Sard

Sorry to hear this... I thought he was doing a good job at the beginning of the season to try and create some excitement around the team. The fact that the GM and Head Coach have tanked the team is definitely not on him. I feel like Cui and Jones probably butted heads and Jones won out by being tighter with the board.

Schoen

Contact with the QBs head when he's the one who caused it by ducking into the contact has been called before, so I don't buy that excuse from the offical/command centre.

At 1:46 of the highlight video from last night, Ealy was over 5 yards away as Collaros was on his way down and in a very vulnerable position. Ealy had plenty of room to change direction to avoid the contact. On top of that Collaros' head was the 1st point of contact. Whether it was malicious or not (and I don't believe that it was), that should be called RTP every time.

If the contact at 3:20 of this video is roughing the passer: then what Ealy did to Collaros, mostly landing on his head, is most definitely roughing the passer... regardless of when it happened (ie. before or after Collaros let go of the ball), it was 100% contact with the head in an avoidable situation because if his knee had touched the ground, he was down by contact, so there was no reason for Ealy to even touch him, nevermind fall on his head.

What I saw was him doing the handoff while standing right up against the runner and tucking the ball in really close to make it harder for the defenders to see who has it. I find that Zach and a lot of other QBs for that matter don't get in quite as close to the runner and don't disguise it quite as well.

They said it on the broadcast, but I'll say it too, Dru Brown did a fantastic job of selling the run fakes all night. Opened himself up to be able to roll out and make throws down field, and then had the defence second guessing for the rest of the night which allowed Oliveira and Demski to eat up huge chunks of yard on the runs late in the game.

I look forward to seeing the supplemental fines this week because I really think the guy who hit Zach deserves one.

Holding on Jeffcoat?!?

I don't care whether the hit on Collaros was late or not, it was 100% a head shot and shout be RTP every time.

Between the Lawler no catch call and that not being roughing the passers, it's pretty obvious what the league wants to have happen.

In what world is that not a hit to the QBs head? And how the hell do the commentators not even see that?

https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/cfl-player-discipline-fines-for-dane-evans-jevon-cottoy-keon-hatcher-alexander-hollins-lucky-whitehead-justin-mcinnis-amir-siddiqi-pier-olivier-lestage-mustafa-johnson/ BC Lions Quarterback and Wide Receivers: Security Protocol Violation Players Involved: Dane Evans (QB), Jevon Cottoy (WR), Keon Hatcher (WR), Alexander Hollins (WR), Lucky Whitehead (WR), Justin McInnis (WR) Incident: These players have been fined for violating the league’s security protocol by entering a designated fan-only area in a visiting stadium. Explanation: This breach of protocol poses potential safety risks, and the league is taking this violation seriously to ensure that all rules and procedures are adhered to.

The part I don't get is why gender identity keeps being associated with sex and sexuality. They are completely different things. Just because the word sex is used in place of gender in a lot of places, people think that teaching kids about gender identity is in some way exposing them to sex. Kids are aware that there are genders (male and female) from a very young age... they may not know all of the physical differences there, but that's not what gender identity is about anyway, so why would it be wrong to teach to a kid in grade 2? People need to stop confusing teaching gender identity with teaching sexual education because they are barely even in the same realm.

Wait, Fajardo had a knee brace? Why didn't anyone say anything about that?

Gonna stick with Wolitarsky... didn't get one last week so I feel like he's due.

The point isn't the timing of the roster size expansion with relation to the Grey Cup, it's about the timing in relation to the NFL training camp. If you move the roster size change earlier, nothing happens because the guys waiting for their shot in the NFL haven't had it yet and won't come North until they do.

Yeah, the many other times that Russia was the aggressor. Have never heard of any point when Ukraine has done anything in the past to provoke Russia in any way.

Apparently Jackson is the backup long snapper, so that is likely the motivation for having him in the lineup. Doesn't explain Burtenshaw though.

Pretty cool video series starting up on bluebombers.com https://www.bluebombers.com/2023/07/30/beneath-the-blue-episode-one-finding-home/ First one came out a few days ago and is an interview with Dalton Schoen's parents.

That would have been really neat to see.

My question is, if his mother never identified as Metis when she was alive (presumably true if his brother doesn't believe that they are Metis), then in what way is it honoring her and connecting with her to now claim to be Metis?

Wolitarsky

I actually disagree that we got boned on that one... Demski ran back the 2 or 3 yards on his own before contact and I believe the ref actually got the spot right. My first thought when he caught it was "just fall forward" because he did have the first down, but then gave it up by running backwards a bit.

I didn't notice him take a head shot, I just thought the second guy coming in knocked the wind out of him, so I figured maybe he had sore ribs or something like that. Reading back through the thread, I wanted to address the complaints on the spot of the ball on the Demski catch just before the mishandled snap on 3rd and short. Demski caught the ball and ran back towards the line of scrimmage about 2.5 yards before he was tackled. There were complaints that the ball should have been spotted where he caught the ball, but the refs spotted it correctly because he ran back on his own without being pushed back. It's the same as a kick returner running back 5 yards to try and get around an edge and getting tackled for a loss. You only get forward progress if you are pushed back, not if you run back on your own.