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He certainly seems the type. I agree it sucks we didn’t get him in a game to see. Yeah I’m sure that’s some of what we do. He also just free lances a lot, you can see especially if he’s faced double team a few times he just doesn’t rush much or jogs on the back end of plays. Honestly his ability to finish pressures has always been an issue, he’s never been a great tackler. But the last year and a half the oppositions have consistently run read plays off him and he hasn’t made the play once. When he turns it on ya, you can see he can still get off the line with the best of them and whip tackles with speed. Which pretty much makes him the most frustrating bomber to watch. Jake shouldn’t be out there at all, but wj can just be confounding. agree 100%, using him as a stand up rusher would drastically improve his effectiveness and decision making, and add length to his career. Rotating him more again would be huge too. At his best he wasn’t an every down guy or close to it. He was a 50% of snaps guy playing his best ball. I think we’ve seen glimpses of that. And that next year, or maybe even in the play offs we will start to see more of that. Selective times we throw those explosive imp tweeners into rushes clean off the edge. We had one effective blitz this week late in the game and boy was it pretty. Montreal was not prepared for that. Gives me a lot of hope moving forward. Absolutely. I think we have the pieces to temp fix it and be decent. But idk if we will. I actually rather doubt it. It also makes me wonder what we’d have done if Lawson didn’t get hurt? Clearly with that pay day he was gonna be dt1. Would they have cut woods/adams? Or would Jake have been a rotational back up?

Thats true in a man scheme, however in a zone scheme you don’t need to have every block executed. You need the gap with the line men forming it to seal those edges. You can allow defenders outside of that to push the backfield and get trapped on the back side of plays, or if the defense is getting leverage on the blockers in outside zone you run wide zone, allowing them to get that outside leverage then cutting back and washing them all out. Zone is much more about a gap with good blocks at the point of attack and then washing out as many guys as you can outside of that. Which is also what’s been happening to our box defenders the last two seasons. Athletes will some times just make plays and blow up your scheme single handedly. That’s the nature of football. However to do that consistently you need an exceptional player the likes of which are rare up here. Stacking the line and the box is traditional wisdom. You can defend the run many ways, it really depends on what you want to take away and what you want to give. Like the original 3-4 D was used to force the run side ways and force the back into a group of backers who were fairly well spread. It gave up a couple yards on each run to prevent getting gauged for huge runs. Stacking the box in the cfl isn’t actually a great idea imo. You might have 2 guys on the field the size of an ol. You might have 3 the size of the rb or bigger. Trying to stack plays into the offences hands. If you have a dominant nose, and also if the opposition runs a limited set of designs it’s more effective. But overall it’s kinda lack lustre. You need run fits, but play action is way more dangerous than the run in the CFL.

the ALs sure are, they’re tough in the trenches. I think Garbutt has really turned a corner. I think the edge problem revolves around wj, and the Canadians inside. Half his snaps wj doesn’t put any effort into getting to the qb. He coasts playing for pass kick downs. Which means the ol cheats in the other direction. The issues with Jake and schmek are well known and don’t need to be restated. If we ran a 40 with woods and fox as the dts, Garbutt and wj on the edge and a rotation of Adam’s and Lawson we’d be in great shape. We’d need 1 more de who can rush to heavily spell wj but it’d work well. If we ran a 30 with those same guys and just heavily rotated wj, we’d do well. It’d be well worth while for us to pay a good pass rusher in free agency this year. But the changes we need are subtractions not additions.

If you fill every gap, you are still in a situation where the back is likely 1on1 in any gap he hits. Considering most teams run 1 decent sized lber max, the rb is basically 1on1 with a db sized player in a good 3 gaps. Which is a battle you expect a good rb to win more often than not. Run schemes today often seek to steal back a body too. That’s why teams run read plays, boot the qb, use jet motion, or what some teams are doing is motioning two guys in jet, then returning one to force defenders to spread out creating seams and gaps inside. When we pass twice and don’t pa, or semi frequently go empty back field. If we ran once with Brady, then threw an iso fade to some one like lawler and did that on every single red zone series we would have a drastically higher success rate. The problem is we often throw twice, don’t threat the run, and don’t throw into the end zone. We throw a screen or short pass and expect the wr to do the rest.

Agree. I could still see him getting an interview this time and getting the job in the future. Cus pinball is the cfls teflon man.

Toronto is the best team in the east rn imo. That said, I’m calling Ottawa. Mainly I just don’t want to see either tor or mtl in the gc. Brown vs Zach would be a great story too.

they should stay put. But last week game they stayed in town and didn’t get the work done.

Should do a lightning play off round

Wonder how the weather will be. It’ll probably be the only chance for a cold weather play off game for any team this year. Also imagine they will keep the guys in town for the week and use it to work on internal systems and execution.

I believe what he’s referring to is the Covid assistance program application from the govt. the league tried to play hard ball and missed out because of it. The cancellation, and launch of the 21 season were both really late, to the point the 21 schedule was a nightmare. Just basically give us 30m plus and an open line cus we said so

I don’t think it’s confidence, it’s elation. But also, we haven’t lost off a buy in a long time. And we are starting to see signs of the attitude change we need. Zach pissed, no vacation on buy week.

Yup. Honestly with Hubert next year and Samson. The only point to bring back schmek is to convert him to offence. Thomas shouldn’t play again. I like Adam’s a lot but he struggled in his snaps at 0 in the 30. He’s much better at 3i, or really any other dl tech. They’ve been using him more as an end this year than a nose and that’s a tough transition to just switch.

With Kelly at S, and 3 total ni dbs starting, 3 starting ni ol, 2 wrs, and 1 rb we should never see 2 ni dl on the field at the same time. Take Kelly off for an imp and slam in one ni dt for a package 10-15 times a game. Other wise dl should be all imp. Especially when we run 30.

We did use a 40 a decent chunk. The real problem was the 2 Canadian dl with 3 or 4 and with multiple combinations of alignments (Jake once even at wide 5 tech) was all bad. The all imp 30 was good, would’ve been better if Adam’s wasn’t having to play nose when both fox and woods were banged up.

At this rate rider fans are gonna come over here for entertainment lol

Do you follow the cebl? Does their growth seem legit?

She’s soo much less annoying on raptors stuff. Not great but not a cringe factory.

That’s gold.

I mean to be fair, ownership in B.C., Edmonton, and Montreal have all been stabilized. Don’t really think Randy has a lot to do with that though. I think reffing, CC, and supplemental punishment are what sunk his boat. (Deservedly so) he put a notable stamp on the league, but I don’t think most of it was good improvements. that’s a real interesting pick. I don’t follow the cebl, but its growth has been exceptional. My question would be, will he leave that job? He has strong cfl ties, but basketball is a growing sport and the cfl is not in a tremendous position. Would the board give him the power to actually be effective as well?

Pretty sure the horses are the preference further west

The bombers should do a give away of 10,000 horns like that for the wf. League will change their tune quick fast and in a hurry.

I’ve seen that happen in Chicago a couple times. Straight up boomerang.

That just blew my mind

Any one seen that show “heels” fans start throwing packages of Kleenex at one character. Does rf have a business address to ship to? Asking for a friend…

All good. I was lazy and copy pasted rather than typing it all out on my phone. I’ve been fighting auto correct on this new phone for a while. This is about the wildest end in a decade. I guess it’s the new Mother Nature taking over. Ok ok I’ll show myself out.