TBURGESS

My strategy for tonight:

BC made a ton of mistakes. redblacks made some great plays. BC starts running the ball and blows the game wide open. That's so redblacks.

BC made a ton of mistakes. redblacks made some great plays. BC starts running the ball and blows the game wide open. That's so redblacks.

Booch gets to see if Eli is an improvement....

FIFO should apply to MOS too. He doesn't Fit In anymore.

FIFO should apply to MOS too. He doesn't Fit In anymore.

FIFO should apply to MOS too. He doesn't Fit In anymore.

FIFO should apply to MOS too. He doesn't Fit In anymore.

FIFO should apply to MOS too. He doesn't Fit In anymore.

Nothing wrong with Singer....the guy should have been in play earlier in the season....That goes back to coaching and as we are witnessing not good enough

Yup. I think many of us thought the same thing going into TC. Too many decisions were pre-determined. 3 Canadian receivers was a starting point for failure on offence as an example.

The downward spiral since 2022 that you mentioned should have been a wake up call.

Grabbing some fresh tin foil and making a hat... Maybe Brady isn't being used later in games because his injury is hampering him... Takes off hat, tries to flatten it, gets frustrated, makes it into a ball, and throws it out.

Has MOS secretly been building a world in Minecraft?

Grabbing some fresh tin foil and making a hat... Maybe Brady isn't being used later in games because his injury is hampering him... Takes off hat, tries to flatten it, gets frustrated, makes it into a ball, and throws it out.

Grabbing some fresh tin foil and making a hat... Maybe Brady isn't being used later in games because his injury is hampering him... Takes off hat, tries to flatten it, gets frustrated, makes it into a ball, and throws it out.

Grabbing some fresh tin foil and making a hat... Maybe Brady isn't being used later in games because his injury is hampering him... Takes off hat, tries to flatten it, gets frustrated, makes it into a ball, and throws it out.

Grabbing some fresh tin foil and making a hat... Maybe Brady isn't being used later in games because his injury is hampering him... Takes off hat, tries to flatten it, gets frustrated, makes it into a ball, and throws it out.

i can with this staff
Vaval actually had almost perfect coverage on several of those plays...and a few others played it best u could...was right there and immediately
made the tackle...Not his fault he was tasked to cover the best qb/WR tandem in league....Thank god it was him out there or it prob would have been real ugly...Dude played damn good

yup takes a man to be a man...good on him
And agree his analysis and breaking down of what's going on...almost as it happens is top notch. He knows what he is talking about and can explain it to fans in a way that they can grasp, and isnt dumbed down.
Compare him to Suitor and its like a 3rd grader vs a College Grad. And Lapo too is totally finding his groove. Best thing TSN has done is bring these guys into the fore front and it only will help with new fans in my opinion.
For the Grey Cup and Siv Finals it be in league's best interest to have Willson in the booth...and Lapo doing sideline work of some kind as the game is is being played

Keep Suitor far away as in all honesty his color and analysis is just so amatuer hour now it's not even funny...He add's nothing to the game telecast....nothing

Montreal is always looking to bring in new blood to improve their roster.
Bombers for the most part tend to bring in their training camp cuts if they need players.

Why would they do that. Ratio would allow just benching Womack and starting 3 import receivers. We've been using a Canadian safety, SAM and DT in various combination. At times 6 Canadian starters on offence. So zero issues in 3 import receivers.

Penalties happen in games, busts happen in games, the consistent inability to adjust during the course of a game is a systemic problem. If you need to play perfectly disciplined and never give up a bust to have a chance at a narrow win then you have systemic problems.
When I look at the players on this team yes there are some gaps, but I also see coaches that for the most part are failing to get the most out of what they have consistently.

I'd add that it's really just the 1st Q that is strong. After that, the good plays are generally just someone like Brady making outstanding plays.
The halftime adjustments do make it worse, and the 3rd Q is our worst handily.
What that smacks of is an extremely thin quality of install each week. The first few drives have a good handful of plays that are practiced and repped heavily. Then play calls are organized based on outcome and what you want to try to impose. You're talking 10-12 plays max that are set up to work off what the D gives you on film and what you do well.
If a front is undisciplined in the run game and crashes inside leverage early, you might put in wide or outside zone. If they give a lot of cushion and don't tackle well, you might put in quick timing slants.
The early drives of a game are almost always the most successful in the CFL. The element of surprise the O has is huge.
The problem is deeper than Ds adjusting in-game, or at the half, though. Our problem shows that we have a good initial punch, then no plan to build off that and no counter punch. You always want to layer off your early drive plans. Use screens to set up a screen and go, run plays to set up PA shots; one passing concept to play off another. We never have that. Essentially, we are playing checkers, thinking 1 move at a time, against people playing chess, thinking 10 moves ahead. Even if they think 2-3 moves ahead, they pants us once the opener is done.
In chess, this is referred to as a Book Player, or a glass cannon. They have memorized all the opening moves and look as if they know what they are doing. But they lack the fundamental understanding or ability to plan and develop the board. So after looking decent in the opening, they get creamed in the middlegame. Because they memorized but didn't understand any of what they read.
TC is a move nerd who has memorized everything other people do to succeed, but failed to grasp more than the tactics. He doesn't understand how to play chess against DCs. That's probably why he doesn't run the Jet sweep stuff we have run through the last 4 OCs. He doesn't get how to use it to build various plays.

Our offensive output is basically exactly the same 2025 to 2026.
Average 25 points per game
345 yards net
This year we average 30 yards less per game rushing and 30 yards more passing. But far fewer 30+ plays passing and far more sacks in 2026.
Average gain per play and on 1st down nearly identical.
Worse on 2nd down this year. 7th in the league TD drive % to 9th this year. Worse Red Zone TD %.
So Jason Hogan learns what a screen pass is and he's a better CFL OC than Tommy Condell is today. Hogan's biggest issue was not being able to overrule Collaros.