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10 hours ago, Noeller said:
That breakup on the goal line at the end of regulation will live in infamy.
That was Nichols.
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- Noeller, wbbfan, Bigblue204 and 2 others
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54 minutes ago, WinnipegGordo said:
Not the most high impact guy around but always good to keep Cdns. Hope he can take the next step and make some plays.
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17 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Politicians... What a sham. Income under $90,000??? So, that'll prevent most Canadian families where couples both have jobs from taking advantage of the plan. Not everyone has a dental plan at work.
I think you're overestimating how much the average family makes in Canada.
The median after-tax income of Canadian families and unattached individuals was $68,400 in 2021
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230502/dq230502a-eng.htm
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37 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
Sacks are a red herring stat in isolation. Willie J ranked 3rd in all DEs in pressures, first in pass knock downs, and is a disruptor still. Coach Hall's system isn't one that is conducive to DEs racking up sack totals. Willie is a special talent that we use differently than most DEs around the league. Hell we drop him into coverage sometimes.
I'm all for Haba getting more play time when he learns how to close off run lanes more consistently.
Agree with this but we definitely need more rotation on the Dline to keep him fresh. DEs can play for a long time but can't play every snap.
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2 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
It's an issue. Whether it is a major one is very highly debateable.
Could we have? Explain what makes you think any one of them would have made a lick of a difference.
Parker got hurt in the game and missed a series. Als scored on the series on a play where the Bomber's D got confused about who should have been where. If Rose was on, he slots in for Parker, no confusion.
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50 minutes ago, Booch said:
I really don't like the comments Oshea made in his season ending presser....how he thinks some his vets are still more than capable and sees no reason to move on from some...Big Red Flag in my eyes...and not a good forshadowing for 2024 at all...as it puts team even further behind in reloading and re-tooling for 2025
Either he's really playing sneaky buggers and not letting on...or he is as clueless and stubborn as many suspect, and still playing the favorites and favoring his guys....and I lean to the latter....if we go thru this same bs at start of season I hope Walters has it in him to play the heavy and be Osh's boss!
Remains to be seen if he'll adapt or not.
Either way, there is no way he would say anything else publicly other than full support for the guys on the team.
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28 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:
You can't argue anything in the future of any quarterback at all with any evidence.
Depth is important. Using the whole roster is important for sure. The past two years it's been kind of a "these are our day 1 guys" and we'll only deviate from this group if a limb is amputated.
Montreal dominated the playoffs with a DB crew they basically built during the season, much like our team built a DB crew in 2019.
We helped them significantly by playing 3 receivers who basically couldn't move.
It's not surprising Zach didn't have a huge game with how injured the receivers were.
He was fairly efficient the whole game with only 4 incompletions. Offensive plan didn't seem to call for any attacking plays down field.
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6 minutes ago, Tracker said:
To state the obvious, this is a results-based business, and it comes down to "what have you done for me lately"? The steadiness and ability to ad lib seems to have deserted Collaros of late. We have seen in Calgary the futility of keeping a QB past his good years- it is expensive, non-productive and blocks the development of other pivots. That day is coming for Collaros if it is not here already- it is just a question of time. Smart GMs know when to move a player before he becomes a liability.
All true but we also saw in Calgary that moving on to the hot hand young guy doesn't always work out.
I'd argue Collaros was never steady. He's a gunner, wants to attack. That will lead to INTs and TDs.
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7 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
Not buying it. Guys who busted coverages on the last drive were not playing out of position or moved anywhere, They were in their proper positions. They just blew it.
If they hadn't had to play out of position earlier in the game and that last drive wouldn't have mattered.
Maybe if Rose was on the roster, Parker wouldn't have come back in after being injured earlier.
Maybe an extra DE on the roster has the Jeffs that much fresher to make a play earlier in the drive.
Little things add up, especially in a one score game.
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
Looking forward to reliving what could have been this season and scrutinizing every little change going into next year.
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16 minutes ago, Booch said:
thing is...with our poor roster management we had to make 3 moves to cover 1 issue due to an injury, and thats what will happen...confusion and communication errors...It's not about BA not having it anymore...truthfully there is nothing wrong with his game....it's more how we deployed guys...Now if Clements was in Biggies role, and we had Rose on the roster...a smart savy vet...and one who all the DB's say is like a coach on the feild and makes them better as a group...well he steps into Parkers spot...and we aren't having this convo...BA is at safety....we have no communication issues with the corner and half and that play is broken up...picked off over the top or not even there for the taking...
Exactly, we talked about this all season as a potential to bite us in the ass and unfortunately it did at the worst possible time.
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1 hour ago, True Dru said:
Bighill in the Free Press today...
The veteran linebacker also wanted to clear the air on what happened on the 23-yard touchdown Als quarterback Cody Fajardo threw to Cole Spieker in the third quarter with Bighill in coverage.
“If you guys in the media are maybe a little bit more savvy watching football than maybe your average person, you know that we don’t ask linebackers to cover receivers vertically down the field,” Bighill said. “Let’s just say I was trying to cover up and help out. Was that my man in man-to-man coverage? No. But it’s OK, there was a miscommunication that Montreal did a good job of exploiting, coaching-wise.”
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Tell us it was Holm's fault without telling us it was Holm's fault. And I'm sure he's not wrong but not a very leader-like thing to share in the media
Great leadership there Biggie.
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4 minutes ago, Noeller said:
it ends up being even more expensive because if you're going NI at RB, then you have to have a back-up NI RB, which isn't as cheap as having two IMP QBs......
We carried an IMP FB all year, we could make it work with a backup IMP RB instead
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35 minutes ago, Mark H. said:
Not a perfect throw by any means, but the DB leaped for it and he didn't. The throw itself was easily in Lawler's catch radius. 9 times out of 10 - 8 & 89 make that a TD.
Agree if the throw was a jump ball, Lawler would win it. No chance to leap backward through the DB to high point that ball. Also agree that play should be a TD 9 times out of 10. Just not with that throw.
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2 hours ago, Mark H. said:
It looked like a catchable ball to me - Lawler has come down with those before, that's for sure. Pretty similar catch to the one where he got his elbow down, against BC.
Are we talking about the same play? I was talking the INT in the endzone. He couldn't even get back to the ball because the throw was short of where it needed to be.
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35 minutes ago, Noeller said:
I've said what I said about Zach and I'm fine with it..... but this is really true. When we sacked Faj to get to 2nd and 18, that should have been the end of it. The fact that we let them not only get out of that 2nd and 18 but score a major from it? That's ******* embarrassing for our entire defense and if not for that, we'd be having WAY different conversations today.
What the hell happened on that 3rd down? How did some nobody just run right past the D. It wasn't even a great throw, Parker may have got to it if he wasn't scrambling to catch up.
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21 minutes ago, Noeller said:
I was thinking last night as I tried in vain to fall asleep (I got there, but man it took a long time) that this was almost easier when there were no expectations of us, year in and year out. But expecting to be great and expecting to win.... then you repeatedly lose to inferior teams in the big game......... it's really really hard.
It was easier to be a loser for sure.
Even if they had been blown out last night it would have been easier. The ups and downs are tough man.
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9 hours ago, Jesse said:
That's a hindsight call. Lawler was open and the defensive play was spectacular.
You don't throw short when got open guy in the endzone. But the D is paid to make plays too.
Nothing wrong with the read to Lawler, he just didn't get the ball out there far enough. If he puts it where it should go, the DB can't make that play. The route isn't designed for Lawler to be stopped and waiting for the ball.
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3 minutes ago, Mark H. said:
IMO - Montreal's primary game plan was stacking the box to stop Brady & generate pressure on passing downs. This worked - because ZC kept trying to throw downfield & was having trouble with the extra pressure. It's been the story of his season.
On offense, max protect worked because the Bombers kept on trying to blitz. As the Als must have been hoping they would.
But the game was there in spite of all that. If Lawler high points that throw in the end zone - we most likely win.
Can't put that on Lawler. If Zach had thrown it out to the corner, the DB couldn't have made a play on it.
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Holm has ball in the air skills
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5 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:
Congrats. I assume you have a Bomber onesie ready to go when the third one arrives on the scene?
And you'll be fetching things for your wife.
From experience when I went thru the stage you're at, the game will be secondary.
May gawd have mercy on your soul. Kidding, all good, enjoy these times.
Thanks! Since we had kids the Bombers have been great. I’m used to watching with them all over me. Seems to be the more they distract me the better the Blue do. Little good luck charms!
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8 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:
Ahhh I'm not sure how that would work out for some of us.
My wife is 8 months pregnant and we have two kids under 5. I’ll get my own beers and have a couple kids crawling on me for the game haha
1 minute ago, Booch said:Yup we can go 3 ol..BO...Demski...Woli and Kramdi on defence...thats our 7...and can do whatever we want on defence substitution wise
That has been the biggest plus with Kramdi on D. Lots of flexibility on the rotation on D
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7 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
Evans? Magical run? I mean anything's possible but this is waaaay down on my list of concerns for Sunday.
I'm not the hugest Chad Kelly fan but there is a significant difference between him entering the game last year and Evans potentially coming in this year. Caleb Evans has had a ton of time to demonstrate competence and has failed, I don't see him suddenly becoming a Bomber beater in the Grey Cup. This isn't a blue chipper that just hasn't gotten his chance. This is a guy who has gotten a ton of playing time and has demonstrated that his high end is as a back up.
To me it doesn't matter who the back up is for me to worry. I've seen enough 2nd/3rd stringers come in an shock the bombers.
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1 hour ago, Wideleft said:
My only concern about this game is that Faj get pulled early and Evans goes on some magical/freak run.
But really, I'm not concerned at all.
I have that nagging worry too. Bombers would have won the cup last year if they hadn't knocked MBT out of the game.
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Oh hell ya, huge signing!