Brandon

LaPo comes back as Interim HC?

Disagree... LaPo + Pierce leaving is what was the best for him. The knee injury sucks because in season 1 when LaPo allowed him to be a QB he was looking downfield and was easily able to roll out and buy himself more time to find receivers.

I actually completely forgot about him until reading your post. He was completely invisible.

The D looked very promising. One playmaker on the d-line away from being really difficult.

Very slow still... he had open lanes to Rourke in the first quarter and was always a few steps short from getting a sack despite being untouched.

It would be hard to only pick three guys, the score really flattered BC. 1 - D-line holding Butler to under 30 yards. 2 - O-line for opening big holes for Peterson. 3 - Peterson for running hard and as Suitor mentioned making key blocks. HH - Griffin

Rourke was completely off in the first half , mentally was rattled. Had a few lucky big plays and not much else aside from feigning injury. Strev was mentally solid in the first but very rusty on his throws. Was much better in the 2nd half once he had time to make big plays.

Taking off my BLue tinted glasses.... I still say the refs gave BC several fringe calls while missing many fringe calls that could of went our way.

BC having no returners can also skew an opinion. The BC punter has turned the field twice on us during the game.

I'm late for the party here but god dang I'm glad CFL football is back on and that the Bombers played hard. Lots of positives with only a few negatives tonight.

I just hope he plays QB and doesn't end up bull rushing much at all.

I'm assuming it is because they are starting "veteran insurance" and not giving guys who are already at the same level or higher a chance to shine.

I'll admit that I'm not following the league as much as I used to. Are we the only team doing this these days? I always thought the CFL was known for frequent turnover and basically only the all-stars would keep their jobs year in and year out?

He had "character" which is significantly more important then football skills and athletic ability.

I always thought in any sports that "character vets" were guys who rode the bench and did the motivation from a distance. They weren't inserted into the starting line up and replacing a better player on the rise.

The degradation or elite play of a QB can determine if a coach is great or dumb. I don't think Zach tossing lame ducks into triple coverage for the first half of the season helped with making Pierce looking good. Same thing happened before when Matt Nichols went noodle arm... suddenly the coaching seemed terrible when the guy wasn't able to throw a 15 yard pass. I'm sure it's a mixture of both which resulted in our team being wishy washy last season. Pierce is gone and if Zach played as poorly as he did last season then Hogan is going to also look like a dumb coach.

So you are saying that you can't compare one QB to another because they've never faced each other? So I wouldn't be able to say that Patrick Mahomes is superior to Zach Collaros because they've never played against each other? Your comment makes no sense. Tre Ford has performed better in the CFL then Strev while having a lesser surrounding cast. So yes comparing one guy vs another he has performed better. Once again... the stats do not lie. The intangibles favour Ford. NFL pension doesn't mean much at all... Are you suggesting that Johnny Manziel who made millions in the NFL was better then any CFL qb who has ever played? Ford is still a work in progress and I wouldn't rate him as a top 5 QB in the CFL at all. I'm at least honest enough to say at this point in time Strev also isn't a top 5 QB in the league and would rank lower then Ford at this point in time.

TLDR: We can make excuses for Bomber players but guys from other teams cannot be given the same luxury. Also we must ignore the stats which show a guy on the worst team outplayed a guy on the best team in the league over a 3 year period.

One guy was playing on the worst team of the league complete with an insane coach and still put up better numbers then a guy who was playing on the best team in the league. What context would you need? Unless you can't figure out the Edmonton Eskimo stats belong to Tre Ford compared to the Blue Bomber Stats being Strev. 3 seasons of stats is more then enough to paint a picture. So if you are going to spin some sort of narrative that Ford cannot be a CFL QB, then at least admit that Strev is even a worse QB for the CFL then him.

Chris Jones and his madness is significantly less then almost anything else in the league

The Tre Ford bandwagon of saying he's not CFL QB material needs to stop right now. People are way over reacting on how good/bad he is. If he's not a CFL QB and garbage then what does that make Strevy? Why are people on here not equally outraged that we kept Strev despite him having crappier stats while playing on a significantly better team with way better coaching? Tre is still a work in progress and has had rough moments, but to suggest that he will never be anything all while being confident that Strev is the man is hypocritical. Money/contracts being ignored the Blue Bombers would be in a way better position if they had a much more athletic and younger QB then what they currently have as a back up.

I thought he got into body building two years ago and this is why everyone assumes that he has power.

I hope not, I'd rather him only run if it is the last option.

Are you saying he is also a little pr**k?

Pierce will be so dumbfounded that Strev will drop back and throw some passes.