TBURGESS

Horribly boring game in Ft. Mac. 60+ Penalties called. 55 taken. Give the refs more reasons (new rules) to throw their flags and they'll throw more of them. Durant doesn't look like he's fully back yet although he did throw some good balls. Sunseri looked like he did last year. Smith looked better. Franklin looks like a good find for Edmonton. Can run and pass. Was noticeably better than than Nichols and Goltz last night.

Calgary's going to be a force again this year. Mostly played their 3rd, 4th and 5th string QB's and still managed to look like a good football club. BC left a lot of starters at home and played with their 3rd, 4th, and 5th string QB's too. Jennings looked pretty good and will likely start the season as Lulay's arm isn't ready yet. Partridge looked pretty bad. Horrible throwing motion = horrible accuracy. Probably cut IMO. I liked the quick offence from BC. I don't think they will be as bad as a lot of folks around here do.

I don't have a vote, but I'd vote for an earlier start / end to the CFL season. I'd like to see the Grey Cup the same week as Remembrance day every year.

Atta boy KBF. Exactly what I was expecting from you.

Two TD's are better than 2 FG's.

I'm tuning in for sure. Not expecting much though.

Clearing out the Import MLB's shouldn't be much of a surprise. Hurl's been our MLB since the day he was signed. Can't afford to have an import backup unless we start 8 NI's. Even then, he'd have to be able to play more than just MLB to be useful. Hall was beaten like a rented mule in preseason game 1. Guess he's better in practice. Still think he'll be gone by the end of the weekend. Weakest RB and FB gone. No suprises there.

Yantz isn't going anywhere. What are basing that opinion on? Yantz wasn't even taken to the first preseason game when he was most likely to get some reps. I doubt we see him in the 2nd preseason game either. PR because he's a Canuck?

You keep the best players you can and Marve's better than Portus by a long shot right now. We're getting to pay him based on his rookie contract so he won't be that expensive this year. He's betting he's worth more next year either to us or to another team. Cutting him now wouldn't make the team any better this year, in fact it would be worse.

Every player who's not under contract in the off season may up and leave. Marve's not special in that respect.

Marve doesn't want to be 3rd string next year. I'm sure he thinks he's stuck there in Winnipeg. He's not going to get a sniff in the NFL, but he might get a shot at #2 or even at #1 in Ottawa next year. Can't say that I agree that it's close between him and Portis. I'd say he's way ahead. In fact, I'd look for a different #4 QB if we're serious in keeping 4 QB's around.

The reporters do in fact ask about Richards. They did it last night in O'Shea's postgame interview (4:25)... but you won't like his answer http://www.bluebombe...index/id/110947 Actually that was about Richardson... DE who went off with a knee(?) injury.

I'm sure he's injured. One day morphed into a day or two, morphed into a few days, morphed into reporters not asking the question anymore. We'll see him when we see him. Who knows when that will be.

I don't think anyone is going to get much out of the stream for RB performance. It'll all be about how they grade out on film with following their blocks, pass protection, who followed their assignments to a tee. One or two carries a guy isn't going to teach them much at all, especially behind a revolving door OL. Sounds like you're thinking there were too many RB's on the depth chart to be able to effectively rate their performance.

I knew I'd take some shots this morning. Fire away.

First off let me say I was wrong. I didn't think there was a snowball's hope in hell we'd win a game with that roster, but we did. I know I'm the only poster around here who thought a win was important and I very happy to see we got one. Yes Mike... I would have left Anderson at home and I would have missed a great return that probably won the game for us. No Mike... I still don't think you give everyone a shot just because one player managed a great play. I'd still have prefered to see more reps from 3 RB's and 1 FB to get Westerman, Randel and Moore into the game for a quarter. My take on the game: QB's Willy - No stream, so I can't comment Brohm - Looked like he knew where he wanted to go, but the passess were inaccurate. Marve - Mixed bag. Some good throws, yes even from the pocket, some bad throws, yes even from the scramble. Used his legs to get a first down and a TD and threw a nice TD pass (From the pocket). I'd move him to #2 next week to see what he can do against better competition. Portis - Runs well, but a very long way from being a good QB RB's Cotton - Worst of the bunch last night Rest didn't impress me, except for Anderson's punt return. O Line Gave up some serious pressures and didn't block that well for the run, but way better than I thought they'd be. It wasn't until Griffiths and Everett were in that they looked really bad. Receivers Liked what I saw from Tuinei and Clemons. Gordon and Adams after the TC hype were a let downs. D line Not enough pressure most of the time. No one stood out. LB's Allen looked good he made a great stop at the 1, sniffed out a screen play perfectly and a sack. Still, 4th quarter means playing against the other teams fringe players. Burnett made a couple of plays too. DB's Another unit that did better than I expected. Hall played himself off of the team IMHO. 41 - Jones would have too except for his passport. 4 PI's? Good or bad under the new rules?

I had the same problem with Chrome. Worked fine for me in Firefox so I didn't look any further for a real solution.

Just a note for Chrome users... One of my extensions, I haven't tracked down which one but I'll guess it's the ad blocker, kills the signon process on TSN Go. My workaround is to use Firefox which works like a charm for me. (Different set of extensions)

This isn't a rec league where every player gets to play. It's pro ball. Want to get a chance to play? Earn it in practice. Guys who look good in practice, but can't bring it in a game will be gone pretty quickly. Sure there may be players who are better in games than practice, but they still need to be good enough in practice to earn a shot IMO. If it's silly to worry about who's then you must feel pretty silly, because you're the one who keeps bringing it up. For the hundred time... I'm not saying only bring vets nor am I saying don't bring any rookies. I'm saying bring more starters and less fringe players. 3 to 5 players would make a big difference. Quite honestly, I don't get why you even care what I think.

Randel's changing positions. I'd like to see how it's going... Even for a quarter

Which Randle? Bradley is playing and I'm not really sure what Chris has to prove in the first pre-season game...

IMO the most important battles are at RB, Receiver and LB's. Too many bodies. Too few roster spots.

I don't care what you believe.

TBurgess is excited about watching this game. Especially interested in seeing J Adams, J Briggs, D Allan, T Burnett, J Gordon, M Goosen, S Chungh, B Brohm and R Marve. Would have loved to see Moore, Westerman, Randel and Hurl too.

Both statements are facts (Just for Mike) as I said in my original post. I started with the evaluation part. It's simply a statement on how the Bombers chose to set up this weeks roster, not a Bombers suck statement. Folks choose to react to the perceived negativity and ignore the rest and it's been totally blown out of proportion in the last day or so. We try to bring in competition across the board. We need to find several starters and some backups and hopefully some players who push out last years starters. That's the whole point of scouting, drafting and TC. That doesn't mean we have to give every one of them preseason playing time or even give them a 'real shot' at making the team. My idea is to focus our resources mostly on those who've risen to the top against CFL competition. The bottom of the roster changes, probably daily in TC. After a week of TC, some players have worked their way up the depth chart like Jhomo Gordon. Some are working their way down and some have started and stayed at the bottom. I want us to evaluate those who've risen towards the top of the depth chart at their positions more closely than those who are falling or not moving up. For example I don't think we can properly evaluate 5 RB's plus 3 FB 's behind that O line in one game. 3 RB's + 2 FB's would free up 3 spots for guys like Westerman who's never played a CFL game before and Moore who missed a lot of last season and Randle who's learning a new position.