CFL game notes…and bits and pieces...

- The Ticats have scored 292 points this season, the most in the CFL by far, and allowed 156 points for a whopping differential of 136 points.

- Hamilton leads the league with eight defensive touchdowns this season and 11 overall, leaving the Ticats within reach of two single-season all-time records:

1) Defensive touchdowns in a season, which the Ticats can break with four more touchdowns. They sit three behind the Lions' 11 defensive touchdowns in 1987.

And, 2) Non-offensive touchdowns, which combines defensive and special teams touchdowns. With a high-scoring defence combined with the talent of Brandon Banks, the Ticats have 12 non-offensive touchdowns through eight games. The record for that in a season is 15 by the very same Lions back in 1987, another record well within the Ticats' reach.

- Mike Daly, Zach Collaros and Terrell Sinkfield Jr. were named the Shaw CFL Top Performers of the Week for Week 9 of the CFL’s 2015 season. A Hamilton sweep.

- Ti-Cats have 30 takeaways for 118 points this year.

- Quarterback Zach Collaros leads the league in passing yards with 2,314 and arrives at the stadium ready to roll: the Ticats have outscored opponents 70-6 in the first quarter of their last five games, and held halftime leads of 31, 21 and 21 points the last three weeks. They also lead the league in touchdowns with 22 and points per game at 36.5.

- Not much happening with the Alouettes - oh wait, they have a new Coach after firing Tom Higgins. Jim Popp takes over..again. Oh, and A. Calvillo is now the QB Coach. Which begs the question..why'd it take so long?

- Montreal used seven different running backs last week to gain 251 yards on the ground,

As C Schultz says - "This is a tough first game for Jim Popp to begin his fourth stint as head coach of the Alouettes. Montreal has to survive the first quarter if they have any chance of winning this game. Hamilton has out-scored opponents a combined 63-3 in the first quarter of their last four games."

He thinks the Ti-Cats will prevail as do 96.7% of MBB posters who bothered to vote. The Montreal vote? Me.

Wow I could only wish that Marve could have a ridiculously high completion % and throw over 300 yards.       Edmonton definitely is on a whole different level then us.   

 

unfortunately that's what I was thinking while watching this game

It was the play calling. So simple

yah, me. also found the "which movie star would play Milt/matt etc" . not funny.

Come on that was good stuff.

Schultz: I'd pick this guy, Ivan Drago!!

Panel: Uhh Schultzy don't you mean Dolph Lundgren???

Schultz: No!! Ivan Drago!!! Did you see how badly he beat Apollo Creed??

Panel: He killed him Schultzy!!

Now that's good comedy!

Tidbits..

Sacks - Mtl 6 Ham 1

Turnovers - Mtl 2 Ham 3

Rushing yds - Mtl 123 Ham 29

Smirks - Popp 1 Austin 0

Zachary Collaros was still the best QB out there, but Mont. kept him contained, sacked him 6 times, and kept him off balance just enough. But raise your hand on who expected Tanner Marsh to come in and manage the game just enough to squeak out a win?

The best thing about this game? - Now we don't have to listen to that "unbeatable at home" stat any longer.

 

Who expected a Hamilton returner to stand like a statue and watch the ball bounce off his helmet?

Man Franklin played great for a rookie in his first start. Who gets 300+ yards passing and a TD plus 50+ yards rushing and a TD in their first start? 

 

Really close game until the 4th. Two good teams taking their shots. I love that kind of football. Edmonton owned the time of possession, but scored FG's so Toronto could hang in there for a long time by scoring a couple of TD's. The Esks turned the game around when ran that punt back for a TD. Toronto pretty much gave up and got shellacked from that point forward. 

Franklin is looking like a very good QB prospect- smart, good arm and mobile. Between him and Reilly, Edmonton ought to be set for time to come.

Why can't we recruit qbs like that? Other teams do it. Nah, the team continuosly brings in guys like Brink, Elliott, Hall, Goltz & Brohm & tries to pass them off as legit pro qb prospects to long suffering Bomber fans. 

Why can't we recruit qbs like that? Other teams do it. Nah, the team continuosly brings in guys like Brink, Elliott, Hall, Goltz & Brohm & tries to pass them off as legit pro qb prospects to long suffering Bomber fans. 

 

Teams like Hamilton, Edmonton, and Toronto have have superior coaching and talent around them. Makes it easier to develop a QB.

Maybe we have already? Let's see what Marve does throughout the rest of this season. Franklin will have bad days, too.

Why can't we recruit qbs like that? Other teams do it. Nah, the team continuosly brings in guys like Brink, Elliott, Hall, Goltz & Brohm & tries to pass them off as legit pro qb prospects to long suffering Bomber fans. 

Well we had guys like Elliott and Dinwiddie impress in their first games too. The key as always is how they do over the long haul. 

Pissed me off to no end that we could have signed Franklin.

Pissed me off to no end that we could have signed Franklin.

Well, there ya go. Just like Joe Mack who sat pat with Elliott & Brink we did the same thing with Brohm & Marve. I just hope Marve shows he can play in this league tomorrow.

Franklin is looking like a very good QB prospect- smart, good arm and mobile. Between him and Reilly, Edmonton ought to be set for time to come.

 

Yep great game and proves a good team can come back after a terrible one - even with a rookie QB. A well coached team with proper player development can do that. 

I may have had one too many brown ales last night but I thought I saw shades of Warren Moon in Franklin's performance.  Very calm presence and smooth delivery and frankly a little boring to watch him perform.  I like QB's with a little bit more frenetic energy that will throw the ball with either hand if need be.

Why can't we recruit qbs like that? Other teams do it. Nah, the team continuosly brings in guys like Brink, Elliott, Hall, Goltz & Brohm & tries to pass them off as legit pro qb prospects to long suffering Bomber fans. 

Yep, the best we have done since the Cal Murphy era is Taman bringing in already developed Qbs in Jones and Glenn.  Bombers haven't developed a good QB since McManus.  Haven't developed even an average Qb in that time frame either

 

Why can't we recruit qbs like that? Other teams do it. Nah, the team continuosly brings in guys like Brink, Elliott, Hall, Goltz & Brohm & tries to pass them off as legit pro qb prospects to long suffering Bomber fans. 

Yep, the best we have done since the Cal Murphy era is Taman bringing in already developed Qbs in Jones and Glenn.  Bombers haven't developed a good QB since McManus.  Haven't developed even an average Qb in that time frame either

 

 

Exactly what I've been saying - some yahoo on here 'critized' my comment by saying McManus never did anything for us?   - Still don't get his point. MY POINT was we hadn't RECRUITED a QB who had a decent career in this league since him (some people can't follow the dots when making a comment lol).

 

This is the SOLE reason why we have been an irrelevant team in the CFL for the past 25 years. I don't care what arguments are brought forth (whether it be Hamm, Dunnigan, Cavillo, etc) - yes other teams have brought in QB's from other organisations and thrived, but they still have developed their own regardless. This is why I'm in Marve's corner, and if it isn't Marve, then whomever we bring in next. I've been waiting 25 years for the Bombers to recruit and develop their OWN QB - sooner or later, even by pure 'dumb' luck, it has to happen. Until it does - we'll always be a bottom feeder who may, once in a blue moon, fluke a year where we get to the Grey Cup (or even win the odd one) but will never maintain a level of consistency like all the other teams who bring in their own QB's do.

We can have Tom Brady here but until we have a great OL we won't go anywhere as a team.

We can have Tom Brady here but until we have a great OL we won't go anywhere as a team.

 

And your team is going to have no future, because Brady will deflate all your footballs and cost you draft picks.

Bomber fans are too disgruntled to even bother with sask ottawa game. 

Fire Chamblin. Cut Sunseri.

Fire Marcel.  Cut Brohm.

They benched Smith for Sunseri. LOL! Wow... Send Smith here.

They benched Smith for Sunseri. LOL! Wow... Send Smith here.

This makes no sense. Smith is playing well. Something wrong we don't know about.

Smith got hammered pretty hard a while back- that may something to do with it.

 

They benched Smith for Sunseri. LOL! Wow... Send Smith here.

This makes no sense. Smith is playing well. Something wrong we don't know about.

 

 

CC confirmed in the interview that the interception was the reason for the pulling. All around terrible coaching. Good way to ruin your quarterback's development.

 

They have got to let go of Sunseri. He had his chance last year, and blew it.