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Man, some Bomber fans here.... They could win $25 million on Lotto Max. Then turn around & ***** they never won when it was $50 million & feel ripped off. Just enjoy the freaking win...

Except our kicker outplayed theirs.  It is a team sport.

That's pretty much an example of outplaying them.  

Starting to think it's like wrestling with a pig in mud... at some point you have to realize that the pig is enjoying it...

Starting to think it's like wrestling with a pig in mud... at some point you have to realize that the pig is enjoying it...

Whatever they did last year got them very close to beating the Stamps, so a bit more of that should do it.

Top 3 QBs in the league BLM, Reilly, Nichols

I am more than happy with Nichols and feel Bombers had no choice but to give him that $400k contract to retain him after the way he stepped in and started winning games for us last year. I feel the coaches and his team-mates have a lot of confidence in Matt Nichols. He put too much zip on the ball early yesterday so JFG couldn't squeeze a high throw with velocity and Dressler couldn't run under another sure TD pass. When he got that out of the way and settled down - he was money. Personally very glad we have Matt Nichols as our starting QB and agree he is very under-rated.

My personal favourite stat from the Bomber game?
Weston Dressler - 1 rushing, 22 yards.     6 receptions for 124 yards      2 Touchdowns
ALL in the brand new facility where he was deemed not good enough to play..

I was just about to post this and ask if there's a chance of a fine.  I think they should be fined. A)it's a marketing tactic to sell clothes and you would think that they would be required to wear it and b ) it's a slap in the face to the history of the organizations and to the country 

Interesting observation going on over at RF - Jones and Trestman didn't wear those Adidas shirts with the legend on the back and the 150 like every other coach did. Anyone think it should be a fine like the Mic'd up issue last year?  With Adidas putting their name on the shirts,  they are likely hoping to sell those shirts and this was meant for promotional purpose.  Not good to piss off a corporate sponsor imo

That backwards TD by Washington was awesome.  What does it say about how bad the Riders secondary is when a receiver can literally stutter step backwards like 5+ yards untouched

yeah, Dressler was like five yards deep in the endzone when 45 dragged him down. That was some Sam Losco level greasy there.
Hope Demski is okay. Hate seeing promising young guys go down like that.

I think that will probably go down as the best game the Riders play all year.  Straight down-hill now as the momentum of losing starts to really kick in.  Have seen this far too many times with the Bombers too.  The only thing that can stop the bad momo is good leadership, and we all know how comfortable Kevin Glenn is with losing.

It seemed like he had happy feet at times. That one play in particular where he took off with it. He danced himself right into his offense line before he took off. He had great protection and put himself in a bad spot.
edit: re his accuracy, the pass to Dressler in the endzone was bad, but I thought the other miss in the endzone was Denmark's fault. If he doesn't slow down that pass would have been on the money.

Entertaining game. You could plainly see which team had not played yet.  Emotion had to carry the Riders because their schemes and talent just can't.  Glenn is going to get hurt. That's a given, and when he does it will be an awful long year for them. 
Ego Jones is their Achilles heel. All bluster. He's got nothing. 

I'd  like to give props to the ref who gave a detailed explanation of why Chris Jones was wrong and couldn't challenge the last tackle on Glenn in the second OT.

agree completely with you.
 they made a big deal about this. Not overturning close ones. Too bad if we dont like it. which was obnoxious.
Then they go ahead and overturn a close call (actuallly wasn't really close) .
Confirming what everyone thinks about the c'mon centre.

 

And the crazy thing is the C'mon Centre saw enough in their eyes to overturn the call. I thought they weren't going to overturn close calls so I guess this wasn't a close call. I'm ok with the call if they use the same standard of catch / no catch all season but I have my doubts that they will. 

I really enjoyed watching Hurl tell off Glenn at the coin toss for OT.
He was speaking for me!
 

I wouldn't put the non fumble on the refs... they called it right on the field, it was the C'mon Centre that screwed that one up... is that 3 for 3 on those calls so far this year?
Agreed that the unneccesary roughness was a marginal call at best.
Overall though, I actually thought the reffing was decent tonight.

Can anyone actually explain how catching the ball with both hands can ever be considered not having control of the ball?  He caught it, and went to tuck it and had it slip loose... pathetic call by the C'mon Centre.

Can anyone actually explain how catching the ball with both hands can ever be considered not having control of the ball?  He caught it, and went to tuck it and had it slip loose... pathetic call by the C'mon Centre.

He actually catches it, tucks it and as he's getting up to run he punches the ball out with his other hand...  if that isn't a catch and then loss of possession then I haven't been watching football long enough (I started remembering games in 84).  The c'mon centre really fumbled that call ?