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If we'd play them even after the 21 points off of mistakes, then I'd say we played pretty well except for the first 7 minutes, but they beat us 17-8 after that and they shut it down at the half.

I'm not a Brohm fan at all. I was somewhat surprised that we re-signed him in the off season. I am a Marve fan and I hope to see him start this week, but I know that he's in tough because he hasn't been getting 2nd string reps and we've only got 1 practise this week. That's not enough time to make many changes to the offense to take advantage of Marve's strengths.

We didn't make a game of it. We scored 8 freaking points. We didn't take advantage of the 2 picks, one of which was a Hamilton receivers fault for knocking the ball up in the air. Hamilton sat back, let us complete underneath, stopped blitzing on most plays because they knew the only thing that could hurt them was us completing a bunch of deep balls. Hamilton's offense, after the two picks, played it very safe. They didn't throw the ball unless the receiver was wide open and took some sacks that they wouldn't have taken if the game was on the line. Hamilton was up 7 zip with zero TOP. They were up 14 zip with 1 play on the TOP clock. They scored enough points to win before the 5 minutes were gone in the game. Yet O'Shea and the armchair coaches want to talk about winning the second half by a score of 8-7??? The fact is that the game was over before the second quarter started. It was just a matter of how much they were going to win by. We won the garbage time bowl because we have so much practice at garbage time.

If we were to replace the OC right now, I'd go with Doug Berry. He's the only experienced guy I can think of who doesn't have a job right now.

We've beaten 0 teams above .500, 1 team at .500 and 2 teams below .500. We are one of the 3 teams below .500.

No, that would be wrong.

MB's offense looked good in 2 games, but we've now played 7. That's not good enough IMO.

After Cameron's blog this week, I'd have thought they'd already know exactly what was wrong with Willy. After all, he can tell right away what's wrong with players even without an MRI.

Willy slowly limping right to the dressing room. Not a good sign IMO. Dude's tough, but how many times can we trot him out after an injury and have him play well? I'm thinking Brohm's the starter against the Argo's and I don't get a good feeling about our chances of a win.

Good coaches have jobs at this time of year. Unfortunately, our OC who's a bad coach has one too. If O'Shea could take the offence over, I'd be in favour of canning MB tomorrow, but O'Shea's not up to the task. Any decent OC's out there looking for work?

Close but horrible game. Riders had 2 TD's and a FG called back due to penalties. 43 accepted penalties for 367 and that doesn't count the 100-150 yards of lost gains. Smith was OK, better than our 2nd string for sure. Almost 300 yards, but a killer pick 6. Argo's played bad and still won. Rider's played well and still lost. I'm guessing the Riders fan sites are full of the refs cost us the game and if you just take away this or that play we would have won. Looked like more Rider fans in the stands than Argos fans.

Glad I'm not putting real money down on my picks.

Great game last night. Ottawa's for real. Should have gone with the stats instead of my gut. Cato throws across his body for a bad Int then tosses one deep middle even though there's no Als in the picture for a second one. I'm tired of the Sam story. Either he's a good player or not. Time to start ignoring the fact he's openly gay. I hate when TSN interviews folks and ignores the play going on. Some high school kid and a CIS coach? Who cares? 2 challenges that shouldn't have been challenged. Slows the game down. Ottawa picked on Hefney all night long and he wasn't up to the task. Burris had a great night and receivers made some highlight catches. Montreal keeps losing by 3 or 4. Close but no cigar.

I had a Brock Busters T shirt. Wish I'd kept it. I was there in '84.

Edmonton made some big mistakes. Lulay found his deep ball range and avoided the rush time after time. Harris had a huge game. Fun game to watch right down to the wire.

I voted for 1, but anything between 1 and 5 would be better than what we have now.

The piece that really matters is Hamilton's attacking defence. As long as it's being effective, the Bombers are in tough.

I'll take Whitaker too.

House was tackled and had folks on top of him so he couldn't get his head above water for several seconds. Could have drowned. Could be a tale that gets bigger every time it's told.

I guess they wouldn't be made if they didn't work, but man I hate those stupid commercials. They make me pine for the Wendy's official hamburger of the CFL commercials I hated a couple of years ago.

They are all repacious bastards. They all owe someone, either big companies or trade unions or both. Folks want change, but will the Liberals and NDP split the left vote and give Harper a majority? Think a 76 cent dollar's bad, that would be a high point with NDP policies in place. Don't want to go there at all. Trudeau the PM was bad enough, his son only has the name, not the political smarts. Looked great to the liberals until he opened his mouth a few times and has lost a lot of his lustre. I'm not a Harper fan, but I'll hold my nose and vote conservative again. The other two parties don't have enough things on their agenda's that I support.

I don't think changing HC's at this point in the season will do very much. Regina's still going to be working with their 3rd or 4th string QB both of which have very little experience. I'd take Benevides over PLAP and I'd still pull the trigger after the Argos game to give the new HC the bye week to make changes.

I felt pretty good about my Montreal pick in the first quarter, but they let me down by fumbling their chance at a win away.

Muamba wasn't ready when he got his first starts and we didn't have any other choices but to play him because we made the decision to go NI at MLB. He became a good MLB fairly quickly. Hurl's in his 4th year. By that time, Muamba was in the NFL. He's been a starter in Regina, but lost his starting role, which made him expendable to them. We picked him up in FA, gave him the MLB job and paid him like a starter. Hurl had a good game last week, but it's his only good game as a Bomber. I like Hurl on special teams, but I don't see the comparison to Muamba as valid.

I don't think Smith was anything special, but he's better than Sunseri by a long shot. He can run and beat the rush some of the time with his legs, but his accuracy was poor and accuracy is the #1 thing that a QB needs to be successful.