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Perfect example of this is the Craig Butler hit on Pierce in the Banjo Bowl. Hit him in the chest, impact rose up and Pierce's helmet flew off. Did Butler drop his head and launch the crown of his helmet into Buck's jaw?

Willis will get the maximum fine for that, but no penalty. Can't lead with your head, especially when you're leading with it into someone's face.

Edmonton's slot was 5 yards offside....

Landon Rice. I played on the provincial team with him my last year of high school when he was in grade 11. That was a pretty good illustration of why you need to pass protect from the inside out. Obviously he's really worried about Sewell just beating him with speed through his outside gap so he's cheating a bit. Huge gap for a potential blitz there too if he keeps that up.

They need to get some movement going on offence, Hamilton. Misdirection and get Collaros and the pocket moving.

BC is giving these games away, literally. Montreal on their own haven't looked that good, their D is good for sure, IMO they'll win 2-3 games on the back of the D. But over 18 games they'll spend way too much time on the field.

I'm more of a 4-bit art kind of guy.

Both of our import OL who aren't playing are better than this stiff the Lions have playing LT. How the hell does a guy that bad even get to game day? He's had a dozen plays in this game where he doesn't even move out of his stance. He's making Jordan Taormina look like Jonathan Ogden. Glenn has no confidence right now.

Really doubt they could put the games into other cities on that short of notice. They'd have to eat a lot of money in terms of flights, hotels etc. They'll play in a parking lot with lines painted on it before that.

Jovon was over the top most of the time last night, covering a deep third.

Now if he can learn to defend a pass, he'll be a good DB.

He's usually the 2nd returner on kickoffs. The big adjustment the Bombers made on kickoffs, and this was with Woods too after the first quarter, was to test the Redblacks contain to the width of the field rather than run behind the wedge.

This. He made a really strong catch coming into the field, I believe his first of the game, against zone that was very encouraging though. If he can do that over 18 games, we'll be in good shape. Interesting that he's exclusively playing slot so far. Willy made the great pre-snap read on the blitz that left Kelly 1 on 1 for that bomb to close it out. Teams might learn the hard way about Willy's ability to make a read and a throw.

That accidental PI was total crap. It was either full PI or nothing. IMO the ref who tossed the flag thought he made the wrong call and ended up going halfway. The Ottawa DB had his arm on the Bombers receivers back they whole way down the field. Did he impede him, debatable. Accidental is when they trip over each others feet or something like that.

I'd rather Goossen at centre and Morley at guard if they are both starting.

Yappy too. It was funny, Jovon was beaking the Bomber bench pretty hard whenever he was on that side of the field, and he got it back pretty good from Demond Washington at the end of the game.

I would suspect that the TOP stats are the reason for that. Have the ball more you have more chances to go 2 and out. TOP isn't the number of possessions though. Generally there isn't a difference in the number of possessions teams have unless there are onside kicks or turnovers on special teams. Everyone has the same number of chances to go 2 and out in most games.

I don't get the original joke/point. Etcheverry doesn't know what a blitz is? If anything the opposite is true.

Maybe I misread but I thought I saw something like 80 of his 120 yards last week were after contact. That seems way off from my viewings of that game. He's made people miss clean, often with a spin, and busted contain like crazy, but has barely broken any tackles, basically has gone down with any contact. They must be counting any time he runs by a defender as "contact."

Blocking and getting almost no yards after contact are huge red flags on him. He's made some plays though through 2 games.

Most of the CFL players who try to land on an NFL roster have to go through numerous tryout camps trying to qualify and I would think less than 50% of those who try actually catch on. I think it's the players and their agents driving this process as the scenario of an NFL team chasing after a CFL player seems pretty far removed from the reality. Is there any other example of this happening other than Cameron Wake? Even a standout like Muamba had no actual suitors even after a few years of great play, I believe it was his initiative that eventually landed him a spot with the Colts. Should the Colts compensate the Bombers for developing him??? Maybe...but it's hard to comprehend what the rules of such an agreement would look like. No they don't. They might have a workout with a team, but I think you're confusing OTA's with tryout camps, which they are to a point for rookies to earn a spot into the main training camp, but the guys in OTA's are on NFL contracts. Why is it "pretty far removed for reality" for NFL teams to have interest in CFL players? Most of the guys in the CFL have already spent time with NFL teams, even played in regular season NFL games and just on the fringe of being a NFL player. Guess what, 3/4 players are on that fringe. You could drop 100 CFLers into the NFL tomorrow and nobody would notice a difference.

It's 12:30 and I just got home. Left after the final knee, made no stops on the way. That's going to kill walk-up, especially on these Thursday nights.

I agree. A pretty big miscalculation on the Bombers part. The cottage crap has always been way overstated. People will do other things (on weekends) or nothing (on weekdays) if the Bombers make themselves a crappy option by fielding a poor team and having a terrible environment for their fans. That's what really needs/needed to change, not the schedule.

They really buggered things up by getting rid of the option year window in 2010. Teams have been making these deals with players to let them out of their contracts ever since. I don't really see the issue with teams getting a few bucks from the NFL for something happening already.

Further to that, the style of defense played by Ottawa should be a hell of a lot harder to make big plays and score TD's against than what we saw from Toronto (combined with inexperienced DB's), gonna be a lot of cover 3 and the receivers need to be ready to make catches while getting hit. I honestly wouldn't be shocked with any result, I just want to keep seeing positive steps from our key players.