Well I'll tell you, obviously every week the Bombers win is a great one, and this one was no exception.  Maybe more so because we're 1-0 and SSK and CGY are both 0-1.  And looking at what's happened ...

1. We're going to find out what this Harker kid in SSK is made of and if SSK's defense can help him out.  Too early to say but ... I don't think he's a Chris Streveler

2. Only one game this weekend was decided by more than 7 points, and that was ours, but even that one really was a hard fought close one.  My memory could be getting short here, but I don't remember the last time I saw these kind of close scores in every game of a CFL Week.  Lotta excitement for sure.

3. It might be early, but I'm going to come out and say it.  The once dominant CGY will NOT ... I repeat WILL NOT reach the magic number of 13.  They've not had fewer than 13 wins if you look it up since 2012, a year that they also finished below first.  They will this year though, and that will be enough for us to knock em off.  Now I'm not saying they're going to have a bad or losing year, but the numbers show that when they win fewer than 13, they lose the West, and after yesterday, that ain't no 13 win team I guarantee it.  They haven't lost a home opener since 2011 either when they had their fewest wins of the last decade at 11 and lowest finish at 3rd in the West.

 

Crazy this year does in many ways feel like 2011, I mean not because our team is anything like what it was then because it's not at all.  But because of the parity in this league.  That year was one of those years where the line between the good teams and the bad ones was so thin you would have the bad teams upsetting the good ones at any given time.  Given how close these games have been, and given that we don't fully know exactly what we got in some of these teams, this definitely feels like 2011 with a West division that's once again very open, and no team not even Hamilton really differentiating themselves out East.

1 hour ago, Stickem said:

I wonder what the opposition is going to do once Mathews hits the field......Nichols will butcher them IF they want to stack the box continually to defense Harris...I would say we're in a nice spot to be in

So long as Lapolice keeps calling the play action like he did Saturday night and doesn't get in the way of this.

16 minutes ago, USABomberfan said:

So long as Lapolice keeps calling the play action like he did Saturday night and doesn't get in the way of this.

Ah we're so far away from the days when Mike Kelly wouldn't use shotgun and then Jamie Barresi refused to call a screen...

21 minutes ago, Floyd said:

Ah we're so far away from the days when Mike Kelly wouldn't use shotgun and then Jamie Barresi refused to call a screen...

Shotgun is only useful in flag football, don't you know.

Just now, kelownabomberfan said:

Shotgun is only useful in flag football, don't you know.

And goose hunting

2 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

Shotgun is only useful in flag football, don't you know.

The only people who use shot gun are those who don't know how to coach QBs.

8 minutes ago, Jesse said:

The only people who use shot gun are those who don't know how to coach QBs.

or who don't know how to handle things internally.

19 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

or who don't know how to handle things internally.

A full decade away and he's still comedy gold.

But back then....the joke was on us.

1 hour ago, kelownabomberfan said:

or who don't know how to handle things internally.

Or who work the fry station at McDonald’s and live in their mom’s basement. 

1 minute ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

Or who work the fry station at McDonald’s and live in their mom’s basement. 

and living with their mom is a non-issue, unless it's Jade Etienne's mom.

1 hour ago, Floyd said:

A full decade away and he's still comedy gold.

I can't believe it has been 10 years already

12 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

I can't believe it has been 10 years already

I am just sobering up from that season...

3 hours ago, kelownabomberfan said:

Shotgun is only useful in flag football, don't you know.

And Saskatchewan weddings.

I think Pac-Man Jones would have turned that season around

At least Mike Kelly was entertaining and brought in some decent pieces. Watching the lifeless Tim Burke era was torture. 

I still recall being one win from hosting a playoff game or missing the playoffs entirely under Mike Kelly. I had faith on tap, back in those days... I believed in my core Kelly was a misunderstood genius who could lead us to the cup. I must have been crazier than he was.

Just now, MOBomberFan said:

I still recall being one win from hosting a playoff game or missing the playoffs entirely under Mike Kelly. I had faith on tap, back in those days... I believed in my core Kelly was a misunderstood genius who could lead us to the cup. I must have been crazier than he was.

yeeeeeeeeeahhhhhhhh I'd say so..........I knew by mid-summer that he was a psycho and we were in trouble.

Just now, Noeller said:

yeeeeeeeeeahhhhhhhh I'd say so..........I knew by mid-summer that he was a psycho and we were in trouble.

Ha! I just believed so hard! Thank goodness I'm cynical beyond measure now. It is hard to believe it's been a decade since The Professor.

19 minutes ago, Noeller said:

I knew by mid-summer that he was a psycho and we were in trouble.

Yeah, I read the same thing somewhere, a chalkboard or sign board or something..

7 hours ago, Floyd said:

A full decade away and he's still comedy gold.

And the date base is still not fully appreciated. 

1 hour ago, Floyd said:

I think Pac-Man Jones would have turned that season around

Onterrio Smith was destined for the CFL Hall of Fame too. Too bad he showed up 100 pounds over weight.

11 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

Onterrio Smith was destined for the CFL Hall of Fame too. Too bad he showed up 100 pounds over weight.

Subway napkins included. 

1 hour ago, MOBomberFan said:

I still recall being one win from hosting a playoff game or missing the playoffs entirely under Mike Kelly. I had faith on tap, back in those days... I believed in my core Kelly was a misunderstood genius who could lead us to the cup. I must have been crazier than he was.

Michael Bishop also had me believing too.  That guy could play so well and crap so bed so spectacularly in the same drive.  Just such a difference from where we are today.

 

Michael Bishop... Arm punts, Howitzer for an Arm

 

and a noggin' more fragile than Zach Collaros.

 

I would rather live a decade with Mike Kelly as the Bomber coach than a single season with Tim Burke.

That 2009 team beat some quality teams and at his best Bishop was electrifying -- he had a couple 400+ yard games down the stretch where he was hurling the ball all over the damn field and simply couldn't be stopped. Plus you had the big Fred Reid game in there too. 

Sure Kelly was a psycho but his teams put up a fight, unlike Burke's.