Every bomber fan knows that the offence of any team in the CFL takes longer to develop than the defence. The linemen and the blockers behind them need to know what's happening immediately beside them, how to adapt to their fellow teammates. The running backs need to know where the holes are going to emerge. The blocking schemes on passing plays have similar challenges. You can't learn this in practices...

The Bomber Brain Trust decided player evaluation for the few positions that were open was far more important than getting the veterans in harmony with each other. So we have major rust to deal with, more so than usual this season.

There has been such a major talent improvement on our defence that just maybe we can shut down what was a very hot offence in Montréal at the end of last season.

On offence Brady Olivera is going to need a lot of determination as he tries to guess where the holes will be as his O line feel each other out. He's pretty good at seeing what is developing. If he gets 50 yards of rushing that would be pretty good. I'm not sure how open he will be on checkoff plays and other swing passes.

Collaros is going to get sacked a lot on many missed assignments. But he can scramble and is very good at it. He loves the long bomb and we can only guess how many touchdowns he will throw. That's how the offence is going to score, I suspect.

What I think will make or break the game tomorrow is how many touchdowns the defence can supply on turnovers. Maybe one pick six and one or two forced fumbles. There is a real chance pressures on the quarterback will be up significantly this year.

How else can we win this game?

Ugh, I hate any scenario where the losing team takes a knee. 

1 minute ago, MOBomberFan said:

what???

Where was this   Seems early to announce 

25 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

The most of any dl so far. 

Yeah.  Sickening.

2 minutes ago, Booch said:

Eli almost takes goal post out lol

WTF isnt he the starting center?

That whole half was a kneel down.

I have 40 year old shovels with less rust

Collaros staring receivers down and throwing in to coverage. Don’t think that’s rust unless he’s had rust for 4 years at times now. 

Edited June 7, 20241 yr by Goalie

I think this offence has been figured out by the league 

1 minute ago, Piggy 1 said:

WTF isnt he the starting center?

Cus mos guys. 
 

welcome to pre season week 3. We used to take each game like it was the only one. Now we write off regular season games. 

Panel working extra time covering for a garbage half of football from zach

well....rusty outta syn crappy qb...picked in endzone....fumbled inside the 30 on a punt return....still in it amazingly....maybe next spring we wont go country club and take no reps with the vets

1 minute ago, MOBomberFan said:

I have 40 year old shovels with less rust

Less rust than our 35-year-old QB?

Hopefully they come out pissed off. They played like **** on all 3 teams at one point or another. 

Edited June 7, 20241 yr by Bigblue204

2 minutes ago, Piggy 1 said:

WTF isnt he the starting center?

same reason Thomas gets uber reps on defence...one Osh boi's

Just now, JohnnyAbonny said:

I think this offence has been figured out by the league 

The stuff is still working, it’s just collaros is playing really bad. Not picking up blitz, holding it, missing low and short constantly.  If he was putting it where we need we have atleast two tds easy. 

Just now, Booch said:

well....rusty outta syn crappy qb...picked in endzone....fumbled inside the 30 on a punt return....still in it amazingly....maybe next spring we wont go country club and take no reps with the vets

Maybe by then you will let it go. Who knows. One can hope. 

1 minute ago, Goalie said:

Maybe by then you will let it go. Who knows. One can hope. 

one can hope too your head in the sand comments defending stupidity will evaporate...Many can hope

Edited June 7, 20241 yr by Booch

Just now, Bigblue204 said:

Hopefully they come out pissed off. They played like **** on all 3 teams and one point or another. 

They should’ve played pissed off to start. Couple guys on D did. Brady did. Many did not. Idk how they can hear all this als un respected gc champ at home season kick off and not play hard. 

Well people complained last year that no new faces got training camp reps and the old boys were gifted spots. This training camp we had open competition for new guys and people unhappy the vets didn’t get reps. Pick your poison. Pre-season too short, need 4 games. 

Oline not doing their part too. Too many guys in ZC’s face. No big running lanes yet either

2 minutes ago, captaincanuck12 said:

Less rust than our 35-year-old QB?

Or our worn out 33 year old DT?

2 minutes ago, Booch said:

same reason Thomas gets uber reps on defence...one Osh boi's

Seen him and Osh having a little exchange towards end of half ,both didnt look happy.

The bright spots soo far, bond, cole Adams, Brady, Dobson/eli, fox, ba. 

Just now, wbbfan said:

The stuff is still working, it’s just collaros is playing really bad. Not picking up blitz, holding it, missing low and short constantly.  If he was putting it where we need we have atleast two tds easy. 

That’s fair. Maybe it’s just Collaros but since post-banjo bowl last year it’s felt like teams are always correctly anticipating what Bombers are doing. 
Now it’s like either they go 2 and out or they have to get a highlight reel play by a receiver to get any yards.