blueandgoldguy

My point is the Argos play-calling would have been even more aggressive for the remainder of the game if that field goal attempt was not returned for a TD. Given Kelly's abilities they might have been able to score several more points than they did if the score was more one-sided early on.

Do you honestly believe the rest of the game plays out the exact same way if Castillo makes those 2 field goals?

Poorly coached and poorly prepared. If Castillo made just one of his 2 missed field goals we still would have won by a point. Had he made both we would have won by 11 seems he gets on a streak and cant miss then misses two relatively easy ones and there goes the game, typical of this team

I did like the old days with the early afternoon starts.

Needs a few wrestling references too.

I'm not going to lie... Mike O'Same and Tommy Con-Dull are both gold... LOVE IT!

For shits and giggles and the reminiscing of Nasty Nate in the other thread, I used MBB posting history and ChatGPT to get a Nate style commentary on the season to date. Enjoy folks, all meant for some levity in a frustrating to date season.
THE 5–5 FOLLIES: MIKE O’SAME AND THE BLUE BOMBER MUSEUM
Ladies, gentlemen, hobos, rounders and prairie plutzkies…your 2026 Winnipeg Blue Bombers are 5–5, which is a PERFECT record if the objective is to be neither good nor bad enough to force anybody in management to do something.
These Bombers are a football slot machine. Pull the handle and maybe you get a half of competent football…maybe you get 377 rushing yards surrendered to B.C.…maybe you get a 16–0 lead in Edmonton followed by three points and 35 yards of offence in the second half. Nobody knows! Least of all the fellows being paid to know.
After every fresh disaster, out strolls head coach Mike O’Same, president and founder of S.A.M.E.—Stand Around, Mutter Excuses. Mikey surveys the smoking crater and announces that the fellas simply needed to make two or three more plays. Brilliant! The Hindenburg merely needed a couple more buckets of water.
Meanwhile general manager Kyle Waiters, also known as the Duke of Stand-Pat, watches every other CFL club bring in receivers, defensive backs and pass rushers while Winnipeg guards its practice roster like it contains the lost treasures of King Solomon. Weak receiver room? Wait. Confused secondary? Wait. Ancient offensive line creaking like a haunted hotel? WAIT HARDER. Eventually another team will accidentally release an all-star directly into Kyle’s office.
Then we have offensive coordinator Tommy Con-Dull, architect of the CFL’s last-place red-zone operation. Give Brady O-FEED-ME-ra the football and he bulldozes Edmonton for more than 100 yards before halftime. Naturally, Con-Dull responds by hiding Brady in the second half like he owes the coaching staff money. Why use your best offensive player when you can have Zach Colla-Rust fling another hopeful balloon toward a receiver moving with the speed of a refrigerator being dragged through wet cement?
On defence, coordinator Jordan Yawner has installed his famous Prevent-Us-From-Winning scheme. Rush three, rotate seventeen defenders, place the defensive backs somewhere near Brandon and graciously concede the seven-yard completion. The opposition needs eight yards? Give them twelve. Need to protect field-goal range? Back everybody onto Portage Avenue. Watching this defence communicate before the snap is like watching six tourists assemble furniture without the instructions.
The crazy part is there are still some genuine ballplayers trapped inside this travelling carnival. Brady remains the engine. Trey Va-VOOM is one of the most dangerous returners in the country. Willie Sackerson and Jake Sack-resna can still wreck an offensive line. Nic Demski continues to fight. But individual talent cannot overcome an organization that treats adjustment like an admission of guilt.
Now the 9–1 Montreal Alouettes come marching into town. Mike O’Same will tell us the room is confident. Kyle Waiters will continue waiting. Jordan Yawner will station the secondary in St. Boniface. Tommy Con-Dull will discover a new method of reaching the four-yard line and emerging with three points.
The prescription is painfully simple:
FEED BRADY until the other club proves it can stop him.
Play the best players—not the fellows with the longest service pins.
Attack on defence instead of operating a government-funded receiver-relocation program.
Bring in actual competition before the season becomes an archaeological exhibit.
If the same problems keep producing the same losses…CHANGE SOMETHING.
The dynasty is gone, folks. What remains is a 5–5 club living off the fumes of what it used to be, driven by coaches who appear convinced that stubbornness is a substitute for adjustment.
But don’t worry.
Mike O’Same says they’re only a couple plays away.
Prolly.

When the coaching/admin cap came into effect, I always thought there was something equivalent to a "mulligan" when firing a coach/gm who was still under contract. Each team had the ability to fire one individual within a set time period (once ever 3 years?) without that person's contract counting towards the cap. I guess this never existed although I could have sworn it did at one point.

Rourke had 2 possessions to get a first down and likely salt away the game.  Goes 2 and out.  Saskatchewan inexplicably punts with 1:48 left after going 2 and out (even one BC First Down likely leaves too little time for Saskatchewan to march it down the field for a game-winning TD)....but BC goes 2 and out again...this after the running back gets 7 yards on first down.  Why not go back to Butler on second down instead of Rourke with a long second and three QB sneak?  Foolish playcall by Buck or was it Rourke?  First down leaves the Riders with 20 - 30 seconds left even if they get the ball back.  Even BC's defense could have likely held them to less than 75 yards in that situation.
 
Instead we get an awful collapse by the Benefeces' defense giving up 73 yards in like 40 seconds and that was the game.
 
Harris outplayed Rourke.  Never thought I would say that.

Rourke had 2 possessions to get a first down and likely salt away the game.  Goes 2 and out.  Saskatchewan inexplicably punts with 1:48 left after going 2 and out (even one BC First Down likely leaves too little time for Saskatchewan to march it down the field for a game-winning TD)....but BC goes 2 and out again...this after the running back gets 7 yards on first down.  Why not go back to Butler on second down instead of Rourke with a long second and three QB sneak?  Foolish playcall by Buck or was it Rourke?  First down leaves the Riders with 20 - 30 seconds left even if they get the ball back.  Even BC's defense could have likely held them to less than 75 yards in that situation.
 
Instead we get an awful collapse by the Benefeces' defense giving up 73 yards in like 40 seconds and that was the game.
 
Harris outplayed Rourke.  Never thought I would say that.

Rourke had 2 possessions to get a first down and likely salt away the game.  Goes 2 and out.  Saskatchewan inexplicably punts with 1:48 left after going 2 and out (even one BC First Down likely leaves too little time for Saskatchewan to march it down the field for a game-winning TD)....but BC goes 2 and out again...this after the running back gets 7 yards on first down.  Why not go back to Butler on second down instead of Rourke with a long second and three QB sneak?  Foolish playcall by Buck or was it Rourke?  First down leaves the Riders with 20 - 30 seconds left even if they get the ball back.  Even BC's defense could have likely held them to less than 75 yards in that situation.
 
Instead we get an awful collapse by the Benefeces' defense giving up 73 yards in like 40 seconds and that was the game.
 
Harris outplayed Rourke.  Never thought I would say that.

Ehhhh that seems like such a loser Manitoban thing to do... Selling your tickets. I don't wanna be the world's biggest Alouettes fan, but I will be next weekend. Will be great to have one last game day experience at the barn. Looking forward to the pre game tailgate as always and celebrating this amazing league one last time before they **** everything up with shitty rules changes. 
Vive Les Alouettes!!

West Division
1. Calgary
2. Winnipeg
3. BC
4. Edmonton - crossover
5. Saskatchewan
 
East Division
1. Hamilton
2. Ottawa
3. Toronto
4. Montreal
Playoffs
West Semi-Final : Winnipeg beats BC
East Semi-Final: Ottawa beats Edmonton
West Final: Winnipeg beats Calgary
East Final: Hamilton beats Ottawa
Grey Cup:  Winnipeg beats Hamilton
 
MOP: MIke Reilly
MOC: Andrew Harris
MOD: Jefferson
- still not sold on Nichols but I made a bit of a homer pick with Winnipeg prevailing over Calgary in the west final. 

West Division
1. Calgary
2. Winnipeg
3. BC
4. Edmonton - crossover
5. Saskatchewan
 
East Division
1. Hamilton
2. Ottawa
3. Toronto
4. Montreal
Playoffs
West Semi-Final : Winnipeg beats BC
East Semi-Final: Ottawa beats Edmonton
West Final: Winnipeg beats Calgary
East Final: Hamilton beats Ottawa
Grey Cup:  Winnipeg beats Hamilton
 
MOP: MIke Reilly
MOC: Andrew Harris
MOD: Jefferson
- still not sold on Nichols but I made a bit of a homer pick with Winnipeg prevailing over Calgary in the west final. 

The CFL is in a sad state of QB'ing. 

Mitchell and Rielly are the only legitimately good QBs left in the league and Rielly is in his twilight. 

Fajardo, Nichols, Dane, Masoli, Harris, Streveler, Collaros are all just meh. Maybe Adams could be considered upper-echelon, but he really shouldn't be.

MBT and Davis are straight awful.

The CFL needs new blood at the position.

I just don't see how a West QB will win this year with such outstanding performances by Burnham, Harris, and Begelton. No QB should win by default.

Sure, but I highly doubt it's Fajardo. He's exceeded expectations like Nichols in 2017, but he's not even an upper echelon QB let alone MOP.

Assuming you're alluding to Matt Nichols... that is a very tough decision in the off season. My heart says keep him, but the brain says time to move on.

The heavy favourite to be the west nominee for MOP.   Excellent signing for the Riders and for the league for that matter. 

Faith Ekakitie says hi.

To be fair, there isnt a OC in the league this year that has been able to keep their qb healthy.

Bad coaches can win championships, never mind winning 10+games a season.  See former head coach Dan Byslma of the Pittsburgh Penguins.  I wouldn't say O'Shea is a bad coach but winning 10+ games for four years in a row certainly doesn't indicate he is a good or great coach.  He has been provided with quite a bit of talent and good Canadian depth. 

Reading these threads after losses, we dont deserve a winner. 

All the QB comments aside, and I’m a Streveler fan like most, this comes down to coaching plain and simple. Streveler has been with the team for 2 years and has been given little opportunity to develop his throwing abilities. Buck pierce was a Streveler run first pass second so how would one think he could develop his passing game. And if memory is correct pierce wasn’t that great a passer either. Then you have the game plan being practiced week in week out....short pass game very few long balls little time to develop chemistry with receivers outside 10 yards and no development on timing ie throwing to a spot where the receiver is supposed to be. So from a coaching perspective little developmental input hence little development.
Another point that has been mentioned here, why did the coaches risk Streveler’s career and health seeing what we all saw....a guy who could barely walk let alone run ! Any sensible coach would have taken him out whether he wanted to or not the first time he could hardly get up! Why do you have backups dressed....to look pretty? I blame O’Shea first and Lapo second...regardless of what Streveler said he should have been taken out and replaced by either of the others.
and finally why did Harris only get 12 touches running the ball.it certainly says something about the game plan when the QB has more rushing attempts and more yards than the leading rusher in the league!
 
oh well maybe next year!

Bighill has been a bust this season for what the Bombers are paying him.