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I'm employed now,thanks though.

I hope Edmonton wins by 45

I can watch Shaq Evans quit on that under thrown ball that Rose picked off in the West Final all day.

Let's not discount some incredibly flukey plays by the Riders that made the game much closer than it really was. They had horseshoes up their butt in the 2nd half of that game.

I absolutely love this quote from Richie: “We’ve got to get better,” said Hall. “When you look at the big picture, we haven’t accomplished anything. There’s still room for improvement. We have a long ways to get to where we need to be."

Montreal can definitely win this game but the Bombers will have to be bad. I don't think this team really needs a loss to get focused. I think this crew has the ability to keep the intensity and focus all the way through the playoffs.

To he fair it was in the Fantasy section.

CFL.ca should fire Nye, hire a 3rd grader and upgrade their product.

That's my projection. Now I've added the actual line-up and it is confirmed that the Lions still are not fielding an oline. This is from Lions practice:

100% no - for a lot of reasons. Biggest being that TV contracts depend on that viewership. Toronto would never see a Toronto game. The TV contract would then cease to exist. Also, blackouts are stupid.

**** Hodge for choosing a BC rook over Alford...... Alford is CFL MOR in a walk. Yes I'm a homer, but the only award that shouldn't go to the Bombers is MO-ST, which would have been Dedmon on a walk before he got injured. Now it's a toss up and I'm honestly not sure who wins.

Lions - Reilly, no oline, Lucky and Burnham Ticats Duke's hamstring issues continue. But it's okay, Evans is there and the Riders would be 11-0 if he were healthy all season.

I can't see a universe in existence where the Bombers let Collaros leave & sign Reilly.

It was a great interview. Hall even almost said FIFO. With a big smile Richie said "you either fit in or you don't fit in."

I may be arrogant,but I am also right.

so... no changes...

If you want to add even more context, in the Northern region the vast majority of cases are all from one reserve that is having a very bad outbreak due to overcrowded living conditions. Norway House Cree Nation. The Southern Health region really has no excuse.

this feels like important data for context:

You may be right. Any one who looks at the tackle stat and goes oh Williams over alford should no longer get a vote or have a job in professional cfl coverage.

Edmonton calling it early and checked out for the rest of the year.

Has to be Mourtada, no? ------------------- They extended Leone too.

I wanna throw in a vaccination conspiracy theory for funz.

The O line's been good for several years. We went from mid-tier to dominant the day Collaros made his first start.

After watching Nichols this year behind the Ottawa OL, I will never sell an OL short again on their impact on QB play. Our OL made Nichols look competent, and is definitely a big part of the elevated play of Collaros. That being said, Collaros is just a perfect fit for any team with a great OL. He is, and always was even in Saskatchewan, a guy that was exceptional at delivering a perfectly thrown long ball. His injury year in Hamilton notwithstanding, what held Collaros back from what we are seeing now was the fact he had to play behind an atrocious OL in Sask that routinely got him killed. There is no doubt that our OL is a big factor in his success. However, Collaros reads a defence really well, extends plays like no other, and can make every throw on the field with great accuracy and timing. The difference between his natural abilities and Nichols is pretty substantial.

Complacency is human nature. I urge people not to overreact if we drop a couple at the end of the year. Yes I realize that sounds insane coming from me.

I know other teams and their fans are hoping we get complacent but it won't happen: https://www.bluebombers.com/2021/11/03/long-ways-get-need/ You will have to earn it.

No, no. Its ok. Jamie Nye's dumbassary deserves to be shown to the masses via multiple posts in multiples threads.

good chance he'll coincidentally just happen to have a bad game against us...

I think they do a rotation of our dbs and everybody is happy except for opposing offenses.

When Harris found out he's been traded to Montreal. When he looks at the upcoming schedule with back to back Bomber games

Interesting quote from Rose - He reached out to the Bombers about coming back to the CFL, not the other way around.... says a lot about how much players like playing in Winnipeg.

Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.

Any combination of initiatives that engage the younger fan has to be explored. In a perfect world it would be ideal to have a student section for high school kids that allocated a set number of seats for specific high schools that rotate on an annual basis. It would be up to each school to dole out the 25 seats per game. If I was in that age group, I would definitely want to go with my buddies. If not for the game, then to see the girls from the other schools.

Yet another impact of climate change I hadn't considered and is happening now - in the cradle of civilization. As heat and drought reduces river runoff to oceans (and oceans get higher because of glacial melt), the salt-water pushes inland, killing marshes, cropland and soil that populations rely on. FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE Where civilization emerged between the Tigris and Euphrates, climate change is poisoning the land and emptying the villages "No one lives here anymore. The mud-brick buildings are empty, just husks of the human life that became impossible on this land. Wind whips through bone-dry reeds. For miles, there’s no water to be seen. Carved from an ancient land once known as Mesopotamia, Iraq is home to the cradle of civilization — the expanse between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where the first complex human communities emerged. But as climate change produces extreme warming and water grows scarcer around the Middle East, the land here is drying up. Across Iraq’s south, there is a sense of an ending. Dozens of farming villages are abandoned, but for an isolated family here and there. The intrusion of saltwater is poisoning lands that have been passed for generations from fathers to sons. The United Nations recently estimated that more than 100 square miles of farmland a year are being lost to desert. Years of below-average rainfall have left Iraqi farmers more dependent than ever on the dwindling waters of the Tigris and Euphrates. But upstream, Turkey and Iran have dammed their own waterways in the past two years, further weakening the southern flow, so a salty current from the Persian Gulf now pushes northward and into Iraq’s rivers. The salt has reached as far as the northern edge of Basra, some 85 miles inland. In the historic marshes, meanwhile, men are clinging to what remains of life as they knew it, as their buffaloes die and their wives and children scatter across nearby cities, no longer able to stand the summer heat. Temperatures in Iraq topped a record 125 degrees this summer with aid groups warning that drought was limiting access to food, water and electricity for 12 million people here and in neighboring Syria. With Iraq warming faster than much of the globe, this is a glimpse of the world’s future." ..... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/iraq-climate-change-tigris-euphrates/

Whew! Back to normal New cases by region: Southern - 70 Winnipeg - 33 Northern - 21 Prairie Mountain - 15 Interlake-Eastern - 15 102 of today's 154 new cases were not fully vaccinated, including 95 with no vaccine at all. 52 fully vaccinated cases. ICU active case total: 19 Unvaxed: 19 Partially vaxed: 0 Fully vaxed: 0 Active hospitalization total: 76 Unvaxed: 59 Partially vaxed: 5 Fully vaxed: 22 First-dose uptake - 87% (no change) Second-dose uptake - 83.9% (no change) 2,094,074 doses administered now. 3,268 doses administered yesterday. Percentage of hockey fans who hate Vegas Golden Nights 99% Regions below 50% uptake: Winkler - 44.2% (+0.2%) RM of Stanley - 25.5% (+0.1%) 🤬 Every single person in ICU right now is unvaccinated. Southern Health makes up 40.1% of hospitalizations, 60.9% of ICU admissions, 32.8% of the active caseload in the province and 15% of the total population.

Williams has been very good and there's no way the voters will pick a Bomber. Williams is second overall in tackles.

I didn't think Holley would come back to the Stamps as he was embroiled in a dispute with GM John Hufnagel after the 2019 season when he refused to let him out of his contract to work out for any NFL teams. Holley & his agent were livid. Finally Huff relented but not until spring instead of December. Interestingly, Holley's brother is a receiver with the Stamps this season & has appeared in a few games as an injury replacement. Nye is a POS.

The Stamps used to give seats to every pee wee, bantam & HS team in Calgary. They all sat in one section. Four seats per team. We'd give them out to players who either played well thee game before or for the kids who practised the hardest. Then suddenly the tickets were cancelled. That section where kids sat & filled now sits virtually empty every game today. The Stamps do little, if nothing here to engage youth football. All they're doing is shooting themselvess in the foot to spite their face. I can also tell you how clueless some CFL owners are & totally out of touch with their fanbase. The year before these tickets were ultimately cancelled, one of the Stamps owners at the time was a great high school & U Sport basketball player when he was young & before he became a multi millionaire. He wanted to take the tickets away from young footballers & give them to basketball teams instead.

I think the problem with that suggestion is then you lose casual fans who were never going to the game anyways but might tune in on TV just because football is on... Also, it penalizes long term season ticket holders who have to miss live games due to other commitments... then they have no opportunity to watch the game...

I agree that early byes are dumb, but how do you schedule games for nine teams in a single week without making one team play twice? I think one team has to have a bye every week so long as we have an odd number of teams in the league.

Would Rider fans allow their girlfriends to do that?

I think part of development is competition. So, if two players are vying for a third string qb position the best one should make the roster. Making it a Canadian position only would be a mistake. If a Canadian can play #3 qb then sure but it shouldn't be de facto Canadian. When I say putting the needs of the fans ahead. That should be Job Number One by the CFL in a gate driven league. High ticket prices need to come down. . So, make it more affordable. Fans are refusing to pay these high prices so they don't buy tickets. They don't feel they're getting good value for their money. In calgary, if you want to buy game day single tickets on the 55 yard line, they are somewhere close to $120 each which to me, is madness. Those tickets should be half that price. All ticket prices should be slashed so that when the CFL televises locally shouldn't keep thousands of fans at home. Evening start times late in the season have to stop in Western Canada when it gets to be mid October. The teams not TSN have to call the shots here as they know what times & days of the week work best in their markets. Let then have more of a say with start times. The biggest insult to fans in my mind is UFA. There has to be a mechanism in place where fans know that good players just can't leave their former teams high & dry with no form of compensation. Especially if they were drafted as rookies or signed as 1st year free agents. Time & money went into developing these players & teams need to be paid accordingly with draft picks & money. The better the player, the more it should cost to sign them to help stem the tide of free agent frenzy we see every February. Restricted free agency has to be negotiated into the new CBA. I think any player who has been in the league 6 seasons or is signing his third contract can be UFA's. Younger players, no. Teams need to recoup the money spent on development. One year deals & NFL opt outs while under contract are another insult. Players come & go. As fans, we barely get to know these players & then they're gone. I think it's much more difficult for fans to know & relate to players than it was a generation ago when I was half my age or when I started out as a Bomber fan as a 10 year old. We knew who the players were on the Bombers. We also knew many players from other teams. There was more of a connection with fans to players back then than today. A deeper connection means a fan has more invested in their team. They're interested. They care about their team & the players. Now, as a lot of fans say, they spend a couple hundred dollars on a nice Bomber jersey with a certain player's number & name on the back. Then that player leaves the next season. Which is an expensive slap in the face especially if that player signs with the Riders. It's a sign of disrespect as the rules let players leave. TSN, the CFL & the CFLPA seem to have no interest in the fans. We pay the freight. We go to the games. We buy expensive merch. We go to the regular season, playoffs & Grey Cup. We buy season tickets. We watch the games on TSN so the broadcaster & the league can sell advertising. Without US, there'd be no CFL. It's time they started respecting what we want instead of what they always want... in a gate driven league. The day television covers all of football operations so the 9 teams all make money then they can do what they want. Until then, quit taking US, the fans for granted.

So why not bring back the option year?

Next to TC (because it's right after a long layoff), this is my absolute favourite time of the CFL season. November football is what it's all about!

I probably be the only one but I don't want to watch football in May. I like games in October November. Its amazing the NFL has no problem having games in December, January, February in places like Green Bay, Chicago, Buffalo etc.

Football is a fall sport based largely on the university calendar.

A mere “disagree” emoji is not suitable enough a reaction for this post. I rate this one “Nick Taylor get that s*** out of here” worthy.

Don’t mind the idea from a safety point of view, but that would wipe out a ton of field goals. You would have to be inside the opponent‘s 20 yard line to have a reasonably makable kick. But I approve of the talking point. And then there is the problem that we would never get to enjoy this again: