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That is true but the practice roster expands now whenever the Bombers want it to. As a for instance, say they released Dressler and then the guy replacing him in the depth chart tears his ACL. Now what?You can’t even call Dressler back if it’s after the trade deadline because he’s not eligible to play. If you wanted to bench Dressler why not just stash him on the 1 game IR and put someone else in but keep him in case he ends up being needed since he’s paid anyway?

Vets are paid for the season now. No benefit to cutting them unless having them in the locker room is that bad.

Ya he was fired up and the whole team was too. Seems small but you even see the little celebrations he has with the rest of the guys on offence after the TD’s the last two weeks. This team and offence in particular is in a malaise and Streveler just always brings it and from what we’ve seen brings it out of other guys too. His passing stats probably won’t be pretty, like 55% completion 200 yards something like that (basically Nichols numbers), but he won’t turn it over and he’ll rush for probably at least 8 avg when he runs designed or not. Plus open up space for Harris because the LBs actually have to honour the read option since if he gets one step around the edge he’s gone for 30.

Depends on the width of the field usually in a general sense. The wider side is the strong side, shorter side is weak. A Corner wouldn’t stay near the sideline if all the receivers are bunched closer to the ball though and there’s lots of offensive formations where the strong side LB might line up past the weak side LB on the weak side to match a certain receiver or back.

I personally hate that the Bombers and CFL in general have followed the lead of the LA Kings and others and are trying to use their social media for laughs or to be ironic. You’re a professional football team. Don’t try to piggyback on jokes that have already been made by someone else. It was funny once now it’s just tired.

Yep, all of those guys can run, catch and block. There’s no defense in the league equipped to defend that kind of option attack. Who’s the biggest LB in the league? 235 lbs? Most teams have at least one guy playing in the box who’s 200 or less. Good luck. Plus you still have Adams, Thompkins, Wolitarsky etc downfield, Dressler when he is back. Streveler is a far better passer than most QBs you’d try to run this with so you can have a ton of variety. Hell even if they ran looks like this 20 times a game it would totally **** up every D and their planning. You can basically give Nichols some scaffold to get his mojo back. Lets keep doing the straight drop back passing!

They usually are. These guys are getting graded on everything they do on every play in games and practice. The coaches aren’t going to go on CJOB and read this out to the fans, but I always think it’s pretty ridiculous that people think they aren’t held accountable. And BTW, this has been said about literally every coach I can recall on these forums and the others.

I don't really think that would ever happen because these guys are essentially playing for their careers every week, especially the Americans. I just don't believe that we have any receiver that is very versatile, of the ones we use. They are all kind of one-dimensional and we have Dressler who is a great player but at the end of his career.

That's exactly how I view Streveler...football player. That's why I'm not concerned like some are that he could be damaged if the plays and doesn't dominate. He doesn't give a **** about his stat line, he's playing ball and he's going to be fully engaged in every game he plays. Reilly's first couple years in Edmonton were pretty shaky and look at him now. He threw fewer passes as a Lion than Streveler already has this season.

Crazy how Calgary has abandoned the run with gimpy BLM.

Is BLM wearing the AT's daughter's dancing brace? WTF is that thing? Doesn't look like it's man sized.

Calgary's D is insane. Ton of guys on their first contracts too.

That reaction is almost always ACL or achilles.

BLM just blew his knee out.

You watch BLM and Reilly and how they can move in the pocket, step up, step around the rush and get out of the pocket when it is the right play. You can't defend against that. Then watch Nichols this season, no pocket presence, basically tap dancing in place until the rush gets him, nowhere near the level of these guys.

Maybe we should get Wolitarsky to change his name to FANTUZ and then Lapo will know to make him the first read more!

They showed some this week. Had good adjustments for the blitz in the first half, including some quick routes behind the blitz and Harris. Riders started showing more 3 man pressures, Bombers quit running and Nichols stared blankly downfield in the 2nd half. Personally I'd run like crazy at those 3 man pressures and challenge them to take down Harris, Demski, Lafrance running downhill. Bombers went away from it and didn't seem to have many plays with audibles for Nichols to adjust from pass to run against the 3 man rush, we saw it once and Harris got them into 3rd and short. That was on one of the 2nd half FG drives. Lapo is getting outfoxed every week and too often he's outfoxing himself. Ya they have to adjust, but sometimes you have to trust what is working too. You can also have multiple plans and options to switch into. Seems like the adjustments get made at half and they can't switch out of that. It's mind boggling how many games in the last calendar year that this team has gone 2 consecutive quarters (usually the 2nd and 3rd, sometimes 3rd and 4th) with basically no offensive production in terms of first downs, yards and points.

Disagree. They ran the ball at will when they ran the ball, Nichols had plenty of time. Harris blew it on the one sack and no one even touched Jefferson on a slide protection. No more than a half dozen pressures in that game against the most eager pass rush in the league. It's not a pressure against a 3 man rush when the QB holds the ball for 7 seconds.

Nichols is doing a lot of hesitating in the pocket this year and that's helping pass rushers and hurting his receivers and Harris. They are always waiting for the ball, rarely see someone hit in stride, make catch, get creamed play over. Not much YAC. Lapo needs to fix this in the gameplan, run quick passing game all the time because Nichols is really struggling to make reads and move the ball out.

Wish we had a safety like Woodman. Guy can play, all over the field supporting the DB's in coverage, making plays on the ball. Canadian too. Something we just don't have.

OL was great in Sask. One sack was on them. They were playing arguably the two best pass rushing DE's in the league and the best D in general at pressuring the QB. Nichols struggles to get the ball out and really needs a simplified offense. They ran a simple quick passing game with lots of misdirection and some rollouts in the first half and put together a bunch of drives. They go to a straight dropback passing game in the second half and Nichols can barely complete a pass.

Sub 80 standard QB rating vs over .500 teams, around 78. Has turned the ball over for a TD in each of those games, fumble vs Ottawa and pick six vs Calgary and Sask (which doesn't factor into QB rating). His QUAR, the CFL QB ranking invented last year to better reflect QB impact on winning games, is just over 60 after the Sask game. Was 85.7 last season.

Noticing Cuthbert having a real hard time identifying players this season. Almost Bob Cole-esque.

Or more importantly, in a year where this team is supposed to contend, the #1 QB is .500 with wins against only BC, Toronto and Hamilton (combined 10-17). Only one of those on the road. The BC and Toronto wins versus essentially their backup QB's, guys who have since been demoted. Hard to be too hopeful about this season and this QB. And it's three embarrassing losses.

Cut and paste any number of QB names in there, Buck Pierce, Alex Brink, Drew Willy, Kevin Glenn. Bob loves the QB's. It's rarely their fault. Great PBP man, and has a great historical perspective, not an analyst.