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Good start glad to see some gaps

Boy this weather may not be in our favour today

Feels more like lowered expectations. We’ve been rocked back to back and have made essentially no roster changes. We are less healthy than the first Calgary game too.

3 keys to the game Zach-carry. We don’t need him to go off for 300-4, though that would help a lot, but we need him to not turn it over (or throw a pick 6), get 8+ a pass, and not get hit. brady bowl. The injury and blow outs have taken us away from the core of our offence. We gotta get Brady going again and let him feast. Adjustments. Both cos have had their units run off the field in blow outs and been unable to adjust. We need to see better from both.

To be fair it was probably written in the flutie era, when last they had 15k fans or more in attendance.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/olivier-rioux-florida-basketballs-7-foot-9-center-works-out-for-gators-football-team/amp/ Canadian basketball player, Olivier Rioux had a try out with the Florida gators. Some where taman is writing his name down on a napkin and waiting to neg list him. 7’9 300 ish pounds, 11 inch vertical lol. Needless to say it didn’t go great.

That’s soo damn cool

I like vaval as a db and kr. I think he needs to sit and watch for a couple weeks. Try and get the game to slow down a bit. He’s over thinking and making bad decisions. Earlier in the year he’d just rush it catch and hit it up field. He’s struggling now to read it catch it and hesitant once he gets it.

Ball for Novak is the only change. Wow that’s mildly stunning. I thought we’d swap vaval at kr. Amazing that we barely use person and ayers but roll with them again.

Nichols is hands down the best guy on our D. Is Griffin 2nd best? Yep bout it. Don’t recommend thinking about who comes next. It gets real depressing real fast.

Griffin is a db, so is Kramdi. No team plays a 4-3 or a 3-4 any more. 4-2 4-1 or 3-2 3-1 is it now. Sam and cover wil packages aren’t lber positions or roles. They don’t line up inside the box any more or take interior gap run fits.

100%. He and Kongbo very similar contributions to the D. And both made it extremely easy to rotate them in while adding a dime etc. we had soo much utility and flexibility with the D during the ships. Dl guys on the bench who could rotate, pressure inside out, allowing wj to do what he likes vs single blocker even dropping back (remember that lol) biggie gave us massive support in pass cover and excellent gap cancelling, kyrie also brought insane range and dependability. Ba was soo damn good at keeping guys on the same page doing the right thing while terrorizing RBs and WRs. Stove and drake gave us the ability to close 2 gaps with 1 guy. Now we have virtually none of that flexibility or basic ability to execute consistently at a high level.

Kongbo was very good, but not fast twitchy pass rusher. But you’re right. Yeah, it’s sad the position we maybe recruit the best, dt, is one we cling to the worst crutch of a passport at.

Imo, athletically, he is where he needs to be this year. Last year, cardio was a big issue; he was blowing up mid way through games, and hit the wall hard after a productive start. His polish needs work. He can bull rush like a mofo, but he doesn't have good handwork to get off blocks or get out of bad spots if the OL wins the battle. He's had some borderline great snaps. Stove esq beast mode play. He needs to be protected better right now, and fill none nose roles as much as possible. Which, like you allude to, isn't happening. WJ barely gets upfield to threaten the backfield anymore. He does ok when he actually tries, but he tries too infrequently. Mostly he jab steps tries some thing like a swim move, if he doesn't get a free line to the qb he steps out like hes playing contain to play for the pass knock down. But doesn't actually give us edge contain. Vaughters pushes upfield on his snaps at least, but he's no JJ. And jake, well, the only way he is moving quickly towards the QB is if hes on the back of an errant cart. We need Woods back and playing the middle. Pair him with Adams playing a 3T, and lawson rotating for both. combine that with some one to spell WJ for atleast half if not 2/3s of his reps and we could have a good push again from our front. (who ever spells him should also spell vaughters of course for maybe 1/3 of his snaps.) That is a big problem, we haven't found an end worth a damn in ages. We can find 3 techs pretty well, and woods is a good nose or dt. But when you have 3 guys like jake, wj, and vaughters taking soo many snaps IDC who you put beside them. That 4th guy is getting mauled by OLs.

I wouldn't. I like ford as a back up, I'm doubtfull he will ever be more than a good back up though. At that, I'd have him as an ideal QB3.

We should make a pr claim on Les maruo, maybe we could send jjones in a limo to pick him up

Our WRs aren’t doing well in scramble drill no matter who is at qb. Hes buying as much time as you get on a roll out. But we have none of what we used to get from schoen breaking off routes and going in the right direction. Pa gets the D moving one way and gives the WRs a chance to time a break for easy separation and it’s an easy toss to a db stretching the field side to side.

Still 8 runs in 2 years of 20 or more. That also accounts for 204 of his 305 carries. If we gave him more usage as a runner, with better-designed run plays, I think he would do a lot better. He isn't an option runner and never has been. I don't think running option helps him. I've seen him struggle to make the right read and clean hand-offs. As have all our QBs, we might not have the right people to coach run option or maybe we just need a lot more practice. Read options for QB runs take a lot to get working smoothly. RPOs are demanding and massive time investments. He is 30 now, though, and with a couple of injuries. I don't think in general its a great idea to target runs to the secondary with qbs, but especially not at that age plus. I think the key to succesful designed QB runs up here is aiming for the side line, or delays into seams then sliding early once past the first down marker. For strevy, I think we need more play action sprint outs. RPO instead of double option runs. Put him in a spot where he throws an easy pass to a few crossers, has the back as a check down, and if the D overpursues, he can hit a cutback lane for a run. Also, a pin and pull type play with out a hand off option, primarily reading a WR and his gap for a quick screen, with a QB power option if the D overextends again. You can work back in a shovel-type play or release pass to the RB. This would have to be offset by running pin and pull handing off and throwing it. Wide zone and outside zone run schemes also leave more open for a mobile QB. tite and inside zone run schemes for running qbs only work well with twitchy make you miss in space qbs.

I mean, they could dress bailey as a back up DE, and save a DI. But we wouldn't rotate him, and we waste the DI anyway. We could also dress cobb, who gives us more of a WR as a back up WR, and a back up KR/Primary with case just on off. We are just lucky it isn't Schmekel going in so we can start 2 ni DTs LOL

He's never been a home run-hitting big run guy. His career YPC is 4.9, and his longest each year to date is 29, 38, 27 and 10 yards. Which isnt too far off zachs first few years in the league. Even Fajardo has 1 30+ yard run in his career. Despite the field size, we don't see monster qb runs to often up here. The nature of defences takes away those lanes and adds depth layers vs the NFL. Where as if Lamar jackson out runs the pursuit angle and beats one guy hes gone for 40 yards and a td. Strevy was also used under buck and plop like a FB. The amount of designed runs he had that where counter, wide, outside, off tackle etc, very few out side of the odd off guard short yardage push.

Yeah I don’t think we could or would ever. Feels like we are destined to struggle sooner than later at qb. With out the odd flashes of 350 yards 4 tds and cruise control in the late 3rd. I am hopeful, strevy will step up as a starter when the time comes. I look forward to seeing him in cfl action. I expect him to be a year plus behind the average us arm. with Jackson I think he could put up numbers. I like him less than Faj between the ears. And I think you need a great D to win consistently with him.

Who do you think gives us a better chance to win, concussed zach, strevy, mbt, masoli, or faj? I think MBT reuniting with Jackson gives us the best chance to put up stats, but I think faj might give us a better chance to win. Pretty sad.

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It's a gamble for sure. I think the biggest thing in favor of him ending up here this year is that the Lions have a medium-term injury to their starting RT, and because of that, picked up 2 guys who are firmly 1/2. Better recovery than expected could mean he gets pushed out. The NFL also expects athletic and physical outliers. If a guy doesn't crack playing quickly enough in his career, he ends up surrounded by other outliers who are younger. Based on his play in PS and the bit I saw in OTAs, he deserves to be playing on an AR in the NFL. You also don't get nearly as much from a 2nd year on a PR as you do from a first. Linemen especially hit a point of diminishing returns quickly on PRs. A minor hitch in his health probably ends up with him being replaced. That said, with the size of NFL PRs, and importance of Ts, he could well get a look else where.