TBURGESS

Likely win... Should win... Sure. Must win, not even close. This game may or may not mean anything at all in the standings depending on if Edmonton can beat Calgary.

Before the season, Wally said it was his last season as HC. He's softened that in the last few weeks as he realized that he'll go out as a loser in his last season. I suspect that everyone involved assumed that the Lions would be sold this off season and therefore would want to go a different direction, but in the last couple of weeks Brailey said that the sale is being hung up because of pending lawsuits. IMO: No sale = Brailey stays = Wally stays

The Lions have only won 1 of their last 9 games and that one was against the Als. We just need to go out, play our game, win it and get our home playoff game.

I don't think Wally's coaching is the problem in BC. The O line is. Fix that one thing and they are in the playoffs again this year.

I don't complain about that hit at all. Obvious shoulder to shoulder. In fact, I thought it was a catch and fumble, and we were lucky that the call went our way.

The CFL has been allowing piling on for years. Personally, I'd like to see it get penalized every time. When the player is down, there's no need to staple him to the ground and it should be piling on IMO.

I liked that play too, but was surprised that they never just snapped it to Jennings as the Bombers completely ignored him after the first two times they ran that play. Jennings had half the field to himself. I was expecting him to get the ball in the 4th when they really needed something to go their way.

The refs should immediately blow the whistle every time any players helmet comes off for safety reasons. Mark the ball where ever it is when the helmet comes off. I mean every time, not just the ball carrier. Some guys like Harris are constantly losing their helmets. They'd tighten them down if the play was being stopped.

Ottawa's winning the close games right now. The Riders should have won this week and the Lions should have won last week. Ottawa's only got 1 more game left, against the Ticats. Should be well rested when they play again.

The passport has only become a valid reason since Westerman went down. Before that he was the 8th starting Canuck, which gives us an extra backup import instead of an extra starting import.

Looks like Bear Woods is a late out. Too late to change my pick to Regina?

The health of our dinged players will have a huge impact on how the next 4 games go. If we have to go with Davis and we can't use the 2 back system because either Harris is hurt more than we were led to believe or Flanders is out for a while, then wins will be very hard to come by.

The defence wasn't much different last night than it is most nights. The big difference was that our offence couldn't put up more than 30 points and eat up a bunch of TOP. I'd say we are 10-4 despite our defence, not because of it.

3 Stars: Adams both as QB and receiver. Bryant - Turned a fumble into a rumble into lateral and a FG. Denmark - Not a great choice, but I've run out of stars. Happy Honker: Don Jonas for all the great memories and the only laugh I got last night when he wanted to know what he was going to get from signing a 1 day contract.

The injuries are the worst part of the game last night for me. I hope none of them are long term.

Looked to me like Nichols might have torn a nail mostly off. Having done that myself, I can tell you that it hurts like the Dickens and it makes it hard to grip anything without pain.

It's become a coin toss every time the challenge flag is thrown. That play was pretty obviously not PI, but they still called it. I thought the non-fumble in the Riders game was a fumble. At least they got the PI challenge in our game right, but I was holding my breath after the rest of the calls last week.

BC's the team that everyone's forgetting about. They could still get out of the basement if they play up to their potential and Edmonton keeps losing, BC could pass them in a few weeks for the last playoff spot.

3 Stars: Nichols - Found his deep ball. Threw it away when he needed to. Harris - Won't be taken down by the first guy and recovered a big fumble. Randle - Pick 6 for the win. HH: I'll go with Jeffcoat. Lots of pressure and a knockdown.

Grymes back is big for Edmonton's D.

Cuz we beat em by a TD. If they win by more than a TD, they get the series.

A win and we're still in the hunt for 1st overall. A loss, especially by more than a TD and we're in a fight for 2nd place.

Nope, not this dude.

I corrected someone who called LeFevour our #2 QB a couple of weeks ago, but don't let a little thing like the truth get in the way of the story you want to tell.

We have a top three starting QB, but if we lose Nichols, we're pretty much done. LeFevour's a glorified RB who can throw some. Great for 3rd downs but lousy as a starter. Who knows what we have in Davis? Edmonton has Reilly and Franklin. Likely the best situation of all the teams. BC's already lost their best QB and Ottawa are currently on their 3rd string QB, otherwise they'd both would obviously have better overall QB situations. With Masoli running Hamilton's team now, you gotta give them props for having a good QB situation, even tho they don't have a good team. The #1 guy can't get the job done, the #2 guy does. 20-20 hindsight says they should have made the change earlier. Glenn's outplayed Durant this year by a large margin and he's being paid way less too. I guess Jones is smarter than a bunch of you think he is. Bridge isn't anything special at this point in his career, but he can run their offense in a pinch. Better or worse than Davis? Who knows, cuz we haven't seen Davis do anything except throw a couple of passes in garbage time (The first one should have been a pick 6 BTW). Calgary has an injured BLM (The best QB in the league IMO) who is still doing enough to win and a big question mark after that. Toronto has a top four starting QB a 3rd down QB and a big question mark if Ray goes down. Pretty much the same place we are. Montreal has a lousy starting and backup QB.