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If there’s a VAJ burger next week...maybe they’ll leave the hotdogs out of it...

You’re not seriously nicknaming him vaj....

Starting to.............?

People do riddicous things for the VAJ

Harris won as many Grey Cups as Cornish, more rushing yards, more receptions, more receiving yards, more touchdowns and more yards from scrimmage and **** Cahoon who was a fake Canadian.

I enjoyed this game so much because the pbp guy did a helluva job. Stayed focused. Kept Suitor on task all game long. They both did their jobs. The most professionally called game I've watched on TSN in a long time.

Did some pruning in this topic. Let’s not get too personal about our starting QB’s injury and do try to keep things civil.

Although I’m not a Nichols fan I’ve wondered what would happen if he got hurt. Love Strevelers heart but he has shown nothing except that he can run. He looks like he’s taken a step back. My problem is why management hasn’t been bringing in guys if they know Streveler isn’t ready. Doesn’t seem the coaches have very much confidence in him except to run. Again my question why were they not bringing in guys ? Be pro-active instead of re-active!!

The Year of the Back Up QB The Year of the Return The Year of the Questionable Coaching Decision The Year of the Questionable Spot of the Ball They Year of the Oversized Burger to Ramble on and on About

The pro Nichols people want to give him all the credit in wins and no blame in loses. The long and short of it is he has been sub elite to border line elite, but that was one year. A year and a half ago. Since then he has been more average plus or minus. With some flashes but more minus then plus games. We've seen QBs below him elevate above him (masoli, Harris, arguably the young ones this year) and he has dropped off more then ever. All while our team poised more then ever to win a GC. Immobile? No one in the league is immobile compared to Nichols. Have to take the out come with a grain of salt. The Toronto team around him is among the worst teams of the decade if not the worst.

And how hard numbers are for people from Saskatchewan

Nothing says Montreal like a mouthful of vaj burger

It's his second year with the team.

Its a contract year for him, you are 7-2. Couldn't be a better time to try him out than now. Its his third year with the team, no reason why he can't play a couple games by now. Good players are ready by now to take a step. Its time to find out. Have to give him a few games though, he will have his successes and his struggles like any rookie would. As much as I have my opinions on Matty Ice, he is a veteran qb and he offers the option to throw when needed and he can read defenses. Very unrealistic to think teams will respect Streveller in the same way, equally unrealistic to expect things to continue on the same way they have. They may be worse, they even be better, but one thing is for sure, they won't be the same.

Khari has that team playing all out - the amount of outstanding, contested catches made by Posey and Lewis was just crazy.

interesting to see Khari Jones anti Lapo/OShea approach to quarterbacking Khari showed a lot of confidence in his qb, let the qb make tough throws, took some chances, and the qb responded producing late game and overtime touchdowns for wins. The Bombers approach is the opposite of that. Might not be the best thing for a quarterback's confidence. Terrified to make a mistake.

Just give Khari the Coach of the Year award now

Heres my take.. Our O leads the league or close to in 2 and outs.. Def last in passing yards per game and likely last in total O yards a game.. Its not like Strev is being asked to put up 500 yards a game.. Heck 300 is likely what we average.. The sky isnt falling here people.. Get the ball to lucky and Harris and grant and quick passing game and maybe our O improves.. Cuz.. Yes 7 and 2 but 5 or 6 of that in reality is D and sp teams.. Strev can checkdown also.. But he also adds a running threat. Time to see if Lapo can design an O for Strevs strengths. Running.. Short passes.. Kids young so likely a few more deep shots. Let's see what they can do. Id imagine if bombers contacted Glenn its 6 weeks to season. Bombers aren't winning games cuz of the O tho so.. Yeah. Harris still ok?

My most hated team, loses!!! spectacular comeback by Als. Als have outstanding receivers. These guys like playing for Khari

On his best day, Rod Black could never do what Neilson does. He understands the game. Knows where the ball is on every play & knows down & distance.

Just go away. I wasn't talking to you. I wasn't suggesting anything. I was just saying.

from this point forward, 2019 we be referred to and remember as "The Year of the Back Up QB"... it's official... I expect confirmation by the league at any time now... 😀

Sending this out to no one in particular, but everyone posting here in general. .

I thought that he got tagged by a knee but since he was facing the other way, he assumed it was a helmet. Then the crying started.

Gotta love Khari: https://montrealgazette.com/sports/football/cfl/montreal-alouettes/zurkowsky-alouettes-resilience-comes-clutch-in-miracle-ot-win-at-mcmahon

The only concern of mine is turn overs if he can limit those we will be just fine.

Nichols Supporter??

I can tell you game planning for him will be more a challenge than Nichols and this can play to Bombers advantage..going from you know what your getting..skill and limitations Nichols to Strevler..with some unknown at moment coupled with his run threat which DC's are gonna have to respect and change how they deploy their defense.

I know that it comes with the turf and that Nichols is a known commodity, but what a shitty set of circumstances for Matt and family if his injury is long term. In his heart of hearts, how much success does Nichols want Streveler to have if it means being replaced by him in the off-season without you having a chance to battle for your job through the playoffs?

And only really played a yr and a half at SDSU as the starter there...tho he ripped things up in his senior season. Thing going for him tjo is he is really smart..absorbs things fast and perfecta them almost immediately so his learning curve on the fly will be pretty quick. My only fear/concern as I mentioned before and others said is Lapo neutering him..or making him play a pansy assed style that's just not Streveler. Let him loose..full package..take shots downfield and dink and dunk it...if he throws a pick here or there..so be it but to play to NOT throw a pick will be in the end a worse result

We can win with those numbers.

So I went back and looked at Streveler's 4 starts last season. Yeah, the 1-3 record is a concern but if you look at the stats 63 for 101 passing (62.4%) for 760 passing yards, 7 td passes and 2 interceptions. 32 rushing attempts for 259 yards (8.1 ypr) with three rushing tds. So basically 190 yards passing a game and 65 yards rushing a game with roughly 3 tds scored per game. 30+56+17+24 so 127 points scored so 31.8 ppg and if you take out the Montreal domination, its still 71 points or 24 ppg.

There is a difference between coaching to win and coaching not to lose

And how Reilly is still standing is a miracle.

Adams Jr. got the ball with 1:40 left in the game which is the same amount of time Nichols had in the comeback over those same Als on July 27, 2017 (41-40). Apparently, that's the magic number to get two scores in the CFL.

at some point I expect his whining affects some of the referee decisions so keep it up Dave. If a decision can go either way, one side has whining Dave, other side Mr nice Khari, who would you (unconsciously) go with. refs have to be aware of his constant whining and sour face. If an entire team can be "entitled" it's the Stamps.

We're going to find out in the next few weeks if Streveler can play well enough for us to win.

Dave Dickenson is starting to get quite annoying a la Jason Maas...

comparing players never easy, especially from different times, however, I ask myself two questions- first- in their prime, who would I have wanted on my team in a Grey Cup, single game, winner take all and second, who would I want to build a team around for longer term While Cornish was a great player, I'd take Harris over him in both cases and yes, Cahoon should not be on the list at all Harris is the #1 skill player born north of the 49th.

This looks real good on the Stamps. I’d bet they kept BLM out another week because they thought they could beat the Als without him. And I can’t stand the way Dickerson constantly jaws at the officials. Yep, looks real good on them.

Yeah it's all Nichols fault. Your blind hate of Nichols wrong, my hate of lapo is founded in fact going all the way back to 2002. Guy is a brutal play caller and it has got him fired here twice already.

Cornish was a great player but Harris is just a cut above. Both guys deserve all the platitudes they get.

That was a great game. So are the people who posted that Khari was an idiot for taking the Als' HC job walking back on that now?

I don't regret that we let him go.

Dustin Neilson. He does solid work in my opinion. Also, Vernon Adams looks like he's growing up. I've really enjoyed watching Montreal play this season.

Can we sue them for plagiarism?

Streveler hasn’t played a traditional QB role for us yet this year. You’re confusing change of pace gimmick QB for actual QB. He hasn’t been asked to sit in the pocket and go through progressions in a traditional sense, there’s a reason he operates the way he does when he comes in the game. The coaching staff believes Nichols is a better player, why would they bring Streveler in for a different look if they wanted him to play the same way?

**** off. If Fajardo can look like a passer so can Streveler. Fajardo sucks ass as a passer, way inferior to Streveler.

Holy over reaction batman! It's not about bringing in Glenn to replace Streveler. It's about bringing in a veteran as a backup cause let's be honest the way Streveler runs he could very well get hurt too and then you're left with just a rookie quarterback. There is no way that anyone other than Streveler was going to be the next man up for this team at quarterback.