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Sure, to a certain degree. But when the Bombers were at their best in 19-21 it was the result of several years of big game hunting in free agency for studs like Andrew Harris, Bighill, WJ, Winston Rose, and Stanley Bryant, at the time those guys weren't just veteran leadership, they were the most talented players on the team. I look at the current roster and there isn't any position where we have the most talented player in the league. Maybe Brady. But the veteran leadership for the most part is washed up. It sure looks like they are bringing back 80-90% of the same players (unless MOS cuts them in camp LOL). It's hard for vets to be leaders when they can't bring it on the field anymore. If the Bombers aren't active in free agency and bring in a top name or two AND some impact rookies, it's just going to be even worse than last season.

Yep. just about all these kids are insanely good athletes so you go with the ones who you trust to have the experience handling the situations. Unfortunately that kind of blacklists CDN developed players. The only reason Elgersma even got an NFL camp is because he has a huge arm and being a one trick pony is probably why the NFL will never look at him seriously again.

we just over did it and kept some long in the tooth guys too long, as we let some 2..3..4 yr guys walk instead....we should have been doing some transitioning each yr....hopefully we learned something

Competition is better as well. Much better. And high schools as well as colleges play more games. Likely at least double. So. a kid that plays in Grades 10, 11 & 12 in Calgary plays 6 games tops. (Unless they have a good team & go on a provincial championship run). The HS season here starts after the LD weekend & ends by or just after Thanksgiving. Short season, Wham, Bam Thank You Ma'am. Most Calgary High Schools have QB Coaches but they can't teach the fundamentals of the new way of throwing the ball. Why is the football season in calgary for example, so short? So football players can play other high school sports like basketball which just so happens to start right after Thanksgiving. Sometimes, if a high school goes on a run in the football playoffs tghen these basketball coaches have to wait & do they ever complain. I've listened to some disckhead basketball coach complain out loud in the phys ed office about the football season being too long because that entitled basketball coach has to wait for a couple of players to finish their gridiron season. The kids in the US play 12 game seasons over 4 years. Americans over 8 years of high school & NCAA football also means from 30-50 more games played combined. Fifty more games of better coaching & competition. Elgersma is a product of that short Canadian high school & U Sport seasons. My son coaches in Seattle. High schools there start practicing in early August & the State Championships are played at Husky Stadium early to mid December. Kinda tough when the American competion plays dozens of more games at the high school & college level. The seasons for both is months longer which is a disadvantage when you're trying to crack an NFL team. And yet, other American qbs that have this advantage still can't make it either. Never having played in the American system save for a few series in the East West Shrine Game & a few in the NFL exhibition sea season last summer. If you were an NFL head coach looking to develop a qb who would you go with? Who would you trust? Ten were fired this past season. Tremendous pressure for NFL head coaches to produce & win. So, having trust in a young player is huge.

Yep and it worked for many years.

Kinda hard to not fall into that category when many young ladies are displaying their naughty bits all over the internet.

Haven't we tried this already?

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Hope these Floridians get frozen on the way to the rink. Good lord it's cold outside.

Well, due to some recent events, someone has passed Ryan Hartman to take the lead on who I loathe (said in Jim Carrey’s best voice). Mr. Matthew Tkachuk please come on up and receive this prestigious award.

they're on a streaming show called Heated Rivalry it's about two players on opposite hockey teams that are having a secret affair or something like that

Are these two athletes? Never heard of them before.

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FTFY I am only aware that there was some bruhahaha about nazis and blue Jean commercials...

And also NOT a creepy old man... Good work, Mr H...

No idea who that is. I guess that'd be why I'm a football fan first.

How about this, we know in 24 we used the 30 front more than anyone in recent history. North of 60% useage as our base. In 24, our DTs played almost 900 fewer snaps than our Ends. Last year, this gap was 370. Our 30 front usage last year was easily under 15%, with the 4-2 back to being our base. We also actually blitzed more in the last two years than we normally would see. It didn't have a good impact because teams didn't have to take half of our DLs rush attempts seriously. Which is personnel, not system. We got cute replacing the DLs, just like we did replacing the C/OL. Hopefully we are past that now. Yeah, I mean every dl is better with rotation. Wj has always benefited significantly from rotating, and being moved around. He always thrived with the element of surprise. be it rushing from a stand up, playing the nose in cheetah sets, switching sides or taking good size rests.

sorta like our QB who os paid a bloated and unnecessary salary when he is played with talent he plays well....he needs that...as do many players Once Stove....Nevis...Jeffcoat...Sayles left and were never replaced...and we didnt have rotational guys like Kongbo and Hansen....well the high end WJ kinda morphed into what we see, and some of it was forced on him WJ even in his best...was the best when rotated and put in situational situations to do his things he does best...why we went away with that is beyond me....but do it again....vast difference And how many plays was he out there with one of Schmeck of Korn on the nose with JT on the other end??...1 time was too many but it was a lot....and wtf is the thiking with that scheme?....So easy to scheme him out of anything Basically any play with Thomas on the nose had WJ and or Vaufgters having to deal with 2...3 guys plus any help by skilled position blockers Teams would let JT engage with one guy and happily let him do his "bullrush" knowing he couldnt disengage or if he got real close to the QB not be able to finish....That or they would just wash him left....or right.....to clear a path....or simply spin him around so his back was to play and again....render that spot useless for us No player really could find a lot of success with that interior help And then we would also us Scmeck or Korn on that role....and have 2 of the 3 on field in same set....totally crippling us.... I agree....not as he was for sure....but also can be real usefull and that on the coaches as to actually implementing it....and not handcuffing the dline with a collection of guys who basically were worst in league and likely hard pressed to make a roster anywhere else...but got elite player reps

100%. The fact is, he doesn't play smart/disciplined. And he doesn't play relentlessly. On top of that, he's lost a step, and the league knows how to block him. You don't see anyone else play for pass knockdowns on the edge. Either in the cfl, nfl or ncaa. If it were an effective means of disruption, it would be happening elsewhere. Especially in the ncaa/nfl where they have far better athletic/size outliers. We gotta hope for the best and prepare for the worst. I'm not sure the team or WJ are really prepared to do what needs to be done in any circumstance. The contract size will speak volumes to that though.

We will agree to disagree

Wj and vaughters were 4th and 6th in the league in pass rush attempts last year. We basically need to cut WJ's snaps in half, and more so on running downs vs running teams. Then we need to replace Vaughters with someone who can play the same volume of snaps at a higher level. Meanwhile, we also need a starting 3-tech. If we are lucky, we will get one of those 2 as a rookie, but almost certainly not the full-time end. So we'd need to sign 2 of the top 5-ish DL FAs, maybe less than that now. And sign another guy to compete with a rookie we would hope wins. If we don't spend a lot, and extremely well, and hit a ROTY type on the dl, the dl will be more of the same. Bringing back WJ isn't awful if he's cheap. if hes back for that big payday again, we are basically screwed short of winning the lotto.

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