The Rest of the Season Starts in Montreal
Mike A.
Four Bombers missed the plane to Montreal this week and I completely blew my deadline for Game day as well. Here at the Ashburn Compound I am just going to angrily hammer on the keyboard until kickoff. I have a policy of trying to get these entries into the hands of our loyal readership by the opening whistle and I am afraid that much like these four amateur hour goofballs who couldn’t make the flight with the team, my head has been filled with a wide array of things that have nothing to do with football this week.
And what a week it has been. I feel like I am still aching all over from the effort required to stand upright during last weeks’ punishment on the field at Canad Inns stadium. Many questions arose from this dismal outing. Was that the last time I’m ever going to urinate on a hotdog bun in a trough? Will that be the last time that I face ejection at a football game for being angry and vocal? What sort of lessons are to be learned when your quarterback throws five interceptions, two of them the worst this humble narrator has ever seen in his life? Last weeks’ loss against the Riders at home at the Banjo Bowl was pretty hard to swallow. Everyone saw an offense that failed to produce and instead, chose to stand around while Buck took his newest hit of the year, a monster of a lid poppin’ slammer by Saskatchewan safety Craig Butler. It was horrible and perhaps deserving considering the fact that we are now 0-2 against the Riders. If you’re going to hand the Riders a game like that, maybe they should get a free shot at your QB on his home turf as well.
Bomber QB Buck Pierce is simply not going to be able to sustain the kind of beating he continues to take on the field week after week. I can’t imagine how he is possibly going to be starting at 100% this afternoon against the Al’s. I would hope to see Brink come in to take a few snaps throughout the afternoon.
Look, the facts are still very simple here. We are still number one in the east. We are sill 7 and 3 on the season. There will be football to play after the regular season. And from time to time, Montreal has looked human so far this year. However Winnipeg is going to have to show up and pour the running game on Montreal and shut them down out of the gate. If you’ve been paying attention over the last three weeks, you understand that the offense continues to fall apart more and more week after week. Will the bleeding continue this afternoon? Questions about the remainder of the season will be answered today. The Buck stops here. Losing this afternoon is fairly unforgivable here, folks.
Game time at Molson Stadium starts now! Let’s go Blue!!!
