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HH to JFG for coming into his own tonight .... a sure handed reliable receiver that the team could depend on tonight ib clutch situations .... cheers

I don't see it as a knee jerk reaction .... I see a proactive commissioner and thats a very good thing ... proactive isn't perfection just progress that needs multiple revisions over time, each one an incremental improvement

I don't see it as a knee jerk reaction .... I see a proactive commissioner and thats a very good thing ... proactive isn't perfection just progress that needs multiple revisions over time, each one an incremental improvement

I don't see it as a knee jerk reaction .... I see a proactive commissioner and thats a very good thing ... proactive isn't perfection just progress that needs multiple revisions over time, each one an incremental improvement

I don't see it as a knee jerk reaction .... I see a proactive commissioner and thats a very good thing ... proactive isn't perfection just progress that needs multiple revisions over time, each one an incremental improvement

That is not the worst looking injury list i have ever seen but 4 of 7 are starters on defense

One game
34
Briggs, Jesse LB 31 Leggett, Maurice DB 86 Richards, Addison WR 6 game   NAME   4 Gauthier, Shayne LB 25 Johnson, Bruce DB 54 Okpalaugo, Tristan DE 38 Wild, Ian

On Tsn @ 6pm Nichols sang Lapo's praises to high heaven

Wild flies around the field and seems to get injured laying it on the line ... by contrast Hurl seems late for everything and seldom is his body in jeopardy 

Before all this "upper body injury .... lower body... " we as fans used to know a lot more about whats going on ... perhaps we as posters can become better detectives
Lets start with the Dressler injury: is it worth a DI spot for him to just hold for Medlock ... if not will a QB hold for Medlock in Ottawa?
 

The way Medlock has kicked recently I am wondering if he is working his way through an injury or a pull

The way Medlock has kicked recently I am wondering if he is working his way through an injury or a pull

Those soft end of game schemes let the offence throw short passes underneath the deeper umbrella ... just don't let them complete a long pass : that would be too terrible for words
Of course last night Montreal's prevent D allowed us a chance to win the game, so thanks.
The prevent D is why 3 TDs can be scored in the last 3 minutes of a CFL game. It's why the last possession of the first half usually results in a score.
I find it unreasonable that a defense that has been mostly tough as hell against the other team's offense should give that up to go soft just because it is nearing the end of a half.
Can some one wake Ritchie Hall up to the realities of the soft prevent, please?
 
 

Those soft end of game schemes let the offence throw short passes underneath the deeper umbrella ... just don't let them complete a long pass : that would be too terrible for words
Of course last night Montreal's prevent D allowed us a chance to win the game, so thanks.
The prevent D is why 3 TDs can be scored in the last 3 minutes of a CFL game. It's why the last possession of the first half usually results in a score.
I find it unreasonable that a defense that has been mostly tough as hell against the other team's offense should give that up to go soft just because it is nearing the end of a half.
Can some one wake Ritchie Hall up to the realities of the soft prevent, please?
 
 

Dressler got hurt on Cox's horse collar

Really  amazing, this miracle game ... most encouraging to me

What other thread specifically ... and in what focused way?

Not me ... I think Jennings is the biggest interception cougher in the league .... Lulay is  a former MOP and he mighty fine last night with 400+ yards passing ... the concern has always been with his wing and there looked nothing with it in that performance .... if Lulay has totally rehab-ed BC just got better ... we will see how it holds up

After chatting with a rather knowledgeable observer of the game, last night and this afternoon, it is now clear what the adjustment on D was:
Knox was moved into Hurl's MLB spot and Hurl was shifted to WIL and it worked amazingly well .... Hurl is just too small and gets shoved around in the middle; on the blitz he is too slow and too easily handled but in pass coverage he gets his job done. Knox on the blitz will be better, but more crucially in the mlb position he can't be shoved around, he can stand his ground like the Rock of Gabraltor.
So there you have it; we now have Fort Knox in the middle. We held them to one FG in the 2nd half with our new fort.
So no ratio changes, just swapping spots, putting Hurl in a more natural position for him, WIL. Hurl can handle the PASSING STUFF  and Knox will be SHUTTING DOWN THE RUN.
Go Richie Hall.
 

Ricky Ray threw for 250 yards in the first half and was assisted by 268 yards of punt and kickoff return yardage .... so how did that 500+ yards translate into only 22 points at the half? Three dropped TD passes, a pick by Leggett , and a million dollar sleezy penalty called on an apparent 2nd kickoff return touchdown ... there was barely contact ... I have never been to a game where I witnessed so much aid given the Blue by the Zebras ... we could easily have been going into the 2nd half trailing by  2 TDs or more
Nichols & company managed to generate 13 points in the first half, so adding Lankfords kickoff TD return on the 1st play of the game we were almost tied 22-20 at the Half.
Now I have never known the Bombers to be great half time "adjusters" but something changed in the 2nd half. Our D held the Argos to just one field goal.  Ray passed for only 80 yards compared to his gunslinging first half..
The highlight was the last 3+ minutes when the Bombers twice shut down Argo drives, This was in complete contrast to the last drive of the first half when Richie Hall's "loose" defense allowed the Argos to drive from deep in their own end to then kick a go-ahead FG.
Nichols accuracy was average, or could I say , on again - off again, at different points in the game. The main thing is he got the job done to give us 26 points for the game, 13 in each half.  Maybe he was Lankford inspired.
Former Argo DB "TJ" Heath got the shutdown interception on  the final drive. "I had been hunting the whole game" he said. What went unnoticed was another blown zebra call, roughing Ricky Ray on the play .... but it was missed and Trestman had used up his challenges long ago.
Thank you Mr Zebras .... you were game changers once again, and might I add that took some doing.
I don't know what our DC  Hall changed in the 2nd half, but the D didn't resemble itself compared to the first half, or for that matter compared to its play against Calgary last week (which wasn't awful but not that good either). Something changed - -  I just don't know what it is.
Lapo changed his play calling too. He called a lot more passes downfield today than last week's dink and dunk strategy. (He used Harris with about the same number of carries, so it was the passing not the running that changed.) Was he motivated by last week's poor offensive performance (that ultimately exhausted our D) in the loss, or did he just get smarter somehow from last week to this? I don't  have clue.
I only know two things for sure:
[1] Something real changed tonight in Bomberville, and
[2] Blessings were rained down from heaven on to our Bombers in this game.

Ricky Ray threw for 250 yards in the first half and was assisted by 268 yards of punt and kickoff return yardage .... so how did that 500+ yards translate into only 22 points at the half? Three dropped TD passes, a pick by Leggett , and a million dollar sleezy penalty called on an apparent 2nd kickoff return touchdown ... there was barely contact ... I have never been to a game where I witnessed so much aid given the Blue by the Zebras ... we could easily have been going into the 2nd half trailing by  2 TDs or more
Nichols & company managed to generate 13 points in the first half, so adding Lankfords kickoff TD return on the 1st play of the game we were almost tied 22-20 at the Half.
Now I have never known the Bombers to be great half time "adjusters" but something changed in the 2nd half. Our D held the Argos to just one field goal.  Ray passed for only 80 yards compared to his gunslinging first half..
The highlight was the last 3+ minutes when the Bombers twice shut down Argo drives, This was in complete contrast to the last drive of the first half when Richie Hall's "loose" defense allowed the Argos to drive from deep in their own end to then kick a go-ahead FG.
Nichols accuracy was average, or could I say , on again - off again, at different points in the game. The main thing is he got the job done to give us 26 points for the game, 13 in each half.  Maybe he was Lankford inspired.
Former Argo DB "TJ" Heath got the shutdown interception on  the final drive. "I had been hunting the whole game" he said. What went unnoticed was another blown zebra call, roughing Ricky Ray on the play .... but it was missed and Trestman had used up his challenges long ago.
Thank you Mr Zebras .... you were game changers once again, and might I add that took some doing.
I don't know what our DC  Hall changed in the 2nd half, but the D didn't resemble itself compared to the first half, or for that matter compared to its play against Calgary last week (which wasn't awful but not that good either). Something changed - -  I just don't know what it is.
Lapo changed his play calling too. He called a lot more passes downfield today than last week's dink and dunk strategy. (He used Harris with about the same number of carries, so it was the passing not the running that changed.) Was he motivated by last week's poor offensive performance (that ultimately exhausted our D) in the loss, or did he just get smarter somehow from last week to this? I don't  have clue.
I only know two things for sure:
[1] Something real changed tonight in Bomberville, and
[2] Blessings were rained down from heaven on to our Bombers in this game.

Ricky Ray threw for 250 yards in the first half and was assisted by 268 yards of punt and kickoff return yardage .... so how did that 500+ yards translate into only 22 points at the half? Three dropped TD passes, a pick by Leggett , and a million dollar sleezy penalty called on an apparent 2nd kickoff return touchdown ... there was barely contact ... I have never been to a game where I witnessed so much aid given the Blue by the Zebras ... we could easily have been going into the 2nd half trailing by  2 TDs or more
Nichols & company managed to generate 13 points in the first half, so adding Lankfords kickoff TD return on the 1st play of the game we were almost tied 22-20 at the Half.
Now I have never known the Bombers to be great half time "adjusters" but something changed in the 2nd half. Our D held the Argos to just one field goal.  Ray passed for only 80 yards compared to his gunslinging first half..
The highlight was the last 3+ minutes when the Bombers twice shut down Argo drives, This was in complete contrast to the last drive of the first half when Richie Hall's "loose" defense allowed the Argos to drive from deep in their own end to then kick a go-ahead FG.
Nichols accuracy was average, or could I say , on again - off again, at different points in the game. The main thing is he got the job done to give us 26 points for the game, 13 in each half.  Maybe he was Lankford inspired.
Former Argo DB "TJ" Heath got the shutdown interception on  the final drive. "I had been hunting the whole game" he said. What went unnoticed was another blown zebra call, roughing Ricky Ray on the play .... but it was missed and Trestman had used up his challenges long ago.
Thank you Mr Zebras .... you were game changers once again, and might I add that took some doing.
I don't know what our DC  Hall changed in the 2nd half, but the D didn't resemble itself compared to the first half, or for that matter compared to its play against Calgary last week (which wasn't awful but not that good either). Something changed - -  I just don't know what it is.
Lapo changed his play calling too. He called a lot more passes downfield today than last week's dink and dunk strategy. (He used Harris with about the same number of carries, so it was the passing not the running that changed.) Was he motivated by last week's poor offensive performance (that ultimately exhausted our D) in the loss, or did he just get smarter somehow from last week to this? I don't  have clue.
I only know two things for sure:
[1] Something real changed tonight in Bomberville, and
[2] Blessings were rained down from heaven on to our Bombers in this game.

Ricky Ray threw for 250 yards in the first half and was assisted by 268 yards of punt and kickoff return yardage .... so how did that 500+ yards translate into only 22 points at the half? Three dropped TD passes, a pick by Leggett , and a million dollar sleezy penalty called on an apparent 2nd kickoff return touchdown ... there was barely contact ... I have never been to a game where I witnessed so much aid given the Blue by the Zebras ... we could easily have been going into the 2nd half trailing by  2 TDs or more
Nichols & company managed to generate 13 points in the first half, so adding Lankfords kickoff TD return on the 1st play of the game we were almost tied 22-20 at the Half.
Now I have never known the Bombers to be great half time "adjusters" but something changed in the 2nd half. Our D held the Argos to just one field goal.  Ray passed for only 80 yards compared to his gunslinging first half..
The highlight was the last 3+ minutes when the Bombers twice shut down Argo drives, This was in complete contrast to the last drive of the first half when Richie Hall's "loose" defense allowed the Argos to drive from deep in their own end to then kick a go-ahead FG.
Nichols accuracy was average, or could I say , on again - off again, at different points in the game. The main thing is he got the job done to give us 26 points for the game, 13 in each half.  Maybe he was Lankford inspired.
Former Argo DB "TJ" Heath got the shutdown interception on  the final drive. "I had been hunting the whole game" he said. What went unnoticed was another blown zebra call, roughing Ricky Ray on the play .... but it was missed and Trestman had used up his challenges long ago.
Thank you Mr Zebras .... you were game changers once again, and might I add that took some doing.
I don't know what our DC  Hall changed in the 2nd half, but the D didn't resemble itself compared to the first half, or for that matter compared to its play against Calgary last week (which wasn't awful but not that good either). Something changed - -  I just don't know what it is.
Lapo changed his play calling too. He called a lot more passes downfield today than last week's dink and dunk strategy. (He used Harris with about the same number of carries, so it was the passing not the running that changed.) Was he motivated by last week's poor offensive performance (that ultimately exhausted our D) in the loss, or did he just get smarter somehow from last week to this? I don't  have clue.
I only know two things for sure:
[1] Something real changed tonight in Bomberville, and
[2] Blessings were rained down from heaven on to our Bombers in this game.

Because Roc has shown well at SAM and Leggett is a fine pass defender

How does putting a rookie at sam and playing Leggett out of position make us better?