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21 minutes ago, ddanger said:
I'm going to go on a little rant here......
In my section on the west side I sit with a group of STH's who have been together since the old place. My irritation with their negativity is beginning to get to the point where I'm thinking about moving to a different section. Last night the people behind me, who know more than the coach and gm, were unreal. Bitching about the offence, the defence, the coaching, and of course the ref's. Even after a good play they seemed to be able to find a reason to complain.
Man I was happy when the left, and I gotta say even happier when we won!! Next home game I'm going to tell them to leave even earlier, cause it's clearly beneficial to the team!!
I guess I just feel like we're supposed to be fans, so let's cheer on the team. If nothing they do is going to make you happy, then don't bother coming.
Highlighted your first mistake... hasn't anyone ever told you that the west side sucks?
I'm in 209 and I've got one guy near me who was biatching about Richie Hall for most of the game, but generally the rest of the guys in that group have been pretty reasonable. Not always looking for the negative at least.
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50 minutes ago, BigBlue said:
Dressler got hurt on Cox's horse collar
He still came out and played on offence for a while after that. It was after the catch over the middle where he basically fell forward after catching the ball and got pilled on by a couple of Mtl defenders when I last noticed him on the field. He kindof limped off after that play... could have still be from the original horse collar though.
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39 minutes ago, Bomber_fanaddict said:
No it wasn't. They showed it on the reply as well. He was down and took it off himself. I will post it once it's on youtube!
I think there were 2 plays where his helmet came off... once during the play and another time where he took it off by himself, so I think you're both right.
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1 minute ago, SPuDS said:
I don't believe that. up the middle, we killed the run numerous times. When they flipped it outside, our DE's or our SAM (for the most part, I noticed Alexander not being able to stop the RB when they got the edge) were not able to stop the play and it went for big yards.
Hopefully Leggett back in would nullify that as he has no issues stopping RBs.. and with some film, Jeffcoat (and I suppose westerman is guilty of this too) will not jam down so hard.
I noticed that Alexander whiffed on a few tackles last night... felt like he had a rough game, but he did redeem himself a bit by recovering the onside kick.
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5 minutes ago, Nash00 said:
The ref was staring at the line so he would have had the best view of if it touched the stripe or not. Nice athletic play for sure, but also risky in that it would have been MTL possession if he lets it go out of bounds there but by tossing it back in he leaves open the chance that we recover.
Watched the game re-cap and paused it to see that the ball did land in bounds by about half a foot... didn't like the call at the time, but they did get that one right.
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41 minutes ago, BigBlue said:
you had have 2 out of 3 in the lineup all the time and staying very fresh .... just slightly more rotation than now ..... and a MLB actually stopping the run
We have been one of the best teams against the run (if not the best) so far this season, so not sure that this is a true concern on our D... I think you're stuck on the fact that we were terrible against the run in seasons past.
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13 minutes ago, yogi said:
Ya but if you ignore Lankford's TD he actually played receiver pretty average statistically speaking.
If you're going to talk stats, it's not valid to cherry pick and omit certain plays... if you are, you're just trying to fit it into a predetermined narrative.
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5 minutes ago, WBBFanWest said:
I know I'm going to get roasted for this, but here goes... I do see some truth in the way that Weicek describes O'Shea. To me, he really does come across as "talking down" to people. I get the impression that he feels that having to talk to people is beneath him or that, in order to protect the players, he needs to stand there and refuse to acknowledge the painfully obvious. No, I'm not saying that he should get fired, but I'd really like someone, maybe Walters, to take him aside and explain that the media represent the fans and the fans are the ultimate boss because the fans pay the freight. They deserve better than "everything's fine, don't worry yourself about it." even when reporters are asking dumb questions.
So it's ok to admit that someone had a bad night when everyone in the entire stadium can see that he did. O'Shea doesn't have to throw anyone under the bus, but to say something like "Ya, Medlock struggled a bit tonight, but we know that he'll bounce back" acknowledges reality, nothing more, nothing less. Or to say something like, "Ya, my decision to gamble on 3rd and 15 is one I'd like to have back. It wasn't a smart decision and I'm disappointed in myself." would demonstrate just a bit of humility. When his QB is willing to step up and do that I'm surprised that O'Shea can't recognize that Nichols is being a true leader and displaying a trait that most adults value: accountability.
It's a real ***** in his armour and if he really wants to become a top level coach, he needs to fix it.
The only time I've noticed O'Shea "talking down" to people is when they ask inane questions. When an intelligent football question is asked, he lights up and engages with the person asking the question as if he was sitting down and having a beer with a buddy. Just because Weicek is one of the guys usually asking the inane questions, he's got his feelings hurt and that's why he writes the crap that he does about O'Shea and the team in general. The people responding to his articles likely only read what he writes and so only have what he has to say as a reference and don't really know what they are talking about.
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5 minutes ago, do or die said:
Tissue like zone D and shoddy tackling.......bad combination.
We actually have some good athletes in the back.....but playing 6 yds of the receivers, in all situations.....is not going to translate into a lot of "playmaking"
Absolutely agree with that... how many clean, uncontested,10 yard throws on 2nd down was Durant able to make in that game? You have to know that on 2nd down they are looking for Nik Lewis... the D played it right on Montreal's first drive to get the INT, but basically forgot that that is the play Mtl will make 90% of the time in that situation and just let it happen.
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1 hour ago, Mark F said:
I thought he was ok when Moe and Wild were playing. Fans were happy with him for a few games.
Last night there seemed to be a fair number of views of him trotting up to the pile after the whistle last night, and chasing plays.
generally speaking I don't think ball carriers fear the impact of the Hurl that much.
He won't be coming out, Mike/Hall appear to like him a lot as our middle linebacker
I got a kick out of Lankford making some good plays at receiver. next man up did his job well.
Not to defend Hurl too much because he has definitely struggled without Leggett and Wild in the lineup, but is he playing a little out of position to help cover for the newer guys and opening up holes in the D where there otherwise wouldn't be any? Not that that helps us much, but just curious if maybe that's part of the struggle right now.
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33 minutes ago, Eternal optimist said:
That play was way worse than the one on Ricky Ray at the end of the Bombers/Argos game, and the Bomber player got fined for that.
This is a problem that I've noticed quite a bit where defenders drop their heads 3 or 4 yards before they get to the guy they are trying to tackle/hit and they can't see their target. If the Montreal player had kept his head up, he would have seen Nichols duck and could have avoided his head. Same with the hit that the Bomber's player made on the Montreal kick returner on one play where he hit the guy out of bounds, if he had kept his head up he would have seen the returner step out of bounds and could have avoided making the hit and taking the penalty.
Guys have got to start tackling smarter and keeping an eye on their target so that they don't miss the tackle and/or injure guys because they are being wreckless.
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25 minutes ago, Doublezero said:
An exciting win. But too many problems to think this team has reached a new level or turned a corner. That was pretty stupid of MOS to ice his own kicker by essentially halting a successful FG with a nonsense challenge that resulted in a re-kick and miss. Does anyone know why there was no convert after the final TD? Hopefully that will not come back to bite.
I was calling for a roughing the passer penalty on that play, so I was glad that he threw the flag... haven't seen a replay of it yet to know whether the c'mon centre got it right or not (but my instinct says they screwed up).
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11 minutes ago, do or die said:
Now remember why I never leave early.......so few people....so much noise.
Was eyeballing them, after we recovered the short kick......some of their players looked absolutely blown....
Alright, fair enough... don't think they should have been just based on how much time they had had off the field, but I suppose after the TD and the recovered onside kick that could sap some energy for sure.
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2 hours ago, Bubba Zanetti said:
against a prevent defense that was gassed and playing soft, dont get me wrong im happy as hell lol but nichols was garbage for a huge stretch of the game
How do you figure the Montreal D was gassed at that point in the game? They should have had plenty left in the tank considering the extremely lopsided time of possession.
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1 hour ago, Taynted_Fayth said:
the onside kick was nicely executed but 1/4 in the last 2 games is concerning. When we were down 5 points with a few mins left in the game, I think for the first time since he's been a bomber I felt disappointed with Medlock. Those 6 points were huge at that point (even tho Logan scored a TD later). He definitely redeemed himself with the onside kick, but I wonder if these trick plays (like the fake field goal last game) have screwed with his kicking
Medlock's misses cost us 5 points because he got a single on the 2nd one. It would have made it so they just needed a FG to finish the game out. They may have played it much more conservative trying to get into FG range though, so who knows whether they would have made it.
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13 minutes ago, JohnnyOnTheSpot said:
I'm still not convinced on Lankford. The one he did take back was in spite of the lane he initially picked being shut down. I put that one down to luck and speed, not returner savvy. The great returners don't bounce around like he does.
Pinball Clemons would like to disagree with your comment.
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I'm gonna go with the corner route to Clarence Denmark... it's bound to happen eventually...
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10 minutes ago, lyin' guy said:
Call on who you need to, that ball never touched the goal line. No way, no how.
Even from the angle inside the the end zone, the tip of the ball crossed the front plane of the goal line, so if that camera had been right on the goal line it would have been even more obvious that the ball crossed the plane.
https://www.cfl.ca/games/2389/#videos
At the 1:17 point you can see where the white stripe is on the ball and extrapolate where the point of the ball would be above the goal line. This angle isn't directly down the line and it appears to be across, so moving the camera down the line would make it even more obvious.
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I've seen the argument many times over the years that there should be less flags, but I have to disagree with that as an absolute statement. When I see receivers running offside on every play and no flag, that frustrates me to no end. So overall, I would say that the refs just need to be consistent in enforcing the rules.
Rather than telling the refs to put away the flags, it's also on the players to play clean. If they play within the rules, and the refs call the game according to the rules, then there would be no flags. Real life and game speed don't work that way though, so there is room for human error on both sides.
Also, to hear how some people talk about it, you would think that there was a challenge on every play... overall there can be a maximum of 6 challenges in a game (unless the rules on the number of challenges have changed), and I'm not sure if there have been any games with more than 3 so far this year (disclaimer that I have not actually watched every single game so can't say that definitively). They do seem to have got faster with the challenge calls in general, but as has been said many times on here the C'mon Centre needs to get the calls right and they are currently failing at that far too often so far this year.
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9 minutes ago, Taynted_Fayth said:
So if I load up with Ottawa players will i get essentially double the points as they play 2 games in 1 cfl week? I see on my options they have both the the OTT/MTL and OTT/TO games listed
**edit: I see they jacked the prices on ottawa players
Tried to load up on them, but had a really hard time with it... exactly like you said, they jacked up the prices. I guess it sorta makes sense, but the salary cap is extremely restrictive.
Anyone else find that they have 1 or 2 almost throwaway spots to stay under the cap?
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I always park across Pembina in Waverley Heights and I found that traffic out of there was slower than usual. The only problem was getting onto Bison/Waverley because there were many more cars there due to the no right turn onto Pembina from Chancellor Matheson.
That being said, it never really takes me all that long to get home, so no real complaint.
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So even though BC played poorly in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, they deserve to win, but because we played poorly in the 4th we don't?
Just trying to understand the logic here... neither team played 100% for the full 60 minutes so how can you say that one team really deserved to win more than the other.
Same goes for our game against Montreal, both teams play well for parts of the game but we set ourselves up well to put the final nail in the coffin with no time left on the clock.