johnzo

100%. And his breakdown of the Nield TD catch was great.

Montreal reminded me of our recent glory days teams ... can sleepwalk thru huge parts of the game, then wake up and stomp their opponents.

I have a theory that gambling oddsmakers hate the 10-point swing that comes on a missed field goal TD return. this is totally idle speculation based on zero hard information, but the CFL isn't exactly being forthcoming about why they're changing the rules.

oh yeah, I don't think bolo is the second coming of Dave Sapunjis or anything like that.... but if you're lining him up as your Canuck WR4/WR5 then you're probably in good shape generally. dude have you met MBB?

yeah, Willson called him out on that. I remember a couple of seasons ago when Demski had a string of bad fumbles over a few games ... during the game when he broke the fumble streak, he was hanging onto that ball for dear life. Soon as any tackler came within five yards of him he'd double up on the ball like he was running through the line. Condell seemed to have leveled up ... good mix of pass and run ... not emptying the backfield in the red zone. He was using Brady frequently but he wasn't spamming him, he had some concepts that really made good use of horizontal pokey. Seemed like he used his talent way better in that game.

Yeah, remains to be seen whether those guys stealing those extra 2-3 contested catches a game will be the new normal ... or whether we just had a weird happy night when everyone balled out. Even with the perfect result last week I would still like to see the roster rejiggered to feature another american receiver. No need for the self-imposed handicap; we don't get any extra points in the standings for playing with one hand tied behind our back.

Pokey really got the team going when he lawler'd that one pass against montreal. Sick catch, absolute thievery, the best he's made this year. Nield had an acrobatic high point too where he went up and took it away from an Al. ******* sweet. about the YAC ... I'm always a little nervous when I see a smaller WR struggle for yards after making a first down catch. I get it that you want players to have a lot of fight in them, but sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. big risk of a fumble and low risk of actually making more yards.

BOLO's on a 500-600 yard pace in Edmonton this year. should've been us.

this play. (clip is cued up even though the thumbnail doesn't make it look so. youtube sucks.)

The good guys win! Good things happen when you don't empty the backfield in the red zone! Tony Jones: pass rusher. Blocks I noticed: Demski erased his man on a Tim White hitch screen and Big Stan got downfield on a linebacker.

the Hamilton center's shotgun snaps are all over the place here.

Guns n' Roses onfield ad? they on tour or something?

Kelly with the nice teams tackle.

touchdown! key to scoring: don't enter the red zone.

yeah, serious outsmarting himself vibes here.

man why do you empty the backfield on 2nd-and-3 in the red zone? When you've got the best power back in the league? Why do you do that? Make it make sense.

solid

Head says this one is a loss for the good guys and it's not close. Heart says LET'S ******* GO!

Robert Kennedy hitting his man like he's vaccinated.

Redblacks controlling the time of possession but down by 15 having given up 21 points off turnovers. Their fans deserve so much better.

it's funny how Lawler's season went into the toilet when BLM got hurt. Lawler is a guy who, at his best, makes QBs look good.... but apparently not with Dole / Ford / Frost.

You can see why we match up well against Ottawa. We can't stop the run and they don't bother trying to run. I don't know what happened to Greg Bell, the guy was no Blink or anything but he was a shifty scarback who could hurt you in space or if he got to the second level. But he's been hit hard by the Ottawa free agent curse and he looks like he's running in cement out there. This is gonna sounds weird but I think Maier is underrated. Put him on an otherwise solid team and he'd game manage some wins. But you can't take a B- quarterback like him and win with him throwing the ball 40+ times a game. You need something else going on on O.

He had beaten his man and Collaros threw it behind him. Blame Zach on that.

this is the correct take. Plus, the dude is making his yards even though we don't have a gamebreaking WR1 for the enemy D to focus on and our WR5 is not a credible threat. Pokey's fine, it's almost literally everything else that's the problem. Can't recruit talent, can't keep the QB safe from a pass rush, and I ain't a fan of Condell's playcalling.

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