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We found out that working a no-huddle offense based on snapping the ball quickly doesn't work in the CFL last season The refs take too long to blow the ball into play to get the defense off balance

As long as Parker & MuambaX2 have good games our SAM won't be as important

There must have been something that people ACROSS THE LEAGUE didn't like about Kashama Nobody touched him in Free Agency, that says something about how he was viewed (unless he was being obstinate about his price)

isn't kohlert injured as well? Etienne starting?

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You are going to see ALOT more guys on Injured Reserve across the league this year... Teams know they are losing signed players at the end of the year and we know from the draft are already preparing for that eventuality.

I'm pretty sure the 2010 team was more than good enough to get to the Grey Cup with better QB'ing we went 4-14 but lost 9 of our games by 3 points or less right? (10 by a single score or less) A better QB could have easily won us half those games, maybe even 3/4 of them (9-9 or better). That team with a solid QB would have been DANGEROUS in the playoffs.

If you don't hear a DB's name all game doesn't that mean that they basically had a good game? Other than the safety of course who should be getting involved. I agree that Carter seems like a real potential diamond in the rough and somebody we shouldn't just release into the wild (I wouldn't be shocked if he got picked up by another CFL club who isn't as stacked at NI)

One thing about last night... How do we cut Carter?! He may have earned himself a PR spot this year

I didn't think Etienne and Poblah were even competing for similar receiving positions anymore. Haven't they decided to move Poblah into the slot? I expect their plan is to swap between having two Canadian slots + two American WR and 1 NI Slot, 1 IMP slot, 1 NI WR and 1 NI Imp

Nah I was joking... I have no clue who is going to play halfback

Sherman get's to try out being halfback :Z

Swiston is/was hurt - I can't remember where I saw it but I am quite sure that is why he isn't coming to this game

FROM TSN - But Toronto's Gerald Riggs had the first touchdown in the $200-million stadium, a 20-yard run at 1:49 of the second to make it 7-3. --- 16-17 minutes into the game our starting defensive guys were for the most part already out of the game right? Sounds to me like our starting defense held up pretty well (especially considering we had turnovers in our own end) against T.O.s backups.

That years success was on the back of our defense playing out of their minds IMO

I guess in way that's what they did... assuming that having a lot of transit riders was your hope, and they planned for the worst (which was very few people attending the game taking transit)

That's what has me annoyed... You need to ensure that people continue to buy into alternative transit plans for this stadium location to work... it was incredibly shortsighted for them to not try to ensure they had excess capacity for the first pass. I figure they'll get one more shot before people stop believing that transit is going to be a good way to get to games... they had better not screw up next game.

700 bikes at last night's #Bombers game. Bike coral can hold 400. So basically every single non-car driving to the university method of getting to the stadium was underestimated by a huge %

No kidding right? Assume 50% bus use on the first game... lose some money by having extra buses and count the number of people who used the buses. Take the number who used buses in the first game, increase by 10-20% for the second game (JUST TO ENSURE A GOOD EXPERIENCE) and count the number who took buses again. NOW try to be efficient with the number of buses you have out there

Nope you didn't 8500 people USED the buses and they expected 5000 We already know at least a couple hundred people wanted to use the buses and didn't when they said **** it and went home instead of going to the game. So probably more than 60% underestimated the number of people who wanted to use the bus. So **** stupid... if you wanted to make sure people were going to use transit make DAMN SURE that the bus experience was excellent on first pass... I would have approached the first game by trying to make sure I had way too many buses for the number of fans I expected. After you see how many actually show up for the buses adjust in coming games... but definitely don't try and save money by guessing on the first game How many of those people who tried the bus and found it lacking are not going to give it another chance... probably a huge lost opportunity here

THIS When have we ever sold out a pre-season game in the old stadium (even considering buddy passes)

What I would really love is to see him catch a TD sometime in the pre-season. Can he go back to the CIS after this?

I have more than a couple memories driving down to a buddies cabin listening to Bob calling the game, turning the radio up louder and louder as the static starts to overtake his voice.

Well the BoC does have a yearly 2% inflation target... other than the last couple years (as a result of the recession) they tend to be pretty good about hitting that target.