Official Game Day Thread - Winnipeg at Montreal, July 1, 2023

[BLUEBOMBER]

Clearly Swaray was tested a lot and more often than not, he lost.

[theaardvark]

Awesome win.  Definitive? Convincing? Compelling?

Not happy with a couple of late hits, on the TD, and going OB, or the play where Willie gets his helmet turned around... "player safety" keeps getting mentioned yet these plays get no calls.

Someone mentioned Leggs, well.. hopefully Sheahan cleans his game up...

Missing some key parts, and still took it to MTL in MTL... flushed that bad game nicely.

[theaardvark]

Clearly Swaray was tested a lot and more often than not, he lost.

Led the team in tackles, allowed some receptions, sure, but held them to zero YAC.  Had a strip as well.... I think he did pretty darned good.

Funny hearing him after the strip commenting on Houston always being there to scoop up the ball... really seems to have a nose for that...

[Jockitch]

Big kudos to the OL blocking for Oli and others running the ball.   Also Bailey certainly can take on all opponents

[GOLDMEMBER]

Well done Bombers.....BA's pick and huge return was the turning point in the game.   Our O-line pounded the Als as we amassed 120 yards for BO and McCrae also picked up close to 50.     What I like was BO pounding back to back 1st downs late in the game....just eating up the clock.    Allowing only a 3 burger is redemption for our D and Zach made plays when he had to.    

Calgary at home next up and we should get our home field record started...

Hell yes! Zach had time to throw the ball!

[3rdand1.5]

Much better week....

Zack only one sack

Our D-line with so much pressure...man Faj is hard to bring down

BO what thorax....

Specials had a few blips, and need to be cleaned up

[Pigskin]

Hell yes! Zach had time to throw the ball!

Had Murphy wide open and didn't see him.

[TecnoGenius]

Had Murphy wide open and didn't see him.

Zach was under big pressure that play.  Not enough time to look over.  Murphy was 5th read.  Not enough time.

[ModAdmin]

CFL Stats for the Winnipeg at Montreal game...

https://d3ham790trbkqy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CFL_2023_Gm_23_WPG_at_MTL.pdf

[Tiger]

Just think, we're doing ok against a mid-tier team with half our DB starters injured, and half our star receivers sitting out.

Bingo!

[3rdand1.5]

Lot's of info on the stats link, did i miss TOP?

[TBURGESS]

IMO The game was tighter than the score showed. Turnovers & close penalties won it for us.

The first PI that Montreal challenged was really close. I wouldn't have called it. First TD on that set of downs.

The OPI on Montreal would have been challenged if Montreal still had one. Our DB was all over their receiver when the ball was in the air.

They fumbled in points territory and threw a pick on the one yard line that sealed the game for us when we got our second TD.

Montreal is better than I expected them to be. They look like the #2 team in the east to me.

[dd]

Ya, those claiming that Montreal was the worst team in the league are out to lunch. The game was way closer than the score would suggest. They're a contender for sure.

[Sir Blue and Gold]

IMO The game was tighter than the score showed. Turnovers & close penalties won it for us.

The first PI that Montreal challenged was really close. I wouldn't have called it. First TD on that set of downs.

The OPI on Montreal would have been challenged if Montreal still had one. Our DB was all over their receiver when the ball was in the air.

They fumbled in points territory and threw a pick on the one yard line that sealed the game for us when we got our second TD.

Montreal is better than I expected them to be. They look like the #2 team in the east to me.

Not really. We dominated both lines and that made it hard for Montreal to be consistent. Weather like that always brings both teams towards the average. The Als have given up 15 sacks in three games. That's horrendous and will catch up to them. You can always pick out a few plays and say if this was different or that was different it would have been closer/changed outcome.

[BBRT]

IMO The game was tighter than the score showed. Turnovers & close penalties won it for us.

The first PI that Montreal challenged was really close. I wouldn't have called it. First TD on that set of downs.

The OPI on Montreal would have been challenged if Montreal still had one. Our DB was all over their receiver when the ball was in the air.

They fumbled in points territory and threw a pick on the one yard line that sealed the game for us when we got our second TD.

Montreal is better than I expected them to be. They look like the #2 team in the east to me.

Agree 100% I think Montreal will be there at the end of the season. As for the Bombers reasonable win against an average team. Still work to do but progress made. We have Calgary in our house next - should be a good game but Calgary is a little light on the WR side these days.