Jesse

Grant to start, eh?

Within the first half of the 2nd.

I don’t think you can say Agudosi has proved anything. He’s played in one game. I have doubts we ever see him again, tbh.

And Zach with the Riders wasn’t - and would never be - the Zach we’ve gotten with the Bombers. I don’t really consider it a miss by them at all - but no doubt one of the biggest gains this organization has even made.

I’ll def check it out!

It’s fair to point out disputed catches on film though. Many of his big plays are thrown to wide open receivers. He needs to show he can squeeze it into a window if he wants a shot. NFL DBs gonna get on him real fast.

What’s that called, I hadn’t heard about it?

It’s our team awards at the halfway point. How is this a jinx? Offensive MVP: Collaros Defensive MVP: Bighill Top Canadian: Thomas Top rookie: Schoen Top O-lineman: Big Stan Top Special Teams: Grant

It doesn’t make any difference if they win every game or lose every game - it’s just entertainment. But we’re obviously interested and invested in this game so it would nice to be informed about things that affect the game - like how long Ellingson is going to be out and how he got injured.

Age isn't THAT on his side. He's going to turn 26 in October. Which means he'd turn 27 if he stayed next season and be starting the NFL shortly before his 28th birthday. If his goal is the NFL (it is) - he is vastly better off taking any opportunities after this season. Not to mention it doesn't prevent him from trying again if it doesn't work out the first time.

Have you heard his interview with Tait and Cameron on their 'Handled Internally" podcast? He worked his way up from a walk-on and has stated the NFL as "the dream". From hearing him talk about it, I would think that he'd have the belief in himself to work his way onto a team from the PR, if he got the opportunity.

Option window is back, sir. We may not get the 2 years.

On big Stan: It’s not a debate - he’s still elite and getting paid appropriately but reasonably. Unless he tried to stay after his play dropped off, there’s not going to be a reason to move on from him. On his replacement: Going year to year is fine - but obviously doesn’t let us train his replacement in-house. But like others have said, the most likely replacement is probably on another team and we lure them away after his retirement. On when that tragic day comes: Im sure Stanley considers retirement each off-season at this point. We have an amazing thing going on right now and I think that our older vets probably talk about this as a group. To keep it going as long as they can. I think that once one decides to retire or there’s a drop off, we might see a domino effect of retirements. On Wally: Wally was certainly cut-throat, but obviously isn’t perfect on his decisions. I am less certain that he thought Harris was done than he simply didn’t want to make him the highest paid RB while committing to national at the position. It was the perfect thing for us to do at the time, though.

My thing with jerseys is to only buy players that I’ve seen play. My first was a Charlie Roberts with the 75 anniversary patch. Love that jersey. I think I’m up to 7 total.

I bought a home Collaros this year. And then I won a jersey contest on Twitter and chose the away Bighill:

I was convinced Zach should have retired before even signing with the Riders. What he’s done has been spectacular.

It's what I thought we'd be seeing out of him all year. Absolutely fabulous to see it come through in the biggest game of the year (so far).

Sask definitely low balled him.

Bighill came back later in the off-season, I think. A lot of teams' cap space was already used up. I think that's re-writing history a bit. We made him the highest offer (highest paid in the league at that point) - and he told TO it would cost 10 or 15 more to convince him to go there, at which point they bailed. He's definitely signed for less since that point though.

That’s pretty much every day for me.

In the Uber on the way to the watering hole. Should have time to be seated with my drinkie before kick off. Lets go Blue.

We win today, we have the season series with the Stamps and basically have first in the West locked up, imo. How dare you.

BC shutting down the Riders settled it for me. Us and Calgary are on a separate tier than the rest of the league.

I think Zach’s going to be riled up after last week. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him light it up - much like in our game against BC when all eyes were on Rourke in the lead up.

We’ve literally heard nothing at any point through all of this