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Years of having bad to mediocre teams has made us afraid of losing to bad teams but we will obliterate the Argos. 

It was. But it’s technically not against the rules to challenge something that was already reviewed by the command centre automatically. It’s probably a dumb rule, but it’s not a penalty. 

Or or... Trump himself gets shot

Its cuz we are 4 and 0 and its better to let him get healthy. U know he got hurt on a bad throw by Nichols tho right? 

6 Straight at Home?: The Bombers look for their 6th consecutive home win - the last time they did that was in 2002-03.
The Blue Bombers have won the last matchups as well 5 of the last 6 vs Ottawa. All 5 wins have come with Matt Nichols at QB - overall however he is 5-4 vs the REDBLACKS for the Bombers. Two weeks ago, The Bombers won 29-14 in Ottawa and seek to sweep the series for the first time since 2017.
Nichols vs Jennings: They have started against one another 6 times with Nichols coming out on top in 5.
Jennings has had 3 of his best 6 career performances come against Winnipeg (422, 408 & 372 yards).
The Bombers have trailed for a grand total of just 9 minutes & 24 seconds all season long (vs BC in Week #1). Their scoring edge thus far in the first 15:00 of games is 42-7.
Game Notes...

Here are the results from the Blue Bombers 4th quarter drives in 2019

Please note that this chart only includes drives that started in the 4th quarter. It does not include drives that may have started in Q3 and finished in Q4.

Seems to be a trend that even if you see a guy running around in practice he doesn't come back till one week later.

He can have the win for all I care, but doesn't matter.  I've permanently taken my position on the Nichols deep balls and I'm not going to change my mind NOT NOW NOT EVER!

Congrats man, should be a good one

Point 7.   R^2 value = .0872  is objective proof you win the argument. 

Starting last season under Jones with the signing of  Collaros I'm convinced Sask. has been attempting to build a LaPo style offence, this season with the addition of Powell to duplicate the role Harris fills as the workhorse it looks even more so.  Their major failure lies in not investing enough to rebuild their Natl. O-line talent at the foundation, as well as not yet finding a consistent reliable QB.

He can have the win for all I care, but doesn't matter.  I've permanently taken my position on the Nichols deep balls and I'm not going to change my mind NOT NOW NOT EVER!

MY TV IS ON ! I can't wait to see Matty drop a ton of dimes tomorrow night.......  !

He can have the win for all I care, but doesn't matter.  I've permanently taken my position on the Nichols deep balls and I'm not going to change my mind NOT NOW NOT EVER!

you're kind of proving his point... I agree that the game plan was bad and Calgary out-coached the Bombers in every facet... but to suggest Nichols played good in that game is ridiculous....

Might be adding fuel to the fire here... but just some stats on Nichols vs other QBs after Week 5:
1. Most TD passes in the league (10).
2. His completion accuracy (69.4%) is right around league average (67.9%)
3. He's only thrown 1 interception to-date, the only QBs who have less is Trevor Harris and Nick Arbuckle, Arbuckle also has considerably less playing time, so I'd attribute his low INT total to that.
4. Winnipeg's offense successfully runs the ball... alot! Of our total offensive plays (204), close to half of them (95, 46.57%) have been running plays, which is 1st in the league. We're the only team above.500 that currently successfully does this, the two other teams that are run-heavy are SSK (104 running plays, 228 total offensive plays, 45.61%) and MTL (99 running plays, 213 offensive plays, 46.48%). After that, there is about a 10% drop-off in run-play % with each other team running the ball less than 40% of their offensive plays.
5. Although it is true we have 2nd most 2-and-outs in the league (24), the league average is 19, we're within 1 sigma of the league average, essentially meaning our offense is pretty much middle-of-the road in terms of 2-and-outs.
6. His completion % for deep passes (38.10%) is 3rd-worst in the league, though it should be noted he doesn't shy away from it (21 attempts, league average 21.3 among qualifying QBs). Interesting note here though, Reilly's deep pass completion % is only 28.13%... only QB who is worse is Mitchell (20.00%) though I'd attribute that to him playing hurt.
7. There does not appear to be any correlation between 300+ yard games and team winning percentage (R^2 value = .0872) league-wide, suggesting that this stat is practically irrelevant with respect to wins league-wide, not just for Nichols who is 4-0 with 0 300 yard games.
8. You guys made me late for work.
 
 
 

I haven’t seen sigma referenced in years. Thorough authoritative work you did there EO. 

No, but his shortcomings in pass protection could be masked by the great players around him. He’s always been an above average run blocker and below average pass blocker. On this team, that’s a recipe for disaster. 

Nichols comes out like a whirlwind but it falls off when there's a lead... yeah Nichols didn't start sucking in game and the defense didn't just figure it out, the play calls just got super conservative as happens with lapo.

I found myself laughing about about the lines of "Reed's reputation getting damaged."
Lol, since when was it ever good?  That's news to me.

Any passing stats accumulated in the 4th Q fall under "garbage time".

Darrin Bauming   @DarrinBauming · 7m   Jeff Hecht tells me he’s good to go Friday vs the #RedBlacks. Chris Matthews told me the same, adding he’s excited as it feels like his #Bombers debut once again. Mike O’Shea says all players battling nicks and bumps are “good,” but will not make a determination on anyone.

Meaningless.....

If the bombers get into a situation where they aren't leading in the 4th quarter you will see Nichols 4th quarter passing stats balloon up. It's like no one has watched lapo at all before...

In 2015 he completed 60% of his passes and had an 18:17 interception ratio. That’s significantly below average. Granted some of those numbers came in Edmonton but it was a largely uninspired season. He was better than Willy for us, but again talk about a low bar. He was better in 2016 but put up significantly worse numbers than Mitchell, Reilly, Jon Jennings and half a season of Trevor Harris. Without his 2017 season, he probably wouldn’t be this team’s QB right now.