And it turned out nice again.....at least weather wise....

Shades of bad ole days.....Bomber D scored on in 1st series....

Zach Collaros, RB Holly, and the rest of the Hamilton O, looked sharp....

....as they found enough holes in Bomber D...to fill the Albert Hall.....

Blue D played a ton of zone, not particularly well......

Denmark had a nice bomb from Willy.....

...but most of the night it was 5 yard hooks, curls and slants.....

Bombers need work on kick returns.....

Ditto short yardage situations......

Also avoiding dumb penalties ( Washington, Gibson, Bass)

Gibson did make some plays, though.....

...and K. Bass was working it pretty hard....

Bomber O and D schemes looked pretty....uh,

....OK, will avoid the overused word and call it, uh..inelaborate....

Long kick returns directly set up 10 Hamilton points....

Could of been worse.....

...the Cats stalled in red zone, on a couple drives and dropped 3 picks......

Cotton will start at RB....with perhaps Marshall...

MOS drags starting O, back on field to start 2nd half...

....another bad flashback....Willy blindsided on blitz....

....Drew was then nailed firmly to the bench, at that point...

Is there another team in football...as bad as Blue on screen passes?

Brohm throws a nice ball....but looks like a paint-by-numbers guy...

Portis seems to lack some touch on his throws...

J. Adams looks like a keeper at DB.....

JFG and Bastien look like an OK rotation at SB.......

Tigercat O certainly dropped off, when Collaros departed...

Hurl has more range, than I thought...at MLB...

Robert Marve helped his cause, tonight.....

Can't say the same for Brohm and Portis......

Marve does provide a change up and a different tempo.....

Willy got pretty pissed with Jhomo Gordon on a busted pattern...

M. Goossen has some attitude.......

Too bad Yantz didn't get in......

Not happy with tonight's result....

But back in the park, with gin in hand....

.....will do to go on with, for now...

 

 

 

He never got a chance to punt during the game (probably insurance reasons for that) but the punter from the Rifles was hoofing a few at halftime and he looked decent.  Great arc and hang time, decent distance.  I could see him getting a contract offer from the Bombers in the future, something along the lines of a territorial exemption thing like Goodrich.  If it applies.

Brad Mikoluff  #74.    

 

He still has eligibility for the Rifles, so if the Bombers like him, they can keep him as a non-counter all year.  He is able to practise with the Bombers and play with the Rifles.   It's a nice insurance deal for the Bombers because if they need a punter in a pinch, they can sign and dress him and he already knows the playbook, the players, and the coaches.  This is a special deal open to all CJFL players who didn't play CIS.   Each CFL team can have up to 4 local junior players in camp under this program.   I suspect that the Bombers will keep both Mikoluff and Braedy Will  around this year.

 

Self edit:  If he does dress for a regular season game, he loses the special status.  At that point he would have to sign a contract and be a "counter".

The deal is nice for teams but can be a double edged sword for the players. Braedy Will has drawn real interest from other teams but the Bombers are allowed to keep his rights without signing him to a contract. Will could possibly be earning a paycheck with another team but because of the territorial rights that the Bombers hold, they can keep him around without paying him and not have to worry about other teams offering him a deal.

 

Here's an odd/sod: Waggoner now wearing #22.

Is that the number his grandfather wore?

 

No, Hal Waggoner wore 65 according to pictures in the Spectator.

 

Talking a wild guess, he wore 11 in college which, of course, is not available with the Bombers so maybe he just doubled it and is going with 22.