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Something no one has mentioned so far was I thought Hogan called a hell of a game. We’re going to score a lot of points this season whether it’s number 17 or number 8, I really enjoyed some of the X’s and O’s He drew up. I think you’re going to see an opportunity for good receivers to make plays often in this offense.

1 strevy almost 250 3 tds, did every thing he needed to for us to win 2 Peterson stepped in for Brady, over 130 yards on 23 carries. didn’t miss a beat 3 wheatfall 5 127 and 1td with 69 yac hh the first td pass to Demski really set a high tone for the offence and game crunch of the game mci with the pop forcing a fumble and turn over on kick cover block of the game big Stan way down field blocking for the screen pass to wheatfall awe that’s dirty. Strevs throw away in the 4th he was hit late and hit in the head and with no call while bc chirped him. honorable mentions Demski jones bonds adams Lawson wj schoen vaval

Vanterpool in for Dobson is a major upgrade up front too. Vanterpool would be my player of the game. Here's a stat for you: Peterson averaged 130 yards per game in his last 2 years of U Sports. 130 yards rushing in his first CFL game. Took a few more carries to get there than it did in U Sports...but still.

Give some love to wheatfall too who looked like a legit threat out there.

Maybe it’s because we’ve seen the same stubborn loyalty to veterans for a few seasons and some people would like to see the team adopt a slight shift in philosophy so that it could potentially lead to winning the Grey Cup, not just being in it.

This game showed me why I'm glad Buck Pierce is the hell & gone as OC. Stev's best game of his pro career. He showed he can play qb. Changed up his fundamentals this off season. He showed that if you give him the entire playbook & not just make him a one dimensional raging ground warrior or gimmicky qb he can make the throws. For that we can thank LaPo & his protege Buck Pierce. Lapo had at least a bit of imagination with Streveler in 2018 & 19. He actually used him the best at the time considering back then his limitations as an actual qb plus his inability to read a CFL defense. Pierce OTOH was just sadistic expecting him to go out there & take the punishment that he did. I'm excited for Jarious Jackson as his position coach.

9 defensive tackles. 1 TFL, 7 other tackles within 5 yards of LOS. Not going to see many better games from a MAC LB in the league.

Strev - **** you to anyone who says he can't play QB Rookie RB - To not be overwhelmed in the moment is almost unbelievable, given the circumstances. Vaval - Not even our best returner and looked fantastic.. HH - The Trinity for walking around with a 2 footer and a wheelbarrow. Dear CFL, We just did that you your golden child without our QB, our MOP RB, our Returner, and not close to our best possible defense. Watch. The ****. Out.

Yeah....He had a perfect group of guys to catch league off-guard at first to toss up a lot of contested balls...and got lucky with that...and they let an awfull lot of OPI go on with his 2 big targets....But teams figured him out...and he faded....also his quick strike plays when not there, and he had to actually decipher a defense...well you seen the difference Our defense especially with multiple looks...and the same looks but it switches at snap...utterly confuses him Betts too...One big season and a lot of that was questionable "was he offside" crap...once he started to get called....and guys got hands on him...What he do? Not a helluva lot...except pout and show a piss poor attitude My gripe with a lot of the CFL Media and especially TSN is this over the top/unwarranted Canadian pushing with certain players....I get it's the CFL but enough already....Market and promote the actual top players who been doing it for yrs...regardless of where they were hatched. The average joe fan or a lot of the new fans they are wanting to pull in...and a lot of them are...and where a it's a huge market is within the immigrant community...they could give a rats ass...Most Canadians really could care less other than a small fraction...Whats it really matter...it's played in Canada...under unique Canadian rules by a lot of Americans who call Canada home yr round...promote that aspect Not to look at things thru blue glasses but it really is an injustice to BO that the powers that be in the CFL don't promote him more...What Canadian RB post the late 70's early 80's...Or player for that matter has won back to back MOC....A MOP and MOC season...gunning for 4 straight 1000 yard seasons...lead league multiple in a row...and actually grew up in Canada...played all his formative ball in Canada prior to College?....These the guys that should be getting the attention

Update: Oliveira is feeling much better than expected over the last 24 hours and may possibly only miss 1 game. He apparently said that he even hopes to suit up this weekend, but i would think thats highly unlikely. Its a long season and im sure the Bombers would err on the side of caution with him, especially with how Peterson looked.

Rolling out a lousy depth chart, not sure what to expect but......LFG!!!!!!!!

There’s no way the OL changes aside from injury. Take out Sterns, play one less American on D, drop Ayers or the returner….all things that happen before the OL changes. Just had 450 yards of offense with basically one half of Streveler in rhythm (never affected by rush on a drop back) and all but one drive with a guy who was playing against the Bisons 8 months ago at tailback. We can live without edge rush. OL is priority 1000%.

Bottom line is there were a hell of a lot of guys with standout games tonight and that is an amazing things IMO. What a statement to open the season.

2 main issues to me are, one WR injury away from Corcoran being out there every play and no DE depth for 2 guys in their 30s.

Because the DL depth sucks on the depth chart... they've got a linebacker listed as the only backup DE... they've got 3 Canadian DTs for some reason instead of proper DE depth. We can quibble about whether they made the right choices in terms of players at db or lb but what they did with the DL is a god damned disgrace from a positional perspective.

Big Wreck?...The Rider Organization has a band??....haha...I'll show myself out now

My conclusion: Brady is Wolverine.

HH to Hogan who had a team put up 34 points and 450 yards without Zach and Brady. How many OCs have a team do that without their starting QB and RB?

Oh yeah one more thing. Why don't the Lions ever play Betts when they come to town? They could have really used him last night! Lolololol

Strev looked just fine on rhat drive...from his goaline

I’ll never understand these type of posts. The majority of us are just shooting the **** offering up a variety of opinions on the great, the good and the bad of certain aspects of the BB. Its where we come to escape and play gm/coach/consultant. And my opinion with lots of in-depth analysis behind it is BC sucks.

Day 1 of Bombers practice: RB Brady Oliveira is here, not dressed. Same for LS Mike Benson. S Josh Hagerty was running in warmups...an improvement on his injury situation. Watching for the ratio change that the Bombers will make with Oliveira's injury. Could be receiver, maybe more likely it's at left guard. They'll certainly bring RB Quinton Cooley on. So an American will have to come off. from derek taylor Update from Bomberland: Zach Collaros back at QB1, Matthew Peterson in Brady Oliveira's spot. Gabe Wallace getting work at right guard Also: Quinton Cooley getting some work at RB, too. from ed tait

Bit of hyperbole there - nobody was saying it was the end of the world, just expressing their displeasure with the line-up. The coaches may have been right but they were also fortunate. They rolled the dice & fielded a team that was very thin in certain positions (DL, WR) but luckily they made it through with no injuries at those spots.

HH award goes to @lyin' guy crying about the Bombers over on RF.com lol what a little baby that guy turned out to be

Well said. You’ve definitely earned your stripes today.

Living in the past I see.... collaros hasn't had the same deep shot precision for a while now. Too many floaters. It's called the blue flu.

Jake Thomas coming out party. Big breakout coming up. They say it takes at least a decade to get comfortable so now we’re seeing the payoff

I understand what you’re saying, but the win doesn’t mean people were wrong about their roster concerns. We fortunately didn’t have any injuries at WR or on the D line. Injuries there would’ve been tough to overcome, given how thin the lineup was. I still think the roster could’ve been constructed better, but that was a fun game to be at and a hell of a win.

Yeah lapo in year 2 made him a gimmick and then Pierce had his head up his ass last year and didn't let streveler throw for some stupid reason. Last night is basically the qb he was in year one.

I go down picking a QB.

I think the biggest playoff problem at qb has simply been Zach has by and large sucked in the big games.

Bailey over Kornelson makes a lot of sense. MOS not so much. So 9 linebackers, are we using a ton of 3-4? A rookie Canadian WR as the only back up is also a head scratcher. I wish we had media that actually asked MOS questions.

Don't like Jonathan Jones being scratched. Should have been Kyrie. Don't like only one American DT. Kornelson feels like Win A Day as a Bomber (yuck).

I still wouldn’t give Lawler the money Hamilton did. While he’s performed well, and sterns/mitchell/white haven’t worked out, wheatfall/schoen/demski is a very good core. If any thing, I’d a still tried to spend that money on ol/dl. Lawlers character faults aren’t toxic or horrible. But they are a lot for price, and not going away. We are already spending too much on the wr core. And we need youth. Also, schoen vs lawler, I take schoen every day of the week. Even dollar for dollar.

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Yuuupp. Never thought he was more than this. The fact we lost to him in the gc is infuriating.

Paul Friesen being elected to the CFL HOF Media wing is a joke. Not deserving at all.

Has anybody done a welfare check at TSN? Suitor and Farhan have to be devestated at the underperformances of Betts and Rourke. Kate has to be questioning everything she holds to be true having now seen what an actual sellout crowd looks and sounds like.

He’s very legit. What I really liked from his running last night was that out side of his big run, he still gained great yardage consistently. He wasn’t busting 10+ or getting stuffed. He fought for yards was able to push forward a bit on some tough plays too. Good blocker, great effort guy. Much better speed than you’d expect. The fact we started out the year soo well with strong execution on both sides of the ball from the first bell, despite missing our qb1 and mop rb, after the mess of a month and a half to start last year is a real testament to the value they got out of camp this year. We even lost a bunch of coaches and front office guys. But despite all that this was the hungriest and most prepared team breaking camp we’ve seen since 21.

4 yrs yunger than ZC is now Vaughters helped a lot...Lawson did as well...Adams was huge....he should never have been parked as much as he was last yr....

That’s why we put Dave Donaldson and Markus Howell out there. Elite defenders.

Peterson was a 4th round pick by the Ti-Cats last year. He attended training camp with the Cats then went back to school.

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!. Srev, proved to the idiots who say he cant read a defense and throw the deep ball, Up yours. 2. Peterson. Nuff said. 3. This Vaval kid ,hes a keeper. HH. Griffin had himself a game.

I really like the play call by hogan. Some great passing concepts really putting Strev in a great position.

Glad Streveler qb'd this drive for a TD. Good for him.

Rourke getting pourked

It is relevant. Injuries affect everyone differently. don't know how that injury will affect him. He may be able to put it out of his mind & play or it may change his style of play. As Booch said on another thread, Streveler has reinvened himself as a qb throwing the new way so his fundamentals now are very good. I"ve been following Chris on Instagram this off season in Arizona & I've sent video clips to Booch & others here so we've all seen the transformation. He doesn't look like a qb who just wants to be known for his tough running ability anymore. He want to be known as a qb who can win games with his arm as well for the Bombers. This is his time to show he can play.