LimJahey

Marvelous Marve!

I think this year we're finally starting to see our scouting network develop... it takes time to establish yourself in the scouting game... hopefully our guys have enough contacts that we will start to uncover some Hufnagel/Barker/Buono-esque gems in the coming years...

Difference with the current regime and past regimes is coaching and GM, those guys aren't going anywhere and will likely continue their recent success.

if there are fans who expect perfection from a CFL GM i urge you to please stop watching. Thanks.

You're not a Bomber fan in my eyes.

Yes and that's what this woman has done. She's drug our team, our city, and frankly our province through the mud for personal gain. It's revolting.

With respect to her hurt feelings and the feelings of all the people that defend or rationalize her lying, I'm going to go ahead and be all indignant about this. I'm a passionate fan of this team and this organization, and I identify with the team on a personal emotional level. If in fact nothing went down the way she describes, then she dragged our collective names through the mud and even profited from it in the end. Not just Bomber fans either, but ordinary citizens and city workers were described as aggressors.
Meanwhile, the rest of the league gets to hear all about what cruel drunks Bomber fans are, towards children no less. I'm sure we as fans do stupid things at games, often fueled by alcohol... but if our team and our city are gonna get raked through the coals, let it be for something that actually happened.

We're talking about "practise"?

I bet Andrew Harris plays

wowza

You want to play JFG at rb?

Wouldn't Pascal Lochard start if Harris sits?

Looks like this is my shot boys.

My buddy and I bumped into Kyle Walters on the way in to watch practice today. After asking him what number Heath was wearing (#13), the first thing we did was to shake his hand.

MOS is a lock to be re-signed unless there are some drastic steps back in the second half of the season.

Then, pardon me for the misunderstanding. It would be nice to sell out to only Bomber fans, but alas, it's not to be. As long as we sell out, then welcome to everyone!

i'm just trying to make a point that if your defense can create enough turnovers or force enough 2 and outs, our special teams can create field position and our offence doesn't need to be elite.

I do have a couple of points I would like to add, if we are saying the interception number is lucky because of DB drops or penalty calls then we have to consider the drops by our guys that hit their hands even if the throw was errenuous.  It isn't like when a DB almost intercepts a ball it is in a perfect throw to them.  Now the other reason I state this is because, do we analyze every caught pass by those Quarterbacks who are apparently elite?  I'm pretty sure Carter laid it out a couple times in the Montreal game to catch what we would consider uncatchable balls.  I remember Holley made at least two of those catches in a game against us.  I don't believe that Nichols threw the ball to the wrong side on the Dressler drop, sure Dressler looked left and then had to adjust to go right but I think it's the job of the Quarterback to throw the ball to the opposite side of the defender.  I believe the ball was well placed had Dressler recognized the coverage on the left sooner and made the adjustment to catch the ball on the right he would have had the catch.  This is just experience with a Quarterback I actually appreciate that Nichols has that forethought to control the ball in that way.  I also believe that the Sheppard drop was straight up a drop, he almost had no one on him he barely had to stretch out for that ball he pulled it in and it bounced off his chest and to the ground.  If Sheppard squeezed that ball it would be a sure catch. 
Now given those examples, I still am not saying that Nichols is an elite quarterback.  I guess I am more questioning what does an elite quarterback make?  Quarterbacks with receivers that catch the uncatchable ball are considered more elite because of their elite receivers.  I would say if we are talking about accuracy, Nichols accuracy in my opinion hasn't been that terrible.  Yes he has thrown the ball slightly behind or slightly ahead but I feel it has been much more accurate than what we had with Willy, although I do believe Willy corrects that and gets back to his former self.  I would say that Nichols accuracy though when compared to that of others in the league is about similar. 
I also remember a game where our offense would have scored touch down or had a very good drive going ad our running back fumbled the ball.  It is sometimes on the Quarterback for those fumbles but it can't always be.  We can't blame those drives that didn't score a TD on the quarterback and they do of course take away his numbers.  That is why they look at the Quarterback rating and have measureables because so much of a drive depends on those outside the quarterback position.  Nichols job is to take what they give him without turning over the ball.  The receivers jobs are to capitalize on a ball thrown their way.  The defenders job are to stop the other team from scoring in any way possible and create good field position.  It's a team game and right now the team is playing at a level that is allowing us to win games.
Can we keep this up against the "elite" teams? Well we have already beat Edmonton once and I am sure we can do it again at home.  I'm not afraid of Calgary as much this year as I have been in past years.  BC to me is really the unknown but I want to play a wait and see approach.  In reality we don't have to beat each team more than once. If we win the next two games we go to the play offs; we can lose our games against BC and Calgary and only need to beat them in the play offs to win.  Just like we can win all the rest of the games and lose in the play offs and be done. 
Something that stands out to me in the recent games is actually not only how Nichols is managing the game and the ball but how Mike O'Shea is managing the game.  He seems to be doing a much better job with his challenges, as well as his calls when it involves risks on 3rd downs.  I believe our team is just short of that star receiver that can be our go to guy when things break down.  Once we have that I feel we will be contenders and hope that it even carries into the future with the team that Walters has built.
 
 
 
 
 

You're not a Bomber fan in my eyes.

thats the nature of the cfl this year. Amazing parity even with such a big difference between the stamps and riders. The difference between teams execution is much closer, mistakes are more costly then ever. 

MOS is a lock to be re-signed unless there are some drastic steps back in the second half of the season.

Every game is huge now after labor day. Its playoff time for you guys. Esk's aren't going to go away, neither are the Argo's. Your in a good spot but have to hammer down and keep this thing going. 

Barker just told H&L that Walters demanded Heath was included. Barker resisted but after trying many times not to include him felt they had to make the deal to get a QB.