Blue-urns

There's no reason why Anderson should be on the roster over Pierce.  The 3 drops were brutal.  First day of football practice in your life you learn to catch the ball with your hands, not your body.  We had no big targets, our biggest receivers were Etienne and Kohlert, putting a 5'9 guy who can't battle a DB at boundary WR (Anderson), really limited our offence.  Denmark would have made more sense out of the guys we had dressed, but really why wasn't D Pierce dressed?

Goltz was a threat to run yet we never exploited that once. He wasn't any kind of threat in the zone read. We need to make the defense account for him. Right now, it's 12 on 11.

And your quarterback is making his first career start, ideally, how many times would you want to run the ball in the first half?
 
For the record, Simpson had 4 carries in that situation. Great work Crowton!

When a qb has time to throw he'll find open receivers. It's too much to ask the defensive secondary to keep blanketing receivers play after play when there's no pressure on the qb. That, to me is the defense's problem. And the fact they're gassed because the offense can't sustain drives & it's constantly 2 & out...

I think Goltz left some plays on the field because once he found success in the first quarter he went away from what worked & tried to push the ball deeper downfield. The kid is a rookie starter. he needs help to stay  with what works. WE NEED A FREAKING QB COACH. Someone he can talk to after he comes off. Someone to discuss his selection of routes, pump him up when he needs it or give him **** when he screws up. Crowton can't talk to him as he is too busy with other stuff in a game.

Goltz > Pierce.  Why are we even talking about this?  And why the hell are we trying to connect the QBs and defense?

yeah well The defense crapping their pants the last 2 games doesn't absolve PIerce from his horrendous play. Hell I'd say Goltz starting all year we're 3-2 cause those first three games were lost because Pierce was horrendous. 

If you know anything about football (which I believe you do). You'll know that he has all the tools, he just needs time and coaching. So no I'm not basing it on tonight's game. I've seen something in him that makes me believe he'll be a good one someday.

Horrendous punt spot at the 2 for Edmonton.  Even worse that the replay control centre couldn't get it right.  The ball landed on the sideline 5 yards deep in the endzone!  There's no possible way it could have crossed the sideline in the air at the 2.  Game changing terrible call.

No excuses now.  No "protect Buck" scheming.  Goltz can do it all, so we should really see some creativity out of Crowton.  The zone read should work good in the run game since Goltz is actually a threat to keep it and run.

I feel a real turn in the wind against Burke. That most fans don't want him coaching this team anymore. That most fans have no confidence he can produce a winner. That most fans think he's in way over his head. Comments like that about Goltz don't help. I think the honeymoon is over.

After finally seeing last weeks game I am excited to see more of Goltz. In my opinion he showed more awareness and athletic ability in that 2nd half than we've seen from Pierce all week and it will open things up for the offense as a whole. He moves around well enough to make people miss time to time, he throws on the run better than Pierce has lately, he is more effective when he runs himself and I think he's just as accurate as PIerce at this point in their careers. A qb who isn't a sitting duck is going to be a good thing for this offense. Hell the play PIerce got hurt on he stepped right into the guy! Just no awareness what's going on around him. 

It's OK...nobody's perfect.

However, I can't help but think that even if Goltz plays well and we win that Buck will be leading the troops out to their deaths again once he is healthy.

I'm in the middle of watching the Tor. game and I'll tell you right now there are 2 instances that I can spot where the O-Line is doing their job and keeping the D-Line at bay...but Buck...looks underneath for the 5-yarder, on 2nd down, throws completions, but for short gains.
Now, I couldn't see if the other receivers were open further downfield but Buck had at least a few more seconds to look...but didn't.
 
And on that note, in the 1st half, the O-Line was blocking for a hole but Simpson chose to go outside, twice...to no avail.
 
I'm not going to go all out for the O-Line but sometimes they get the blame and it's misplaced.

The one thing the Bombers don't do is cut down Buck in the media.

No, what I'm suggesting is that our fan base should pay attention and not whine or cry when we cut a veteran for a younger (gasp) cheaper player because, obviously other teams do it all the time.

Hopefully the 2 seasons of game cheques while he was in no position to contribute to the team on gameday will help him make his decision.

He has none .. also has no evidence to support his assertion that Mack cut Kent .. lot of hot air ..

Marginal player.  Can't cover good enough to play SAM so he plays WIL, not really suited to that position either, he was a fit for Jones because he sends him on a blitz almost every play.  We don't really blitz our LB's, so I don't see him being a good fit here.  I think he got beat out by Shane Horton, who was all over the place last Friday.

yeah... maybe we ought to take it to the general forum tho.

what's so weak about them? The argos were a team that needed great D, scoring from special teams and their D to force turnovers in order to win games prior to Ray showing up and I don't recall you evey saying how poorly they were constructed. Point is absolutely valid, if you don't have a qb your team is more than likely going to suck unless everything else goes right.

So what you are saying is that any player on defence should only tackle above the knees to the shoulders? That's reserved for QB's. What a joke! It's football. Talk about seeing things only from a TO perspective! 

I think you're over stating how attatched to Pierce Mack is. Not like he ran out and grabbed him immediately, he initially wanted no part of him but signed him anyway just because of lack of options. This past offseason I definitely got the impression that Mack was willing to move on from Pierce but Burke was the one who was adamant about keeping him. To me it's a GM giving the coach the player he wanted and trusting him. Ends up a mistake but I do think that if a GM believes in his coach then he has to give him the kinds of players that he wants. 

Yes, you're right, LaPolice hired hired Crowton, he explains it all in the video you posted. But then again that's proof, so why would they listen to that?
It's maddening though, kinda like Burke sticking with his "no feasible QB- but play him anyway" policy.