JohnnyAbonny

There’s zero standard for competence for officials. I don’t see anything changing until they start paying and training them better. Anecdote- When my daughter was in an Edmonton hospital in 2021, one of her nurses was the line judge on the top CFL reffing crew (Proulx) He left a full shift on one of the busiest paediatric wards in the country to go home, eat and ref the Bomber/Edmonton game that same night. If it’s their second job, they’re going to perform like it. You get what you pay for.

Love JY, but someone needs to sit him down about calling cover 0 in the last 2 minutes of games. A bad habit left over from Richie Hall.

1. Castillo- There’s a case for him as our MOP this year. 2. Collaros- Can’t say the same as above, but it was his best half of the season before the dirty hit. 3. Teams (besides the punter)- What a difference Miller has made. HH- Lapo. How refreshing was it to hear football analysis between plays? Awe that’s dirty- The hit on Collaros. Murray Clarke Award- The PI at the end. Just a blatant attempt to give the Riders another shot on Labour Day. I swear sometimes CFL officials are mandated to manufacture drama at the end of close games.

That was a stupid ******* game. Even so, LD wins are rare enough that I don’t really care how it happens.

Cover zero, **** off

I’m sure 3 days after the fact head office will let Osh know the DT should have been ejected.

Looks like the first offensive play of every LDC I’ve ever seen

That seemed to be the consensus after TC for sure. After seeing him in-game, Johnson seems like a slower version of Wilson. Agree, he’s just not needed on the roster right now.

I don’t know about this one at all. Labour Day is a Chinese fire drill at the best of times. With this OL lineup..oh man… The Defence had better the f come to play.

That’s just asinine, has he not watched any football this month?

Ottawa just needs 3 TDs and 3 stops now. No big deal.

Don’t like that, but obviously it’s the right thing to do. This would be my guess too. Awful timing for Wallace to get hurt

Are there many good ones though? Especially younger? There’s 4 guys over 6’2 in the top 20 receivers this year. Coxie, McInnis, Rhymes and Shemar Bridges. Besides Bridges, they’ve all been around a while. Everyone else is in the 5’11- 6’1, 175-200lb range. There’s some NI freaks like Mardner and that kid Edmonton took in the supplemental draft, but I don’t see many really tall American receivers having a lot of success up here since the NFL PR expansion.

Agree 100%, and to me Montreal’s just as bad if not worse. How long until they cry poor and the league has to bail them out again?

In the Bomber Blitz 1990 tape I used to have, they talked a lot about a specific package they ran where Greg Battle dropped back to FS and they used the safety Dave Bovell closer to the line. I kind of remember another guy from the earlier 90s named Donovan Wright for BC who was something like that too? Also, I forgot Mo Kelly was here in Reinebold’s last year, I always think of him as a Ritchie guy. I just looked it up, he had a pretty long career. Started with Las Vegas Posse.

I’m remembering the Stubler Argos starting a lot of the smaller LB trend. Guys like Eiben and Michael Fletcher around 04-07. May have been earlier.

That’s a fair point. I’d have to agree, modern/current era is like 05ish-now.

For sure. We could go on forever. The Patriots nearly went back to Drew Bledsoe for their first SB. Even Mahomes wasn’t a sure thing, he sat behind Alex Smith for a year before KC traded the latter. (Actually the second time that happened to Smith in his career but I digress) You don’t even have to go to the NFL for an example. Henry Burris was let go by the Ticats after a cup appearance to make room for Collaros himself (who was less proven than Dru Brown at that point in his career)

Depends on what you consider the modern era I guess. Tom Burgess and Sean Salisbury could be argued as equal or worse to how Collaros has played this year.

That’s the last thing I wanted to see. They should have dropped Johnson.

Big time wishful thinking but I’d love for us to bring Betts in prorated for just the rest of this year, he’d be a perfect fit for the DL rotation.

Or Montreal, they seem to have unlimited cash to bring in everyone else.

He’s never coming here.

I don’t think theirs is better. Luckier and more opportunistic if anything. the refs/CC..it’s Labour Day. Hopes high, expectations low on that. My concerns are our OL in pass pro vs their DL, and the punter keeping us in a field position hole all day. Bombers are the better team in every other way. Secure the ball on offence, we should be able to grind out a tough win. If Brady can’t go, we’re ****** though for real.

It’s an awful thing to have to admit. I have a weird feeling their luck will run out in November though.