Official Game Day Thread - Grey Cup - Winnipeg & Toronto - Nov. 17, 2024

[bluengold204]

Just got back to the room.  Had to deal with a crying young'n at the end again.  She's so used to winning.

Well that game was a pile of hot garbage.  What a time to fill the bed up.  Our D did pretty good, held them for as long as they could.  Everything I said TOR would do they did, and our D did a good job stopping it for 3Q as long as they weren't in a bad position.

If we know exactly what TOR will do, and our QB is a #1 HOF and their QB is a has-been washed up never-was, then I don't know how you lose this game.

Buck was uncreative... again.  Zach was making the wrong choices... again.  Every player on O took turns literally dropping the ball.  Inexcusable.  The rookies really showed they were rookies.  Demski was hurt the whole time, and Kenny set the tone on the first good thing to happen to us by not being sharp.

Good thing this is the 3rd loss in a row... it's old hat to handle it.

Back to the cup next year and we better win that one let me tell you!

Not really all week you were hyping up how useless Arbuckle would be yet he had the game of his career.

[TecnoGenius]

Not really all week you were hyping up how useless Arbuckle would be yet he had the game of his career.

Arbuckle is useless.  He's only useful if you define that as throwing behind LoS and 8 and 10Y outs and easy 12Y zone sits all night.  I never said he wouldn't make those plays.  Everyone can make those plays.

However, because of that TOR D that's all he needed to do.  If we had tried to match grind for grind we probably would have won, but we decided that we wanted to chuck deep into double coverage and drop the ball on the short route passes all night, as well as screw up a ton elsewhere too.

You make it sound like Arbuckle will be a #1 next year.  He won't.  Once again he'll be lucky to be a #2.

Good for him for being the vessel to exorcise Dinwiddie's demons.  TOR put together a vastly better game plan.  They probably were working on it all year (on the D side at least) since they knew it was going to be vs WPG.  I'm happy for Arbuckle, he achieved the unachievable for his station, but it sucks that it's at our expense.

[TecnoGenius]

I just heard Zach was playing with a badly injured throwing hand all 4th.  We had no idea at the stadium.  I was wondering why Wilson was in for a super critical redzone try.

What a shambles.  I guess TOR did succeed in taking out our players: Zach and Kramdi.

I guess that excuses Zach's horrific play later in the game.

[bluengold204]

Arbuckle is useless.  He's only useful if you define that as throwing behind LoS and 8 and 10Y outs and easy 12Y zone sits all night.  I never said he wouldn't make those plays.  Everyone can make those plays.

However, because of that TOR D that's all he needed to do.  If we had tried to match grind for grind we probably would have won, but we decided that we wanted to chuck deep into double coverage and drop the ball on the short route passes all night, as well as screw up a ton elsewhere too.

You make it sound like Arbuckle will be a #1 next year.  He won't.  Once again he'll be lucky to be a #2.

Good for him for being the vessel to exorcise Dinwiddie's demons.  TOR put together a vastly better game plan.  They probably were working on it all year (on the D side at least) since they knew it was going to be vs WPG.  I'm happy for Arbuckle, he achieved the unachievable for his station, but it sucks that it's at our expense.

Eh I'll let you rewatch the game 1000 times over but Arbuckle grossly out played Collaros (even before his little finger cut).  If that gets him a starters job next year or not (which I don't think so either) he was the better player today.

[bluengold204]

I just heard Zach was playing with a badly injured throwing hand all 4th.  We had no idea at the stadium.  I was wondering why Wilson was in for a super critical redzone try.

What a shambles.  I guess TOR did succeed in taking out our players: Zach and Kramdi.

I guess that excuses Zach's horrific play later in the game.

Zach was like 50% passing 1TD and 1int before the injury.  It wasn't his best game regardless.

[Pigskin]

I just heard Zach was playing with a badly injured throwing hand all 4th.  We had no idea at the stadium.  I was wondering why Wilson was in for a super critical redzone try.

What a shambles.  I guess TOR did succeed in taking out our players: Zach and Kramdi.

I guess that excuses Zach's horrific play later in the game.

You didn't see ZC8 run off to the Bombers locker room late in the 3rd. quarter.

[Pigskin]

Zach was like 50% passing 1TD and 1int before the injury.  It wasn't his best game regardless.

Sad to say, ZC8 did not have a passing TD tonight.

[dd]

Say what you want about the boring dink and dunk offense, arbuckle rode that all the way to a grey cup victory and grey cup MVP. Dink and dunk offense rules!!

[dd]

Sad to say, ZC8 did not have a passing TD tonight.

He hasn't had one in the last 3 grey cups we lost....hmmmm could there be a coincidence there!?! Me thinks there is!!

[Pigskin]

I enjoyed watching WJ5 play tonight. 6 DTs, 2 Sacks, 1 INT, 1 FF. Willie had himself a game. 

[CrazyCanuck89]

I just heard Zach was playing with a badly injured throwing hand all 4th.  We had no idea at the stadium.  I was wondering why Wilson was in for a super critical redzone try.

What a shambles.  I guess TOR did succeed in taking out our players: Zach and Kramdi.

I guess that excuses Zach's horrific play later in the game.

How could you have no idea?  He left game bleeding.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

How could you have no idea?  He left game bleeding.

Supervising 2 young kids at a crowded football game, not that hard to comprehend.

[Blue In BC]

Clearly Demski was not close to 100% and then had another setback. Wheatfall and Clercius didn't get many opportunities but they aren't our game breakers. We had lots of heavy OL sets and couldn't use it well to establish our run game.

Sure Collaros didn't have his best game but he really only had 2 receivers to throw to. OC play calling was horrible.

[blue_gold_84]

I enjoyed watching WJ5 play tonight. 6 DTs, 2 Sacks, 1 INT, 1 FF. Willie had himself a game. 

Jefferson was on a mission last night. I thought by and large the defense played well outside of a few whiffs and miscues, but they could only do so much with how poorly the offense performed. Another lousy gameplan against a very solid defense.

What an embarrassing loss.

[bomb squad]

This is what usually happens if you have a backup quarterback who hasn't played and your starter gets injured. You're toast. Up until then it was still anybody's game. It was quite apparent Collaros couldn't throw with the finger, but they stuck with him anyway because they had 0 confidence in the backup. Guaranteed that was O'Shea's decision.