??Nic Lewis - in second place, all alone in receptions. That is a truly remarkable feat. Whether you like him or not, and how can you not, he is accomplishing what only one other receiver has accomplished, and that person is Gerry Simon. And soon, Lewis will bypass him. I never would have that that but, holy hanna, I clap my hands for a truly gifted athlete. Bravo Nic!
#TodayInBlueBomberHistory
Aug 21, 2009: RB Fred Reid rushed for 260 yds, a #Bombers record. #OnceABomberAlwaysABomber
Matthew Scianitti - Marc Trestman says Anthony Coombs will have surgery on his shoulder, but coach is confident Coombs can return this season #CFL #Argos
??Ha, funny twitter comment - Crap you guys I stared at the eclipse way too long and now I'm an NHL replay official.
CFL Staff. - Amid the deafening roar at Investors Group Field on Thursday screeched the silence of the last remaining detractors as Matt Nichols and the Bombers took down the CFL’s top-ranked team. Nichols’ performance (390 yards, 80%, 1 TD, 0 INT) may have been the best by any quarterback this season
Blue and Gold CFL - Andrew Harris leads the CFL in YAC. He's a running back #Bombers. And it's not even close. Harris is 1st with 355 yards, 2nd is the RedBlacks Brad Sinopoli at 278 yards
??O'Shea says the Bombers would be pretty well on pace for an interception total like last year but we're dropping them now instead of making the catch. (See last game 3-4?)
??In case you're wondering, Dom Davis is still considered the "#2 QB"
Craig T Smith - At Packers practice. Ray Nitschke Field. @ Green Bay Packers Training and Practice Fields instagram.com/p/BYHLOCUjXcg/
CFL News - Rookie TE Antony Auclair making case to stick with Bucs tampabay.com/blogs/bucs/roo… via @TB_Times #NFL #CFL #Riders
- #CFL 6 game injured list count:
#Esks 16
#Riders 12
#AlsMTL 12
#Argos 11
#Calstampeders 11
#Ticats 11
#Redblacks 4
#BCLions 2
#Bombers 2
ALL-TIME CANADIAN RUSHING YARDS LIST
1 Normie Kwong 9,022 yards
2 Jon Cornish 6,844 yards
3 Sean Millington 6,086 yards
4 Andrew Harris 5,728 yards
5 Ron Stewart 5,690 yards
• The Stampeders have won 13 consecutive games at home – the eighth-longest home winning streak of all time in the CFL.
• The streak is the second-longest run of home victories in franchise history. Calgary owns the CFL record with 27 straight wins at home from 1992-1995.
Toronto leads the league with 30 sacks this season, despite missing several starters due to injury. The Argonauts have eight more sacks then the second best team (Edmonton).
Winnipeg quarterback Matt Nichols had thrown 179 consecutive passes before he threw that Hail Mary interception in the last game. His personal best was 167.
Justin Medlock has kicked three field goals of 50+ yards this season. The record for the most 50+ field goals in a season is nine set by Calgary’s J.T. Hay in 1986 and Baltimore’s Carlos Huerta in 1994.
CFL - Last year there were 44 attempts (27 made) from 50+ yards and this year there have been only 13 attempts (eight made).
• 62% of games this season have been decided in the final three minutes.
• Penalties this season are down 11% compared to last season.
• The second quarter this season averages the most points - 16.4 (30% of points). The first quarter averages the fewest amount of points – 10.1 (19% of points).
• Winnipeg and Montreal do not yet have a successful 2-point conversion. Both teams are 0 for 2.
• Teams coming off a bye week are 4-3 this season. Saskatchewan comes off a bye this week when they play Edmonton.
• League-wide one-point convert percentage is 88%, down from 91% from last year. Kickers were only 12 for 16 (75%) last week.
• Argonauts running back Brandon Whitaker is four carries shy of reaching 1,000 for his career.
• Consistency: 11 different quarterbacks have started this season. At the same point in 2016 it was 15 and 2015 it was 14.
CFL News - "We're getting great coverage down there (America). Lots of folks absolutely loving the game." - @MattDuniganTSN #CFL via @tsnmikehogan
Blue Bomber Talk - After a great first preseason game, Geoff Gray graded out poorly in preseason game two. #Packers #Bombers #CFL
Ted Wyman
MID-TERM GRADES
OFFENCE: A
It’s up-tempo, it’s efficient and it’s producing the most points of any offence in the league.
DEFENCE: C
Too many yards allowed, too many explosion plays. Big plays aside, still a bit of an Achilles Heel
SPECIAL TEAMS: A-minus
Medlock is money, winning three games with last-play kicks … return game is solid too.
COACHING: B-plus
LaPolice has done a great job with the offence, Hall still struggling to find right formula on defence. O’Shea really coming into his own as head coach.
“He’s not done … he’s not satisfied, either,” O’Shea said of Randle. “We’ve always known that he’s a top-notch guy in this league, an upper-echelon guy and the way he prepares I wouldn’t say it’s easy — he makes it look easy — but he prepares for it. When he steps on the field he’s already played the game, he’s already worked so hard in practice that he knows he’s going to make those plays. And two interceptions tonight — and some of those plays that you don’t notice, when he’s not intercepting the ball — he’s phenomenal.”
Edmonton- 41,178 fans, the largest crowd in the CFL in the last four years.
Mike Reilly, one of the league’s elite players, had a microscopic quarterback-efficiency rating (43.8).
??Hugh O'Neil P/K gets the lackadaisical player of the week award. Blocked punt for a TD, missed/blocked convert, illegal Kickoff. He got the trifecta
CFL on TSN
.@MattDuniganTSN: 'Reilly took a butt kicking tonight'. VIDEO: tsn.ca/cfl/video/duni… #CFLGameDay
Gary Lawless - Very likely @Wpg_BlueBombers and @sskroughriders split Labor Day/Banjo. But both teams are hot and whoever wins opener plays with house cash
Kevin Dickie - Heard #Riders Call-In Show. Sounds like all Fans have been patient with squad & supported Chris Jones since day one. I love it! #Bandwagon
CFL News - The Jason Maas-coached team went from being in a fender bender in Wpg last weekend to being in a total train wreck. - @byterryjones #CFL
Less than 1,500 tickets remain for the Banjo Bowl.
CFL News - Seems abundantly clear some players are frustrated w/ play-calling of offensive coordinator Khari Jones lately. - @FifthQtr #CFL #BCLions
??The Eskimos ‘next man up’ mantra has disintegrated into ‘next loss up’
Herb Zurkowsky- #Als have added Canadian receiver Scott MacDonell, late of Ottawa and Saskatchewan
Buono acknowledged the position switch represents potentially a major swing with the Lions’ salary cap in the future but had to make the move to salvage a season suddenly looking as if it could spin out of control.
He previously restructured Jennings' current contract to give him an NFL option-year window after this season and would make CFL starting pivot money, a reported $300,000 if he comes back in 2018 to the Lions.
Lulay, on the other hand, has a salary edge on Jennings at present but is a free agent at the end of the season. It’s a radical shift from a few weeks ago, when Jennings’ shoulder injury and previous collarbone issue wasn’t seen as a problem.
Week 10 - Bye Hamilton
??Nic Lewis - in second place, all alone in receptions. That is a truly remarkable feat. Whether you like him or not, and how can you not, he is accomplishing what only one other receiver has accomplished, and that person is Gerry Simon. And soon, Lewis will bypass him. I never would have that that but, holy hanna, I clap my hands for a truly gifted athlete. Bravo Nic!
#TodayInBlueBomberHistory
Aug 21, 2009: RB Fred Reid rushed for 260 yds, a #Bombers record. #OnceABomberAlwaysABomber
Matthew Scianitti - Marc Trestman says Anthony Coombs will have surgery on his shoulder, but coach is confident Coombs can return this season #CFL #Argos
??Ha, funny twitter comment - Crap you guys I stared at the eclipse way too long and now I'm an NHL replay official.
CFL Staff. - Amid the deafening roar at Investors Group Field on Thursday screeched the silence of the last remaining detractors as Matt Nichols and the Bombers took down the CFL’s top-ranked team. Nichols’ performance (390 yards, 80%, 1 TD, 0 INT) may have been the best by any quarterback this season
https://www.cfl.ca/2017/08/21/quarterback-index-return-ricky-ray/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+QbIndexCflca+(CFL.ca-QB+Index)
Blue and Gold CFL - Andrew Harris leads the CFL in YAC. He's a running back #Bombers. And it's not even close. Harris is 1st with 355 yards, 2nd is the RedBlacks Brad Sinopoli at 278 yards
??O'Shea says the Bombers would be pretty well on pace for an interception total like last year but we're dropping them now instead of making the catch. (See last game 3-4?)
??In case you're wondering, Dom Davis is still considered the "#2 QB"
Craig T Smith - At Packers practice. Ray Nitschke Field. @ Green Bay Packers Training and Practice Fields instagram.com/p/BYHLOCUjXcg/
CFL News - Rookie TE Antony Auclair making case to stick with Bucs tampabay.com/blogs/bucs/roo… via @TB_Times #NFL #CFL #Riders
- #CFL 6 game injured list count:
#Esks 16
#Riders 12
#AlsMTL 12
#Argos 11
#Calstampeders 11
#Ticats 11
#Redblacks 4
#BCLions 2
#Bombers 2
ALL-TIME CANADIAN RUSHING YARDS LIST
1 Normie Kwong 9,022 yards
2 Jon Cornish 6,844 yards
3 Sean Millington 6,086 yards
4 Andrew Harris 5,728 yards
5 Ron Stewart 5,690 yards
• The Stampeders have won 13 consecutive games at home – the eighth-longest home winning streak of all time in the CFL.
• The streak is the second-longest run of home victories in franchise history. Calgary owns the CFL record with 27 straight wins at home from 1992-1995.
Toronto leads the league with 30 sacks this season, despite missing several starters due to injury. The Argonauts have eight more sacks then the second best team (Edmonton).
Winnipeg quarterback Matt Nichols had thrown 179 consecutive passes before he threw that Hail Mary interception in the last game. His personal best was 167.
Justin Medlock has kicked three field goals of 50+ yards this season. The record for the most 50+ field goals in a season is nine set by Calgary’s J.T. Hay in 1986 and Baltimore’s Carlos Huerta in 1994.
CFL - Last year there were 44 attempts (27 made) from 50+ yards and this year there have been only 13 attempts (eight made).
• 62% of games this season have been decided in the final three minutes.
• Penalties this season are down 11% compared to last season.
• The second quarter this season averages the most points - 16.4 (30% of points). The first quarter averages the fewest amount of points – 10.1 (19% of points).
• Winnipeg and Montreal do not yet have a successful 2-point conversion. Both teams are 0 for 2.
• Teams coming off a bye week are 4-3 this season. Saskatchewan comes off a bye this week when they play Edmonton.
• League-wide one-point convert percentage is 88%, down from 91% from last year. Kickers were only 12 for 16 (75%) last week.
• Argonauts running back Brandon Whitaker is four carries shy of reaching 1,000 for his career.
• Consistency: 11 different quarterbacks have started this season. At the same point in 2016 it was 15 and 2015 it was 14.
CFL News - "We're getting great coverage down there (America). Lots of folks absolutely loving the game." - @MattDuniganTSN #CFL via @tsnmikehogan
Blue Bomber Talk - After a great first preseason game, Geoff Gray graded out poorly in preseason game two. #Packers #Bombers #CFL
Ted Wyman
MID-TERM GRADES
OFFENCE: A
It’s up-tempo, it’s efficient and it’s producing the most points of any offence in the league.
DEFENCE: C
Too many yards allowed, too many explosion plays. Big plays aside, still a bit of an Achilles Heel
SPECIAL TEAMS: A-minus
Medlock is money, winning three games with last-play kicks … return game is solid too.
COACHING: B-plus
LaPolice has done a great job with the offence, Hall still struggling to find right formula on defence. O’Shea really coming into his own as head coach.
“He’s not done … he’s not satisfied, either,” O’Shea said of Randle. “We’ve always known that he’s a top-notch guy in this league, an upper-echelon guy and the way he prepares I wouldn’t say it’s easy — he makes it look easy — but he prepares for it. When he steps on the field he’s already played the game, he’s already worked so hard in practice that he knows he’s going to make those plays. And two interceptions tonight — and some of those plays that you don’t notice, when he’s not intercepting the ball — he’s phenomenal.”
Edmonton- 41,178 fans, the largest crowd in the CFL in the last four years.
Mike Reilly, one of the league’s elite players, had a microscopic quarterback-efficiency rating (43.8).
??Hugh O'Neil P/K gets the lackadaisical player of the week award. Blocked punt for a TD, missed/blocked convert, illegal Kickoff. He got the trifecta
CFL on TSN
.@MattDuniganTSN: 'Reilly took a butt kicking tonight'. VIDEO: tsn.ca/cfl/video/duni… #CFLGameDay
Gary Lawless - Very likely @Wpg_BlueBombers and @sskroughriders split Labor Day/Banjo. But both teams are hot and whoever wins opener plays with house cash
Kevin Dickie - Heard #Riders Call-In Show. Sounds like all Fans have been patient with squad & supported Chris Jones since day one. I love it! #Bandwagon
CFL News - The Jason Maas-coached team went from being in a fender bender in Wpg last weekend to being in a total train wreck. - @byterryjones #CFL
Less than 1,500 tickets remain for the Banjo Bowl.
You should probably be there.
??Jonathon Jennings- 7 123/194 63% 1425 yards TD passes 9 interceptions.
CFL News - Seems abundantly clear some players are frustrated w/ play-calling of offensive coordinator Khari Jones lately. - @FifthQtr #CFL #BCLions
??The Eskimos ‘next man up’ mantra has disintegrated into ‘next loss up’
Herb Zurkowsky- #Als have added Canadian receiver Scott MacDonell, late of Ottawa and Saskatchewan
Buono acknowledged the position switch represents potentially a major swing with the Lions’ salary cap in the future but had to make the move to salvage a season suddenly looking as if it could spin out of control.
He previously restructured Jennings' current contract to give him an NFL option-year window after this season and would make CFL starting pivot money, a reported $300,000 if he comes back in 2018 to the Lions.
Lulay, on the other hand, has a salary edge on Jennings at present but is a free agent at the end of the season. It’s a radical shift from a few weeks ago, when Jennings’ shoulder injury and previous collarbone issue wasn’t seen as a problem.
http://www.tsn.ca/lions-switch-to-coach-lulay-at-qb-1.840571
??Check out this punter's coolness...
??Was the performance of Saskatchewan over the Eskimos that good, or do the net 30 point turnover difference play a factor?
You decide.
Western Division Games only:
Edmonton beat BC, beat BC, lost to Winnipeg, Saskatchewan 2-2
WPG beat Saskatchewan, Edmonton lost to Calgary, BC 2-2
Calgary beat Saskatchewan, beat BC, beat Winnipeg 3-0
BC beat Sask, beat Wpg, lost To Sask, lost to Calgary,lost to Edmonton twice 2-4
Saskatchewan beat Edmonton, lost to Winnipeg, Calgary, BC 1-3
Standings
Week 11 Winnipeg plays Sask. - Edm plays Cal - Bye BC
Week 12 Montreal at BC - Sask. at Winnipeg - Calgary at Edmonton
Week 13 Sask at Hamilton- Edmonton at Toronto- BC at Calgary Bye Winnipeg
Week 14 Ottawa at Winnipeg- Hamilton at BC - Calgary at Sask Bye Edmonton
Week 15 Sask at Ottawa - Montreal at Calgary- Winnipeg at Edmonton Bye BC
Week 16 Ham at WPG- Sask at Tor.- Ottawa at BC - Edm. at Montreal Bye Calgary
Week 17 Calgary at Ham - Ottawa at Sask. - BC at WPG. - Tor. At Edm.
Week 18 Sask. at Calgary - WPG. At Tor. - Edm. At BC -
Week 19 Mtl at Sask. - BC at WPG. - Cal at Edm.
Week 20 WPG at Cal - Edm. At Sask. - Tor at BC
Week 11
Ottawa at Montreal - Thursday
WPG. at Sask - Sunday
Edm. at Calgary- Monday
Toronto at Hamilton- Monday
Bye BC