Official Game Day Thread - Winnipeg at Ottawa - June 13, 2024

[GOLDMEMBER]

I'm concerned. BC next week.

[Blueforlife]

Zach and OL to blame on this one

[Road Griller]

There is no trend yet other than they are coming off multiple Grey Cup appearances.

5 losses in a row and a hungry BC team coming in Friday.  Zero TD passes, Zero points heading into week 3.

The team is trending in the wrong direction unfortunately.

[TecnoGenius]

Well, I did say whoever lost the MTL@WPG game was going to go .250 in their first 6 games.  That's us.

And whoever won was going to go .750 in their first 6.

The tone has been set.  Get ready for mega suckage!

[Pete]

be a lot of changes for next game. or there should be;
Wilson - poor play
Mitchell - same
Haba injured
Nichols injured
Fox injured

Obvious some players past their expiry date... Alexander, Thomas, even Neufeld is looking old.
We handed positions to certain players ie Wilson and Mitchel with them not showing anything in preseason and we are paying for it.

[TecnoGenius]

I'm concerned. BC next week.

Yup, no game is "easy" for the next few weeks.  And we don't get a reprieve via a bye until week 10!!

We could easily do worse than .250!!

Instead of beating MTL at home to set the tone, we let them hose us, and now when OTT comes to town in week 5 we'll be hard pressed to even win that one!

[Blueforlife]

Injuries will really limit our early season success

Need to get on the horn

[Blue In BC]

Yeah, Wilson seemed to give up on that ball. It would have given us 1 more play possibly;

I don't understand 3 passes from the 7 yard line, at least not those types of passes. A short screen would have at least run the clock down if we did score in that series.

I might have even put in Streveler to make the defence worry about him running or rolling out to pass.

We were very predictable. Yes, we looked like a team that used poor strategy in pre season not letting veterans get some reps.

The play calling and rust showed in both our games. Now we have major injury issues and the Lions up next. Not a good start.

[Big Daddy]

5 losses in a row and a hungry BC team coming in Friday.  Zero TD passes, Zero points heading into week 3.

The team is trending in the wrong direction unfortunately.

Including 2 preseason games as part of a 5 game losing trend is just ridiculous.

Two losses to open the season is bad enough.

You don't need to embellish.

[dd]

Missed the game tonight, glad I did. I said we'll be lucky to be 3-3 after the first 6 games, we're 0-2 and just lost to Ottawa, yikes, 3-3 almost seems out of reach. We play the Lions next, don't like the sound of 0-3 but its coming.....

[TecnoGenius]

On those 3 pass tries it was exactly the same problem as week 1 (and the GC): Zach waiting just that bit too long to pull the trigger.  It's his new M.O.

On a short pass you need to pull that trigger fast so the D's don't have time to get to those routes!

As long as he's going to do that, we shouldn't even try the contested short routes.  I'm appalled we have no timing routes and timing outs.  I think in the last 6 games I've seen one timing route (GC I think, was brilliant).  Look at Cody in MTL: it's mostly all timing routes!

On the bright side, this forum is gonna light up as all heck tonight and tomorrow!  Already seeing lots of new guys / lurkers.  Welcome all!

[Big Daddy]

Missed the game tonight, glad I did. I said we'll be lucky to be 3-3 after the first 6 games, we're 0-2 and just lost to Ottawa, yikes, 3-3 almost seems out of reach. We play the Lions next, don't like the sound of 0-3 but its coming.....

It's a week away.  Hasn't happened yet.

[Blueforlife]

Including 2 preseason games as part of a 5 game losing trend is just ridiculous.

Two losses to open the season is bad enough.

You don't need to embellish.

Don't feed him after midnight lol

[TecnoGenius]

It's a week away.  Hasn't happened yet.

Ya, if BC plays remotely how they are "supposed to" this week, we'll get creamed at home in 1 week.

Hall showed us in '23 WDF that the only way to beat BC is with your D.  Our D was stinky with the starters, now it'll be putrid with 3 more raw rookies starting.

Our O is in no way going to put up the 45 we'll need to keep up with BC next week.

I'd take a wager we'll once again be the lowest-scoring team of the week.  Every team broke 20 pts in week 1 except us.  Once again, we didn't crack 20 in week 2.

[Big Daddy]

On those 3 pass tries it was exactly the same problem as week 1 (and the GC): Zach waiting just that bit too long to pull the trigger.  It's his new M.O.

On a short pass you need to pull that trigger fast so the D's don't have time to get to those routes!

As long as he's going to do that, we shouldn't even try the contested short routes.  I'm appalled we have no timing routes and timing outs.  I think in the last 6 games I've seen one timing route (GC I think, was brilliant).  Look at Cody in MTL: it's mostly all timing routes!

On the bright side, this forum is gonna light up as all heck tonight and tomorrow!  Already seeing lots of new guys / lurkers.  Welcome all!

Indeed - great to see more people joining in.  Bomber fan base increasing is always positive.