The amount of brain drain our front office has seen since 19 is truly incredible. We didn't just lose the old guard; we lost the young guys along the way as well. Aside from Danny and Walters, we've probably seen 300% roll over in the rest of the positions since then. Just like we became an old roster long in tooth at the expense of younger talent, the front office did the same. It used to be Walters would focus on Canadian scouting, Ted was the heart/organizer and guy to really dig into the minutiae on making scout reports, Ringmaiden was the crazy smart guy who found crazy pieces in random locations, and Macmanus was allowed to focus intently on a small, but prospect-rich geographic region. Then Ringmaiden was replaced by Penn (who Ted found and brought in), and we saw our talent strengths change positions, but we saw immediate dividends. Cyril Penn was the hardest pill to swallow. Truly incredible football mind and US scout, then watched him instantly walk away with Ted. A guy that young and new to pro football is exactly what you need to secure long term. The front office is like the DL with WJ last year. We got 2 specialists and none of the pieces needed to support that structure anymore. Not only that, we've gone further into the specialized areas with guys like Jauch and Deslauriers. I like both guys, but Jauch overlaps with Danny a lot, and Deslauriers overlaps even more with Walters. Gulakow has taken an even bigger role in the CIS draft as well. If you don't count DC as front office (in terms of scouting, etc) and don't count Stanley's analytics on offense, we have the same number of Offensive coaches as we do front office guys. I like most all the front office types we have, but I don't love the fit. It's too much this guy assists that guy and does a bit of this and that. And not enough thoroughbreds running a race in their own area of expertise. The harsh reality of the front office cap era is you need guys who are modular. Coaches who can really dig into scouting in the off-season, and national scouts who can scout your own team and support countering your own weaknesses. And you need as much horsepower as you can get, just churning through guys and opportunities down in the US nonstop. Be that NFL camps, College camps, Games, Practices, Combines, Prodays, rookie/position Camps, you name it. And most importantly, you need that whole crew to work together and balance each other out really well. You need a process for guys a scout loves. Another guy or two to watch tape, and at least one to go dig in and pick apart the initial report and find what might be missing. Otherwise, you can easily waste years with fool's gold in scouting. (Cleveland Browns syndrome) And if you look at many of our most vaunted additions of rookies over the past few years, you see a lot of fool's gold, and not much real gold. That is the falling-down point of our scouting right now. While we seem to be trending in the wrong direction for the volume of high-level talent, but we are farthest off in terms of talent/athleticism actually translating to the Canadian game. That, unfortunately, is amplified by the coaching and roster management issues we have.