Stamps at Blue Bombers pre game thread

[gobombersgo]

High praise for Tony Jones, Kyrie and Joey Corcoran.

You get notifications from the Bombers YouTube aswell? lol

[Blueforlife]

High praise for Tony Jones, Kyrie and Joey Corcoran.

Current studs and future stud?

[Sir Blue and Gold]

Current studs and future stud?

It's the warm and fuzzy feeling you get when your minimum score is 10/10 and you, in fact, score a 10.

[Blue In BC]

Chris-Ike back at full participation in practice. D. Schoen and S. Bryant noted as " DNP " again, so they may be out this week. O'Shea mentioned they don't need to practice in order to play but that's not a good sign for this week. I guess we'll see what happens.

[TecnoGenius]

YAC:

1. MTL
6. WPG

The differences are minimal

Basically what I predicted, with the added bonus that we're not dead last.  The Wheatie huge YAC TD probably skews our results a bit.  If we could get YA on short/mid pass only, that would show a different (zero YAC) tune.

"minimal": ya, but it's that 2-3Y YAC on the short pass that's the difference between drive-continues and drive-is-dead.  Those are the critical yards that win you CFL games.  I posit it's why MTL has been so dominant the last couple of seasons.

[TecnoGenius]

We might want to take out the sideline pass that resulted in 14 points against us.

But that's often the only wide-open play on max-coverage D's.  You can't just ignore that "freebie" spot.

No, what Zach should be doing, is reading whether the DB can get there in time.  It's a head-timing issue.  Zach is screwing it up.  And you need to spot when you're being baited into a pick-6 like we were screaming at the TV last game.

All the good young QBs like Alexander (and oldster VAJ) can read and use that wide out properly.  Read the timing and judge your throw speed vs DB distance/speed.  This is why we pay all these guys the half mill+ we do.

[TecnoGenius]

Don't think Schoen will be going to the 6 game

I really hope not!  If he spends another 3/4 season in the tub then his stock in the CFL will fall faaaaast.  And we'll be without a "star" REC for '25, unless Pokey comes back.

[TecnoGenius]

Interesting tidbits considering the whole league is talking about how dominant CGY is now:

1. cfl.ca fantasy pickems has WPG with 65% of the pickems.

2. Rider forum has decent-sized majority taking WPG.  Remember: they viscerally hate us.

3. playnow has us as -4.0 favorites.

CGY is the best!  But more people are putting their money where their mouth isn't.  Interesting!

[gobombersgo]

Interesting tidbits considering the whole league is talking about how dominant CGY is now:

1. cfl.ca fantasy pickems has WPG with 65% of the pickems.

2. Rider forum has decent-sized majority taking WPG.  Remember: they viscerally hate us.

3. playnow has us as -4.0 favorites.

CGY is the best!  But more people are putting their money where their mouth isn't.  Interesting!

Jamie Nye, who always seems to pick the Bombers to lose is going with Winnipeg this week;

[Jesse]

Basically what I predicted, with the added bonus that we're not dead last.  The Wheatie huge YAC TD probably skews our results a bit.  If we could get YA on short/mid pass only, that would show a different (zero YAC) tune.

"minimal": ya, but it's that 2-3Y YAC on the short pass that's the difference between drive-continues and drive-is-dead.  Those are the critical yards that win you CFL games.  I posit it's why MTL has been so dominant the last couple of seasons.

But the difference between us and Montreal isn't 2-3 yards a pass, it's less than 9 yards per game. And if you take out every team's biggest play, than we're probably all completely even.

It statistically doesn't seem to be the difference maker you think it is. Except for being one of the reasons Edmonton sucks so bad.

[The Zipp]

Weather has smartened up and it should be a great evening in Winnipeg!!

[markf]

But that's often the only wide-open play on max-coverage D's.  You can't just ignore that "freebie" spot.

No, what Zach should be doing, is reading whether the DB can get there in time.  It's a head-timing issue.  Zach is screwing it up.  And you need to spot when you're being baited into a pick-6 like we were screaming at the TV last game.

All the good young QBs like Alexander (and oldster VAJ) can read and use that wide out properly.  Read the timing and judge your throw speed vs DB distance/speed.  This is why we pay all these guys the half mill+ we do.

It's a bread and butter play... except for us.

[Blue In BC]

Fingers are crossed that Bryant and Schoen will play. Losing one or both for this game won't help.

[Sir Blue and Gold]

Fingers are crossed that Bryant and Schoen will play. Losing one or both for this game won't help.

I'm okay with missing either or both. Neither have been particularly great this year and so therefore neither replacement needs to be "peak" Bryant or Schoen.

Chances are actually pretty decent that whoever we put in there might produce better over the medium term. In both of those places we aren't putting in first year players and I don't think there's going to be a big dropoff.

[Waffler]

Seems a slam dunk that neither one is playing.