blue85gold

Agreed.
I don't really care that Edmonton threw for 350 yards, their offence did what a Trevor Harris offence always does : Throw a billion times with no real impact.
Nichols 3 TDs 1 tipped INT
Harris had his worst game in a long time
I never really thought Edmonton was going to win. Even at the end.

I know it was an ugly win but I'm surprised people are this angry. We won on an off night by making big plays when we needed to and getting touchdowns instead of field goals all while keeping a powerful Edmonton offence out of the endzone.
I agree that if we play like this every night we probably don't win very often but I'm not ready to hit the panic button yet. I'm thrilled to be 2-0 and first in the West even though it is early.

Andrew Harris and Nichols didn’t play well.  But we rode the overall talent of this team to a relatively easy win against potentially our biggest threat in the West.  This could be a remarkable Blue Bombers team. 

Trevor Harris is a fraud.
You're bullshit 

Gray sure gets undr guys skin...on several plays he was in second level pancacking guys..Speller too...and as usual Yoshi..love how he plays
Our oline was damn good for first time together 

Exume is a ******* ST monster

Take a stride instead of laying out and he's right with the ball.

Lucky keeps his feet he probably catches that.

Want to thank @TrueBlue4ever for putting the effort in doing this throughout the off season.   Not a small amount of work, and very much appreciated to give us all something else to talk about during a long off season.

As mentioned, Neufeld and Harris were sitting out today.  The first-team offence was :
Matthews-Washington-Adams-Demski-Wolitarsky
Bryant-Desjarlais-Couture-Gray-Hardrick
Nichols at QB, Augustine at RB.
I had a tougher time nailing down the second team offence, but it definitely had OIiveira at RB, Streveler at QB, Simonise and Petermann as receivers.  Looked like the other receiver spots were Rasheed Bailey, Kenny Lawler, and Tim Wilson but I'm not 100% sure on those ones... I think they might have switched it up a couple times.  The OL looked like Speller at centre, Koczwara at guard, and Briggs/Baker on at the tackle spots... couldn't see who else was at guard.
I can't give you the defence at the moment, I was locked in on the offence most of the time.  Derek Jones was definitely the #1 safety and he is looking slim, trim and healthy.  Great to see.
One thing I can say for certain is that we are going to be absolutely deadly in the redzone with both Darvin Adams and Chris Matthews.  Already some chemistry developing between Nichols and Matthews.  Wolitarsky looked great as well, Bauming tweeted out his huge catch to start off the practice.  Hardrick grabbed the ball right after and tried to punt it into the crowd but it went straight up instead... that got a big laugh from everyone.  Love that guy.
I'm interested to see if we can find room for one of Larry Rose III or John Santiago... both looked really quick but they were not getting reps in the first two offence units.  Rose III in particular I thought looked pretty dangerous.
As expected, Bennett was running with the third team offence but surrendered some reps to McGuire as well.  Sawyer Buettner actually got one rep which I was surprised to see.  It was an overthrow that almost got picked but good for the kid getting some action in.
Should be lots of good competition at returner and the hands team gets a boost with the additions of Chris Matthews and Willie Jefferson... yes Willie Jefferson.  6'6" with receiver experence and he was getting some reps in on specials.  The returner competition looked like it involves Charles Nelson, Lucky Whitehead, and John Santiago.... definitely a few other guys back there too but it was hard to see exactly who.  Nic Demski is still involved as well.
Overall it was very much a "day 1" outing... hard to get a good read on anyone and it's wise not to jump to any conclusions.  The starters looked best.... Wolitarsky, Nichols, Matthews, Adams.  Augustine looked comfortable at RB and Oliveira is going to have to win that backup job from him... don't see Augustine letting go without a fight.  If I had to pick one new receiver who showed well it would be Kenny Lawler... looks like he has pretty good hands and I like his build as well... looks like a pro receiver to me.
Nice day for some football.  Noticed they have ripped all the seats out in the northeast and southeast corners in the lower bowl.  Not sure what that's all about.
 

Finding mid round steals that other teams slept on is always more satisfying. 

Nothing. This already happens all the time. 

i want to hear more about this thing about an incentive to starting veteran Americans.

I think John Hodge speculated it. So...you know.
They managed to find probably 200k + for Matthews in the budget.

Pretty sure that was all speculation.  We really have no idea what their cap looks like.

So after today's big signing, I had to go to YT and do some digging.... Check out some of the names in this highlight reel... 
 

This year's Bighill signing.
Exactly the type of receiver we need to compliment the others.

I feel like blink, flight87, and stokes are the 3 best. Stokes the biggest threat to score, but the biggest boom or bust guy too. Blink was the most consistent to get extra yards, and AJ3 was the best all-round return man. 
 If aj3 would have had a career the length of blinks up here, he might be one of the best multi threats ever. 

I tend to think we'll eventually end up signing Ackie. One of Matthews/Toliver would be nice in the interim. Have zero interest in cry baby Hazelton.
But I think our coup still ends up being whichever one of Duke/Zyl/Mitchell comes back. I don't even know which guy I'd want most, they're all insanely talented receivers.
Diontae Spencer could happen too.
How did Terrell Sinkfield do last year?

Ya it's disappointing how the receiver plan has worked out so far. Sounds like Walters tried but nothing worked out. I feel the same way I did last year when we missed out on all the MLBs in FA, but hey that worked out in the end. 

QFT
 
let us see what shakes down this year. 

Ya it's disappointing how the receiver plan has worked out so far. Sounds like Walters tried but nothing worked out. I feel the same way I did last year when we missed out on all the MLBs in FA, but hey that worked out in the end. 

I don't buy it. Burnham never even made it to fa, Harris got paid the same amount that we offered to stay with the qb he's had his success with, and TO outbid us for Walker.
Have we gone after any high profile receivers in prior free agencies?
 

The numbers on some of the FA receivers are pretty steep.... Ellingson 250, Walker 280, Posey 200... I guess I see why Walters stayed away from some of these guys...

Adams just needs a bit of help to take attention away from him...he led league in 30=yards plays and was second in td receptions with 10...so some small help would do wonders
Value signing in Roosevalt as a year stop gap while we "hopefully" develop one of our own recruits would serve well...unless we can nab Mathews on a ice deal...Terrence Tolliver as well is an interesting option