Mike

Stoked we won for sure but the whining about coaching decisions is not going away. If O’Shea won’t learn, neither will I! Between the nationalized American, our refusal to ever go for two and the coin toss choices, I’m gonna continue to whine BUT Team as a whole looked better than expected. Curious to hear about Woodbey but that looked significant … sucks for him as a human and truly hope it’s nothing serious but the silver lining for fans is this could be the break Jaylen Smith needs to have his coming out party. Would be excited to see what he can do if he’s called upon.

Credit to Ceresna, White, Nield for being factors in a big win Willie looking like he can be useful again as a rotation piece who doesn’t have to play 96% of the defensive snaps is huge Brady being Brady was awesome Vaval looking like a cagey vet Cons … our pass coverage aside from Holm and at times, Major … it was rough. Kramdi sucks at safety, Woodbey was lost all night, Nichols looking old, Moxey looking slightly less old. Hope that unit shores things up. Tony Jones and Kyrie absolutely useless in anything other than the most obvious rushing downs was a downer

At least we didn’t get the ball to start either half and we’re kicking into the wind if it comes down to it O’Shea continues to prove he’s an absolute idiot

Is it bad that this is what I anticipate happening

That’s Achilles

The game is half over

Woodbey is looking absolutely lost

Jake Kelly being on the field on D is asinine

I just want to get along man, I’m too old nowadays

Brother, can you please just relax on this obsession that you have with Booch? I don't know if you are aware this is what is happening, but here's how literally everyone else sees these conversations going. Goalie (completely unprovoked): "BOOCH THIS BOOCH THAT Booch is so annoying" followed by a strange multi paragraph rant Booch (in response): "I mean, in response to what you said, I actually was kind of proven right on that particular point" Goalie (in response): "Lighten the **** up dude" It's game day of the season opener, it's been a long off-season, we all have our faults but for crying out loud, just grow up and enjoy today for what it is. The start of the Bomber season. Go Blue.

No kidding lol who goes that hard on the tailgating before noon

Condell was 4-14 with the Argos the year after Ricky Ray retired where they trotted out McLeod Bethel-Thompson, Dakota Prukop and James Franklin as their quarterbacks. He went 8-10 with Hamilton the year after Masoli left with two prior Grey Cup visits and they had Dane Evans (who we broke) and Matt Shiltz as their quarterbacks, then went 8-10 again the next year after they brought Bo to town and he only played a third of the season. Then he went 4-14 last year with Dru Brown and the QB carousel in Ottawa. Nowhere near as bad as JBR made it sound.

It's very possibly hopium but I have one whole complaint about the defense so I'm pretty excited about what that could look like this year. I like the pieces we brought in - Jenkins is a monster physical presence on the edge and I think it's crazy to think about the idea that on any given snap, you might be a tackle lining up against either Willie, Jake or Kydran. That's a lot of different tools in the toolbox to contend with. Another year of Woodbey is something I'm excited about, he gives me a lot of Adarius Pickett (with an extra 25 pounds) vibes and I genuinely think he could be an all-star on the back of a ton of splash playmaking. Our secondary seems like it's got the potential to be pretty exciting and I do like that we have a ton of versatility in all three levels. Our offense both scares and bores the hell out of me. I know that we've got big pieces (Brady, White, Demski and Pokey) but we have so many questions - the Broxton to RT is a move that I don't think we discuss enough as being risky, rookie American center could be less than ideal, our depth is about as thin as thin gets, our utility players seem like there's a good shot they're incredibly useless - so I'm just not sure how that all shakes out. I trust in Condell but I'm whelmed currently. Maybe we see Brady get 1800 yards all purpose and White/Pokey both go for 1000 while Demski/Nield provide 700-800 each but I just don't know if I see it.

NOELLER PANIC LEVEL: Moderate to High

I feel like this is what it has to be ... variety and a multitude of different offensive sets is what I'd expect. Realistically, I think they're going to be giving the opposition a lot of different looks this season, which I don't mind at all. I don't really know if we can trust Zach to beat good teams with his arm, but I do have some level of belief we can beat good teams with Condell being able to create a lot of confusion on what we are doing on offense.

I like the idea of adding a guy like Addison to the staff. Doesn’t replace anyone, another voice in the room and without knowing anything about his personality, he’s got the type of story you’d think players can learn from and appreciate. and he was pacing as a 1000 yard receiver last year so I’m sure if we have an injury in the playoffs, he’ll be lacing them up.

Who is our “young” core? Demski, White, Brady, Neuf, Bryant, Eli, Broxton, Willie, Ceresna, Jones, Kyrie, Nichols, Moxey, Sergio … all of these guys are closer to the end than the beginning and creeping up in age. I know 30 isn’t what it used to be in sports, but we don’t have a ton of young guys at all. We’ve got a couple.

… or maybe they just forgot to list him originally

Where did you see that?

Not so much the cuts, just the roster deployment as usual. Looks like we’re gonna go old and then be surprised when we’re beat up at the end of the year and nobody on the PR has had a chance to play. We once again did not have “open competitions” by the looks of it … not that any of the Americans blew the doors off but looks like Corcoran/Cobb won a job just by existing.

lol I’m not even gonna get upset, I should know better by now

I'm really curious to know why everyone seems to think DAZN is so low on the totem pole. They're huge outside of the US. Their NFL service in Canada is great. I hate the price, but the quality is amazing. no kidding lol just such unawareness

"Best and most impactful" is literally an opinion, not a fact. He was not the most productive receiver in the league in 2025, either by volume or on a per-game basis. He is what he is at this point and I'm really of the belief that he's more of an electric highlight reel receiver than a winner, not to say he's not productive but he's not a player I'd be looking to add to my roster. He's a target vacuum who catches a relatively low percentage of the balls thrown his way. One stat I've become a fairly big fan of is yards per target and Lawler registered at 10.02 last year. Dohnte Meyers 12.13, Justin McInnis 10.82, Nic Demski 10.88, Keon Hatcher 11.64, Dejon Brissett 10.67 all more productive per target and all with a better balls caught % than Lawler too ... Lawler wasn't even the most reliable target on his team, he caught less of his targets (59.7%) than Kiondre Smith (73.5%) and Tim White (66.6%) and to me, that's a statistic that becomes even more impactful when you consider that he was 2nd in the league in targets with 144. The only receiver who really even comes close to being as unreliable as him with a comparable level of productivity is Eugene Lewis. Couple that with the fact that despite being targeted 144 times, Lawler didn't even rank in the top 25 in the CFL in YAC. He's a highlight reel receiver, but he's not a winning football player. His numbers all point to the fact that he's productive, but he's also a relatively unimpressive player once the ball is in his hands and he's a drive killer. It's not a smear opinion on Lawler, I think he's a hell of a receiver and he's got some of the best go up and get it ability I've seen in a long time, but I just don't think it's anywhere near a fact that he's the "best" receiver in the CFL.

Unless it's injury related (and I think it was in Womack's case, but not sure about the two DL), bringing back our cuts after not giving them a look in the pre-season game is a bit embarrassing and just shows our lack of ability to really know what we're valuing when we scout players.

The way you talk about players is so weird, especially for a guy who has been fairly open about how they don’t think their son got a fair shot during their collegiate career. You don’t think these men exhibit character or leadership? Why? Because they appear to have made a personal choice based on how they want to run their life? I don’t understand why you choose to continually project your wants and desires as a fan of a sports franchise onto these guys who are literally just quitting a job. That’s all it is for them. This doesn’t have to be “they don’t have the character to persevere through a rough patch”, this literally could (and likely is) as simple as “they don’t wanna get paid a low salary to be far away from their families when they could earn equivalent or better back home” (PS not too torn up Wilson left, I think he was option number 4 at this point anyways and I like that it forces the team’s hand to NOT go with the established player)