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Riders are by far the easiest matchup in the playoffs. Reilly, Lulay, Harris, Masoli, BLM can all go off on any given day and have vs. Our defense, but the Riders O? Doesn't scare me at all and I believe our offence can play a safe efficient game against anyone.

Aren't you bitching non stop about Nichols literally swaggering down the field after a touchdown pass?

The point is he's pissed off Nichols threw a beauty bomb and showed some swagger afterwards. How will Big Chris get on the field if Nichols does stuff like that? It's not fair and Nichols accomplishments and being proud of them is a personal insult to people who don't like Nichols.

And I sincerely hope that the Riders don't **** things up and play someone other than the Bombers in the playoffs. I want to face that team more than any other team in the playoffs. It's the easiest team to face in the playoffs

That came up too, Sayles really has come on strong and solidified the secondary.

The Riders really are lucky with their schedule this year. Just pure luck they got 2 against the Bombers while Nichols was in such a funk and they were lucky they got Edmonton in their little funk too (we got them in that funk as well) but normal Nichols and Reilly vs. the Riders in those games they aren't a concern for playoffs. If I was a Rider fan I'd be seriously concerned. Not only did they get their asses handed to them yesterday but they also suffered some injuries, and for a team with depth issues already that won't make things any easier.

The offense went super conservative in the 2nd half. They were up 31 points, no need to take changes, they knew damned well that if they didn't turn the ball over there was no chance Saskatchewan was going to come back. I too would have loved to see them drop 60 points on those assholes but I'll settle for building a big lead early and crushing their spirits by simply not allowing them to get any traction through big plays.

I don't think Ottawa is the best match up for this team, they always seem to give them trouble, and this year is the most vulnerable Calgary has looked so west all the way. I ain't scared of Saskatchewan in the least, as evidenced by yesterday. Take care of the football they can't do **** against you.

We were discussing it yesterday while watching, a theory that was proposed is that someone got Hall to change up how he blitzes. He used to be very predictable with his blitzes (see first game vs. Hamilton) Now it seems like when they blitz it's not an easy read and completion for the opposing qb. I know Doug Brown for one has talked in the past how he was never a fan of the way Hall drew up blitzes.

All the tools but no tool box on that guy. Just never able to put it all together.

but still, neither one of them have developed a CFL qb. Trestman did well with Calvillo and Ray, but those are two well established HOF type qbs and Popp never brought anyone in to replace Calvillo in Montreal so I am not sure that holding them up as QB gurus is entirely accurate.

well i recall trestmanliking MBT more out of camp and Popps record with qbs is suspect to be polite.

You are arguing a point I've never made, I said Lapo likes to dump it off, which is true, but he also likes to throw deep. See that's always been my beef with him. He's either huck it deep or dump it off, he doesn't like the intermediate stuff. We get token intermediate throws at best in his offense and that hasn't changed. My point is trying to say he doesn't like the dump offs because of 2002 it just being difficult. You want to know another way I know that Lapo is a fool pretending to be brilliant? His plan to replace Bruce in 03 was to put Marcus Howell in that spot. Yeah what a brilliant offensive mind. Guy rides the coat tails of talented players like the Stegalls and Harris' of the world but without that kind of star power he's got nothing.

Fans are too reactionary. Too much buying into hype from TSN and let's be honest, TSN is hardly the experts they'd have you believe.

and when they weren't throwing deep to those two they were dumping it off to Roberts and Sellers. See we still do the big deep shot or dump offs, just that without Khari Jones, Milt Stegall and Arland Bruce it's not nearly as effective so we get more dump offs since Dressler, Harris and Demski are more suited to that.

No I don't, I feel he does it because that's where Lapo has the targets going. That hasn't changed for Lapo ever. He likes to dump the ball off and rely on the players picking up the extra yards.

Just goes to show how important QBing is in the CFL. With Ricky Ray that team likely wins a few more games.

Woke nothing, you posted a piece from Conrad Black defending the "elites". Do you honestly think that's an unbiased piece? Guy is just sticking up for his brethren. Old rich conservative white men who suffer from a severe case of affluenza and are threatened when people don't treat them like they're above the law. I got no use for that.

Do you take this seriously? Honest question. It's an awful opinion piece from one of those rich out of touch assholes ruining the entire world because of their entitlement.

Bomber fans have more class than that. I don't wear my Bomber gear when I go to a Stamps game not involving the Bombers because I'm not a ******* douchebag.

Pretty sure Harris is going to lead any yards after contact stat anyway.

I don't know why any western nation would support a place like Saudi Arabia. Talk about a backwards **** hole country.

Rider fans are funny. Can't wait to see them react when a team doesn't give them the freebie turnover points and they look like they did in the summer when they all wanted to fire Jones. That will be good reading.

I am sorry to hear that. But hey, "if they get some goaltending" right?