TrueBlue4ever

I remember when roughing the passer meant hurting them or taking a dirty shot, not tackling a quarter second too late after the ball is out, but here we are. Could see the call go either way and couldn’t really argue against either decision.

With Lucky gone, do you now double cover Burnham the rest of the night?

Either you praise all 50/50 balls as letting your receiver go get it, or you dump on them all as wing and a prayer passing. Shouldn’t matter If it is Collaros, Reilly, Fajardo, or whoever (and this is not a shot at you, bustamente). Personally, not a fan but kudos to Lawler for his body position

Welcome to 2021 Wolitarsky. Where ya been all year?

Lucky with a boo boo.

Collaros overthrowing the deep balls so far. Mourtada again kicks it dead straight, this time gets the angle right.

Collaros should not throw that pass to the middle again with the receiver standing still. That’s an INT next time.

Few things irk me more than a defensive back who throws a body check instead of wrapping up on a tackle.

Grant with the strutter step. Who now will point to the blocking scheme?

Black and Suitor together. Maybe everyone who wants to complain about that should just link to the CJOB radio link now.

Every time I see a young player contract these days I look back on what we paid Scheifele, Ehlers, and Hellebuyck on early contracts and my smile gets bigger.

Niners fan since Walsh, Montana, Craig, Rathman, Clark and Lott, all the way through Young, Rice, Taylor, Garcia, and Gore. Don’t talk much about T.O. or Deion.

And no one has scored more points than the Bombers over that time. LaPo sucks! Nichols sucks!

He is deadly accurate on the post pattern.

You guys are Yankee fans? I have mixed feelings about that.

Texas seems pretty happy being it’s own entity and is doing OK……until their power grid fails. The other major problem for me is that the best winter vacation spots on the States are the red locations (Florida, Texas, Nevada and Arizona in most elections - Hawaii is too far away to be affordable every year) and if they go totally Confederate States I will be afraid to go.

The Bombers’ opponents in the first half of the season have a cumulative .530 winning percentage, and they went 6-1. Their remaining opponents have a .375 winning percentage.

Wow, the schedule maker sure gave the Bombers an advantage with 3 games against the Elks this year. 😏

True enough. It’s weird that despite all the troubles this season, the one game we needed the kicks to win, we got them. I would have been more worried if Mourtada was duck hooking them, but it seemed to just be an alignment issue. Like I said, short leash for sure. For sure if we lose a game on kicking, then the pressure mounts.

The RedBlacks are far from a winning team right now, though. No question it is a conservative strategy, we’ll see at game’s end of it is a winning one.

Given the struggles they have had scoring this year and how decent their defence has been, taking the points is not a bad idea against this Elk squad.

Well, he said the right things at practice about working on his angles and getting the mechanics right. Frustrated he let the team down, will only worry about what he can control. Felt like he hit the ball well, but needed to get the angles right, the bye week helped him get extra practice In to work on that. I would think he’s on a pretty short leash, but it has been only one game. Not sure we can truly judge his ability to handle pressure after 60 minutes. And the last kicker we ran out of town after a disappointing year is the same guy we are begging to get back now in Lirim H. At 6-1 with three kickers on the roster we can afford a little patience and don’t need to blow it all up just yet.

No worries.

Aside from the obvious talent infusion, it cannot be overstated how important the continuity in the front office and coaching staff has been to developing a consistent culture. Wade Miller came in and wasn’t afraid to step on toes to get the business side working, but knew to let the football ops do their thing without him being overbearing and without threat of firing if it wasn’t fixed quickly. Kyle Walters was freed of the shackles of Joe Mack, and brought in McManus and Goveia as assistants and they built slowly but deliberately. Mike O’Shea brought in at the same time, and given the time to grow into the job, despite fans screaming for his head many times after the 5-13 season, the BC playoff loss in 2016, the home playoff loss in 2017, the West Final loss in 2018, even up to halftime of the 2019 West semi. O’Shea brought in LaPo and Hall to head up his offence and defence, and instead of fearing that he might be replaced by another former head coach (as he was once asked by the media), he embraced the wealth of knowledge they brought to the table and saw it as an asset to have 3 de facto head coaches on staff, even (again) when games screamed for changes with every setback. Hard to believe now, but Hall had his head on a platter as much as LaPo did in 2019 until the final 30 minutes against Calgary. Promotions came from within for line coach, special teams, and QB coach to OC, showing loyalty and continuity. All this to say that PATIENCE (a dirty word to sports fans, especially in a 9 team league where turnaround can happen quickly in either direction) to allow the parts to mesh has gotten us to where we are today, and that culture shift starts from the top down, when egos are shelved and all know they have security to build it up the right way.

Evans will be the 5th QB this year making his first ever CFL start. QBs still getting beat up at staggeringly high rates in the league.