kelownabomberfan

That holding call he had killed a good drive we had going on one of Simpson's few good runs and really set us back. Bad penalties at the wrong times killed us last year, and they killed us again last night.

yeah I am in agreement with this. I think it's time for Edwards to be a bit player in our offence, not a featured receiver. He just can't make the grabs he used to make, and his speed has definitely tailed off a lot.

I just watched Tim Burke's post-game scrum on the Bomber website. He didn't sound too happy with Buck's performance. He said Buck was too wound up and was getting the ball off far too early, before the play was developing. I have a feeling that the Bomber coaches are going to make Buck's life a bit miserable the next few days after they study the game film as there were just too many blown opportunities and open guys that Buck wasn't hitting. Burke also said the lack of run production was due to Montreal "stacking the box". I've heard this term a lot over the years, and clearly it's a strategy that is used a lot to beat us by league defences. I am assuming that this means that they are forcing Buck to beat them with his arm, and as he proved last night, he'll throw the ball away or make bad choices if he receives a lot of pressure. The next game will go a long way to showing if the Bombers game plan changes to deal with this, and also if Buck can settle down and work with a gameplan designed to take away this strategy. If Watson and Etienne were left alone all night and the ball wasn't getting to them then changes have to be made ASAP.

yeah by two whole pounds!

You mean Zach Anderson? He's a DE not a DT.

Yup. It was no coincidence that Grandpa went from inaccurate happy feet/crapping his Depends/missing easy wide open receivers to the AC of 10 years ago in the 4th quarter when our bull-rush vanished. I didn't think Gilmore was that effective until I saw how different the Als offence played with him out. So now what. Do we get Carroll back again? Or pick up Huntley? Or start Lucas with Thomas backing him up and start an extra import at receiver? Watson can sit down for all I care, or back up Etienne next game, while we get Pierce or Anderson some playing time.

yeah I laughed at that scene, not because of the pun with the F word, but because it was so implausible that kids in Saskatchewan would know what a letter of the alphabet was.

yeah that's right. But that being said, he's also there because he's not expected to play a down all year.

so as a GM, Obie in Hamilton sucked almost as bad or worse, yet you didn't see sports-writers like ****** Madani or slapnut Zurkowsky bashing Obie on Twitter etc. I just don't get the excuse that Mack is hated purely for his record, or that he's somehow been some bad guy to the media. It just doesn't add up.

man that was your "cheesiest" pun yet.

The Alouettes usually start 8 Canadians, 5 OL, one NI receiver, Shea Douchebag and a Canadian at safety (though I think Hebert played some safety last year too after they cut Broulay). It looks to me like Edem is starting. Man if we can give Buck even two steamboats to throw....

on another note, if Jade is going up against Hebert all night in the slot, I couldn't think of a better guy I'd want him to be defended by right now in the CFL for his first game. If he can't gain a ton of confidence beating that guy all night like a rented mule, then I don't know what will do it. Also - starting their rookie first round pick at safety - yikes! He may be good, but no way is he ready yet to be starting.

Right - Cox is their SAM. On their pre-season depth chart (which is the one I was going off of) the roles were reversed, or just wrong. The Al's D is definitely not very scary, other than the two cheap-shot artists Kuale and Emry, but those guys are mostly tough after the whistle or behind the play. I hope Mr. January and Mr. Sorenson sort those two ****-heads out really fast if they want to be assholes again this year.

oh man did they change the game to tonight? Crap!

yeah. Having Kyries Hebert as your SAM would scare me too.

so Matthews is definitely playing?

Kirk Penton ‏@PentonKirk1h Listening to the Charles Roberts conference call, and he's sounding great. Working for the U.S. Postal Service in California. #Bombers

jamal richardson

This kind of reminds me of the rich kid in high school who shows up one day at school bragging about the new BMW his parents bought for him. He didn't earn it, his family dynamic is totally messed up as they don't really show him much love (like the Argo fanbase) and even though he's got a nice car and you're driving a piece of junk, you just feel pity more than envy.

me too. We'll see if he survives the first game of the year against Toronto and their uber-****** methodology of deliberately head-hunting Buck with late hits, knowing their butt-boy Murray Clark is just going to stand there watching and not throw a flag, and of course, Cohon isn't going to suspend anybody.

everyone should just be put into hyperbaric chambers or suspended animation between games, this practicing is just too damaging. It was right around this time last year that Garrett blew out his Achilles leaving us with Bloi-Dei Dorzon as our only running back. It would be nice if other teams had these kinds of problems for once.

exactly. zzzzzzzzz indeed

you are right. It's not your problem. You continue to post ****, and I'll continue to call you an idiot. It's a symbiotic relationship.

and you have a funny way of annoying.

yeah I would much rather have Kackert than Simpson.