I was watching some pvred games and I think on offence what they need do improve on is red zone production.  Hope with Adams or a big receiver we punch it in more.  Obviously for defence it is big play that is our kryptonite.  Hope find ways to improve.

35 minutes ago, Stickem said:

'hard to anticipate'...would have been better...........Denny just has a knack to get open....a lot like Dressler..very deceptive

I don't do book learnin so good

3 hours ago, Mike said:

unanticipatable

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Yeah there really is something to be said for doing subtle things to keep the defender guessing. Milt used to have a whole pile of tricks he could throw out there to make dbs look silly too. 

56 minutes ago, Stickem said:

'hard to anticipate'...would have been better...........Denny just has a knack to get open....a lot like Dressler..very deceptive

Both Denmark and Dressler are winding down the clock, I don't expect either will be with the team two years from now.  It's past-time for the Bombers to find the next big receiver and stick with him until pay-off, they really haven't recruited a good one of their own since Chris Matthews.  Speaking of which where is he now?

7 minutes ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

Both Denmark and Dressler are winding down the clock, I don't expect either will be with the team two years from now.  It's past-time for the Bombers to find the next big receiver and stick with him until pay-off, they really haven't recruited a good one of their own since Chris Matthews.  Speaking of which where is he now?

Still with the Ravens.

Be interesting to see if they can run some routes off that corner.

15 hours ago, Taynted_Fayth said:

Thought we would have fixed our Red Zone woes last year picking up Gurly, didn't really work out and now he's not even with us.  Hopefully Stafford will have Rod Black calling him the Sticky Staff and he grabs everything tossed his way for the score

...of Gandalf and pine tar

1 hour ago, bigg jay said:

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Edited May 19, 20178 yr by IC Khari

2 hours ago, bigg jay said:

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

and being spurious at the same time

16 minutes ago, Stickem said:

and being spurious at the same time

I dunno... I happen to think using cromulent words embiggens people.

5 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

I dunno... I happen to think using cromulent words embiggens people.

.....two neologisms....and also spurious

???

I don't think cromulent or embiggen are real words

2 minutes ago, Atomic said:

???

I don't think cromulent or embiggen are real words

Of course they are....Jebediah Springfield himself said them...

1 hour ago, Atomic said:

???

I don't think cromulent or embiggen are real words

They're in the dictionary now so they're real enough for me. 

The cromulent use of those words really embiggened this thread. 

19 hours ago, Sard said:

I find this conversation very interesting considering this tweet yesterday from Derek Taylor:

No question it could be better, but he's ranked right up there in the top 5 for red-zone passing.

Top 5 in a 9 team league where 7 teams make the play offs. + completions in the red zone that still lead to field goal drives isnt success in the red zone. 

Our offense loves 8 yard passes on 2nd and 10 / 2nd and goal from the 10 etc. We dont do great red zone scheming. PA fades, iso in and outs, rub routes, shovel pass etc.

We kicked a ton of fgs last year including lots of short ones. The problem wasnt just red zone production. It was long periods of time where our offense was nearly none existent. Wed stop running the ball for entire quarters, our first drives are constantly weak despite it being the best planned drive of the game. 

On 2017-5-18 at 5:44 PM, Noeller said:

I feel like every single year I've been on Bombers messageboards, the #1 complaint has been redzone production....it goes back to at least the Khari days...

While the offence is out of the red zone the defence will play a little softer. Once they are pushed to the brink they will play substantially better. maybe we have not picked up our game to match.

On 2017-5-19 at 0:56 PM, Mike said:

I don't do book learnin so good

Caint pound book learnin' into dem unruly boys heads...

Maybe Lapo needs to rely more on his inner Jebediah Springfield to embiggins his playcalling?

11 hours ago, Mark H. said:

Caint pound book learnin' into dem unruly boys heads...

An exert from a valedictorian speech in a Sask. high school.

2 hours ago, Stickem said:

An exert from a valedictorian speech in a Sask. high school.

I question your source here... this implies some Saskatchewan folk have their high school diploma.

13 minutes ago, Eternal optimist said:

I question your source here... this implies some Saskatchewan folk have their high school diploma.

well it's a diploma of sorts....heh heh....I'll let you fill in the blanks...I know a lot of them have gone right through high school....in the front door and out the back..........

On 5/19/2017 at 6:22 PM, wbbfan said:

Top 5 in a 9 team league where 7 teams make the play offs. + completions in the red zone that still lead to field goal drives isnt success in the red zone. 

 

Not so sure about your math on this one... 

On 05/18/2017 at 7:08 PM, Brandon said:

Need more plays with Andrew Harris and Darvin Adams...

Agreed, move him from running back to a 5 wide pre snap

On 5/19/2017 at 1:24 PM, 17to85 said:

Yeah there really is something to be said for doing subtle things to keep the defender guessing. Milt used to have a whole pile of tricks he could throw out there to make dbs look silly too. 

My favorite is a few games a year or so he would pretend to pull up lame and hold him hammy wait for the db to move on and break down field.

1 hour ago, wbbfan said:

My favorite is a few games a year or so he would pretend to pull up lame and hold him hammy wait for the db to move on and break down field.

Was called The Dead Leg. The only reason I know this is because of the time Stanford Samuels came on OB.com and told us all about it.