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I don’t think that’s necessarily true but I get the feeling he also would rather a team of vets lose badly than calling up kids who probably aren’t quite ready to lose. I think from his pc I got this, yup we suck and right now we can’t do anything about it. The guys we want to trade have no value so what do you want from us really. He’s right also as Toews Schenn miller Pearson Nino names Nyquist get you 4th rd picks or later. My feeling is Chevy didn’t expect us to be this bad but and who did honestly, the roster isn’t a last place roster. It’s almost Florida when they got Barkov or Colorado when they got mackinnon. A bad year followed by game changing draft pick followed by success. And there’s the silver lining.

If Kramdi can walk, he will be starting im sure. Allen showed some brilliant flashes at S, but I would love to flip-flop him and Kramdi. I don't love Kramdi + Holm, but as long as we don't fall in love with a really bad db out of camp, yet again, the secondary will be very good. I think DL, and flipping the ratio at 1 lber spot is far more critical to the success of the D.

Let the best player earn the position, but O'Shea's history and attitude would seem to make that unlikely. He will probably play nice and make a few token gestures to signal a change of attitude, but inevitably he will revert. This would likely mean he will set up non-pet players to fail and then fell justified that he knew best all along. Because he is not one of O'Shea's faves.

With Kolankowski gone and Thomas sorta gone, O'Shea will be dangerously low on pets, so Kramdi is golden.

Kramdi is not nearly as bad as you make him out to be, but if someone is clearly better I like him at S. I know you don't care for him there, but I think he could be really good there with a little more time.

yup...

Yea...he is actually a pretty good punter.

I don't know why they don't just let Castillo do it all

Oh agree....hence why we need to find a guy by whatever means and develop him all yr as a possible succession....not the usual just ignore it and then try and find a guy when we are forced to.... But for this yr Castillo is a must....especially early in yr when we may be still working out kinks with a new offensive system and may need some early season FG's

Goosen...Fortin...among others Woodbey should be our SAM and also an almost Jack at times off the edge of line....Griffin as well if resigned, tho not in a jack spot...Griffin and Nichols as the HB's as well would be ideal...and we get more physical with Woodbey and Griffin playing starter reps Smith as well needs to be playing majority of reps at WIL and even in the role Woodbey had... correct guys....and this also has to go hand in hand with not predetermining and being rigis with ratio based on how we ran it before....just negates talent on roster from actually playing if camp shows Kramdi is not best player at SAM....does Osh start him anyway...cause thats Osh...And they have to justify his stupid salary?...Probably....and that right there makes us weaker on defence...

Would be nice to have one guy do all 3, but unless we have a sure thing there we can't roll the dice.

I suppose it depends on where we are at with NAT receiver but yea...we could do it fairly easily without a ton of impact.

I don't think going 3 imp on the OL will hurt us too much. Kramdi is gonna start as long as he's healthy. Then if you start Shay, and Lawson, plus Brady, 2 WRs, and 2 OL, that's 8. If we go with a DA who can replace Lawson some and pass rush with an all-in DL for 49% of snaps or less, we'd be in a great spot.

Neuf as the 6th ol would be an incredible luxury. I'd love to have him and Wallace fight for the 2nd guard spot, with the loser taking the 6th spot. Letting Wilson go makes a lot of sense. Personally, I'd platoon the canadians at wil, and play woodbey at DHB. Woodbey is such an extraordinary outlier in his combination of size, athleticism, DB, and LBer skill sets. Playing him at half, and having him be the db in the run fit instead of Nichols would be such a miss match. Rolling out Shay, who is very similar in skill set at Wil, would take a big load off the shoulders off the Sam position as well. We could have a full 3 guys at wil/mac/sam who can play the box like Lbers. Plus a DB in Woodbey. That would be a massive mismatch in the run game. Plus Allen, who is a down hill Safety. In the Cover game that would give us interchangeability at Wil and Sam without subbing, but if slid Woodbey to Mac, and brought in Griffin, we'd have the same kind of mismatch advantage. Allen, Woodbey, and Shay can give us the game-breaking versatility that we used to have with Biggie/BA/Kyrie. It would take us closer to being able to run the cutting-edge modular defenses we used to run. We'd just need more Inside/Out versatility on the DL.

I wouldn't that, their has been a couple of centres that started their rookie season. Nicastro, McEwan are two examples.

Gross if that's true.

If we actually let our Canadain LB's we drafted play...then the DA spot used on Castillo is moot and we can get the extra DA on roster in a "backup" capacity...I would tho draft a global....or find a Canadian kid to groom into doing all 3 tho....that should also be a priority this off-season

Stan will sign when dust settles and we land the fish we want to, and he will take a fair deal for both sides...he wont hold us over the coals and has done similar before...From what I hear he is not ready to retire (well wasnt at season end) and though he not as good as vintage Stan...he still one of best in league. Neuf as well needs to be back and fairly certain he will at a friendly deal for both...Neither wanna play elsewhere and are team guys and are allowing the team to get better with more priority signings...Too nad ZC doesnt have same mindset and willing to give a lil back for the overall team benefit And if some guys in camp really show up and make it impossible to have them play second fiddle anymore...hopefully Osh has the sense this yr to actually allow it...That or Walters just takes the dilema out of his hands and outright releases a player or 2...aka...do his job unbiased I hope we dont go 3 imports on oline...weakens the defence and thats an option when your cupboards are basically bare National wise... With Woodbey here...Shay...Smith...(Griffin, Makonzo and Ayers) if resigned we have zero need for Wilson, and really T.Jones either unless he gets bumped to role guy/rotational/situational player...basically a DA We actually quite nicely set up to allow some of the youth to step up and take the next step, and to delay that another yr just because of the similar nonesense from the past few yrs, with returnees...then we obviously havnt learned our lesson and are truly changing our ways thats how I see it...

Barker is a good football guy and is very connected....and well respected in football circles both sides of the norder...TSM just made him look like an unhinged at times freak...The Argo's are smart to put him in place to resurrect their team before it gets to dumpster fire territory TSN Dbags totally lost the feel of what football fans would want....keeping the wrong people yup!!...People shouldnt go by with how TSN had him act...The guy is moocho connected and respected...and he definately has a knack/talent for finding talented players who will thrive in CFL

I agree. I would suggest that Vibert would be the guy if we go internal in a worst case scenario. Wouldn't surprise me if we went IMP before Tui or Vibert. American Left Tackles are crazy hard to find. Stan will be back. Kyrie? Probably not. Neuf and Willie almost definitely unless they ask for the moon.

It's done quite often. We did it with Bighill even. I can't remember offhand anyone else but I know this is pretty standard here and across the CFL. If you know a guy isn't in your future plans you cut him loose ASAP. Willie is 50/50 on whether he signs early or not. Couple times he did, couple times he signed just prior to FA. We are in no position to release Neufeld right now.