It's GAME DAY!!!! BEST OF THE WEST vs Beast of the East (Ed Tait TOTALLY ripped this one off of me - jk)

 

 

GAME 6 | WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS (5-0) at HAMILTON TIGER-CATS (4-1)
THE 4-1-1
Kickoff: 6 p.m. CT Friday, Tim Hortons Field, Hamilton
TV: TSN, RDS, ESPN+
Radio: 680 CJOB
Vegas line: The Ticats are favoured by two points.
Home/Road: The Bombers are 2-0 on the road this year with wins in Vancouver and Ottawa. Winnipeg is 4-1 in its last five road games, the lone blemish a loss to Edmonton in the 2018 regular season finale in which a number of the team’s starters did not play or had limited reps. Hamilton, meanwhile, is a perfect 3-0 at home this season.
Recent history: The Bombers 5-0 start is the third best in franchise history. The 1960 squad opened with 10 consecutive victories en route to a 14-2 record while the 1939 Bombers rocketed to an 8-0 start, finished the regular season 10-2 and then defeated Ottawa to win the second of the franchise’s 10 Grey Cup championships. The Ticats, meanwhile, have opened with a 4-1 record in their first five games for the first time in 21 seasons.
Series: The Bombers are 64-55-0 all-time vs. Hamilton and 27-32-0 at Ivor Wynne Stadium/Tim Hortons Field.

(With thanks to Ed Tait)

https://www.bluebombers.com/2019/07/25/game-preview-wpg-ham-3/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 minutes ago, B-F-F-C said:

I do somewhat think we need a change up scat back type of rb to compliment Harris. I know we use Demski in that role but he’s not the answer.  But roster wise it would be difficult to implement.  

There was almost no play action this game...

58 minutes ago, B-F-F-C said:

The one thing I did notice today is that tsn wasn’t scanning the crowd tonight. What no good looking women in the hammer?

They were too busy zeroing in on Steinhauer all game...I got pretty sick of it.

1 minute ago, blueingreenland said:

They were too busy zeroing in on Steinhauer all game...I got pretty sick of it.

Dude always wants a holding call. 

I enjoyed hearing OSH talk tho.. 

Certainly was more vocal. 

Story of the game short version

3 picks. 6 turnovers in total. Not down by more than 14 all game tho.. 49 pass attempts.. 12 runs. Lapo

I don't have much confidence that we can win any important games with Nichols at QB.

The Ti-Cats were way more physical than we were tonight.

The Ti-Cats D knows how to play against Lapo and Nichols. They played a solid game, so hats off to them.

We all know Nichols had a bad game tonight, but I don't think the receivers really helped him out. There were a few times it looked like guys were running the same routes, maybe because of the injuries. We've got work to do.

We got smacked in the mouth, let's see how we respond.

We're on to the Argos.

38 minutes ago, Doublezero said:

I don't have much confidence that we can win any important games with Lapo calling the plays.

Fixed it for you. 🙂

What the hell is wrong with you guys? Complaining about the Defense and Andrew Harris. 

This game was a perfect example of why Matt Nichols is not the guy you want to lean on when it counts.   The guy is a very emotional player and when things go bad he unravels and plays scared and falls apart.   I blame the coaches for not sitting Nichols after the first two series and let Streveler play a series to calm the guy down.   

Also Andrew Harris and Lucky Whitehead should of been running a tonne from the get go.  Bad gameplan by LaPo and terrible execution from Nichols.  

Chris Matthews dressing makes no difference when Nichols starts getting excited and either one hops or floats balls into areas where receivers can't make plays.   

Forget not last season when Nichols struggled and the fans booed,  he threw a hissy fit and blamed everything else aside himself.   The guy is super emotional so when he's down he's really down.    

Que the one loss by Matty head hunters...

 

The entire team crapped the bed tonight. Time to get pissed from it and start another run. 

Remember this and get better. 

Six turnovers. Three of them by one player. It's not headhunting. It's facts. Period.

1 minute ago, Mr. Perfect said:

Six turnovers. Three of them by one player. It's not headhunting. It's facts. Period.

QB's have bad games. Fact. 

 

Flush it. 

It didn't help that our receivers were constantly holding hands running down the field. Too often they were literally on top of one another. Poor qb play and injuries contributed to that loss.

We should just cut everyone and fold up for the year. It's clearly over.

8 hours ago, Dr. Blue said:

The Ti-Cats were way more physical than we were tonight.

One of Streveller's carries up the middle, ticat d lineman, maybe left end, knocked Chris down like he was a 120 pounder. Then kind of stood over him for a few seconds.

yeah, they were more physical.

Can't really put Nichols in one slot, sometimes he's three td 200 yards guy, sometimes he's three long bombs guy, and sometimes he's three int guy.

Maybe a bit inconsistent.

Ricky Ray, for instance, Mr. Consistent. There aren't really any qb like that in the league at this time.

Hamilton definitely better than I thought.

Edited July 27, 20196 yr by Mark F

7 hours ago, Dodge and Burn said:

QB's have bad games. Fact. 

 

Flush it. 

well done...Wisers hand clap for you fine sir

3 minutes ago, B-F-F-C said:

well done...Wisers hand clap for you fine sir

Seconded....DnB is my new fave poster right now (...but Bigg Jay I still love you...) It was a collective pants shitting. Osh will clean it up and Toronto will get their asses handed to them next week.

2 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:

We should just cut everyone and fold up for the year. It's clearly over.

Don't despair, Kavis is finally available!

12 hours ago, The Classic said:

That final play, his man sacked Nichols, and Hardrick just walked off field. I'm a fan of the man, but what was that?

Yoshi is playing hurt. I agree with some other comments that we give him a game on IR and let our other American OL play

12 hours ago, Mr Dee said:

I guess it’s only human nature to place blame here, there, and everywhere, but talk about 

over

reacting.

It was absolutely a disjointed game..but correctable.

We didn’t play a clean game but Hamilton came to play, didn’t they?

Their DLine exposed our inexperienced OLine and the domino effect only got worse, especially when you start 2 TDs down.

This too shall pass...

 

 

(unless it gets intercepted )  🤭

well-said

Do we think this team that has protected the ball so well for the past several years is going to turn the ball over 6 times again this season? Bad game Hamilton took advantage, it happens move on. Not concerned at all. MOS will kick there asses in practise and Toronto will be spanked.

If you want to get your confidence back, the Argos are the team to play.

9 hours ago, Brandon said:

What the hell is wrong with you guys? Complaining about the Defense and Andrew Harris. 

This game was a perfect example of why Matt Nichols is not the guy you want to lean on when it counts.   The guy is a very emotional player and when things go bad he unravels and plays scared and falls apart.   I blame the coaches for not sitting Nichols after the first two series and let Streveler play a series to calm the guy down.   

Also Andrew Harris and Lucky Whitehead should of been running a tonne from the get go.  Bad gameplan by LaPo and terrible execution from Nichols.  

Chris Matthews dressing makes no difference when Nichols starts getting excited and either one hops or floats balls into areas where receivers can't make plays.   

Please give some credit to the TiCat D for playing a great game, you also need to account for missing 3 top receivers, Adams , Woli, and Matthews, that is a lot of size that was not available when needed on a windy day in Hamilton.

We are in first place in the west. Tied for first overall. Lost one game in 6. Can’t see a reason to stab myself with that record.