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yeah, you look at how Buck lost his shine here right around the time that our OL hit the skids and Collaros started tossing tons of picks -- then he goes to BC where he's got the legit MOP, a good back, receivers five deep and a line that can pass protect ... and now he looks like a genius and we'd take him back in a second. Crum surpassed my expectations last year. Showing steady upward progress. Wonder what his ceiling is? Would be happy to see him at QB2 in blue.

He's just been around long enough to have had years at the top and years around the bottom. Ultimately your play caller is affecting a small chunk of your production. It's up to the talent you have and whether your OL can block anyone especially in pass pro. He'll look like a ******* genius if they have the best OL in the league. Let's hope Zach can make his pee tests this year.

An upgrade in the sense that a kick in the ass is better than a kick in the junk. Not super excited, but obviously anything is better than what we had this past year.

Pimpleton....but believe he signed thru next yr Crum could follow tho as a opp to be 2nd string/Short yardage guy...Adeboboye I'd make an offer to as well as Canadian depth that wont break the bank

It's an upgrade but not a solid one. Just his history & struggles with the run games as OC in Hamilton & Ottawa makes me wary. They better ttell him if he comes to Winnipeg, the offense goes thru Brady Oliveira not Nic Demski... But if they're choices one & two for Zach this may work. I'm hoping we sign an impact OL in free agency.

Doesnt matter what we think. if the players have confidence in him, such as Zac its a big head start over Hogan who had very little

Don't follow other teams rosters well enough, but did he work with any "solid up and coming prospect" that may join him? I can't see this as anything but a HUGE upgrade from what we had last year..........

Or Lewis for that matter

If we could land him at a nice price.....with Pokey...Demski...and whomever after that it would be a great situation....I could see him being a WR that ZC has a real good chemistry with and allow room for others to come free

No matter how one tries to spin it to suggest this statement is incorrect, it's correct at this moment in time.

Can't discount that he knows Zach too. Hell maybe he'll bring Hardy with him as a bonus

Although I was taught not to assume, I'm assuming he was informed of that in the interview process so there should be no confusion in the identity we want to set offensively.

anyway you slice it...an upgrade and we can only benefit from his hire...Hopefully he realizes he has a feature back to ride, as he tends to neglect the run and force the passing game, and based on BO comments I'm sure he would not have signed here yet...if at all if he didnt get some input and or re-assurance that Condell is gonna use him as the focal point of his offence...He was likely agreed as OC before BO...and Demski signed

It’ll be easy for him to out do hogan or bucks last year here. My concern is the ceiling might not be that much higher. and won’t have nothing developed in tc for the regular season lol

Agree. Whether he is great or not he's a huge upgrade on Hogan. He'll at least have implemented a full CFL playbook.

Condell is a pretty solid hire I think. He crafted some very good offenses in Hamilton previously. Clear upgrade at OC.

So sayest thou.

We drafted him, right? I have a feeling that he wouldn't play for us. With his entire family on theLower mainland, I think he'd want to play for BC.

It would be a great disappointment if they hired Condell because like you say, he's just a poor man's recycled version of Paul LaPolice. Condell will be under a lot of pressure to use Brady the team has committed the next three years to Brady & paid him $$$ to keep him here. Four or 5 touches just won't cut it. But historically, as far as the run game goes, he'd a terrible choice. So, we'll see. Also, not a fan of his dink & dunk offense. We might be better off just hiring LaPo again. However, if Hogan is gone then I'll applaud that. He was so bad. I'd have liked to see Jarious Jackson given a chance at OC. he'd have been my choice.

Every name...

All he has to do is have a great oline to work, a semi decent receiving core, feed the ball to BO to establish the run and have ZC spread the ball around short, mid and long range with some creativity to keep the D off balance. Easy peasy.

Sucks the knee injury ate up half his season. Really set him back. They’re right he needs reps. The fact they are sounding packed in and playing for next year with him is not great for him. He needs to really be dynamite getting into camp next year and manage to get some shine in practice this year.

That’s a surprise to me. Most prominently Condell ran a lot of what june jones brought in previously in hamilton, but each year trimmed it back and found less success. His 13-15 stretch with zach in hamilton has to be the main reason for this move. Those were zachs good years in hamilton before the down fall. Still not great years for him, but very good. His semi recent offences have been allergic to the run game. BUT, he did run the riders in 06 with kenton keith tearing things up before going to the nfl. He had kerry joseph that year and was the pass game coach in ott the previous two years with him. So moderate offensive success with hank burris, kerry joseph, and zach. Also with backs like gable, keith and had solid success with guys like armstead, stanback and others. He struggled a lot over many years in two stints with masoli, mbt, franklin and a host of others. A good chunk of his years up here as a CO has been under hcs who are offensive guys. Trestman, kent austin, Danny barrett, joe paopao as well as running june jones offense. I don’t love this move. Hes basically hamiltons version of lapo. He was solid with dru brown but not great with out him. And really fell back on brown just going out and beating defences. Never saw great game planning, play call or adjustments. Didn’t see him deal with adversity well either.

MBT looked completely shot last season, it's unfortunate because he could have been a decent interim starting QB. Dustin Crum Matt Shiltz Taylor Powell Jake Maier None that I'd want to commit long term with... but maybe good enough as a stop gap. At this point it's a hope and a prayer that Zach can return to form. I hope whoever our back up is... gets reps this season.

A LaPo disciple. Dink & dunk everywhere. Not as many gadget plays as LaPo. Although he did gave Dru Brown throw the ball more than he usually did. Brady better tell him to feed him the ball. He doesn't run the ball much. That means JJ may not be back. What qb out there right now that's available can we get to rid us of the albatross?