BigBlueFanatic

You want battle level, look no further than Damon Allen, his Grey Cups were no fluke.You can take all the Calvillo's you want, but in the end if we're talking CFL with this wide open field and all the running room in the world for a QB, I'd prefer Damon Allen in his prime any day of the week. But sad truth is, almost nobody can do what he did as well as he did it throughout his career, just too bad more people don't have the ability to fully appreciate what he accomplished.

Oh I get that don't worry. My point however, still stands. People in football want results instantly. Sometimes we get them because the 'rookie' in question is actually 24 or 25 years old and has been playing pro for a few years. In Trouba's case, it will take him at least another 5 years to realize his full potential (and I think he'll be one heck of a dman). I also think, that this time next year, Grigsby will be one heck of a CFL running back. Yes, his career will be shorter, but his development will be a lot faster that Trouba's and it already is. He has been improving every game. In football, like hockey, there are so many things that are being done 'away' from the play that the casual fan doesn't even pick up on, but the coaches do. My guess - Cotton isn't 'picking' those things up, hence the PR placement. Nick is. I'm a fan of his now. 

People got their ideas thrown out of whack by the good start to the season. They forgot that we still had average at best coordinators on this team and paper thin depth in several areas. 

I'll chalk the procedure penalties up to rust and the holding calls to the fact that he wasn't wearing a green jersey. Hopefully the former will be fixed with a solid week of practice

Also, TBURGESS, I'm a bit confused.
 
This is now the second time this year you've come on here and been openly contrary about a certain play in a Bomber game. Both times, when you've actually describe the play, you describe it in a way that leads me to wonder if you're just arguing for the sake of arguing because quite frankly, the way you describe what happened is in no way close to actually what happened.
 
The DB was in front of the opponent? He pushed him from behind. He wasn't in front of him for even a moment.

Grigsby was good at picking up the blitz today. When Willy got into trouble with pressure was usually when he didn't have a target open right away and things broke down from the OL vs. DL. 

I was fooling around on Photoshop and thought it might be interesting to see what our current uniform would like like with a colour change. What do you think?
 

My wife just pointed out that the new unis might cause the refs to confuse the Bombers with the mothership in TO and that we should see a lot of phantom and non-calls go our way LOL

Combine the brutally horrible one sided officiating, Marcel Bellefeuille's; 4 yard dump passes, bad play calling & Etcheverry's atrocious run defense & this is a game that angers me as a fan. Our linebackers barely weigh 200 lbs & we are getting killed with the run. What's the point of having quick linebackers if they are too small to fight off blockers & can't tackle? This is the defense I was afraid of when O'Shea hired Etch. As far as Bellefeuille's playcalling, I mean... First & ten we throw for 5.. Second & five we throw for 3??? Or we need 4 yards for a first down & we throw incomplete 50 yards downfield... Like WTH?? We did that the entire game. Why can't we throw mid range 15-25 yards?? As the game went on our OL played worse & worse. Howard is terrible. Then just to add the icing to the cake we have officials who deemed it there sworn duty to  give the Argos the win... This is when I hate the CFL & think it's a bush league after officiating like that. ****, I'm pissed off. 

It's funny to hear these jerseys being called hipster. I think of these as the opposite of hipster -- a proper retro jersey would be far more "hipster".
 
Those suits you're describing (and thank God for them -- finally people can wear suits that look good without spending $1000) are a little hipster, but not flashy bright clothing and all that. I would say most of that is pretty bro-y.

But what do I know? I bought a grey-pink suit from England and love it. Heh.

(Also, all these new jerseys will suck. )

Brohm is the holder for LH. Wouldn't want to mess with that chemistry. 

I'm not disagreeing with your conclusion, but how you arrived at it, that's the part that isn't holding the proverbial water.  You might have chosen your words poorly.
 
 
Offseason speculation isn't needed anymore.  The season is a third done.  This really is our team.
 
Our Oline isn't fantastic but they are definitely improved.  Dline and LB are probably a saw-off compared to last year, largely due to advantages in scheme.  Huge improvement in the secondary.  Huge improvement at QB.  Improvement at RB.  Receivers, I'd say slight improvement.  Easy to say huge improvement, but lots of that is on Willy.
 
So across the board, improvements to weak areas and status quo or better to areas that were not weak.  And huge improvement at the most important position of all.
 
But you're arguing that it's a mirage because it's mostly the result of coaching and QB-ing.  Yes, it is.  What is your point?  Are you expecting OShea to spend the rest of the season on IR?  That he's having "beginner's luck"?
 
I agree we could be .500.  Easily.  But other teams playing poorly isn't our problem.  Us beating the teams we were scheduled to play isn't our problem.  We beat the only teams we could beat on any given weekend, which is the team we were scheduled to play.
 
OShea has this team playing to the best of their abilities.  Is there any reason to think he can't continue to do that?  I don't think so.  Will other teams with arguably more talent start getting their acts together?  Probably.  Will wins be harder to come by when that happens?  Certainly.  Does any of that mean we're overachieving?  Absolutely not.
 
Several teams are underachieving right now.  We've been there, we've done that.  Sucks to be them.  Ha ha.  Would you rather be losing to them?  I doubt it.

As far as I am concerned ..... atonement for what? He did what I'd want him to do - and 9 times out of 10 he gets the first down, the 10th time he fumbles. Conversely, he can do a Grigsby, go down on first contact to 'protect the ball' and it's 3rd and two and 10 out 10 times we are punting. I'll take the 9 out of 10 and say he (JFG) made the right decision and #0 for Hamilton made a great football play. Players on the other team make those too - not just bomber players (as in if it was the bomber D doing that we wouldn't say the opposing receiver 'fumbled' we'd be talking about the great play our defender made in causing it - and make no mistake that's exactly what it was - he was hit at the exact right time in the right way - he's a second earlier or later or in a slightly different way he does not lose the ball).
 
But I agree that's a highlight of the week catch and up there in the CFL plays of the year at the end of the season. What a find this kid was/is. 

I was more referring to the infamous "BC Sucks" chant, heard at Bomber games.... I have no particular personal objection to the great province British Columbia 

We actually have six starting nationals injured right now...  last year, this would have (further) crippled the team.
 
Sherman is playing better than Labbe, LH can actually punt unlike any replacement for Renaud... ever...
 
Bucknor is a huge upgrade over Cauchy and Dan West
 
 
Walters has done a great job finding diamonds in the rough - but real depth will still take a couple years

Carter is 4th in line for our NI receivers.  Renaud is 5th.
 
Every football fan north of the 49 raved about Hamilton's NI talent this year.
 
Their 4th NI receiver is Matt Coates.
 
Who?
 
A kid out of junior football in Hamilton.
 
So, like EXACTLY what we have.
 
Which back alley in Honduras did you get your doctorate degree by the way?

It demonstrates an injury issue.
 
....well

Penton confirmed he's been signed but the riders are waiting to make the announcement.

Guessing the lack of game film lead to the defense not being prepared to react. Then boom. The d brought the lumber

"It's all about the spot"
 
-Rod Black, idiot.

I think O'Shea is the real deal. I like how in the media he keeps it positive. When the media asked him where the problem spots were and he refused to play that game it's good. If he comes out and says "well our o-line is ****" or "the receivers are terrible" or something like that then all of a sudden you got the media talking about the players who aren't good enough and they hear that. This way the coach doesn't give the media anything to pick on players for before games even start. I have no doubts that if there's guys not playing up to snuff MOS will tell them to pull up their socks in the locker room but the key is that it stays there. That's how a coach earns a teams respect and trust. 

Seriously, what MOS presents to the media and how he addresses the players on the field can't possibly be the same as some are making it seem. The flip side is that bizarre Gary Lawless article warning against MOS going full-Vesuvius on the team.

Seriously, what MOS presents to the media and how he addresses the players on the field can't possibly be the same as some are making it seem. The flip side is that bizarre Gary Lawless article warning against MOS going full-Vesuvius on the team.

Seriously, what MOS presents to the media and how he addresses the players on the field can't possibly be the same as some are making it seem. The flip side is that bizarre Gary Lawless article warning against MOS going full-Vesuvius on the team.

k wow. Locked.