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Streveler looked alright considering he was running Nichols offense and Nichols is basically the complete opposite style of QB, along with Streveler's level of experience. Lapo also had about 5 playcalls yesterday, Harris/Flanders search run, Demski sweep, QB Draw, RB slip screen and a handful of pocket passing plays. Can't really judge Streveler until he actually gets to run an offense designed for his strengths.

That's hogwash. To have one guy as good at both placekicking and punting is extremely rare. There are better punters, but they don't placekick. There are a couple placekickers in his realm but they don't punt. He's definitely worth one of four DI spots considering most teams are using 2 roster spots and more cap space on kickers, at least the teams with good kickers.

That's not a fact. That's an assumption.

So the offense would be better if Harris and Demski were replaced by imports, just because they are imports? That's a fact? Are you actually serious? The imports are the ones underperforming on offense.

That’s such a load of bullshit.

Let him call the plays and find out.

And the D was never that bad. The O has struggled forever to be consistent. Bombers have been best field position team for years and always one of the best turning the ball over defensively since 2016. O has had amazing games and games where they can’t get a first down. I’ve been sounding this alarm for at least a year. It’s blatantly obvious and shouldn’t take a bunch of games where the O scores more for the opposing team than ours to make significant changes.

They didn’t run a single read option. You are talking about a quarterback draw. There was no other option. The play was just Streveler running, no back to hand it to, no pass option, no read to make other than for Streveler to try to find a gap to run to. They had zippo installed for Streveler, nothing. The only difference between the calls for him and Nichols was they called QB Draw twice in that half he played. It was a disgraceful display of coaching by Lapolice. How can they go into that game knowing where Nichols is at and not give reps to Streveler and have a game plan ready for Streveler as well? To me that’s fireable amount of negligence for an OC.

Lapo should watch a lot of Mike Reilly film if he needs a blueprint for building a gameplan for Streveler. They get him on the move all the time and challenge the defense to hold contain and cover 3-4 guys in the route that are accessible to Reilly.

More than 2.

Running Nichols playbook.

8 NI's. 7 on O, 1 on D. But doesn't really matter just means there's an import on O who can sub in for anyone, really 6 on O, 1 on D.

He also has a coaching and support staff that doesn't fit on a Canadian sized football field....until next season. They don't look that good. Bombers blow out both games with even average QBing. You'd expect to lose by 20-30 handing the other team 3 scores a game.

Always PVR TSN3 for Bomber games.

You'd just have to start Petermann in addition to Wolitarsky and Demski to be able to go all import on D. I mean they could have done it anyway today with 4 NI OL starting. But once they go back to 3 NI OL, start the three receivers, you have Simonise to backup along with Lafrance, probably call back Tylor Henry and dress him instead of the 7th OL dressed today.

Ya when two import receivers went out. The backups are Canadians, we didn't have a DI receiver. I don't for the life of me understand what they love about Loffler so much. You'd think you'd want any of the guys on your defensive depth chart to make some plays on the ball carrier and the ball. He's barely made any in 12 games. We also only dressed 6 DL, one of them being here only 2 weeks. That's a disaster. Need at least 7. Not sure why we don't have more options on our practice roster in terms of imports on both lines.

I think they've done a good job of shifting the demographic of who is buying tickets younger. But they've lost a lot of mature fans with the transition to the new stadium. And I'm not trying to get into the blame game about people not going even though it's so convenient now. There's a perception and an experience people have had and that is something they have to fight against to sell tickets.

Ticket sales aren't good. They've been down every year since the move to the new stadium win or lose, and are several thousand below the average of the same period in the old stadium. They are playing to about 80% of capacity. In the old stadium it was over 85%.

Bombers dominated field position today. Riders left their base defense on for punt return to stop the fakes.

Really the worst coaching decision made was starting Nichols. There's a 17 point handicap in each of the last two weeks. Chris Jones didn't do anything to earn that.

And in BC where literally 2 first downs in the fourth quarter on any of 3 drives would have ended the game. No offense for a whole half. Happens far too often.

And in any game we've had reasonable offense the D has been more than adequate.

Harris has to be hurt. I don't think he played much more than half the offensive snaps.

Actual stats can't come fast enough to football coverage in this country. They just look at boxcar stats, have no context.

Walby must share my brain. Just said Wolitarsky reminds him of Gerald Wilcox and Fantuz.