TBURGESS

Great to see the Esks own the Riders last night. Sunseri's worse than I expected him to be. Telegraphing his throws. Taking too long to make his decisions. Nothing to like about his game at all yet. The Eskimos would have won this game even if Durant was playing. They owned the Riders at the LOS. 300 rushing yards? Holy cow. Still, they didn't put it away until the last TD late in the 4th quarter. Stamps and Esks are the two top teams in the league right now.

I picked Montreal and Edmonton. Ottawa couldn't win a game that was handed to them last week and Montreal is hungry. Riders looked pretty bad last week and just squeaked out a win against the worst team in the league. They are facing much stiffer competition in Edmonton.

The quality has been dropping for a long time. This site should be about football, but it's become more about petty arguments, whining, and attacking other posters and thats not just the rider fans. It's a tough slog to find any actual football talk these days.

Toronto's coming together at the right time. Should have beaten Calgary last week. Easily beat BC last night in BC. If they can stay relatively healthy the rest of the season, they will be hard to handle.

Seems a bit contradictory to me... Not contradictory. Same team. Different QB. Different result. IMO it shows that Clements was an upgrade over Brock. The best QB in the league on a below average team, isn't going to win the Grey Cup. For Example, Ricky Ray on some of those poor Edmonton teams looked pretty average, but he was still the best QB in the league by far. Doug Flutie on BC is another example.

Ploen is Mr. QB in Winnipeg. No chance he didn't make it as the best as picked by the fans and the media. Winning Grey Cups is a team stat, not a QB stat IMHO, but I know a lot of folks disagree. Brock was the best pure passer the Bombers ever had and it's not even close. Great QB who couldn't win the big game. My choice was Clements. He took the team that Brock couldn't win the big game with and won the the cup with them. Not the strongest arm or the quickest feet, but he was a winner. Dunnigan had some amazing games in Blue and Gold. Unfortunately we got him after the injuries had taken their toll and he was often injured and couldn't finish games. I'd rank him over Brock for his entire CFL career but lower as a Bomber. Jones turned our team around. Great leader. Prolific passer. Good runner. Succeeded in spite of a poor O line. Certainly in the conversation as one of the great QB's in Bomber history.

No one is talking about blowing it up and starting over again. We are talking about adding a couple of new players to try and fix the losing streak. Holy overreach pig and goalie.

Without Willy, I don't like our chances of beating Hamilton or Edmonton.

This sucks! Willy is our season this year. I hope it's just a bruise d shoulder.

Glad we got Willy. Don't think he was our 1st choice, but it doesn't matter anyway. No way to know for sure.

It's hilarious that the folks who tell me not to read these threads can't follow their own advice and not read the newspapers.

250 yards? I'm laughing even as I type it. Harris is an ID-10-T.

Oh boy! Another crap on the media thread! I can hardly wait for the same folks to make the same 'points' in this one that they did in all the other ones. Where's the yawn emoticon when you need one?

He's been our best receiver this year. Good extension.

Not a huge surprise. Cotton looked good in preseason, but didn't do much in the regular games. Hasn't been on the game day roster for a while now.

Sure, other teams will stack the box against the Riders. They are already doing that. All Sunseri has to do is chip in with 150 yards and keep the turnovers to a minimum and the Riders should be able to beat the eastern teams. Sunseri needs to up his output to around 200 yards to beat western teams that aren't called the Stamps. I bet they win more than 3 games in the second half of the season.

That sucks. Good luck to him in his rehab.

It's not about figuring it out in 6 days. We've got 9 weeks left for new players to 'figure it out' and to learn our systems.

I'll reiterate what a few others have already said... even if we "airlifted" in 4 or 5 NFL cuts, the chances of even one of them playing and making a difference at this point in the season is very low... And... that's still a higher chance of success than going with the guys we've got.

We are getting bad press because we are 1-4 in our last 5 games. It's unrealistic to expect good press right now.

That sucks for Durant and for the league. It's certainly a downgrade at QB for Regina, but I think they can handle it because of their O line and their reliance on the running game. They don't need their QB to throw for 300 yards to win. 150 yards will do it against a lot of teams. I'll guess that the Riders win half of their remaining games, which should keep them in the playoffs.

That sucks for Lulay and the league. I suspect he's already played his last CFL game.

You don't have to divide everyone into factions. Besides, it'd be pure ignorance to don't act like you have your own posting tendencies as well. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't appreciate it if I started calling you the "OBTFITFHAOHJSTHHP" guy all the time, even though I'm sure most people here would say it'd be much deserved. Only believes the facts if they fit his argument otherwise he just spins them how he pleases. You gotta stop writing in that really small font. I'm too old to read it without getting my glasses. (Grabs his glasses and reads the small print) Meh... You've called me worse. I'm not dividing folks into factions, I'm just pointing out that there are factions. If you don't want to be called an IOSWT guy, then don't be one.

The general consensus around here is that we gave the game away. That's a pretty one sided view of what happened. No team plays error free football. If we were playing a lesser team, most of our mistakes wouldn't have been as much of a problem. For example, most missed blocks don't result in TD's for the other team. Regina takes full advantage of other teams mistakes because they are a pretty darn good team. We need to reduce the number of mistakes and the number of stupid penalties if we want to be able to beat the top half of the league teams. We also need to upgrade some personal. There have been a few guys available who could have really helped us out and we chose not to go after them, so I don't see that happening this year. We aren't going to change out our OC or DC because 6-5 doesn't warrant changing them. As we are mostly playing the top half of the league, I expect we will lose more than we win from here on out. As for O'Shea, the honeymoon period appears to be over. Consistently saying: 'It's not a problem' and then seeing that it is a problem in games isn't going to help. Sticking with his guys when others are available is great when we're winning. It doesn't go over very well when we aren't. There are IOSWT (In O'Shea We Trust) folks around here who only want to hear the positive about the job our HC is doing and will argue with everyone who disagrees with any aspect of it.

The Bombers made mistakes and the Riders took advantage of them. The missed block on the FG, could have meant nothing, a blocked FG with no return or a 60 yard TD. The missed hold wouldn't have meant anything if the special teams had stayed in their lanes and stopped Dressler earlier on. The bad snap cost us 2 points because Liram kicked it out of the endzone. It could have cost us a TD. The poor call, execution and throw at the end of the game ended up costing us a chance at a win. That play could have been a catch, a knockdown, or an INT. It was the Riders DB who made the play on the ball and turned a knockdown into an INT. What I'm trying to say is... We didn't give them the game. They made enough big plays to take the game, just like the other 2 times we played them.