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  6. Edmonton @ BC Lions

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    1 minute ago, Eternal optimist said:

    I can't remember recently seeing Mike Riley play this impatiently. He forces deep throws at the best of times, but some of these are ridiculous.

    I've just been impressed by the discipline by the BC DBs on plays that look like guaranteed PIs they do a great job hitting the ball and not the receiver. 

    How about Lulay just yelling mad at Buono, that was interesting...

  9. Edmonton @ BC Lions

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    1 minute ago, Eternal optimist said:

    Looks like its just you and me bud, been a good back and forth affair though. Like arguing with my wife.

    Haha amazing. Definitely been an entertaining game. If Edmonton wins by a small margin that TD drop we just saw for BC will be all anyone talks about.

  11. Rate Ritchie Hall's Defense

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    13 minutes ago, bearpants said:

    thanks... this time it makes sense! 😃

    I'd have to think it's a little of both... while I agree with you that BC and Toronto are not exactly world beater on offense... our defense held both teams in check on the second half of a back-to-back... which is hard to do... also of note, I'm blaming the BC loss on offense... I thought the D held us in and gave us every chance to win...

    Yep and BC put up similar stats and points against Calgary as they did on us in their second game, and Toronto put up gaudy numbers with their third string QB in a comeback effort against the best D in the east. 

    We need to grade our D against the rest of the league, and in that regard, we are in the top four for sure. 

  12. Rate Ritchie Hall's Defense

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    I watch nearly every game across the CFL each week and while I get just as frustrated with our defence as the rest of you, I would say the only defences that are better in the league are Calgary and Saskatchewan, and probably Ottawa although their latest showing is disconcerting. 

    So that puts us above league average. Frankly, most of the defences in the league are being exploited like crazy and I think that has a lot to do with the modern PI and illegal contact rules. 

    For several weeks our secondary has had some first year guys due to injury and we’ve still shown well, including sitting near the top in takeaways. I believe that we’ve been making mental errors where someone is out of position on a play. When guys are in position, they tend to win their battles (with the exception of the Edmonton season opener). 

    The only thing that drives me nuts are how successful other teams are with five to ten yard outs on the wide side, but when you consider that that is rarely, if ever, a first read, it means we’re taking away what the QB actually wants. 

    Hall over the last few weeks has let his front four do their jobs more often and been smarter about when to blitz and who is blitzing. Maybe just maybe we’ll see some progress. 

    For those of you that don’t watch every game and complain when Reilly or Masoli puts up 300+ yards on us, try to remember that they do that against virtually everyone they play. It becomes very easy to complain about what we’ve got when we’re not comparing it to the rest of the league, the same way we sometimes see our guys as all stars and forget that other teams have good players too. 

    Our defence is also very disciplined in terms of penalties, rarely being the team that hands over free first downs (with a few exceptions). That’s worth something. 

    I still have the bitter taste of last season’s western final (and season as a whole) in my mouth, as I’m sure we all do, so that definitely creates a bias, but so far this season, this defence has been pretty decent. Let’s see if that remains true on Friday or not. 

  15. ALS - What happens if Vernon Adams lights it up?

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    So I’ve been following all the drama over the last few days in the MTL/HAM trade. Montréal has announced that Vernon Adams will be starting on Thursday, which makes sense, but everyone and their dog knows that the Als picked up Manziel to be their starter. Hell, they mortgaged their future on that fact.

    So, wise MBB prognosticators, I ask you: what do the Als do if Vernon Adams lights it up on Thursday?

    Do they keep starting him until he falters? Or is he one and done as soon as Manziel is ready no matter how well he plays?

    I know that none of this will likely matter since the Als will probably lose again on Thursday, but humour me. If you were Reed and Sherman, what would you do in my theoretical scenario? I kind of feel like they should’ve waited one more week to see what they had in Adams before making this move..

  19. Als About To Drop Willy & Matthews? Manziel Now An Al

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    10 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

    How can it?  If it does work he’ll be back in the NFL by 2020.

    I was just thinking this. It feels like a lose-lose for the Als. If Manziel does well then he’s gone in a year and a half, so they get a couple seasons of possible competitiveness and are right back where they started. 

    If he doesn’t do well, then they haven’t improved. 

    Even worse, can you imagine if he gets injured? Yikes. 

  20. Who's going to the game in TO? (Sat, July 21/18)

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    On 2018-07-17 at 6:46 PM, ALuCsRED said:

    If we don’t support all franchises, the league will fail.

    I’ve attended games in All locations except BC and Ottawa, having season tickets in Edmonton and off course, Winnipeg.  Games are fun everywhere.  It’s better when you team is playing, but all are good.

    Toronto is finicky with all sports.  6 milllion people and only the Raptors and Leafs are near sell outs.  Jays, Argos and even the weekday TFC game I was at last summer wasn’t sold out.  Trains to and from the games, CN Exhibition was on, and a good to great atmosphere.  I don’t get it. 

    I’ve done every stadium but Edmonton, Hamilton, and Ottawa! Hoping to get lucky with an Ottawa/Hamilton back to back Bomber road trip if the scheduling gods help me out next year. 

  21. Game Day Thread - Bombers @ Argos

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    Posted · Edited by O2L

    O’Shea spoke to the challenge in the post game interview (you can watch it on the Bombers website or in the app). He was trying to challenge illegal contact on the guy covering Dressler (which is why Dressler was so active in the conversation), he forgot that it had been removed. He said he would’ve rather taken the delay of game penalty but he was basically stuck having to challenge, so he challenged PI (Adams was the target, so presumably he was just hoping that they’d watch the review and see the IC on Dressler and call it anyway). He said he just made a mistake, plain and simple. I’m sure he knows IC is no longer challengable, but in the heat of the moment had a brain fart. He’s human.  

  22. 3 stars +hh argblows

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    4 hours ago, Mark F said:

    hh.

    Marty Costello enters his second year as the Club’s Offensive Line Coach. In 2017, Costello’s Offensive Line helped propel Andrew Harris to a league-leading 1,035 yards rushing, and allowed the fewest quarterback pressures in the CFL at 71.

    Prior to joining Winnipeg, Costello spent two seasons at UW-Stevens Point as the Run Game Coordinator and Offensive Line Coach. In his first season, the team put up 114.8 rushing yards per game and was third in the conference with 14 rushing touchdowns.

    And if the turf monster hadn’t grabbed Goosen we would’ve had another game without Nichols being sacked. 

  25. How Happy Are You With Paul LaPolice

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    3 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

    No, it shouldn't & is not.  He had the Argos defense all discombobulated all game. They didn't know what was coming next. 

    The same Argo defence that kept the Eskimos offence in check two games in a row. This debate is silly. LaPolice is one of the top two offensive coordinators in the league, no idea how anyone could argue that judging by the whole scoring the most points, great red zone to TD ratio, highest second down conversion in the league things...

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