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As usual, Bomber game replay with the CJOB Audio coming to youtube ... stay tuned

A lot of Stamps fans breathed a sigh of relief when he quit the Stampeders. Worried he'd force Huff out & run the team into the ground. He just might have given the chance. 

The live stream of NorthCarolinaBomber has moved.  For those of you who've watched it the first 6 weeks on justin.tv, that website is no longer available.  The new link for the stream is here at:
 
https://streamup.com/North_Carolina_Bomber
 
Pretty much the same thing as justin, just in the beta stage of development.

Yeah I don't quite get why people think Troy Smith is a scrambling QB.  I watched many a game he played at Ohio State and he was almost anything but.
 
That being said, I think a lot of QBs find out, especially from watching the current starters who have been up in the league a while, that you better be ready to run as a QB in this league.  Even the best O-lines will still have problems at times giving you a clean pocket, and I think Smith has found that out much the hard way in this league.  Also such things can make accuracy issues difficult, not to mention as a guy who's likely used to hitting those quick release passes and even deep routes on a typical US sized field.
 
I think at this point, we all just gotta admit he's just one of those QBs that hey, he'll go down as having one of the most successful college careers, but he simply wasn't cut out to play the pro game.  I mean, I guess it's possible he may try to finish out his days in the AFL, but likely that doesn't pay squat.  Also another reason why I just want to beat some fans over the head when they think someone's US college football history means they're gonna do well up here.  I mean, it means absolutely and I mean absolutely nothing.
 
Good QBs who do well in this league have almost always had a guiding point from a veteran QB that they have understudied for a few years and a coach who's known what he's doing in regards to QB play.  I don't think I have ever heard of any QBs, whether they came up here straight out of college, or spent a few years in an NFL stint that didn't work out, that have ever done well when thrown straight into action.  I mean, I think Robert Marve can definitely be a good to great QB once he gets a couple years of the learning curb under his belt, but there's a reason we aren't just throwing him into action other than short yardage plays.
 
I think all 3 of their QBs are gonna be gone at the end of this year, likely will go a route similar to what we did with bringing in of new ones.  If Higgins is the one who botched the Worman situation and doesn't make plans to get a real OC by next year, he should either take major heat or be gone.  If it's Popp interfering in that business, Wetenhall is gonna need to put him back in his place and tell him to get back to scouting and bringing in younger Canadian and import talent instead of going after NFL rejects with little future to them.  You just start wondering if that current extension given to Popp was a mistake as he seems to not be doing a whole lot right since Trestman and Calvillo left.  Anyway, if Wetenhall hopes to keep money in his pocket with the team he had better get his act together.

Yeah I don't quite get why people think Troy Smith is a scrambling QB.  I watched many a game he played at Ohio State and he was almost anything but.
 
That being said, I think a lot of QBs find out, especially from watching the current starters who have been up in the league a while, that you better be ready to run as a QB in this league.  Even the best O-lines will still have problems at times giving you a clean pocket, and I think Smith has found that out much the hard way in this league.  Also such things can make accuracy issues difficult, not to mention as a guy who's likely used to hitting those quick release passes and even deep routes on a typical US sized field.
 
I think at this point, we all just gotta admit he's just one of those QBs that hey, he'll go down as having one of the most successful college careers, but he simply wasn't cut out to play the pro game.  I mean, I guess it's possible he may try to finish out his days in the AFL, but likely that doesn't pay squat.  Also another reason why I just want to beat some fans over the head when they think someone's US college football history means they're gonna do well up here.  I mean, it means absolutely and I mean absolutely nothing.
 
Good QBs who do well in this league have almost always had a guiding point from a veteran QB that they have understudied for a few years and a coach who's known what he's doing in regards to QB play.  I don't think I have ever heard of any QBs, whether they came up here straight out of college, or spent a few years in an NFL stint that didn't work out, that have ever done well when thrown straight into action.  I mean, I think Robert Marve can definitely be a good to great QB once he gets a couple years of the learning curb under his belt, but there's a reason we aren't just throwing him into action other than short yardage plays.
 
I think all 3 of their QBs are gonna be gone at the end of this year, likely will go a route similar to what we did with bringing in of new ones.  If Higgins is the one who botched the Worman situation and doesn't make plans to get a real OC by next year, he should either take major heat or be gone.  If it's Popp interfering in that business, Wetenhall is gonna need to put him back in his place and tell him to get back to scouting and bringing in younger Canadian and import talent instead of going after NFL rejects with little future to them.  You just start wondering if that current extension given to Popp was a mistake as he seems to not be doing a whole lot right since Trestman and Calvillo left.  Anyway, if Wetenhall hopes to keep money in his pocket with the team he had better get his act together.

Well, like we said, Mitchell's luck was gonna run out.  I mean this loss wasn't on him, don't get me wrong, but he had the help of special teams and defense in his last two games despite his off target-ness.  This week even though he was fairly on target, he gets let down by those elements of the team.  But this does make our win last week in BC Place loom even larger now.
 
Ya figure the league is gonna balance out eventually, but it's still crazy to think we got one division here where nearly every team is in the power struggle for tops in the league, while the other is just anyone trying to stay out of the basement.  Crazy.

I will agree Brink should not be in there, he's never been any better than 3rd string level, but Dinwiddie has certainly been running a faulty unanchored system and is unqualified to call plays.  It most certainly does have an effect on the offense.  But anyway, just glad this is someone else's team and not the bombers.

Stay tuned ... This is your game to see.

As per request from another site, the next video should have the audio from CJOB synced in it, so yall don't have to sit through that sucker Rod Black's disturbing commentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IVLPjAtaBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IVLPjAtaBo

This is a game that crazy as it sounds, I'm more concerned of than I was going against BC this last week.  I knew if we could shut down or contain Arceneaux, we had a better chance of forcing some mistakes out of Kevin Glenn and we did just that.  And I knew if our O just stayed within it's gameplan and stayed patient enough to figure out the BC defense we also had a shot.  Course Mr Hajrullahu also had a bit to do with that as well, but still pretty good.
 
This Hamilton team is one that I think you gotta toss the record out the window with and for good reason.  Their 1-3 record doesn't tell the story entirely correct.
 
They had to open up their season with 3 games on the road in brutal places, Regina, Edmonton, and Calgary.  That's pretty much getting thrown into the fire right away.  And 2 of those games they almost won despite losing Collaros, and that is saying something.  Plus being 1-3 isn't something new for these guys (see last year), and with the East still anyone's to take, they'll be wanting to just start with 1 win at a time to do so.
 
My concern with our team is that this is that they're young and for many of these guys, this success is something that could go to their head if they aren't careful.  It's awesome to see wins early here, and you want that to build a team's confidence, but you also don't want them getting too overconfident.  I tend to think that part of the collapse of 2011 in which we started 7-1 and finished 3-7 with, was that the guys didn't know how to handle that success, and in some cases got lazy with it.  Part of that was on Lapo, but at the end of the day the players do gotta treat every team as though they are the best, and it will be on them Thursday to get up and play these guys like they are the best.
 
I think what you do here, is try and force LeFevour to stay in the pocket.  If he's forced to stay in there and scan the whole field around from there, I think he'll struggle due to his limited arm strength.  If he gets outside the pocket and scrambles around to throw, he definitely could hurt the D.
 
On O, just keep feeding that ball to Grigsby, and he'll wear down the TiCat D I think.
 
I'm interested to see what happens with this QB situation in Hamilton as the year moves on.  Obviously the TigerCats spent the bucks on Collaros, but if LeFevour becomes the hot hand and generates the prime of their O, you stay with him right?  If that happens, I'm wondering if they trade Collaros to BC at the end of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IVLPjAtaBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IVLPjAtaBo

Soon....
 
Just watch for the link

Soon....
 
Just watch for the link

Which is why the official who threw the flag on that should be fired.
 
This is proving my point that making such hits a penalty is a disgrace to football.
 
If I were O'Shea, a former linebacker who know doubt has laid people out on that field and laid a good many jarring hits on the ball carriers, I'd be getting furious at Commissioner Cohon and calling him a **** for turning football into a pansies sport by having these flags thrown.
 
It's a disgrace to good defenses everywhere.

Well, regardless of the outcome and the low probability of anyone watching this again, it's still coming.  If nothing else, game review to see where we went wrong and what to fix before playing BC.

All of that aside, there were several key plays that turned this game in the Esks favour.
 
1. The Grigsby giveaway
 
2. The Feoli-Gudino drop 
 
3. The Moore fumble
 
4. Several Reilly runs that should have been sacks
 
5. The FG that hit the upright
 
If those plays are made, we may be talking about a win.
 
Seriously...if 2 and 3 are both TD's...how much complaining would we be doing about MB's offensive scheme?  
 
Yes, this team needs to be better, but they will win some more games.  The opportunities to win were there. 
 
This is NOT the 2013 team.

Someone else probably should be handling kickoff returns, he just doesn't have the right feel for the ball on those.
 
Hoping Woods gets back soon, put him back at his punt return duties and Washington on Kickoffs.

Let's remember Greaves is still out and with the rough go we've had at O-line, going up against that defensive front was rough.
 
I don't know that I would just throw the book at too many people just yet, I'd let O'Shea look at the game film and wisely make his choices.
 
My take:
 
1.  Don't throw Drew Willy under the bus, he had a bad one, but like we talked about at the beginning of the year, you have gotta stay patient with him through these kinds of games.  He had a bad one today, he'll be back with more good ones starting next week or soon after.
 
2.  Maybe look at the O-line a bit to see if there needs to be a slight repositioning there, but again carefully before rolling heads.
 
3.  I did see someone else mention maybe bench Grigsby.  I'm split on that one, because while I've liked what he did over the first 3 weeks, he wasn't on his game tonight and possibly Paris Cotton would shake things up a bit.
 
 
At the end of the day though, it was one of those nights we just didn't catch any breaks.  Nick Moore's fumble stifled our momentum to get back in it in the 3rd quarter, a frustrating play, but unfortunately happened to us.  And the close play where Bowman got ruled down before that ball came out.  Just wasn't our night tonight, and while I'm mad as hell we only put up 3 points on that board, such games have happened to even good teams before, so let's let the season play out before we go calling for drastic moves.
 
TBH, being 3-0 already was exceeding expectations, so I gotta give the coaching staff and players, considering the mess they've had to build this from, a pass for at least a few of the losses, even more so because you can't win them all in this league.  Wasn't expecting more than 6 wins coming into this year, so take it how you will, I fully expect O'Shea gets em back up to play again next week.

This is extremely bizarre.
 
First, what little I saw of him playing last year, he seemed to be just fine on the field with no indication he had suffered anything, and while I couldn't count for all his injuries, I don't recall seeing him taking all that much hard hits if any.
 
What I hate about this is that people blame the league or other players for their decision to play a contact sport.  What angers me even more is that there just seems to be this underlying belief that injuries can be eliminated from sports, and that's just bull.  I mean you sign up to play football, whether it's peewee league, high school, college, or pro of any kind, you better have a health plan and possibly a backup plan because you are always at risk to get hit.  Nobody wants to see injuries, though many people such as myself want good hard physical play, but you gotta know that there's the risk of that.  And when you decide to play through an injury such as a concussion, that's you doing that.  I agree the heightened awareness of concussions needs to be implemented, but it should not be bringing this crackdown nonsense into the league that we're seeing.  That stuff has made for bad football down there in the NFL, and it should not be brought into the CFL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIg6pkxFyGo
 
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