Official Game Day Thread - Toronto@Winnipeg, July 10, 2026

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

This was the first game where I had hope that this team could go places this season, even with the pick and turnover on punt, our offense moved the ball, would be nice to score more majors but heck that will come

Even with Brown not convinced they can beat the Stamps, Riders or Als yet but we'll see, protecting the QB from ferocious pass rush is my biggest concern. Brown took his life in his hands yesterday when he backed up to throw that short pass to Demski and got ran over and buried by 2 D-linemen from behind, that was a mistake that risked his health which he can't afford to make again.

[dd]

We can run with and beat any of them. When your offense can sustain drives score a few points and keep the other team off the field you got a chance and that's all you can ask for 

[Tecno]

Even with Brown not convinced they can beat the Stamps, Riders or Als yet but we'll see

Where did you hear that?

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

Where did you hear that?

Wut???  I'm just making it up as I go.

[Tecno]

The CFL did not rewrite the rule back then; instead it issued a statement with the amended interpretation.

I miss the days of greater transparency via Ask the Ref or an alternate media site which published rules interpretations. The current media site is very basic.

Thanks Junkie.  Ugh, yet another example of "whisper rules" dominating the officiating.  "Memos" issued that are not public being used to decide penalties.  It almost seems shady.  And I get called tinfoil a lot partly for my "conspiracy theories" about the rule book not being the rule book all the time.

Do the teams get these memos, or just the officials?

So we have a rule book that lists rules that are actually not rules -- or have major contradicting caveats.

I guess that explains why tandem block is never called anymore.  I guarantee there was a memo for that one after Proulx dared call it 5+ years back.  As a fan, this is all very frustrating.  If they don't want to clutter up the main book, attach an addendum that contains all the memos issued.

[Tecno]

Something caused a change in the player's attitude.

See my "putting in more work" thread.  This is that.  Someone, or everyone, realized they weren't going to win anything by spending 1 hour at 1 practice 1 time a week.  Not when the good teams were putting in max effort all the time.

The good teams training like Drago in Rocky 4.  And we were training like Paulie.

Maybe after 2019 we were able to just slide on through on momentum and raw talent.  Did it take until 2026 to realize we're back to being the 2016-2018 Bombers, who have to work twice as hard to scrape every win?

This is a great sign that we're finally getting buy-in.  Maybe it's by consensus, or maybe a leader is emerging.  We can't know yet.

[Tecno]

Can't recall if anyone checked yet, so I did.  The MOS timeout followed by the Vaval KRTD was for a too-many-men.  We had 13.  11 on line, 1 just behind line, Vaval behind the post.  No wonder MOS dropped like 3 f-bombs.

You can just make them out to count on the live shot before the snap.

Some people had suspected already.  Just confirming it.

[Sway]

Can't recall if anyone checked yet, so I did.  The MOS timeout followed by the Vaval KRTD was for a too-many-men.  We had 13.  11 on line, 1 just behind line, Vaval behind the post.  No wonder MOS dropped like 3 f-bombs.

You can just make them out to count on the live shot before the snap.

Some people had suspected already.  Just confirming it.

Thanks for checking

Alot of people giving Oshea credit for icing the kicker..... I doubt he even believes in that, especially with 9 minutes left.

Even 50 year cfl analyst Glen Suitor thought too many men,  but the they never did a proper replay

[tlf]

Thanks for checking

Alot of people giving Oshea credit for icing the kicker..... I doubt he even believes in that, especially with 9 minutes left.

Even 50 year cfl analyst Glen Suitor thought too many men,  but the they never did a proper replay

Whatever it was, it worked! They mentioned on OB they may have had too many men, but it still ended up icing the kicker as the refs didn't catch it. 

[Sir Blue and Gold]

Thanks for checking

Alot of people giving Oshea credit for icing the kicker..... I doubt he even believes in that, especially with 9 minutes left.

Even 50 year cfl analyst Glen Suitor thought too many men,  but the they never did a proper replay

We had too many, could see it live. Didn't notice in the formation but after we used the timeout someone ran off and no one came back on.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

Can't recall if anyone checked yet, so I did.  The MOS timeout followed by the Vaval KRTD was for a too-many-men.  We had 13.  11 on line, 1 just behind line, Vaval behind the post.  No wonder MOS dropped like 3 f-bombs.

You can just make them out to count on the live shot before the snap.

Some people had suspected already.  Just confirming it.

Was that the same play Vaval was signalling furiously?  Looks like he's the one that caught it.

[Blueforlife]

How much did TO miss Judge? Who was playing in his spot?

[bunker]

Judge was replaced by Owen Goss. I was surprised at how well he played. There was one play in particular where he saw Brady leaking out of the backfield on a screen. He  quickly closed on him even before he caught the ball, beat a block from Wallace (who has no foot speed whatsoever in the open field), and tackled him for a loss. Occurs at 10:48 3rd quarter.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

Judge was replaced by Owen Goss. I was surprised at how well he played. There was one play in particular where he saw Brady leaking out of the backfield on a screen. He  quickly closed on him even before he caught the ball, beat a block from Wallace (who has no foot speed whatsoever in the open field), and tackled him for a loss. Occurs at 10:48 3rd quarter.

Excellent find by the Argos who never seem able to hold onto their linebackers for very long, mark him as one to watch.

[bunker]

Excellent find by the Argos who never seem able to hold onto their linebackers for very long, mark him as one to watch.

Yeah, he actually sacked Brown midway throught the second quarter as well. Had a pick six against Dolegala in preseason as well.

He's a rookie the argos signed straight out of college. I can't ever see JY and the bombers starting a rookie linebacker on defense. Would have to go to PR for a season, then 2 seasons of special teams, then maybe rotated in for the odd play in their 4th year  . I'm being a bit sarcastic, but only a bit. To be fair, Jaylen Smith is getting fairly regular reps on defense right now, and is only in his second year.