Bombers @ Riders.

[peg_city]

Looking at the last 10 years, the best team in the regular season won the Grey Cup 4/10 times. There were some unexpected winners, including Montreal last year, Toronto the year before (4th best team), Winnipeg in 2019, Ottawa etc

[dd]

Riders always play us tough at home, and Patterson didn't look that bad last game. I see the riders winning this one

[TecnoGenius]

Riders won't have Hardrick this week. Oullette didn't come out out the game unscathed. He'll play but might be limited.

Oullette is always like that.  He gets dinged badly so often, and, like Schoen, often comes up looking like he's dying.  But he just keeps on going.

I think he learned from AH33 that you need to be "available" (IR-free) to make it early in your CFL career.  I also think AJ has a bit of the cray-cray.  Pretty sure that dude will play through basically anything.  He's like Strev: but short, and with more muscles.

But SSK is missing a lot of players, DL, Yoshi, Trevor.  I think WPG is still more wounded right now, but SSK is rapidly catching up.

[TecnoGenius]

It's scary how easy he runs his routes and catches the ball, I'm not sure how he can defended against effectively when Adams is slinging the ball so well.

McInnis totally reminds me of CGY's Rogers 8 years ago.  Same huge body, just block out DBs behind you, and also get those deliberately-high balls because you're 8" taller than everyone.

Roger's achilles heel was that those huge-yet-not-beefy guys get very injury-prone and tend to have short(ish) careers.

[TecnoGenius]

The takeaways from the SSK@BC game:

1) SSK DBs will undercut routes and ballhawk ya, but at the expense of consistency, giving up big explosions.

2) SSK DBs were garbage in zone, we need our smartest Rs to find the holes and soft spots and take advantage, especially mid/deep.  This will work well early in drives.

3) SSK very good against the run, especially when it's expected, we might have to focus on the mid pass game and go easy on the run, or run on 2nd & long when unexpected.

4) Emilus seems to be their only hot hand right now, cover him and we're good.

5) Shut down the mullet man.  Focus on taking away the run.  Limit them to 0 or 1 run explosions, tops.

6) Send lots of pressure on Patterson, combo run blitz and pass blitz.  Patterson is green and clearly is not mobile, has few good targets, and will get flustered.

7) Avoid the short-gain wide outs, that's where the hawks dwell.

Very winnable game, even with that rabid crowd (who will be much diminished due to losing ~20% of their STH).  We have our own problems, but if we limit turnovers we should have it.

[Blue In BC]

I think we escaped the game against the Stamps with no injuries? That doesn't mean we don't change the AR this week.

Garbutt and Hallett are the only players on the 6 game IR eligible to come off now. Both have been practising recently.

Will Garbutt be activated this week? I don't know what his injury was or whether he may still need more time even though he has been practising.

I'm not sure about Hallett. Who would he replace at the moment if he's ready to dress for the game? He'd only be used on ST's at best, so that's not an immediate need.

This is a game I think we can and will win. Aside from having a little momentum, it's another situation of needing to gain an edge in season series.

Practice reports will be interesting to see what might be going on.

[GOLDMEMBER]

We seem to be hitting our straight offensively just in time to face quality Roughriders defence.

I can also see us getting good pressure on depleted Roughriders OL.

I know a few fans making the trip,

I'm jealous

[theaardvark]

I think we escaped the game against the Stamps with no injuries? That doesn't mean we don't change the AR this week.

Garbutt and Hallett are the only players on the 6 game IR eligible to come off now. Both have been practising recently.

Will Garbutt be activated this week? I don't know what his injury was or whether he may still need more time even though he has been practising.

I'm not sure about Hallett. Who would he replace at the moment if he's ready to dress for the game? He'd only be used on ST's at best, so that's not an immediate need.

This is a game I think we can and will win. Aside from having a little momentum, it's another situation of needing to gain an edge in season series.

Practice reports will be interesting to see what might be going on.

If Garbutt comes off, Lucky O probably goes back to PR.

If Hallet comes off, not surprised to see him got to PR just in case.

Going to SSK with the same roster as last game will be great.  Can Lucky crack the AR for Johnson or Mitchell?

[Jesse]

I think it's a pretty safe bet that Garbutt comes on.

I would like to see Whitehead added to the roster in place of Mitchell, but not super confident in that.

Brian Cole apparently only saw 2 defensive snaps last game and is missing from practice today. Something to watch.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

I think it's a pretty safe bet that Garbutt comes on.

I would like to see Whitehead added to the roster in place of Mitchell, but not super confident in that.

Brian Cole apparently only saw 2 defensive snaps last game and is missing from practice today. Something to watch.

Maybe being surpassed by others, sliding down the path of Lawrence and Darby towards the PR then on out the door. 

Edit: Got ahead of myself, on the Practice Report it lists Cole as out with illness, maybe an infection of the thorax?.

[Blue In BC]

I think it's a pretty safe bet that Garbutt comes on.

I would like to see Whitehead added to the roster in place of Mitchell, but not super confident in that.

Brian Cole apparently only saw 2 defensive snaps last game and is missing from practice today. Something to watch.

That's what most of think probably. Cole is fighting some sort of illness so he could get bumped this week depending on how he's feeling.

Lucky O didn't practice today so all f this could result in Jones coming in at LB this week.

While I said we didn't appear to add any new injuries, the daily report shows a bunch of starters as DNP. Bryant, Demski and Oliveria but I think this is maintenance.  This has been a carry over for a couple of weeks.

[Blueforlife]

Slowing starting to get healthy and roster decisions will become harder as we go forward.

Hope Cole is ok.  I see no reason to rush Lucky.

Keen to see what Garbutt can do, hopefully he is 100%.  He will need a couple games to season.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

Anyone know where Lucky Whitehead slotted in practice today?

[Blue In BC]

A few roster moves made today.  Tony Jones and Kody Case added. Chris Smith and M. Mitchell moved to PR.

I expected we might see Jones due to Cole's illness. I didn't expect Smith to be bumped. That said, Case fills two roles including a back up receiver I suppose.

It's a short week, so this might just be rotating in some fresh legs. I do think Jones could be a good player on ST's and this may be a replacement for Cole if he's not 100%. He might be headed to 1 game IR?

If Garbutt and Whitehead are going to play we won't hear about that until the depth chart if out.

[Jesse]

A few roster moves made today.  Tony Jones and Kody Case added. Chris Smith and M. Mitchell moved to PR.

I expected we might see Jones due to Cole's illness. I didn't expect Smith to be bumped. That said, Case fills two roles including a back up receiver I suppose.

It's a short week, so this might just be rotating in some fresh legs. I do think Jones could be a good player on ST's and this may be a replacement for Cole if he's not 100%. He might be headed to 1 game IR?

If Garbutt and Whitehead are going to play we won't hear about that until the depth chart if out.

Roster moves pretty much guarantee it.