Blueandgold

I wonder if anyone's kicked the tires on Lulay yet?

We can win a Grey Cup without Nichols. We might have a higher floor with him, but he’s also a bottleneck that lowers the ceiling. Forcing the offence to be more aggressive and not just “manage” the game might be what this team needs to win a Grey Cup.

That was an incredible segment on CJOB before the last game. Bob kept trying to steer Doug Brown very far away from that conversation and Doug Brown wouldn't stop talking about it.

Is completing two passes for seven yards and then punting the ball impressive? I don’t care how many passes the check down king completes. It’s a very poor stat to use when our QB constantly throws second down passes well short of the marker.

Yeah, I think they ran it all the way through in 2017 but inexplicably dropped it last year. It’s just another dimension that teams have to prepare for and can help keep the wear and tear off of #33.

I don’t know why we stopped running the two back system last year. It was effective and teams weren’t able to stop it. If you throw Streveler, Andrew Harris and another good RB on the field together they’ll run all over the league. Thats the kind of offence you need in the CFL come October/November.

That was a hell of a game, but the no call on the big return that led to Hamiltons game winning touchdown was disgusting.

Sure, we could've said the same thing about the 7-1 2011 Bombers as well. What happened to that team when the turnovers started to dry up? You can't rely on returning kicks for touchdowns to win and the offense has to be able to score the ball.

We need to use Strev more, but actually rotating QB's throughout the game has never really worked in the history of football. What we need to do is treat our QB situation with Nichols as the 1A and Strev has the 1B and pull Nichols when hes struggling. Let's not forget that Ricky Ray was often pulled for Jason Maas and Casey Printers/Dave Dickenson were also pulled for each other. If it's clear that one guy doesn't have it, give the the other guy a shot to finish the game.

They played on the same team, Nichols got traded and Franklin came in and played better. I don’t know what you’re saying but there’s no arguing that point, it’s 100% a fact.

QB1: 84/133 for 973 yards (7.31 YPA) with 6 tds 1 int 63.2% and 97.1 QB rating QB2: 129/209 for 1448 yards (6.92 YPA) 8 tds 10 ints 61.2% and 75.6 QB rating. Qb 2 was also traded for a bag of footballs and replaced by QB1.

You do know that the Eskimos won the Grey cup that year right? James Franklin came in and played far better than Matt Nichols until Reilly was healthy. Teams can win in spite of their QB and Nichols has been among the worst QBs in the league the last three games.

Let’s not forget that Edmonton was 5-2 with Matt Nichols and still benched him for James Franklin.

Everyone’s too busy roasting Nichols to remember that Jeff Hecht was who we thought he was tonight.

Two touchdowns more than makes up for it.

Can’t wait to buy a ticket dirt cheap the day before the game.

I’ll take a Grey Cup any single way we can get it.

Nichols and the two other star players it’ll take make up for the salary difference? No thanks.

Kenny Lawler may have played his way off the roster with his performance today.

Yeah Woli could be a Jason Clermont type of guy at slot, but that’s also a lot of wasted money on Matthews or Adams If one of them is at the wide side receiver.

Well that’s only due to the Darvin Adams injury. Keeping Matthews at WR and putting Adams at SB may be better when Adams is healthy.

Nichols sucked and our returners sucked but it was one game. We’re on pace to be 15-3, the sky isn’t falling.

People here are acting like La Rocha is a mafia restaurant. I’ve never been there till 2 am, but I used to go there after work quite abit last summer and always enjoyed the atmosphere and never got a feeling that it was filled with “gangsters”.

I hope the Riders loss to Ottawa ultimately ends up costing them a playoff spot.

Even if we're assuming this is true, i'm not sure I instantly cut a guy for getting into a fight without knowing the full story. IF he full out assaulted someone sure, but if he was just defending himself absolutely not.