It's here! It's game day!

 

 

 

Edited September 11, 20214 yr by JCon

1 minute ago, johnzo said:

Don't we have an American kicker cooling his heels in quarantine right now?  Ali Mortada is on our suspended list .... tiny guy originally from Sierra Leone.

Yeah he would be eligible to play earliest for the game in BC on October 1.

Just now, JuranBoldenRules said:

Yeah he would be eligible to play earliest for the game in BC on October 1.

sergio castillo if vaccinated would be eligible right away. Along with any K/ps on other teams PRs 

3 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

And who kicks?  There's no punter here right now so he's on the roster regardless.  Only option to come on the roster this week is Crapigna if he's healthy to kick field goals.

Anyone else? I hear what you’re saying but even you have to agree this is not acceptable at this level. He’s lucky we aren’t 1 and 5 and doing this because you know they would airlift someone in immediately. We are winning so we can tolerate. 

Just now, HardCoreBlue said:

Anyone else? I hear what you’re saying but even you have to agree this is not acceptable at this level. He’s lucky we aren’t 1 and 5 and doing this because you know they would airlift someone in immediately. We are winning so we can tolerate. 

And I feel for the kid I really do but . . .

1 minute ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

He was supposed to do both they brought in Crapigna late in camp.

Liegghio was over 90% combined in CIS on FG's and converts, so the ability is there.  He's a raw rookie though, pretty rare for a kicker to just jump in without sitting on PR for awhile behind a vet.

It's not rare in the CFL. Before specialists, regular players did the punting & kicking. Don Jonas was our FG kicker. Gene Lakusiak kicked for us ||& was a defensive back. Ed Ulmer was a safety & our punter. Imagine the pressure playing a regular position & being winded, dinged up or out of breath & asked to kick or punt? Seems to me, they would be under even more pressure. Bernie Ruoff's very first kick in 1975 (he was a specialist) against the Stamps was a 58 yard FG. He never let pressure get to him. The league has had many kickers who as rookies stepped in & played like veteran kickers. Sean Whyte in Edmonton. Lewis Ward in Ottawa. Rene Paredes in Calgary. Lui Passaglia in BC.  Mike Vanderjagt in Toronto. Damon Duvall in Montreal. Even as rookies, they were able to control their emotions & stay even keeled when they kicked. That's the key. To remain calm. Dont be nervous & stay focused. The mental part of the game is maybe more important than the physical part. Hopefully. Liegghio will get a handle on things... fast.

Quote from Craig Dickenson after the game today:

“Winnipeg is the class of the league right now. They are better than the rest of us and it’s by quite a bit.”

Edited September 12, 20214 yr by Bubba Zanetti

per Tait's game recap

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O’Shea said Ali Mourtada, a kicker recently brought in by the club, is out of quarantine and will be available to practice this week.

so he could play next week against Edmonton.

Just want to point something out on the first half melee… I didn’t catch it all during the game… saw the Harris helmet rip after the fact… should he have been kicked out? Maybe…. But it seems a lot of people are forgetting in 2019 against Montreal when Vernon Adams ripped Bighill’s helmet off, tried to smash his head in with it… and still stayed in the game… Ripping a helmet off is definitely not an automatic dq…

1 minute ago, bearpants said:

Just want to point something out on the first half melee… I didn’t catch it all during the game… saw the Harris helmet rip after the fact… should he have been kicked out? Maybe…. But it seems a lot of people are forgetting in 2019 against Montreal when Vernon Adams ripped Bighill’s helmet off, tried to smash his head in with it… and still stayed in the game… Ripping a helmet off is definitely not an automatic dq…

Should be.

3 minutes ago, johnzo said:

per Tait's game recap

so he could play next week against Edmonton.

Yeah Quarantine in the cfl has its own protocol. If he goes a week in a hotel with 3 negative tests he can train with the team. 

Harris never threw a punch.

yeah, I think that's a gap in the rulebook.  it calls out a few specific things like punching that will result in an auto-DQ, but everything else is ref's discretion.

1 minute ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Should be.

Probably should be but by the rule it seems that something like that is at the referees discretion. Not automatic.

We were in 135,front row. Harris ripping off the helmet was the second best thing behind captain blue and that gas huffing 454 big block in that plane

Serious question - who's our DMOP through 6 games? 

1 minute ago, Noeller said:

Serious question - who's our DMOP through 6 games? 

Willie, Jeffcoat, BA or Nichols take your pick 

Just now, Mike said:

Willie, Jeffcoat, BA or Nichols take your pick 

Id put bighill over nichols but he has been a beast. 

Right now Id pick jeffcoat but its a coin toss with him willy and ba. 

1 minute ago, Noeller said:

Serious question - who's our DMOP through 6 games? 

Biggie in the mix too, he's playing lights out.

2 minutes ago, Noeller said:

Serious question - who's our DMOP through 6 games? 

Still gotta be Willie. He's just  such a difference maker out there.

2 minutes ago, Mike said:

Willie, Jeffcoat, BA or Nichols take your pick 

Adam Bighill

13 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

It's not rare in the CFL. Before specialists, regular players did the punting & kicking. Don Jonas was our FG kicker. Gene Lakusiak kicked for us ||& was a defensive back. Ed Ulmer was a safety & our punter. Imagine the pressure playing a regular position & being winded, dinged up or out of breath & asked to kick or punt? Seems to me, they would be under even more pressure. Bernie Ruoff's very first kick in 1975 (he was a specialist) against the Stamps was a 58 yard FG. He never let pressure get to him. The league has had many kickers who as rookies stepped in & played like veteran kickers. Sean Whyte in Edmonton. Lewis Ward in Ottawa. Rene Paredes in Calgary. Lui Passaglia in BC.  Mike Vanderjagt in Toronto. Damon Duvall in Montreal. Even as rookies, they were able to control their emotions & stay even keeled when they kicked. That's the key. To remain calm. Dont be nervous & stay focused. The mental part of the game is maybe more important than the physical part. Hopefully. Liegghio will get a handle on things... fast.

Sean Whyte was on BC's PR for years and played for Montreal before Edmonton as well.  Vanderjagt was with Sask and even played Arena ball before he made the CFL for good, and then the NFL.  Paredes was here for two camps two years before he made the Stamps.  The only guy on that list who played regularly as a rookie pro is Ward.

Just now, Bubba Zanetti said:

Still gotta be Willie. He's just  such a difference maker out there.

Tonight was the first night willie out played jeffcoat imo. Hes still been awesome but jeffcoat has been nuts. 

Jones is a contender too. Which I think is noellers point. Lot of standouts on D so far.

2 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

Jones is a contender too. Which I think is noellers point. Lot of standouts on D so far.

If we've got a hard time deciding on one player then we've got ourselves a very good problem

5 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

Tonight was the first night willie out played jeffcoat imo. Hes still been awesome but jeffcoat has been nuts. 

I dont know. Nice problem to have though. I thought Willie was pretty lights out last week too. Nice argument to have.

Just now, Bubba Zanetti said:

I dont know. Nice problem to have though. I thought Willie was pretty lights out last week too. Nice argument to have.

Its a brilliant situation to be in. 3 of our dbs, 2 of our des and our MLB could all be legit mop . modp winners.