Blue-urns

yeah but what kind of schemes are they running? A veteran like Burris should be able to pick apart a vanilla D no trouble.

Or.....  they kept these players because they performed better.......

Have to say I was rooting for Hall, I liked how he gutted out some tough times in 2013 and was hoping that at least some good would come out of that blighted season.
 
But that said, from what I saw in the pre-season, we have better options at QB.
 
Good luck to him.

Kemp and Johnson both looked like they had a clue what they were doing.... but they both put a lot of balls on the turf over the course of the 2 games. I am always concerned about guys who drop passes because your #1 job as a receiver is to catch the ball when it comes to you. 

I hope Bolton plays well, and flays the opposition like the Lord he is.

Didn't see any practices, but in the games Hajrullahu and Maher were dead even, Maher obviously has a bigger leg in terms of punting, but didn't place them well leading to big returns, and Renaud is a fairly reliable veteran punter who will have Hajrullahu around to push him too.
 
Over 18 games I expect that Maher's placekicking would be a little more consistent, but Hajrullahu hasn't blinked to this point when the lights have been on.
 
Tie goes to the Canadian.

You are seriously undervaluing the worth of a Lirim.

I'd be more upset if we cut Lirim and he got picked up by Ottawa.
Internationals are good ... Nationals are gold.

it's a mistake to have to take the ratio into consideration when deciding on your roster?

Looks like a whiny face to me.

Listening to the show on the CJOB vault, O'Shea is really polite and knowledgeable. I can't help but think though that he's sitting there thinking "man these people actually care about football in this town" when he's taking questions, good ones at least and not questions from old men and nutbars. I doubt they do anything like this in Toronto but I can imagine what it would be like:
"Welcome to the Scott Milanovich call in show. Let's get right to the calls...ok...there's no one yet...oh wait we have "Bluto" on line one...go ahead Bluto, looks like you're going to be our only caller tonight so you've got 55 minutes..."

how is Peterson still on the team right now is what I want to know. On that play with the Hall INT and almost the entire time Marve was in the O-Line seemed lost in a fog, and Calgary guys were coming off the line unblocked on almost every down. That first play from scrimmage when Marve came in where the Calgary guy had a free shot on Marve and he rolled out and ran past the guy and threw a 20 yard rope to the receiver was a beauty. But with that crappy O-line, even Marve ended up being proved mortal.

I'll be happy if Willy starts every game and there isn't any QB controversy this year, because that would mean Willy was doing as well as we all hope he does.  
 
I honestly don't think Hall or Brohm are even close to pushing Willy, so for either of them to start would mean Willy is hurt or playing very badly.  Either would suck for the Bombers.

Or he could read the blitz pre-snap when 6 guys are lined up full bore on the line of scrimmage and move his first read onto a route where he has a chance to get the ball out before he's snowed under.  He can pretty safely assume on a blitz like that when he has fewer blockers than blitzers that there will be pressure coming from an outside gap, unless one of his linemen miraculously block 2 guys.  The OL handled that blitz correctly, the QB didn't.

It's just an opinion.
 
That being said, I'm sure Floyd is probably not watching the same amount of game film as the coaches, so it'd probably be wise of him to defer to the experts who break down tape rather than rely on his opinion from slow motion replays.

Bob Irving and O'Shea seem to have very good chemistry and I like the way O'Shea honestly answers questions.  I think this may be the best lineup on that show for many a year, looking forward to following it.

My concern with the D at this point is how shoddy the tackling has been. They gave up a lot of extra yards simply by missing tackles. 

Just going on a hunch here, but I bet you like re-runs too.

Wasn't Will Ford our Top Special Teams player last season?

Well, its not as if this is a big surprise to most here. Hall has his supporters who have been keeping the faith even though Hall has been fading in the stretch, as they say in horseracing. Considering the beating he took last year, I would have wished a kinder fate for Max, but there is little room for sentimentality this year. I'm not totally sold on Brohm being ultimately better than Marve, but Brohm does have the CFL experience and that counts for a lot. If Marve progresses as I think he will, I hope Hall hasn't signed a long-term lease on his apartment. This regime is making each player earn his spot.

Here's a crazy statistic  that I don't believe happened last year at ALL,not once, in any game. It happened in Calgary. Our Offence had no 2 and outs. 
 
 
I agree with the poster who said i think we will be like Edmonton last year, however our oline seems to be better than what Edmonton had last year.
I also feel it will be similar to 2010 where we lost a few games by under 7 points, for example what happened in calgary, we tie it up, big return by calgary, march down field a bit, kick the winning fg. I see a few games turning out like that. We will be better than last year, I'm leaning towards 6-12 but 7-11 is a possibility also.

I am starting to get really excited for that Drew Willy might do this year. He looked really really good in the Calgary game and if his receivers didn't have stone hands he likely puts up a ton more points and likely wins the game in the first half. 

Drew Wiley looks like an actual starting QB, that alone is a huge improvement.

Our defense hasn't been good for most of the last two years.
I don't get the "we'll have to win 41-40" stuff when guys who will mostly be cut or otherwise not on the game roster just gave up 46 points in 2 games playing extremely basic schemes. I think we can pump the brakes for now on the panicking.

We lost by a total of 7 points combined and our starting QB appears to be pretty good.
I'd say we're miles ahead of last year at this time.