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I'd be very surprised if we ended up with 10 wins. I'd be happy with 3-3 in the last 6, with one of those wins hopefully being the game vs BC. I don't expect us to do better than 1-2 vs Edmonton and Calgary, more likely 0-3.

It's WPG vs B.C. for 4th. Such is life we finish 5th and out of the playoffs BUT we would be in 1st place in the East and THEN we'll see where those separate division lovers are. Sunseri vs Calgary and Edmonton x5? I have a feeling BC isn't going to have a tough time catching and passing the Riders. BC shouldn't have too much trouble winning at least 3 of their remaining games, probably should win 4. Saskatchewan would have to win 2-3 games to match them. We have to win 3 more games than the Riders in the final 3rd to pass them in the standings. Not very likely IMO.

Agreed. The inability to find better import talent for the OL is vexing to say the least. League-wide IMO. There are a couple dominant guys, but even Olafioye looked like crap against us at RT on Friday. Could have been called for tons of holds, hands to the face etc, and he's supposed to be dominant. I thought he was Kirby Fabien at one point because he was having a lot of trouble.

Playbook looks much more geared towards Collaros than what the TiCats started with in July.

Chick's been a magician for most of the past 3 weeks.

So, as long as they stayed in their gaps, and made their tackles, the run defence would work….sounds about right. So, what does that tell you? That it isn't working. I'll leave that for you to figure out. No, it's you that figured it out, maybe, Not once did i say it was working, nor did I say I agree with the concept. All I said …….was not to put words in O'Shea's mouth that he didn't say. I didn't say he said anything. I just alluded to the "everything is ok" attitude shown by some posters during the Joe Mack era. We don't need a repeat of that. What I'm seeing is buck-passing: "We'd be fine, if everybody just does their jobs". Sounds like typical corporate ass-covering to me. I'll take a lot of heat for not being on the MOS bandwagon, but I don't hate the guy. And I'm sure given time, he'll be a very good coach. But I must say, he's almost Kelly-esque in his denial of failure. Let the flames begin! And we have no idea what happens behind closed doors, which is where 99% of coaching is happening. Do you think MOS says, "no problems, good job boys" when they are reviewing film? Highly doubt it. Can almost guarantee guys are getting chewed out and coached up by MOS and their position coaches. Don't put too much stock into what the media gets or doesn't get.

Collaros and Reilly, plus Glenn who has started all but 1 for BC.

Sucks more for SASK and WPG who do not have that capable veteran backup like BC (GLenn was their starter anyway this year) and Calgary have. Smart GM's. Well, would you rather have Glenn or Goossen in this season where we have about a .00001 % chance of winning the Grey Cup with either on our roster? BC is hosting the Grey Cup and their starter was guaranteed to miss half the season, it made sense for them, doesn't make sense for us given where our team is. Walters was smart to take the long view on this one.

What do you want O'Shea to do? Practice mind control? He doesn't control his players thoughts. Speaks more to the focus of individual players who focused on that rather than doing their job properly each play.

Wasn't a fumble. He was called for intentional grounding on that play. Brohm looked ok to me. He's not as accurate as Willy, that is for sure, but you could say that about every CFL QB outside of Ricky Ray. The last couple drives before BC's final touchdown he looked pretty good. Zero help from his receivers. Then after the Lions final TD the floodgates opened on the OL. Good decisions generally though, you can see him working through his reads and he never put the ball in harms way. I think he'll be an average CFL QB, we'll see as he gets more reps. Going to be hard for any of our backups with basically no running game. You could see it when Brohm was in there. We were always in 2nd and long, BC would rush 3, maybe blitz a LB and drop 8 or 9 into coverage. Good luck working against that. Hard enough for an elite QB like Willy. I'd like to see us install some sort of option package for Portis. Remember seeing him run that kind of stuff at Florida and Maryland, he could be a good change of pace, give us a bit of a running game, wake up Grigsby a bit too maybe, get him the ball out in space with the D having to respect Portis' ability to keep the ball himself.

Doubt it's the collarbone, they would have immediately went for x-rays and his arm would have been immobilized in a sling against his chest. When they showed him at the end of the game his right arm was at his side and he was moving it.

Cornish will catch Grigsby in terms of rushing and yards of scrimmage by the end of next week. 7 games vs 12.

Cut from Tim Burke directly to Cornish scoring a 25 yard TD.

Change the channel.

You really think the scheme changes now? Pretty sure professional football coaches have enough confidence in their ability to do their jobs that "hype" won't sway them away from doing their job properly.

I guess, it was .1 of a second away from being late and there was no way in hell Emry would have been able to stop had any part of Mitchell hit turf before he got there. The guy is basically already on the turf. I'd rather see that kind of hit taken out of the game than 90% of the crap that's actually become a point of emphasis, like touching a QB's ankle when he's in the pocket.

Tim Burke, brilliant defensive coordinator.

Pretty dirty illegal block on that reverse. The block didn't get Hughes but the aftermath did.

No kidding. And if it's 7 PM on a Thursday we can't bring the kids cause they'll be sleepy over breakfast on Friday.

That's because it isn't a valid comparison. Trouba is probably going to play 15 years in the NHL at least assuming he avoids serious injury. You can invest time into developing a player like that in hockey. When the average CFL/NFL player has a career of around 3 seasons, you can't invest a lot of time in developing players. This is especially true for imports, but also non-imports. If guys can't play well and contribute right away, why bother? We should call this the Etienne Principle. By the middle of next season, we might forget who Nic Grigsby is, especially as a running back. When there are 500 guys unemployed and just as good as you looking for work in football, you do need to produce consistently to keep a job.

You realize he basically insulted everyone else who replied to this thread before anyone even responded to him, right?

My thought, when did Wiecek become a columnist? Where is the reporting? And finally, I'm glad I didn't pay to read this.

The person who really deserves grief is the sports editor at the FP. He needs to challenge the reporters to do better, and their columnist at times too. Problem is the Free Press is governed by seniority. They can't get rid of anybody once they are tenure, people get promoted based on seniority and whenever they need to make cuts or changes, it is all done by seniority not merit. There's another doozy by Wiecek in the FP today, which has basically nothing to do with the game today, on gameday. Interesting that these types of articles almost never have a byline of Tait, Penton or Wiebe.

Woodward, Bernstein and Wiecek. Now we just have to figure out if Deep Throat is Jeffrey Bannon or Jim Bell.

Just imagine how horrible it would be for a team that wins their division but then has to sit for 2 weeks because one of their byes falls in the last week of the season.