Eternal optimist

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I believe he's alluding to the fact that of late the Stampeders organization just seems to keep on winning in spite of adversity and critics... just like the New England Patriots in the NFL have been doing for years under Bellicheck and Tom Brady. Fun fact: Calgary was originally founded as the "Calgary Grid Co-op", later changing their name to the Calgary Stampeders during their inaugural 1945 season. They were also graced with a perfect season (12-0) in 1948 accompanied by a Grey Cup win. The 1948 perfect season was the only one of the 12-game or 14-game eras. Under the 16-game schedule and current 18-game schedule, no team has ever gone undefeated in either format, the closest being the '81 Eskimos (14-1-1) and the '89 Eskimos (16-2-0).

Agree to disagree I guess, in both games, we were very much so in the game until the final whistle, people need to realize the other team is trying to win the game as well.

You guys are way too pessimistic 1. We're currently still undefeated at home. 2. CAL comes to town off a short week. 3. Every game starts 0-0, despite what others posters here might be led to believe.

Didn't realize we were that close in age - I was born in '89, so I was just over 1 when they won.

Things I've done since their last Grey Cup! 1. Graduated high school 2. University diploma 3. Got married 4. Had a kid You have till November before I pay off my house and become debt-free, you bums.

Food for thought: Teams playing on a short week* are 6-13 this year Teams playing off a bye week are 5-4 * I considered a short week to be less than 7 days between games, for example, EDM's W3 game against WPG was a short week as there was only 6 days between W2 and W3 for them. We get CAL on a short week at home on Thursday.

Thanks for nothing, Hamilton. Long weekend ruined before it even started.

No stars. No happy honkers. Think about what you just did, Bombers.

Welp, this will be my go-to ammunition for any 'Riders fan that brings up Durant's antics when retiring as a Bomber. Sure, he screwed us out of $70,000 but they paid Collaros $200,000 in 2019 willingly for the following stat line: 1 rush - 7 yards.

Hey now, our mascot wasn't the one accused of "inappropriate" behavior in a recent game against the Lions! https://globalnews.ca/news/5667246/saskatchewan-roughriders-mascot-inappropriate-behaviour-stuffed-lion/

Alright, well I was going to make a post about how opponent combined record doesn't really correlate with anything you're saying... so here's what I found: Team name, record (Wins against) - W-L - Winning % (Note: Duplicate wins against the same team omitted for W/L record) MTL, 3-2 (HAM/OTT/EDM) - 11-7 - (0.611) OTT, 2-4 (CAL/SSK) - 7-5 - (0.583) HAM, 5-1 (OTT/SSK/TOR/MTL/WPG) - 13-16 - (0.448) WPG, 5-1 (BC/EDM/OTT*2/TOR) - 7-18 - (0.280) CAL, 4-2 (BC/SSK/TOR/OTT) - 6-19 (0.240) EDM, 4-2 (MTL/BC/TOR/BC) - 4-14 (0.222) SSK, 3-3 (TOR/BC*2) - 1-12 (0.077) BC, 1-6 (TOR) - 0-6 (0.000) TOR, 0-6 Indeterminate, they haven't posted a win yet. I find it interesting though that MTL and OTT have the best percentages despite being middle of the pack - Ottawa's inconsistent play really shows thanks to their win against CAL. TLDR; Juran's right.

They will be in a world of hurt if Fajardo goes down... their QB backups (per their Week 7 depth chart): Isaac Harker: Cracked their roster in 2019, has only played in 2 games to-date with just under 30 passing attempts. He also has 0 TDs and 3 INTs. Bryan Bennet: Former Bomber - started 18 games, mostly on STs, has a total of 8 career passing attempts to-date. He hasn't thrown any TDs or INTs to date, given his limited reps. I don't think Collaros' health would've impacted the decision - he hasn't looked the same for a number of years. The fact the 'Riders have managed a .500 record so far with such a thin QB roster is surprising.

This is a byproduct of spotting your opponent a 14-point lead early on.

Technically, he never played in the CFL, he was only assigned to Stamps' practice roster...when he was cut (according to Mr Johnson himself), he had $7 to his name it was at this point he had hit.... rock bottom. I'll show myself out.

Sure, but you've got to field competitive players for all three facets - not just one. BC went all-in on offense with little for STs and D... it shows.

The fact BC only dresses 6 offensive linemen shows how much value they put in protecting their QB.

I swear to god the rouge was invented for putrid offenses like this.

"You're cut, son."

Rose's pick-6 turned the tide for sure... but I'd argue that Demski's recovery of Harri's fumble on our own 17 was just as important. At the time, game was tied 0-0. Fun fact: Jennings had 45 yards passing, and the INT was run back for 71 yards on the interception. Do these net out? I think they should.

Well, my alarm permit is still the same price, but that doesn't make me any happier about paying it.

Nick Arbuckle leads the league in completion % as of Week 5 (68.8%), according to CFL, a "deep throw" is consider 20+ yards. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Ok - here's the best way I can explain sigma in layman's terms. If you're a doctor and you have two patients, and you measure their heartbeats per minute (bpm) 3 times each and the results are below: Patient #1: 60 bpm / 60 bpm / 60 bpm Patient #2: 100 bpm / 20 bpm / 60 bpm They would both have the same average (60 bpms), but obviously patient #2 is in a much more concerning scenario. Sigma, a.k.a standard deviation measures how varied your data set is, in the example above, Patient #1 has standard deviation of 0, whereas Patient #2 has standard deviation of 40. TLDR; Sigma/standard deviation is a way of telling you how varied a given data set is, it gives more information than just an average, as averages can often be misleading if you have numerous outliers that offset (such as Patient #2's heartbeat).

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.

I've mentioned this on the forum before, TSN offers 24-hour day passes to stream CFL games for a very reasonable $4.99 per day... much better than ridiculous cable prices, considering I can get my main news source (CBC) also online for free.

I am also a cord-cutter, personally I listen to the radio for games, if it's a game I really want to watch, I'll go to the local pub, though that doesn't happen often.