Official Game Day Thread - Winnipeg at Ottawa - September 20, 2025

[Blue In BC]

Blueforlife send me 2 messages stating I took a shot at Stre comparing him to your grandson  Double down on being wrong  Go tell Strev on Saturday that your grandson can throw a better 10 yard pass  Let me know Strevs response  Your post wasn't fair and its disrespectful to Strev You don't like be challenged on your position

Can't take the heat  Get out of the kitchen  Do a spicy post and people will comment

Now who is being disrespecful in sending me these 2 messages?  Unbelievable IMO

I like spicey. I'm not sure anyone could / should support Streveler's performance. Whether the 10 year old kid could throw a better pass being over the line is debatable.

3 completions and one was a forward hand off. One nearly got our receiver killed and one int.

Can anyone think of any QB in any game, in any league having that little success as a passer? Yikes.

EDIT: In game 1 he had 3 TD's and 1 int. Since then he has 3 TD's and 10 int's.

[The Zipp]

I like spicey. I'm not sure anyone could / should support Streveler's performance. Whether the 10 year old kid could throw a better pass being over the line is debatable.

3 completions and one was a forward hand off. One nearly got our receiver killed and one int.

Can anyone think of any QB in any game, in any league having that little success as a passer? Yikes.

i have watched football for decades and for a starting QB (albeit backup) that was the WORST i have seen.  backups as in game replacements havelikely done worse.

imagine how ottawa fans must feel - hahahaha get beat like that when your qb throws for over 400??

[RebusRankin]

D and ST were excellent.

[Blueforlife]

Re: Allen's 1st Q woes:

MOS's postgame he says at the beginning OTT hit them with stuff they weren't expecting, but they adjusted quickly.  That is true, they did adjust pretty well by the 3rd or 4th OTT drive, before half time.

So it's not all on Allen, even though he was apparently "the guy" on every single mid/deep pass at first.

And Allen being the FS should never be the only guy in the picture anyhow.  He's supposed to be backed up by the vets.  After we made said adjustments almost nothing worked for Dru after that.  So I would say on D we (finally!?) out-adjusted an opponent.

Now... if only we could do that on O!!

Very insightful.  Nice to see the adjustment.  I was thinking we needed to put Parker at safety early and boy was I wrong.  This kid is progressing quicker than I expected.  Yes adjustments on O is one of our biggest issues.

[Blue In BC]

Vaval, Allen and Woodbey have been nice finds this season.

I think Vaval might be given more chance as a DB next year but at the moment focusing on the return game seems optimum.
He does add depth as a DB for this season when needed.

Woodbey seems to be on the field most of the time. At times almost invisible and I say that in a good way.

Allen has some size and athleticism. His int's didn't fall into the most difficult I've seen but he was in the right place and made the plays. What I liked more was what I'd call good football IQ on the returns he made following his blockers etc.

I think that helped make the choice to put Parker at CB.

[Waffler]

I cannot believe all this talk about the streak. Statistics are for losers. That's a saying for a reason. 

More important is that we are still alive though I am not sure for how long. Winning like that is not sustainable. The most entertaining part of the game was when Strev ran my gf would hunch over like a buffalo, move her upper body side to side and stomp her feet. Spot on. You wonder how much faster he would be with any kind of correct form.

[theaardvark]

That was literally the most disappointing win I have experienced as a fan. 

The outstanding bend don't break defence, the ST dominance and Vaval's TD MFG return, all of it was overshadowed by the cringe on every down offensive performance.

After the early INT, every play became an adventure, and not a good one, one from a horror story.

Rewatching it, OTT was not smothering the Rec's in any way, the deep pass to Corcoran was so wide open *I* could have hit him, and he sat there WAVING at Streveler to throw him the ball.

3 rec's (including the hand off pass) was not a gem of a defensive game by Ott.

It was a complete breakdown of any capacity for a QB to make a decision and carry it out.  Even though he had every snap in practice this week.

Streveler made a deer in the headlights look like an all star.  I do not doubt his heart or drive, but his skill set *under pressure* has eroded to a non-competitive level.

Tucking and running and still getting stopped behind the LOS is not acceptable.  If you decide there is no pass, if there is no run, you throw the ball away.  Streveler has not learned how to implement that part of the game.  His self confidence in running hurts his game.

This unfortunate win will give the Streveler apologists the "He's won 75% of the games" argument against starting Wilson, or elevating Wilson to #2 behind Collaros.

On any other teams, if the D and ST hadn't won this game, I am not sure Streveler survives on the roster after his performance this game, on top of his performance the rest of the year. If MOS didn't have his memories of 2019, we would have moved on from him by now.  We have moved on from a lot better QB's, who are now playing and even starting for other teams.

If the team had not given him the "run support", and had relied on him alone to win games, we would be 0-4 in games he starts, and he'd have an apple and a roadmap.

I love the man, and his heart and drive.  And if he were to shift out to TE, SB, FB or RB, I'd be his biggest fan.

But I dread every time he comes onto the field as QB.

If Wilson is not the answer/option, then he shouldn't be on the roster after almost 2 years.  If Chase has the skill to make the roster, I hope he has the skill to make the next step if Wilson can't.

As long as we have Collaros at QB, we NEED a solid #2.  And I don't mean metamucil.  Chris Streveler, with all his great attributes and heart, is *NOT* that.

[Jesse]

That was literally the most disappointing win I have experienced as a fan. 

I want to full stop this.

This was not disappointing at all. We retained our third place in the West over BC. It was incredible.

We know ****** ain't it. If Zach is out, the season is toast, didn't matter when it happened or where we were in the standings when it happened. Our only chance is Zach coming back and being able to string three straight wins together at the right time.

[Blue In BC]

The Ward missed FG and Vaval's return for a TD was the turning point in the game. 10 point swing and I don't know if we'd have overcome a 10 - 0 disadvantage early in the 2nd Q. Not the way our offence was playing IMO.

[Waffler]

I wonder if our game plan is run, run, run why don't we see Peterson on occasion?

[Waffler]

The Ward missed FG and Vaval's return for a TD was the turning point in the game. 10 point swing and I don't know if we'd have overcome a 10 - 0 disadvantage early in the 2nd Q. Not the way our offence was playing IMO.

Pregame said the biggest previous deficit Strev has over come to win was 3 points.

[Pete]

I want to full stop this.

This was not disappointing at all. We retained our third place in the West over BC. It was incredible.

We know ****** ain't it. If Zach is out, the season is toast, didn't matter when it happened or where we were in the standings when it happened. Our only chance is Zach coming back and being able to string three straight wins together at the right time.

The win itself isnt disappointing, we've retain position in standings and pulled further ahead of Edmonton (who could have been poteentially tied with us) and widened the gap with Toronto/Ottawa for the crossover
  But the hope for the future and playoffs is very low after that game. And personally it continues to undermine my faith in the organizations decision making, but maybe that's just me,
  If strevs playing against hamilton we'll be lucky to lose by less than double digits
But who knows maybe Vaval will rack up another 250 yards in returns, and Allen will intercept two passes while we punch out a ball on a punt return. (we are great normally at turnovers right? Oh wait..we are in the bottom two in the league.) And JT will become a Sack machine.
So there still hope.

[TBURGESS]

We beat the worst team in the league by getting a missed FG return for a TD, a knock-out on the returner for 3. If they could just have hit 40 yard FG's, they would have won. 

Yaaa! We're the 2nd worst team in the league. 

[theaardvark]

I want to full stop this.

This was not disappointing at all. We retained our third place in the West over BC. It was incredible.

We know ****** ain't it. If Zach is out, the season is toast, didn't matter when it happened or where we were in the standings when it happened. Our only chance is Zach coming back and being able to string three straight wins together at the right time.

I can be disappointed AND happy we won.

Winning is always preferred.  But at this point in the season, with the standings as they are, you want to win in a positive light, moving forward in a positive way.

Our D and ST ARE playing very, very well.

But D doesn't sell seats.  There is a reason the CFL changed the KO spot, and narrowed the hashmarks, etc.  We are an offence first league, a passing league.  And this teams is the antithesis to this when CS17 is behind C.

We need to figure out what gets done when Collaros is not starting.  CS17 has proven that he is not the answer as a starter.  Spot duty, surprise packages, SY plus a tempo play after, 2 QB sets, for sure, he's an asset.

He should at best be #3 on the DC, where he can do all of those things.  But we need Wilson, or Chase if Wilson is not the guy, at #2, coming in for Collaros or starting if he can't go. 

This is not 2019, CS17 is not the CS17 of 2019, and living in 2019, we will miss the playoffs.  Rememeber, it was only Collaros coming in in 2019 that took up to the cup in 2019, CS17 WAS on the roster then, but did not lead us to the cup.  Collaros jumped his spot.

[Blueforlife]

I wonder if our game plan is run, run, run why don't we see Peterson on occasion?

Because Brady is the best in the land and slowly creeping up the best ever Canadian list