Our two losses have come against teams currently ranked first and third in getting after the quarterback, maybe first and second by the time this week is over. If you pressure the QB, turnovers will follow. It happened on the sack/fumble and on the second pick as well. Saskatchewan played a textbook football game and they won doing it. Time to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves up and get ready for Toronto. Sucks to lose tonight but we'll be fine.

Here's another part of football that's important. Have a running back that doesn't suck ass.

Or a returner that doesn't fumble half of his touches.

I suppose that's fair until you remember this returner doesn't touch the ball more than twice a game and is not first on the depth chart. The bum with the less than 1 YPC average tonight is "the man"

It doesn't help. No denying that whatsoever. Second and long is a defensive lineman's dream which ties into my original post.

I suppose we will have to agree to agree then.

Well, our O-line for a number of years now has been a work in progress and the injuries it's had to deal with, and rotating in younger guys like Goosen have made this difficult for us no doubt.  That being said, I think the best thing we need to do as fans is not call for heads to roll yet.  That's honestly my only fear of losing with this team is that someone up in management is gonna pull some stupid Lyle E Bauer (aka worst CEO in CFL history) **** and end up wrecking something we built.  Hopefully our current regime isn't like that anymore, but no doubt there's going to be losses like this that we gotta put up with, but move on from and not call for anything irrational when they happen.

The run game has a ton of problems.  Its not all Grigsby, but the he is exacerbating the issues.  Our line can't block.  There's not a heckuva lot we can do right now about that due to all those injuries.  What we can do is put someone in that hits the holes faster and makes better reads.  For my money, that's Cotton but I am willing to look at anyone that isn't Grigsby.

It is actually Lyle K. Bauer. If your going to continue to crap on someone get it right at least. Get over it.

A lot of Stamps fans breathed a sigh of relief when he quit the Stampeders. Worried he'd force Huff out & run the team into the ground. He just might have given the chance. 

Never seen such a winnable game be lost. Wow.

Well, our O-line for a number of years now has been a work in progress and the injuries it's had to deal with, and rotating in younger guys like Goosen have made this difficult for us no doubt.  That being said, I think the best thing we need to do as fans is not call for heads to roll yet.  That's honestly my only fear of losing with this team is that someone up in management is gonna pull some stupid Lyle E Bauer (aka worst CEO in CFL history) **** and end up wrecking something we built.  Hopefully our current regime isn't like that anymore, but no doubt there's going to be losses like this that we gotta put up with, but move on from and not call for anything irrational when they happen.

I don't think anyone is calling for heads to roll. That would be beyond stupid. This team is on the up and up, that can't be questioned. We lost to the Grey Cup champions by 6 points when Chick essentially had a field day and we had 6 picks. We'll be fine - no panic here. I just thought it's some good food for thought to consider who we have lost to and what those teams do best which is rush the passer.

Found a way to lose this one...

 

If we had signed Messam, then Knapp would have been at RG...  probably makes the difference tonight

Poor prep showed tonight, especially at home again. Special teams are a disaster. Need a rudder for the ship.

Some called it weeks ago.

Poor prep showed tonight, especially at home again. Special teams are a disaster. Need a rudder for the ship.

 

You've gotta settle down.

Not popular I know but can't keep on keepin on.

I missed the ST disaster other than the fact that Washington has literally no idea how to carry a football.  If we want a super athlete returning, sign Bo Jackson.  I want a guy who doesn't lose the game for us.

 

Other than that, our ST really nailed Jackson several times and I liked LH's game.

Jackson had only one decent return that I recall. Lirim's punt went to the middle of the field and Jackson took it to the sideline up alone the Bomber bench. If I was grading Lirim tonight I'd give him a B for his work tonight for that, plus the illegal kickoff out of bounds he had.

I missed the ST disaster other than the fact that Washington has literally no idea how to carry a football.  If we want a super athlete returning, sign Bo Jackson.  I want a guy who doesn't lose the game for us.

 

Other than that, our ST really nailed Jackson several times and I liked LH's game.

 

I think Woods may have needed a bit of recovery time from some of those head on hits he sustained tonight.  That's the only reason I can think that Washington was in there.  What happened to Stoudermire?  Thought I saw his name on the depth chart.

Stoudemire didn't dress.

JFG is a punt returner.  Stoudemire and Denmark are return guys...  just baffling that we keep going with Washington.

Washington fumbled a kick return first of all, not a punt return. He actually faked a pitch to the other returner who IMO looked like it was indeed Aaron Woods, washington has always been the other guy back there returning kicks with woods on kick offs.. The riders kicked off, they didn't punt, they just scored a touchdown the play prior on the willy fumble...

 

Maybe the reason the riders kicked it to washington this time was because for the most part, woods was actually getting some pretty darn good kick return yards out there tonight, almost broke several of them. This time they kicked it to demond and for all the bitching about demond, his fumble only lead to 3 points. 

 

Wasn't exactly the TSN turning point considering we came back and were actually winning for a while until Willy threw that ill advised 40 yard pass across the field and got picked off for a TOUCHDOWN. 

 

Seriously, the complaining some do about certain players when in reality that play by washington wasn't really the play that broke our backs, the play that broke our backs was the willy cross the field pass that was intercepted for a TD.. you know the one, the one that gave the riders the lead near the end of the game. 

 

Even then, we still had a chance to drive down field near the end of the game and win it with a touchdown but nope, another interception. Yup lets concentrate on the guy who didn't cost us the game cuz piling on is fun but ignore the actual reasons we LOST this game. 

 

Im gonna say it, don't care if i take heat for it... Willy SUCKED in the second half, i can't put it all on him but those interceptions i certainly can.. and those interceptions cost us way more than a fumble that lead to 3 points. 

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ...

Poor prep showed tonight, especially at home again. Special teams are a disaster. Need a rudder for the ship.

Some called it weeks ago.

 

Am I missing something? Special teams had one maybe two (washington returning the first missed field goal) bad plays tonight. The coverage was certainly much better than it has been, probably the best it has been. That one punt where jackson looked up and it was nothing but blue was a thing of beauty. We hit all the field goals, kick offs where nice and deep...one bad fumble and special teams are a disaster??? 

 

Poor prep showed tonight, especially at home again. Special teams are a disaster. Need a rudder for the ship.

Some called it weeks ago.

 

Am I missing something? Special teams had one maybe two (washington returning the first missed field goal) bad plays tonight. The coverage was certainly much better than it has been, probably the best it has been. That one punt where jackson looked up and it was nothing but blue was a thing of beauty. We hit all the field goals, kick offs where nice and deep...one bad fumble and special teams are a disaster??? 

 

 

Not missing a thing - some people just like to troll after a bad loss.

Tough crowd. Despite all of our shortcomings we were in this game most of the night. I was hoping very much we would pull it off but then I remember last year and see how far we have come. Lets not forget we were playing the Grey Cup champions so having a very young team with all of its injuries hold them to no offensive touchdowns and just over 100 yards passing has to be encouraging.  A loss to any other team would be so much easier to take.

 

I am sure the club learnt a lot from this game so let's just go and take it to Toronto.