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I am also leaning on a BC Mtrl Cup this year......I got to know Buck outside of football, and he is a really nice family guy, so based on that I hope if we don't win it BC does for Buck.

Quickly looked at the games left and the standing and my perfectly imperfect crystal ball has the West playoff picture looking like this; Sask 1st at 13-5 and awaiting the winner of the western semi between BC at 11-7 hosting Cal. at 9-9 in that Western semi. Wpg. and Edm. end tied at 8-10, but due to point differential Wpg crosses over to face Mtrl. in the East semi as Hammy who has the season series with Mtrl. awaits the winner

We are so inconsistent, I have no idea what to expect. When we are on, we can beat anyone, but we just can't "stay on" it has been a really frustrating season. I know the Riders are resting a number of starters, or at least potentially resting a handful, but yet I still don't have much confidence in this game, and then we play Mtrl. who it appears are in a dog fight with Hammy, so it doesn't get any easier...Edm was our only "easier" (team with a losing record) we had, and we looked completely incompetent for large stretches of that game...so back-ups or not I am very skeptical....Zach does not play well in cooler weather, and the weather is not looking great....

Offensive game plan was offensive.... Zach had a terrible game, every throw over what 15 yards was a bad throw.....he had guys underneath but still forced long balls....giving him two bad picks....should have been more...Wilson bailed him out big on his only TD, it was an extremely under throw pass yet again... The Oline couldn't handle Edmonton's D rush all game... And yet again we had Strevelor playing receiver......but it's all good we had an excess of LB's again.....who cares about offensive right...as long as we have enough LB and DB we will be alright.... 3rd and 4 throw a bomb...of course a bad throw to boot....why not....every deep ball to that point didn't work, so situationally another deep shot seems right on par ....40 seconds left in the half, tight game, screw the smart plays......long bomb....straight to a pick with a severely undertaken pass and points to the other team...situational awareness be damned...we are too smart to be make conventional play calls on this offence,..... It's not just this past game...this offence has been terrible save for possibly two anomaly weeks...... Oh well maybe they just need a few more vet days on offence...oh and maybe take another offensive player off I think we could use one more LB ..that will work I'm sure next week I'm sure.......

Oh well.....at least I have enough beer that perhaps if I get blurry vision we will look good.....

Oh well.....at least I have enough beer that perhaps if I get blurry vision we will look good.....

Why the @#$& did we throw it 40 yards down the field at that point of the game....I don't mind the shot but terrible timing to try it.....look at the @#$&+$& clock under a minute, damn situational awareness rears it's ugly ugly head again this year.......it so frustrating....

As long as Rourke is in the discussion, media even mentioning anybody else is futile......don't you know Rourke is CDN, kid Canada, record breaking CDN.......Rourke, Rourke, Rourke, Rourke.........ROURKE.............There are no other Canadians worthy...only ROOOOUUUUURRRRKE

Our offence was different yesterday.....no I don't just mean Zach vs. Strev. I mean the blocking schemes the receivers routes, the fact we looked like we played the clock again, snaps drawing the playing clock to almost zero......it was not the personale that made the difference (yes Zach vs. Strev....but I am talking weeks...not just the last two) Either Hogan didn't scheme/call this game or he completely changed what he has been doing

Oh boy.....our offence is terrible....

Our routes are so predictable, all decent DB's are jumping them.....we are not tricking anyone on offence

I agree with most, Strev. Looked bad.....but so did Zach for the most part......I can't fully defend Strev. but our offence has been garbage all year.....including Brady's usage. I really believe the issues are far deeper than Strevelor...far deeper

We need a better D-line.....but offence is just terrible..... It s a pattern all year, this offence is no good, and coming out of the half it is terrible....our turn over ratio is terrible, or route trees are easy to defend, our o-line blocking schemes don't seem to work, no QB has had time and or about to consistently look even decent.... Sorry to those clamouring for a different QB....it won't matter...nothing will change

Honestly with this offence....Collaras, Strev. Wilson, Elegsmarra, flutie, Marino, manning, Brady......would be the same end result ..

My guess.... 44-20 final

And here come the dumb 2nd half penalties.....it's like clockwork

Maybe if I drink enough beer......

Three headed monster IMO....Strev is not healthy from his knee surgery ....His confidence is shaken ....Our scheme receiver routes and play calls are not fooling any D...and haven't all season Add those up and without Zach's, ability to sandlot something.....our offence....yikes

What the F is our offence....fancy and aggressive to a fault.....now crazy conservative......

I feel he is actually coming on lately.....

I am really starting to come to that conclusion....

I am really thinking we just have poor routes....every QB we play can't seem to find the "easypass"

I tend to agree re; receivers, we don't have a "Lawler", but I don't think they are as bad as it looks......I think we ran pretty thin a couple weeks ago, and we showed it by signing a couple new guys......but I do believe in the right system they could be good. Drop our starting 5 on the Cal. or Sask, offences and I bet they look way different.......

I believe it is not fair to judge Streveler right now, the guy had MAJOR knee surgery...he can't be 100% wears a huge brace, this affects, mental and physical aspects. Will he ever become a great starter, possibly not but please remember the severity of the knee injury he recently suffered... I have been recently hard on Hogan, and I don't have much faith he is "helping" Streveler at all. Finally, as has been pointed out look at the o-line, how many hits has Zach taken this year compared to his years past in the Peg......look at Brady, Logan, Demski, Strev. when the do run rarely do the get holes, the only time it seems they have a good run is when they do it themselves and break tackles, or "juke" a defender or three.......is it all the players, I am sure a portion is, but again I question how much is also on the OC. In short, I don't care if is Zach, Wilson, Streveler, Elegsmaera, I don't think any of them have a great chance with the talent and schemes they have to work with.........sorry but those crying for a new QB, even if you get your wish, it won't solve the offence.......

We are good enough along the lines....full stop, if we had the lines we had in 2019, we are probably easy in first. We have let guys across both lines go for bigger paydays, and haven't drafted strong at either position for a few years.....thus we are now weak across the lines Fix the lines and we get back to winning....look at The Sask and Cal D-lines as an example, they both take over games and no coincidence they are #1 and #2 in the league....