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Teams are allowed to do that midseason?????????

Wait...do you live down here in New Mexico? 😉  That is our line down here...ha ha

The Riders?  Really?  I had to pull out one of the airline barf bags I stole on my last flight when time ran off the clock.  And I was listening to the game online.  I have no clue what would have happened if I was watching the game.

What is happening?  Even Montreal beat the East leading Redblacks and our team is struggling to hold onto the crossover position.  We want to go that route through Hamilton and Ottawa....IF WE CAN WIN another game. 😉

Okay, back to my Labor...Labour Day off down here.

A video I did for my YouTube channel for my small town of Belen, New Mexico.  Enjoy.
 
 

Yeah, but Bob is pretty much an angry sounding broken record on this stuff who has always focused primarily on pandering to Blue brass. I mean, how many times can you say, no excuse me, yell (as Bob routinely does): "Well, who does that?" whenever someone has the temerity to suggest that it might be time to try something different than trotting out Nichols, again and again, until the game is out of reach.
Yes, the D ended up giving up a lot of yards today. But only after the O s*** the bed again and again and again. The D held a very powerful offense to 12 points until well into the 3rd quarter. What was the time of possession? Yardage stats? It has to have hugely favoured the Stamps...you're only going to hold BLM and Dave D. in check for so long. Your bloody O has to do something. So, to Bob's question: who does that? Well, Wally Buono does that. Chris Jones does that. Rick Campbell does that. All have "done that" (i.e. pulled the starter) in the recent past and all have won Grey Cups.
What's the definition of insanity, according to Einstein? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That's what we did with Nichols again today. Putting Streveler in would qualify as something different. I mean, what's Bob's solution? Answer: Just keep defending Blue brass' stubborn stupidity? Just keep endlessly repeating "who does that?" I mean, how's that philosophy working out for us?

Why would Hervey do that? You don’t think Jones burned a few bridges with Hervey with everything that happened when Jones left Edmonton.

Wade probably got in O'Shea's ear to quell the panic.

If you're referring to the 3rd down gamble, that is on the Bombers, not the officials. It is not offside if the defensive player who jumps early gets back before the ball is snapped unless he touches an offensive player or goes over the LOS. On that play neither happened which is why the Bombers needed to snap the ball before he got back.

I'm a season ticket holder and have no problem with this. A full stadium is more fun. As long as I feel I am getting value for my money I couldn't care less what other people are paying.

That is amazing.
Not the good kind.

I'll be sad to see Wally go. He's like Don Matthews, a CFL legend, and he kept half the league supplied with quarterbacks during the late nineties / early oughts.  20 playoff years in 22 years plus more Grey Cups on his resume than the entire Saskatchewan franchise.  To top it off, open-heart surgery in the middle of it all.
As a fan of the Bombers I was intensely jealous of his success, as a fan of the league I thought he made it better. If he does step aside, then congrats to him on an amazing career and a well-deserved retirement. 

I believe that statement should read 'Prior to 2007..."

Nothing goes with a rum and coke quite like a Kevin Glenn pick-6.

I believe that statement should read 'Prior to 2007..."

Solid game by the Bombers. Congrats.

Solid game by the Bombers. Congrats.

Solid game by the Bombers. Congrats.

Solid game by the Bombers. Congrats.

this is a good point... but the flip-side is if you start at home, you get a better chance to win the first game... realistically, splitting a home-and-home is the most likely scenario... so it's a huge advantage to go into the second game with a win already in your back pocket...

Listen, that's his storey, and he's sticking to it...

Absolutely false....I have never understood this. There was a time, many many moons ago, when the media were the only link fans had to sports teams....that is so long gone, it's not even funny. Wiecek (and really nobody in the media that I can think of...) represents the fans voice....

I don't see it as a knee jerk reaction .... I see a proactive commissioner and thats a very good thing ... proactive isn't perfection just progress that needs multiple revisions over time, each one an incremental improvement

clearly the problem is they named 3 LBers regardless of which LB position they play... which shouldn't be... if they did that with other positions then theoretically the whole O-line could be tackles and the entire secondary could be corners or an all slotback WR corps, etc... doesn't makes sense for the other positions, so why for LB?... there's no question Leggett was 1) a difference maker in every game he played and 2) the best SAM LB in the league this year... so he got screwed b/c of the lack of positional distinction...

CFL.ca publishes the pending FA's and to the surprise of no one except Rider fans, James Franklin is not among them. Rider Stronson's already humiliatingly plummeting credibility takes another blow.

Reminded me of the hit Demond Washington put on Fred Stamps in the end-zone a couple of years ago, Stamps left the stadium on a stretcher.  Although Fred was already on the decline, fair to say he was never the same player after that hit.  I know some fans love to see that level of brutality but player safety is more important than some wannabe warriors getting their jollies cheering as an athlete lies unconscious or crippled on the field.
 
 

The clock does not run on converts in the last three minutes of the half.
At the time I was thinking that the bombers would have been better off if your receiver didn't roll over and score the TD as a sneak on the next play would have killed more time. But you have to score when you can. The three man rush was a killer.
i know it was better for the Eskimos if Calgary won but I was hoping to see the Bombers finish the comeback.

I think he was suggesting that SJ Green was the reason that Montreal might have cap issues (which also doesn't make sense since Green is injured).
I think the Bombers were robbing people today.