Official Game Day Thread - Toronto at Winnipeg - September 29, 2023

[Pete]

agree with the comment about lawler, he didnt get any separation from the dbs all night. And on defense when are we gonna make opposing rookie qbs earn the 12 yard cushion we are giving them. It makes them look like allstars

[Horseman]

Oliveira was down. You could see he was tackled hit the ground ball popped out same rind he hit the ground

Nope, right call was made fumble recovered by Toronto.

[Blitzer]

I'm not sure clinching first place that early is a good thing. Toronto has been playing like they're possessed all year. Let's see how they respond in the playoffs when it gets serious again. This will be interesting.

[BBRT]

Nope, right call was made fumble recovered by Toronto.

I agree while I think it was very close there was not enough evidence to rule otherwise.

[The Zipp]

Toronto DB's are fast - their closing speed is very good and they play aggressive and tight coverage. 

Oulette barely played and when he did, he torched our defence.  TO is for real and if they don't lose focus and get rusty they will be in the Grey Cup. 

[buckzumhoff]

He torched our defense?  What would you call what Oliveira did to their defense. And we don't hide the fact we are running right at them. What was the  yardage. Could have would have . Oulette had one good run outside and a broken play pass where Duke ran for his life to buy time and finally found oulette open in the middle

[Pigskin]

D was asleep again for the first 20 minutes of the game. Will have to play solid D for 60 minutes again BC.

[J5V]

Grant hasn't played since week 5.

I know but I thought he was due back for this game. It was one of the reasons I was looking forward to this game. Is he still not ready? Wow.

[TecnoGenius]

Haven't read the thread yet (working on it), so maybe it's been said already...  Just wanted to say that I've never actually lost my mind @IGF.  Well, I lost my mind when whoever that was on our D went offside on the 3rd & medium @CYL.  We were just talking about this the other day here.  TOR plays the little 3rd down offside game more than anyone else.  I'm screaming don't go offside, don't go offside, it's a bluff.  Dude goes offside.  I totally lost my bleepity bleep right there in the stands.

Sorry to the fans sitting around me. 

I didn't catch what player it was, but when I do (on rewatch), that guy's gonna be on my poop list for a long time.  Hands down wins the "dumbest play of the year" award.

[Pigskin]

Well, it was Mr. Wilson.

[Horseman]

Toronto sat Ouellette for most of the game and if they didn't take Dukes out in the 4th quarter and put #5  in at QB, we may not have won this game. Our Achilles heel this year continues to be our special teams play. I don't think we win the GC if we make it there because of our special teams.

[TecnoGenius]

Oh ya, my other big takeaway from this game... Kenny needs to start showing why he's the highest paid WR.  Many games in a row now where he's dropsies and whiffs and almost-INTs.  He's paid the big bucks to win the 50/50.  So far he's like a 10/90.  He'll seriously have to be reconsidered in the off-season if he does nothing through December.  We can pay ELC money to a rookie IMP to dropsie and whiff.

Lawler's salary is probably half the reason we don't have the DL talent we need.

Speaking of DL... where were they tonight?  Making nobody QB look like an seasoned vet.

We won, but as you can see, I'm not super happy about it.

[Ducky]

Very underwhelming win.

[TecnoGenius]

1Q11:59 Demski hitch screen, he's getting lots of YAC and YAFC with defenders hanging all over him.  He's basically wrapped up and held motionless and TOR #30 Jones(?) comes in and crowns his facemask in a clear spear, he actually jumps off of his two feet.  There's actually 4 other TOR D hanging onto Demski when #30 makes the hit.

It's really nasty and obvious and I can't believe a) refs didn't see it, and b) EITS didn't intervene to call it.  If you want pics, I can post pics.  CFL needs to fine the guy.  It was Simoni-level bad.  I'm shocked Demski just shook it off; maybe should have attended the Cody School Of Writhing to ensure EITS takes a look.  (Sorry if someone posted about this already, it's my 4am rewatch vent time...)

And thanks TSN for making the only replay one that is behind Demski so you can't see the illegal hit.

[TecnoGenius]

When we face Oullette in the GC and our DL is trying to bring him down before he rushes by, don't arm tackle him like Willie tried to, grab for the hair.  Cracked eggs guy has a mane as long as Grant's.  And you can't miss it as it's (dyed?) platinum blond.  And it's perfectly legal.  Grab that hair and don't let go.  Maybe there's some special gloves D's can wear that sticks to hair real well.  Just sayin'