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Just state the obvious, the Calgary Stampeders are clearly a better football team than the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Just wanna be sure, are you saying first and foremost that the offence is offensive? Did we choose to sign him rather than Lawler?

Are we close to concluding Dalton Schoen is injury prone? and, yeah, those are some good questions you’re posing

Bomber should play it safe and kick a field goal here

His blockers didn’t exactly look dialled in there. To be fair. I think they’ve all gone limp.

How much you wanna bet that MOS leaves Zach in?

Yeah, those conservative decisions by MOS are making so much more sense now.

The more I think about it the more it pisses me off. WTF is the point of trying to 3 your way back into the game? It’s not like your D has shown an ability to stifle Calgary. It’s not like you’re risking a whole lot when you’re down by 23 points.And if you were to have scored at the end of the half or the beginning of the second half, you provide your team some spark and a bit of hope. Like, exactly what is his goal here? it’s really stupid.

This. MOS very, very conservative. When they said our O was staying out there, I was shocked and then… Reversion to form

Omg… yup, that’s the sound of the last wheel coming off the wagon

W the actual ****?

Becoming unwatchable

Yikes

Need a take away

Check down?? Too much of that.

Decision not to take a knee on punt looking bad

Brutal

While I agree with you that that is the standard they laid out a few years ago, it actually did not make sense to me at the time and still doesn’t. And while I get that in general you’d like to see them make the call in a minute or less, I do feel like what makes the CFL bush is when they have a knee-jerk reaction and say as they did a few years ago, “all calls need to be determined in one quick look at game speed“. I mean, how stupid is that? what is the purpose of replay if you can’t look at it more than once and slow it down? I think there is a balance to strike: be as efficient as possible but also accept that there are going to be times where they need to take their time to get it right. I certainly would not want the bombers to lose a game where the other team “picked it off“, but they actually didn’t. So, in sum: look at it more than once if you need to, be as efficient as possible, and truly hold yourself to the standard that the evidence needs to be irrefutable to overturn what was called on the field. but I do acknowledge your legitimate frustration when they say they’re going to do one thing and then do another.

OK, so we’re agreed that his skills are diminished. And, it would appear he needs quite a bit of help just to be more than meh, let alone “lethal”. I think that his own diminishment is by far the biggest factor in his struggles and that the o-line was definitely good enough yesterday for a good quarterback to be successful. And he was…on one drive. After that, not so much. The bombers need a plan, immediate and mid to longer term, that takes their starter’s diminished skills into account. Maybe they have one. But if the best predictor of future behaviour is past behavior, the bombers’ plan is likely to ride this veteran way too long (exhibit a: see one Adam Bighill).

Disagree that protection was the issue last night. Collaros had adequate time for the most part (was he even sacked?) and was going through his progressions. With the two pics, he threw off his back foot. Rainbow throws. The fact that he doesn’t eat those or throw it out of bounds is not on the oline.

Well, he’s definitely not getting better! He’s seven years on the wrong side of 30. His arm strength and escapability have both diminished, even considerably. And Osh will ride him to the bitter end. Strev, 7 yrs younger, was light years better last week.

Yup

Yeah, that was bad on Helle’s part. Really uncharacteristic this year, but definitely should’ve had two of those and their guy stops a breakaway on Ehlers in overtime and Helle unable to match on the two on one. That said, Nik Ehlers could’ve helped him out there… He is not a good finisher on breakaways.

Fuc3

Agree shouldn’t have been that easy to gain zone entry. Good shot, yup. But from well out. Definitely surprised to see it go in. Reminded me a lot of the goals that went in against the Avs in the playoffs.