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I'm not sure it even ensures that, but Nichols won't be the only player to go down for a while this year. Adams, Bowman, Dressler, Wild and Neufeld all have multiple injury histories.

It's ridiculous to pretend that anyone is 'writing things off at this point'. We could go anywhere from 6-0 to 0-6 or anywhere in between, no matter what the predictions are because, predictions don't equal results. FTR: The season won't be lost if we go 2-4 or even 1-5 to start out. When we get Nichols back, our real season starts. Hopefully we'll win enough in the second two thirds of the season to make the playoffs

I was annoyed that we signed him too (Had several "You're so negative" arguments about it), but I'd rather have a 'Hasn't been good in 3 years' over a 'complete unknown'.

What makes you think that a rookie QB can 'simply avoid turnovers' or that it 'shouldn't be hard'? I'm sure everyone would be more comfortable if DoubleDoosh hadn't retired or even if we'd kept Davis around, but that's not what happened.

It's based on the reality of our situation without Nichols. I'm not assuming that BC will be good. I'm assuming BC with Jennings is better than us with "Who knows what we have" at QB. If we still had Nichols, my prediction would be very different. Ricky Ray was the last rookie QB to do well and there have a whole bunch of CFL rookie QB's since then. We've gone through tons of them ourselves. The odds are (A figure of speech, not actual odds) that either of our inexperienced QB's are the next Ricky Ray are very low indeed. The most likely scenario is that our young QB's make more mistakes and take longer to process than Nichols would. That's more missed reads, more INT's, more sacks, more 2 and outs. Defense and special teams will need to be lights out for us to have a chance in most games until Nichols comes back. I'm still not convinced that Hall has a shutdown defence despite the talent level. Defense didn't win us games last year anyway. We won them because we scored a bunch of points and didn't turn the ball over very often. I don't see that happening with inexperienced QB's. A negative spin would be that we go 0-6 because we have the worst QB situation in the league. Even Montreal has more experience at the most important spot on the team.

Sorry, I messed up the schedule somehow last night. 😖 Wk 1 vs. EdmWk 2 @ MtlWk 3 @ HamWk 4 vs BCWk 5 @ BCWk 6 @ Tor I can see us beating Montreal, cuz they don't have a starting QB either and look like the worst team in the league. Hamilton could go either way. I don't see that we have the team, without Nichols, to beat Edm, BC or Toronto. I'll still go with a prediction of 2-4 and that's not based on negativity.

Without Nichols, the odds are that we lose to Edmonton, beat Mtl, split with Hamilton and lose both to BC in the first 6 weeks. That's good for a 2-4 record and losing the season series to the Lions.

Thanks for the info. PIA, the VPN I'm using, is about $3 a month so the savings are still pretty good. I'll try a game to see how it goes.

We need to play our interim 'starter' against BC's starters now to get a handle on what they will look like when it counts. Fair to them? Yup. They'll want to play against the starters if they're any good to us.

Which country did you choose? Did it stream consistently? Was it in HD? How much bandwidth?

Shaw has a great deal. TSN's are $14 on Telus and $7 on VMedia. Of course that's on top of your other channel package(s).

It's not about if KG wants to come to Winnipeg. It's about if Edmonton wants to trade their backup QB at all, let alone a Western team.

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Personally, I hope Streveler starts. I'd like to see how he fares against BC's 1's and 2's.

Adams to Esks = Glenn to Montreal? 😉

Adams has an 'Upper Body' injury that's keeping him out of practice, making him the wrong guy to bring in if we need someone right away. His 'experience' is 7 games, 43 of 78, for 583 yards. A bit better than Ross, but not that much.

There was no popping noise when I tore my ACL.

I had the same experience. Knew right away something was really wrong when I tore my ACL on a non-contact Volleyball play. Let's hope that isn't Matt's experience.

Sounds like some of our rookies made the most out of their opportunities, which is great. FTR: Edmonton played a bunch more starters against Regina than they did against us.

I don't like the way Brown uses 15 words when 1 or 2 will do.

I like Matty, Climy, Milt and Sanchez. I don't like Shultz or Burris.

I find it funny and somewhat sad that anyone cares what Pederson has to say.

Not the only explanation, just one of the most likely possibilities.

Agree to disagree, but fair enough.