White Out

no brainer deal for us to do this. why would Saskatchewan do this? Willy is just as prone to injury as Durant and isn't nearly as good.

I think he meant 9 games as in, 6 more with Nichols as starter.

Labour day has been a nightmare in Regina for basically my entire life. It'd be so cathartic for this team and us fans to go into Regina and trash the place.

How can you not care? lol? Guess what, if the Bombers go back into the tank people are going to be extra pissed off from being given a taste of decent football. Do I think this is real as in, we will run the table and only lose 3-4 games rest of the season? Prob not. But I think we have a decent shot at the playoffs now and that's exciting. I don't want to that go back into the toilet. I would say I'm 70% convinced we will make the playoffs, just on the strength of our D alone. I'm only 30% convinced we can have any hope of hosting a home playoff game. For this to be the case a lot of stuff has to go our way. But hell if we host a playoff game I'll make the trip for that.

See, this is where you're incorrect. Go back to the first Hamilton win. WBB fan makes ZERO mention of Willy or the D winning it for us. Not a one. We don't have to try and imagine scenarios here, or, really, do much guess work. It's all there in plain view. Nichols has a rough start to the game but he recovered and made some really nice passes and threw some great touchdown passes last night. Not his best game but we won.

2 bye weeks now? Holy smokes. Ya, that's pretty good then. Very well timed bye weeks

The irony of this post is so far off the charts its ridiculous. When people were critical of Willy earlier in the year it was the total opposite. It's not 1 player, etc etc.

This criticism didn't occur from you when Willy was our Qb. That's just a fact.

Ill agree with this part of your post, and disagree with the bottom part. Nichols confidence in the pocket and ability to throw medium to deep passes is clearly the difference between our two qbs As far as you saying that he's our backup and coming in and doing the job, I think it's pretty clear at this point there is no 'clear #1' for our club. Nichols has done too good a job as the starter.

When I first saw the schedule I kind of wished it was further into the season. I think the perfect time for a bye week in the CFL is with 3 or so game to be played after. Get a nice break late season to ramp up for the post season. But considering all the banged up players we have already... can't really complain.

I think it depends on how long this streak goes. Nichols wont have the same leash that Willy got, that's for sure.

Whatever you consider him to be, he's 3-0 and he's scoring points. I'll take it. If this is average, sign me up.

Nice for MOS not to run up the score at the end with a meaningless FG.

At this point there has to be no debate right? Nichols is our #1?

i dont even recognize this team. fantastic effort, great drive. d is playing amazing and that was a terrific drive by nichols and the offense

not a great first half but were up by 3. some bad drops, a few bad passes, but overall cant be disappointed with a lead.

Big game tonight. We have 3 very very winnable games on the menu after this one. Toronto isn't a pushover, but if we can win a game here I can easily see us being 3 games over .500 after the Banjo Bowl. I'm very curious to see how Nichols holds up, and if the D can continue to turn the ball over.

I wonder what we could see as punishment? Multiple picks? Jones having to resign and eat the crap on this one? Massive fine? I'd prefer picks and a fine. Something like losing 2 years of their 1st and 2nd round picks, and, a 500k fine.

If the Bombers were able to parlay Willy's savings mid season into a couple important contributing players elsewhere on the ball, I'd do that in a heartbeat. The likelihood of that being available and an option is very low though.

At this point, even I wouldn't suggest cutting Willy this year. Why? Unless you think Davis will out perform or equal him. Then sure. But I don't know if Davis is there.

Didn't know Bond was injured. My understanding of that situation is that he wasn't starting because he was an import.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that depth is a bad look for MOS. In fact I think everyone knows that. The suggestion, which is perfectly legit, is that MOS had the wrong starters on the field to begin with. Wrong alignments, wrong starters. What's so bad about that? Is anyone here really disputing that Bond and Loffler should have been on the field day 1?

I don't know how it is you can pretend like this isn't a huge issue right now. Just look at the 2 game threads post Hamilton games. It's literally a 180 for one group of posters on how they reacted to the game. First win with Willy and it was all sunshine and rainbows. Second win with Nichols, a far more dominant win, and it's all talk about the turnovers and D winning it for us and discussion of woe for the 2nd half offense. I also disagree with your assertion we will eventually need Willy. Why? What has he ever accomplished? He had a stretch of 5 good games 2 years ago and has been inconsistent and a losing quarterback since. And he's older than Nichols. I feel like people clamoring for Willy need to watch Frozen and learn to just let it go. edit: my 2nd paragraph is predicated on the likelihood we release Willy this off season. No one, even Walters, is going to pay him 400k a year for his performance. Barring Nichols falling off and us losing again (and who wants that?) and Willy coming back and regaining a form he never actually had and playing like an elite QB... he isn't a 400k QB. We need to start moving on.

There's two clear minority camps who are talking the most about Willy and Nichols and their effects on the game, whether they admit it or not. After our first win against Hamilton folks like wbbfan had zero negative things to say about our lackluster 2nd half or, frankly, offensive production all game long. Not a peep about the turnovers and how lucky we were. Yet after this 2nd win against Hamilton, a far more dominant win, he and a couple others are keying in on that. It strikes me as a bit hypocritical but in the context of Willy and Nichols it makes sense. They're so convinced Willy is the man, and of his SSK hype and first 5 games that they're willing to look for flaws in Nichols they ignored in Willy. It actually is incredibly frustrating to no end to read.

Fascinating. I wen't back to the post game thread from our first win over the Ticats and you were super positive and didn't breathe a word of the Hammer turnovers or points left on the field. Not a word.