Blue-urns

BC is the shits....

Our next Bluto

Edmonton's best runs were mostly draws.  Under 4 ypc on 1st downs.
Still trying to make Ford a real QB.  Won't implement RPO system that would give him a chance to be lethal.

It was pretty obvious from every view but there was a camera right at field level that showed it 100%.  It bounces off the turf and back into his numbers without him having control of it.

What a dog fight of a game.  Edmonton came to play and played very hard on both lines.   You can tell the guys are trying hard for Killam and I hope they give him a chance even if they start out 0 - 6 again.    Lots of hard tackling and I think mid game it woke up the Bombers and they started to match the intensity.   Even with the terrible 3rd quarter it was an entertaining game. 
Zach looked better,  had good protection and made an equal amount of good throws to his bad throws.  The old arm I think is failing him and he's still under throwing some deep balls,  I hope this is just rust.  
Tre Ford wasn't nearly as bad as people make him out to be.  Had that receiver caught that easy TD it may have changed the outcome of the game.   The Bombers did a great job of containing him and mentally I think Ford is weak.  In the 3rd and 4th quarter several times he pouted to the refs looking for phantom calls and those 2 deep balls with 4 minutes left were bad decisions.  He should be lucky that the refs didn't call the several blatant holds that gave him time in the first half.   The last drive he floated some weird throws that were questionable.   Still a question mark on the guy but he wasn't nearly as bad as people make him out to be.  
My 2nd game of watching Jake Thomas.... In the 2nd quarter he had one good rush where he was being held and should of been a call.   Other then that... he is a pylon who still gets pushed around.  Completely useless.   Lawson wasn't that great in the first half but he was the guy that rushed Ford on the Bonds "interception" that was called off.  
Clercius had a good come back game after a rough outing last week,  I hope he gets more involved.   Sterns also isn't as bad as people make him out to be,  I'm ok with him playing.   
Vaval with a brutal fumble which could of completely turned the game on us had Kramdi not made that huge play.   We had full momentum and his botch killed it completely.  Glad it didn't factor in the end. 
 

Lawler and Ford 0 fer so far. 

That doesn't seem right either... Isn't it Vaval (not Valul)....so VAH-vull. Which is how DT says it...
*Edit*
Double checked the roster.... Vaval... VAH-vull....

What did I make up? And yes Osh was "influenced" to sit Willy and go with Nichols...if that's what you referring to
I don't think Osh evaluates everything he should at times with some players...what he values sometimes doesn't make the player better...with the majority of the gripes I have it's all about skill...skillset...upside..and actual ability...there are currently probably 5 spots i can think of on this roster where we could be so much better and it's with guys in house...but we don't get to see it..and prob 2 or 3 holdovers we could have got rid of and been no worse for wear and likely better and have possible upside too....but around here in a lot of instances...membership has it's privileges...so to say

I was thinking more CNN or MSNBC.  Totally revising history.

I think Masoli completed 2 passes over 20 yard throws in the air.
He looked ******* brutal.  If there was a white jersey in his sight he just tossed the ball up for grabs.
Bombers easily could have had 7-8 INTs in that game.

The motion we use with our lineman now also seemed to mess him up...he was seeing ghosts i think...Strev didnt have issue with that

I’d argue Zach has more wear on him than those guys. But he’s also had more career   Collapses and come backs than all those guys combined. 
 I’m certain he has some throwing arm/hand stuff that isn’t healing. 
 
Zach had a great arm at his best. He was really reliant on his zip and ability to drop a rainbow over the defence to compensate for his struggles to run the short passing game. 
 He hit incredible windows in the past with great frequency. He wasn’t bishop flicking his wrists from his knees and sending it 70 yards down field, but his arm was damn good. Khari was similar, but he lost the touch on the ball, and he could always hit the short game.
Either zach is rusty and still adjusting, or he’s gonna need to completely revamp his game to be more of a cerebral field general. 

I think long term vanterpool would be better at rt and Randolph at LT. But yeah, he’s been a project to convert to tackle. Randolph played basically tackle as the 6th ol in college a lot. 
 Vanterpool was a career guard. Didn’t give up a sack for like a year and a half, didn’t take a penalty in his last year. Pretty wild. 
 Vanterpool is still naturally a guard but has the mobility to end up a rt. And he’s very good in pass protection at guard. 
 
 

WTF are you talking about?  Nichols was knocked out of that season months before they traded for Collaros.  Collaros was here for a week before he started the second game he was here for.
This whole manufacturing of narratives to be over the top negative has to stop.  I know our fanbase can't handle winning.

So how many snaps did Korn take...I didnt even notice or see Weitz on teams.. T.Jones was Mia...your mlb needs to be noticed and making an impact
Trade for one...put Eli in or something but we need a center
Jake??. Time to hit the 1 game..all yr
We be chasing Ford around next week...Jake should not be part of the scheme...guys like Bailey and Person tho would be helpful tho...

I really don’t understand the choice to sit down Vanterpool after seeing how we used Cooley today 

I just watched the game,  that 2nd and 3rd quarter on O was very stinky.    Poor execution all around by many guys.    I didn't mind the play selection ,  it was just bad o-line , a few bad drops,  bad Zach.... everything looked very pre season like.  It seemed like when BC was able to stop the run that the Bombers had zero answer.  
Zach looks as bad as he did in the Grey Cup and last season.   Those lame duck ints were completely unnecessary.   That first pic was underthrown in double coverage.... why?   That 2nd pic was forced for no reason at all considering we had a big lead and didn't need to force a throw deep in our end so late in the game.    I don't think his arm is shot like Matt Nichols but he definitely is having issues in his decision making and apparently his execution.   
The secondary did make a few mistakes but for the most part they swarmed and I really liked what I saw out of them.  Same with Jones and Griffin at lb those guys were noticed on the field.  
D-line I specifically watched Jake Thomas for this game to see if maybe people on here such as myself are over exaggerating his play.    I encourage anyone with PVR to rewatch the game and keep and eye on him.   That guy was big brothered all night long and was comically out muscled and tossed around on nearly each play.  He was also the guy who completely bit on the play action with Masoli that gave them one of their only positive plays.   I watched Thomas run full steam ahead and crash and bounce back several times.   The only time he was near the QB was when he was tossed around like a losing sumo fighter and he would somersault somewhat near Masoli.    He was on the field way to much tonight and while Lawson wasn't an all star.  At least Lawson wasn't pushed around and he made the one big play that resulted in an interception and he at least plugged the lane at times.   Thomas was a pylon blowing in the wind... just completely useless.  
 
Zach can not play like a vintage Danny Mac gunslinger... I'd like to see him throw on the run more. 

People are happy to make excuses for him.... but Zach really needs to change the way he plays. He doesn't have the arm he used to to take the risks he does.

Eli at slotback

And would you rather have Vanterpool at LG (for 70 snaps on O) with Wallace and Eli in reserve or Wallace starting, Eli in reserve and Kyrie Wilson on the field for 30 snaps on D?
There's no real logical way to justify dicking around with the OL when it's basically the heart of the team.  It stops beating, you're dead.  You can figure out how to deal with a deficit at WIL or field corner or WR...not at LG or any OL spot.

The problem is the domino effect when you start making changes on the offensive line.  In isolation, Wallace was fine but on the whole, the unit struggled.  Was that the change or was it guys simply struggling tonight?

To me, it didn’t make a lot of sense to make changes to an offensive line that had exceptional game week before.  I also temper that with the understanding we had a **** TONNE of time to prepare for BC in the lead up to last week.  Had we not played well, I would have been worried.

That, IMO, is the critical job of the head coach. It is also why we we lost three, count 'em, three Grey Cups in a row. It wasn't an act of God, it was a dereliction of duty.

We are 2-0 which is good...we have some issues and holes in lineup...and easily fixable
BUT....the crappy part is that we all know how Osh rolls and since we won...he will stick to status quo...and we all know how that ends up...
He won't make the necessary changes to make a good team...a better team...a major flaw in my opinion

Ayers and J Jones would make us a better defence

Lol I love that ending, that was one of the best gcs in modern times imo. 
  I have a lot respect for what Masoli can do. And he gets up to play us. Rourke gets down when he faces us.