Demoralizing

It's not enough that the Bombers go and lose to the worst team in the CFL and it's not enough that they handed said team its first victory and it's not enough that a 42-year-old man at QB shredded the Bomber defence for 400-plus yards passing...

Oh wait, yeah that's enough.

Actually, the toughest part about Friday's loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats was the fact the Bombers could have made a significant step in the playoff race and will now have to basically win both ends of the home-and-home with the Saskatchewan Roughriders over the next two weeks to legitimately think about the post season.

Even in the CFL, realistically, you shouldn't lose a game if you put up 39 points.

A few notes:

• Hard to knock Kanye West for his effort even though he threw two picks at the end of the game on potential game-winning drives in the fourth quarter. He threw for over 400 yards and three TDs and kept them in a game their defence tried their hardest to make unmanageable.

• The D. Good lord. More often than not the front seven has been the saving grace for a defensive unit that game in and game out makes opposition QB's look like hall of famers. No pressure up front meant McManus had all day to disect a porous secondary that absolutely desperately needs the front seven to disrupt the passing game. Otherwise, well ... things like Friday night happen. Our secondary is abysmal and the best one we've got, Willie Fields, was exposed over and over on Friday.

• I can't rant about the refs anymore. Well, of course I can. But just anyone who watched that game, specifically the final minute, had to shake their heads at what the stripes pulled off with just a few seconds remaining. A legitimate completion at the 55-yard line was not only called complete but spotted by the refs and nearly whistled in for the next play before, someone (heaven knows which one) waved it off despite the fact that the ref closest to the play and with the best vantage point had called it complete. That eliminated any chance of a hail mary to the endzone because the ball got spotted back at the original line of scrimmage, back near the 30.