johnzo

Give it a few games! Maybe our D is a grower, not a shower.

Just took a look at the numbers. CFL teams are putting up 59 points a game so far this season, compared to 51.75 after week 2 last year. +1 TD average is an enormous change. It's very early, though, with 6 teams having played only one game due to the wacky early season schedule. I wonder what coaches and teams think of having so many teams on bye weeks early in the season? Seems like that extra week could function as just an extra few days of camp. yeah, I'm all about letting the players have personalities on the field ... but celebrating a first down on the first drive in the first quarter is a bit much man.

hate to see that. Begelton is a massive receiver, one of my favorite non-bombers. Love those guys who can solo a passing attack no matter who's playing QB. I hope he gets better, but he's been banged up for almost a year now..

yeah, I liked his breakdown of Kiondre Smith's big catch where Lawler ran a clearout route that drew the entire Als secondary, and I like how he diagnosed the pick six as BLM taking too long to throw to the curl route. People who know about football -- if you're a receiver and you run a curl route and the ball doesn't hit you immediately, shouldn't you go find a soft spot in the D rather than standing flat-footed staring at the QB? I was taught that flat-footed receivers cause interceptions...

yeah, that's not fair of me to judge a guy by that one whiff .. but that play was the hope crusher that ended our season, so I remember it really really well and I was surprised we invited him back.

nothing except for that time that he got totally deked by gimpy Davis Alexander on a critical play in the final two minutes of the ESF. He makes that tackle, we're getting the ball back with a minute left in a one-score game. Totally not clutch.

Just a gentle reminder that our defense was best in points allowed last year. (as a team, we were third in points allowed, but the O and the ST give up points too)

Elg's corner throw to ... Singer? was sweet.

hoping you're right, but I think CFL level DBs are gonna close windows a lot faster than USports guys. question for the guys who know: do USports defences run the same schemes as CFL defences? Will Elgersma have a leg up in his presnap reads and recognition having played USports, or is it a different world in the CFL? (edit: just saw that Gcn20 says that CFL is indeed a different world when it comes to scheme a few posts back.)

🧠: CFL preseason means nothing, it's just nice to have football back. 💙: YEHAW RIDERS LOSE! 🎉 🎉 🎉

Also, all that game manager stuff that people hang on Nichols is unfair because his OC was always Lapo, and Lapo would turn Doug Flutie into a game manager if he got the chance.

I was at that game. Matty Ice was red-hot, we were up and down the field all game. Classic CFL playoff game except it ended sad for us. 100% Matty deserves recognition and fan love but he's not an all-timer.

all high profile defensive free agent new team tweets must feature a photo of free agent forcing a Blue Bomber fumble.

That would be the greatest "Osh trolls MBB" moment ever.

That MOS poker face is in midseason form.