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/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's a long season, and we were never going to go 18-0. Every team deals with injuries, and now it's our turn. Mathews probably gets in next week ( unless he goes clubbin in TO ), and as I said earlier maybe we need to give Yoshi a game off to heal up. We have a very inexperienced interior o'line, and they had a teachable moment last night.

I like our defence, and doesn't defence win championships?? 

Can't expect to win a game with 5 turnovers.

And yes the qb takes the blame for the whole offence, kind of like Helly taking the blame when the puck goes in. Did receivers run the wrong routes?? Did the o'line not block properly?? Gotta check the film, sort things out and move on.

Most of Nichols ints he just flat out over threw his target badly. One I would say 2 receivers were too close so they likely ****** that up.

“The goal isn’t to be undefeated... The goal is to win the Grey Cup.” - Bombers

19 minutes ago, Mr Dee said:

“The goal isn’t to be undefeated... The goal is to win the Grey Cup.” - Bombers

^^ -- Adam Bighill (and he's right...)

50 minutes ago, Rod Black said:

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. 

I see what you did there.   😲

2 hours ago, Noeller said:

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.

1 hour ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

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.

A shot downfield late in the game to Demski, perfectly dropped in for him and he's the lowest guy in the group. Put Woli, Adams or Matthews under that pass and they're coming down with it. Nichols was bad but some of his receivers could have made plays too. 

1 hour ago, Rod Black said:

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. 

Play safe!  In times of duress always use a spork.

 

 

 

As said earlier, yesterday was the first time this year we have been physically dominated. 

I expect a PO'd team next week

I didn't see a physically dominated team. The defence was poor on the first possession but almost every other point the Ticats got was essentially handed to them on a silver platter. All five of the meaningful turnovers in that game were inexcusable, but that's mental error and not physical. The argument could be made that if Charles Nelson plays last night, we win even with Nichols having the exact same performance.

It's no surprise that the defence started playing a lot better once Masoli went out.

I am not happy that the next Bomber game is against the sad-sack Argos who will put up the resistance of a wet Kleenex. If the Bombers roll over the Argos, as they probably will, they may assume that all is well and Hakuna Mata. I would have preferred them to play the Esks next to find out if they have what it takes to grind out a win when things are not going well, or if they are pretenders who have had the benefit of a soft schedule.

This season, there are so many terrible teams that every team has a relatively soft schedule. We're a third of the way through the season. Even if they blow out the argos and lose the following week to Calgary, it still isn't really a big deal. This team will make the playoffs easily and while the bye is important, almost nothing that happens in week seven and eight is going to impact anything in the playoffs.

8 minutes ago, TBURGESS said:

It's no surprise that the defence started playing a lot better once Masoli went out.

What a crap comment

Masoli had one drive then was injured - most of that was a big play by Tasker and a bad call by Richie hall

Nichols sucked and our returners sucked but it was one game. 

We’re on pace to be 15-3, the sky isn’t falling. 

6 minutes ago, Floyd said:

What a crap comment

Masoli had one drive then was injured - most of that was a big play by Tasker and a bad call by Richie hall

Masoli was 4 of 4 then ran 20+ yards for a TD. He owned our defence on the first drive. He completed an 11 yard pass on the second set of downs before he got injured. 6 out of 7 with 1 int, 87% completion, 59 yards in 1 drive + 1 play.

Evans played like the young backup QB he is. Barely 50% passing for under 100 yards and a pick.

The defence didn't change. The QB did.

1 minute ago, TBURGESS said:

Masoli was 4 of 4 then ran 20+ yards for a TD. He owned our defence on the first drive. He completed an 11 yard pass on the second set of downs before he got injured. 6 out of 7 with 1 int, 87% completion, 59 yards in 1 drive + 1 play.

Evans played like the young backup QB he is. Barely 50% passing for under 100 yards and a pick.

The defence didn't change. The QB did.

There are so many games with so many teams where a D comes out flat against a QB then pulls it together - you know this, you’re just being a bit smarmy

the first one or two drives are completely planned out - Ham had a full two weeks to scheme that opening drive ha, it was really nicely designed

We have no idea if the D adjusts - ‘completed an 11 yard pass’ haha - but you gloss over the Rose jump route...  some days man 

5 minutes ago, Floyd said:

There are so many games with so many teams where a D comes out flat against a QB then pulls it together - you know this, you’re just being a bit smarmy

the first one or two drives are completely planned out - Ham had a full two weeks to scheme that opening drive ha, it was really nicely designed

We have no idea if the D adjusts - ‘completed an 11 yard pass’ haha - but you gloss over the Rose jump route...  some days man 

Masoli is a top QB. Evans isn't even close to being a starter, let alone a top CFL QB. It's ridiculous to ignore the change of QB as a reason our defence suddenly looked better. I'll go even further.... If Masoli stayed healthy, we'd have lost the game big time considering the number of times we gave the ball away.

58 minutes ago, Dodge and Burn said:

As said earlier, yesterday was the first time this year we have been physically dominated. 

I expect a PO'd team next week

If you heard Hardrick after the game, once he was told that Oshea agreed they got physically dominated he said he was ready to go back out and start hitting people.

24 minutes ago, TBURGESS said:

Masoli was 4 of 4 then ran 20+ yards for a TD. He owned our defence on the first drive. He completed an 11 yard pass on the second set of downs before he got injured. 6 out of 7 with 1 int, 87% completion, 59 yards in 1 drive + 1 play.

Evans played like the young backup QB he is. Barely 50% passing for under 100 yards and a pick.

The defence didn't change. The QB did.

Completely agree. Masoli is in and the team likely gives up far more points. 

There is some middle ground to that argument. No doubt we lose by a couple more points if Masoli is in. But the first couple drives are pretty scripted and defenses adjust. So it's not like we can't stop Masoli. He was just about to take a 20 yard loss before he popped his knee

50 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:

If you heard Hardrick after the game, once he was told that Oshea agreed they got physically dominated he said he was ready to go back out and start hitting people.

A bit late, now don't you think? Hardrick was as bad as any of the O-line and as a veteran, he should have been one to step up, kick a Gator-Ade container or whatever to wake up the unit and maybe even grab Nichols by the grille and demand better.

2 hours ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

Play safe!  In times of duress always use a spork.

 

 

 

Is this one left handed? 

1 hour ago, TBURGESS said:

Masoli is a top QB. Evans isn't even close to being a starter, let alone a top CFL QB. It's ridiculous to ignore the change of QB as a reason our defence suddenly looked better. I'll go even further.... If Masoli stayed healthy, we'd have lost the game big time considering the number of times we gave the ball away.

Given that logic... Winston Rose would also have had 5 interceptions in that game?

I have to say I'm usually on your side but this year you really seem to go out of your way to see the doom and gloom side of the Bombers.  It's verging on ridiculous.

Of course Evans is not as good as Masoli but to extrapolate and entire game based on one drive makes no sense at all - Masoli is a Hank/Frank QB too...  he becomes a turnover machine pretty quickly - you just choose to ignore the INT - really strange.

5 hours ago, Noeller said:

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.

 I always thought you were pretty sharp. Now I know you are. 😉