Official Game Day Thread - Winnipeg at Calgary - June 29, 2024

[Pigskin]

Don't give up the deep balls, no turn overs, run the ball and keep our O on the field.

[TecnoGenius]

Looking out my front window in calgary this second and there is not a cloud in the sky! ☀️

Game time temp is forecast to be +22C! Let's have some football and beers and bbq's! Will need to Check out HUFF's Hut! 😎

Sounds great ichabod.  Hope you're having a good one!  Wish I could be there.  Love me some Calgary and McMahon.  The city always treats me right.

I have no hope for us in this one.  But that puts me in the nice situation of having no nerves watching on TV.  Every single positive will be gravy.  Any bad things will just be expected.

The best I think we can hope for is to continue to weed out the gems in order to get stronger for the future.

[Jesse]

A good balanced offence slows down the pass rush. Can we stop running up the gut on play 1 of our 1st series please.

Oliveria is angry and I think that's a good thing. Let him loose.

Sorry, run up the gut, lol.

[markf]

lol, first series  two runs up the middle 😂

[bomb squad]

That wasn't pretty

[TecnoGenius]

Bombers have money to spend, it's just fitting it into the sms cap is the issue. I don't care if they even go over $100,000 on the cap IF THEY truly think they can pull out of this slide. They can afford it. Almost chicken feed with their incoming revenue right now. GC IN Winnipeg next year is even more assured cash flow.

Ya, whenever I say "afford" I mean "cap".  No one cares about the "real world" OOP money in WFC-land.  As for the going $100k over... there's an optics standpoint and accusations of "cheating".  It's not really encouraged even if it's "allowed".  I'm not sure the league will look kindly on doing it "on purpose" in an obvious way.

Plus, you need some breathing room for any accidental/forced overages.

[The Zipp]

Ugly start for both offences...

[TecnoGenius]

I also want to see this team get through this game without losing any more players to injury.

This will be key.  We have stop taking steps backwards.  The injury demons must be exorcised.  Our luck has to turn, then we can slowly turn the corner eventually.

[bomb squad]

So far so good on D

[The Zipp]

I like Chris Smith - I think he has potential

[Jesse]

Ugly start for both offences...

I wouldn't call anything ugly so far. A couple 2 and outs, but no egregious mistakes or anything.

[TecnoGenius]

So far we're playing basically as expected.

So far CGY playing worse than I expected, but not by much.  Somehow our D manages not to be complete garbage even though half of them are on the IR.  It's actually quite amazing.

Tip to Maier: throw deep 25% of the time like VAJ.

[TecnoGenius]

I wouldn't call anything ugly so far. A couple 2 and outs, but no egregious mistakes or anything.

What happened to our first (scripted) drives going 40-60 yards & scores like we did all 2021 mid 2023?

Going 2 & out twice to start is "bad team" territory, not GC-worthy team performance.

[The Zipp]

Awe is a cheap and dirty player

[TecnoGenius]

I saw that offside live.  It was lining up offside by 1 or 2 guys.

I can't even recall the last time that ever happened.  It's literally not a thing.  Gotta figure out who did that one.  That's not acceptable and it's only luck that we're not punting right now.