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I will give more in depth thoughts going forward but it was real nice to see the first D playing a LOT mote physical again. They will get back to grinding teams down. Riders won but that was nothing for them the be proud of. Bombers were looking for certain things and I think they saw them.... someone let barriere know there's an extra guy in the cfl.

Thank you. This is an argument I can accept. I have never said O’Shea is infallible, so making that assumption about my post is inaccurate and unfair. But I have found more than a bit of the criticism of him to lack perspective and be so inflammatory as to border on the absurd. His roster has been called garbage, putrid, a joke, and other over the top things. And it has been even stated that O’Shea should be shown the door by the club if he can’t smarten up and be better. And when you suggest that he has given away our competitive advantage, a quick check of the team’s results shows just how competitive we have in fact been, as to underlie the lack of perspective on the big picture, that he and the players have put themselves in position to win 4 straight Grey Cups because of the strength of the roster some claim is so flawed. Just as you say he did not set the team up in the best way to succeed, I could say that some players did not perform like they should have in spite of the coaching, critical mental and physical errors cost us as much as if not more than coaching or roster strategy did, and just plain luck played a big hand in determining the outcome. Neither of us is 100% right or wrong with our assessment. Where the “bad roster” argument gets out of hand for me is where it is suggested it is all part of an O’Shea agenda to deliberately undermine the team (and his own job) with a weaker roster (which is only based on opinions by certain posters who claim without hard evidence that player X who we haven’t seen play is clearly better than player B who has been on the roster) in an effort to get on a soapbox and proclaim, what exactly? And that he needs to be called out and explain himself to justify his decisions, and the media are cowards with no balls for not doing so. Well forgive me for saying I don’t think he really needs to say too much to defend himself on this issue, since his job is to win games and field the most competitive team he can, whether someone likes the way in which he does it or not. And by that measure alone he is about as unassailable as any coach we have ever had here, on par with Grant and maybe ahead of Murphy in terms of winning a success. I would love a good measured debate on it, but just like some deal in absolutes, some deal on hyperbole and unrealistic expectations. People say we are good but not good enough, I would say that we are much better than merely “good”, that those people think that anything short of absolute perfection is mediocre, and wrongly feel he deserves to be called to the carpet for not achieving an essentially impossible standard. Just the way I see it.

What a lousy game 7. Seems everytime I decide to watch a game these playoffs...it's lather, rinse, repeat.

Hard to tell much from this game really. Some solid individual efforts but coaches will be looking at them in context of what the assignments were. That context is important. I loved the physicality of Gemmel out there. Kind of reminded me of Lobendahn. Heavy player you can tell guys playing against him wouldn’t have a fun time. Wilson looks like a CFL QB. Like both his comfort in pocket and on a rollout. Solid arm, mobility when he needs it. Barriere looks like a guy who played at a great school and fit the system.

Well that finish was not great for my blood pressure. 😂 Canucks could have won that but waiting till half way through the third to start playing is not a great strategy in game 7.

Farhan can cry all he wants. Game 7 and you no show isn’t on the refs like the majority of their idiot fan base thinks. Can’t wait to hear about the riots in the morning.

27 12. 3 0. canucks looking worse than the Jets did against Colorado

Yeah but he’s not gonna put up 20 shots.

Lalji crying loudly on Twitter. But they do miss Boeser a lot.

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That sums it up well imo. And I assume the default RT is and will be lofton.

In that case you can’t give him much credit for winning though. The team was flat in the last two gcs and guys played who shouldn’t have. He’s not top of the list but he’s on it.

Canucks have 4 shots on goal and it’s in the 2nd period. 2 0 Edmonton

So is it fair to say that Bryant is of course a no brainer, we have no real worries with some combo of Neufeld, Kolo, Dobson, Eli and Wallace but RT is still a question mark?

There’s a massive difference between saying it’s his fault and saying he didn’t put us in the best position to succeed. So many people here want to deal in absolutes, but the reality is it’s a mix of everything. Our roster didn’t show up and make it count, but I’ll hold strong and say we didn’t put our guys in the best position to succeed either.

Blaming the cup losses on O’Shea is kinda stupid tho. He’s not the one out there playing.

Moses, Garbutt and Thomas comma Tre

I have always said there's a happy medium... Osh isn't as bad as some say and he's also not infallible. I love playing as many Canadians as possible but I also like winning and believe there's merit to allowing Americans to stay with a team for a length of time and be considered National for roster purposes. There's a happy medium somewhere.

Yep, just 5 rb hand offs. I feel like the idea was to evaluate the ol in run protection as well as wr/qbs. I don’t think they are worried about the guys we have succeeding in run pro. Im in pre season mode too. Don’t worry I’ll make some cuts and get the top 3 down to 4 or 5 for the regular season lol

Bare minimum yeah. In the modern game you need line play second only to qbing. Make the ratio work put a line out that keeps your qb upright. Play 6 ol like ham did with June jones if you need to.

That's an impressive 9 players named as the three stars

If they want Harris to have a chance...they should be starting 3 Americans.

Wilson definitely seemed to have the "just quick enough to make you miss" speed