Dr Zaius

Notable:

Lankford got all 1st team reps in Dressler's spot;
Leggett didn't practise - Fenner took SAM reps;
Alexander didn't practise - Cooper took reps in his Field HB spot;
Harris was helmutless - most of his reps taken by LaFrance;
Bennet was one of the up-backs on punt team

Dressler didn't have a noticeable injury, (i.e. walking fine etc.)  
Alexander was walking gingerly on his right leg that had a tensor/wrap
Legget and Harris seem fine...just maintenance

Starting line-ups look to be the same as last week (keep in mind this is only the first practise of the week)...big proviso being whether or not Alexander is good to go...if he isn't...looks like Cooper comes on...probably in his spot with the DI's being Wild, Fenner, Roh and Medlock again.

Chris Jones: elite DC
Average to above average HC
Absolute tire fire of a GM. 

Chris Jones: elite DC
Average to above average HC
Absolute tire fire of a GM. 

Come on 17285, show some class.

Honestly, even though he's a prima donna, I feel bad for Carter here. No denying his talent, and Jones throwing him on defence after an all-star season as a receiver was just plain dumb. Then to find out from his teammates and Jones' response when Carter contacts him - well, no one deserves that treatment. 

Chris Jones: elite DC
Average to above average HC
Absolute tire fire of a GM. 

Chris Jones: elite DC
Average to above average HC
Absolute tire fire of a GM. 

Chris Jones: elite DC
Average to above average HC
Absolute tire fire of a GM. 

LMFAO, Riderfans is blowing up and theyre cannibalizing each-other. Their anguish sustains me.

Ticats get going.....20 yd completion....
....then Banks cutting back to catch long ball on Randle
Masoli breaks contain... Loffler misses tackle on catch, ball inside the 5
Green goes in from the 1.... to cap 75 yd Hamilton opening drive TD
Ensuing kickoff, Demski finds hole... eludes tacklers for 55 yd KR
Harris busts quick trap play for 30 yds.. down to the 10.....
Nichols runs play action, then finds Dressler all alone in back of endzone
7-7....could be a high scorer today.....
Green popped by Bighill on 1st down run....funbles..Bomber ball....
Harris pounds it down to the 6....Cats offside puts it at the 3
Harris bulls in for the TD...Bomber O-line getting good push in run game...
Bighill and Blue DT's stuffing Hamilton run game....
Some missed tackles hurting Bombers on D.....
Hamilton takes a bunch of penalties,,,,two possessions in a row.....
Bighill forces his way into Hamilton backfield and lays hard sack on Masoli
Adam heading for yet another big game....pursuing ball all over field....
Masoli under duress..sacked by Jeffcoat, this time.....
Thomkins pretty smooth with good hands at R....
Westerman can still take major penalties, it seems.....
PI call takes ball to Cats 12 yd line...penalties hurting Hamilton....
Blue have to settle for Medlock FG.....17-7 for the good guys....
Nichols having some accuracy problems throwing down the field.....
2nd and 14...and Masoli is either sneaking or busted play....
....fumbles for another Hamilton turnover....
Nichols and Adams not on the same page tonight.......
Nichols almost goes "Gatorade" at the Bomber bench....
Hamilton now taking the penalties on ST's...bad field position.....
Cats opt for the safety.  Bombers up 19-7....
Harris takes hitch pass...cutting and spinning for 25 yds......
Thomkins takes roughing penalty off the ball......
MOS comes on the field.... provides Thomkins with some vigorous opinion..
...this helpful advice... continues for some time on Bomber sidelines....
Medlock bombs end over end punt for about 55 net yards.....
Bombers rushing Masoli.....Masoli rushing throws......
Adams blanketed so far in this one......
Medlock pushes 54 yd FG attempt wide.   19-7 at the half
Lead could be bigger, Blue had great field position....
...off of turnovers, Bomber D stops and Hamilton penalties...
But O is out of sync, not spreading ball around....a lot of deep pocket passes
Bomber get good field position to start half...Nichols overthrows Demski
Matt is having a pretty rough evening all round......
Jeffcoat is having a pretty nice evening at DE....
Masoli sling long one up, receiver falls down...Fogg gets PI.....
Masoli sucks Blue D on keeper around the end for 35 ....
Roh sack forces Hamilton to settle for FG.....
19-10 Bombers....and this O really needs to get into gear....
Bombers O back to basics..short passes to Adams, Petermann, and Harris
Nichols play actions again and hits Demski on deep slant for 35 yd TD
Demski just keeps producing for this team.....26-10
Bomber kick coverage is terrific....so is Medlock punting.....
Green still getting stuffed in run game, Masoli under duress...
Bomber D starting to back off of Ticat receivers......
Sayers misses tackle on completion..down to Blue 15
Masoli lofts it up...Banks goes up and comes down with the TD
Crazy incomplete on 2 point convert...after Masoli runs 30 yds backwards...
Nichols overthrows wide open Thomkins long down the middle.....
....some boos drifting down from the stands....
Medlock drops snap...and hits it with non-kicking foot
Masoli somehow gets ball off...while getting drilled by Jeffcoat
....Banks dives to pull it in on the sideline for 20
Masoli fools Bombers again on keeper...runs it right down to the 2
Green goes in....Bomber D beginning to sag.  26-23 Bombers.
Nichols throws Incomplete..into double coverage to snuff out another drive
Bomber D gets the stop with 6 minutes to go....
2nd and 12...Demski makes nice effort on hitch pass...to set up FD...
Petermann takes 2nd down short flair...beats couple of tacklers for another FD
Blue can't get it in. Medlock makes it 29-23 with 1:20 left.....
Hamilton having trouble with amped up noise... takes 2 proceedure calls...
Bighill caps off huge game by tackling Masoli in pocket on 3rd and 13
Ballgame.  Up and down game all round.....
Plenty of room for improvement - but job got done
Much to ponder - but gin got drunk.
 
 
 

 

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, **** Jamaal Westerman and his cheap shots. Glad that old sack of **** is another teams problem now with his always horribly timed 15 yarders. Nice job nearly decapitating your former teammate. Douchebag.

👁‍🗨The Morning After..with Coffee.
Incredible plays between Masoli and Banks. Some fans blame our defenders but the pass placements were better.
Banks performed like a real receiver out there, some real nice catches..
Good pressure all night long from the D-line, a little susceptible to Masoli’s scrambling, but getting the job done. 
4 sacks..nice.
Long ball? Maybe too many? Or too many to the same guy?
Did Masoli outplay Nichols?  Maybe slightly in pass % and running, but not in QB efficiency. Nichols only completed 13 passes..but they were the right ones.
Medlock? Outstanding kick performance..kicking with the opposite leg? Looked normal to me. Must have practised it. The guy is a pure professional.
Randle? No worries there.
Hamilton’s opening drive sure looked like trouble was on its way in the long run. The Bombers proved otherwise.
Demski - Meet the expression “getting in the groove” Big game for him.
How about those back-to-back sacks after the Harris fumble? Good calls eh?
Better discipline than the Ti-Cats, and it counted.
Dressler’s impressive consecutive catch streak is alive..
Who ‘de mann? Petterman. Nice subbing..
Bennett - special team’s QB ace - another banging tackle..
That Thompkins guy just might prove to be a valuable player..
Andrew Harris..
Bravo to the noise making great fans on that last drive..
I suppose you can say the Bombers beat another below .500 team..or, you can say these teams that we beat are below .500 because we beat them..
 
 

Three fun facts for this Saturday morning:
1. Winnipeg has 17 touchdowns scored by their national players (Harris-8, Demski-4, Wolitarski-4, Lafrance-1).
2. Winnipeg has allowed 170 points in 8 games, the Riders have allowed 175 in 7 games. That is right, Winnipeg has allowed 5 less points and played one more game than the much vaunted Riders D.
3. Demski is the second leading national receiver behind Sinopoli.

1. Bighill is everything and more than you want at that position
2. Craig Roh very quite singing but he has been very effective reminds me of more productive Greg Peach 
3. Jeffcoat he is turning into a stud
HH the crowd the last Hamilton drive the TiCats had no chance to communicate

I love it....the Evil Empire.  

The only Eskimos we have down here in the State are ..... (drum roll please) Eskimo Pies!  (Yeah I know, keep my day job.  I have no future as a comedian)

I watch nearly every game across the CFL each week and while I get just as frustrated with our defence as the rest of you, I would say the only defences that are better in the league are Calgary and Saskatchewan, and probably Ottawa although their latest showing is disconcerting. 
So that puts us above league average. Frankly, most of the defences in the league are being exploited like crazy and I think that has a lot to do with the modern PI and illegal contact rules. 
For several weeks our secondary has had some first year guys due to injury and we’ve still shown well, including sitting near the top in takeaways. I believe that we’ve been making mental errors where someone is out of position on a play. When guys are in position, they tend to win their battles (with the exception of the Edmonton season opener). 
The only thing that drives me nuts are how successful other teams are with five to ten yard outs on the wide side, but when you consider that that is rarely, if ever, a first read, it means we’re taking away what the QB actually wants. 
Hall over the last few weeks has let his front four do their jobs more often and been smarter about when to blitz and who is blitzing. Maybe just maybe we’ll see some progress. 
For those of you that don’t watch every game and complain when Reilly or Masoli puts up 300+ yards on us, try to remember that they do that against virtually everyone they play. It becomes very easy to complain about what we’ve got when we’re not comparing it to the rest of the league, the same way we sometimes see our guys as all stars and forget that other teams have good players too. 
Our defence is also very disciplined in terms of penalties, rarely being the team that hands over free first downs (with a few exceptions). That’s worth something. 
I still have the bitter taste of last season’s western final (and season as a whole) in my mouth, as I’m sure we all do, so that definitely creates a bias, but so far this season, this defence has been pretty decent. Let’s see if that remains true on Friday or not. 

You'd be excited if we went from being a Conference Finals team to bottom of the league just to draft a 5'10 centre...  ummm...

Not a very good example to young people is it?
I think It's an embarrassment for the league.
People rag on Chris Jones. and this display gets a pass?
If Duron did this, you'd be all over him.
If any player did this, they'd be benched.
 

If Edmonton is happy with their weak, childish coach, good for them. But I'd be embarrassed if it was a Bomber coach doing that.

Maas doing that is unacceptable to me.
 

East turtle derby rages on.
Manziel named chief fireman to extinguish 4 alarm diaper fire that is their team.
Cats running out of opportunities  to prove the Jones/Masoli/Run&Shoot thing wasn't the wrong decision to hitch franchise to.
Dunno if a HAM win means much but a loss certainly does.
Note: Zontar will be in attendance tonight.

A small part. Loffler is the type of guy who sells out for big hits. And he has had a lot of whiffs this year, with very few game altering hits. I was at last weeks game and paid most of my attention while we were on D to loffler. What i saw was him seemingly to be slow in decisions and first step. Previously He came up and played a very shallow S position. he made most of our Mlber range tackles while hurl was pushed around by linemen. This year, bighill and jsk are covering more of the middle deep range that loffler covered in the past. When his decision is clear on who to take he does ok. When it isnt, when qbs look him off, when he faces double moves he is struggling. He made some un needed blind side turns rather then speed turning in the direction of the play, etc.
What we seem to be doing more of especially in that game, is sending mo deep. On the plays where mo was the deepest man, or we had 2 deep / quarters loffler did a lot better. His best play has come when he is coming up and making plays on ball carriers / pass attempts. Running down hill and laying the wood. 
Last year we saw more and more teams exploit the lack of deep help. Loffler is best in the box, or at the back end of the box, and under neath on a robber level. Still a good player, if some what limited he just doesnt fit too well right now. We will have to wait and see if he can adapt in his new role or if we can make it easier more with the deeper help from some one else. He isnt hurl bad on the back end by any means. 

Some will say that we haven't beaten a good offense yet...but I contend that I have seen improvements in this defense in the last 3-4 games. With Brandan Alexander back and with Sayles getting valuable playing experience I see the makings of possibly a top 3 defense. Our linebackers are now the strength of this defense...IMHO the best linebackers we have had since the late '80's/early 90's days.

Tons of qbs do well off the bench but struggle when  they are the starter. Bridge caught lightning in a bottle last year spelling off the very different Glenn but that wasn't even that impressive. Was still broken plays that he did everything on. Bridge will not ever become what you think he will. I ain't cherry picking anything by the way, you compared a raw rookie to a guy with 4 seasons under his belt.

1. Demski
2. JSK
3. Thompkins
HH-Miller
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