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Pierce needs to replace Matthews yesterday. Matthews is a negative player for us in a vital position, not only struggling, but negatively impacting the entire offence.

Watching the secondary closely when the play was in front of me, most of the breakdowns appear to be on C Muamba. He takes a very deep drop (essentially taking himself out of the play) and is always 3 or 4 yards late. He's covering turf (a general problem for this secondary in zone) and not covering receivers or playing the ball because he's worried about getting beat deep. He doesn't have a clue. The most useful thing he's done this season is blitz. We'd almost be better off dropping another guy in the box and sending extra rushers in a zone blitz to disrupt the QB's timing than having C Muamba playing DEEP safety. The same 7 yard pass to the inside slot on a hook was there every first down. Hamilton must have run that play 15 times successfully. If we're going to suck we could at least be a bit of a speed bump. Hard to imagine the same guys were responsible for the 2011 defence, it is like they've lost 50 IQ points each since then.

John Murphy would be a good choice. Higgins is working for the league office for a reason. Average coach, not really a personnel/scout type.

He is brutal. Can't make a play on the ball, that first deep ball vs Calgary showed how useless he is. He had ample time to get to the ball, he stopped to get a read on the ball then started for it and stopped again about 3 yards too early. He can't even get in the way. I hope we aren't too far from giving West or Sherman a look.

They were all on Simpson, Goltz pulls it and he's in the 2nd level (first down) with the possibility of more if he can beat a HB. He needs to read that end on his right, they are attacking his inside or outside gap depending on what he shows, he went inside (B or 4) the ball and Goltz needed to go outside (C or 6). Goltz's TD was almost exactly the same, except he made the right choice on that one.

So what was wrong with play call? It was a read play, instead of pulling it and busting contain when both ends crashed in, Goltz gave it to Simpson with three Lions already there. Bad read, nothing wrong with the call. That is Goltz's bread and butter, he sucks on sneaks from under centre, IMO that is exactly what every OC in the league would call in that spot with Goltz.

Intimidation probably isn't the best word to describe it. It's way harder to gain the respect of pros and even higher level college players (Big 12 vs WAC), and it was pretty obvious early on that Hawkins was not respected by the Als.

Hawkins will only have success in non-AQ NCAA football where intimidation still works as a motivator. Not a pro coach, not even a great college coach and a ridiculous hire.

"Community" ownership means the team is ultimately owned by the city and province. When it teeters on the brink of financial ruin, it'll be the city and province bailing it out with loans, for example the last time the Bombers got to keep city entertainment taxes collected on Bomber tickets.

I think this will end up happening in the not too distant future. The Bombers won't be able to service the debt for very long, the provincial government will take pennies on the dollar and TNSE will get the team for basically nothing in exchange for taking the liability from the city and province.

I wouldn't go that far. They did almost everything they could to put a home game on a platter for the Eskimos to win in the 4th quarter.

The passes are sold through the Bombers/Ticketmaster. Doesn't mean they are getting the money and they aren't. Any parking revenue they are getting is offset by increased costs of transportation. The university is getting the bulk of it. The loan has increased by over $10 million over the life for some extras they added, and they haven't made a payment in the first two years of the loan.

Bombers get zero from parking, university is reaping those profits. Revenues will be higher, but they need to turn an operating profit of $4.5 million to service the debt. They've only done that 2006 (Grey Cup). They are paying more for transportation, policing etc than they budgeted. The margins are razor thin, there isn't $500,000 to spend on a coach while paying two others.

Any stand run by Ovations.

Dickenson gets paid as much as our HC now. There is no chance the Bombers could afford to pay Burke for 2 seasons, Mack for 1 and hire Higgins, Forde and Dickenson for what they would command.

Way too easy for Mitchell to make a 5-10 yard throw. The point of zone defence isn't to cover turf, it is to cover receivers, if you are playing zone and you're not with a receiver, something is wrong. Suber and Johnson both got victimized bad on TD's because they were watching the QB and not covering their zone. Markett isn't a HB, and sure as hell isn't strong enough to play boundary HB. H Muamba really sucks at reading screen passes, and now everyone knows it. C Muamba just really sucks generally. We only have one DB who I have confidence in to make a play on the ball when it's in the air, that's Washington. The rest are lost. The DL got pressure but didn't keep contain so Mitchell just rolled away from it. Embarrassing mistakes all over the place. Lining up offside. Motioning the TE over but not having a receiver get up on the line (called for no end). Pretty good juxtaposition of a well-coached team vs. one that isn't last night.

Zone read all day. Every time we ran it there was a positive play, running and passing. Since Goltz is a threat with his legs he draws the playside end and LB, since he is a threat with his arm they aren't stacking the box and the lanes were there for Simpson, you get the HB's and safety peeking in and there are openings for the receivers. The triple threat factor makes the defense pause and then our offence can make plays. It was working incredibly well on the scoring drives, then we went back to straight drop back passing and stalled. I really thought they found a rhythm on the scoring drives, and they were flat out beating Calgary's defense, they were off-balance, then the play calling went away from what worked and our defense couldn't get off the field.

There's no reason why Anderson should be on the roster over Pierce. The 3 drops were brutal. First day of football practice in your life you learn to catch the ball with your hands, not your body. We had no big targets, our biggest receivers were Etienne and Kohlert, putting a 5'9 guy who can't battle a DB at boundary WR (Anderson), really limited our offence. Denmark would have made more sense out of the guys we had dressed, but really why wasn't D Pierce dressed?

Horrendous punt spot at the 2 for Edmonton. Even worse that the replay control centre couldn't get it right. The ball landed on the sideline 5 yards deep in the endzone! There's no possible way it could have crossed the sideline in the air at the 2. Game changing terrible call.

Likely an overuse injury due to returning too quickly from the ACL. Guys are pushing way too hard to come back early from a torn ACL. Not everyone is Adrian Peterson, the target for 100% return is a calendar year. Sears is about 3 months short of that right now, and has been practicing for over a month.

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And it is his job to put them in a position to succeed (win). That goes for being prepared x and o wise, and mentally. He doesn't seem overly confident in his ability or his teams ability. The first thing he led with when he took over last season was "I don't know anything about offence."

No excuses now. No "protect Buck" scheming. Goltz can do it all, so we should really see some creativity out of Crowton. The zone read should work good in the run game since Goltz is actually a threat to keep it and run.

Ya I misread the tweet.

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