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Spoiler alert... No.

What happens in the Calgary game means next to nothing other than the potential for home vs. road in the playoffs. The team is banged up to all hell, the starting qb is already a no go. The mentality is just survive until playoffs, which will have a lot more impact on determining what this team is about than the last couple games and this upcoming on in Calgary. This team for the past few weeks has looked an awful lot like a team that is just waiting for the regular season to end, they win in the playoffs does it really matter that they gassed a couple winnable games late in the year to teams that don't matter much in the grand sceme of things?

Why on earth would they start the fever when he threw two of the worst ints I have seen... it's the complete antithesis of the offense Lapo runs here. Low risk avoid turn overs at all costs. Davis turtling and eating the sack makes more sense in that offense than Lefevour using his noodle arm to throw right to the other team.

Only parts of it are based on a true story, most of it is him taking on a bet that he could make Beowulf into an interesting story.

with snow and cold forecast I doubt there will be much of a home crowd.

Here is the thing, I don't even think the defense was THAT bad... sure they had a rough start to the game but they got their **** together and kept the team in it despite the offense doing nothing at all, it was only at the end when they were clearly gassed that things went sideways again for them. Any kind of break given to them by the offense and they'd have been a lot better at the end of the game. This one all comes down to the offense doing sweet **** all, even when Nichols was in they weren't exactly setting the world on fire.

Killed em on special teams though, which is 1/3 of the game.

Or does Lapo just suck a developing qbs? Looked OK with Khari and Nichols but everyone else looks like a sack of crap... coincidence?

I bet Robert Gordon could still play.

Just want to point out that the team has lost back to back games for the first time this season since taking Lankford out of the lineup... Discuss.

Nevis has not been a bust, the team has just been playing silly buggers with the DL to try and get more Canadians playing but the DL and defense as a whole generally plays it's best when both Nevis and Poop are in the game. Makes it easier on everyone and Thomas does better when he doesn't have to be an every down guy.

That just goes to show the real problem with this team. They do pretty well scouting Canadians and players already in the league, but atrocious at finding guys who aren't up in Canada already. The American scouting needs to be better full stop.

Yeah drove me nuts, the guy can fire it but he was trying to baby everything in and was resulting in passes not even getting to the receiver cause that's too easy for the dbs. Suspect it's the fear of screwing up and losing the game, but you gotta play to win.

we've had a good run, might as well go out happy and watching the Riders lose would make me happy.

we lose Sam Hurl in an expansion draft?

yeah but when was the Bombers 2nd year of a massive rebuild? 1997? 2000? 2006? 2011? 2015? Sad fact is that the Bombers have been shooting themselves in the foot for so long that we've essentially been constantly rebuilding for 2 decades.

So no change from Rider fan behaviour at any point.

Oh please, the Bombers management isn't so reactionary. They're not going to start firing people based on how they do in the playoffs. They are all about stability and the process. Fans want firings all the time, but that's fans being fans.

Only cause the pansies in Ontario don't want to go outside their own little bubble in Southern Ontario. Christ if Toronto or Hamilton had to travel like Winnipeg did they'd never stop crying.

He might be a decent coach but he is a deplorable human being and suspect general manager. It's going to blow up in his face because he treats people badly and that doesn't have long term staying power.

Just need someone rich enough to sink the money into team and stadium, don't really see either of those happening though so we're just going to have to wait.

But didn't Edmonton have to bring in a million RBs to deal with injuries?

The way I see it you either play Nevis and Poop if Hurl is behind him or if you insist on playing Thomas at tackle then get a big time disruptive force in at middle linebacker. Since I don't know if they have that player on the roster at MLB then just play Nevis and Poop at the same time already! For fox creek it's not that complicated. Those two make life hell on opposing offensive lines and makes the D better. Do whatever it takes to the ratio to make it work.

as far as positions on a team go it's probably the easiest one for a guy to pick up.