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Returner situation is ridiculous. We started the season with a guy who didn't even return punts in the pre-season game. The pre-season had no focus on preparing for the real game. Special teams easily cost us 10 points in that game aside from Castillo. Chris-Ike is an extremely raw rookie. I was pretty surprised he made the opening roster. Easily could have kept Rosery as a solid teams guy who can back up all over the offense and maybe even fill that blocking back role. Now we'll probably bring on Murphy when we drop Mitchell and Chris-Ike will go down to PR for Feltmate in the next couple weeks who is more of a pure special teamer with not a ton of utility.

Because they like him and he's an upgrade on special teams. PR spot basically opens up because Lawler is down. Wouldn't be surprised to see a bit of a roster shift this week with Mitchell coming off for someone who can cover kicks (like Jones) and Holm/Bonds returning punts.

I mean the one PR spot is only for a Global player. So if they cut one they just decrease the PR size by one. Feltmate is a really solid add. Surprised Hamilton didn't leave him on Retired List. And the answer is who the **** cares. Jones has been moving guys in and out of that defense like a moron. All rookie secondary cost him the game yesterday.

Ouellette is trash. Could have spent that money on a good player.

Kind of stupid to kick the PAT there and not go for 2 and the 9 point lead.

They really need to make Edmonton's down and distance colour on the score bug different than the colour for a penalty flag.

Liked the Rider receiver yelling for the facemask on his own guys tackle of the Edmonton DB with the pick. Forgot which team he plays on for a few seconds?

I understand. It's stupid. I wonder at what point management/team president intervenes. I don't care if you want to put 12 Canadians on the field....this roster rule allows more flexibility and there's zero downside. Could spend 5 minutes each week to figure out who it is. Abdication of duty for whoever is setting the roster to not do it. They wouldn't submit a roster short a DI. It's basically the same thing.

Yeah they'll play who they want for whatever sets. The rule just gives them even more flexibility. Say you have 1-2-3-4 injuries in a game. Gives you the ability to basically put 12 on the field especially on D where they are only "starting" 1 Canadian really. It's insane to just completely ignore it. They could basically run the defense without even thinking about the ratio in terms of their sub packages.

This ref looks surprised that he got on the field.

Man Litre didn't look good taking that snap. Came up really high. Wouldn't get more than a yard like that.

BLM lost his fastball. Only has a sinker left.

Could easily use it on Jefferson with the American DL we have dressed. Designate him and for 22 snaps when he's out there you can have an all-American D.

Spotter doing a great job when the guy in distress runs another play and then gets pulled.

Lotta fear in the playcalling in this game. Shitty QB's.

Can only drink beer at McMahon tonight and each team gets one bucket of water for post game showers.

Honestly better than something with a joint or collarbone. He'll be back by Labour Day.

The guy can still sub for any American. Could "start" Bridges and designate Alexander behind Ford/Hallett/Gauthier. He can sub for any of those guys for 22 snaps in the game and sub for Bridges (or any other American) the entire game if you want. The depth charts don't really matter just for those designated players. Teams don't have to play the first snap with the 12 guys on O or D on that chart as a "starter." Tim White is one for Hamilton. Their biggest star.

Look at their depth chart and Hamilton’s

If the Bombers want to figure out how to use the Designated American they should look at Calgary's depth chart this week. There's absolutely no reason to not use this. Even if you don't plan on using it to the limit you increase your flexibility in case of injury(ies) immensely.

Died in the second half. By 4th Q non-factor and Bombers had any wind advantage anyway. At field level the uprights were going pretty significantly north to south in first half. When Collaros dropped that bomb for Schoen that was picked he was into the wind.

Pretty damn windy last night. ZC has regularly struggled with that playing with any ball and our offense has never really done a great job of making the adjustments for it. Kind of downfield or nothing.

A lot of those issues with allowing the Als to flood on cover are related to Mitchell not attacking the ball. Then everyone is anticipating him actually grabbing the ball but he's still waiting and the Als are all right at the line of No Yards ready to drop on him.

New slogan, "our balls are chippier." All they need to do is have balls set aside for kicking. NFL has forever.

They were 100% attacking zone at some points. On several plays that went for first downs Ford just dropped into his deep third and watched the rest of the play happen in front of him. We don't know what their keys are, but I assume they don't want guys to drop right out like that when the route from the slot is in breaking in a 3 man route. At that point in any Cover 3 I've been a part of the corner is reading deep outside breaking route (none) and down to the wideout, not keep giving up depth for no reason. The half has to cover that route to the safety and the SAM would trail the inside slot/tight end either way. It was basically a free first down once they ran it a couple times and realized Ford was lost. Then they just played with his eyes all night, short and deep. Get him worried about smoke screens, run the setup to give that look and go over top of him. Hopefully comes back with lessons learned from this experience because he hasn't played much actual football since he left U Sports.