Did anyone have on their bingo cards that Million Dollar Lawler would have the third most receiving yards from former Bombers on the Ti-Cats after 2 games?

21 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

Tackling has become an epidemic on D. The % of play stops in the form of tackles at the 2nd and 3rd level is sickening.

These guys have been tackling all their lives but it's probably doesn't help that the Bombers have had a total of 4 practices, barely played their starters in preseason and now are going on a bye.

Kind of felt like a weird game all around. Collaros played really well but they couldn't get Brady going at all on the ground. Leaving 11 points in the red zone was effectively the difference in the game. Those two long pauses in the first half (Peters going down, who sounds like he is doing alright, and the Incomplete, Challenge, Challenge sequence) seemed to suck the energy out of the offense.

On defense it never felt like they could actually stop anything. It felt like Roundtree was getting them 2nd and medium consistently and then Bo would find someone underneath for the first down. Those two long Wheatfall receptions seemed like they were pretty well defended Moxey just couldn't get a hand in there.

I'm disappointed that the West side upper deck seemed to run out of popcorn by the third quarter.

Looks like Ticketmaster claims there are 191 tickets left.

Will probably be announced as a sellout

Week 1 fines

Woodbey drew a max fine for his grade 2 roughing the passer

Full depth chart is up at the site.

Looks like Smith is out and Woodbey has joined Dixon on the 6-game

Woodbey going down non-contact and grabbing his lower leg and not being ruled out after 2 practices is pretty wild.

Thought for sure he blew out his Achilles

Woodbey listed as having a Calf injury on the report. Wonder if that means he didn't damage his Achilles and it might not be as serious.

Geez I'm watching the Recap highlights package and it might be a double whammy for Woodbey. Fairly significant injury and that RTP he took in the 1st half was a Grade 2 so he's probably gonna end up lighter in the pocketbook

7 minutes ago, Arnold_Palmer said:

I don’t think anyone’s mentioned it and I don’t think they were perfect, and lots of room to improve but only one sack on Zach and some huge holes for Brady to run through.. sure Zach got hit a few times tonight but as long as he’s been around Zach likes to hang onto the ball too long to try and find something developing down field. I think in particular the second half Zach had more time to throw than I’ve seen in the last two-three years.

I think the 3down recap mentioned Zach was pressured on 5 of 8 of his pass attempts in the first half. Definitely looked a lot more comfortable out there in the second.

12 minutes ago, BBlink said:

Defense just didn't look like they could play fast out there. Defensive packages too complicated? I dunno. Offensively we did alright. I am starting to get a bit worried about collaros though. His throws are starting to look like lobs.

Weird game for the defense.

Only 6 completions through the first half, and then 4 completions allowed until the 3 minute warning where they gave up 7 on that last drive. Seemed like the secondary was just playing guys in front of them and Adams was fitting them into those windows. The Bombers were about 2 inches away from the Stamps kicking out of their end zone but alas.

Also got completely run over in the 1st half and then pretty much locked up Mills in the second.

Strange seeing the line get pressure, 4 sacks in week 1 is a sixth of the way to last seasons total.

And Collaros was more successful throwing the deep ball this game than he was last year... 3/6 on 20+ Depth yards... although none of those completions were much more than that. All 3 incompletions to Pokey. He was about 40% last year with 7 picks

I'm not sure what happened but it felt like the first half to the 3 minute warning just flew by. And then the rest of the game just crawled.

If either of the QBs gets nicked I wonder if Tachinski gets any reps under center 😂

56 minutes ago, bearpants said:

When I read it, I understood that they would hire their own crew... and I had the exact same thought as you

It's interesting because it's in Canada and the US that they have exclusive rights, but they are stepping into the CFL+ role for outside that market, so are they just going to provide the TSN stream for those markets or are they going to have to actually cover all those games? It would be kind of lame if they did remote commentary outside of Saturday... Even if I wouldn't typically be subjected to it.

I wonder if the CBS Sports contract is still in effect at the start of this or if there is going to be a further announcement about the 60 game slate in the US

42 minutes ago, 3rdand1.5 said:

how many casual eyeballs, heck even dedicated eyeballs are really going to drop that extra money....

DAZN has 20 million subscribers globally. In Canada they are probably the best way to watch the NFL and Soccer so they should have a reasonable Canadian subscriber base.

I can't imagine that people who only watch their own teams games will shell out 35/mo to catch the 2-4 games that get caught up in this.

And if you enjoy watching all the games week over week 35 is still fairly steep

They are definitely counting on existing subscribers to make it worth their while. CFL is a summer league so it could fill some of the gap for them between Club and European Soccer and the NFL

If anyone is curious like I briefly was if this deal was implemented this year it would affect Week 18 (away at MTL) and week 19 (home vs Calgary)

8 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

An additional $3.5 million a year per team is a giant boost to sustainability, no? Sucks to have to pay for another service, but better than having no league.

Would be a big boost to any potential expansion fees as well

1 hour ago, Colin Unger said:

This announcement is boring without financial details…

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

How much is it worth to each team financially?

Sounds like $500 Million over 6 years. 66% increase over the last deal. Each team should get about an extra $3.5 million/yr.

2 hours ago, Goalie said:

He prob could have been that 3rd and inches guy

I don't pick the teams but it seemed to me like Wilson was more the 'oh **** we should probably carry a second guy with pro 3-down experience on the roster' guy. Elgersma has the size teams seem to be looking at for a short yardage guy, and Perkins won the UFL MVP with his legs. I don't recall him really standing out in the role, other than that one big run he broke against the Riders in the playoffs.

It would be great if Lawler were still on the team but I don't think he signs a million dollar contract this year if he had Collaros, Streveler, and Wilson throwing him the ball last year

1 hour ago, wbbfan said:

CFL.ca

A.J. Allen's top 5 running backs in the CFL - CFL.ca

From Justin Rankin to Brady Oliveira, Ottawa REDBLACKS linebacker A.J. Allen counts down his top five running backs to play against in the CFL.

When explaining what makes Brady Oliveira special and why he’s been included in the linebacker’s rankings, Allen only had one thing to say.

“They give him the ball a ton,” laughed Allen.

Why don't other teams give their running back the ball more? Are they stupid?

48 minutes ago, Goalie said:

lol. The only one that streams cfl games you mean??? I think we get the rider announcers for this one tho. And good luck watching any position battles. Really, unless the camera work been greatly improved, this is gonna be a tough watch. I’ll watch but it’s gonna be a hard one to watch and listen 2.

It's just the in stadium feed so you can pretend you are just watching everything on the jumbotron

But isn't this game being played in Saskatoon? So I imagine it would be worse than usual.

16 minutes ago, Noeller said:

You don't find the timing even a little bit odd... The day before a game?

3 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

The one time I agree with you. Both knew they had playing time coming. So, go out & show how good they are. To quit a day or 2 before that game makes no sense. From a business sense.

I'm not sure if Thorne had playing time coming... I'm not sure how you give 5 QBs playing time in a game.

For Wilson... maybe I'm a bit cynical but is it that hard to think Wilson who has attempted 39 passes through 4 season of pro football and coming into this 3rd season on a team being told that he'll be battling for the 3rd QB spot finally deciding before live bullets start going that maybe this is the end of the line?

5 minutes ago, Brandon said:

One guy leaving that's not weird... two guys leaving early. I can't remember ever having 2 qbs quit before even getting a chance in a pre season game. Are we recruiting bad character players? Are the guys being treated like ****? Do we just have bad luck? Condell pissing people off? It would be nice to have a reporter speak with the guys and get their side on why they left.

Can I vote for the option of poor roster management? Why bring a guy back for his third year to compete to hold a clipboard all year? I'm guessing for a little bit of continuity but you know what you have in him after 2 full seasons.

We are talking about the 4th and 5th QB on the depth chart who are (or were I guess) current making less than you could be making on EI right?

It's nice to have a romantic view of a team and comradery but at the end of the day it's a business. No one really knows what's being said inside the locker room. You hope that guys are being accurately appraised of their situation. I don't think you can begrudge these guys from seeing the writing on the wall and deciding to go home.

It's not terribly hard to see why either guy left from a football stand point.

As a P4 QB, it's possible that Thorne made more money than Collaros last year and he was likely going to be on the PR.

It's possible that Elgersma is going to be QB2, and Wilson would be going on his 3rd straight year of QB3 if he were to beat out Perkins. Yeah you are playing professional football, but at what point do you pull the plug? He wouldn't be the first person to quit after a few years of not getting Second-team reps, and he won't be the last I'm sure.