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Trevor harris, BLM, and Masoli walk into a bar, who hits the IR first?

Especially the guys who mess up spectacularly, or who are only in camp to round out numbers etc. Qbs get some leeway for obvious reasons. Other positions, if you can't handle the ball as a KR you gotta go.

I know it is a long standing un written rule at most every level of football that media doesn't talk to an ast unless its cleared by the HC, and virtually always just a media scrum thing.

I agree with all that. He'd be the first guy I'd scoop up. I wish we'd grab him. Maybe he doesn't want to sit on a PR though. Some one should snap him up. Certainly a decent lure for our own vet guys. I think a lot of free agent vet types over estimate their individual impact and think any team they go to will become a play off team and make a long drive. Except for henoc. I legit think he was happy enough to be done the year early.

I think The tragically hip was as perfect as it will ever be. For today, I think the weekend would be as good as it gets. Would you take sayles over Mcfadden, wall, or carnell? I'd take the first 2 for sure, carnell Idk if he is 100% or will be again. If he's close I take him too. I loved sayles when he was here, but he has an awful lot of miles on him for his age. It's probably an upgrade for them, but If I'm them us or any one else I go with the younger guys.

Vaj went into a very established offence, this will be the first big turn over he sees. He's also 31 years old. Does he really have another gear in his career that he can reach? Guys also been hit a LOT in his career up here, and had some really ugly games just last year.

I think it'd be fantastic, could have mos talk more about things going on league wide, and stuff like proposed rule changes etc. I think he'd be a lot more interesting and affable in that range of topics. The big thing for him is will they stick to running it, can they run against starting Ds, and how quick/hard is he hitting the hole. Also, can he stay healthy. I wouldn't want to be betting on him, but really it isn't a big risk for them.

Yep. Virtually all cfl QBS are mobile enough to over come an asymmetrical overload, unless the guy you rush is super fast and or the qb fails to read it he will escape the open side. Like fajardo has soo often. Blitzing/Pressures are a funny thing. The most effective action a D can take is to create a pressure. But all pressures aren't the same. Just being able to push the ol back into the pocket and shrink it can be very effective. Using your arms and positioning to limit throwing lanes can help even more if you can continually push the pocket. As valuable as pressures are, Blitzing actually devalues pressure (qb reads blitz and gets rid of the ball faster) and is proportionally worse than sending just the DL, while opening up big gaps in coverage. A few very specific blitzes are situationally more efficient and effective. But really require a lot of set up. Sending a single LBer with regularity into an OL, like we have gotten into is about the worst use of players as you can have. The OL take their man, spreads and creates a wide arching pocket. The pass rushers have to get around their man and come up the back of the play. By which time the ball should be out already. Plus, A lot of teams chip with Wrs, and play block and release with rbs. Which slows down the rush, makes the angle less of an advantage and creates an easy outlet for the qb. A lot of times people are surprised by pressures from 3 man rushes. But in the CFL, teams seldom rush out of 30 fronts, and it's alignments are more difficult for ol. It also allows more disguise in your rush lanes vs a 40 front. We've had tons of success putting 3-4 guys on the line who are all pass rushing. From all DE alignments to willy on the nose in a 30 OLs are the weak spot of most every team. I think running various alignments like a 30 front, and 30 over with a jack lber where you have 2-3 tweener DT/DEs who can pass rush and a nose with a good rotation of guys can give you a whole lot more than sending 5 guys with a lber running into a linemen. Or even 6 guys and getting a guy chipped/ forcing the pocket to move.

He would also never admit that guys were going to be cut, every one playing can step up and grab a job! So who wins the Pre season awards this year? The Tony ortiz, pre season MVP award goes to, Moses. Most improved player, Schmekel. The Rock cartwright award for, he was good in camp honest, we really like him, goes to Mcghee. The prestigious damian jackson, award for guy whose here and will play more than he should, eric lofton. The Made the club from the tub group is too long to list. The Jake Thomas, damn he's old he's still here? I hope we don't play him too much award goes to... Jake thomas. You're 100% right on that. I feel like what we did would've made a bunch of guys feel like nothing but TCF. But I don't know for sure. Maybe they fooled guys. Not that guy who didn't dress for either game though. I think he knew he was TCF.

It's an important opportunity for those guys to get out and play, get some film.

Mos is the antithesis of Mike Kelly. Which I mostly love and appreciate about him. How ever he is soo opposite of kelly that his coaches show is the same quality. Kelly had too much ego to answer questions, mos is overly secretive for the right reasons. I couldn't do what he does even if I had all the skill in the world. I like the guy, and I try not to compare him, because no one can live up to knuckles. But I feel like the whole situation is comfortable to him. Like he's slidden right into the old boys club. Maybe I'm wrong. I would actually prefer if he deferred those duties to walters, or the Ast coaches. Mos doesn't come off well in the scrum especially. I don't believe he intends it or is really how he appears. Buck, JY, even hall, especially walters always give good interviews. QFT. They are all done with us winning haha. Maybe it's being bomber centric, but I don't remember them rushing to write off the stamps soo fast. But the media has changed a good bit in that time.

It really is such a damned shame. I used to enjoy reading them soo much. Now it's not even worth it. The insider bites post each week was exactly the type of thing this league needs. That's what moves the needle with the younger demographic. Stronger at Lber too imo. Overall we are significantly deeper, younger, and more athletic. Age made us worse last year. This year, I don't think will matter as much. Unless the wheels fall off zach, neuf or bryant all together. I think our OL will be better immediately in run pro, and reasonably close in pass pro to start. But I think we will be markedly better in pass pro some time around the 1/3 mark of the year.

As a side note, I really liked his effort and motor on teams as well. He's quickly becoming the type of guy who fills a lot of small holes. I expect to see him on FG etc teams with regularity. Tbh, I'd dress 6 OL and use schmeckle as a TE on the short yardage pack. He's big enough to mash a DE or smaller guy with ease.

I get what you're saying. And I get its tiresome to hear. Its soo irksome to watch. I hope our team is pissed right now. They should be. We should have 4 straight GC wins. Last years loss is worse than 01 on its own merit. I see us slowly making the same mistakes and more of them that lead to those loses and has lead to contender turn over. I'm not the only one who sees it. This time last year we didn't have many better options for roster problems. Right now, we have virtually every answer we could want available to us.

Its certainly awful football. I actually think the soft start and finish to the season is hurting the league. you've got an 18 game schedule where the first 2 and last 2 are pretty bad to watch. But at least the first 2 are important. A contender should be taking advantage of weeks like that to build an advantage. We shouldn't be giving away advantages and not worrying about that time. It also seems really contrary to the 1 week at a time thing. I don't know if it's as real as the view here of the pre season. Only time will tell.

I don't think we will lose this game. I expect montreal to be really, really flat to start this year. I do expect it to be Shakey and rusty and probably an ugly win. If we were reasonably polished for the start of a season, I think'd we'd blow them out. I agree, and especially coming off a gc loss and starting out with a rematch at home, the fan base deserves better. We will see thursday. Yeah, thats only logical. With an older team thats in contention you have to balance work load carefully. Instead, we basically let guys do what they want. Its the exact opposite of how guys like cal murphy did things. While you can't be as hard as coach cal was, we have gotten soft. We had a bunch of slow starts last year and two flat GCs. I don't think our character or culture over comes that. I also don't think it did in 21, I think that year we were a thousand times better then the next best team.

You mean like every single post about our DL? Or young NI OL? Or scouting this season? Have you ever seen me make a eat some crow post? Clearly I'm not motivated by that. The same thing I said previously, probably. How tall would you like to build the strawman?

No, you were building a strawman argument. Because no one wrote off this game. I implied I expect a struggle on the first drive with all the change over and rust, and that if we start 11+ Canadians we deserve what we get. I don't trust players to make the right choices, we saw biggie and BA play when they shouldn't, amongst others last year. That's why we have training staffs and coaches. Players can seldom make those kinds of decisions objectively. The nature of TCs today don't come close to replicating game action either, it's not a good tool for how a guy feels or how ready they are.

Its true, but I don't know how last years is soo easily washed away for most people on here. The previous year we got beat by a really good Tor team, with tremendous coaching. last year we got beat by Fajardo and Maas. We didn't get out coached, we didn't get beat by competitive talent. We skuttled our own ship. Funny thing is, if it happens again or things go upside down, all these people will jump on the bandwagon and pretend they were on it the whole time. Just like they did for a couple monthes after the GC loss lol.

And tbh, that is the type of attitude we need on this team right now. You bolded it, then didn't read the next sentence? lol. You tried soo hard to miss the point.

They shouldve made some cuts between pre season week 1 and 2. I mean does any one think cutshank needed or warranted a 2nd game to continue to screw up returning? We kept guys around to not play them. This would be questionable in any league. Vets don't like tc and pre season by and large. Doesn't mean it isn't needed / important. Also, any guy coming off a serious injury should play. You never know how most recoveries have gone until you actually play on it.

You should rewatch the GC

Nope. Because 1, it isn't based just on that, and 2, talent jumps off the page. Potential and talent level is the easiest, fastest thing to recognize in sports, if you have even a modest clue of what you are looking at. We had more guys who won championships at their previous stop, guys with more NFL games, more 5 star prospects, and more feldman freak list guys and types of guys this year then in the previous 3+ camps combined. We had a huge crop of guys that were on our NL for a year +. Having a single guy like adams who is an absolute NFL outlier of an athlete, the elite of the elite, is a rare thing up here. And we had multiple guys like that.

I suspect the restructure was on the table for a while if we needed it. I think we likely took it because we will be air lifting KR, pr qbs, possibly dbs, wrs, and maybe delving into cut canadians. A bunch of roster questions haven't been firmly answered yet. I don't think any pick up will happen this week though. Its just flexibility to make some going forward. We have a lot of roster shuffling to do for the game this week. I think Coleman was a fringe PR guy and we probably are going to have a guy healthy that was questionable. Griffin is a big modern Sam type body who started a handfull of games for the stamps last year and played 13 games with em. We picked him up like 2-3 weeks ago. He dressed for the last pre season game, and played late in the game. But with the angles being such trash it's not possible to really judge how he did. Yeah, we need those kinds of guys. Not Houstons.

Sounds like the usual bonus money swap for base with a bit of savings. Also sounds like we cut Coleman.