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We are too banged up right now. To many guys playing hurt and depth is ravaged. We didn’t use Cooley as much as I’d a liked and he showed really well. But if Brady is good to go, we need roster depth else where.

Fun fact Zach has as many passing tds, and more total tds after 2 starts than after 9 starts last year.

I’m not talking nfl retreads, realistically that isn’t likely no matter what with the cap even if it went up. I’m talking young minds from down south. The cfl is so far behind the 3/4 levels of us football in innovation now it’s really sad. The systems flat lining of innovation up here is going to exacerbate the leagues demographic problem.

I think we do need more coaches from out side the cfl ecosystem. I’d particularly look at cos and position coaches to fill the same roles up here. I would also give more chances to cis guys and try to strengthen the coaching pipeline up here. Instead of mostly relying on ex players to join current cfl coaches and maintain the status quo. in general, we need larger coaching staffs though. More scouting in league and down south, more position coaches, more quality control, film, and analytics/stats roles.

The dream. I think lber is going to be the big future default Canadian spot on D. It’s all turning to pressure and or drop D. We will continue to see some ratio breaking ni pass rushers and dbs but I can see a lot of teams going to Canadians for run stoppers and shallow to moderate depth zones.

Idk what I’d do for popularity. But if I was the commish, I’d increase the coaching cap by atleast 40-50% at nearly any cost. Coaching cap is strangling the crap out of this league.

I don't think it needs to be a minute, but it should be a very consistent review process, play to play, game to game. Give teams a challenge per time-out, and make the stoppages a time-out length. I don't think the booth should be stopping play unless it is related to player safety.

No harris, no Rourke, that game is gonna be a real thriller lol

Legit, I don't think Deatrick Nichols has a hole in his game. Most players who are extreme outliers have holes in their game. Holm is a good example, though he has grown a lot. Especially if you are a db, if you have a big gap in your game people are going to exploit the crap out of you. Football is too dependent on 1-on-1s to be able to get by being heavily flawed. That's why we see so many teams play a nose or cross the face of Kola now. Why teams read WJ, etc.

No, no, he's bad. He is never in a position to even provide a Pylons contribution in coverage. Also, it's 2025 in the CFL. Both Wil and Mac are in the same role now, and defending the pass is always significantly more important in the CFL. What other team in the league runs to win games?

It's almost like we keep repeating the same mistakes that cost us the last 3 GCs. If you're happy to be in the play-off race, and happy we're on the 2 GCS, that's great for you. But expecting improvement and accountability for those losses isn't wrong. You can argue how long the honeymoon period should be after a championship, but 4th year post-ship is well past it. Arguably, losing in 3 gcs after reduces that time. Especially in the way we did.

Jones was terrible in coverage. His instincts and ability to scrape to the ball and the play are tremendous in the run game. But he's out on an island watching everything happen in coverage ,then trying to help tackle.

Zach's play cost us a GC, and he's been so putrid in the GCs and playoffs; he has a long way to go before that. He did give me a ton of hope again. I had hope after his preseason play as well, but last week was rough. His start to the game was also rough. He tossed some ducks early last night that had me worried. I'm glad he got it together. I hope he keeps it tight from here on. I am reasonably optimistic that this will continue. With Jones, he pretty much did what he always does. A bit better than previous in pass rush, though it's not his strength. He is still completely lost in pass cover.

I don't know if he can bust through this plateau he has reached as a coach, while still being here. I think we are going to be locked in to a lot of the same stuff, for a long time. I think when things come to an end here, how ever and when ever that happens, he could take the next step.

Yeah I think we got away maybe with more tugs, but they got away with the most egregious plays. Guys like paddy and Stan know exactly what they can get away with. I’ve got no gripe going either way in the call on bonds pick. That was a tough play to call with all but one angle at super slow mo. My only issue is the quality of the challenge review, and the integrity of the process. I want that to be strong and consistent. I don’t agree, I think it’s clear he didn’t trip the wr. I also think it’s critical to throw those challenges if you think they won’t over turn it. Make it stand out and appeal it. Force the league to address it and change. Allowing them to brush it under the rug is being complicit. also, we had a time when those calls were super soft. But that was overhauled a couple years ago. It’s not that way any more. Incidental dpi is not that common and WRs don’t dive and draw calls easily.

I hate that mentality. Every things a conspiracy and the league/refs prop x team. Neither the league nor the refs are remotely competent enough to prop up their own jobs little on go way outside that and do some thing much harder. I think the reffing was fairly even in its badness last night. We lost two turn overs on questionable situations. And honestly, though I saw a couple brutal holds against our dl, our dl is not good at getting pressure. Our ol benefited more from the modern lack of holding calls than our dl suffered from it. This is the way the league is now. Holding and blocking penalties are rare especially on the ol. You see them far more on special teams.

First maybe two seasons he was way more aggressive with taking the ball, fakes etc. back then it seemed like we needed every single drive and chance to win games. Since 19 gc, that hasn’t been the case and he’s gotten more and more conservative. For me personally, you gotta be in extremely windy conditions, or windy plus muddy/wet/cold, to give up a drive. Choosing the wind doesn’t give you any extra time with or against the wind, it just ensures that you have it in the direction you want in the 4th. The actual advantage is pretty slight and just makes closing out games easier. But you shouldn’t get beaten by factors like the weather if you are well coached team. Also, the wind is not a simple advantage or disadvantage. It’s easier to kick longer with the wind, but you lose accuracy. Kicking with the wind is an advantage, but throwing with the wind is a disadvantage. Generally offences and QBs do better throwing into the wind than with it. Because it doesn’t mess with your accuracy as much, and it’s easier to throw harder into the wind than to take some thing off with the wind and retain a high level of touch on throws.

He was better in pass rush than he has been, a bit worse in run stopping but that was a good struggle for the front 6 in general tonight so it isn’t all on him, pass cover he was his usual self. Too shallow never in place to prevent a pass but rallies to the ball wherever it goes. Better than biggie any way. Kyrie played his best game of the year but still far off where he needs to be.

How bout this to, shanky legs averaged 43.8 per punt but with no hang time at all and leake gobbled up an easy 13.6 per return. 30.2 net which set up a ton of drives from mid field. Grace net was 39. Poor Sheahan must’ve been punting into that wind all night 🤧

Honestly I’m still torn on that one. His second arm placement, he tucks it and rolls, it was a mess even with a ton of angles all day to review and nearly frame by frame slow mo. I can’t stand that inconsistency though. If that’s how you review, do it every time. You can’t work that hard to over turn a call once in a while. They get way to many calls wrong and miss to many to be taking that much time to make one random call right. But if you’re gonna do that, you gotta do em all like that. Them giving up on the run when the game was close was soo stupid. They could’ve gone ground n pound on us. In general mak used a lot of bomber ball stuff tonight. Jet motion, izr, the motion screen etc. but he got away from what had them in a position to win the game. Much better team than I expected them to be though. And they aren’t a free spot on the bingo card any more. They get more confident and start expecting to compete each game and it’ll yield results.

Forget the hot air blowing all day about phantom wind (real or not, impactful or not.) The coaching decision of the day to talk about is not challenging the dpi. 3 point swing with possession, and that was the worst dpi in ages. That call was so offensively soft and wrong it deserved to be challenged no matter yardage or points. That was disgusting.

Bad lobs were mostly first and early 2nd Q. I’m hoping he’s got it out of his system. Historically slow starter to seasons, too.

Correlation isn’t causation either.

1 Zach. Nuff said 2 wr core. Especially Demski but they all stepped up. 3 Wallace. Pass pro was really good most of the night across the board but in the 4th the hoggies especially Wallace went to work in the run game and took it over. hh zachs td scramble. Didn’t know he still had it in him block of the game on zachs td run Cooley had a great block crunch of the game. Ayers on the ko to start the second half. Honourable mentions Peterson, holm, Nichols,

Wallace has turned it up for the 4th. Love to see it.