Recent posts

#1

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: GDT Ssk at Tor, Fri June 2...

Last post by TecnoGenius - Today at 07:30:59 AM

TOR's D was horrible.  Really bad.  TOR's OL was also bad.  A far cry from the team that beat us in the GC.

https://www.argonauts.ca/2025/06/20/ryan-dinwiddie-post-game-june-20-2025/

Dinwiddie is the next Kavis Reed.  Says he's going to fire someone.  Says his team took more penalty yards than they had O yards.  Confirmed my spotting of the IB on the winning KR TD.

You know who's sitting back rubbing their hands?  MTL.  They are the big winner here.  It's gonna be hard to get 3 games back compared to MTL later in the season.

#2

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: GDT Ssk at Tor, Fri June 2...

Last post by TecnoGenius - Today at 07:15:57 AM

SSK run game vastly improved from '24.  AH33 (and Yoshi) making a massive difference.  And so far Oullette more durable than Brady!

And SSK committing a lot more to the run.  Maybe even more so than WPG, which is shocking.

Need to be sound stopping those run explosions and doing our thing of keeping most runs to 3-5Y.

#3

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: GDT Ssk at Tor, Fri June 2...

Last post by TecnoGenius - Today at 07:14:06 AM

SSK OC/Trevor doing strategic things again.  Last week they threw all to strong side until 4th Q, then they went 90% to Johnson.  This week they throw to weak side Meyers all night, and mostly ignore Johnson and the strong side.

What this tells me is they'll set up a favorite side / REC in each game, setting up the opponent to scheme for the wrong thing, then target the forgotten guy.  (Ask me how I know: fantasy last week: Meyers, fantasy this week: Johnson, LOL.)

The moral of the story is don't fixate on the #1 REC from last week.  In fact, I'd "ignore" the big guy last week, and guess who their main target will be this time.

[with a man short !!]

#4

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: GDT Ssk at Tor, Fri June 2...

Last post by TecnoGenius - Today at 07:10:46 AM

with a man short !!

Alford KR TD worked only because of refs missing:

1. Obvious IB push from behind on SSK #42 right at the point of attack to start the run (this they usually see, oh well) (this one is not visible on replays)

2. Another takedown from behind (and hold) on SSK a little farther in the run, right at the point of attack

Very typical of SSK ST, this kind of illegal tactics.  Year after year, they are the best team for ST cheating.  Why not, what do they lose here?  Worst case is they still go into OT.  But it makes it really frustrating when playing them.

Refs should be quick to flag, and let the returning team challenge if they think there isn't IB.  You can challenge a call, but they don't let you (yet) challenge a non-call.

I get my pick, but SSK gets 2 more points early in the season.  I am sad we don't get to see the meltdown of SSK losing because of a Lauther miss, though.

[242 penalty yards combined so far.]

#5

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: GDT Ssk at Tor, Fri June 2...

Last post by TecnoGenius - Today at 06:23:58 AM

242 penalty yards combined so far.

They must mean this season?  Surely 2 teams can't have 242Y in 3Q of 1 game?  While they got a ton of misconducts, those are only 10-15 each.  So if there was like 8 at the time, that's only 80-120 or so.

That TOR player pegged the situation at the halftime interview: SSK purposely does things to goad you into taking UR/MC flags.  You have to not bite.  It looks like this'll be a major strategy of SSK this year, even more so than usual.  WFC will have to be very disciplined when we face them.  Refs aren't calling the goading / first hits, they are calling the later things that they actually see.

[they were calling him "Va-ool]

#6

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: Vavool?

Last post by TecnoGenius - Today at 06:13:04 AM

I'm pretty sure they were calling him "Va-ool" on TSN. I'm guessing he misread the name as Vaual and went with this pronunciation. Listening to Bonfire After Dark, Darren Bauming mentions multiple times what the proper pronunciation is. When it comes to player names, I trust DB over Glen Suitor any day.

Now that you mention it, maybe TSN was leaving out the middle V!  It sure sounded weird.

If Mafia and Doug are saying Vahvahl then it must be right.

Now someone from WFC get the memo to TSN to get this fixed!

Thanks!

#7

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: Official Game Day Thread -...

Last post by ModAdmin - Today at 06:00:40 AM

Interview with Matthew Peterson...

#8

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: Vavool?

Last post by the.inkster - Today at 05:16:38 AM

I'm pretty sure they were calling him "Va-ool" on TSN. I'm guessing he misread the name as Vaual and went with this pronunciation. Listening to Bonfire After Dark, Darren Bauming mentions multiple times what the proper pronunciation is. When it comes to player names, I trust DB over Glen Suitor any day.

[Edmonton will stick with him because they just signed him for 3 years]

#9

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: GDT Mtl at Ott, Fri June 1...

Last post by TecnoGenius - Today at 05:00:04 AM

He's dumb as a stump when it comes to reading defenses and where to go with the ball. He's never had to develop that skill because he just ran and made plays. Well that's over now, you can't read your defense and make plays, you're done. Edmonton will stick with him because they just signed him for 3 years, massive mistake and they're going to pay for it with losses and lost games

I think you're thinking Tre Ford?  Not Tyrie Adams.  I think Tyrie is in OTT?

However, given what I've seen of Adams so far, your analysis might still be valid!

[arbuckle - man o man they need Chad back in a huge way]

#10

Blue Bomber & CFL Discussion Forum / Re: GDT Ssk at Tor, Fri June 2...

Last post by TecnoGenius - Today at 04:56:38 AM

arbuckle - man o man they need Chad back in a huge way

I don't get why TOR/Arbuckle is hucking 40Y balls.  Why not stick to the scheme that worked great in the GC?  The O is very similar.  Just dink & dunk and throw the odd 20Y zone as your "deep" pass.

Someone is screwing up by calling these deep shots for INTs and batdowns.