GDT Mtl at Edm, Thu June 19, 8:00PM

[Blueforlife]

Ford hurt his leg on his last scramble but played last series and looked fine

[Sir Blue and Gold]

At least all the garbage time stats means we're probably going to get Tre on the short week next Thursday.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

Als weakness appears to be at RB, Thomas-Erlington has always been a second rate RB, not very scary, maybe it was a ratio decision but hard to understand them settling on him. 

Als win the CFL award for most hyphenated player names with 8.

[TecnoGenius]

i know that is a gigantic stadium for the cfl but not many fans there by the looks of things on that last view before the commercial.

It looks emptier than last season.  I thought that was supposed to reverse with the new owner?  Dude needs to open up his wallet and spring for Snoop or someone     

Not looking good for EDM.  If you can't win games, get them in the stadium for other reasons: cheap food, other fun stuff, cheap tickets (esp for kids), etc.

[TecnoGenius]

Nice short kick

a) Can you legally blow a player up on an OSK?  I thought you were allowed to block and get in the way, but not blow up.  Not UR?  Pretty sure he'll be out with concussion.

b) The ball was touched before the hit, so isn't that illegal interference on a live/loose ball?  They got the ball anyhow, but that should have added yardage?

[TecnoGenius]

Incredibly insane snag by Rankin in the EZ on the 2PAT earlier in the game.  That's what you need in a RB (esp one who isn't yet the established starter): ability to play REC.  Them's some good hands!

That may be the catch of the game.  Short, but incredibly difficult.

[TecnoGenius]

Ford hurt his leg on his last scramble but played last series and looked fine

He hurt it waaay before that.  It was way back a few snaps before they showed him getting his ankle taped up.  Didn't seem to be a contact thing: just seemed to mess it up running so hard.  Probably will be ok to play next week.

And they say running QB's don't get hurt more... Tell that to Ford & Rourke!

Edit: What's ironic is Ford started playing better after he was hurt, because then he knew (and was probably told) he shouldn't run much, so he became more of a normal pocket passer.  Like booth was saying earlier: Ford gets happy feet and reverts to running for his life way too early while the pocket is still safe.  Take away his run option and maybe he can actually achieve something from the pocket.  (And this was even before MTL went into heavy prevent D.)

[TecnoGenius]

Is STE a legit franchise RB?  Like as in Brady good?  No one has tried to make him a regular desired starter since, I think, HAM (ages ago).

Or is this ratio desperation by MTL?  Or does MTL not give too poops about the run game?  They haven't exactly been trying to run it much.  Maybe with the next Doug Flutie as QB you don't need to have a run game?

I'm not sold on STE, and I hope we attack that "weakness" when we play MTL.

[TecnoGenius]

Als weakness appears to be at RB, Thomas-Erlington has always been a second rate RB

Haha, you beat me to it TLB!  (I hadn't finished the thread as I delay scrolling down as I reach the time in the game on PVR.)

I'm surprised we weren't talking about this in week 1... I was already thinking about it then.  I was like "STE, really?".  Wouldn't that be nuts if he beats Brady in rushing yards and wins the GC?  Yowzers.

[Jesse]

It looks emptier than last season.  I thought that was supposed to reverse with the new owner?  Dude needs to open up his wallet and spring for Snoop or someone     

Not looking good for EDM.  If you can't win games, get them in the stadium for other reasons: cheap food, other fun stuff, cheap tickets (esp for kids), etc.

They need to win. The city is entirely checked out right now.

As for the game, I stopped watching at half. It went exactly like everyone thought it would, unfortunately.

[The Zipp]

They need to win. The city is entirely checked out right now.

As for the game, I stopped watching at half. It went exactly like everyone thought it would, unfortunately.

went to bed in the third - seeing on twitter attendance numbers of just under 15,000 - which of course looks even worse in a big stadium. 

[blue_gold_84]

The Elks better get their collective you-know-what together. They look terrible.

[GOLDMEMBER]

The Elks better get their collective you-know-what together. They look terrible.

Just after the Blue Bombers cream them first though.

[Sir Blue and Gold]

The Elks better get their collective you-know-what together. They look terrible.

I actually think all the ingredients are there. They have a very physical defense which may be giving up some points but they look really hard to play against. The effort they got from their defensive line was good and Alexander made them look far less effective than they were. That same effort with Collaros in there and they make a few more plays probably since as good as Zach is his legs aren't 27 years old anymore.

They can run the ball and their special teams has been okay. Great against BC. Good enough against Montreal.

The Bombers won't be having fun playing against them on a short week on Thursday. Edmonton can play tougher football than in years past and if Ford could ever figure out how to operate in the pocket or they give up and put in Fajardo, they'll be a tough team.

The get out of jail card for Winnipeg on defense is just to load up the line, show blitz, and take turns dropping out. Montreal did it over and over and over and despite that he had all game to adjust, Ford looked like he only just realized they were doing it with 3 minutes to go and had no idea what to do about it even when he did.   

[TecnoGenius]

I actually think all the ingredients are there.

Ya, but I think this is the 3rd season in a row people have been saying that.  Didn't work out the other 2!