blue85gold

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.

Nichols has to get over fear of failure and get over that fast.  Going to make mistakes, just have to make more plays.

It was so planned- 3 and 5.... yeah he was told to find a DB and truck him and call PI.

RB William Stanback ruled out for meeting with #Riders  - Can I change my pick from the Als to the Riders?

Excited to see Grant on the returns.  With 8 return TDs in college, his highlight video is something else.  
 
 

if we stayed in the East- we have had a GC by now.

I reluctantly agree. You can't blame losing on one person but it would be hard to go forward with Nichols if he doesn't play well in the playoffs and we lose. 

O’Shea said DB/LB Anthony Gaitor and WR Drew Wolitarsky were expected to be in the lineup on Thursday.

Yes

I wouldn't be upset if they scratched Walker and let Whitehead and Demski handle the returns. Peterman could probably return punts too. Get Matthews into some offensive plays, work him back into the lineup. 

Same here. I would like to see Matthews back. We don't know if he practiced with the 1's yesterday. It's a guessing game for us and the TI-cats D (they need to consider every possible scenario). 

He really hasn't pulled a Bowman though. Bowman was healthy and did nothing. Matthews just hasn't been able to get healthy yet. Having a big receiver like him will come in handy when the weather gets colder. 

On Matthews. We are built to win the cup. There is no reason to release him. His replacement right now is making the league minimum or just above. While the only reason to trade him would be if you could maybe get a All-star DB or some major upgrade which on the Bombers there is not many right now.

The dude ****** up his hand, why are we calling him a healthy scratch? They're giving him time to be fully healed before putting him in cause they got another crappy eastern opponent. 
Jesus. He is a healthy scratch the way Bighill was a healthy scratch last week. 
Get your heads outta your asses folks. 

Healthy scratch in the same way bighill was a healthy scratch last week no doubt.

Nelson must be nicked...  would have been nice to see Matthews back

Nope, all easy throw check downs and only 8 total.  How anyone can objectively evaluate a QB based on that is beyond me.
And McCleod Bethel Thompson ahead of Nichols?  Really?  Absolutely Ridiculous!!!

He's right there with the other starters. Can definitely be better but his accuracy in OTT wasn't an issue. 

Weird that Strevler is being pumped up on that link. Did he even attempt a pass further than 10 yards downfield?

Matt Dunigan is a fantastic commentator because the only thing he is biased for is a good game. Guy is just excited to watch football and it shows.

Let me know when you are going. I always like to see an assclown get what they deserve........courtesy of a Matt Dunigan punch in the face while I hold said assclown down.
 
Not even joking. :-)

Worse QBs have won grey cups than Matt Nichols 

GOOD teams win stinkers...how many times over the last many years have we been on the other end of these games...times have chamged and I think we have evolved now into one of the good teams now
2 wins when in both games we havn't really put it all together yet..still feeling our way and if we continue to gel and not get too cocky can conceivably see us at 5-0 when we meet Hamilton in week 7

And, when the Esks needed plays to win the game Collins wanted no part of getting hit again and short armed a ton of passes. Totally pussied out because that's how the Bombers play D. Gotta earn your yards the hard way. 

Not a great but a W is a W. 
Bodes well for the rest of the season when they can have that many mistakes ans still win.
If you had told me that Harris would have 30 yards rushing and 2 fumbles, Woli, Adams, and Matthews would have a combined 16 yards receiving and we would lose the turnover battle (before the last two on downs for the Esks), I'd have said no way we win. 
The fact that they win a game like that, against a decent team, without scoring on D or teams shows that they are legit.

Exactly. They gave up over 300 yards passing, but on 54(!) attempts.