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After seeing the effort from almost everyone (at least everyone who's on the team) in pre-season and game 1, it's not hard to move on from Banks and this situation says more about Banks than O'Shea and his staff. Everyone has a paddle in the water except for Banks. See ya.

Banks asked for his release because he doesn't like his role after one week. Guess he's not a lead by example guy... Very similar to Armstrong, Banks also balking at being a DI.

It's more that he turned it over throughout the game than not being able to put together the drive to tie the game. If BC turns the ball over twice instead of five times, Edmonton isn't even in that game. And it's not as though Edmonton's "takeaways" were particularly aggressive, mostly balls hitting them right in the numbers. Very sloppy game for BC, but Edmonton didn't show a lot of positives either outside of Bowman looking to be in mid-season form. The best thing they did was not turn the ball over.

I look forward to seeing this Bombers D vs Reilly. As long as they don't let him run/scramble for 150 yards it could be a big day for them. He's not diagnosing anything pre-snap, even against more basic defenses, so that gives the D that extra second to get to him, along with his tendency to try to extend plays all the time and their crap OL. They don't appear to have much of a run game outside of Reilly either. I'm not reading too much into this result. Glenn turned the ball over, that was the real difference in the game, and Edmonton still barely managed to pull it out. He won't be giving it away like that very often.

I'd imagine we'll see a "national" receiver added to the PR soon too.

Yep, and eventually 80% becomes 100%, Watson's probably already there.

I think it was the dropsies Bowman suffered here that had more to do with Bowman's departure. Sure, almost all of his drops were on one route that Lapolice kept sending him on even though he had trouble tracking the ball on that one route. Coach should have found a way to make him useful, ridiculous talent just put to waste here in that 2010 season.

It's too bad Lapolice couldn't get over the fact that Bowman has trouble tracking the ball on corner routes, cause he is a monster on the other 95% of the route tree.

Ochocinco isn't a scrub, Deslauriers is decent and Whitaker is great at catching out of the backfield. Deslauriers has hit 300 yards in his career twice in 7 years.... Jade had 265 in half a season last year.

Reilly has the pocket presence of a young Alex Brink. They won't be able to get him to stop running cause that's his best play.

Reilly holds the ball for a long time and his OL is terrible. Bad combo.

I'm sorry but JJ did everything this organization asked him to do and never complained publicly, ever. I think there were huge 'attitude' problems last year... once the coach visibly quit on the team and the GM vanished. The description came from Wiecek, so take that for what its worth. Considering how little Poblah and Banks have contributed to their respective clubs, this looks like a lose-lose transaction. Huh? Poblah's playing for BC.

They can't judge intent, but that's as intentional as it gets. Cornish will be lucky if his jaw isn't broken.

A flying right hook. Should be an ejection if the back judge was watching.

We need to dress another NI, doesn't necessarily have to be a receiver. We have Pontbriand, Fitzgerald and Volny on offence too as cover beyond the 3 receivers for 2 spots. If Alexander is ready he might take Watson's roster spot vs Ottawa. Kyle Norris would be another option.

Shutout in the first half with a 15 yard penalty on the 2nd half kickoff. Doesn't get much worse.

Als should just run All Go every down and hope they hit 1 or 2 of them.

If the Als are lucky, Smith will reach the upside of Michael Bishop. Have a handful of spectacular games, but inconsistent and inaccurate. I don't believe Marsh is much better either.

His analysis of Jeff Fuller was good. Played 3 games in 2013, only 15 catches. Yes, only. 5 catches a game= 90 a season. Only 90.

Meh, it's football, it is ruthless. I think most players would rather play for a team that puts the guys on the field who most deserve it.

Are you sure? I've got a tracker from their site http://www.tsn.ca/draftcentre/feature/?id=120382 or am I looking at something different from what you wanted? Maybe it was an ad for TSNGO that took over my screen, either way I just flipped to NHL.com once I saw TSNGO.

Bell was smart enough to block their NHL Draft tracker with the TSNGO crap. Guess I'll take my web traffic to one of the other 1000 sites providing that service today.

Returner too.

Looked like Jim Barker thought he was the head coach last night. Kind of crazy to see the GM on the field arguing with the officials. I didn't notice that but I did chuckle at the shot of Barker standing right behind Milanovich at the start of the 2nd half scowling with his arms crossed while Milanovich uncomfortably fidgeted with his headset. It was after the play in the back of the endzone on Argo 3rd down where Washington got called for unnecessary roughness but they called the penalty as occurring after the change of possession, giving the Bombers the ball -15 yards. It was Murray Clarke calling it as the back judge, he does owe us a few dozen calls.

And really, the fact that teams know the Bombers are hyper aware of that on punts, and willing to let Renaud throw the ball (hey it's better than letting him kick off a tee) might make them hesitant to put a punt block on with extra guys inside.