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  2. Argos at Bombers, The Big One

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    1 hour ago, Noeller said:

    I'll eat it if I have to, but mark me down right now... on September 26th..... that the Argos will be upset in the EF this year. Whether it's Hamilton or Montreal, someone's gonna catch them sleeping and keep them outta the big game. 

    so this post made me curious and I did a little research:

    the odds are with the Argos -- in the past ten years, there have been 18 Grey Cup finalists and 14 of them were division winners.  The exceptions:

    * 2021 (the Argos lost the EF)

    * 2019 (the Roughriders lost the crossbar game.)

    * 2013 (the Stamps and Argos both lost their divisional finals)

    The worst all-time collapse of this nature is the 16-2 Eskimos of 1989, who got sniped in the west final by the Roughriders, who went on to win their second title stripe in franchise history)

  3. Argos at Bombers, The Big One

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    53 minutes ago, Noeller said:

    I never encourage trying to hurt a guy, because you never want a guy to lose the chance to support his family, but....... I really would love to see him get smacked around but good. That smirk wiped off his face. He seems like the type who is quick to whine and point fingers, kinda like Faj. I would enjoy watching that bit of drama. 

    I haven't followed the Argos closely enough this year -- have they faced any big adversity?  Tough injuries, position controversies, that kind of thing? 

    You could say that their weird backloaded schedule is kind of adversity, but they clinched so far in advance that they're going to be able to give all their key players multiple bye weeks leading into the playoffs.

    I guess the early clinch is a form of adversity -- are they going to stay a high-performance outfit while playing out the string?

    anyway, I'm so stoked for this week's game; outside of a championship game this is sports drama at its best.

  7. Elks vs Jam Packed

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    2 hours ago, Noeller said:

    Say whatever you want about the Elks but it's fantastic to have a true Canadian CIS QB succeeding in our league. There was never a doubt he was the best QB they had... their best shot at winning. 

    Hell, I root for any exciting young QB coming into our league, no matter the passport or team.  The CFL as a league can't prosper without good QBs.

  8. Former Bombers in NFL (and spring leagues) news

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    On 2023-09-10 at 2:27 PM, SpeedFlex27 said:

     He needed great OL around him to be effective. He didn't make the Lions OL better or was a difference maker all by himself. The same with Desjarlais.

    Isn't that true for all OL?  Can any one OL turn around a line that doesn't already have the other pieces in place? 

    I think back to when we signed our GOAT tackle Bryant in 2014 and our OL was still terrible and got Willy killed.

  9. Boatman Versus KittyCats GD Thread.

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    On 2023-09-07 at 9:41 AM, Bigblue204 said:

    On that specific play. It's one db that would already be out of making the first contact on Ouellette. It provided tape making sure it won't work for the rest of the year. Just bad use of it imo.

    Yeah but say you're a DC and you're game planning for a big game vs. the Argos... now you have one more thing to plan for and one more thing the players have to absorb in film study ...and maybe when you play them the Argos run a different kind of play out of that alignment...

    (I don't know anything about football, do coaches play the long game like this, selectively exposing concepts to try to influence future games?)

  15. Blue Bombers - 2023 Regular Season - Discussion Thread

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    On 2023-08-28 at 4:28 PM, JohnnyAbonny said:

    Calvillo was 41 when he retired iirc. Point remains, it’s very impressive to be an MOP front runner at 35-36 years old

    For a lot of his career Calvillo had a wicked good OL to go with his fast delivery.  The dude was low mileage for someone his age ... compare the amount of punishment he took to what someone like Ricky Ray took.

    Man Ricky Ray took a licking and kept on ticking.  You look at QBs like Khari or Matt Nichols or even Drew Willy who faded so quick after getting beat up and then you look at Ray who was never anything less than effective even behind shitty OLs ... RR15 underrated for toughness...

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