Incinerate the eternal optimists that have been naively blind since the beginning of the season. The ones that couldn't see the glaring problems and inconsistent play. Well some of us pessimists :roll: have been saying since Game 2 with Edmonton that this team will finish no better than 500 and guess what? Here we are after 14 games at an even 7-7. Tell me how entertaining and fun were the last 2 IWS home games? Do you believe you received value for your hard earned entertainment dollar. Judging by the mass crowd exodus early in the 4th quarter it's apparent that most fans have had enough. The losses aren't even competitive losses with lead changes or a close score. They are brutal blowouts. You can tell in the opening couple of drives whether Glenn will be hot or cold and what the outcome of the game will be. So how excited are the optimists for the next couple of games against Montreal and a red hot BC team?
There’s a suggestion for you. The team should think about showing another sporting event on Tiger Vision whenever the team serves up another turkey like last night. At least the evening wouldn’t be a total waste. :roll:
I would prefer that Glenn posts on Twitter before the game with something like " I’m feeling that my mojo is a little down tonight. Hopefully the other teams defense doesn’t show up tonight otherwise I’ll probably get pulled by the 3rd quarter."
And this is why you don't trade away a proven elite receiver like Arland Bruce in the middle of a season in which you're trying to take a run at the Grey Cup. There are many reasons for why the offense is ailing -- Russ hits on just about all of them on his blog -- but to me the Bruce situation is a self-inflicted wound. I'm pretty damn sure that if Bruce were still a Cat and still playing slot, not WR, there'd be a whole lot more space for Stala and Williams to operate.
As much as fans rip on his character, teams that trade or fail to sign Arland Bruce generally regret. Winnipeg, Toronto, now Hamilton. The BC Lions have rattled off six straight wins and don't think a significant part of that success isn't due to Geroy having a lot more room to operate, with the arrival of a game-breaker like Bruce.
One year in which his OC uses him as a wide receiver for a quarterback who has trouble hitting deep balls doesn’t mean squat. Bruce was doing fine as a slotback last season. This year, Jones decided to play him away from the action at WR. That might work for a strong-armed QB like Lulay or Burris, but not for Kevin Glenn. In essence, Khari Jones neutered your top receiver from last year. Then everyone wondered why Bruce had fallen off. I watch him in BC and he doesn’t look like he’s fallen off at all, because Chapdelaine is using him properly.
The Cats don’t currently have a single veteran game-breaking receiver. Williams is a great talent but he’s young and raw. Stala is a good possession receiver, nothing more. Mann is overrated. The rest are disposable.
That’s a good idea. Here’s another: MB could tweet something like, “For tomorrow’s game, we’ve decided not to use the schemes/strategies that worked during our last win.”
Or MB could tweet before the game we've decided not to get to worked up for the game, then some of the fans could decided to stay home and watch it on TV or go fishing. :? :oops: