3 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

Former Bomber Mike Benson signs with the Riders.

2 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

I'll take the smothering defense we had in 2021 for 200, Alex.

The 2019 playoff D was just an absolute joy to watch.

Other defense are free to suck, but the Bombers O and D both need to be dominant.

I don't ask for much.

So also worth remembering, that Cobb is only playing cause Clercius is hurt anyway so it's not like he was a planned starter or anything.

38 minutes ago, sweep the leg said:

I won’t name names, but a few years ago somebody private messaged me on this site to challenge me to a fight in person lol.

Jeeze even after all the **** I talk no one has wanted to fight me... what a failure I am

They will get the D figured out i have no doubts about that. Between Oshea, Younger and Hall there's too many bright minds and pride to let it stay that bad.

5 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

I do expect our receivers to work together as a unit making it difficult for defenses to cover them all

Choosing to make that argument when our wb goes over 400nyards passing and multiple receivers had very good stats lines seems like poor timing for this argument.

15 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

Did our much coveted tight end even play?

He was in as a blocker a bunch. They used a lot of protection schemes.

3 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Not sure if I would use "great" to describe Collaros' performance but it was certainly enough to win if we had an even mediocre effort by the defence.

Then what the **** was it? The int that was tossed wasn't his fault. Receiver wound up on his ass. He threw a touchdown pass to Nield early which the Receiver didn't haul in.

If the defense had played half assed decently, not even good, just not god awful collaros likely drops 40 points on Hamilton and goes over 500 yards.

So yeah the total passing numbers weren't huge... but the troubling part is that whenever Hamilton tried to pass, it was there. Pitch and catch with wide open guys all night AND run game whenever they wanted it too. Just totally unprepared to play on D. Everyone making the comparison to the Jim Daley era defense is spot on. It was that kind of smelly bad.

Lucky for us the Hamilton D was almost as bad so the score wasn't a total blow out. Offense looks a lot better than last season already.

D was pathetic. That is all

41 minutes ago, Goalie said:

if a db or 2 goes down, we are screwed.

Cfl rosters, you lose a couple guys at any position you're generally screwed in game.

All in all was a pretty good cfl game IMO.

3 minutes ago, bigg jay said:

It's not hard to figure out. He showed well as rookie but hasn't been the same since his knee injury. Not the first player it's happened to and won't be the last.

Yeah he showed promise as a young guy but never took that next step. Happens a lot. He's still got value as a special teamer maybe, but as a starter since he's not needed for ratio reasons there's no reason to start him.

11 minutes ago, Mike said:

Jake Kelly taking reps with the starting D, are. you. kidding. me?

He's paid his dues!

2 hours ago, wbbfan said:

Yep.

Boy, am I looking forward to watching him get whupped by Ceresna this week.

-18 with a wind isn't that unusual

29 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Not anymore when the season starts in May

Still true when everyone makes the playoffs!

I think a lot of problems stemmed from preseason not being used at all to get the starting units in sync.

I'll say I was less worried about the dbs than the linebackers....

Offense about what you'd expect. Some hits, some misses. Think the OL will wind up being good this year. Receivers dropped way too many balls. Collaros was OK given his lack of arm. Could have used some more help.

Defensive line can actually get after a qb again, nice to see. Now play contain too.

57 minutes ago, Mike said:

Brother, can you please just relax on this obsession that you have with Booch? I don't know if you are aware this is what is happening, but here's how literally everyone else sees these conversations going.

Goalie (completely unprovoked): "BOOCH THIS BOOCH THAT Booch is so annoying" followed by a strange multi paragraph rant

Booch (in response): "I mean, in response to what you said, I actually was kind of proven right on that particular point"

Goalie (in response): "Lighten the **** up dude"

It's game day of the season opener, it's been a long off-season, we all have our faults but for crying out loud, just grow up and enjoy today for what it is. The start of the Bomber season. Go Blue.

Another classic drive by from Mike 🙄

33 minutes ago, captaincanuck12 said:

Bryant's age does concern me and I really hope he gets pushed by Randolph

Oh have I got some news for you...

Yeah the healthy top 5 group of receivers you can absolutely work with... but what's after them? Yikes.

Honestly pokey, white and demski isn't the worst group you can have.... they just gotta stay healthy. Probably see different guys stepping up in different games depending on what the other team's doing.

It's just the depth is pretty nonexistent

Adding Jake Ceresna to the DL changes the complexion of that unit and the D so much. Hard not to be stoked to see what they can do.