Mike

Calgary 45 Montreal 37

They definitely rushed Inman back too soon.

Kickoff is 5:30 tomorrow but today's Friday so why the hell not Speaking of Hamilton's defense ...

Really? You can tell how closely I've watched BC this year. But I agree, Willis is one dimensional but that one dimension is top notch.

http://cfl.uploads.mrx.ca/ham/downloads/downloads/2013/07/ticatsdepth-july132013075446.pdf Here is Hamilton's depth chart. Changes: Brown starts at CB for Bucknor Harris starts at LB for Parks O'Neill starts at RG for Wojt, who shifts over to RT to replace Ingersoll Walker starts at RB for Gable Marshall starts at DE for Scott Interesting that they're starting a 290 pound defensive end and I'm sort of surprised Norwood stayed on the roster after last week.

http://cfl.uploads.mrx.ca/wpg/pdf/depth/2013/DEPTH073527.pdf As I alluded to and guessed we might see, Jake Thomas starts at DT giving us 8 Canadians. Dexter Davis changes numbers from 56 to 45 and goes on the 42-man roster as a DI replacing Freddie Harris. What I can't figure out yet is the 4-man. We're going to be running 4 designated imports instead of 3 and obviously the first 3 are Markett, Ford and Davis but is the last one Woods or Doug Pierce? EDIT: nevermind, obviously the 4th one is Frazier. duh

Roll Up The Rim To Wynne.

I won't say top 3 DE but I'll certainly say top 3 pass rusher. I'd say the top 3 DE in the league right now are Bowman, Williams and Hall in no particular order. I'd say the top 3 pass rushers are Williams, Hall and Willis. With Bowman and darkhorse Kenny Mainor rounding out the top 5. Marcus Howard gets in the discussion as well if we're talking pure pass rush.

That's what the closed captioning guy calls him

Because Pierce is our QB and I feel it's a major issue he has. I won't discuss Glenn because he's not on our team and while you can speculate that he would have the same struggles based on history, there's no doubt in my mind Glenn is a better fit for our offense with his quick release and I feel like he would perform better. Maybe I'm wrong, but there's no point arguing about it.

lol is that what I said?

Totally agree. Walker is gone if he finds open space. The bright side is that he's not very good at finding open space.

Pierce is absolutely a liability at this point. If we ever give up a fourth quarter lead, do we REALLY think that Pierce is going to win for us? I have no faith that he can, I have more faith that he'll do what he needs to do to blow a fourth quarter lead. It's sad but it's reality

Saskatchewan looks good. Sheets is an absolute force out there right now. I'm not expecting them to maintain this level of domination but they look like a real well oiled machine right now.

Jay Detain

Tough to say that when Pierce has had the backing of a much stronger defense than Glenn.

Knowing our luck, they'll dress one of the Box J Boys and he'll scramble for 200 yards on the ground.

Go Riders

Glenn may not be a fantastic QB at this point in his career but man would he ever be an upgrade to Pierce in this particular offense.

a. I'm not going to look at all-star recognition for offensive linemen because the voters base their votes almost entirely on reputation. you think a beat reporter has time to grade out offensive lineman? sadly, I do and even with my extremely limited knowledge, it was obvious that Labatte had a down year b. go ask the Rider community what they thought of Labatte's performance last year. c. I won't knock his run blocking because he was great at it last year and always has been, but his pass protection left a LOT to be desired last year.

Who is talking about two games this year? Saskatchewan's offensive line ranked below ours last year when everything was all said and done.

Back when I used to talk to Penton more on Twitter and have conversations with some of the players, etc it used to come up pretty often actually. I don't think it helped that my Twitter handle has "wpg" in it just like the Bombers' official page and I had to change my display picture to something that wasn't a Bomber logo but before that, I used to get players sending me Youtube videos, agents contacting me for tryout information and all kinds of stuff like that pretty regularly. The weirdest one I ever had was somebody from a little town newspaper in North Carolina contacting me for permission to interview Perry Floyd for a local article. It's entertaining, but I never messed with anyone.

You can thank Turner's old agent for that one. Back in the day, he contacted me on Twitter thinking I was in the personnel department for the team and thanked me for giving BT (and Denmark, who he also represented) a chance to make the team. I explained I was just a fan and we got to talking about players and he just really had me sold on Turner as a player.

Davis will be going on the roster as the DI in place of Freddie Harris, according to Tim Burke on the coaches show. Just heard this mentioned, thought it was super interesting because I'm a big Dexter Davis fan. Wondering if this is to give them a bit more speed off the edge to track Burris. Either that or maybe Davis is finally game ready after his injury.

I can't see the video but whether Ford touched it or not, the refs made the decision that Ford was the one who fumbled the football and that turned the scrum between Goltz and Hebert into a neutral battle for a loose ball as opposed to one player attempting to recover the fumble of another player. The down by contact rules are apparently different for either situation.