Captain Blue

Okay, I'm going to go out on a limb here and go against the crowd on this one. I don't think Bellefeuille is a particularly great OC, but I don't think he's the problem either right now. I think Willy has thrived in this system, and I think it actually does play to his strengths. Willy's also gotten better at reading and reacting to blitzes, which was a big problem early on. At this point I think any system would be downright awful with Brohm at QB. I don't think Marve is going to be the answer either, but we're at the point where its his turn to see if he can make something happen.

What really irks me about this theory is that it flies directly against logic. Imagine you're hired as CEO or GM or HC of a football team. You're gonna want to keep that job and you're gonna want to win some freaking football games. When you're looking to hire other positions, you will certainly consider people you know and/or share similar viewpoints on football. But you're not gonna hire someone just cause he's a buddy, and risk having that person bring the team down. You're going to do everything you can to find the right people. Now go back to the real situation here, except remember that the people that rise to success are often the most driven and most competitive people in the sport.

I love how as soon as there is some sort of link between staff and/or players, fans assume they're automatically best buddies and the only reason they got the job was due to that relationship. I'm sure there are times when that theory holds true at least a bit, but holy hell guys its a 9-team league and everyone knows everyone at this point.

Or...the most likely scenario is that your calculations are either wrong or missing something.

This place is just as bad as RiderFans after a loss.

My guess is they weren't thrilled with Marve's short yardage work. Marve makes sense for read-option plays, particularly in the red zone and on two point converts if we ever figure out that we should be doing those.

The only other option is for the defense to honestly not come near a receiver. So you know, impossible to play defense now.

That's a soft PI call. Hope it's overturned. Bad for league if they keep these terrible penalties up.

I don't like that ruling. If BC recovers a fumble, who cares if it's too casual? Sask could have jumped on that ball if they cared to pick it up,

Second day in a row I'm gonna call out praise for signature jerseys. The Sask ones are decent for sure. Did the leg pants change to black? They look a little less like Oregon now.

Montreal got great signature jerseys. I honestly love them.

The only time I am in favour of kicking for 1 point now is if it's in the second half and it's really a no-brainer to get the extra point. To win, to put yourself within 3, etc. You only need to make just over 50 percent on your two point tries to make it worth it, and I feel given our red zone, goal line offense that we would easily surpass it. There are NFL studies showing that teams should be going for 2 more consistently. I would be willing to bet that the evidence holds up in the CFL too.

I think Hurl gets too much hate. I don't think he's been very good this season, but I don't think he's nearly the problem others do I guess. His job is a lot harder too with DTs that aren't able to move linemen around.

Unamba was good on special teams, useless everywhere else. That's why he is gone and Shell, who can actually pitch in and play on the defense, remains.

I really want to laugh at the Rider fans who are claiming to fire everyone, but I still see the Fire Richie Hall thread to high up on this board. The guy who's coached three games here. I hope this board proves me wrong, but I'll be looking to see if all those guys with low post counts and shouting from the rooftops are here this week to discuss a win.

You have to wonder how many more losses before Sask cans someone. Think Chamblin still will manage to survive for now, but add a couple of losses onto the 0-3 and someone will get blamed (by Chamblin, since he's blameless of course.)

Holy geeze, Saskatchewan continues to plummet.

Was only half paying attention, was it really worthy of a flag?

OT! Saskatchewan absolutely can't close out a game properly.

Can't believe they're going for the kick here. Such a long kick, I'd gamble on the third down play.

These flags are probably good calls, but this is really killing the game.

I want to see OT.

That's a shitty call there ref, cop out ruling forward progress stopped. I mean, the guy is still moving and fighting. At least it didn't make the difference, BC gets the ball.

No whistle, I don't see how you can overturn this.

Holy smokes, that's a huge mistake