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good article by Ted Wyman about Theadric.... sure seems likeable,and a good player.
https://winnipegsun.com/sports/football/cfl/winnipeg-bluebombers/bombers-global-player-hansen-living-dream-while-making-impact-in-cfl
(LB/DE Thiadric Hansen — GP: 9, Snaps: 108, Stats: 3 defensive tackles, 1 sack, 1 forced fumble)
Bighill "“He has worked so hard — extremely hard in the classroom in drawing stuff up. I’ve sat there and helped him on the board. He’s a smart guy. When you go out there and see him making some plays, you feel really good for the guy. I think it’s just fantastic that he’s had an opportunity to take advantage of this situation.”
 
 
 

Re-signed Mcallister...whoop whoop!!..Must be a few games for Roh on IR....Willie..Kongbo...Mcallister gonna raise havoc

god could you imagine?

i'd go deep over and over throughout the game...stray away from Lapo's MO of doing something that works then abandoning it...

18/22 for 177, would have been 20/22 with 220 and TD pretty easily if Woli and Matthews catch those balls. Agree totally that Nichols needs to throw to his receivers more vs just dump offs to Harris. Lapo doing him no favours calling for run on just about every first down, leaving second in obvious passing situations every time.

Two hands on the ball, receiver needs to catch that. Lots of guys catch balls and get hit every damn game. 

Awful offensive play calling. Draw on the QB draw on the goal line with Nichols in? Sure, it's not expected but not likely to succeed either.
Wildcat with Harris? He's obviously getting the ball and running. Two games in a row that he's tried that with a fumble and a procedure as a result.
Where were the screens? 
Nice to see a couple deep shots, if only Matthews and Woli caught them.
Agree totally with Suitor (ugh), Nichols is playing not to throw picks. Needs to get back to earlier in the season when he was attempting more than 2 passes down field a game.

and, just for the record, I'm not absolving Nichols of anything or saying he's the second coming of Tom Brady, but Jesus.....some of you are so far out too lunch and just CONSUMED by negativity. I've seen enough 3-15's to last a lifetime.....I'm gonna enjoy 6-2, thanks.

We have no intermediate passing game.  So it’s Harris and bombs.  We rely a lot on the big play and particularly the quick change ones after the D snags a turnover.
This can work, and has in many blowout wins.  Hard to be consistent though without that intermediate, get first downs, ability in the back pocket.
And then the question is are the right plays to facilitate this, is Nichols hesitating on his reads not confident to hit those tighter windows?  There’s a confidence crisis and it’s either with Lapo or Nichols.  If you believe Suitor it’s Nichols.

Watched the replay a few times... was going to be close to the back line and may have been out of bounds anyway.

The sooner the Bombers move onto Streveler, the sooner this board can move onto ogling McGuire. 

 

Grant - obviously
Harris - tough 100 yard game
Sayles - INT, sack, couple of BS penalty calls
HH - Hallet with the fumble recovery, maybe could have scooped and scored but focused on just getting the ball.

Happy we won. Got darn nervous near the end. 
Our O is basically a running O. If we're not handing it off on a run, we're dinking it off for what amounts to a run. That's too bad because we have some seriously skilled guys who can make plays downfield. 
Although, when the ball is thrown to them, they have to make plays. Tarsky and Matthews blew two big plays. 
The reffing was god awful. Horrid. Embarrassing. 
In life, find someone who will hold you like the Stamps hold the Bombers and you'll never be lonely. 

Tho not happy with the lack of vertical push, we took what arguably the best defense in league right now gave us and it worked...the check downs aren't sexy but kept drives alive and ate up a lot of clock.
The Stamps have been shutting teams down lately and have won some games without much offense themselves so we played a smart safe game..we won..we are in first for now...why complain. You can say luck played into it due to the returns, but it's not always luck...a return takes a lot of things to go right to be successful...even moderately successful as well as and if your guys mess up assignments...it's ugly....it goes both ways. Nobody has a crystal ball either so who's to say if we didn't take the rock to the house we wouldn't have scored anyway...you will never know, so why dwell on it.
I did see a concerted effort to throw downfield, so thats a start...Matthews ball was not really a drop...Nichols put it in wrong spot and the DB got his hands inside of Matthews and helped in dislodging it...if that ball is over the left shoulder Matthews makes the catch....continuing with Matthews he needs more than 4 targets a game...he should be fed 7-9 times minimum like other teams do their top guy, and not the 7-9 yard routes they run him..I think 2 of his 4 catches were routes inside the first down marker...stupid
Defense though having a small blip after first 2 drives made the adjustments needed and shut things down nicely..thats even with an early injury in the secondary...and even without Jeffcoat the dline had lotsa pressure...caused Arbuckle to throw early on may instances resulting in bad throws...and some drops....the pick at the end..sure receiver had his mitts on it but pass was high and behind him and he had to contort back to get it, hence the tip drill...and that was due to pressure
Also I think it's time for Hecht to have a seat and we use Jones...or Wright...I'd even like to see Exume there as he closes fast..hits hard and has a motor that doesn't stop.
Hecht has wiffed too many tackles lately and is a step too slow for the blitz packages they use him in...he is good rotating in and in certain sets, but I think his majority of reps at safety now is hurting us somewhat.
All in all...things still to fix, but what team doesn't have tings to fix, and we are still in first, and as long as we don't pull another T.O game should stay there after next week too...7-2 at the midway point isn't that bad...warts and all

The general lack of football IQ in this city/forum has dropped in recent times. I cant believe how many people think Streveler going in was due to Nichols play and not the situation in the game. They did it last year too fyi. With Streveler back there, they now have 4 legitimate options out of the back field. While trying to kill the clock....but yeah I'm sure its cause they dont trust Nichols lololololololol

Watching the game again after the fact, the Illegal Contact call with about 4 minutes left was utter bulls#!t.  Sayles was standing there and the receiver ran right into him.  That has Dickenson written all over it.  It was plays like that where he went fishing with his challenges that made the league change it to only allow 1 challenge.  He won them almost every time, but it was the receivers causing the contact every time.  The QB barely glanced in that direction and never had any intention of throwing there.  That play pisses me off because if it was called properly, the D had the stop that they needed and the end of the game is far less stressful.

The play I hate is handoff to Demski up the gut. It's been called maybe 10 times in the first 8 games. But he gets jammed up every time. 2 yards. Hurts my head.
 

Two hands on the ball, receiver needs to catch that. Lots of guys catch balls and get hit every damn game. 

Grant - obviously
Harris - tough 100 yard game
Sayles - INT, sack, couple of BS penalty calls
HH - Hallet with the fumble recovery, maybe could have scooped and scored but focused on just getting the ball.

Grant - obviously
Harris - tough 100 yard game
Sayles - INT, sack, couple of BS penalty calls
HH - Hallet with the fumble recovery, maybe could have scooped and scored but focused on just getting the ball.

Grant - obviously
Harris - tough 100 yard game
Sayles - INT, sack, couple of BS penalty calls
HH - Hallet with the fumble recovery, maybe could have scooped and scored but focused on just getting the ball.

18/22 for 177, would have been 20/22 with 220 and TD pretty easily if Woli and Matthews catch those balls. Agree totally that Nichols needs to throw to his receivers more vs just dump offs to Harris. Lapo doing him no favours calling for run on just about every first down, leaving second in obvious passing situations every time.

Nichols played just fine. No interceptions and he moved the ball.  Sure you’d like more td’s but I still don’t like some of the play calling by Lapo. Would have been a different game if Matthews caught that ball and the woli catch in the end zone could have gone either way.  

He was caught doing that **** a few years back. Why does he continue to get away with **** like that?

That complaint out of the way. Good to get the win. Grant looks like a keeper. D-line had good pressure and caused a couple turnovers.