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The Wheatfall narrative continues to baffle. By all accounts he was a reasonable dude when he was here, but if you are going 3 NIs which the Bombers did, you aren't going to take him over Wilson or White so where does he fit in? If the Bombers went 3 Imports he would be a serviceable 3rd guy (which he really is behind Smith and Lawler in Hamilton) but he was here for a season and a half and his production isn't too far off then and now... 2 really nice games, a few games he completely disappeared and a bunch of serviceable games in the middle. As other people are saying... you SHOULD be able to scout another one of those guys and maybe hit a home run. Maybe Singer is that guy but as of right now it's looking like we'll never know. The Elks brought in 2 of them with Luther and Cephus. Argos brought in Kahmann.

The aging curve for Cornerbacks is pretty unforgiving. Look at what has happened in Saskatchewan with Milligan and Campbell

It's not exactly a murderers row of ex-bombers draft picks on other teams Desjarlais, Exumé, O'Leary-Orange, Dobson, Rene, Ford and Kongbo. By my count. Desjarlais had one good season coming back from the NFL but the Ottawa OL has been a tire fire the last couple years running. Dobson and Ford would be nice to still have. Maybe Kongbo too but he is on his 4th team already.

Bad news for people advocating for 7 OL on account of teams like Saskatchewan dressing 7. Riders officially swapped out a Lineman for a Receiver so they only have 6 this weekend. If I recall the Riders are the only team the past few years who have had to give a DL the temp jersey and send them out to the OLine. And based on last year if we ran out of receivers we wouldnt toss a DB out there, it would end up being Perkins!

7 starters and 3 other roster players. Turned over a quarter of their roster between games.

Redblacks looking pretty thin at WR. Dressing 6 with Pimpleton doing double duty, being backed up by Mardner who is a couple weeks off the 6 game after missing all of last season and McDonald is a rookie

Wilson is definitely being used ALOT differently this year. Similar yards per game in his games last year to this year but his average depth of target is 5 yards less despite being targeted >20 yards downfield almost the same amount of times (granted in 2 less games in 2025) and a higher percentage of his yards are after the catch this year (46 vs 33). 3DownNationTommy Condell struggles to explain Winnipeg Blue Bombers...The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have struggled offensively at times this season, but it felt like things came to a head against the B.C. Lions in Week 9. The club managed only 19 points and 304 net yards in

Bombers are less than halfway through the season but the last two games have been annoying haven't helped them. With Hamilton and Ottawa the way they are there will almost certainly be a crossover team from the west. Two late game collapses have made it harder than it should be. They need to beat Calgary at home to have the tiebreaker against them, and beat BC away by 17 points to have the tiebreaker there. Giving up 15 points in a minute inside the 3 morning warning definitely sucked when you only have a home and home against a divisional team.

3DownNationOttawa Redblacks release starters Amari Henderson, Demeri...The Ottawa Redblacks have released American defensive backs Amari Henderson and Demerio Houston, the team announced on Monday. Henderson started the team’s last six games at field-side halfback, recorTurnover continuing in Ottawa with Henderson and Houston getting released. Maybe these changes will fix their defense.

It's hard to judge players in the secondary sometimes because if you are good the other guys get targeted, but it's not a great look to be earning almost 50% more than your next highest paid peer in the league while being on the team that gave up the most yards passing.

The Kenny Lawler experience isn't looking great in Hamilton right now. Pretty much 5.5 games since Bo got injured and he's had 210 yards over 16 receptions.

Ford was a bit frustrating. He played well and who knows the dynamics but it sounded like he was looking for a more reasonable number out of the Bombers than he ultimately got from the Elks but I imagine the NI calculus gets a bit complicated with both Oliveira and potentially Ford starring in typically American roles.

Last year the Elks were terrible and Ford wasn't great so Walters looked big brained. This year the Elks are playing well and so is Ford so Walters in a dunce. I'm sure things will yo-yo back and forth in the coming years.

When was the last time someone threw 20 picks in the CFL? Does Kelly get there by Labour day?

Right now the Riders have a WR1 and 5 WR5s Bombers have 3 WR2 and 3 WR5 pretty much

Riders added KSB, Emilus, and Tevaughn Campbell to the 6-game today. Riders probably taking the crown of worst receiver corps right now. They are going to trot out K. Johnson, Duncan-Bisby, Johnson III, Mimbs, Wiebe and Djete against the Redblacks.

I don't know how any one can remember what happened to Grant in 2023 and advocate for the Game Breaking returner to touch the ball on offense. I guess just pinky promise you won't run him up the middle and hope for the best if he does get thrown out there on O

Dinwiddie is trying to do way too much. GM + Head Coach + Offensive Coordinator. Then on top of that giving the Defensive Coordinator notes, which the Head Coach would be want to do but you can only have so many fingers in so many pies.

You can't really argue against using stats without context while providing stats without any backing. Ottawa has 18 completions that travelled more than 20+ yards downfield... so that is just about 2.5 a game. 2 of those came against the Bombers when they were up. The Bombers are the only team with less 20+ yard completions than them apparently (with only 10). I'd like to see the backing that the rest of those 16 were all in garbage time. And I guess while we are relying on the eye test we can eliminate the times when teams are way up and the defense is pressing trying to get to the QB? And wouldn't a prevent defense increase passes thrown 10-19 more than 20+ downfield? We are talking yards in the air not yards total. If you look at balls 10-19 yards down field, Brown is 27/36... ish (hard to extrapolate the data with Collaros playing the first 5 weeks+ and then Brown taking over) which would be about 12 points better than Maier at 32/51 (but I think that had a couple MBT passes in there as well). There's no readily available data on passes 30+ yards downfield... but the fact that Brown has only made 3 passes more than 20+ yards downfield would make it harder for Maier to be worse.

Tbf CFL lists Lewis at 6'0" (I see some references to him being 185cm so maybe closer to 6'1". Using 6 foot even would have him be 2 inches taller than Cobb and White, 1 inch taller than Demski, even with Wilson, and 3 inches shorter than Clercius and Nield. So he would not exactly be adding much height... Maybe a bit of weight because his listing of 200 gives him a bunch more girth compared to Cobb, Wilson and White

Obviously Lewis would (should?) be an improvement over the two NIs at the bottom of the WR corps im not sure he brings anything to the table that the current imports don't at this point. It would be kind of funny though for a team that can't let go of aging talent would bring in the 3rd oldest WR in the league (by my count only T Jones in CGY and Hardy in OTT are older) You would have to think they'd be able to find someone who shakes out of an NFL camp in the next few weeks that would at least be able to give that deep threat right!?! I imagine the league stat package follows the play by play which would include endzone yardage. Any play that is labelled as 'deep' is 20+ yards down field. One gap I do see is that interceptions are just labelled "interceptions" and no depth seems to be recorded in the play by play

The CFL publishes a stats package weekly and one of the stats is 20+ yards depth targets. CFL.ca2026 League Wide Statistics - CFL.caCFL.ca has a collection of the CFL's League Wide Statistical Report for every week of the 2026 season.The game notes for each game embeds the previous week's stats package as well. It ends up being pretty annoying to find these stats for previous years. You can find them by googling "2025 CFL pdf game stats" and it should show up for 2025 and 2024. For other years if you find the game notes for the Grey Cup (they are usually listed in the references on Wikipedia) that seasons can be found

For targets more then 20 yards down field here are Lewis's numbers the past few years. 2021: 13/34 2022: 22/35 2023: 9/19 2024: 9/23 2025: 10/28 2026: 3/11 So outside of that one year in 2022 he doesn't really seem to be pulling in anywhere close to 50% of those deep balls.

Only changes from Friday is Broxton out for Vanterpool and Woodbey in for Jackson

White is an improvement over Wheatfall as WR3 Yes the Bombers decided to go with 3 Canadians at Receiver for whatever reason. Even if the Bombers went with 4 imports, why even bother with Wheatfall. He was here for 2 years and didn't impress, and he doesn't offer anything not already provided by Wilson, White or Demski. It can be true that the Bombers should have went with 4 imports (and found someone who can actually do something consistently outside of Demski/White/Wilson) and that Wheatfall shouldn't be that fourth guy. Like here is an example where it makes sense to move on from a guy, in the face of a multitude of instances where the Bombers did not make that choice, but still people are unhappy. Literally the only reason they would have to have kept him around, was that he was already around.