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I’m at camp today. First observation is DeShaan Dixon has the shortest shorts I’ve ever seen on a football player.

That's a lot of what we do as well to get guys prepped for pro days....a lot of it too is just mechanics and learning how body should move....but he doesnt need to be super fast at that size if used correct And yeah a fade into the corner...vs what is a lot of times a db who is sub 5'10...you gonna win that matchup 9 times outta ten. You would think too a quick hitter across the middle with his size, and what looks to be pretty athletic, that 5 to 7 yards will be easily gained as you would think he not going down easily and definitely not on first contact...just catch it...head north and drive for yards

Yep. Chris carter used to run a camp that helped a ton of guys to refine their speed and athletic measurables. Especially 1 sport football players who don't have natural speed. I know a bunch of camps like that operate now to help kids pre-combine down south. A movement coach might even help him a ton. Yep, plenty of use for a guy like that. Red zone fade route, even a drag route behind the play as a check down in the red zone will be good. Agudosi had the bid height and length, but didn't use it well enough at WR. Prefering to body catch, a guy this big, who uses his size and length to hand catch balls, with the right passport and tons of blocking/teams use, will be a great end of the roster guy at worst.

Yeah a drop in weight alone won't really move the needle on his speed....there is specific training to increase it a bit but for most part a guy like that will never be a burner...but doesn't need to be A receiving threat at TE on the jumbo alone will pay huge dividends in addition to the blocking aspect. And hopefully early and often we actually use him as a target so teams can't ignore it and have to scheme accordingly. He will be just fine used as am initial chip block and slide out into the flats as a release valve or just in close to goal line or 2nd and short type situ's to just do a 5 yard up and out/pivot and box out the smaller defender for easy pitch and catch...Doesnt need to initially be exotic, but more use his assets of size. I an see quick hitters also across the middle on a slant and let him just bowl thru guys for mice positive yardage....be interesting what Condell is cooking up, and thank god OC Guy from last yr will not have his fingerprints on the offence

I saw JT last weekend, he has dropped a few pounds. I wouldn't be too worried about that happening. Yeah that's the thing with this topic...how much weight do you put into the teams around the guy. BLM had some absolute monster WRs/Olines/RBs and defenses. Collaros as well, especially in 2021. Without that defense the team looks very different. Essentially all Great QBs were on great teams...how much of that greatness is on the QB as compared to the rest of the team around them?

For what its worth, he doesn't look like hes 270 or too heavy. Havent seen enough to be sure yet, but Im not sure he will see significant increases in speed by losing weight. Especially 15-20 lbs. Still, he's about as fast as corcoran but a giant mean ass blocking version of him. I agree, his offensive side will likely be gadget stuff for a good while. But there is a lot of gadget you can work with him. Simple stuff like block and release, or screening him off brady to the same side but in a split, or across brady in a mesh.

Calvillo also played on some heavily loaded teams with great o-lines. Watching Ray play anywhere... he made magic out of chicken **** at times.

I have no doubt he will begin his career as a gadget play guy until he sheds weight and increases speed but he exhibited good concentration, hands, and ball tracking. He might be a slow, oversized receiver...but he's a receiver. If he sheds the 25 lbs we are asking his speed should increase. He'll never be a break away downfield guy but if we can get him up to end zone specialist and occasionally possession routes his size will be hard to handle. At this point im not even against seeing if he has any DL game.

Good to see your positivity is in mid season form...

Nobody forgot Moon... He's either 1 or 2 with Flutie. They were video game cheat codes that never should have been in the CFL in the first place. It's them and then a gap... Then Ray at the top of the next tier.

I’m with on this for a variety of reasons one being we are trying to grow the league and attract new people to this game so coaches across the league should be helping by spicing it up adding some color into those default beige type scripted answers. Why not?

That would be the greatest "Osh trolls MBB" moment ever.

To all you mentioning JT as a player coach

56 LB Ja'Kobe Clinton 6'2" 230 (West Florida) 51 LB Johnny Hodges 6'1" 231 (Texas Christian) 78 LB Cohen McCluskey 6'1" 225 (Rifles)

That MOS poker face is in midseason form.

Hopefully. They only have Taylor down as 17, Singer not even on the roster but listed as 72 in Tait's article.

White jersey so it should be a receiver - Dorian Singer

FWIW every rep they showed in that video was against a Rifles player and he had zero separation on all of them. On one the Rifles LB switched onto him late and caught him. Guess if you're hoping the other team is in man and they send the WIL to follow him out there instead of just adjusting to a corner he'll give that. Every single player on a CFL defense will be more athletic than him other than maybe a nose tackle. Otherwise going to be a little rope and dope if his blocking is up to snuff to hope teams get locked on run and he can leak out and make use of the physicality to get some YAC. Doesn't look like he's going to get away from anyone. Nice clip of Elgersma throwing a INT.

I didn't know they were doing this I guess it will be accessible on BritBox or BBC 1 even https://deadline.com/2026/05/meet-the-beatles-cast-bbc-zdf-hamburg-days-1236886520/

Which is why I hated the hiring of Jake Thomas to be DL Coach. i envisioned that happening. It would be so easy for Osh to throw JT back in there to be a playing coach. We all know O'Shea would do it & Thomas would be happy to suit up.

I won't make excuses for the losses but I think that the 2019 playoff run when Zach went from a barrel-scraping emergency replacement to a Grey Cup winner was the stuff of legend.

Good point. He’s got to be in the top tier. same with zach tbh I had both Etch is a good pick, it’s soo hard to compare even 80s guys to today, his era is nearly impossible I’d take clement’s over a bunch of guys above him, better leader better football player, but not the qb who padded or team hopped

I love that dante uses his frame to its fullest and goes up to high point balls. Even with out a massive vert he’s gonna be soo tough to cover. I think he might flex or motion out for some routes. Could have him cross the formation into a slot waggle forcing a wil or small db to switch to him.