Blue Bombers 2022 Season Thread - Stunning Loss. Dynasty Interrupted. 2023 awaits.

[rkp]

Thing is Grey Cup is a one game take all. For years and years now the West has been dominant. Yet the East wins almost equal number of cups in that one game take all format. Can't dismiss them. But yes again the West going to be slog to get out of. Bombers could very well be 4th in the West after this week...at 4-

being in sask this year...weather will definitely be a factor in equalizing the equation...running game will be the deciding fact and the west seems to be ahead in those respects

 

[ThinIce61]

I will say Arbuckle is making LaPolice look a little better. If you don't remember Arbuckle signed in Ottawa for 2020. After the season was cancelled Ottawa let go of Arbuckle before he even played a game for them to sign in Toronto. Now the replacement was Matt Nichols for 2021, which obviously didn't go great, but everyone was shocked looking at them letting go of one of the top "prospects" for starting QB, but he is not looking it anymore. Makes you wonder how much the great Calgary teams have propped up QBs they've brought in, cause Arbuckle looked great back in Calgary in 2018/2019.

Edmonton back to being a disaster. But losing your starting QB and 3 defensive starters in the first 20 minutes of the game is going to be hard on anyone, a team that can barely hang in there healthy it's basically a death sentence. Hilarious QB run around. Tre Ford starts, leaves in injured. Enter Nick Arbuckle. Doesn't play all the great (10/15 but just 50 odd yards) so he's pulled for starting SB Kai Locksley to come in at QB. He is surprisingly "ok" at QB (hard to judge really, his team was fumbling, etc) then Locksley gets hurt. So Arbuckle comes back in to finish the game. I don't think I've ever seen that many QB changes in a game.

Edmonton isn't so bad. If they were in the East they'd be tied for first.

 

[Holden Caulfield]

Nobody has posted it yet but only one roster change for the Bombers this week. LB Kyrie Wilson moved to 6 game IR, they've brought DE LB Mack III back off PR to active roster. Otherwise no changes. Expect to see more Gauthier and Maruo on defense this week. Let's hope they settle down for this game, will need a big defensive performance against story of the year Rourke.

Sask running through Ottawa tonight. The East looks even worse than normal so far, this is kinda pathetic. Clearly BC, WPG, CGY, SSK are the 4 best teams in the league, all in the West.

 

[sipowicz]

Paul LaPolice proving once again why he should never be a head coach!

 

[WolfHouse]

Nobody has posted it yet but only one roster change for the Bombers this week. LB Kyrie Wilson moved to 6 game IR, they've brought DE LB Mack III back off PR to active roster. Otherwise no changes. Expect to see more Gauthier and Maruo on defense this week. Let's hope they settle down for this game, will need a big defensive performance against story of the year Rourke.

Sask running through Ottawa tonight. The East looks even worse than normal so far, this is kinda pathetic. Clearly BC, WPG, CGY, SSK are the 4 best teams in the league, all in the West.

Osh gonna Osh... I was hoping Clements was WIL

 

[snowkiddin]

Bombers struggled with Ottawa and Toronto who were blown out by Suckskatchewan and BC respectively. Time will tell whether or not the Bombers just aren’t that good or if they’re playing down to crappy teams’ levels.

Gonna catch the game at midnight tomorrow! Should be a good one, though I’ll likely have to mute the Rourke butt munch fest.

 

[Holden Caulfield]

Osh gonna Osh... I was hoping Clements was WIL

Clements is listed as the starter at WILL LB. He is going to get his chance. I was just speculating based on how they've handled D (Clements rotated in on passing downs) that Maruo/Gauthier gonna get a look. Clements, the Dentist, is gonna handle most of the work at LB. But they will freely use Gauthier on running downs, with Maruo filling in on passing downs, IMO.

Bombers struggled with Ottawa and Toronto who were blown out by Suckskatchewan and BC respectively. Time will tell whether or not the Bombers just aren’t that good or if they’re playing down to crappy teams’ levels.

Gonna catch the game at midnight tomorrow! Should be a good one, though I’ll likely have to mute the Rourke butt munch fest.

We'll see but I think this talk down is unrealistic. The core has won back to back Grey Cups. I'm gonna be shocked if there's any kinda of blowout. Bombers just aren't a team designed to win big. But they win big games. Let's see how it goes.

 

[snowkiddin]

Clements is listed as the starter at WILL LB. He is going to get his chance. I was just speculating based on how they've handled D (Clements rotated in on passing downs) that Maruo/Gauthier gonna get a look. Clements, the Dentist, is gonna handle most of the work at LB. But they will freely use Gauthier on running downs, with Maruo filling in on passing downs, IMO.


We'll see but I think this talk down is unrealistic. The core has won back to back Grey Cups. I'm gonna be shocked if there's any kinda of blowout. Bombers just aren't a team designed to win big. But they win big games. Let's see how it goes.

Well External Skeptic I hope the Bombers can get it done. I will pour out a Labatte Blue in your honour tomorrow when I start the game at midnight. Will check back in at 3 a.m. to celebrate and/or throw in the towel on the season.

Stay tuned

 

[LadyJet26]

Brutal low hit on Masoli. Even Cryder fans are saying he should be suspended

 

[Holden Caulfield]

'He called our offence vanilla': Lions' DB Marcus Sayles' promise to beat Bombers 'pretty bad' draws ire of Willie Jefferson - 3DownNation

shots being fired in the press. First Sayles all but guarantees a blowout win and Willie fires back.

 

[Monkey D Luffy]

Big game today Here we go Bombers!

 

[one other person]

He was due to break out

 

[FonRiesen]

That should have been called a catch and fumble. Bombers' D clearly punched it out after securing the ball.

 

[SUX2BU]

Someone said earlier that Grant should be doing kick off returning

Good call ……

Edit: Hope that Pat Hill buys a lot of Tbones

 

[FonRiesen]

But there we go. Jeffcoat for the INT.

 

[FonRiesen]

Beauty drive! Some good running and sweet passes.

 

[None]

Good drive, hopefully the offense can maintain some of this consistency. Collaros passing well into coverage might open up the box and open up the field for the run game at some point too.

 

[None]

First first down from just the run this year (outside of that Collaros run)? First back to back first downs on run plays too?

 

[FonRiesen]

Nice play calls. Run game going well. I like the variety of runs, and presnap deception.

Edit: 3 10+ y runs now

 

[jetsv2]

A lot of talk about how great the Lions are this year, starting to look like paper tigers.

 

[FonRiesen]

A lot of talk about how great the Lions are this year, starting to look like paper tigers.

They've only played vs the East and Edmonton. But it's not so much BC playing poorly as the Bombers looking incredibly sharp.

Nice to see Suitor so glum.

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

Our offence seems to have fixed whatever was wrong with them, or BC is just that bad at stopping the rush. I'm pleasantly surprised.

 

[None]

Nice to see Suitor so glum.

Best part of it.

Man, Rose got beat bad on an underthrown sail ball assuming he wasn't pushed.

Edit: I think the push was pretty blatant from the reverse angle, you can see the push on Rose's lower back completely stopped his ability to go up on that ball. Not gonna blame him too much there. Command center kind of f***ed the Bombers again.

 

[rkp]

dam good start....definitely gonna need allt hepoints against the lions

 

[FonRiesen]

That's a coverage sack. Nice stop