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Loffler's decline in effectiveness is a puzzlement, all right. Could Hall have changed Loffler's role and responsibilities so that he is no longer comfortable with his play?

Hardly hate. Bowman is being criticized not for his personality or behaviours but for his on-field performance or lack thereof. Fair game.

Well, he was a wide receiver.

Ummmm....no. One good game against a rookie QB and a suspect offence does not qualify this as a good or even improving defence. Check back in a couple-three games.

Bombers and Ticats are where they deserve to be.

With the possible exception of Adams, Davis is better than anyone the Als have. Not that Davis is going to save anyone's butt.

Lulay and the Lions looking competent, and now a TD to boot.

Awwwww......

Khari has to eat, so.....

After watching the debacle in Hamilton last night, I have a baaad feeling about the game against the Argos. While on one hand I cannot believe that the Bombers collectively cannot be as bad as they were against the Lions last game, the Ticats have looked terrible in the past two games, and the Bombers are not immune either.

Forgot to use the sarcasm font.

And I assume that will mean our defence is vulnerable now.

Was someone scratching your ear at the time?

There is a synthetic drug by the name of "bath salts"- cathinone which is a derivative of Khat. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. For the record it has no connection to the ammonia-based "smelling salts".

I'm sure that the homework hotline in Regina was very busy today. And a few dictionaries were sold.

I have heard the old ones speak of such things in hushed tones late at night around the fire.

Agreed. I have seen nothing in Bowman's play this year to justify his salary or his even being on the field. The games against Toronto ought to tell us if he has any game left.

If we are looking for a logical explanation for the second-half implosion by the Bombers, we will be looking for a long time. It was a group brain cramp, but I would have been somewhat comforted if O'Shea had displayed some anger after the game.

I don't have the benefit of a recorded game to assess, but as I was watching the game, it looked to me that the Lions were stacking the box to take away the run. Could the fact that the Bombers stopped running indicate lack of confidence in their run blocking? I recall thinking that they were not using Harris as a receiver and wondering why.

The Lions stifled the Bomber offence in the second half by taking away Adams and Harris and that gave Lulay multiple chances to get his game untracked- then the Bomber defence folded.

I cannot disagree with much of what you say, but the Bombers were schooled on Saturday night. Most of us had written Wally and the Lions off after the first half but that came back to bite us big time. The Lions made half-time adjustments and the Bomber coaches once again could or did not. "You are what your record says you are."

Franklin ought to be treated with the same respect given to veteran QB's or the defence will be even more holey than it has been,

If the Bombers sweep the Argos, that would be great. A split will be frustrating, and getting swept will be very difficult for this team to bounce back from, particularly if the defence does its usual collapse.

To flog a deceased equine, the loss had two prominent features: the offensive performance was atypically way below what we have come to expect, and the defensive implosion was, alas, what we have come to expect since Hall's arrival. We can reasonably expect better things from Nichols and the offence, but I have no confidence in the defence any more.

If you wanna get picky, it is "foetal position".