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best part of that is the line about "shouldn't they put Bass inside" and we all spent last season bitching about Bass not being good enough in the middle. Take away for me is it's time for people to adjust their expectations of the middle line backer position on this team. Perhaps adjust their expectations from the defense as well since a lot of people want something Ritchie Hall has never done.

If Labour Day is a big game then I like our chances, we all know how Glenn does in big game situations...

That's a good call, those receivers like to go up and get balls, probably really benefited from all the PI you can find on any play if you take a look for it.

People really forgot that Lulay was a better qb, yeah he got hurt and all that, but dude was always a scary qb cause he can hurt you in so many ways. Jennings is just pure huck it! chuck it! football! Can I call him the new Casey Printers? Probably has a better attitude though.

Blow out wins don't count for any more than close wins, the fact is this Bomber team is not likely to blow anyone out, they just don't play that way. They get up and they play it safe, they get down they go harder to get the lead back and then once they have it they try not to give the game away. It leads to close games and near heart attacks for us fans, but you can't argue that this team knows how to take care of it's business. The Bombers will not give the ball away like the Esks and Lions did to the Riders. They just don't do that, so without the freebies what do the Riders have? A Kevin Glenn led offense? Oooooo shaking in my boots. It's funny, Rider fans screamed the loudest that the Bombers relied too much on unsustainable turnover numbers to win, yet they seem to be thumping their chests awfully hard after 2 games with massive amounts of turnovers in their favour....

The edmonton reliance on throwing the ball up for grabs downfield bit em in the ass in that game for sure. Bombers don't play that way and they protect the ball so much better. These two games for the riders vs. BC and Edmonton are against teams with suspect OLs and qbs that love to go downfield all the time, they feasted by making plays on the ball, but I don't see that happening vs. winnipeg. I mean anything can happen on Labour Day so there's always a chance of a loss, I mean Rocky Butler won on Labour Day, but I ain't even worried. Bombers are a better team than the Riders are. Our dbs squeeze some passes or don't take penalties and Reilly has nearly as bad a night last week as he did this week. Edmonton was smoke and mirrors and everyone knew that.

Loffler may not be quite the same as he was, but don't tell me receivers don't know he's there, I mean we see a lot of mid level drops by opposing teams and I for one choose to believe Loffler has put the fear of god into them.

I rest my case.

No judgement on whether or not Hurl is playing well or not, but there is a clear case where some people around these parts treat him like a whipping boy. His flaws are inflated to ridiculous extremes and his positives diminished or just flat out ignored. It makes it impossible to take what some people say about the guy seriously.

Laughable to compare Jones to Matthews. Matthews was an all time epic spot picker, Jones not so much because the spot he picked was a mess and he`s got too big an ego to actually fix it the way it needs to be.

Funny how Hurl gets his missed sack brought up all the time yet Westerman and Jeffcoat both had the exact same thing happen and no one talks about it at all. Missing a sack on Durant isn`t the worst sin in the world, the guy has made a career of not going down in the backfield when you got him dead to rights.

no it was 2-2 to start 2001 then 12 straight then 2 losses to end the season.

It would have to be, and they even started 7-1 that year.

I never know if Rider fans are actually trolling of just stupid... I mean part of me wants to believe no one can be THAT stupid, but then I see tons of the saying the same things so maybe they are just dumb. BC craps their pants after stomping the Riders one week and lets the Riders get a win and suddenly the half ******** mob thinks they're actually a good team over there. I don't want Edmonton to do any more winning but for the sake of the league maybe they need to smack the green idiots back into reality.

I dare say best coach since Dave Ritchie, though sadly that doesn't really set the bar too high seeing as Berry was the previous holder of that distinction and after him it's a wasteland.

Yeah if I am going out I'm going out being a homer so Andrew Harris for this guy as well.

I have gone through 2 episodes so far but it's soooo dry through them. Coulda had a lot better pacing if you ask me, but maybe they were just desperate to stretch them to how ever many episodes they have. Will keep chugging through them though when I get a chance and see how it winds up.

Harris probably coulda sold the run a lot more on it too

No it wasn't. Adams got tackled well back of the line of scrimmage and the next play was second and goal from the fifteen yard line or something like that.

The very next play was 2nd and long though, I mean you hand off to Harris what are the odds he loses yards? So if he gets stuffed at the LOS you're still 2nd and goal from what was it? the 6? Much more reasonable play there. Call that play on 2nd down I am a lot more forgiving of it, but on first down it's just stupid.

Disagree all you like, you're on the wrong side of the argument. Before the play was even finished I knew it was a bad call, even if it had been successful I still would have called it a bad call and said that it was a good thing it worked. There was absolutely no reason to try that play. You just marched the ball at will on the opening drive, you got a big crowd looking to go crazy, why make things more difficult on yourselves by calling a play like that? There were so many things that could go wrong trying that play and the simple stuff was shredding the Esks all the way down the field. Lapo tried to be the smartest man in the room and pissed away a chance to really smack the other team in the mouth. I mean yeah they won that game, but for all the yards they put up they didn't win by an awful wide margin. Part of making sure you don't let teams hang around is putting the dagger in when you have chances not trying to be cute and giving them a chance to escape.

we don't JUST complain about how conservative he is, we also complain that he is prone to trying to outsmart everyone too, as is the case here. Everyone on the roster can throw a football, but I'd rather let the quarterback who is putting together a fantastic season handle that job when you're already shoving the ball right down the opposing teams throats. There was no reason to try that play, none at all and it cost them a potential 4 points. Lapo is a smart man but he loses sight of the big picture quite often and has no sense of when to go for it and when not to.

yeah let someone who isn't paid to throw the ball throw the ball, that's all, just a minor difference. Nichols was killing it that game, Harris and Flanders were killing it, why even consider letting a receiver throw the ball in that situation? Edmonton had all they could handle just trying to get the right number of people on the field let alone worrying about trickery.

Wait, this is the guy who crowed about how O'Shea was the terrible coach that made him give up his season tickets right? Sorry bud, that's not being objective and not wearing rose coloured glasses that's being ******* stupid. O'Shea is the best coach we've seen here in a long long time and the way the team has come together for him and become the most entertaining team in the league is all the proof you need. Sorry that you gave up on being a fan of the team, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

It means they were pwned like the stupid noobs they are.