OT: y - Winnipeg Blue Bombers 2024 Season Thread (12-7) - Five. Straight. Grey. Cup. Appearances. This is a dynasty. - Next Grey Cup vs TOR Nov 17 500pm

[FonRiesen]

I want to see Kelly cry. Time for a pick 6

 

[snowkiddin]

Friendly Toronto spot by the officials

 

[rkp]

Friendly Toronto spot by the officials

he wasntg even close...

 

[FonRiesen]

Well, Collaros did his best there. Need more camera angles to prove anything.

 

[snowkiddin]

Refs had themselves quite the game spotty the ball. All over the place on both sides of the ball.

 

[rkp]

2 missed field goals.......

bombers o line has to be able to handle the eastern teams d line if they have any chance at a sniff at a cupo

 

[AussieBomberJet]

Heartbreaker of a game. Close, but not enough. Needed more of an effort than what they displayed tonight. TO was never going to just roll over for us.

Oh well, take that frustration and use it against Montreal.

 

[jetsforever]

Darn, annoying to lose a close game

 

[FonRiesen]

2 missed field goals.......

bombers o line has to be able to handle the eastern teams d line if they have any chance at a sniff at a cupo

We handled their D Line in the 2nd half much better, enough to claw our way back, and incidentally without hitting the upright, we win this game. I'd say we hung with Toronto fairly well considering their post-season was at stake if they didn't win this.

 

[WolfHouse]

Things we learned

Lofton sucks
Neufeld is done

Who could have seen that coming

 

[WPGChief]

They made it interesting in the end, but too many mistakes (poorly executed first half, Castillo's misses, costly fumble on the first drive of the second half, way too many sacks) were too much to overcome.

Feels like this is a team that can win in the playoffs so long as they can score 2TDs + 1-3FGs with the way their defence can play - but they can't take this long to get rolling if their offensive line struggles that often that early in a game. Key lessons to be learnt: let's see if they adjust accordingly.

 

[gojetsgo]

anyone else find it funny that we lose our first game and a certain poster is back for the 1st time since our winning streak started?

 

[bustamente]

Didn’t get a chance to see to much of this game but by the sounds of it the o line reverted back to a shit pile

 

[snowkiddin]

Sucks to lose but after the half we played much better. Would like to see adjustments earlier next game.

Too many costly mistakes f***ed us, but it’s not a bad thing to get this lose out of the system now.

Bombers were finding ways to win these games the past few years but then losing in the Grey Cup. I’d much rather lose tonight if we can learn from it in time for the playoffs.

 

[gojetsgo]

need to figure out a way to adjust early if our o-line is getting demolished

 

[snowkiddin]

need to figure out a way to adjust early if our o-line is getting demolished

Agreed. They dominated the second half so they definitely made some adjustments, would’ve liked to have seen that earlier in the game.

 

[Edgar Halliwax]

I was at the game tonight. We played like shit and deserved to lose. And we did. What a booooooooooooooring game.

 

[Blitzkrug]

I think the biggest bummer about the Bombers current state is how hard aging hit the o-line.

We've obviously seen guys start to decline as they get up there but at first it was pretty simple. A Bighill here, a Harris there. You can swap guys out even if you see a bit of a dropoff.

You cannot however replace an entire unit of guys if they all start to go at once. Neufeld looks like he's cooked, Bryant is still solid but even he's a pretty far cry away from the once immovable brick wall that he was when he first signed here. Doesn't help they let Hardrick walk and Couture decided to go home (don't blame him at all, you do you man)

Nobody in the west scares me. They've already shown they can handle business against both the Riders and BC. The problem becomes if you make it to the dance and are almost guaranteed to have one of Montreal or Toronto waiting. Both of whom shitkicked the Bombers o-line already. On the positive, they've already proven they can adapt given they ripped off 8 straight wins and a large part of that was the o-line getting its shit together.

TL;DR - don't panic, but i don't blame people for being a bit concerned.

 

[VictoriaJetsFan]

The Good: The defence
The Bad: The offence
The Ugly: Castillo's kicks.

Not much really to say. Bombers left points on the table and it burned them. Winnable game. But with 2 shots at first I am not concerned. Also a little dose of reality before the playoffs is not always the worst thing.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

 

[WolfHouse]

They made it interesting in the end, but too many mistakes (poorly executed first half, Castillo's misses, costly fumble on the first drive of the second half, way too many sacks) were too much to overcome.

Feels like this is a team that can win in the playoffs so long as they can score 2TDs + 1-3FGs with the way their defence can play - but they can't take this long to get rolling if their offensive line struggles that often that early in a game. Key lessons to be learnt: let's see if they adjust accordingly.

Theres no key lessons - bombers havent played a good team in a long time

 

[Blitzkrug]

Theres no key lessons - bombers havent played a good team in a long time

You can only beat who they put in front of you.

It's not the Bombers fault 66% of the league is trash.

 

[SSCBLUEJET]

They won 8 in a row so they were due to have a stinker. Better now than November. I wonder if they try Randolph again at guard tho.

 

[Holden Caulfield]

Wow so f*** you BC lol

 

[gojetsgo]

bc is doing everything in it's power to lose this game

 

[jungles]

BC has been awful for weeks. This isn't much of a surprise.