Well, 2;45 am on Sunday & no one has started the Grey Cup Game Day Thread so it might as well be me. Let's Go Bombers. Lucky #13.

Feeling a tad nervous about later today but I think we'll come through. I don't want to even make Cody Fajardo jokes as we all know this is a winner takes all one game championship so anything (good or bad) can happen. We all saw what happened last week & what occurred in 2001 so we'll have to play our best. If we play our game, we'll win. Not be overconfident or cocky. We're the better team so just take care of business & then we'll be Grey Cup champions. 

Edited November 19, 20232 yr by SpeedFlex27

Just now, Goalie said:

The seal will be back. U know it. I know it. We all ****** know it 

Nope just re enlisted him he gone

Literally a 40 point shutout in the 2025 GC is the only way this regime can make up for this. 
Maybe not the worst, but absolutely the most embarrassing loss in Bomber history. 

Drew Brown Town baby. 

3 minutes ago, JohnnyAbonny said:

Literally a 40 point shutout in the 2025 GC is the only way this regime can make up for this. 
Maybe not the worst, but absolutely the most embarrassing loss in Bomber history. 

I was JUST thinking this was worse than 2001. Marcus Crandell was a better QB than Fajardo ever will. 

Just now, JohnnyAbonny said:

Literally a 40 point shutout in the 2025 GC is the only way this regime can make up for this. 
Maybe not the worst, but absolutely the most embarrassing loss in Bomber history. 

comparing O'Shea to Grant ....which I have read is quite laughable ....This Cup game was the worst called I can remember in a decade ....oops just recalled the last one

1 minute ago, Noeller said:

I knew this and didn't want to be the one to pile on and say it. I absolutely KNEW this was the omen to sink us.

Sorry. 

And and front 4 that has pressure inside. 

2 minutes ago, Dodge and Burn said:

And and front 4 that has pressure inside. 

The only thing our inside guys can shovel is food into their mouths, it was a problem all year and do get me started with Bennett at end which was a wasted pick

Faj. Was unstoppable tonight...

Its been a great 4 year run and I know I shouldn't complain after 4 straight cups with 2 wins but the past two years have been so frustrating.

Bo just eviscerated Ritchie Hall on the winning TD. Cover zero. Blitzing Fajardo. No one to help out the Bomber corner. Why blitz??? Dumbass call. 

21 minutes ago, Noeller said:

100%. I'm gonna be honest with you guys.... I have a job interview tomorrow with a company back home, and I feel like I should cancel it. I don't want anything to do with MB right now. I know I'll regret that next spring, but right now........ I'm just done.

I get this.

I guess I save money by not having to buy Championship merch.

1 minute ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Bo just eviscerated Ritchie Hall on the winning TD. Cover zero. Blitzing Fajardo. No one to help out the Bomber corner. Why blitz??? Dumbass call. 

Yeah Hall got stupid in this one. Went from a masterclass vs. Adams to dumb dumb I'm this one.

....what a way to end the 'dynasty'     heh heh''''''This was a fu$king deplorable effort   Would have liked to have gone out on a helluva better note ////but I think I can hear the fat lady starting to 'croon'

Million chances to put this one away.......such a fail.

Don't think you can or should run it back. 

You gotta give some credit to Montreal D. They played well and our D did not. What was Bighill doing out there at all? Also, Faj outplayed himself, threw just one pick - and that was a great pick by Holm, not necessarily a bad throw. Not wanting to toss Zach under the bus but now you wonder every time: do we get the good Zach or the bad Zach? There's the exact reason why Hamilton, Toronto and Sask let him go. Anyhow, lots of changes in store next season. Hope this was not our best crack at the Cup for awhile ...

1 minute ago, Doublezero said:

You gotta give some credit to Montreal D.

Bullshit I do.... We were awful, period. 

Just now, Doublezero said:

You gotta give some credit to Montreal D. They played well and our D did not. What was Bighill doing out there at all? Also, Faj outplayed himself, threw just one pick - and that was a great pick by Holm, not necessarily a bad throw. Not wanting to toss Zach under the bus but now you wonder every time: do we get the good Zach or the bad Zach? There's the exact reason why Hamilton, Toronto and Sask let him go. Anyhow, lots of changes in store next season. Hope this was not our best crack at the Cup for awhile ...

That Fajardo pick was the perfect example of how our tactical plan on D was so misguided.

You let him have that throw in single coverage and all the receiver has to do is outfight the DB.  You drop guys out and do it purposefully to bracket Mack (simply have one guy over top, one guy trailing) and those throws aren't there.  Fajardo has to put the ball at risk to try to be accurate or start spinning around in the backfield.

Instead we blitzed 6-7 into 7 man max protect routinely and gave him the Cover 0/1 looks he can work with...all he can work with because he has a horribly inaccurate and weak arm in terms of getting the ball there on time at any distance downfield.

It hurts so, so much because we gave this one away...and we just had the gameplan for the same QB to perfection last week in the West Final.

10 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

Its been a great 4 year run and I know I shouldn't complain after 4 straight cups with 2 wins but the past two years have been so frustrating.

Especially when we played not to lose two years in a row. We said it was just another game and the rest didn't matter - we played like it was obvious we would win and we just had to wait for that outcome.

Where the hell was Markeith Ambles? Why wasn't he dressed? He's been here for a month & should have known the offense by now. Yet, he never dressed. We needed help at receiver & signed no one other than him & then never played him. We didn't bring in anyone else. So, we played with really only one healthy receiver in Lawler. And we only threw to him a few times. That pick by the Als DB, the pass was underthrown. We played with a crippled receiving corps & did nothing to change that. 

I went basically my whole life without seeing the Bombers win a Grey Cup until 2019, and my kids have only seen the Bombers win or play in them. 

There will be change and this is likely the end of an era. But I'm going to take a second and just reflect on the amazing run that this team had. I am so appreciative to pretty much everyone involved in the organization. Management, coaches, players...they've put so much into it. Winning Grey Cups is just difficult. 

1 minute ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Where the hell was Markeith Ambles? Why wasn't he dressed? He's been here for a month & should have known the offense by now. Yet, he never dressed. We needed help at receiver & signed no one other than him & then never played him. We didn't bring in anyone else. So, we played with really only one healthy receiver in Lawler. And we only threw to him a few times. That pick by the Als DB, the pass was underthrown. We played with a crippled receiving corps & did nothing to change that. 

Who gives a **** about Ambles?

He's just a guy.