Eternal optimist

No way... no crossover team has ever won a Grey Cup. As for the game Friday, if they lose, I just hope its by 6 points or less - we don't play Edmonton again, so a loss by 7+ points would give EDM the tiebreaker over us.

I'd take Bridge over LeFevour solely for his Canadian passport... they're both terrible.

Came here for discussion on Nichols' band-aids/temporary QB fixes... and this thread has been derailed by Neufeld's injury?

Politically speaking, I agree that'll be the likely result. Though the Conservatives have done some shady things in their tenure, such as intentionally manipulating their financial statements, resulting in a qualified (i.e., bad) audit opinion: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-deficit-lower-finance-1.4842239

To all of you Manitobans: In the coming provincial election, you can elect to decline your ballot. As for federally, I wish we had the option to decline our ballot... they're all dogs, Trudeau lies like a sidewalk, Scheer seems like he'd sell his Grandma for a nickel, and Singh is so out of touch with the working class reality it's preposterous.

Not sure if this was mentioned earlier, but if you've got a 360, you can get this... has save state feature and lots of other good blast-from-the-past games on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic's_Ultimate_Genesis_Collection

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.

Lol the Montreal radio announcers called it the "Command Centre Miracle". Also who the heck is Eugene Lewis

Guy behind me at Thursday's game: They should really just let Streveler run the offense, sure he makes more mistakes, but he's so much more exciting than Nichols. Me: So is Russian Roulette.

Neat!

Guys on Toronto 1050 just mentioned the Argos to-date do not have a rushing touchdown 0_o

Yeah, they're a second half team*, for sure. *They're not actually a second half team, they're deservedly 1-6 and somehow LaPo's play calling completely shifts when they have the lead and he devolves from being an offensive guru into Marcelle Bellefeuille.

Mike Reilly suffered a knee injury in the season opener. of 2015, he also played (poorly) with a broken bone foot in the 2014 playoffs. Point is...every player in football at some point gets injured. It's only a matter of time. Besides, those are just the injuries serious enough that they've been disclosed, who know how many times guys have played through sprains and other minor ailments?

The guy has come back from a broken leg (2012), torn ACL (2013) and a non-contact knee injury (2018). He also played through the 2017 playoffs with a broken ring finger and got absolutely walloped on the play that knocked him out of the game yesterday. Since the start of the 2015 season, Mike Reilly has played exactly 1 more game (72 of 90) than Matt Nichols (71 of 90). Our QB may be alot of things, but "soft" as you imply, is not one of them.

HH to BC coaching staff for having so little trust in their own D they felt they had to start the game off with an onside kick.

They tried this last week with Andrew Harris taking the direct snap, with Streveler as the fake on a jet sweep... it was called back unfortunately due to a procedure penalty on Stanley Bryant. In the vid below, it occurs at 1:16:46:

Small sample size for 2019, yes... but just thought others might be interested in their career numbers: Career stats (per CFL.ca) Streveler: 95 / 153 (62%) 1,216 yards, 12 TDs - 7 INTs. He throws a pick about 4.6% of the time. Nichols: 1,572 / 2,361 (66%) for 18,184 yards, 107 TDs - 59 INTs. He throws a pick about 2.5% of the time. So Streveler is a more risky QB purely in terms of INT chance, obviously there are more factors at play here, I find the numbers interesting nonetheless though. Also food for thought - Streveler has a better average yardage per completed pass (12.8 yards per pass, Nichols is only 11.6 yard per pass).

Well, 2013 was when we acquired him, and he was injured then. So although he has missed a lot of time, considering what we gave up (a bolting Alex Hall and a 2014 2nd round pick), we still came out on top I think. Was the beginning of rebuilding a porous O-line. Like your new profile pic btw.

I see what you did there, Janarion.

Nuefeld's played regular-season games beginning in 2011. 2011 - 17 / 18 2012 - 17 / 18 2013 - 3 / 18 2014 - 8 / 18 2015 - 12 / 18 2016 - 7 / 18 2017 - 18 / 18 2018 - 18 / 18 2019 - 0 / 8 Total (100 / 152) He's been dressed for about 65% of games, so not the best, but still more than 50%. For comparative purposes only, Pierce started 67 of a possible 125 games (53.6%) during his tenure here. As others have mentioned...the fact Neufeld is often "hidden" on the IR likely makes his starting % a bit worse than it actually is.

Similar to how, if I had to, I could hitchhike to work tomorrow.

Just back-to-back Grey Cups (2016, 2017) lol.

Well, back in 2017 they ended their regular season on a 3-game skid. Though they likely already had first locked up (13-1-1 before losing streak), so I think that technically counts, but really they were in cruise control gearing up for the playoffs... those games practically meant nothing to CAL.

Mitchell is definitely the better QB, though I'd argue that's attributable much more to the team surrounding him than his individual abilities as a QB. He is the straw that stirs the Stamps' drink on offense, but they've also had fantastic D and STs over the last decade or so. Besides, even if we could've coaxed him over here, his contract would've been even more massive than what CAL paid for him, we wouldn't be fielding the same level of team... other areas would suffer.

Still Nichols. Mitchell is so self-interested and conceded it's obnoxious.