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I think he fits in the locker room, but he does for sure have real character flaws. Stupid amounts of money. But damned if he isn’t earning it. first off, thanks for the snap break down, some great info there. now rant on lol, If you sign a guy like that you should have a good understanding and expectation of if you can coach him up and how much you can do. It’d be really egregious to bring him in at that bonus, thinking he can only play one wr spot. Where you have a younger cheaper guy grooming with upside. Especially after last year going into it with on paper an elite wr core, probably the most expensive hands down. Then seeing every one struggle and miss games, massive under performances, that should’ve made the important clear. If not the years of chasing top flight WRs each off season to never land one. You can use motion to ease a guy into the waggle, which Edmonton didn’t do. And you can split reps, plus you don’t need to be schoen min maxing the waggle every snap. Dillion Mitchell is a player in this league, Kase has been below replacement level as a wr and kr. If Mitchell is that hard stuck, we gotta dump him and bring in some one with versatility to play more spots. Feels Lousy as a bomber fan that what ever our front office and coaching staff does is automatically good enough. And not just to us but to them. 30k plus fans a game deserve better.

Yeah that’d be a pretty big down grade. Vaval needs to grow make a few better decisions and be more secure. But that’s typical of rookie krs. Hes worth developing and teaching. especially since he looks like a legit db. Vaval and schoen for Logan and Mitchell would be well worth while though.

I kind of like the ring of giant dodgers… it’d be great for a basketball team. I believe officially it was a combination of honouring the rcaf, Winnipeg’s aviation history, and the ny jets.

Dillion Mitchell does and has played slot. below the very first highlight has him in the slot. You can find lots of similar in his high lights up here. Also WRs in the cfl motion and move depending on formation, package, and passing concepts. No one is solely a field or wr or boundary slot. This is mos roster management. If they actually played case in a game over any imp wr it would be completely absurd.

Boy I don’t want to see Kase in the starting core… glad vanterpool is getting more T reps. Hopefully Stan is ok and tbh can step back up. Good to see Logan finally starting to get healthy too.

Probably trying for stability since they are confident in brown. But it was just bad judgment on their part. No joke.

If that happens it should be, but I doubt it will be. If Walter’s isn’t extended before the off season begins, I wonder if ott makes a run at him to rebuild the whole franchise.

And that’s why vaj means soo much for Calgary. He can win em or lose em for you. But he isn’t going to drip feed you a lose. I thought they were the second best team in the west, but power ranking wise you have to put them first right now.

Should be the best game of the week. Hopefully the smoke clears and it doesn’t run too crazy late.

You can bet on that. Better work if not it’s all my fault lol lmao. I love it up there it’ll be great to get away from work even if it’s Smokey. Hopefully better but the game day too.

It was really bad this morning, but it has gotten better as the day has gone on. I'm on holidays in the interlake next week, sunday is supposed to be sunny and hot, but out side of that it should be cloudy, cool, and rainy. This is one of the few times I hope it pours on my vacation lol.

I think Wilson is better suited at slot between those two as well.

I want to add that our echo chamber position is also indicative of the nature of the league. Us talent levels are fairly static. The gap between top US talent in the CFL and replacement level isn't huge. Teams win based on Canadian talent and depth in the modern CFL. The gap between top Canadian talent and end of the end-of-the-roster guys is gigantic. The difference between the teams with the best Canadian talent and the worst is the same as the difference between the top and bottom teams. Teams always try to buy a contender in free agency based on IMP stars. And that process is slow, plus it’s hit or miss, depending on your ability to draft and develop Canadians. We signed Imps and developed NIs under the mafia. We still have among the very best ni position player/players in the league. We also have good depth, and lots of developing young guys. So we have a good team and a future. As long as we keep moving those guys up. Our primary limiting factor is also our worst starting Canadians. I don't think the ringmaiden/penn thing was (if I am right, that is) some active decision to weed them out. I'm not sure we have purposely created an echo chamber. It happens we've built around Canadians, who have made their bones with Canadian talent. But I think we have created a strong echo chamber. McManis is pretty hands off. He's mostly in the US and out of the room, searching for talent. Jim Jauch is about the most Canadian, Anerican-born football front office guy in the league. He's a reverse Cahoon. Brock Sunderland might be the only guy who has a chance to be real outside eyes with a diverse view. When we barely played them on D in pre-season, I knew we were cooked. We'd better do more with them next year in camp and preseason. We have done this before a lot, drafted on potential, then left guys to rot in situational play. First down, Will and Mac in general are the second easiest and fastest positions for rookies and Canadians to adapt to the cfl at. (Rb easiest, Db a close second for rookie imps) We would be dramatically better off starting 1 of them at 1 lber spot and rotating them, than going with Thomas/Kornelson at DL, Hallett at S, etc. What we might lose at that position, vs what we lose at DT, Guard etc is gigantic. The near future of our team needs to heavily include guys like clercius, Wallace, Lawson, Shay, smith, and the current crop of ni youth. We aren’t likely to see a draft class like the last two years repeatedly. We’ve already lost guys like ford, Dobson etc. Wasting time not using guys like that and letting them develop only makes our future worse. All of the above guys are able to contribute regularly on o/d as well as teams.

Or 1. I think the whole league has 2 guys who, when they are on, are at that kind of level. Beverette and McManis. And both are tweeny wil/sam types.

Yeah, I think generally is all we can say. But I also think that the general opinion is very close. Mos and the long-term ASTs have talked a bit about the prep process, and I don't think there are any great tricks in how we do things. If anything, it's probably far closer to how we perceive the operations to be than most would believe. We are the antithesis of tricky in terms of operation, strategy, and decision-making. The mafia is like Bart Simpson playing rock, paper, scissors, throwing rock every single time. I fully believe that Mos and his COs feel like they have a highly collaborative game planning, where they have the freedom to put on the field what they want. But I think the echo chamber has left us in a position where only people who make like-minded decisions are in that room to collaborate. They are all too busy expounding on the intangible virtues and longevity of guys like Kola and Thomas to want to take them off. I don't think the type of person who would say, "that former star is over the hill and needs to go," gets or holds a job in our franchise. And I would bet my house that Cyril Penn and Ryan Ringmaiden were both that guy. Both guys could've moved up the chain more here. Both spent relatively short stints here, but both brought in some incredible US talent.