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Does Cauchy give part of his paycheques to Henoc, semi serious question?

One thing that will be interesting will be the return game. Grant was lights out last game and BC has struggled covering returns all season, especially in their past 3 games.

Why? MR is great but likely playing hobbled. Burnham is all CFL but outside of that they don't have much on offense.

So whose the 5th OL if Speller can't go, do we pull Eli off the PR or Darell Williams?

Interesting, helps BC's Dline.

I suspect that the team planned to use Oliveria to spell Harris this year before the injury and for whatever reason won't try it with Augustine.

Harris is a little like Frank Gore in terms of being somewhat ageless. That said, it would be nice to see them give Augustine some touches and for Lapo to get the passing game going to somebody not named Harris.

Ripper made a great point about the holding on returns and on the headshot. I love the big returns and as Dickenson apparently said, I think we're seeing more this year because the NFL is kind of phasing out the kick game so we're getting more of those type of guys and that's great but you have to make the calls.

Nice play by Burnham

Actually Ottawa was 12-6 and lost a close Grey Cup game to Edmonton in 2015 during Maas's only year as their OC. Calgary was 11-7 in 2011 aka Dickenson's first year as OC but they were tied for 1st and had a pretty good offense. As for an earlier post on our total touchdowns, we're scored 4 in the past 3 games.

Hopefully the records of who were connected to him come out. I doubt it but I hope so.

Zylstra is pretty good on teams. I bet he makes the Vikes again based on that. I also suspect he tries to land another NFL spot for 2019 even if cut. On the other hand, he could be BC's 2020 marque signing.

Dom Davis is 30. I don't see him suddenly magically grasping the mental side of the game.

Former Eskimoe WR Bryant Mitchell tore his Achillies in an NFL pre season game tonight. Poor guy, that sucks.

How much of the game has to be played? Hypothetically could a team score a fg on their first drive and then there is a severe weather delay and after one hour they get a win?

So what happens at the end of the year if this win gives the Riders 1st place in the West when without it they would have finished lower?

So Saskatchewan gets gifted a win potentially skewing the final standings and playoff positioning. Great decision. Fire Ambrosie.

This new rule is stupid.

Wasn't Judge offside on his big play?

First 5 games: 1150 yards passing (230 a game) 12 td passes, 1 interception, 9.1 yards per pass attempt Last three games: 607 yards passing (202 a game) 2 td passes, 3 interceptions, 6 yards per pass attempt. Injury? Game Plan? Better defences faced? Something changed.

Picking up on what JBR posted, in Penton's Insider column about a week ago in the Athletic, one of the pieces was speculation that Nichols has a hand injury. Could explain things a little. As for JBR's idea, I think it has some merit.

This Lapo/Nichols debate really is a chicken/egg discussion isn't it?

I've done it too.

On the fans, its has been 29 years since we've won the Cup. In that time, we've had some very good teams and some awful teams. We've had our hearts broken many times (1993, 1994, 2001, 2007....). Rightly or wrongly, it makes many of us pessimistic because we've seen it all go wrong many times before. Am I happy that we're in first? Of course. Do I feel we have a real shot at the Grey Cup? Yes, I do. However that doesn't mean that Lapo's playcalling or Nichols lacklustre play the past few games doesn't concern me because it does. The bottom line is we're all hardcore fans of the team (you have to be to be a message board regular) and the taking shots at others who disagree with you or express an opinion you don't like is not only childish and petty, frankly its bullshit.