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Funny. Cuz to Me our standout players this game were willy. He was solid. Westerman a Canadian. Bass a rookie. Hurl had a good game too. Adams a rookie. These guys all played quite well. People may not like to hear it but you need to learn to crawl before you can walk and walk before you run. Looks to me like we are starting to walk a bit. Next step is to run. The D played well today. O moved the ball. People always go on about the negatives but outside of the first 5 minutes of the game the team played well. D stepped up. O moved the ball. First 5 was awful but for 55 minutes the team played well. Adams hurt cotton hurt. Willy hurt. They showed resiliency and never folded. 28 points off turnovers.

Hamilton has several elite high end players. Their O isn't that impressive but that D is fierce for sure. What they do have tho is consistency in their coaching ranks. Steinaurer been there a while so has Austin. O'shea 2nd season. Halls first. That matters.

Looked worse last time so he should be OK hopefully. Could really use a bye week now tho.

Or we just got beat by a better team. Over analyzing is fun but sometimes you just lose to a better team. Hamilton Is better than we are and everyone at the start of the year knew it. They got our number.

Sometimes it's just easier to admit that we lost to a better team. We aren't as good as the ticats. It's that simple. But 28 points I believe were off turnovers so you can say we killed ourselves. People blaming coaches always to me screams never played a team sport ever. Coaches coach. Players play however with that said I do think our OC is part of the problem

Montreal oline looked like crap when MB was oc there too. It's no coincidence

Didn't Marcel get Calvillo killed a bunch too.

Marcel needs to go

They were driving the ball. Tipped ball int pick 6. Blocked punt. TD seconds later. Those are just 2 plays that happen at times. The kick off mistake? That was bad but really what can u do about a tip ball pick 6 and a blocked punt?;

Unprepared? An int off a tipped ball. A blocked punt and a special teams gaffe? How is that unprepared. It's just crappy play really. Seriously love to know how it's unprepared to play when 3 of those mistakes were all just football plays. Maybe the kickoff one but that's more bad luck than being unprepared.

Special teams killing them.

If you've ever played sports of any kind, yup its the players who screw up. Coaches coach players play. Simple.

Nobody ever dresses 7 oline. The bigger surprise would be if they did. Waste of roster spot unless that oline plays special teams which I doubt

You could also argue that TSN is trying hard to piss of bomber fans.

Well, i hope they remove somebody else other than Jhomo then, Really no need to start 8 candians when you don't have too.

Makes me happy to know that it's my parents anniversary and there is a dinner happening at my sisters at 6pm... guess until then i'll just deal with these 2 annoying announcers but once 545 rolls around and we gotta leave to take the 5 minute drive lol, MUTE it is once we get there.

I believe Wilds twitter profile pic is of him wearing a bomber jersey also... I think if he doesn't make the steelers and selfishly i hope he doesn't, he's guaranteed to be back here.. I like Wild and for his sake i hope he makes it but.. the bomber fan in me wants him back here very badly.

Tell you this much... I have disliked hamilton ever since the last game of the mike kelly era, the "blue out" as it were, went to lots of games that season for some reason but that last game, man when they jumped in the boat, it just pissed me off real good for some reason, ever since then, I have hated the ticats, hated, i gotta admit, i hate them more than i hate the riders even. They are just such arrogant pricks really lol. I don't like their fans very much either, used to post on CFL.CA site and man, when IGF was being built, the ticat fans would always come in and just mock the entire process, it was a bit funny tho when there stadium was built and delayed also but.. just that whole organization to me screams arrogant pricks. I dunno why, they haven't been good for very long, they were the doormats of the league not long ago but... for some reason, their fans act as if they are just the greatest thing in the world.. honestly tough call as to who is the more arrogant fanbase, riders or ticats.. It's close and i think i'd give the edge to the ticats cuz even when they sucked their fans were ridiculous. I also think the fact that they act like selling out a 24000 seat building is a big deal... it just annoys me.

It's bye week in riderville now.. i get the feeling that the story lawless was going on about a week or so ago, it may happen this week, as early as tomorrow even. Could see a coaching change in riderville

Hope Jhomo dresses and plays, would like to see him out there at times instead of the 2 cdn receivers... brings some much needed speed also to the lineup.. But yup Greaves and Gordon seem like the likely scratches... Maybe LittleJohn tho and Greaves, tough call really... Don't like this starting 8 Canadians when we don't have to thing. Jhomo dressing gives us the option to go 4 import receivers at times, i like that or maybe we see stoudemire in on some O plays but i'd doubt it for some reason.

Smith looks ok outside of the pocket but in it he looks lost and confused. When chaos happens and the play breaks down, he looks good but he does very little from the pocket.

I went on twitter after the game for a bit, while i was in the bathroom and #riders was trending so i thought i'd check it out... It was kind of sad to read some of the fans thoughts, the same stuff they are saying about Smith is the same stuff they were saying about Sunseri last season, future star in the league.. I also understand fans like to blame refs after losses and occasionally i'll do it too but... some of the tweets about the refs last night were insane.. sorry but offside is offside really, holding is holding, illegal blocks are illegal blocks... The sad part tho, it's the vets that are the ones getting all the penalties on every other play and 99 percent of those penalties are legit... maybe 1 or 2 out of the 22 they had were iffy but... 99 percent of them are called in every game. 0-7 looks good on that fan base tho, it really does... got people jumping off already but then you got some pretty delusional ones who say they will still finish 11-7. As for Smith, what i see is a guy who is similar to Marve, I see a guy who doesn't do much from the pocket but when he gets outside of the pocket and chaos happens, he looks good, i see a guy with not a good throwing motion (marve has a nice throwing motion tho), i see a guy who isn't good at making decisions out there, people can go on and on and on about their D but.. that pick 6 killed the riders really. Smith? I don't see it, i see a guy who looks confused and lost in the pocket and i think in order to be successful in the CFL as a QB, you need to be able to do things in the pocket and so far from what i've seen from Smith, he just can't do it.

I've seen games in 5 different stadiums in my life time... 2 in the US, Metrodome and Ford Field.. Gotta say Ford Field was quite amazing... In the CFL, I've seen games at IGF, Canad Inns lol and Commonwealth.. Seen a baseball game at SkyDome years upon years ago... many many years ago now... If i had to rank them... Ford Field is number 1 by a long shot, then i'd put IGF, then Metrodome, Then Skydome and then Canad Inns. So to me, Canad Inns looks similar to Mosaic so it would have to be on the bottom.

Just one... Darian Durants mom is so hairy that Darian almost died of rugburn when he was born.