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  2. Lawless says there is trade market for Willy

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    You CANT compare Bishop to Nichols. Yes Toronto had a great defense in 2007 but we all know Bishop had all the tools but couldn't read a defense. He barely completed 50 percent of his throws in his entire career, and had more INTS then Touchdowns, where Nichols has a quick release, he has a high completion percentage and he doesn't turn over the ball. Basically Toronto won on good defense, and letting Bishop occasionally connect by airing it out.

    Personally I feel like our team is now set up in a good position to win today, but set up even better in the future with a 1st and 3rd round draft pick, and a talented DB under contract. 

  4. Making the league look bad: item #2837

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    You guys are both wrong.

    Noeller- You're allowed to live in another city, and still tolerate another football team. Even if its the Stamps (puke) that doesn't make you any less of a fan.
     

    Iso- Not knowing who the starting QB from 1942 ALSO doesn't make you less of a fan

    Grow up guys. I thought only Rider fans had this superiority "super fan" attutide.

  5. Snapshot mid-season review of all CFL teams

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    Winnipeg (6-4) – Have things finally turned around in River City? Nothing certain yet, but boy it sure feels like a giant cloud over this franchise has dissipated.

    REASON TO SMILE: Free agency pick-ups have re-vitalized this team at running back, kicker, and in the offensive playbook. A QB who can make plays, strong line play on both sides, and a turnover machine of a defence. Lots of good pieces in play.

    FATAL FLAW: Still not converting enough of those turnovers into 7 points, can’t continue to rely on 6 field goals and 6 turnovers every game as the season progresses, and since the road to glory will ultimately go through Calgary, that doesn’t bode well given how those match-ups went this year.

     

    I HATE comments like this because in the progression of a season teams change, teams bond, we had a different starting QB, we've had guys step up in our line up that didn't even play last time we faced Calgary. In fact we haven't lost a single game since we played Calgary last.

  6. Banjo Bowl

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    I fully expect the bombers to come out motivated. Knowing they didn't play very well and capitalize on their chances. I think they come out fired up at home in the banjo bowl and pull out a big win. I don't think Winnipeg plays on auto pilot this weekend. 

  9. Making the league look bad: item #2837

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    It's funny because the league has spoon fed the Riders as "best fans", "Canada's team", etc and they certainly have a lot of good passionate fans. No one will deny that. They've also benefitted from being one of the better teams in the league for the past 15 years. It's funny how sensitive the fan base has become, instead of looking in the mirror and taking blame for the way the team is ran they use every excuse in the book. No other CFL fanbase but the riders buy that " us against the world" bull crap. We've had plenty of down right awful teams over the years, and some questionable calls against us but at the end of the day our fan base has always been able to look in the mirror and take responsibility for where we're at as a football team. 

  11. Willy vs Nichols After 5 Games

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    11 hours ago, Nolby said:

    My only knock on Nichols is I'd like to see him with a few more tds in the bank than what he's got right now,other than that I have no issues at all with his play. The guy has resurrected our season and ain't giving up the keys to the#1 spot any time soon.

    Sheppard dropped a beautiful pass in the endzone by Nichols, Dressler while not a great throw usually comes up with that catch in the end zone as well. Nichols has been taking care of the football, and coming up big when we need it. You're right, I don't think we'll be seeing Willy any time soon. Not spectacular but like it or not Nichols has played a huge role in our five game winning streak.

  12. The positive thread

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    Another positive is that we won a football game facing adversity. We could of fell a part when Durant willed the riders back down by 16 points but we came through. This was the first time in our five game winning streak that in the fourth quarter we were in a tight football game. You can bring up the riders record all you want but Labour day is NEVER an easy football game. Our 2011 team with an even better record couldn't win in Saskarchewan, and you knew a Riders team with nothing to lose, and a motivated Duran Durant were going to bring their A game, and they did and we still came out of Saskatchewan with the W. Now we need to take care of next weekend and then we're in a good position in our playoff push. 

  14. Around The League Regular Season Discussion

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    18 minutes ago, Rich said:

    I'm not sure exactly how he does his stats, and what his definition of expected is, but I've done some reading / research on some of the advanced analytics that some NFL sites have been doing.

    Basically what they do, is for every play, they take your down, distance, time remaining in the game, and score, and compare it to the league average of how all teams have done in those situation.

    For example, if you are down by a touchdown in the 4th quarter, on your side of the field, it is 2nd down and 7 to go, how many times have teams converted the first down, how many times have teams punted.  On that drive in that situation, how many teams have gone on to score, etc.   What is the average expected success of that play.  And how do you compare to that average.

    So if we are 14 points above expected with Nichols, it means we are out performing the league average in those (overall) situations by scoring 14 more points than what teams typically score in the situations we've been in.

    Under Willy, we were -11 points.  So given the down, distance, score, etc, we were not scoring as much as league average in those situations.

    I don't know how many conditions (ie. field position, down and distance, point in the game, etc) he takes into account in his analytics.  

    Funny how one or two posters were trying to say Nichols wasn't capitalizing on scoring opportunities.

  21. Lawless says there is trade market for Willy

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    2 minutes ago, Noeller said:

    Lawless JUST SAID there is at least one option ready and willing.....in theory........

     

    It's curious to me, for sure. So if you trade him to Toronto....who do you get in return? Because you NEED a vet QB....I sure as **** don't trust Nichols to get the job done the rest of the season.....

    Yes i'm aware of the "apparent" interest. I just don't see a team taking on 400 k, nor do I see the Bombers letting go of the only other veteran QB on the roster when we're in a push for a playoff position. 

  24. Bombers @ Alouettes

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    1 hour ago, Goalie said:

    You missed the point.  Point being.... Nichols has been very average the last couple 3 games now. Very very average. That's enough right now. He's also had games where the other team should have more interceptions but has dropped them. Bottom line.. the D and special teams had 6 takeaways... just like the week b4 the bye and we won by what? 14 points both games.... the O is not doing enough.  What the D and Special teams are doing is not sustainable. Eventually you need the O to put up more than 1 touchdown a game 

    People tend to have unrealistic expectations with the quarterback position. Make no mistake Matt Nichols has been part of the reason we're on a four game winning streak. He's taking care of the football. One INT in the past four games, and he's moving the ball around well. Completing 71 percent of his passes this season. With the way our defense and special teams are playing he simply doesn't NEED to push the ball down field more. He needs to protect the football, and eat up that TOP. Two things he's done a great job doing, plus when it really mattered he drove 90 plus yards down the field which set up a Harris touch down. 

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