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If it is so easy then why are the Bombers 6-2? Why have they won amongst the most games cumulatively the last few seasons? Why is Harris always one of the top yardage guys in the league? Harris is the star of this offense, God damn rights they're going to use him a lot.

Well at least with the neck thing bighill wears there is at least some attempt at making a scientific case other than "magic"

Wrong.

That's not what he said, he said Bighill was a shill cashing in trying to promote the thing. There is a difference. Especially since Brown falls more into the blowhard category than someone who will take a position based on extensive research.

It's not what ifs, it's asking for insight into one's thought process.

You know you could just admit you read the original comment wrong instead of doubling down on your ignorance.

BECAUSE HE HAS DONE IT BEFORE IN THIS VERY CITY COACHING THIA VERY TEAM!!!!!

Are you intentionally being daft or what? It's not about last week, it's about this week. As in if they score a couple td against BC is the trend upward again. Seriously pay attention.

Makes perfect sense if you read it correctly. If we score 2 more, as in this week score 2 more is the trend upwards.

Not blaming Reilly, just using him as an example of how the quarterback is only one piece of the puzzle.

Conversely we have several seasons of evidence to show that what the bombers do does work firnwinjing more games than not.

I think the reason they have changed is simple: the defense improved greatly and wasn't a liability so Lapo got conservative as he does. It's really a lot like 2011. Play conservative offense and let the D win the game. I hate it and it's why I always bang the fire lapo drum.

Well you in another post disregarded what Andrew Harris says about the offense, so clearly you are only interested in your own opinion.

yeah every quarterback makes poor throws, which is why I am trying to tell you people to look at the big picture. Take the entire thing into consideration and make a judgement. Nichols completed all but 4 balls against the stamps and the offense handily won the time of possession battle... yet people are saying the offense, and Nichols in particular was poor. I just don't see it as being poor. Average? Sure. Could be better? Probably, but that wasn't all Nichols problems.

here’s the Bombers workhorse tailback explaining why he was so busy: “We knew that was going to be there. (Calgary) is a team that drops out and their linebackers and DBs sit at the sticks (first-down marker). We talked about it all week: getting that ball and just getting north-south and trying to split tackles and break tackles to get first downs. When you’re in second and five those dump-down passes are easy targets, they’re contested catches and you’ve just got to get north-south with those as quickly as possible.” Perhaps some of you need to read this and see if you still want to attribute it to the quarterback and not the game plan. Or does Andrew Harris not know what he's talking about?

Well it's a counter point to all the people bitching about the throws that Nichols did miss (and really he only had 4 incompletions so...) It's just one example of a case where the quarterback gets the incomplete pass even though he did everything he possibly could have, it was up to the guy on the other end of the pass to finish the play. People don't look at the entire picture though, they just keep banging on the "nichols sucks" drum.

No I am suggesting that there is nuance to stats that quarterbacks accumulate.

Nichols threw a touchdown pass, receiver just didn't get it under control before stepping out of bounds. People always gotta ***** about things, the offense really wasn't as bad as they are making it sound against the Stamps, they just didn't get a ton of opportunities in the first half on account of special teams and a couple lengthy drives against courtesy of the defense.

hey it is a fact that Reilly missed the playoffs last season. On a team that many expected to be the best team in the league, or certainly among the best. And yes, Burris did have an INT problem. It was the fault in his game.

Reilly missed the playoffs last season..... Burris was a brain dead moron. Ints were always the knock on him.

When you have an offense that doesn't run those kinds of patterns that is what happens.

The BC special teams coordinator used to do a boot camp training program some friends of my wife's convinced her to go do, she was most upset when I pointed out that the BC special teams were garbage.

yes and that was almost 20 years ago, the standard for quarterbacking has changed. Khari Jones was also generally under 60% completions. These days that kind of completion % just doesn't fly. The game has changed, qbs have to be more precise with the ball than they used to be.

But the coaches have basically confirmed it. if you really thought that they were unhappy with the play of the QB do you think he would have the leash he does? Do you think they wouldn't have changed the way the team plays? Would O'Shea constantly stress the importance of a "clean" game? We may have different viewpoints, but mine is based on legit observations, yours are based on what you want to see.

It's a valid argument because of the mentality of this team. Don't turn the ball over on offense and generate some turnovers on defense and have better special teams than the other guys. That has been the formula for this team and it's not going to change without massive coaching changes. Best people just get used to that rather than trying to blame a quarterback for it and expecting anything different.