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We are healthy, Montreal is not. Plus, we seem to have Montreal's number. Things come together for O'Shea's Bombers, starting here. Winnipeg 2-1 after Friday.

Interesting to see Bastien taken out before Richards. Wonder if Richards is going to start making an impact soon.

I don't want to live in a world where even when I'm completely conscious I'm not allowed to lie on the ground with my eyes closed after getting clobbered.  For a really long time, if I want to.

No there are definitely fanbois out there. You put a gun to my head I prefer Marve over Brohm too, but I get where the coaches are coming from here. Brohm is more of a pro at this point compared to the very raw Marve. Some people though, they act like Brohm is a moustache twirling villian and Marve is the hero who will fix everything wrong with the team. It's just so over the top. 

You should really make your feelings clear on who you prefer...Marve or Brohm?

Anyone who complains about Bombers missing out on Collaros misses the point: he didn't want to come here. He wanted to play for ex-QB Austin, who wooed him hard to go to Hammy. I can't stand Austin BTW and wish someone had laid a hat on is arrogant chin last night.

If I could read MOS's mind.  I think was  trying to find out what Brohm could do if he had to start this week.  Yanking him in the 4th would do nothing for his psyche
plus the game was over by then anyway and why not leave him in so he could get more reps. 
 
I may be in the minority here but I'm not as sold on Marve as many of you are. 

Another thing that ticked me off about last night's game was the fact that Clarence Denmark's streak of catching at least 1 pass in a game has ended at 34.
Piss me off.

Anyone who complains about Bombers missing out on Collaros misses the point: he didn't want to come here. He wanted to play for ex-QB Austin, who wooed him hard to go to Hammy. I can't stand Austin BTW and wish someone had laid a hat on is arrogant chin last night.

I really hope Drew Willy suffers no long-term side effects from that shot to the head.
MOS reiterated how tough Drew Willy is. Last season, Bombers didn't manage him well, I don't think.
He came back after suffering many hellacious hits and was actually a liability with happy feet and that deer in the headlights look.
I don't know what the answer is, but Bombers are looking to pay him $400k next season so you've got to protect that asset and bring along a solid #2.
I say rest him, let him watch from the sidelines for maybe even longer than he wants the next few games, while the O, hopefully, gets its chops up.

I like that Randle is embracing the role and not pulling a hefney

which player on defence had a right to be overconfident after 500 or so yards by Sask?

Too much worrying about the qbs after this game in my opinion. The Bombers scored a touchdown on their first possession by doing what they did in Saskatchewan and having a good mix of running and passing plays.... but then Bellefool did what he does and when the D folded like a cheap suit he got Drew Willy killed by forgetting he has a couple good rbs on the roster and exposing Willy to a constant and effective blitz. So then the backup goes in and logic says help the guy out with a strong run game.... but nope he puts him in the pocket and exposes him to the same blitzes. He's lucky he didn't get Brohm killed either. 
 
I said it all offseason, Bellefool is a problem at OC and he needs to go. 
 
 
As for the D, in my mind the defensive line is the biggest problem. Hall has always had a soft D, he doesn`t have a DL that can pressure this is what you get. Peach is his usual uniform filling self, Westerman looks more like Busterman and Turner and Anderson aren`t doing much of anything in the middle. Need a real threat at DE and a big time DT in there ASAP to turn this around cause the DL is getting abused consistently through 2 games. 

Come on guys. Our D is improving.
 
We gave up 497 against Riders and only 441 against Hammy.

Thank-you JBR for some sanity in this thread. I don't get the Brohm hate around here. Marve would have reacted differently to the blitz for sure. And it would have been very ugly. But our QBs - all of them - could use a co-ordinator like Tommy Condell who called a great game for Collaros and Co.

Thank-you JBR for some sanity in this thread. I don't get the Brohm hate around here. Marve would have reacted differently to the blitz for sure. And it would have been very ugly. But our QBs - all of them - could use a co-ordinator like Tommy Condell who called a great game for Collaros and Co.

Brohm is the best backup QB we've had since Pat Barnes.  The irrational love affair with Marve is just silly.  Just look at what happened when he had a chance to pass, granted it's one play, but it's an option read pass play and he was so indecisive between deciding to run or pass that he just about handed the Tabbies 2 free points.  Marve is not ready to play and everyone has the book on him.  Just look at how Hamilton played him at the end of the pre-season game, fill the gaps with a delayed rush and make him use his brain and his arm.  Marve will be the next guy under the bus if he gets a shot.  He's got potential, but if we're looking at him to play this season we are screwed and so is he.  Brohm gives us a chance to win, and it was good to see him pull the team out of the stunned stagger it was in after Willy went out.
 
Bellefeuille called a real shitty game both protection wise and in terms of attacking the blitz.  No screens in behind the blitz, no draws, only a few flat footed screens to wide receivers in the 2nd half.  Really poor gameplan and basically no adjustments until halftime.  Should not take that long to make those adjustments in protection, even if it is to go into max protect and leave 7 blockers in.  Only took our QB getting killed and Brohm getting rocked about 3 times before the end of the 1st half to make that adjustment.  I didn't think Brohm would survive that half either.  Would be nice if Picard could make a block when he gets isolated too, but it's been 9 years and he still can't manage that.  Cotton is a hell of a player, but featuring him in the downfield passing game is clearly going to lead to turnovers.  Sask dropped a gimme INT on a downfield pass to him in Regina, and Stewart got a touchdown off one today that Cotton barely even waved at.  Bellefeuille needs to do better than what he did tonight.

TiCats were better coached. Condell Steinauer and Reinebold. Winnipeg looked lost. It was over before it began.

That is exactly the way I saw things as well. A penalty, a key injury, and a run back. And it just did not stop after that.
Hammy looked good.

Things went south after jullians illegal block....all down hill after that

Nick Moore made a great block for Marshall on the 2-pointer. And yes, once Cotton penetrated the LOS he was shedding tackles. Lots of complaints in Riderville about sloppy tackling by their D. But Cotton helped himself too - runs hard and he's very able at changing direction.

I know the name Jock Sanders has been floating around a bit .. now sure if that's who it is though.

It was away from the Play, Veltung was already gone pretty much at that point but like JBR said in another thread, the bombers did manage to score a TD on the following drive.
 
But yeah, maybe if the refs caught the illegal block on washington by smith i think on Messams big TD run, it wouldn't have been as close as it seemed. 
 
A lot of shocking things in that game really, the TOP being so close was very surprising, to me it seemed like the bombers definitely controlled the game, They would drive down field, only 1 2 and out, i mean i dunno, but apparently it was very close, only a minute or so apart, but watching the game twice even, It certainly appeared as tho the bombers dominated time of possession. 

Right at the point of attack too, without that illegal block there may not have been much of a return to regret.

Watching our OL again, on film, in their first game together, gives me the warm and fuzzies.....