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Nice way to start off the day.

Awesome.

And for those of us stuck with the Canadian broadcast: Pizza Hotline: Anything else:

Way prefer a game day thread. Don't care for the chat one bit. Just my opinion.

Keep it close to the vest, but I have it on good authority that commissioner Orridge will be there shining a mirror in Durant's eyes all game.

Seriously though, this is our year dammit. Hell, I maintain that we win last year if we didn't have the worst quarterback I've ever seen playing. And no, that isn't just emotions talking or anything like that. I'm not just talking about how Alex Brink and Justin Goltz weren't great. I'm old enough to remember the garbage after Dunigan and before Khari. I remember Chris Vargas, TJ Rubley, Kevin McDougal, a washed up Kent Austin, a wasted up Reggie Slack, etc, etc. People liked to rag on Dinwiddie having a noodle arm... I've never seen a professional quarterback make a sideline throw look more difficult than Brian Brohm. Dinwiddie had a cannon by comparison.

Bombers looking great and the Riders are a dumpster fire... So you think they'll blow us out or will it be a crushing last minute defeat?

Andrew Harris

As far as the offense not lighting it up under Nichols, I'll refer you back a few posts in this thread...

That's what makes these penalty challenges such garbage. The last interference challenge by the Bombers gets upheld, fair enough, I can get behind that. But five minutes earlier Adams got called for a weak PI that would never be deemed "not pass interference". You go by the letter of the law and both plays are clearly pass interference, and yet.. It's a very broken system is what I'm saying. Not sour grapes or anything, Winnipeg benefited from it @ Hamilton and it was stupid then too.

The difference between the protection has been night and day since the extra import slot has been used on the o-line. Nichols has earned the starting job and nice long leash to go with it, but anyone who doesn't realize Willy was in a brutal situation with immediate pressure on him every play is out to lunch.

Jerome Messam

But the Riders have one thing we didn't in 2013...

You know what though, in a way it has to me. Yeah, if the Bombers have a W when the clock shows 0:00, doesn't matter to me how that came to be. But it isn't just the wins, the last 3 games this has looked like a downright competent football team. I was at the Calgary game at IGF and it was men against boys for 90% of the game. To me it's been the little things, such as Nichols doing a quick fake to the man swinging out of the backfield then hitting Denmark in the back of the endzone against Hamilton. It is very encouraging to see the Bombers put the boots to someone after being on the other end of it so very many times recently...

Winnipeg comfortably leads the league in takeaways. Sure, it would be damn near impossible to keep going at this clip, but the fact the team is causing turnovers is no accident. And let's keep in mind that the "backup" QBs we've feasted on are a mere 4-1 when playing opponents other than the Blue.

I mean, would it have killed him to break 5 or 6 league rules in the process?

Chris Williams

Happy birthday Knuckles. Simply the best.

Exactly. The teams that have vultured us for years playing backups that never amounted to anything didn't seem too broken up about it. Is it really a win if your opponent had Justin Goltz under center? Past years standings say yes.

Fogg Bowl II

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