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I think what Rourke is doing is awesome for him, for that team and for the CFL in general but I absolutely LOVE that you posted this because if it was a Bomber doing it, you’d undoubtedly be the only guy here going “whoa whoa whoa wait a minute guys 36% of his completions have come against below average defensive backs and I checked the weather reports for both games and it looks like the D had to play with the sun in their eyes and the other teams haven’t proven that they’re any good against teams that I personally have deemed to be considered proper competition so you’re all idiots for getting on the bandwagon so early, let’s just wait until he’s done it for 64 games in a row without fail and maybe then I’ll buy in”

Argos trying to to further americanize the game by playing on the 4th of July.

We CAN'T normalize this behaviour.... Seriously people.

Toronto doesn't worry me. It's BC on a short week with a long travel that does.

HE'S LIVING RENT FREE IN ALL YOUR HEADS!!!!!!!! But seriously though......**** that guy.

Brady Oliveira in the courtyard with the lead pipe

I do not want to minimize what Rourke has accomplished so far but he has still to win a hotly contested game. What has impressed me about him most is that, in an interview he said that he runs wind sprints with his teammates when they do so as to not be huffing and puffing halfway through the game. from being out of shape. That also has to send a strong, positive message to his team that he is not just a pretty face, but pushes himself to be the best he can be. Good stuff.

Which is exactly why we shouldn't assume he will keep this up.

BC's looked crazy good so far. #1 offence and #1 defence. Rourke's numbers are off the charts. Teams have film on Rourke from last year, but he looks like a different QB this year. If he keeps this up, he's in Flutie territory. BC destroyed Edmonton who looked way better against both Calgary and Regina. BC also destroyed Toronto who barely beat Montreal. I'm looking forward to our game against them in a couple of weeks. It'll really show who is the best in the west.

Defense wins championships. On offense you need to be able to make plays when the defense is up to the task. I refuse to believe BCs offense is so otherworldly that no one can cover them.

I saw nothing in the last Argo game to indicate that they are capable of beating the St. James Rods.

Bored this evening so I'm watching old Bomber recaps on YouTube, and came across some games from 2018. If you have time to spare, watch a few and watch Andrew Harris. To say it's night and day compared to the Andrew Harris of 2022 would be an understatement, and you could argue even sad given the contrast.

That this sort of thing has become so common as to be banal is both telling about the Alberta culture and sad.

this always happens with games in Toronto.....****** up scheduling. Likely something to do with avoiding the Jays or Toronto FC or something ridiculous like that.

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this right here...why the Faj isnt a leader and a guy to take you to the top, also most likely a team mindset and narrative as for why they got spanked...."the chips were already against us"....?!?!...like cmon man....what a cop out and no accountability

So, I was thinking of a way to bring this thread back to discussing Monday night's game and I went to the Argo twitter account for some material. They haven't sent a tweet since late Saturday night, early Sunday morning with the final score. Nothing. How can their social media be so unengaged?? Hey, Tanenbaum, the problems are coming from inside your own house!!

I’m not sure Rourke’s got a special arm. He’s already got how many receivers blown up? Toronto basically quit on that last game and BC just piled up numbers. Fine throwing deep ball under pressure. Not a whole lot in the mid range game where CFL QBs really need to live.

I like his arm...his abilty to use his legs...they both top shelf....jury out tho on whats between the ears, and durability....lets see how he sees things and if he doesnt make errors when the real rubber hits the road

yeah the commentators were talking about Rourke's work ethic during the game against the Arblows. Last year he apparently slept in the film room over night so he could get an early start the next day. Just crazy devotion to the game. Makes we wish we had this guy in the bullpen to take over from Zack in a few years, but such is life. Great drafting by the Lions on this one.

I wonder who took first team reps all week? Don't make me defend CF. I don't have enough bleach in my house. But, he did really well in his first two starts, like Rourke has.

I didn't watch the game but I really noticed this in the replays... there didn't seem to be a db anywhere near the receivers on any of his TD passes. The Bombers goal is to go 1-0 every week... the players probably don't even know who they play in week 5...

I would disagree that it has been "non-existent"... it hasn't excelled yet but the stats through three weeks show (subtracting QB stats since they're just short yardage plunges and scrambles): Week 1: 14 carries for 40 yards (by far the worst) Week 2: 23 carries for 112 yards Week 3: 19 carries for 83 yards that's a 4.2 yards per carry average (with 2 one yard TDs)... I agree that's not amazing and I would also like to see improvement in the run game... but people acting like the run game is a completely non-existent is a bit of an over exaggeration.

I watched some of the highlights on B.C and yes they’ve been very impressive in the first two weeks of the season but I’m curious to see Rourke up against a good defense. I saw a lot of wide open receivers im talking like no defender within 20 yards, and a lot of balls that were thrown off where the receiver has to make a good play on those balls. These are throws that most certainly wouldn’t have been caught with an active defender in the area. Like kudos to Rourke for hitting the open receiver but he wasn’t all that accurate with his deep balls, we’ll see how he plays with some pressure in his face, and capable DB’s defending.

Well on a hot day I'm sure the Red River gives you the same experience as the Fun Mountain hot tub

Feels like it could be a trap game,need the backfield to start firing,maybe start Augustine for a spark.

god, what a puss

Looks like a clear path for Sweden and Finland to join NATO now.

The kid clearly has all the tools, but what separates the good from the great is what happens when you face some adversity? For the league's sake I hope he's legit......tho, having said that, **** the Lions so much...

If I'm Mark Meadows......I would immediate try to get immunity......and simply spill my guts.

What a load of bull. Everyone knows that that cattle was struck by Jewish space lasers.....carried by Italian satellites

Leonard was league mandated...and they tried to hush it ...couldn't remember the Hughes one ..originally he was gonna play and then they decided to sit after getting heat in social media world now I remember

yeah...its not as bad as some make it out to be...work in progress but not flat out pathetic....Like a Rider's passing game

Why Roe’s demise pushed the US even closer to violent civil conflict: author The United States was a deeply divided country long before Friday, June 24, 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court’s hard-right majority overturned Roe v. Wade with its decision in Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization. But the Dobbs ruling will only intensify the United States’ bitter, ugly divisions, and some political science professors, authors and journalists fear that the tensions will lead to even more violence than the country has already suffered. In a disturbing article published by The Guardian on June 26, Stephen Marche — author of the book “The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future” — predicts that the overturning of Roe v. Wade will do a lot to bring about a major “civil conflict.” And Marche’s warning is similar to what political science professors Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way have been warning about. Levitsky and Way don’t believe that an outright civil war like the one that occurred in the 1860s is on the horizon, but they do fear that the U.S. is heading for a period of prolonged violent conflict comparable to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. “The cracks in the foundations of the United States are widening, rapidly and on several fronts,” Marche warns in his Guardian article. “The overturning of Roe v. Wade has provoked a legitimacy crisis no matter what your politics. For the right, the leaking of the draft memo last month revealed the breakdown of bipartisanship and common purpose within the institution. For the left, it demonstrated the will of dubiously selected Republican justices to overturn established rights that have somewhere near 70% to 80% political support.” Marche continues, “Accelerating political violence, like the attack in Buffalo, increasingly blurs the line between the mainstream political conservative movement and outright murderous insanity. The question is no longer whether there will be a civil conflict in the United States. The question is how the sides will divide, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how those strengths and weaknesses will determine the outcome.” The author/journalist points out that in the U.S., the far right has “been imagining a civil war, publicly, since at least the Obama Administration,” adding that “the possibility of civil war has long been a mainstay of right-wing talk radio.” And Marche, in parts of his article, is somewhat critical of Democrats, who, he argues, naively act as though the Republican Party still embraces pluralism. “The left-wing American political class, incredibly, continues to cling to its defunct institutional ideals,” Marche writes. “Democrats under (President Joe) Biden have wasted the past two years on fictions of bipartisanship and forlorn hopes of some kind of restoration of American trust. When violence like Buffalo hits, they can do little more than plead with the other side to reconsider the horror they’re unleashing, and offer obvious lectures about the poison of White supremacy.” Marche stresses that “incipient civil conflict in the United States won’t be formal armies struggling for territory.” “The techniques of both sides are clarifying,” Marche explains. “Republican officials will use the Supreme Court, or whatever other political institutions they control, to push their agenda no matter how unpopular with the American people. Meanwhile, their calls for violence, while never direct, create a climate of rage that solidifies into regular physical assaults on their enemies. The technical term for this process is stochastic terrorism; the attack in Buffalo is a textbook example.” https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/roes-demise-has-pushed-the-u-s-even-closer-to-violent-civil-conflict-author/

if you are good....you should beat the craptacular teams...so far he did that.....if you are great....you can do the same to any team...we shall see.....impressive as it was, I not sold on him keeping this going...those 2 teams he played were the perfect scenario...EDM in first game....still trying to find who fits where and a horrid offensive plan....with piss poor in game coaching, then a T.O team where I don't know what to call that.....embarrassing comes to mind in terms of play, and individual efforts....also again craptacular in game coaching...we havnt been world beaters....yet but have gotten closer in each game....so if they take us out...even in a short week it will reveal more....I actually think we go in there and befuddle them...same with Ottawa....they gave us legit tough time because I like what they have going on there....and was a good first 2 games as we may have been riding complacency if we walked into a first 2 games of Esks and T.O type opposition

Small sample size that is very difficult to extrapolate from. BC looks great but I refuse to believe they are going from a bottom 2 team in the league to far and away better than everyone until I see them fight through some adversity.

I don’t think the Bombers look past TO… plenty of recent history showing they still to show up and play to FIFO standards to win. Whether or or not BC looks past Ottawa will be very interesting.

There was a time.... where we had some hot dogging, twitter tirades, and dumb penalties. We have zippo with this current regime. All oars are pulling in the same direction. Success only reinforces this (the culture) In the end it comes down to leadership - a coach who has the respect of his players, and having vet leaders in the dressing room.

In CF's best season (only season where he has success) - he threw 18 TDs. Rourke currently has 7.....in two games. Show me when CF put up similar numbers to Rourke.

yeah...Rourke has had 2 good matchups....a Elks team that was totally in disarray and T.O that looked and played like crap....have never seen so many recievers with no defenders near them...will be interesting to see what an actual defense and a team with their crap together will do...Ottawa will be a better barometer....way too early to anoint him a superstar...especially when there is actual game film on him now and his tendencies are noted, that and his weaknesses and strong points...

I don't think the Internationals can take the place of Canadians.....separate "quotas", is my understanding of it.

Against Edmonton too it was a case of the Lks not being able to stop the run at all. That helps a qb big time.

In the power rankings I'd have them quite low right now. They have not looked good this year. Id also have Edmonton and Sask quite low as well. Sask is in a bit of trouble with their o line. Winnipeg, BC, Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Hamilton, Sask, Toronto, Edmonton is how I'd have it right now.

recommend you read the guardian article posted by watcher. also "In 2007, when Barack Obama was running for president, he promised that “the first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act,” which would affirm abortion rights and effectively codify Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision that guaranteed abortion rights as constitutionally protected. Then-presidential candidate Obama made this promise on July 17, 2007 in a speech to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, which works to fight for laws and policies to protect reproductive rights and advance access to sexual health care." and then, after being elected: "WASHINGTON, 2009 April 29 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he favored abortion rights for women but that passing a law guaranteeing those rights was not his top priority, trying to avoid inflaming divisions over the issue." abortion rights = fundraising point. endless source of money. Democrats are full of it.

I agree. I think there are hotheads like Marino who just have no self control, and then you have others like Marshall who are just ego driven to take stupid penalties. Either way, adds up to a lack of discipline that the coach can't really do much about because it is ingrained in the individual. A good room might be able to kick a couple of these guys back into shape, but one that is rudderless has no chance. This is not to let Dickie off the hook, because he is the HC and needs to put his foot down but he inherited a pretty undisciplined roster from Jones that can only be remedied by making some really tough choices.

On that very subject. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/28/why-were-democrats-caught-flat-footed-by-the-end-of-roe-v-wade And this

I think they are terrified of getting Collaros killed with Augustine out there. Augustine can block he just can't seem to figure out who to block.

Someone gotta pay for their 0-3 start and he looked guilty.

nothing against Canadians...but if you dont need to...why?...thats my one Osh complaint....weird at times roster decisions and moves....

Just can't watch injuries.