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That's called blocking.

Get Haba an Uber to the airport.

Bombers D playing "no you go first" at point of attack and giving away free yards.

More points and more net yards, fewer turnovers by QB than first half last week. They can't get Bomber offense off the field.

MBT screen to Tony Jones.

Bryant loses his feet and gets Collaros crushed.

Smart move to make this a 4 possession game 😐

I like when Proulx looks at his fingers to make sure they match what he's saying.

Lucky is running on E

CFL needs to stick the umpire just outside widest guy on line on those 3rd down plays. Maybe they'd have a chance of getting a proper spot.

What an awful spot. The ball didn't cross the 50. Not even close.

He's got 15-20 there before contact if Neufeld makes that block 2nd level.

Kolankowski and Neufeld both held. Lucky got away with that play.

****. Catch the ball.

Both his arms are down at different times of play before ball is out.

Why? Because it's not a video game and you want to have some success with the guys who are going to play the next game against that same team that matters. They aren't playing to support or disprove fan hype trains. Plus there's not a ton of "backups" on the roster really to the point you can just sit some guys down in a regular season game mid-game. They will sit a ton of guys if there is a meaningless game in the last two weeks.

All their huge run games this year were with MBT at QB. They run more, they average less per carry but just grind teams down. Again, with MBT actually being able to pass vs Ford you can't have your HB's, safety eyes in the backfield or you'll get roasted out wide by any number of routes, screens etc. Having to defend the whole field is a huge advantage to the O and why Ford is so limited in terms of being able to run an offense at this level.

Wilson showed no ability to go vertical in pre-season. His average pass was less than 6 yards downfield in the home preseason game. The vertical stuff is the whole passing offense. Dolegala is clearly the better option immediately. Dolegala did alright with Sask considering they couldn't protect. His results were almost exactly the same in terms of stats as Harris last year with Sask. A team right at the SMS limit isn't looking to bring in another 6 figure QB when they already have almost $900,000 sunk in their top 2 QB's.

Wow that Jefferson bobblehead is something. Generic African-American dude who looks nothing like Willie.

Going to be a much tougher game defensively because MBT can hit every route on the field and Edmonton is loaded up to run the ball too.

And lack of elite targets, vets, big targets. We switched to a receiving corps of 200 lbs plus dudes to a bunch of short skinny guys. Collaros has always shined with big dudes with his style of vertical offense. Think we've always had guys like Adams, Ellingson, Bailey in those 3-4-5 roles along with Demski and Wolitarsky. This year it's been Wilson...then elevated to 1-2, Josh Johnson, Wolitarsky in and out, dinged most of year. Demski has been 1-2 target most of season. Lawler and Schoen COMBINED have 400 yards receiving this year which is about 11% of our total passing yards this year.

4 previous games for Elks with MBT...9 TD passes...37, 35, 17, 47 points. Ford scored 1 TD and turned it over 4 times in less than 3 quarters. Starting Ford was a classic "if it ain't broke, don't break it." Maybe trying to sell tickets....but might have cost themselves a playoff spot to do it. Lots of ways to integrate Ford as a weapon to be a better team. Starting him ain't it.

To a large extent you can only throw what opens up against the coverage. Edmonton drops 3-4 every single down and if it's 3 or less there's a cut cover in there too. Not much opportunity to bust off a corner route on them. Saw in second half a lot more routes where there were double posts for example to open up someone else running a dig under. Big play to Wheatfall and TD to Wilson both. Bombers really need to open up quick stuff to get ball out wide and force a D like that to make a tackle. Our receivers in general seem to not be on the same page as Collaros when it comes to attack those zone looks vertically, especially Lawler. Guy dropping out and guy bracketing overtop doesn't mean run corner between them, means flatten out and get to the numbers/sideline for the ball. Lawler should be playing boundary wideout IMO. He's most likely to get 1 on 1 vs a DB there if Bombers run routes to isolate him.

This is nonsense. Bombers were loading up for run and especially disciplined backside for any read option stuff. They mostly played with 3 linemen B to B and everyone else free off the line. Yeah Edmonton hit a couple big ones and a couple more 7-8 yarders. But they weren’t going to drive for TDs without a passing threat. Realistically their best chance of winning is MBT playing most snaps and Ford as a gadget/change of pace guy. If anything they waited too long to switch and probably should have done it at half.

Yeah sweeping back to backs with BC and Saskatchewan (aka the last two teams we've played in West Final and the 2nd-3rd place teams in West) mean nothing.