move. So even when the team is playing well, it's hard to get the numbers up. CFL attendance in general keeps going down and I'm not sure what's behind that. If course, things could change with a big ticket push over today and tomorrow to get us into the 24-25k range but the trend isn't looking great right now. It's sad because this team deserves a big crowd.

Point 7. R^2 value = .0872 is objective proof you win the argument.

Starting last season under Jones with the signing of Collaros I'm convinced Sask. has been attempting to build a LaPo style offence, this season with the addition of Powell to duplicate the role Harris fills as the workhorse it looks even more so. Their major failure lies in not investing enough to rebuild their Natl. O-line talent at the foundation, as well as not yet finding a consistent reliable QB.

The team was penalized 10 yards for objectionable conduct. Rule 7 - Fouls and penalties, section 4 - objectionable conduct, g. Unnecessary physical contact with an official. https://cfldb.ca/rulebook/fouls-and-penalties/objectionable-conduct/ no mention of fines. Objectionable Conduct Physical Abuse can bring a disqualification as a game penalty. No charge of abuse in this case and addresses the question offered by Geeber. https://www.cfl.ca/game-rule-penalties/ Id see the CFLPA challenging the discipline as “overkill”. Is the league, CFL, emboldened because of having the understandable and significant arbitration win over the Lawrence discipline?

My disgust has reached new levels.

Reading though this thread, again.... I have now decided to stake out a position, as well. Copious amounts of gin.

Fair. But I am not sure he did anything that outlandish. If he did, he should have been tossed from the game.

We have the leagues view. We have the players view. I suppose it’s unnecessary to contact the official for his view.

I haven’t seen sigma referenced in years. Thorough authoritative work you did there EO.

Just press the twitter feed, you’ll see the video. It isn’t much...but it is disrespect

I don't see how you can say that. The Lions have looked terrible in every game they have played.

Theatre of the mind. Kudos.

Motivated? Yeah let’s have a breakout game, eh Chris Matthews.. “So it’s all about going out there and making it happen, man. Things happen, it’s a rough start for me but hopefully that was the final one that made me sit down and now I can go out there and actually contribute the way I want to contribute.” T. Wyman - Sun

Except they were getting things going in the right direction... I tell you it is worse out there now for me as an oil and gas guy than it was a year ago... thanks Kenney! Trickle down economics and crony capitalism ain't gonna fix ****.

Eh I think it's more a case of we lost a guy due to a massive over payment so we hope he enjoys being part of a terrible group when he could have got paid well here and been part of a good group.

I don't have many expectations so the bar for me isn't very high.

1290 will never convince me that people actually want to hear them yak about the Jets all summer - just a serious lack of creativity on their part.

When they’re on offence, it’s likely a two-and-out or a quick six. Winnipeg has 24 two-and-outs, the second-most in the league. @Mr Dee posted this in the other thread. Still dont think the O is struggling with consistency? Another snippet he posted.. In 4 games Nichols has 49 psssing yards in the 4th quarter or about 12 yards per game. Still? 4 and 0 is great but 4 and 0 is def covering up a few major issues.

My prediction. Nichols, 3 TD passes, about 250 yards passing, a 20 point victory and one Northern Skunk complaining