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Didn't watch. Listened. Seemed like bombers were tenuous early. Not having played week one. 
Seems to my uneducated ear they there is room for quick improvement. Now they have real game time. They can make adjustments 
we won. I'll take it 

Another big influence on the game?
The C'mon Centre.
That turnover they didn't call changed the game, and that's not supposed to happen.

I could not believe they ruled Grant's fumble an incomplete pass, especially after the controversial call they made in the Stamps/RB's game, zero consistency.

1. Dressler 
2. Adams 
3. Medlock and special teams in general
Honorable mention to the refs ans the cmon center for trying their best to help out the riders. 

Brutal call on goosen

Brutal call on the fumble against the bombers. What else is new?

But by that exact same logic, a team that goes 3/3 and wins by 2 points will say that going for it was the difference between winning and losing. The incorrect assumption is that the single point is automatic, when it no longer is (1 in 10 will miss), and you are giving away points by not taking the sure 1. Look at BC-Edmonton last week. Lions missed two 1 point converts and lost the game by 3. had they gone for 2 and made both (the stats say they have a better chance than not of getting them both) that's 4 extra points and they win the game instead of losing. So your "reality" argument cuts both ways. The numbers suggest that the reward would outweigh the risk over the long term, and that the "reality" is that more teams will benefit and win close games by going for it where the stats indicate a better than 50/50 chance of success than will lose games by taking that risk.
Now I'll easily concede that situational dynamics overrules everything, the point simply is that it isn't the overwhelming losing proposition some might believe it to be, and the single isn't the gimme it used to be. (NOTE: Justin Medlock does not approve this message). That's the whole point of the rule change.

Sure I could imagine it, but what's the point in that?  I'd prefer to imagine a complete and total beatdown of the Riders.  I want to imagine Glenn slinking off the field after his third pick 6 with a tear slowly rolling down his cheek and muttering "it's only a game... it's only a game".  I want to imagine the Rider crowd booing lustily and having Jones standing at centre field shouting "BUT WERE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?"  I want to imagine Rod Peterson crumpled in a corner of the Rider broadcast booth, curled up in the fetal position and sobbing.  That's what I want to imagine.
And if this doesn't come to pass, then we'll deal with it later, and you know why?  Because I'd like to imagine I support my team.

no... its not.. your depth is deplorable bud. go back to drinking your green koolaid tho.
 
trust us.  we know pathetic canadian depth when we see it.

eam Home Avg. % of Capacity League Avg. Diff. Visitor Avg. % of Capacity League Avg. Diff. BC 21,055.9 76.57% -3,635.6 25,416.0 78.49% +724.5 Calgary 27,474.2 77.61% +2,782.7 24,361.9 78.98% -329.6 Edmonton 30,998.0 55.06% +6,306.5 24,174.7 82.84% -516.8 Hamilton 24,001.3 98.77% -690.1 24,441.2 76.32% -250.3 Montreal 20,377.8 86.71% -4,313.7 23,872.8 75.04% -818.7 Ottawa 24,673.0 100.07% -18.5 23,025.2 72.88% -1,666.3 Saskatchewan 31,327.0 93.72% +6,635.5 27,054.0 78.96% +2,362.5 Toronto 16,380.3 60.67% -8,311.1 25,967.6 82.53% +1,276.1 Winnipeg 25,935.8 77.60% +1,244.3 23,910.0 74.85% -781.5 League Average 24,691.5 77.83% N/A 24,691.5 77.83% N/A  
Doesn't look like a large margin, and you were 3rd in % of capacity...so didn't lead there
And really there is nothing else to do there or put money toward sports wise than every other city in Canada so I would hope people come out.
Christ Rider football is the only big ticket thing in the entire province so if people didn't support it they should be ashamed

I dunno...seen many empty seats there too last year...and in Winnipeg probably most those seats were vacated by the thousands at the rum hut
Well no generation of bomber fan abandoned  there team..so guys we are better fans...no?

I don't post much (career lurker/post liker), but I must say, I LOVE the Regina hate.
Ashamed to admit I live in Regina... which means I suffer through the constant garbage taunts from rider fans who can't name 3 players currently on the team. Even the better media here are unabashedly ignorant and full on deluded homers and managing to find decent CFL talk anywhere is next to impossible.
I could go on for a few pages about everything that's wrong with rider fans and the province but I won't for brevity's sake. 
Please carry on with the excellent rider fan crushing. Go Blue.

4 Grey Cups in a century and Rider fans act like they're the messiah of pro football.. 

Wasn't Westerman first in league last year in hurries...which results in an interception a lot of the time...which we dominated in?  Oh yeah thats right..so washed up
 
I'd take a pic any day over a sac.....fool

That's old for a DE, she says. Westerman is younger than Charleston Hughes and John Chick, who were 1-2 in the league in sacks last year.
Pretty clear by now that you don't understand football. Buzz off.

Nichols has started 32 games in his career...is 12 wins and 8 losses with winnipeg from 2015 to 2016
..Was 5 wins and 2 losses with edm in 2015
so for the math challenged Sask people that is 17 wins and 10 losses since 2015 for 27 games...I think he was 3-2 in his other 5 so that is 20 wins..12 losses.....so where does the lost a hell of a lot more come from?...credibility blown buddy...
 
 

Go ahead and copy/paste it. You think my opinion will change if we lose Saturday? If we lose Saturday, we'll have lost to a terrible football team and we'll need to improve on it going forward.
PS - his record as a starter is 18-15, I know math isn't a strong suit over there but 15 is not "one hell of a lot more" than 18. It's actually less.

32 years old. Canadian.. And 24 sacks in the past two seasons. That's a weird example. 

Especially when he still had as many sacks as their starting DEs Leonard and Jefferson combined.
And the comment about Nichols having lost more games than he's won is just plain false.

No, you look at the stats. That's all you have. 
That, and that statue of a Free Agent trying to leave the Rider's grasp..
 

against Kevin Glenn. Congrats.

very good compared to what?

It's Kevin Glenn in game one for Winnipeg, I mean come on, he is going to complete a lot of short **** against us, but he's also going to soft serve up some passes that will get picked off, it's just what he does at this stage in his career. So I expect the Bombers to give up lots of yards but to take the ball away and not give up as many points as the stats might lead one to believe. 

I am betting on a hissy fit from Carter and a crazy player move by Jones. 

Dang it I forgot about that!! 
Crappy defences rarely force turn-overs...especially crappy ones with the top returning ball hawks who are going to benefit from increased pressure on the quarterback all coming back....guess we are screwed