Captain Blue

Buck Pierce may want to try a different run call. WR sweep ain't cutting it.

Offense just awful right now

There are people that think Chris Jones is a great head coach... It may have been true at one point but it definitely isn't recently. There is no excuse for Edmonton to be this bad, in my opinion. There is no option at QB and you're not even at the halfway point of the season.

Been a long time since the Bombers got smacked this bad. Full credit to BC, all three phases of their game has been excellent tonight. Our weaknesses have definitely been on display but I'm still confident we are a good team. BC was just flat out better today.

We got whooped on both sides of the line. Their DL has been dominating. Really limited our offense simply with all their pressure.

I feel like the Argos continually make their jerseys worse every time they change them. The oars on the shoulder pads are essentially the Oregon Ducks feathers. I can't read the numbers at all from a distance either. Colour scheme just looks off too.

Winning by 18 against a hated rival...in their stadium...in their home opener... Definitely gotta work on the D but we will be fine. Still a really good and fun team.

These guys are so incompetent, they're all trying hard to make these blocks look bad

Every single play should be challengeable

These refs sure working hard to make sure the Bombers don't have any explosive plays...

Just my two cents, but I'd like to see how this actually plays out before folks start jumping all over Osh. Dude's been to three straight Grey Cups but suddenly his roster management is poor. He certainly has his faults and definitely has and will make mistakes - including with the roster - but I want to see how this actually is deployed first. He is going to do what's best for the team. I am skeptical he would just skip over a possible advantage just for the hell of it.

My team still has them. Interface and system seems significantly worse than last year so that's disappointing.

Adding crazy confusing rules like this will only make it more difficult to attract new fans. Great job CFL.

I can't fault them too much for thinking we're going to run this thing back for as long as possible until the wheels fall off.

And now he's the head coach of my favourite football team. How cool is that? In ten years some other former Canadian CFL player could be coaching someone else's favourite football team and maybe that resonates with him or her.

If the ratio didn't exist there would be no Mike O'Shea story, and countless others just like that. Those stories are what make the CFL personal and connected to people, not just Yet Another Football League.

I thought Buck Pierce had a really rough game plan today. Way too much Prukop, thought he was trying real hard to pull off the fancy play. Maybe he was trying for a change of pace since Collaros was also brutal, but I'm surprised we couldn't generate more in the run game when needed. You don't often see the Bombers fail at so many spots in one game. Offense (Collaros and Pierce especially) was just off all night. Defense didn't make the major play that we thought they would. Liegghio's short kick offs and missed kicks made the difference too. Plenty of blame to go around.

Great year, awful loss. Whole team flat out didn't bring it today. Lot of head scratching decisions offensively today and by the staff.

Dickenson challenging a play to prolong his team's own agony is hilariously stupid. What a classless loser. We should have run up the score.

You know, the classic FNF theme is enjoyable.

Everyone getting sucked into this debate is just giving the opposing viewpoint more air. There are very few folks that think that hit was clean. Most wear a lot of green.

Thing is they really aren't there to protect Marino, or really most players that require discipline. These players make up a tiny fraction of their constituents. They benefit more from protecting the majority of players, particularly the ones that make them money (QBs). For instance if anyone has followed the Deshaun Watson stuff in the NFL, when Roger Goodell appealed the initial discipline decision, Goodell was then able to appoint whoever he wanted for the appeal. This seems extremely odd, right? But that is because for the NFLPA it's not worth fighting over (or conceding something else in return). They aren't going to fight over something that affects such a small amount of players.

Folks, we also need to talk about something very, very important: are we keeping the three stripes the rest of the season on our helmets? Cause I sure hope not.

Sometimes when there are borderline dirty players we'll see commentators and other supposedly neutral observers try to word things carefully. The fact that Rider homer Glenn Suitor called it a cheap shot and you've got other TSN personalities now calling it out show how far gone Marino is. The league needs to feel heat for this, it is pretty clear that Marino is very likely to do this again next week if he's on the field at all.

Hopefully the league suspends Marino for the next game. Hard to see how on earth the refs and command centre missed it but given their track record I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The CFL has to protect the quarterbacks, because there are already a limited number of really good ones. You want your stars healthy, and even the NFL understands that now. The Riders organization really needs a top down tear down. You've got assistant coaches ripping into refs. My favourite was Dickinson throwing the challenge on the OPI and a larger fellow in a bright green jacket just running out onto the field yelling. This is not about Dickinson "controlling" the team. That is, in my opinion, an old concept and view of coaching. You have to employ both coaches and players who understand how their actions affect the team. Its on individuals to hold themselves accountable. This is one of O'Shea's strengths. The Riders coaches and players continually cross boundaries that they shouldn't, with no regard for how it impacts the collective team.