NorthernSkunk

If Montreal can lose huge at home to us and then beat the Riders on the road the next week anything can happen. 

sensitive are we?

If he is ready he is ready.  Simple as that.  He would not risk his own future....let's play ball.
 
Go Matt !

If Nichols starts Streveler learns even more.....if Nichols  needs a break during the game, Chris takes over......other teams ain't going to like this QB tandem....
 

If Nichols starts Streveler learns even more.....if Nichols  needs a break during the game, Chris takes over......other teams ain't going to like this QB tandem....
 

I'm not against starting Nichols when the doctors/training staff say he's ready to play.

At the point now where it doesn't matter to me if it's Nichols or Streveler out there, only concern is what are they going to do on defense to stop the bleeding. 

There were at least 2 drops by Dressler in that stretch that would have converted on 2nd down.  The first one was a tougher catch, but the second one he had it in his hands, down on his knees and it just popped out.  He squeezes even one of those 2 catches and it's a different ball game.
I know that any given play can go any number of ways to affect the outcome of the game, and there are no guarantees, but those 2 plays struck me as somewhat critical at the time.

They'll lose. They always lose on my birthday.

Just out of curiosity, why do you make these threads if all you do is stifle any discussion in them?
Hell I agree with you ... your approach is just weird 

Streveler is a rookie. Last year he was playing at South Dakota State & had never seen Canadian football.  Dressler dropped at least 2 catchable balls early in the game that would have sustained drives although he did come back & made some nice catches later. No way I'm even mentioning Streveler as a reason we lost. I'm throwing everything at Ritchie Hall. 

If Hamilton can go from being 0 - 9 last season to being the best team in the East just by making a few changes....well, that just shows how quick you can turn a team around. 
I think our offense will be fine with Lapo, Streveler and Nicholls but our defense needs a few changes. But the question(s) remain: what changes need to made, and will we have the guts to make them?

Yeah Streveler  is too much of a fighter to roll over when things get tough. May not be perfect all the time but his attitude is the right one. Just tough to be a rookie qb when the D is not doing a single thing to help you and your offensive coordinator can't figure out what kind of plays to call against the D you are facing. 

I only watched the 4th quarter but I was glad to see Streveler play with some fire in his eyes at the end.   He was not like the long list of backups who looked completely defeated and hopeless out on the field after being down by 21.        

They're cutting down on the explosion plays by allowing 15 yard mini explosions down the entire field

Not even close.  Once willy got hammered he went limp. Streveler got hammered a bit and just got tougher. 

Way more concerned about our furry mitten D.

I don't think I've been as anti-Hall as some other posters, but this game I was all over him. How embarrassing was it to watch Masoli just play pitch and catch over and over again? Receivers running literally wide open constantly.  We kept blitzing constantly too with no success, so we couldn't get to the QB or stop the QB. 
We have changed the players and I truly believe in most of the defensive unit. There are good and great players on that defense, and we are not using them correctly. 
Move Loffler to WIL, move Leggett to safety and swap Fogg and Alexander back to CB and HB.
Overall, just a poor game from pretty much everyone. LaPolice couldn't get the offensive gameplan in sync, Hall's failures obviously noted above. But O'Shea too had some big mistakes. I thought on the late fourth quarter Streveler first down run he should have challenged for a hit to the head - the ref had thrown a flag for holding and that was a huge momentum killer. Went from 1st down near the red zone to 2nd and 20. Streveler took a couple late shots in my opinion. CFL refs suck and the sky is blue.
Even TSN had an atrocious night. Live mic stuff remains mostly useless. I do love how they constantly apologized for all the F-bombs, as if they didn't expect that that would happen. The camera guy was lost on a bunch of plays in the first quarter too. Black and Forde basically didn't comment on the game at all, opting just to point out how cool live mics really are. 

Maybe Sam Hurl wasnt the problem. Hall has Bighill doing the same thing. 

They may have won the trench thing......but I gotta ask do they even call holding anymore in the CFL.....
 

We lost because rushing 4 gets no pressure, when we blitz we still can't get there, our secondary is playing a soft zone most of the time and get beat, then in man to man they get beat, our safety is never in good position to do anything,our offence has a fiery qb with little experience but is learning, Bowman and Adams are not up to speed ,but mostly we lost because the Ti-Cats scored more points.

They may have won the trench thing......but I gotta ask do they even call holding anymore in the CFL.....
 

Ths Bombers got called on twi holds I thought were highly interpretative by the zebras .... just because your block goes down doesn't mean he was held .... cost a 33 yarder by Harris and caused a drive to stall ... two big difference makers when we were driving to score

Two out of three games WPG pass defense has been carved up. First thing to fix.

You're telling me Nichols would have had the same brutal ultra conservative game plan and his 7 years in the league compared to 6 weeks would not have made a difference? Dont be dim.