IT'S GAME DAY!!!! Bring on the Johnny Manziels !!!!!

 

 

 

GAME 13 | MONTREAL ALOUETTES (3-9) at WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS (5-7)

THE 4-1-1

Kickoff: 7:30 p.m., Friday; Investors Group Field, Winnipeg
TV: TSN, RDS, ESPN+
Radio: CJOB
The forecast: Sunny with a high of 14C, periods of rain overnight with a low of 5C.
Vegas line: The Bombers are favoured by 10.5 points.
Streaks: Montreal: 1L; Winnipeg: 4L
Home/Road: Montreal is 2-4 on the road; the Bombers are 3-3 at home.
Series: The Alouettes lead the all-time series (since 1961) 48-45-2.
Recent history: The Bombers crushed the Alouettes 56-10 in Montreal during a Week 2 matchup back on June 22^nd. Winnipeg has won four straight against the Als, dating back to dropping their 2016 season opener to Montreal and is 11-4 in its last 15 meetings against the Larks.

 

(Thanks to Ed Tait)

 

 

 

Edited September 21, 20187 yr by wanna-b-fanboy

Just now, SpeedFlex27 said:

We could have had Hurl in there. Imagine our defense then.

Just because one player is bad, doesn’t make another one great. There are hundreds of import linebackers out there. Cheap ones too. 

2 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

We could have had Hurl in there. Imagine our defense then.

We had a better team with Hurl at MLB.  Imagine that.

1 minute ago, AKAChip said:

Just because one player is bad, doesn’t make another one great. There are hundreds of import linebackers out there. Cheap ones too. 

And those are the ones we bring in.

That should about do it , not convincing, not pretty but it ends a losing streak and helps with the cross over

1 minute ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

We had a better team with Hurl at MLB.  Imagine that.

No we didn't. We were last in so many categories with last season defense. Teams ran all over us. They passed all over us too. Our offense scored a lot of points & won games. This year they're struggling offensively.

The season is saved and Nichols lives to see another day. For better or for worse. 

We win this game but there's absolutely nothing to be happy about it.

Wow, are you kidding me????

Kenbrell Thompkins may be a keeper ..looks like his break out game.

Just now, blueingreenland said:

Kenbrell Thompkins may be a keeper ..looks like his break out game.

For a season or two, he's already 30.

What was attendance?

 

One thing for sure.

Montreal is in worse shape than the Bombers at almost every position, as well as their coaching and GM. Their OLine is as bad as I have ever seen in the CFL.

Its is going to be dark times for that franchise for a few years to come.

 

Just now, TheSource said:

One thing for sure.

Montreal is in worse shape than the Bombers at almost every position, as well as their coaching and GM. Their OLine is as bad as I have ever seen in the CFL.

Its is going to be dark times for that franchise for a few years to come.

 

With Kavis in charge, yes.

Big story has to be Harris and Demski going forward.  No chance we beat anyone left on our schedule without Harris, and probably about the same with Demski.

Nichols being interviewed by Sarah Orlesky just doesn't look happy.  Not smiling or excited. I think he'd be happy to be playing elsewhere.

Edited September 22, 20187 yr by SpeedFlex27

4 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

Big story has to be Harris and Demski going forward.  No chance we beat anyone left on our schedule without Harris, and probably about the same with Demski.

Agree - Injury report will be very critical. We don't have much hope with them in but without them we have zero hope. All that happened tonight is that the Bombers beat the worse team in the league and the score did flatter the Bombers IMHO.

What I noticed:

 

You guys exaggerate on how bad the whole team is.   IMO the glaring issues is  Nichols ,  Randle and that soft Zone we run.   Bowman was wide open all night by design which was stupid.  

O-line had a great game

D-line had a great game

Thompkins is the real deal,   Wolitarsky the same.    We had a few bad drops but for the most part those misses were all on Nichols. 

Nichols is still shell shocked... that bad sack on the first drive he gave up and several questionable decisions.  I can see why he's trying to be the next Buck Pierce going head first.... but he's moving waaaaaay slower then Buck ever did. 

The score flattered Manziel big time.  So many wobblers and he had two pick 6's that didn't go through and the fumble in the end zone.   If he didn't have the lucky breaks tonight this game would of been a big time blow out. 

Manziel can at times have a rocket arm and other times throw the worst Russ Michna passes ever.  I don't see him in this league after this season. 

Refs actually called a good game for once. 

At the end of the game when the camera panned to Nichols and Streveler walking  down the sidelines after the TD...  the boys were smiling and energetic with Streveler and very ho-hum with Matty....   

before that final Bomber drive with less than 2 minutes left they had 90 net yards on offense.  Finished with 150.  Not particularly great.

Walby thinks the Bombers played a pretty good game.  I disagree.  Adequate comes to mind.

3 minutes ago, BBRT said:

Agree - Injury report will be very critical. We don't have much hope with them in but without them we have zero hope. All that happened tonight is that the Bombers beat the worse team in the league and the score did flatter the Bombers IMHO.

Definitely true.

For a while there there was a good chance they would lose, but Montreal is just too bad for that to happen.

 

Bombers add to their impressive list of quarterbacks they've beaten this season: Drew Willy, Jon Jennings, James Franklin (X2), Jeremiah Masoli, and now Johnny Manziel.

Nichols played as to be expected in my opinion under the circumstances. Very vanilla offence with the exception of maybe 2 or 3 plays. No turnovers was nice to see but you also need to account for the opponent and the fact we led all game.

No killer instinct on this team. The third quarter and first portion of the fourth was difficult to watch. If they play like they did tonight next week in Edmonton, the game will be over at half time.

It's almost embarrassing how badly this team has misused Kenbrell Thompkins this year. His route running, hands, and ability to come down with contested balls is far and away better than anyone we have. Watching Darvin Adams drop balls at the slightest hint of contact is getting a little old.

Back to back punts of 35 and 29 yards certainly didn't help the situation in the second half.

The graphic showing our points scored in the first and second half and where that compares with the rest of the league is just more evidence of how bad this coaching staff is at second half adjustments.

Fingers crossed the injuries to Harris, Demski and Bighill are minor. If not, we're in more trouble than we already are.

50 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

Adams needs to make that catch.

Underthrown

12 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

Big story has to be Harris and Demski going forward.  No chance we beat anyone left on our schedule without Harris, and probably about the same with Demski.

There has to be a way to start Flanders. Maybe a two back set with LaFrance to make the ratio work. 

Heh, heh.  Long-term injuries to those three will give the Bombers the perfect excuse to bring back all the coaches next season.

44 minutes ago, BaconNBigBlue said:

Bombers better score on this next drive or it could be lights out. 0 points in the second half so far. Letting Montreal back in it. 

Complete momentum killer after O'Shea's failed challenge. 

We didn't play bad but we didn't play well. This defense is good. I still think they are overlooked because so much of the focus is on the offense. 

I still think Nichols is limiting our offense but he was at least managing the game well tonight.