Mark H.

The defense kept a lot of points off the board and put 13 up themselves.
 
Willy led the miraculous drive to win, but Montreal wins easy if the Bombers give up a TD on one of the short fields afforded the Als by Washington's misadventures.  Defense saved the day.

What was missing.... was more than 6 rush attempts....and using the flats.   We let Montreal D dictate the game, somewhat and the middle of our OL got pushed around, for a fair bit, that game....

I'm particularly impressed with the D holding teams to field goals when turnovers occur in the red zone.  They seem to save their best stuff for critical situations.

Yes they did. I guess what should say is the quick game needs to function better.
 
I watched parts of the game again today...on several plays quick passes to the flats when the Als brought the house would've gained good yardage. There was literally no one out there. 
 
We didn't make them pay for the blitz often enough - until we do teams will be pinning their ears back.
 
 
 

We knew Montreal would stack the line, yet a quick passing game was not used to combat it.  The Als stack the line, we have just the 5 or 6 guys blocking and Willy is looking 20 - 30 yards down field.
 
The result was...predictable...

We knew Montreal would stack the line, yet a quick passing game was not used to combat it.  The Als stack the line, we have just the 5 or 6 guys blocking and Willy is looking 20 - 30 yards down field.
 
The result was...predictable...

I agree with the premise that protecting Willy from injury will determine the Bombers success this year but disagree with the method suggested.  Of course improving the O-Line personnel is critical to this effort but really not enough.  I believe a structural shift must occur in positional play to prevent blitz packages from continuously threatening Willy's health.  As Montreal has just demonstrated this is the most effective way to rattle his or any other QB's cage.  Nothing new under the sun.
 
I know I keep harping on this but I don't see any better way to protect Willy other than reverting to a double TE set and a seriously good blocking back.  I think these are the positions that Walters should fill with the best talent he can acquire.  As Dan Knapp was a TE once upon a time it would be wonderful to keep him around in this role as long as we can replace his current tackle position with a Canuck.  Fitzgerald has also been playing TE on occasion so maybe he could qualify as the other TE. 

Royal Fork is over priced

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#Bombers HC Mike O'Shea says S Maurice Leggett has a bad ankle and is questionable for Friday night in MTL. #bn

Thats like deep frying a rib eye.

Skinners is alive and well - I go there because they have blue licorice ice cream (blue tongue is the bane of my wife's existence)
 
Half Moon around the corner is pretty great too.

Just don't get me started on guys who'll ask for single malt...then pour coke into it.

That's a 100% clean hit. Turned away, did everything he could to avoid leading with the helmet and then the movement of each player upon contact causes the slightest of helmet contact.
If you want to make H2H contact a black and white call, you're throwing multiple flags on every single play.

Just don't get me started on guys who'll ask for single malt...then pour coke into it.

People in Saskatchewan & Manitoba are hurting badly with flooding. Let's try a little compassion & understanding for the people affected by the high water in both provinces. My cousin's farm in the Interlake was flooded & they're dealing with it. God knows, we went thru it here in Calgary & Southern AB last June & 5 people died & hundreds of lives were destroyed.

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"Literally" means you're 100% sure about that...I'm not.

"Literally" means you're 100% sure about that...I'm not.

I find too many people here dump on January. You guys forget that the Oline needs to work as a UNIT - and with all the players coming and going the last few years here, with January being the only 'stable' lineman, he's an easy target to pick on. The guy is a multi time all star. Trust me - he's good. He had a solid game yesterday and you can bet that will only continue. Looks like we got a great pair of bookends with January and Knapp, and Neufeld in there with Greaves and Morley the centre, looks to me like our Oline is pretty solid - as solid as it's ever been in the past 10 years i would say. January never was the problem here, just the whipping boy.

That was definitely a game plan put together for Burke's defence, and with not a lot of pressure on the QB from the front four, that defence collapses and is prone to getting burned by the deep ball, or any ball really with no pressure.  
 
Even the turnover was a good play for the Bombers.  Essentially a 45 yard punt, and also a 50-50 INT/Denmark catch for touchdown ball.
 
Toronto's offence was off-balance all night, Ray had no idea where to go with the ball from what the D showed pre-snap, leading to a lot of double-clutching and settling for 2 yard passes with a defender coming downhill at the guy catching the ball, when our defence got to the ball and didn't let Owens, Durie or Chiles get any YAC, they had nothing.  One might wonder why the Argos didn't try to establish any kind of run game, even though they got behind early, there was lots of time and they completely abandoned the run.  The Argos had a terrible night, penalties like crazy, a couple of their DB's looked terrible in man coverage, #4 especially.  Even on a lot of the deep bals the Bombers completed, he could have easily and probably should have been flagged for PI.
 
It's nice having a quarterback with an arm and a brain, who isn't getting scraped off the turf whenever he gets hit.

I'm fine with the punishment, 240 hours of community service plus 2 years probation.  On that individual it might be a little lenient, but the last thing we need is an easily influenced kid tossed in jail for a few months when he's not really a threat to society.  Rest assured he'd make some new "friends" in the joint, probably start a new "career" and be an actual threat when he's put back on the streets.

Hey boys...if you don't mind drinking a cheaper blend...Label 5 is on clearance for $20.80 @ MLCC right now. It's a decent Scotch, not great but good.

If I've watched two other people try the steak they just put on my plate and proceed to spit it out, then yes.

Somehow I don't think the reaction would be quite the same if Simpson were a Bomber this year.

I sit here amazed at the outrage...did some of you not watch the games LAST SEASON?