Captain Blue

Gotta feel for Dru Brown. He is legit good but can't seem to catch a break in Ottawa.

Man the refs sure want Ottawa to get back into this. Brady must be hurt real bad cause he looks so different. Jake Thomas is having a fantastic game and that is hilarious.

Meh, there are many things wrong with this team. But going for a 63 yard FG was awful, even in the "positive" scenario of hitting it like we did, Calgary was in an easy situation.

This one is all on Osh. Embarassing.

Unbelievably bad situational football on both sides of the ball for us

Way too much time left. Team is way too excited when it feels like they'll blow it

Offense has and still sucks. Doesn't matter who is at QB although Collaros isn't helping, Hogan is costing us big time.

Why is the TSN camera seemingly on the roof of the stadium?

I am convinced the ball moved after it hit the turf

Ran over the DB, but also that ball pushed off the turf?

Hogan's calls to end this game are going to give me nightmares. Dude had an easy finish to the game until he decided to be aggressive all of a sudden. Gonna need time to get over that. At least it didn't cost them.

Could have just gone up 9 if they stalled, turnover was the one thing you couldn't afford

That's just a flat out game losing play call and game losing throw.

Really leaving the DBs to play man coverage is killing us

They are making changes and that is what everyone wanted Offense looks really weak after the injuries and changes but sure seems like they'll go with a strong ground game and aren't being shy about it.

Strev looks bad but both coordinators really are struggling. Offense just has nothing right now for intermediate passing. Defense with no pressure or coverage at all.

Just getting smacked tonight. No other way to put it.

Just to point out, there are the same folks over and over pointing out how Osh won't move on from anyone. This is not actually correct. Even just this past year we moved on from three major parts of the defense - Bighill, Alexander and Ford. The idea that they don't get rid of aging vets when they did not re-sign two guys who helped transform and start this era of success is completely overlooked. You can argue he didn't get rid of the right guys or enough players, and that's fine. But I laugh at the idea that Osh is too loyal to move on from guys like Jake Thomas when he's letting go of Adam Bighill. The reason Thomas is on the team, for instance, is that Osh views his performance differently than say someone else here. And that's fine! You can criticize him for that if you are unhappy with literally any player that is getting playing time. Looping back every discussion to the same issue (as if it's always just one thing) merely subtracts from the football discussion on the board.

BC just looks awful

Collaros with a bit of that old magic on that run. I really think it's simple, Collaros with good protection is still a threat (albeit more up and down than before). Without protection he is just garbage.

Can't wait for football. Really curious to see if Strev can be a passer or if they just keep him running nonstop.

It seems odd to me that Calgary benefits now by getting extra picks (last ones in the first two rounds) due to BC forfeiting. Am I understanding that right?

I too just want to announce that I have absolutely extreme negative emotion about this OC hire, and I am basing it off the tiny percentage of his visible work that I am familiar with. In all seriousness I would have hired Jackson and am happy to have him as QBC. Hogan has been around and worked his way up. Anyone pretending to know exactly how it will work out, positive or negative, is hilarious.

It should be noted that when hiring anyone for a promotion it's extremely hard to predict how they'll do. I wouldn't be overly excited with an internal promotion but can see why they'd do it.

I like Jarious Jackson, he has run some solid offenses. People will hate it but Osh for sure will consider LaPo. Would certainly give us the run oriented offense some crave. I'm not a huge fan of run offenses but LaPo would be alright with this personnel group.