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Looking at that depth chart... how is it they can't get Sears back in? **** sakes, that's a guy you make room for.

Man oh man Burris just stank out loud on that final series. He's gotta own that one himself, but knowing Burris he'll likely blame everyone but himself.

7-5 game, good lord that's ugly

so.... are you just really bored that you're doing website commentary for the game? in the mean time, LOL Burris, what a quacker

guys who are capable at best don't get NFL interest and then don't actually make the NFL team who gave them a shot.

yeah empty seats do nothing for you unless you consistently have so few people you just close off parts of the stadium, but that's not what happens in IGF. So even if you're basically giving those unsold tickets away you get asses in the seats chances are they'll buy a drink, maybe a hot dog or something as well and you're making more than not having anyone sit there.

go east! or to be more precise... BOOOOO western teams not named Blue Bombers.

especially that real heavy slushy snow, that **** just pulls you everywhere the second you get any kind of speed going.

Nope not the case. Unless you mistakenly think the run stopping problems are a personnel issue and not a scheme issue. And I do. Then you're wrong. We had the same defensive tackles with Tim Burke and run stopping wasn't a huge area of concern. Henoc made like 100 tackles, helps to have a big body in the middle. And Ian Wild has 47 tackles in half a season, what exactly is your point?

even with the right people Etchevarys D would still be weak to the run. The CFL field is too big to take everything away, there are always gaps for a team that can give their qb time. Etch just tries to take away one and gamble that teams can't run consistently enough to beat you.

use a formation that doesn't give teams running options and problem solved no need to worry about size... As long as Etchevary is here we are going to be a team that has a weakness against the run that's just the way it is. Been his MO the entire time. You knew what you were getting when you hired him we just have to live with it and hope that it works in the long run. We made personnel changes on both special teams and offense, no reason it can't be done on defense too. If it's just Etch being Etch, then O'Shea needs to tune him in. That's exactly the point though, it doesn't matter what type of player you have when the scheme says "let them run, we care about pressure on the qb and stopping the pass only" Why would O'Shea tune the guy in? He's doing exactly what we knew he was going to do when he was hired.

use a formation that doesn't give teams running options and problem solved no need to worry about size... As long as Etchevary is here we are going to be a team that has a weakness against the run that's just the way it is. Been his MO the entire time. You knew what you were getting when you hired him we just have to live with it and hope that it works in the long run.

The injuries are really starting to pile up on this team. Can't help but wonder if waiting so long for the bye is a problem or if that short week really took too much out of them.

I think it can be both. I picked up the love of football mainly from my friends in highschool but it's perfectly reasonable to think that some people get it from their parents. Everyone is different. The key is to get kids exposed to the game and they'll either develop and affinity for it or they won't. There will always be sports fans in the world, it's just a matter of making sure they watch the CFL.

Ehlers is a really interesting one for sure, if he was a few inches taller he might have been picked a lot higher than he wound up being picked.

That's why this place is so great, I can combine all 3 into one glorious experience.

Hey that's unfair.... I like drinking a beer and watching football more than arguing.

The bombers have used a double MLB set with Wild and Kuale (or Kromah the one game he was in) a ton this year, that isn't news.

A new commissioner coming in and having to put out a fire in Toronto is pretty much par for the course.

The dirty little secret about the CFL is that comissioners serve at Braleys leisure so what's to say that Cohon isn't leaving because he took a stand against lord Braley?

which is a one season missteap. The point still remains, new rider fans have no concept of hard times and as a result lack the humility of the ones who have been there a long time. They think Darian Durant and Weston Dressler are just the bees knees, don't have an appreciation for the great players in the league who came before. It's not your fault you're young, but that youth and inexperience means you don't know nearly enough to be taken seriously about much.

New jerseys doesn't cater to the youth, all it is is trying to sell new jerseys to whoever has disposable income to buy a new jersey. If you really want to get young fans into the CFL, and I do think that is the key goal, you have to make going to the games fun, your team has to have a presence in the community and you have to engage the kids. New jerseys don't do that.

if you guys want to welcome rider fans in you are welcome to. But here's the thing with new rider fans, it's not their age, it's that to them, a bad season is losing the west semi final. No humility because they have no concept of watching a crappy team, they're annoying as a result.

As soon as he starts to man up and run hard he'll be a fine running back, but as long as he keeps being tentative and run east/west too much I will be hard on him. Did you all see the way Volny ran? Just straight up the middle for positive yards. More of that is needed from Grigsby because unlike Volny he can actually hang onto the ball and not fumble it.

remember when these new jerseys came out and they said they listened to the fans to come up with a design?