TrueBlue4ever

This is a laughable take. A guy with 6 games experience is a huge upgrade over a seventeen year coach with 4 Grey Cup appearances, 2 rings, has had the number 1 or 2 scoring offence 6 times, and the league’s best rushing offence the past 3 years? And Buck learned under LaPo to boot. Ridiculous statement. Your haterade must have a memory loss drug in it. LaPo coached Khari when he ripped the league apart and led in 2002, coached Darian Durant when he finished just 1 behind Calvillo for the league lead in 2009, coached Nichols when he finished second, only 2 behind Reilly, and Nichols was leading the league last season when he got knocked out halfway through the year, and prorated he would have led the league if he played out the full season. After 6 games in 2019, Nichols had 13 TDs to Collaros’ 9 this year.

0 for 6 now. The dream of a “perfect” season continues.

Schaffer-Baker actually doing what we want to pretend Wolitarsky can do today.

Collaros just so good at avoiding the sack and extending the play.

Up by 10 heading to the 4th. And in 5 games this year the Bombers have given up a total of 3 4th quarter points. Good spot to be in.

Surprised the play stood, but who knows with command centre on anything anymore. That was more marginal than some for sure as PI goes.

Beyond the brawl, has been a really chippy game.

Should have been PI against Mike Jones, now almost too many men. The timeout gives the Riders the chance to challenge.

Got lucky. No ejections for the Bombers, should get 20 yards forward on the kickoff.

Sean McGuire - scoring machine.

That was a call out of the LaPo playbook.

Too much Ivermectin.

Powell not as washed up yet as some would believe.

Great run, and better blocking. If Demski could have allowed another block by Lawler, might have sprung it.

Was going to say Bighill has been our MVP this year. And THEN he gets a sack and an interception.

All the more reason! Get out of Dodge!

Buy a ticket and sit in the stands!

Collaros throwing darts. Lawler and Bailey going down to get the tough ones.

No sign of hesitancy, and still nothing much. Maybe the blocking needs to be reconsidered.

And let’s be good hosts today. Give Rider fans the gears, but keep it civil and no fighting, swearing at little kids, or pouring beer on people. Let’s let the Class of the CFL be both the home team on the field and the fans off it in blue and gold.

Let me just say to @WildPath that I appreciate your original post and your follow up. These are trying times and this discussion has the tendency to get heated and loaded with vitriol. Thanks for posting an alternative side that some do not want to buy into, expressing your points so eloquently, and allowing for good debate in a productive, intelligent way. We need more of that on the site and in the world.

I could accept the “uneducated are victims who are being manipulated so feel sorry for them” angle if they were willing to open their minds to other possibilities when presented with contrary evidence. Maybe I’ve watched too much of Jordan Klepper on the Daily Show or Donnie O’Sullivan interviewing people who adamantly say “do your own research” and “I don’t just believe the fact checkers because they have a bias - you need to be skeptical” and who conveniently forget their own preachings when it comes to the info they themselves want to rely on. And that stems from arrogance at being unable to acknowledge their own hypocrisy, and their desperate need for confirmation bias blinding them to their own standards they set for the other side of the argument. And finally, I fear that if the anger subsided, then apathy will set in and give credence to those who want to tear down things and receive no pushback.

It is strange for him to withhold, since he knows the penalty is the same. And it’s not like a DUI where you refuse to blow and get the same charge as if you blew over .08. In that case, a higher reading (more than double) automatically becomes aggravating at sentencing, so I am aware of cops who say if they were to get caught under suspicion of driving drunk, always blow if you think you are under or on the line, but absolutely refuse if you know you are going over, to avoid the extra punishment of a super high reading. Since there is no extra suspension derived from higher amounts in the system, why avoid the test? Unless he wanted to go the Andrew Harris route of “only trace amounts, so I can claim inadvertent tainted supplement with plausible deniability”, and figured recent usage would make that claim more dubious than it already is.

Name a QB that did. Reilly hasn’t, yet he is still seen as all-time by some. When he was at his peak his line was much better. Ray was greatest when his line was at it’s best. McManus was a superstar when he only got sacked three times one entire season. But lots of QBs with great lines have not been as stellar (see Nichols, Collaros and Streveler with the current o-line) or had the enduring success of Calvillo.

It could be argued that good players make good systems. Yes he had talent and an all-world running back for part of his run, but to be dominant for over a decade, with all the roster turnover around him and multiple coaching staffs, he was the glue on those teams to my mind. Agree about Garcia too.