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When ever some one calls Tim’s field the donut hole or box all I can think of is Gordon Ramsay yelling you @&&%ing donut!

Truly the elite when it comes to deplorables. It’s really impressive if you think about it. The bog/league really needs to have a closed doors meeting with the top of the riders brass and read them the riot act.

I did a break down before the win streak about how we’d need to split all our series and find ways to steal a couple extra wins to get back into the race. Instead, we just won all of them to date lol. Nice to be able to turn that on. Be nicer if it wasn’t just turned off to start the year. Training camp/ pre season lasted like 2.5 months this year it was brutal lol

Tbh I like Barrett. He’s a damn good coach and guy. I don’t think he fit the shivers toxic culture even though he seemed really close to shivers. What a mess though, getting rid of shivers for Tillman yikes.

He’s gonna be getting as many sacks as haba and Garbutt combined, again. Fun fact, combined haba and Garbutt have 5 career sacks. Only took them 26 games to beat who ever the hell that is single game! In order to match Jackson jeffcoat who they’ve replaced will take another 138.66 games. Grove Covington is 654.33 games away! I really shouldn’t look at stuff like that on game day bleh. Yes and yes. Maybe shanks will live up to his name sake and smoke jones in the face with the ball. Or pour out a lil grey goose

Keys to the game beat bo. We aren’t likely to do it with pressure, so the secondary as per usual has to win this battle. vintage Zach. We got the best look of his former mop form we’ve seen in a long while last week. Don’t expect 6tds, but a good zach game is key. Zachs biggest need is always protection. We had great line play last week and will need it again. to watch kick cover. They struggled last week, gotta get back on track. Bonds is due for a bounce back game after being below the usual level we’ve seen from him Kenny for obvious reasons adams. Had a couple monster snaps last week hopefully he plays his way into more snaps.

Us expansion isn’t the answer to any question other than trivia in the cfl.

Think it’s both. Pretty damn good. I believe you called that happening late in the year too. We keep that going I like our chances at winning out.

Is this the first gdr all year with out a roster change from the previous week?

Thinking back through the fog of rider hate (and age) I feel like they had good culture when dressler was there. But that it evaporated seemingly when he left. It’s hard to be sure though, they spanked us bad back then and he was a guy who could carry a locker room.

Nailed it.

Two penalties is really impressive, especially on soo many deep targets. Also the PFF stat at the end is heavily tilted towards valuing tackles with no regard for their depth etc. so for ford to be ahead of the tackling dummy, that’s really some thing. Yup. Don’t think we have any shot of seeing him again this year.

I think it’s mainly a lack of chances for our side hire ocs league wide. He’s been sitting behind guys who had their jobs pretty locked up. Usually ocs are developed in house, or new hcs bring in their guys. Took buck ages to get his shot. And the current default pipe line is former qb in the league, to qb coach, to oc.

Any time this team has an oc opening Paul has a 20% chance of being the answer lol. Plop, and Khari would be the popular retread candidates. Internally, Kevin bourgoin has been our wr coach for 7 years. He did work as an oc some at Maine, but I don’t think he’d be high on the list. Jason hogan our rb coach is a developmental guy like that, he worked briefly with the als as a qc for the offense as well as his time with the carabins. I think some one from the oua ranks / Guelph connection would be a solid dark horse. I could also see them offering Markus Howell the upgrade to oc. He’s been a rb/wr coach while also being a pass game and run game co ordinator for a while. Basically all our old failed qbs turned coaches from tee Martin to Brian brohm already have jobs they wouldn’t give up to be our oc. If it did happen and happened a bit later in the off season I think they might’ve let zach call his own plays and brought in some one familiar to the system and or zach to support him.

They’ve called on buck a few times so it’s hard to imagine that he wasn’t their first pick. Also for them to take our oc that’s been groomed for years would be a big win with the market and if it made us worse an even bigger win. That said I think we would’ve been better off with a new oc, and they’d be worse off with buck over mace. I fully believe mace wants that Mafia culture. I don’t think he has a clue how to get it done, little on what it’d take to cut out the toxicity. And I don’t know if he, the market or oday would have the patience to do what would be needed. I really think we got close to not making it before the 19 gc too.

Jones does tend to have a quick impact on D like that as a dc, yeah. Big advantage for them and they used it well.

The riders market is soo used to not being unlikeable, that they think every thing directed at them other than adoration, is hate. They’ve drowned in bias to the point they are incapable of realizing they have become every thing they hate most. Remember when zach was KO’d for them and they wanted a suspension that lasted as long as his injury? 2019 and prior they railed against dirty play and cheap shots as a fan base. Since then they’ve been historically bad offenders at the very same, and excuse that behaviour to a sickening extent. They need to can oday and bring in a high level culture setter. Reality is slowly setting in over there, and you see it in attendance. They haven’t made a gc in what 11 going on 12 years? In that time every team but bc has made a grey cup. They have run through coaches and players. Spent on trying to buy stars in free agency. All to no avail. And they remain the most penalized and punished team in the league. Yet they are married to oday and that toxic culture. Look at how much Edmonton improved once jones was gone.

Nah. The first meeting of the year he went 14/28 220 yards and we didn’t pressure him then. It was close because that was maybe Zachs worst game of the year, and his last bad game. Milanovich will know he’s gonna have time, and both he and bo have film against us this year which gives them an advantage in prep. But at the end of the day, not running the ball plays into the hands of our D more than us not pressuring the pocket plays into Hamilton offence. Also, if we swap haba for fox and rotate the dl we probably see the best pressure front of the year.

It’ll make it easier for the teams in the gc to pass more, but that doesn’t help them to get to the gc. Montreal has been much more pass heavy this year, and they will walk into the east final with ease. But I bet they run it 20 times in that game. And I don’t think any other pass only offence will sniff a division final.

Hamiltons pass game has been maybe the best in the league. Their D however, has been the dead last in terms of total points, offensive points, tds, first downs and second worst in passing tds. While also giving up the second most passing and rushing first downs, 2nd worst 2nd conversion rate, a qbr against of almost 100, while being neck and neck with us in pretty much all run stopping categories. We are +7 on turnovers compared to Hamilton, +7 in big plays, while they have a slight edge in pass pro and pass rushing. If any secondary or D can slow down Hamilton, it’s us. And their D weaknesses line up very well with our strengths. I don’t think they can slow us down or shoot it out with us unless we play down to them. I don’t think we will put a 50 burger up again, but I think the play on the field with be pretty one sided in our favour.

That said, the last 4 gc winners and 6/8 gc finalists have been run to throw teams. The Hamilton style of pass first run never hasn’t worked in a long time.

The als also signed tre Thomas to a futures deal for camp next year

What’s next, nye will be surprised when water is wet? They’ve lead the league in supplemental discipline each of the last several years. Als trade antwi to the lions for a 3rd rounder. Which is interesting, and probably the only dead line deal.

That kid is made out of some impressive stuff.

Habba off for fox would be a huge win. Hope Adams is good to go. Wallace and feltmate will make for a tough call. Feltmate brings a lot on teams and blocking but Wallace would be our best G off the bench if any one goes down other than kola. I’d love to see a 30 front with woods fox and Adams. Good luck.