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Greg Bell will be a healthy scratch for the Redblacks tomorrow. Highest paid American rb in the league.

I think I’m more interested in attendance in Calgary and tv ratings for this game. Cuz Hamilton was like a 10 pack in a 20 pack box of Tim bits last night. Curious how the tv ratings did. Cuz yeah not sure this starting early thing. I’ll give Hamilton an excuse and Thursday so kids have school Friday. Calgary. No excuses for a Friday.

In all seriousness tho. O should be better by default. Zach still Zach tho and when you live by the gun you die by the gun. Take the good you try to limit the bad. Let Zach manage the game and try to keep him with in his kind of zone like area and not ask him to throw 40 yard passes more than a few times a game and we should be ok. This O could be a time possession type of O who eats lots of clock and it’s prob best if it were. Spread the ball around. Is it nice to score in 3 4 plays? Yup but it’s also fun to score on 8 9 10 play drives. Gives your D who was solid last year and appears improved In a few key areas including cornerback which was a revolving door last year some rest also. The O prob doesn’t need to be spectacular. Just be average or a bit better than average cuz last year we were garbage. But essentially this is pre season 3. So not to high not to low. Still not even July lol.

Honestly pokey, white and demski isn't the worst group you can have.... they just gotta stay healthy. Probably see different guys stepping up in different games depending on what the other team's doing. It's just the depth is pretty nonexistent

That’s what’s called a real fan. We be loud and proud win lose or draw. Don’t matter. (narrators voice: although winning is the preference).

Hot Take. Zach gets hurt. We trade for Dru after giving TE a few games where he shows potential and wins 1 loses 1 wins 1 loses 1 type thing. Dru comes in and goes on a run ala Zach where we end up winning the cup in Calgary and TE like Streveler plays a pivotal role in the finals where he hits Corcoran for the winning TD on a 3rd down gamble with seconds to go. Hotter take cuz click rage bait. All players Booch endorse eventually get cut.

White can stretch a defence and also knows the open areas and how to get thm and where to go after the catch...he is real good with ball in hand I agree...my fear tho...and based on history ZC will over use him and force a lot of balls to him when it's not there....ignoring open guys....and turning ball over. Hopefully he can keep his reliance on one guy to a minimum

I dont think an extra regardless of how good is really gonna turn the needle in a extreme way to overall benefit things...If anything weakens the overall roster...Hopefully it's just an injury issue for this first game We had killer offences before with arguably the worst center in the league for 4 yrs, but we had minimum 3 import receivers all those yrs...sometimes 4 yeah I agree..Woodbey and Griffin now fulltime will be instant playmaking moments...bith be all-stars I bet And the dline now has guys who all can play and are athletic...there is not one guy we are gonna sub in today that is pointless and a scrub Our offence scares me tho and and we are a key injury away from a playmaker to be royally screwed...and an american rookie center with zero experience and a QB who is one solid hit away from being carted off on a stretcher for the yr is also concerning If teams are able to take BO away...and one of White/Pokey/demski...if he even really healthy go out....good luck winning with offence...we gonna be a team I think that gonna have to win with killer defence and one that can put up a td here and there and Vaval having a yr as good or better than last

D was pretty solid last year. Adding Ceresna Jenkins Moxey and Williams should all improve on what was in those spots last year. The O was bad but I’m not sure how much I can judge the O based on last year, as our OC was a pretty incompetent OC. Our players were obviously not happy with the play calling and made it clear. O was bad. No pokey to even start the year. Brady hurt on series 2 maybe 1. Just based on having a dude with some aka lots of cfl coaching experience kinda coming full circle back to Winnipeg after learning the ropes and our QB kinda praising him and making it obvious he’s a big Tommy fan, surely just based on the fact we running a cfl O again means we should see improvement there. Is Zach less cooked? Prob not but I think he can Matt Nichols at this point and game manage. If Zach can limit the stupidity aka triple or double coverage throws, then the O should improve. Would like to see less fgs tho and more TDs. I’m not sure I worry about who the essentially 6th option on O is, I think pokey Demski white nield line up most plays as does Brady, 6th will be mci Cobb Clercius (when healthy) or Daniels or even Eli. Think you can keep teams guessing there a bit. I’m ok With option 6 being pretty much Canadian if it means an American is playing at a position where he’s better than the Canadian. Is Elsbury better than Eli? Time will tell but after 6 seasons of basically being the ideal backup OL, logic says probably so I’m ok with 3 us oline cuz QB staying healthy is the difference in the cfl. Honestly. I’m a Tommy fan. He’s like the teacher on family guy, Bruce. The charismatic one, you just know If Zach gets hurt he’s gonna like like ohh no. Cuz Tommy sounds exactly like Bruce I like Bruce so by default I like Tommy but I’m not sure how I feel about calling a grown married man with wife and kids Tommy, I think Tom Condell works Let’s Goooooo Younger has all the Americans it appears, that is a take for sure but a factual one posted earlier so the D better be ******* spectacular Perhaps a big year for JY ? Perhaps an important one for him and his future?? I dunno just throwing it out there Osh still has the throw younger under the bus card.

I'm excited.... I think the offence will be massively improved, can't overstate the impact of adding Tim White and Broxton, and the departure of Kolankowski + the demotion of Hogan... I think Zach is going to go to Tim White 10+ times tonight

If you can't win with Dakota Prukop then what good are you?

Tim White will break a big one a few times per season but mostly he's a high volume, 10-15 yards per catch kinda guy. I expect ZC to go to him early and often.

James Franklin lol. I remember when he was supposed to be the "next big thing". That was cute. Appreciate the breakdown. That's much better, clearer context.

World cup effect apparently Im honestly confused by such definitive statements like that. Specifically when you have little to no idea what the offense is. Im not even saying that you're definitely wrong, but "no matter what" lol. Why are you even going to watch?

Only three games for each of the first two weeks of the season seems like an odd scheduling choice, no? We don't even need a guru. Barely competent might have got us back to the Grey Cup last year.

Condell was 4-14 with the Argos the year after Ricky Ray retired where they trotted out McLeod Bethel-Thompson, Dakota Prukop and James Franklin as their quarterbacks. He went 8-10 with Hamilton the year after Masoli left with two prior Grey Cup visits and they had Dane Evans (who we broke) and Matt Shiltz as their quarterbacks, then went 8-10 again the next year after they brought Bo to town and he only played a third of the season. Then he went 4-14 last year with Dru Brown and the QB carousel in Ottawa. Nowhere near as bad as JBR made it sound.

Bryant at LT concerns me. He’s arguably the best ol in CFL history, but he started to show signs of his age last year and he’s only going to get slower. Overall I think the line will be good, but that’s something I’m watching. I agree with others who have said we’re an American receiver injury away from big problems. Will we run Perkins at wr now that Streveler is gone? Edit: overall I think we’re a better team than we were last year.

4-14 years with ZC as his QB? Not being a wise ass - Genuinely asking. If the QB loves the system, and by all accounts, Zach does, that's good enough for me.

Condell has as many 4-14 seasons on his record as +.500 ones. So the experience is there....but the results throughout his career have been mostly unimpressive. He's no guru. IMO our offense being in the top half of the league is going to rely on Oliviera having a 2000 yard all purpose season and that's a tough place to start from. OL should be much improved. But the lack of Canadian depth there to start with is fear inducing too. Are they eventually going to tell Younger he can't have ALL the Americans on the roster? Does Ontaria Wilson have #1 receiver in him? Looks like we have 3 #2's but no one that really strikes that big fear in anyone, all manageable if you're game planning against us. No one who is going to make the big plays no matter what.

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Yzerman’s foot is half way out now 😉

It's very possibly hopium but I have one whole complaint about the defense so I'm pretty excited about what that could look like this year. I like the pieces we brought in - Jenkins is a monster physical presence on the edge and I think it's crazy to think about the idea that on any given snap, you might be a tackle lining up against either Willie, Jake or Kydran. That's a lot of different tools in the toolbox to contend with. Another year of Woodbey is something I'm excited about, he gives me a lot of Adarius Pickett (with an extra 25 pounds) vibes and I genuinely think he could be an all-star on the back of a ton of splash playmaking. Our secondary seems like it's got the potential to be pretty exciting and I do like that we have a ton of versatility in all three levels. Our offense both scares and bores the hell out of me. I know that we've got big pieces (Brady, White, Demski and Pokey) but we have so many questions - the Broxton to RT is a move that I don't think we discuss enough as being risky, rookie American center could be less than ideal, our depth is about as thin as thin gets, our utility players seem like there's a good shot they're incredibly useless - so I'm just not sure how that all shakes out. I trust in Condell but I'm whelmed currently. Maybe we see Brady get 1800 yards all purpose and White/Pokey both go for 1000 while Demski/Nield provide 700-800 each but I just don't know if I see it.

With significant changes on the line this year, it may take time for the starting five to gel - However, pound Brady until that happens, and even when it does, time for more Brady ball. His usage last year by Hollywood Hogan was criminal.