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Love Mo Legg as a playmaker but don't like his tackling. He got beat a number of times going one-on-one against the ball carrier and quite a few of his tackles got shrugged off. I think Brack is a much more reliable tackler.

SEMI-FINALS Glenn vs. Crompton. Nichols vs. Joseph. All outdoor games with some great defences. I don't think we're going to see a lot of points scored this weekend. BC 18 Montreal 14 Edmonton 21 Saskatchewan 11 FINALS Huge questions out West: is Cornish available? Is Reilly? My brain says Calgary takes it, but my heart says Edmonton benefits from Calgary's annual choke job. BC 24 Hamilton 17 (OT) Edmonton 28 Calgary 27 GREY CUP Edmonton 14 B.C. 10

Yeah, he put up 1000 yards while being the only really consistent threat on the Bombers. Shades of Terrance Edwards there.

Like many people here I don't care for the Riders but I have to say that I'm a Rob Bagg fan. Undrafted free agent national, running on two rebuilt knees, top-ten receiver. Gotta root for a guy like that. Wish he played for the Bombers

Brutal Montreal game plan. It's Week 20 in the CFL, rainy and windy, and you've got Jonathan "747" Crompton hucking the ball 35 times? I love the Montreal receivers but JC isn't a good enough passer for that game plan to work at all.

I don't know what triggers the concussion protocol, but Collaros didn't leave the game at all. The big hit happened at the end of the third quarter, so he had a bit of time to shake it off before the fourth quarter started. Didn't see exactly what happened on the field because TSN was playing the between-quarters commercials. It sure looked (and sounded) like a big hit though.

There's that sick clunk of a helmet-to-helmet hit ... Collaros is flat on his back on the field ... sure hope he's okay. edit: and he stays in the game, but on the next play he sure didn't look sharp, hunting around, ball extended, trying to figure out where Grigsby was so he could hand it off. And then he throws a couple slick passes and its Hamilton TD.

Coaching isn't the issue. Having a crappy GM who screwed up his qbs was. The Glenn/Burris thing & now the Burris albatross contract no one will want. You really think that Kevin Glenn would've put up more wins than Burris did this year, playing behind that OL? That seems ... like a odd thing to believe. Also, don't forget that trading Glenn allowed them to pick up Antoine Pruneau, a very good young starting Canadian. You want to hang something on Desjardins, you can point at their crappy import receiving corps. But I think he's played his QB situation fine. He basically got a bonus starting Canadian by signing Burris and trading Glenn.

I've been a Mark Nelson fan since the 2009 Bombers. Would love to see him back here in 2015.

lol. Ottawa got to pick the eleventh-best import (or second-best quarterback) and the seventh best non-import off each team. That's not "highly favorable." That's just barely better than dumpster diving.

No Jon Cornish for half the year, Bo Levi misses a handful of games, Mo Price missed significant time, team still wins 14 games...John Hufnagel says hello. How about GM of the Year for Hufnagel? It was Hufnagel the GM who supplied the depth that allowed them to overcome those injuries. The Stamps are miles deep at every position. They even have a useful Canadian backup for Cornish.

Hey, I got a prediction right this year! From June 18: "Montreal 8-10 -- transition year, chaos at OC will set them back but I think that Tom Higgins will get them gelled by the end of the season. He's turned around teams before." (Sure I got the record slightly wrong but the rest of it is there)

Jonathan Crompton = Sean Salisbury?

Before all this I had no idea that Lucy Decoutere was a captain in the Air Force.

Ottawa. I lived there for the final two years of the Rough Riders, had season tix both years. The Riders were 3-15 both years. Some great fans there, the parties after our rare victories were amazing.

I actually did this study back in July 2012, looking at the 2011 season (including playoffs) and the first two weeks of the 2012 regular season. We were exactly .500 in that stretch, going 11-11, so it was the perfect opportunity to figure these numbers out.

In 2011 I did a study on the ourbombers community, looking to see how members posting' frequency varied in the 3 days following wins vs. the 3 days following losses. What I found was that certain posters were way more likely to post in the days following a loss. Losses seemed to energize those posters, making them louder. I also noticed that a lot of the posters that I personally respect were participating consistently no matter how the team was doing. (here's the results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiLFGLZnbIP9dC1UaGRVRWNzd2Z4Q3o5Ni1RQ25vc2c&usp=drive_web#gid=0)

Actually the play that bugs me the most is the corner route in the endzone. We get near the red zone, Willy's gonna throw to the back corner of the endzone. Did it on the two-point convert last game too. It just never connects. The sack on the final play last game, yeah, that's frustrating, but **** happens. It's the tendencies that even an idiot like me can see that drive me nuts.

If Johnette can forgive Joey, then we can forgive Drew Willy a few interceptions.

Yeah, exactly, I don't think that Neufeld is the greatest OL talent the league has ever seen, but his replacements weren't as good as he was, and losing him forced an extra national onto the D and I think that's really hampered us.

January back in too. Devin Tyler takes a seat.

Consider this: according to the Bomber depth charts, this team is 6-2 with Neufeld starting and 0-8 when he doesn't start. I think his was the most critical injury we suffered this year. We've used six different players in Neufeld's RG spot since he got hurt: Goosen, Swiston, Jones, Knapp, Hinse, and Howard. No one has stuck in that position. Neufeld is one of our most important OL and has been impossible to replace. We've gotta be patient with him. We have no alternative.

Josh Portis wears #6 now. I think they first gave it out to Brett Cameron in training camp last year and now it seems it's just another number. I think the only other QB-ish number we have available right now is #10. Strange they didn't give Portis #10 instead of #6.

Trading for Neufeld was a risk worth taking. He didn't cost us an awful lot.

All things being equal, a CFL starter ought to win a Grey Cup every eight or nine years, so Allen won them at a pretty good clip. I'm trying to think of guys who did better in Grey Cups than Allen: Moon, obviously, went 5-0 in Grey Cups over six seasons, though he didn't start in two of those wins. Flutie was 3-1 in eight seasons. Ray has gone 3-0 in twelve seasons, not counting 2014. Calvillo was 3-5 in twenty seasons. McManus was 3-2 in seventeen seasons, but had only garbage time in the 1990 win and came off the bench for the 1994 win. He played a hell of a game in the '96 loss though. I think I agree with the people who are saying that Damon Allen that he was a B+ QB with an A+ career. But if I had to choose a starter for a Grey Cup game, it'd be a tough call between him, Ray, Flutie, or Moon. And Moon and Flutie had stacked teams for their wins. Allen won the Grey Cup with good teams, but never dominating ones.