Dr Zaius

If Bombers lose I'm prepared move on from Collaros
Hasn't shown up for a GC since 2019

First drink of the day - a Baileys on ice. 8:54 a.m.

First drink of the day - a Baileys on ice. 8:54 a.m.

First drink of the day - a Baileys on ice. 8:54 a.m.

First drink of the day - a Baileys on ice. 8:54 a.m.

First drink of the day - a Baileys on ice. 8:54 a.m.

First drink of the day - a Baileys on ice. 8:54 a.m.

First drink of the day - a Baileys on ice. 8:54 a.m.

First drink of the day - a Baileys on ice. 8:54 a.m.

First drink of the day - a Baileys on ice. 8:54 a.m.

I can’t imagine a RB getting much of a shot..

Guess I nailed this...

I’m flying in from sunny Los Angeles to the frigid north tomorrow! It’ll be my first Bomber game live since the 2021 Grey Cup despite still having season tickets so I fully plan on losing my voice!

Oh god 2019 replay with Keith Urban commentary is still cringey af

Nothing to do with him playing to his stupid base. 
 
Our defence has been better in basically every possible way. Also coming off a 9 sack 2 interception game. 
 
So of course their defence will be more impactful because Chad Kelly made incomprehensibly terrible throws. 
 
Fajardo is an interception  and or sack waiting to happen. 
 
 

So @DTonOB led me down the rabbit hole with this tweet, and I dug up the stats in the CFL (1958 and beyond) era. There have been 28 teams to lose a regular season game by 30 or more points and then play in the Grey Cup that same year. Those teams are 12-16 in the Grey Cup game.
The Cup winners are :
1988 Wpg (lost 36-3 to B.C.)
1989 Sask (lost 49-17 to Edm)
1990 Wpg (lost 55-11 to Sask - the 44 point loss is the largest ever for a same season Grey Cup winner)
1993 Edm (lost 53-11 to Wpg and 52-14 to Winnipeg - the only CFL team to ever lose 2 games by 30 points and then win a Grey Cup the same season)
1994 BC (lost 62-21 to Cal)
1999 Ham (lost 52-19 to Mtl)
2000 BC (lost 35-2 to Cal)
2004 Tor (lost 58-20 to Mtl)
2007 Sask (lost 42-12 to BC)
2010 Mtl (lost 40-3 to Ham)
2011 BC (lost 42-10 to Ham)
2022 Tor (lost 44-3 to BC)
Winnipeg has the best winning percentage, having won 2 Cups and losing zero in a year where they lose a game by 30+ in the same regular season, while Ottawa is 0-2 in Grey Cups where they lost a game by 30+ points that same year. BC is 3-1 in that situation for the most GC wins. Hamilton is the worst at 1-7. Incidentally, Montreal is 1-4.
As an aside, on 9 prior occasions, a team has lost by 30 points or more to a team and then met that same team in the Grey Cup that same year (which is the scenario we have this year). Those losing teams are 2-7 in the Grey Cup. Winnipeg has been involved in both of the  scenarios where the 30+ point loser later won the Cup against the same team:
1988 Wpg lost in B.C. 36-3 in the season opener, beat them 22-21 in the Grey Cup
This one stings - as mentioned above the Bombers beat Edmonton twice in 1993 by 30+ points in the regular season, then lost to them 33-23 in the Grey Cup (with Matt Dunigan injured)
Also, 4 times a team has lost multiple games by 30+ points and still made it to the Grey Cup. Other than Edmonton in 1993, all those teams would lose the big game. Sask in 1997 lost to Winnipeg 43-12 and 55-10 in the regular season before losing to Toronto in the 1997 Cup, and Hamilton did it twice, losing the 1980 Cup to Edm after losing 53-18 to Edm and 49-10 to Mtl earlier that season, and then in 2013 when they lost 37-0 to Sask and 36-5 to Mtl before succumbing to the Riders in the Cup game.
On the flip side, Winnipeg won a game by 45 points over Sask this season. There have been 17 teams to win by 45+ points in a regular season game and then play in that year’s Grey Cup. Those teams are 9-8 in the championship game. Edmonton holds the record for biggest margin of victory by a team that went on to win that year’s Grey Cup, beating Toronto by 54 points (61-7) in 1981. They also beat Mtl 62-11 that year, becoming one of only two teams to win multiple games by 45+ and then win the Cup later that same year. More on the other team at the end (hint, 1999 Hamilton).
Calgary beat Hamilton 60-1, and that 59 point spread is the largest for a winning team that would later lose that year’s Grey Cup, in 2017. Incidentally, that Calgary squad won a second game by 45+ points, beating Mtl 59-11, to become the only team to lose a Grey Cup in the same season that they won multiple games by 45 or more.
And there are teams have have been on both ends of the spectrum, winning by 45+ and losing by 30+ in the same year and going on to play in the Grey Cup. BC has done it twice and won the Cup both times (1994 lost to Cal 62-21 and beating Shreveport 67-15 before defeating Baltimore in a home Grey Cup, and in 2000 lost to Cal 35-2, beat Tor 51-4, and won the Cup over Mtl), Sask did it once in 2009 and lost the Cup (lost 43-10 to Mtl, beat Wpg 55-10, then lost the “13th man” Cup to the Als).
And the one other team to be on both sides of the big win/big loss  coin is the fascinating 1999 Hamilton Tiger-Cats squad. That year they had 3 margins of victory greater than 45 points and also lost a game by more than 30, and ended up winning the Grey Cup over Calgary at season’s end. They are the only club to register 3 wins of that margin in a Grey Cup year. Beyond that, the first two wins (54-8 over Edm and 63-17 over Sask) were in consecutive games, so the combined margin of +92 in back-to-back games is a single season CFL record as best I can tell. Then later that same season, after losing 52-19 to Mtl, they beat Wpg the next week 65-15, and the 83 point swing in consecutive games is also a record in the CFL era.
And now you know…..the rest of the story.

The difference between Miller and O'Shea and Walters is he's cofounded and owns several businesses.
Miller took over the Bombers to turn the franchise around and he did.
I could absolutely see him riding out into the sunset 

I just want to know who JBR is. These modern abbreviations for everything  drive me crazy. I can at least google when terms like OMG or LOL are used but names take much more research. I guess I'm just to old and not with the times.

But...but...that's MY thing! Noeller, why?! 😈

Are you disparaging bacon?  Sounds like you're disparaging bacon!  I can not get behind this line of thinking.

and way better freezing compounds and pain "limiters" 😉
I saw Schoen walking about as well...sans a boot.....

Shocked Pikachu face.

The big thing is with the way D's are collapsing on Oliviera, Zach has to call back to his Cincinnati and early pro days with some zone reads, pull the ball out and take the free first down, obviously don't be overly risky on taking hits.  You send everyone vertical and run a Zone Read to Brady...easy yards.  Then you have those boot passes they always run, those are a little more dangerous vs Montreal with the zone blitz stuff.  To me this is a game where it's really run and vertical passing for the offense, depending on conditions, you saw in the WF that neither team could really consistently pass because of how difficult it was to grip the ball in that damp cold right around the freezing mark.  If you need to grind out points that's fine because Montreal's O has no chance of getting them a big lead, but their D can.

I'm really hoping they add Garbutt or Haba in place of Bighill.
Maas will never stick with the run so having Jeffcoat out there 2/3 to 3/4 of the snaps as fresh as he can be and the young rushers teeing off when he's not out there would be pretty impactful.
Keep running that look with 3 WIL/MLB type guys out there, 6 DB's almost every down unless it's like 2nd and 15, Walker out there 3/4 of the time with Lawson in for the rest.
Let Hansen focus on special teams and you have him if you need him.  Cover teams will be huge though so save up that energy.
I guess see where the receivers are but might be a good idea to pop McCrae off and add Rose whether he plays corner or maybe his role in this game is to dominate on kick cover.