6 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:

Adams will play.

Yes, unless there's a bone sticking through his skin.

There's a weird sort of symmetry at work here- we're can't make mid-game adjustments and we can't make mid-season additions to the team.

3 hours ago, Floyd said:

Interesting that Bighill and JSK are the league leading in LB 'QB Pressures'...

I wonder if there is a league stat about when a QB pressure actually disrupted a play where the down was lost.

2 hours ago, 17to85 said:

We had 2 back to back seasons with double digit win totals, on pace to be in that range this year.... what's the problem other than a few losses, zero playoffs wins, now headed for a .500 season in a nine team league and no Grey Cup? This team has stability. Walter's and O'Shea have done well considering where they started. Let's let them finish it.

FFIFY

3 hours ago, 17to85 said:

Except they haven't struggled the last few seasons.... over .500 and winning as much as anyone not named Calgary... unless this is a case of "if you're not first, you're last"

Cause to me those rookies turned the franchise around and put it on pretty stable ground, to the point where .500 is unacceptable.

There is a big difference between "better" and "good", particularly when you compare the Bomber track record over the past few years to say, Ottawa, Toronto and Hamilton. How many years of "better" are you prepared to accept?

 

 

5 hours ago, SPuDS said:

Didnt realize back to back playoff seasons after missing how many could be considered wrong.. but hey dont let reality get in the way of your slamming of our management.

My beef is not and has never been with this management. The problems with the team appear to be with the coaching and possibly player recruitment. The point is that a rookie GM and a rookie head coach at the same time  taking over a troubled and talent-poor team is pretty much a recipe for struggle.

2 hours ago, Eternal optimist said:

That's not true, we beat Edmonton in preseason week 2 hah

Is this called grasping at straws?

Now I don't know what to think.

2 hours ago, Dragon37 said:

That and the Bombers haven’t beaten a team that is better than .500.

Now I'm really depressed.

2 hours ago, pigseye said:

Assumption  

I would love to know that it is injury- then we would have reason to expect that he will get better.

2 hours ago, Dragon37 said:

They have overtaken us by the fact that they have a game at hand. Saskatchewan’s offence is struggling too. They do have a very solid defence. We also lack in the back-up game. Considering that we don’t have a great receiving Corp to start we better hope that our O doesn’t take too many injuries.

Just saying....

This is what is concerning me about the upcoming game- Riders have an anemic offence but a good defence and the past couple of game have shown that we have neither at the moment.

If Nichols has not learned it yet, he had better understand that if you bathe in the accolades, you perforce must accept the criticism when it is given honestly.

2 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

 Not home yet. 

We all live in hope of a better day to come.

Best news I've heard all day!!!!! Welcome home, son.

4 hours ago, Booch said:

Oline is a minor issue in the sacks..its the qb not getting the ball off..and bring highly immobile now.

Most in league other than in sask still consider this the best oline..sacks allowed doesn't mean a line is poor

In sask u guys cant have a qb stand in pocket at all other than dumping off a hitch or screen or trying the RPO thing..which teams will adapt to in no time..then what?

Your qb will get creamed..or start showing his form of the last 3 years and any more chance of wins will dry up

There is a reason u cant attack vertically or rarely..and its cause you cant because oline cant sustain blocks

 

I hope that the refs call the holding both ways consistently. Sask O-line cannot compete with out a lot of grabbing.

No way is Burnham going to be moved. Receivers of his caliber are very difficult to find.

2 hours ago, bryan35 said:

Collaros will pick them apart.

Disagree. Collaros is no Bo Levi even though he has some very good receivers to work with. I expect that most of the Bomber troubles will come from the Rider D-line and linebackers. Rider defensive backfield is suspect but I do not think that Nichols is good enough at this point to take advantage of that. I suspect a grinding low-scoring game with at least one QB carried off the field.

You don't have to have a cannon for an arm to be successful in the CFL- examples abound. You don't even have to be mobile, but you do have to be smart, be able to read defences quickly and command the respect of your teammates. I think that Nichols should start against Sask but he has to understand that his leash is short- a quarter perhaps two and if he is not producing, the hook has to come out.

2 hours ago, Floyd said:

Signing Landon Rice and plugging him in at RT would help...

Still think Loffler would be better off at WIL backing up or rotating with JSK 

Agreed, and Loffler might do well at WIL. I recall a local boy Leo Ezerins who came into camp as a tight end and became a decent linebacker.

2 hours ago, Floyd said:

Its really inexplicable that Denmark is still sitting at home.  He's not a giant killer but he'd give us 3-4 very good games and be a red zone threat...  already has chemistry with Nichols...

Duron Carter would have been a disaster for this team - real shame Miles Whyte is not here to step in...  worried Osh will trot out Lankford as our main threat yet again next week... or an injured Dressler.

I have no doubt that O'Shea will want to field Lankford again (after all, he scored a TD last Saturday) but if O'Shea is fearing for his job, he just might start Washington.

2 hours ago, bigg jay said:

An article I read this morning also projects him missing the cut but it also suggests the Browns are trying to hide him (and a couple others) from other teams so that they'll be able to stick around on the PR.  That theory makes some sense since he's had very little playing time even though their 1st stringer went down with injury for a while and there was only one other RG ahead of him on the depth chart. 

Spit. We're in good shape for NI O-linemen but he certainly would be welcome here.

2 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

He'd still get paid his contract.  I'm sure the stress could be a factor but being the DC when everyone wants you fired is probably not the most stress-free position.

Yes, he would be paid out, but what then? If he returns to the US of A, he would be in real trouble with health care costs.

2 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

MOS tied himself to Hall this season.  He will have to make the decision to get rid of him lest he also go down with the sinking ship.

What may be compounding O'Shea's reluctance to dump Hall is that Hall has been rumoured to have or have had  serious health problems and firing him would certainly put Hall in a difficult situation.

2 hours ago, pigseye said:

I think everyone has had time to vent now.

You gotta have a short memory right? I'm sure the Bombers have moved on and are now getting ready for the most important back to back of the season. A split is a must, two wins and we will all be on cloud 9. 

A split is absolutely a must. I suggest that even one flukey win will not be enough to silence the critics of O'Shea and the team in general.

2 hours ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

Yes, cuz two terrible outings is reason enough to jump off the bandwagon...

 

Smh

The two beatings were symptomatic of the larger problems with the team, and those issues are neither new nor being addressed.