Captain Blue

So. Unbelievably. Excited. Buck is dressing Friday, which is a bit of a plot twist. Maybe he's the third qb just in case.

I can't believe we lost to Hamilton. That loss looks even worse now. Any half decent QB and offense should have blown them apart.

There's no supporting evidence for this anymore.

I really hate the Lions. What a bunch of clowns.

I think our players are a combination of youth and sttupidity. When you see a trend that extends through LaPolice and Burke, two coaches with two very different styles, you have to think that it's not the coaches who aren't communicating but that the players just aren't behaving.

He just had to apologize for it. He has to reign it in a bit.

That was a nice bullet throw by Reilly.

I like it honestly. The most intelligent part of TSN's coverage.

Interested to see Reilly tonight. Also I'm already sick of all these teams playing the same opponent for two weeks straight. Only 8 teams in the league, we don't need to see all these repeat matchups already.

Hawkins' seat is getting really warm...

Did you guys know Paredes is going for a record? Rod Black is going for a record on how many times he can reference a potential record.

Ya I think we may see a lot more creativity with Goltz under centre. We saw them move the pocket way more with him in and obviously they have designated runs in there for him too. The zone-read will become a lot more of a threat now with a QB that can pull the ball. The offensive plays have shown some potential early on, there just hasn't been enough of them consistently. They ran some high-percentage throws on Buck's first drive of the game and even he had some success with them. The playcalling was a lot more "normal" (ie. what we're used to) after that. I wouldn't sink Crowton just yet. I want to see him with a mobile QB in charge.

What a game. For as high as some in the league are on Bo Levi Mitchell (and Rod Black just finished raving about him), I think he and Goltz are fairly similar. Mitchell's not doing anything special right now, just hitting the reads he's supposed to make and using his legs to throw off the defense. Montreal is a freaking mess.

HC and QB. He has brought in so much talent at all the other positions but his young QBs didn't pan out and now his second HC isn't either.

I really like our staff right now actually. The Burke/Creehan tandem is outstanding, the problem is that Burke as a HC isn't working out for us right now. He has more time to turn it around but if he continues with Buck he deserves his fate.

Interesting. Honestly on my rewatch today I thought Goltz looked better than I thought he did yesterday.

More fun: He was in a good rhythm for the first drive of the game then slowly dropped off and then hit his wall again in the second quarter.

Bombers aren't sure if Buck will be healthy enough to go this week but even after that here's this great nugget... From the Freep just now: Insane.

I think its pretty clear Burke has some sort of major blind spot or ego when it comes to Pierce.

Ya definitely...Goltz only threw for 41 more yards (on only one more attempt), posted a higher completion percentage, didn't turn the ball over (compared to a game-changing interception), managed to avoid the blitz and showed more pocket composure than Buck. The situations were different to be sure, but even taking that into account, to pretend Goltz was "not better than Buck yesterday" is one heckuva troll job.

I read Burke's postgame comments online this morning and thought his assessment of Goltz was fairly accurate. Now all I want to know is how bad Pierce's injury is. Paper said he was pulled because of injury and not performance. I was thinking it was a combination of the two. Hopefully Burke uses the injury as an excuse to move on but if they're telling the whole truth and the injury was the only thing that kept Pierce out... /more rage

I definitely want to see how Goltz fares against tougher defenses, particularly with his reads. I think the key thing to remember is that Goltz has shown SOMETHING- we don't know if long term success is in his future but at this point there is only one way to find out.

Just finishing up the second half re-watch.... Will Ford is just not a good kick returner.

They catch the ball when it's thrown there way. Etienne has some big play potential if we use him right. Kohlert doesn't possess one great trait but he does everything adequately.

There is not a single reason to go with Pierce unless Burke wants to get people fired.