Nobody in this thread with the stamps and Bombers heading to the fourth quarter with the Eskimos season on the line? Ouch.
Looks like a touchdown to me, ball pops out after he survives contact with ground and the Bomber pops the ball out.
There really can't be anything else to it besides the CFL wanting to send the home town crowd home happy, because there's just no possible way that shouldn't have been overturned after looking at the replay a few more times.
CFL has been pulling this shit since they started using the technology. I’ve said it a lot and I still think it’s true. They use it as another layer of officiating to help them control outcomes or at the very least for game management. Worst thing that ever happened to sports is video review. The only sport it’s made better is tennis.CFL has pulled this **** all year. Home team in a must win? They may as well have 13 guys on the field.
CFL has been pulling this **** since they started using the technology. I’ve said it a lot and I still think it’s true. They use it as another layer of officiating to help them control outcomes or at the very least for game management. Worst thing that ever happened to sports is video review. The only sport it’s made better is tennis.
I honestly don’t know why Reilly would think that way. Unless he likes him because he never has to worry about being pulled I don’t get it. We’ve seen several games where Maas has decided to put the game in the hands of his defense instead of in the hands of his MOP quarterback when the outcome was in doubt. I’d think that would be a big issue for Reilly. I’d also think it would be a big issue for him that the offense run under Maas hasn’t been very good. Maybe the team already knows Reilly isn’t coming back and Sunderland’s comments are the start of some kind of damage control.Well, that's all she wrote for 2018.
There were those on the thread one year ago who said that if we brought Maas back for another year then the 2018 season would be in jeopardy and now that ugly decision has knocked down the door and kicked us out of the house.
Rhodes (and Sunderland, if he had any power to influence the decision) should hang their heads in shame for not firing this guy after one of the dumbest calls in CFL history. Be darned if he didn't do the same thing 11 months later in an equally critical game. Well, that's been said a lot of times before so it isn't special insight.
Let's give credit where credit is due. O'Shea has done a magnificent job in turning the second half of the season around for the Bombers. Look at that defensive coverage and tenacity on the field tonight. O'Shea football all the way.
And for a guy who was supposedly no good, Nichols puts up almost 400 yards in passing.
The Bombers now have a good chance of getting to the big game the way they are playing.
As for the EE final game, at least start O'Brien to see if we have anything there because if Reilly says he won't stay without Maas returning then I have to think that it might be his final game in Edmonton.
Have to agree. Been saying for years that the NHL only has replay to better manage games. The CFL followed suit. This year in particular was a complete joke with how badly home teams got favoured.
I honestly don’t know why Reilly would think that way. Unless he likes him because he never has to worry about being pulled I don’t get it. We’ve seen several games where Maas has decided to put the game in the hands of his defense instead of in the hands of his MOP quarterback when the outcome was in doubt. I’d think that would be a big issue for Reilly. I’d also think it would be a big issue for him that the offense run under Maas hasn’t been very good. Maybe the team already knows Reilly isn’t coming back and Sunderland’s comments are the start of some kind of damage control.
I bet the Bombers tonight but I honestly didn’t think Calgary was going to throw it. I didn’t think they were good enough to win it even if they wanted to. I get the “it’ll be fun to screw over the Eskimos and send them home” angle but I don’t think it played here. A loss tonight and a potential loss next week could mean they go into the playoffs not winning a game in five weeks. I think they wanted this one tonight a lot more than they wanted to screw the Eskimos because they need to right their own ship a lot more.There was no way the Stamps were going to win this game. I'm glad anyway. Rhodes and Sunderland suck it. Maas probably fired. About the best we can hope for with this org is change but I doubt that's coming either. I wonder if even 10K people bother going to the last game. If I had free tickets I wouldn't bother.
The only thing I'm sad about is it possibly being Reillys last game as an Eskimo if they even play him. Theres no reason to. Have we seen the end of the Mike Reilly era here?
We're in last place, and as bad as that is news from here only gets worse the present culprits in charge.
I bet the Bombers tonight but I honestly didn’t think Calgary was going to throw it. I didn’t think they were good enough to win it even if they wanted to. I get the “it’ll be fun to screw over the Eskimos and send them home angle” but I don’t think it played here. A loss tonight and a potential loss next week could mean they go into the playoffs not winning a game in five weeks. I think they wanted this one tonight a lot more than they wanted to screw the Eskimos because they need to right their own ship a lot more.