Doublezero

Very entertaining interview.  
"What were you thinking when they faked the field goal?"  
"Let's go.  Let's go."
Love that.  If he gets to start at linebacker I'm completely comfortable with him there.

It's that USC education.

I'd do a Drew and 2nd rounder to T.O for Gurley, and a Canadian who you could roster with either a 2nd or 1st round pick and then flip the pick to Montreal with a player where we are deep for either Glenn or Cato.
If we cant do the three way I'd be happy with solely the T.O deal and go with Nichols with Davis as backup. Davis could manage this offence more than capably and actually would probably have to allow defences to respect his ability with his legs and open things up even more 

Loved watching Dieter Brock - a football warrior who threw a beautiful ball.

WHO WANTS FOOTBALL?!!?

That's more indicative to how poorly Willy was playing than anything else.

Jay Washington was a really good running back. He hit the hole hard & could make tacklers miss. I really liked him as a player back then.

1981; Alouettes stroll into Wpg Stadium with a bevy of NFL stars (Vince Ferragamo, David Overstreet, and White Shoes Johnson.)
Ralph Brock says "sorry...not today" and eviscerates them 58-2.
PS
1981 Wpg rookie of the year.....Pete Catan
 

That's a little too "fluffy" for me.  Ability to lead and win, confidence, spark, belief..... smells like something a newspaper reporter would write.  Willy had issues but I don't think it had anything to do with those nebulous concepts.

Willy's biggest problem in the first 5 games - they were numerous but consistent with prior inadequacies - was that his team-mates lost confidence in his abilities and therefore to lead and to win. That was obvious. And it was the main reason things turned around with Nichols in there, he gave the whole team a spark and helped them come around to the belief they could win. So if you look at the difference between games 1-5 and 5-10 in the context of Willy vs Nichols then that is it right there.

Or we can continue to win one game a time exactly as we have: decent QB management of the O with tempo, critical forced D turnovers when needed, and a placekicker who is money.

Or we can continue to win one game a time exactly as we have: decent QB management of the O with tempo, critical forced D turnovers when needed, and a placekicker who is money.

Or we can continue to win one game a time exactly as we have: decent QB management of the O with tempo, critical forced D turnovers when needed, and a placekicker who is money.

Was in stands might be the best way ever to win

Or we can continue to win one game a time exactly as we have: decent QB management of the O with tempo, critical forced D turnovers when needed, and a placekicker who is money.

When Lawrence got his TD I said 43 seconds is enough to get in to Medlock range easily. Figured we'd win it on a field goal at that point. Confirmed once crap missed the PAT 

Jake Thomas might be one of the most underrated under the radar guys on the team.

fyp.

The Als have  a real problem. What's the point of losing with Glenn? At what point do they cut their losses?

what if the defense isn't giving you the deep ball? What if the defense takes that away and only allows you the dink-n-dunk underneath? 
What if not going deep means a lot less turnovers, potentially, and that's the reason Nichols has been able to play (mostly) mistake-free football and allow us to win the turnover battle pretty handily?
 
Again, just "What If"'s..........

Some interesting stats from Derek Taylor.
I believe the expected in this case would be expected in terms of league average based on field position, game score, etc.
Defence definitely playing better since Nichols went it.  
 

Enjoyed hearing the QBs and huddle banter.
Here We Go Razor Lucky 44 Woodie Ringo Indian on 3 - you might know the play but you don't know when its coming.

Enjoyed hearing the QBs and huddle banter.
Here We Go Razor Lucky 44 Woodie Ringo Indian on 3 - you might know the play but you don't know when its coming.

I don't believe Lapolice is the guy to optimize any QB either, so I wouldn't fully blame Nichols for the amount of points/production of the offense.

Nichols gets no respect from the Drew Willy Mavens here who somehow feel he's been done an injustice by being benched. Not accusing you of being one JBR, I'm just saying there are a lot of comments that seem to suggest we're winning despite Matt Nichols & not because of him. So, I'm not singling you out at all. This is just for discussion purposes.
We've won 4 games in a row. We've given up one sack in the last two games. The guy has only thrown a single pick playing with receivers that normally would never play as they're backups at best. He's game managed well & all we've done is win. Nothing he does will ever satisfy them. Our last GC winning qb was a journeyman who played in at least 3 CFL cities during his career. Matter of fact he never saw the field the year before in the GC being the backup qb for Kent Austin. No one ever thought Tom Burgess was ever good enough to win the GC. Yet he did for us.
Let's just enjoy the ride here & give the man his due. Nichols is doing a great job as the field general out there. Nothing flashy like Mike Reiley. However, the players like & believe in him, We're winning,our defense is playing lights out ball hawk, our ST's are humming & that should be good enough for us all.