Mr. Perfect

Nichols certainly did his job tonight. Is he a starter in this league? I'm not so sure about that, I don't think the consistency is there, but Saskatchewan has the worst defence in the CFL and Nichols took advantage when the breakdowns were there. That's all you can ask. Happy to have him here, and hopefully as a back-up into the future.

Final four: Ravens over Patriots Seahawks over Cowboys Seahawks win Super Bowl Random thoughts/expectations: - If not for the Jordy Nelson injury, Green Bay would win the Super Bowl - Miami and Minnesota will make the playoffs as wildcards after missing last year - The Oakland Raiders get six, maybe seven wins if Derek Carr, Amari Cooper, and Latavius Murray play 14+ games - Calvin Johnson's body continues to let him down this year. Productive but not the receiver he once was as a top two or three - Jacksonville will be picking first overall next April - Eric Berry wins comeback player of the year - Doug Martin re-establishes himself as a top 15 running back - Baltimore's offence puts up great numbers under Marc Trestman, Justin Forsett especially. - Marcus Mariota emerges as the real deal. Jameis Winston not so much - This will be Peyton Manning's last year in the NFL - Buffalo and Houston will make you wonder "If only they had a quarterback" - Adrian Peterson pushes 1,800 yards if he plays a full 16 games

I've used this line a number of times. Get your own material. Kidding of course.

You could make the argument it already has as both TV numbers and league wide attendance are down this year.

Bob Irving ‏@BobIrvingCJOB 2m2 minutes ago Bomber quarterback Robert marve done for the year with knee injury

Write the man a blank cheque.

The last time we had a CEO get involved of football ops, he spearheaded genius changes such as demanding Jim Daley be brought in as a member of the coaching staff, forced Taman to fire Dave Ritchie for Jim Daley, and went above the GM's head to fire Doug Berry and do a good 'ol buddy hire in Mike Kelly. Agreed with Captain that that's not how good football clubs operate.

He'll get a look from other NFL teams. Highly doubt he'll be in the CFL in the next few weeks.

Darrin Bauming ‏@DarrinBauming 26s27 seconds ago Henoc Muamba, former #Bombers first-overall draft pick, has been waived by the Indianapolis Colts. He is a CFL free agent.

Tom Higgins was obviously the problem...

Exactly. That's the other thing. It's quite convenient that Marve is hurt. But who knows.Marve did his post game presser too after the game and no issues were raised. Bombers don't usually let injured players do interviews. Very good point.

I was thinking that too. Maybe I need to remove my tin foil hat, but I don't recall Marve hobbling around terribly before he was pulled last week (granted, Joey Elliott finished a game on a torn ACL for us), and there seemed to be no reason to believe up until just now that this was going to be a long term issue. He was well documented knee issues of course, but yeah, I was thinking something seems "off" here...Pure speculation on my part of course.

Except for the fact his throws have always been errant, as evidenced by his low completion percentage whenever he's seen game action.

Darrin Bauming ‏@DarrinBauming 2m2 minutes ago Robert Marve's leg injury is apparently serious. The #Bombers have placed the quarterback on the 6-Game Injured List.

Arash Madani ‏@ArashMadani 3m3 minutes ago Per #CFL sources: The BC Lions are out of the Shawn Lemon sweepstakes. Down to Winnipeg and Ottawa.

Couldn't have said it any better.

Oey... gary lawless ‏@garylawless 2m2 minutes ago Early thinking out of #bombers camp is that Nichols will be on roster but won't start Sunday. I'm told Marve is hurt - expect Brohm to start

Pretty much echoing the comments already, for a conditional 7th, I'd do this in a heartbeat. Not a big Nichols fan but he's a hell of a lot better than Marve or Brohm.

Good for Bobby Dyce. Highly doubt his interim basis will go beyond this year but I'm certainly happy for him.

One problem....actually a few... Yes there of course is such a thing as rookie mistakes, but there are also mistakes that you simply should just know better as a quarterback playing professional football. The first pick across his body - Inexcusable regardless of experience. He's not an accurate passer, he can't read the defence, and he's starting to get happy feet in the pocket as well now that he's getting acustomed to playing behind out line. It's not about looking like the "second coming of Warren Moon", it's about there being something as a passer, not a runner, that you can build off of, or something that flashes that makes you say as a coach "okay, we can work with this", or develop this, something to that effect. You saw it with Reilly, Willy, and Collaros as they were breaking in. You're not seeing it with Robert Marve.

Good Lord some people try WAY too hard...

Mid September at the earliest. Lets play hypothetical at for a moment...if we trade for him (we won't, but again hypothetical) then what? The line in front on him is still garbage, and the play calls are still garbage too. On top of that he's a guy that's a free agent next year, so he'd be nothing more than a rental to try and salvage a season where we are clearly miles behind the league's elite. Re-signing him is pointless for both sides as we have Drew Willy and Ray could find work in Ottawa (should Burris retire) or Montreal once Marsh starts trying to play sand lot football which he does after a certain amount of time, and Popp realizes he has a B+ Steven Jyles in Rakeem Cato.

I'm not implying Mike O'Shea is free of blame with the comment I'm about to make. Certainly that's not the case as everyone has a hand in as to why the team is in the state that it is right now. That being said, with two weeks to prepare coming off a bye, if that's the best offensive game plan you can come up with, that should speak volumes about your offensive staff, and OC. O'Shea's specialties, or whatever you want to call them are defense and special teams. For the most part, I think those facets of the game did rather well tonight.

Saw that tackle live on NFL Network. Shocked he got up after that.