Getting things started for game day.

Plus 32 high in Regina. That’s gonna play a role altho by game time I’m not sure. Holy moly that Regina 10 day forecast is wild. What. High 38. Low 18. 

Edited July 19, 20241 yr by Goalie

2 minutes ago, Goalie said:

Plus 32 high in Regina. That’s gonna play a role altho by game time I’m not sure. Holy moly that Regina 10 day forecast is wild. What. High 38. Low 18. 

It will matter. 

Sure the sun will be down, but the toilet bowl will be full. Imagine 30-plus-degree weather in an outhouse? Same odor, same flies, same stifling heat. 

Just now, JCon said:

It will matter. 

Sure the sun will be down, but the toilet bowl will be full. Imagine 30-plus-degree weather in an outhouse? Same odor, same flies, same stifling heat. 

lol. I got an outhouse at the lake. If it’s like that then ppl gonna die tonight.

1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:

Patterson has shown less as a passer than Crum imo. Not a rookie either, been around for some time.

His passing isnt what will give the defense problems.

1 hour ago, johnzo said:

If you check out the Lapo breakdown of Pokey's big game, you'll see that Zach wasn't force feeding him, he was going where his reads told him to go and that was to Pokey.  He was the blitz read several times and not the first read several times.

Yeah that was interesting.... something else I noticed on the TD throw to Wilson... Collaros has a bit of unease behind centre. Wilson was open earlier on that route and it should have been an easy pitch and catch. but Collaros hesitates the throw a bit and it looks like he feels pressure coming from the right side even though it wasn't really....that makes him climb the pocket and then throw. 

30 minutes ago, Pepper_Brooks said:

Zach Collaros,

It’s time to let it rip and sling it deep today! Enough with the safe plays, go big or go home. We need you to throw those bombs like your life depends on it, like it's 2019 again. Air it out, and let’s blow this game wide open! Imagine holding back now against the watermelon heads. This season has been like having a sports car and never taking it past 30kph. Let’s see those deep throws and make it a game to remember finally.

That's exactly what has been getting him in trouble since last year. 

He needs to read the defense properly and put the ball where the read takes him, not where he wants it to take him.

5 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:

That's exactly what has been getting him in trouble since last year. 

He needs to read the defense properly and put the ball where the read takes him, not where he wants it to take him.

I'd argue it's precisely what earned him back to back Most Outstanding Player awards. He needs to return to that form, playing his brand of football with confidence, not stalling out playing Buck Ball. This is the key to reigniting his dominance on the field, and it's what the fans want.

41 minutes ago, Pepper_Brooks said:

Zach Collaros,

It’s time to let it rip and sling it deep today! Enough with the safe plays, go big or go home. We need you to throw those bombs like your life depends on it, like it's 2019 again. Air it out, and let’s blow this game wide open! Imagine holding back now against the watermelon heads. This season has been like having a sports car and never taking it past 30kph. Let’s see those deep throws and make it a game to remember finally.

Nothing wrong with moving the ball and securing first downs, controlling the clock and grinding down their D on a hot summer day.  Throwing bombs all day is a low percentage strategy that may lead to a plethora of turnovers, turn the ball over enough to the Rider D is precisely how they could lose this game.

Edited July 19, 20241 yr by Fatty Liver

Just now, Fatty Liver said:

Nothing wrong with moving the ball and securing first downs, controlling the clock and grinding down their D on a hot summer day.  Throwing bombs all day is a low percentage strategy that may leads to a plethora of turnovers, turn the ball over enough to the Rider D is precisely how they could lose this game.

That's a fair take. I'm just itching for that big play magic we have hardly seen in the past season and a half. A boy can dream.

48 minutes ago, Pepper_Brooks said:

Zach Collaros,

It’s time to let it rip and sling it deep today! Enough with the safe plays, go big or go home. We need you to throw those bombs like your life depends on it, like it's 2019 again. Air it out, and let’s blow this game wide open! Imagine holding back now against the watermelon heads. This season has been like having a sports car and never taking it past 30kph. Let’s see those deep throws and make it a game to remember finally.

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25 minutes ago, Pepper_Brooks said:

I'd argue it's precisely what earned him back to back Most Outstanding Player awards. He needs to return to that form, playing his brand of football with confidence, not stalling out playing Buck Ball. This is the key to reigniting his dominance on the field, and it's what the fans want.

Yeah two years ago it worked well. Since then it hasn't.

27 minutes ago, Pepper_Brooks said:

I'd argue it's precisely what earned him back to back Most Outstanding Player awards. He needs to return to that form, playing his brand of football with confidence, not stalling out playing Buck Ball. This is the key to reigniting his dominance on the field, and it's what the fans want.

He also had significantly better protection which allowed him to take those deep shots with greater accuracy .. now .. it's more chunk n duck.

3 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:

If I'm ssk I'm running at Biggie as often as possible.

I hope Biggie is reading this and is like "And I took this personally".

1 hour ago, JCon said:

It will matter. 

Sure the sun will be down, but the toilet bowl will be full. Imagine 30-plus-degree weather in an outhouse? Same odor, same flies, same stifling heat. 

Full? Not likely. That bandwagon is emptying.

Even AI has a hard time writing Saskatchewan

 

I dislike saying this but don’t all stadiums kinda look like toilet seats from above? 

Keys to the game 

turn over battle. Riders record has heavily relied upon an extreme turn over disparity. Zach has struggled and we’ve given up some key fumbled. Gotta win the t/o battle. 
 

throw to win, the riders give up the most pass yards. We have to be ready to take advantage of the riders secondary. 
 

sack time, riders have given up among the most sacks in the league and have hardrick out. We’ve got to get home and create presssures/sacks rather than blitz pointlessly. 

1 minute ago, Goalie said:

I dislike saying this but don’t all stadiums kinda look like toilet seats from above? 

PAS doesn't look like toilet seat from above. It looks like something that comes to the seat though 😁

18 minutes ago, BaconNBigBlue said:

Even AI has a hard time writing Saskatchewan

 

It looks like its brain broke.

Mace has done a good job with Sask so far. I expect a tough game. Hoping we can continue to get on track. 

1 hour ago, wbbfan said:

Keys to the game 

turn over battle. Riders record has heavily relied upon an extreme turn over disparity. Zach has struggled and we’ve given up some key fumbled. Gotta win the t/o battle. 
 

throw to win, the riders give up the most pass yards. We have to be ready to take advantage of the riders secondary. 
 

sack time, riders have given up among the most sacks in the league and have hardrick out. We’ve got to get home and create presssures/sacks rather than blitz pointlessly. 

Keys 1 and 2: they have talent on O to do all of that - if ZC gets the protection up front.

Key 3: I could see the D not getting consistent pressure and giving up yards and points. O needs to score a lot and stay on the field.

1 hour ago, Goalie said:

I dislike saying this but don’t all stadiums kinda look like toilet seats from above? 

BC Place looks a bit like a toilet lid:
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/BC+Place/@49.2767972,-123.1130451,368m/data=!3m2!1e3!5s0x5486717ce3307959:0xbb811745f65fed95!4m6!3m5!1s0x5486717cfcbee0d5:0xf9404dfd918218bb!8m2!3d49.27675!4d-123.111999!16zL20vMDNiNGcz?entry=ttu

McMahon doesn't have a roof, so no, doesn't look like a toilet: seat:https://www.google.ca/maps/place/McMahon+Stadium/@51.0705269,-114.1220417,421m/data=!3m2!1e3!5s0x53716fa41ee999fd:0x3333a570bd07a8ec!4m6!3m5!1s0x53716fa404414271:0xf0f4b301ee305ac8!8m2!3d51.0704555!4d-114.121497!16s%2Fg%2F11bc65sdpl?entry=ttu

Commonwealth same as McMahon, but bigger:
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Commonwealth+Stadium/@53.5597173,-113.4779618,563m/data=!3m2!1e3!5s0x53a02301b52feec1:0x3333a57040c9561c!4m6!3m5!1s0x53a02301d7e91b65:0xccd3bd3956bf7a03!8m2!3d53.5597052!4d-113.4768787!16zL20vMDM4d2dy?entry=ttu

Mosaic definitely looks like a public toilet seat:
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mosaic+Stadium/@50.450613,-104.6343478,427m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x531c1e69ca22280d:0xf2ea51d252b531ae!8m2!3d50.4504947!4d-104.6329603!16zL20vMDFfa3B4?entry=ttu

Princess Auto Stadium doesn't have a round roof at all:
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Princess+Auto+Stadium/@49.8078139,-97.143562,433m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x52ea7377de57b1bb:0x90cef9b21669335b!8m2!3d49.8076999!4d-97.1431117!16s%2Fm%2F03qhnh4?entry=ttu

BMO Field looks like a box:
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/BMO+Field/@43.6333329,-79.4192868,485m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x882b3505f6ef4351:0x9d2169b3f7b70c2d!8m2!3d43.6331702!4d-79.4186162!16zL20vMDh3Z2Z4?entry=ttu

Tim Horton's Field also looks like a box:
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Tim+Hortons+Field/@43.2522076,-79.8302848,488m/data=!3m2!1e3!5s0x882c9bfd59645a2f:0x3333a570d213c5fc!4m6!3m5!1s0x882c9bfd5ec2c495:0xd057f19def0bffe9!8m2!3d43.2524552!4d-79.8308998!16s%2Fm%2F09gh8gh?entry=ttu

TD place is pretty square as well:
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/TD+Place/@45.3982322,-75.6846403,396m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x4cce05c1c34168f3:0x4a69b90dfe9b6eb2!8m2!3d45.3984036!4d-75.6835728!16zL20vMDNiN3ox?entry=ttu

Percival Molson Stadium is similar in shape to McMahon and Commonwealth:
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Percival+Molson+Memorial+Stadium/@45.5101881,-73.5811302,279m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x4cc91a36e15778c9:0x25493c3f356f3ea6!8m2!3d45.5101363!4d-73.5807716!16zL20vMDM5MTli?entry=ttu

 

So yeah, only Mosaic looks like a toilet seat, and the closest other one is the lid that is BC Place.

 

 

Nah. Half the soccer stadiums in Europe look like toilet seats. The one Regina basically copied is out of Europe somewhere 

18 minutes ago, Sard said:

So yeah, only Mosaic looks like a toilet seat, and the closest other one is the lid that is BC Place.

It's fitting for that franchise.

 

1 hour ago, bigg jay said:

It's fitting for that franchise.

 

Looks like a roll of material for a Saskatchewan wedding dress.

If I'm Sask I'm torturing Jefferson with RPO stuff with strong focus on the R and the O.  He doesn't have the patience or the energy to play that game.

The Bombers need to mitigate this with LB spying.  LB's need to make big plays in this game.