Brandon

I would assume all Bomber fans after week 1 are F'ing ecstatic! Outside of Montreal, every team we saw this week looked very mundane and completely beatable. I'm very optimistic for this season after the first week.

So you will finally admit that the guy since his 2018 injury is absolutely dog **** garbage and stop pretending it's Lapo's gameplan? Yes everyone will agree that Nichols was a nice guy and loyal and is tough and a good person.... nothing bad with his personality. But dear lord he had 650+ days off and his arm still can barely muster a 5 yard pass. Physically he looked so weak and looked like he should be an accountant rather then a QB. If I'm an Ottawa fan I'm livid that they traded for him instead of MBT. The guy is exactly how he was in 2018 and 2019 which was playing terrified and scared and physically is so shot that he can't do anything. On his 5 sacks easily 3 of them could of been avoided. He had once again WIDE open receivers but he plays so scared that he can only do a quick hitter or look at his first read and then turtle and crumple up. Even Barker pointed out that the guy has a noodle arm and accuracy just like in 2018 - 2019 is way off where receivers are never hit in stride and have to jump backwards to make the catch. The only blame on LaPo should be that the brought him in as a starting QB and then kept Davis as his back up. LaPo's loyality is going to cost him his 2nd coaching gig and if he doesn't pull the plug in week 3 and move on and desperately try to find someone else. Lapo might not even last the season. Nichols starting for the CFL in 2021 is an embarassment on the league. Retire the guy ASAP before he cripples himself.

I know and that was what made it hilarious. Apparently Hamilton was really off, the refs favoured the Bombers, the Bombers were very lucky and looked absolutely putrid in a lucky to win game.

I think we may have seen the last of Nichols... every off season he "bulks up" and then gets hurt as soon as he gets hit..... the Rbs screwed themselves by putting their chips on a completely shot QB without a solid back up on the roster....

They probably didn't show the replay because he wasn't really close to the LOS and probably wanted to spare Black from looking worse then what he already did.

I made the horrible mistake of visiting Riderfans.... noticed how dead those forums are and how disillusioned they appear to be. They are so very salty about the Bombers looking good last night!

They used it a few times during the broadcast... it kind of was neat I guess?

A few of those people are still here quietly jumping on the bandwagon! Meanwhile Nichols is already hurt and doubtful to even start this week 🤨

Unfortunately you never really truly recover from post concussion syndrome, but with his elusiveness he definitely escaped getting hit several times last night.

The DB's also must of stuck to the receivers like glue.... Masoli could not find anyone downfield outside of the first two drives.

Nichols after his last injury could basically drop back make one read and then either take a sack or dump it off to Harris. Zero escapability and zero confidence in sitting in the pocket looking down the field. Night and day difference with a different qb at the helm. I can't imagine opposing teams looking forward to playing against us. Now if we can upgrade Nelson and get Wolly involved then look out!

1 - D line... can't single out any of them all were fantastic. 2 - O line... how can you single any of them out either. 3 - Oliviera - The guy found some great holes and made great cuts which completely exhausted the Hamilton D in the 2nd half. HH - Lawler, Demski (first half), Bighill, Collaros for being handsome

Also ZC had a good first half... 2nd half it looked like he was trying to hard. It was beautiful to finally have a QB who can evade and who also can go through more then only 1 read. Complete opposite of Nichols and it showed with him making those beautiful TD throws. I was so used to Nichols only making his single read for the last few seasons that it was nice to see a guy at QB who isn't playing afraid and willing to take shots. Buck also called a nice game and I'm glad he did not abandon the run after the first quarter. We could of won by a larger margin had a few small mistakes were not made. Hamilton looked completely flat on defense... I didn't think Masoli was that bad but he was rattled big time in the 2nd half. Also F Lawrence for that illegal block... I wish someone would take his legs out....

Can the media around the country finally gives us some damn respect? Our D from top to bottom dominated and our O-line was as magnicent as they were in the last season. With Collaros now at QB we are only better. What a great game!

I almost feel bad for Fajardo because the expectations for a guy who had a good but not great year is completely unreal. Unless the guy puts up MOP like numbers anything else he does would be considered a complete failure based on how high the media is putting the guy up on a pedestal.

Lack of proper management, I'm thinking the staff keep to themselves and do as they please which is also concerning.

What teams does he have left to complete the Kevin Glenn circuit?

In the limited reps he has had here he's shown a good knack for finding holes between players.

Is he worth that much... seems like an over pay to me.

Interesting... is he hurt?

I'd assume the Boomers will be making more of an attempt to come out this year.

Two players that after getting hurt changed completely in how they played. I see you didn't watch the games that Streveler played in his first season with us and you didn't watch Zach who with the exact same players and with the exact same scheme were able to push the ball down the field. If you get a chance re-watch some old games and see that Nichols played like a scared man and Willy the same. If you need evidence that you are wrong then watch the Grey Cup and see just how wrong you are. Do I need to prove you wrong again and bring up the old post where I showed the sharp decline in stats from Nichols after his second last injury with us? In which pre injury he was getting 250 - 325 yards per game and then post injury he averaged under 200.

You mean Nichols problems, we had no issues once Zach was in at QB with moving the ball down the field to the receivers.

I wouldn't say it is, these receivers had no issues once we moved on from Nichols and had guys who could throw the ball in to an area for these receivers to make plays.

I'm surprised they couldn't do a trade with either of them while retaining some salary... at least get some assets or draft picks?