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I think a lot of that comes down to Maas doing a great job of off setting fajardos weaknesses. Plus having stellar talent at ol and wr. But he has certainly matured and doesn’t just need to rely on spin move left to right! lol Qft

Yeah I’d agree with that. He’s like the cfls Johnny manziel.

Broken plays, and extremely fast timing plays. Hes really effective at one step drop timing routes. I don’t think his issue is actually football iq, It comes of to me more as being mentally soft. He doesn’t have that mental toughness that Dru brown or zach does. If he went through what either did he’d break 10 times over. If you tell him he can’t make a throw enough times, he won’t be able to. Public opinion has a huge sway on his confidence as a player as well. Which isn’t good.

Good point. Though as I recall neither was really filling a vacancy. January I think is the best bet though at this point. Yeah is really hard to say. I can’t imagine they would’ve requested to interview him if buck left to delay it a month plus. I could see wishing he a double edged sword. Oh one hand a bunch of top guys will be gone. On the other hand, a bunch of guys who wanted a chance to move up didn’t get it and we will be their last shot. That could be the case for some one like beau Baldwin, Howell, or even jackson.

Pro football players, especially QBs are weird people. What a guy goes through especially playing ball in the us growing up warps their perception of reality. And of them self. Mbt as a player is an oddity as well. He’s a guy who can put up numbers and not propel you to wins. But he’s also a guy you can win with. Hes the strongest testament to football being a team game and wins not being a qb stat that exists. I group him with Trevor Harris in terms of quality. I actually agree a lot with his criticisms of the league last year. He is a nut though even by nutty qb standards. Imo Damon Allen was a smoke and mirrors guy till his renaissance. Some times QBs need that. Like ac did.

I believe it was rumoured that they had started, but you’re right it is possible. They might be trying to fill Ted’s spot first. I hope they are working on both at the same time but any thing is possible.

Good point. Been really healthy for a guy who’s a dual threat. Hes kind of in the Matt nichols tier between 2nd and top rank QBs. He’s not any one’s first pick for starting qb. But he does enough to give his team a chance. The team that gets him to be a back up will be pretty happy. Not wrong. 74 starts in 124 games. Basically 3 years as a back up, followed by 5 straight as a starter. I think that’s pretty normal for cfl QBs though. Most guys don’t become starters in year 2.

That’s a good question. I wish I might know for a fact, but I suspect that it is just because. I mean that’s how we roll with every thing from injuries to roster changes. Top secret for the point of being top secret. I agree that it just wouldn’t make sense to have this process drag into the new year only to announce an in house hire. But we also often make befuddling decisions like that. Logically, the only thing I can see is if they want the in house hire but want and outside hire to be an assistant to support and guide them in the job. Like hall has done for Jy. Kevin and Marty would really benefit from that type of support. I’d honestly be good with having Marty and Kevin work together then get a vet oc on the way down in their career to be qb coach and support both. That being bourgoin as the pass game co, Marty the run game co, where Bourgoin likely calls the plays from the booth and Marty is on the side line with said qb coach. Maybe Khari.

With Fajardo, you can micro manage an offence that will produce, though under achieve for sure. Greene you basically run wildcat type stuff and some old timey passes as trick plays early football days stuff. And he would still underachieve. ford vs Fajardo, who has the better year in 25? Even though he doesn’t have a team and won’t have a path to be qb1, i still take Fajardo.

At this point I expect the announcement in the new year for oc. Small chance some thing happens this week, but we could be the last team to finalize the cos.

A bit more upside on best games especially big games. Greene was more limited.

If they stuck to mbt all year, and canned jones before the start of the year Jackson probably leads them to the play offs. Or atleast respectability. he had a mile high ceiling imo, but very little chance of achieving that. More dynamic running vaj for upside, but more realistically, it’s between Nealon Greene and Fajardo. I like his floor as a qb3 who can run some packages n stuff. I haven’t seen the ability to adapt, read, manipulate, or beat Ds.

Some teams have a history that includes long stretches of great coaching. Especially the buono teams. The Argos and bombers are not those teams. We’ve both succeeding with fleeting runs of truly top level coaching. Mos and dinwiddie are quickly rising in the ranks of all time coaches when it comes to wins and gcs. And dinwiddie is a brilliant tactician. Neither guy has entered the level of buono, the don, etc. It’s like Emmitt smith becoming the all time rushing leader. He isn’t a top 5 back of all time or in that tier. He is for forever in the shadow of Guys like Payton, sanders and brown.

Time to go full on amar doman.

I do agree the ol early on gave no help. First half of last year was the worst ol play he’s seen in blue n gold. He was also just not game ready after skipping pre season and parts of camp. The play call was also not conducive to getting the offence in a rhythm the entire year. If zach wasn’t getting time and the WRs weren’t clicking with him buck had nothing to help slow things down and make easy gains. Or adjust to take what the D gave. It was the worst stretch of offense we’ve seen in ages. And many players have blame, none save for maybe Brady are blameless. If healthy the ol are certainly settled together now. I’d really like to see an upgrade at any ol position in the off season. But I think the only chance will be internal development. However just having the unit play like they did down the stretch last year will help a lot. Oc will be a big factor in our success on offence this year. We need some one who can reign in zachs impulse to chuck. I worry that guy doesn’t exist in our staff already. Last year was an embarrassment for zach too. He hasn’t played that bad since the stretch to end it in Hamilton. I’m hoping we see angry motivated zach early and often in 2025.

Those things didn’t help, but he was much worse in the early games before guys got hurt. Worse than every game but the gc any way.

Actually his play off stats here over all are bad. Not just gc games. But he has had some good play off games like the west final this year. Which, if you look at his stats in the play offs here gets even more depressing. But that requires accepting that winning is more than some kind of personal player magic. Im consigned to the fact we will have zach back this coming season. I am however also optimistic that he can’t have a worse year than this last one. If our pass pro is at the level we saw down the stretch, all year next year and we have better game plans and play call from the oc any thing is possible. I think it’s possible with a good off season that we end up with a D that can carry us to gc wins. Id love to have a young franchise qb. But one isnt available. Wish we kept brown maybe next year.

As much as I want to see re ups, right now I want to see us score a good oc

I feel like the longer the oc search goes on, the more likely it is we are hiring from out side.

I’d suggest listening to the guys talk about him. I’ve seen guys like that who are just kinda loud and carry on. They tend to be laughed off. If that was the case he would’ve been FO’d for sure. Kongbo was a similar type. Guys like zach go specifically into detail about how he is in the locker room. I’m talking about the fifo culture. Sure they aren’t gonna keep around toxic head cases. Few contenders do. The culture of fifo doesn’t seem remotely the same any more. And you don’t hear or see any thing from the young guys out side of bo stepping up in that area. And even then bo has been around a good while. Kongbo came in and was an immediate tone setter and maintained a high level of accountability. It’s why B.C. didn’t like him. They were allergic to that accountable style of culture. We had a culture that perpetuated winning. Now we have a culture we win with. Same as Hamilton had in 19/21. Agreed. Usually that kind of partial release program is for people with jobs they can keep with the conviction. Idk how it works with Normand. He can’t go back to work in education.

Likely week off to work and weekends inside. He was released almost right away according to the article.

It is known though. I mean we’ve seen half a dozen articles on the silent stoic type that is Bryant since 19. Have you seen him publicly even at the fan day stuff? https://3downnation.com/2024/12/09/bell-media-denies-report-about-tsn-being-for-sale/ boy I wonder what a tsn sale could mean for the cfl? Would we see a long over due change in production/direction? Would they slash the budget? I feel like the cfl has to be really good margin wise for tsn. The draw is pretty strong, think average viewership was like 500k a game last year. Considering they don’t have much else that time of year that’s real good. I might not mind if they cut the pregame show and panel. Just had the sideline and color/pbp do a mini panel and mini post/pre game.

That type of role isn’t chosen though. That’s exactly how it doesn’t work.

Because he doesn’t say things often. And you need guys who keep the tone set daily. football is a grind not a once n a while thing. Have you seen sheed talk to a room? He isn’t wanting to be any one. He and yoshi were the two biggest vocal leaders and tone setters. Sheed talked to the whole room all the time. Yoshi talked to every player before every game. You gotta have leaders like Bryant. And you also need the vocal guys. Yeah that’s been the word out of bomber camp for a long time.

Bryant isn’t that guy. That was sheed and hardrick. Haven’t seen or heard of any one filling those spots.