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today’s must win scale, 8/10. We are one game up on edmonton and toronto for the last play off spot and 2 games up on ott. Toronto lost, and edm has its hands full with edm. need to gain ground on the out side gang and bury ottawa

I would, but we’d never sadly. That at rb are the only positions we are capable of pushing a ni up the ar if needed with out causing serious issues. we are paper thin behind starters rn. If kramdi, a wr, ol, or dl goes down in game we are in serious trouble.

we have pieces to solve some problems. we do not have the answer at qb, ol, 40 des, or canadian depth. and it isn’t going to come in short order. It’s not pessimism, it’s the reality. top end canadian talent, ol, and qbing are the hardest things to find and slowest to build. We aren’t likely to fix that stuff in free agency this year either. we need a massive developmental surge, but young guys are hard stuck behind old under performers.

Keys to the game, Strev evolves into a real qb1. It might not be his last chance but it is close to it. If he's ever going to take the next step it's gotta be soon. Might not be another start for him in this league if he doesn't step up. Hogan get out of his own and our own way. Gotta run, and use some of those WRs well. The secondary has to dominate for the D to excel. It sure won't be the front. We need the secondary from this time last year to show up.

that’s a good one. i’d like to see win rate of the first team to break 30 points. or how much does your win rate drop once you give up 5 hits / 10 pressures. Also win rate when your qb has a yards per pass average of less than 8 yards, and 9 or more.

ah yes the bum rush! if it isn’t, it’s pretty damn close.

i think he has a good shot at rt. especially since holding and illegal block calls are soo rare these days. i think teams could give guys like that more shots at rt. especially if they are mobile and on the nasty side. That said, I’d definitely test him early and often with speed off the edge and mix in some chop spin, ghost rush, bull slip, off balancing moves.

Bend but don't break... tries not to puke lol. A lot of his front alignment and assignments as well as run fits too.

Nope. Our game day roster announcement should be sponsored by Dr. Shepps Hair Replacement clinic. Dude could make a killing.

some guys get how to coach and call blitzes and pressure. and when to use specific rushes. he was the finest i’ve ever seen at that. he could take any one fast and make use of them. He wasn’t big on delegation or making him self expendable though. thorpe is a good one. stubler was such a mad scientist at dc.

thanks. wasnt he reported as practicing last week twice though?

How is makonzo not on the list? hes been practicing for like 2 plus weeks but is still on the 6

man, his cover 0 dominated. Play a few dbs back at the first down marker and send every one else. teams tried to out heavy set them, until eventually they best it with the spread and quick hitch stuff. Rust was really under rated from his earlier als stints in the cfl. I liked the way he ran camp and practice here. One of the best coaches of fundamentals i’ve seen. He could talk about tackling for hours. His exit from exit here was odd and unfortunate.

i’m not surprised. I could still see him dressing zach

Tim burke. Haha, seriously he was a really good dcor. Just very limited in that role. Chris jones, yes a toxic waste dump of a leader, but tremendous dcor too. Halls style is oft maligned, and has a half life but is Ds around the league have evolved to adopt his style. I really like Bob slowik in calgary, he’s learned and taken a lot from jy and hall here. Noel thorpe is a better version of lapo for D. Brett monsoon is very good but hasn’t adapted well to roster change. Im very fond of Baron miles and JY as guys on the upswing. If you wanna go back in time, ritchie and don mathew’s are two of the best from their era. But it’s extremely hard to compare D from the early 2ks and prior to today. The league is generally run by offence and OC minds. The Ds here are at a big disadvantage.

sounds like an interesting are of specialty. I love the intersections of engineering and the trades. I’ve worked on 4 different sides of it over the past 25 years and love it. Oh yeah, i’ve been on more than a few projects like that. actually most projects seem to have atleast one nutter lol. First rule of mbb, don’t ask people their age lol

Really depends on where you get and find the engineers. If they go out of school to work for the company they intern for and never move up, become stagnant in the profession and company, you bet. I've seen lots of those guys. I knew one in particular who was the proficient procrastinator I've ever met. he was a master of delaying work until it would disappear. If you get them out of the drone mills and into a field where they work hands-on, especially in an area of interest, you see wonders. School, work, and society have a way of drawing any passion out of work and intellectual pursuits. It's just about breaking that cycle. Math is rigid at low, basic levels. At higher levels, it's a very pliable problem-solving tool. If high level maths were completely rigid, they'd be easy, and they are not lol.

It's possible. But not Probable. The stretch run from our D last year is a testament to what JY can do. This year, I think Jy got saddled with some really bad pieces, and had to replace Dbs, who knew his system and fit well with guys who didn't fit well. Last year, we saw early on that guys struggled with assignments and switches. But a couple of tweaks to the secondary and time to gel, and they caught fire. We haven't found the group to gel with yet in the secondary this year. Previously, we killed it at recruiting DBs, and we brought in a bunch of talented guys this year, but their fit was kind of iffy. We brought in a lot of bigger S type guys, and didn't bring in nearly enough actual cover DBs. The S type guys fit our scheme well at wil, sam, and S. But poorly everywhere else. The front, is a mess of old boys club and gives JY very little to work with. It's like an OC being told he isn't getting a QB and has to be a run offence, in the CFL. JY has to run a D that is all on the secondary. They can't get beat or give up a gap deep because the QB will have 4+ seconds to make them pay if they do. So they play off the wrs, come up and try to make plays. Halls D was about getting pressure with 4 guys too. And yeah, thsoe guys in their prime made that pretty easy. Hall also had incredible versatility. You got BA who can punish Wrs all over the field and blanket deep shots, while also supplying kill shots in the run game. You go Kyrie and Biggie who can get all the way back in cover and be as good as any lbers in the pass game. WJ was dropping back, playing pass lanes, and actually getting a pass rush in. JJ was like a man on fire after the qb every second of every snap. JJ was soo reliable at winning his snaps that WJ could loop wide then break inside and know JJ had contain on the other side. You might not sack in 2 seconds, but qbs didn't get 4 seconds either, the pocket was ticking time bomb. Inside, we had a plethora of guys from Nevis, poop, bryant, stove etc and the best of jake in the most limited of reps. Stove and nevis were a terror side by side when they got run out together. We also had kongbo and hansen who could come in, pass rush, run stop and play inside out. Allowing us to run the cheetah front. We had guys like sayles who could rush from the 3t or the edge. Today, none of our starters on D have an significant versatility.

In the NBA, they say you are the player you are going to be after 3 seasons. Significant jumps up in performance after that window are extremely rare. Football is far more varied, with some positions having very small windows (RB, DB, Lber), others having large windows (QB, OL, Canadian LOL). Because QBs have long windows (MBT, Khari, Zach), it can be hard. Most people still write off the first year for a QB. I don't think we've seen plenty of guys step in early and succeed. Even the NFL is cooling off on the 1 year on the bench for top pick QBs. But the 2nd pro TC is a huge checkpoint. Especially up here. You would expect any rookie to take a decent-sized step forward going into their 2nd TC in general or up here. The next step forward is moving up to being QB2. Not a huge difference between being QB3 and being on the PR Very few snaps come your way, the team's prep for you is minimal, you likely spend more time with the QB coach than the OC in the prep time before a game. But as a QB2, that all changes. You get snaps in each practice, you get coached, even just to run a scout team, you are involved more in play install, and heavily involved with the game on the sideline. You go from chucking balls on the side to anyone who wants to warm up and standing around to signaling and talking to the sideline coach (QB or OC) on most snaps. After that, it gets hard as you need primary reps to progress and show it. Next week, on Tuesday, Wilson will have been here for 2 years. He's had 2 full TCs, and he's been QB2 for 14 games in the CFL. Including 2 playoff games and appearing in the GC. From TC 1 to the end of TC2, and both pre-seasons, he hasn't shown improvement. He's Poised, Athletic, and has the Arm. He hasn't shown even flashes of the ability to locate the ball, throw on time, get the ball out to a spot on time, read the D, or run an offense. Dru brown struggled early to the point he only got on the roster for 2 games in 21. He was bad in the preseason, he was worse in the late-season window that we worked him in. 22 TC, he came in having taken a big step forward. He led the game-winning drive in W1 after Zach got knocked out and moved up the chart. Late that year, he got a chance and stepped up big again. At 23, he's the best backup QB in the league. 24, he's QB1 for ott. Wilson is now at the point, time line-wise, where Dru was when he beat up on BC and put up 350 yards. But his progress is that of a rookie in his first training camp. Pigrome was gone from here in his first year, and gone from the league after 2. Sean McGuire was a depth guy one year, then QB2. He flopped and was gone at the end of his 2nd year. Prukop was in Tor for 2.5 years, then here for 2 years, then EDM for 1. Strevy was here 2 years, went to the NFL, came back, and now is nearing the end of 2 years, has one foot out the door. Or he sure should. It's not impossible that Wilson still takes a step forward. But it is getting to be extremely unlikely. Even if he takes a good step forward, that makes him a decent QB2. Not a QB1 candidate. He's a year away from being a year away. We have failed to work him in this year, despite some good opportunities to do so. He really needs one in the final window of this season. And he needs to show serious progression. Except Mr.Perfect. Would've been perfect if he caught that.

Oh brother, how disconnected from society art thou? Proper punctuation, sentence structure, and spelling are like speaking Latin in a kindergarten class these days, or Old English. Judging a persons intellect by their writing is a fool's errand. If we did that, we would have to discard the great Russian writers like Gogol and Dostoevsky. The ladder of whom has their own name spelled wrong on a huge amount of their published works. Or at that rate, William Shakespeare, who could only manage to sign his will with an X. Or Leonardo Davinci, who repeatedly failed to properly spell many basic words in his journal. Along with many others, I can list if you really like. Even though the likes of EB White and William Strunk would admit that these are pedantic ways to judge people. Even though the hate they had for abuse of grammar led to the publishing of the best pocket book on writing ever, and its later revisions and popularity. This is the football equivelant of judging a QBs scouting report based on how pretty his girl friend is. Bad engineers, maybe. Good engineers are problem solvers. Great Engineers can solve problems and turn that process into value. I've known and worked with many in my life, and it's always easy to see the good and great engineers. Calculators, who haven't spent much time in a pocket.

I just wonder how badly we have to bottom out before the brass realizes the situation we are in. It's like they expect us to catch a flukey run, win out to the grey cup then be able to mail it in for another year.

Boy, we really are gonna run back last weeks roster arent we? Just put zach back on, even if he can't go, and make no significant changes. Not even gonna cycle guys on the PR.

Sort of. You have high ceiling vs high floor guys, and guys like Dru brown will always take polishing before they produce. But High floor guys do exist and are findable. Shea patterson came into the league in 21 and broke out in 24, dolegala was in one year and broke out the next. So they didn't just walk in and produce, but strev has to be able to produce. The mafia has become the Sultans of Stink. Decent, is a very long way from good. We ran a fast passing game back then with a balanced run attack, which helps the OL. Glenn, also had a fast release and elite ability to get the ball out when pressured (shovels, couple alley oops, changing arm angles, once even threw the ball with his off hand.) and blink was very similar. He was constantly met in the back field then would slip out and gain 5-7 yards. That is the most over rated OL in our history imo. They had every thing tailored to them and weren't dominant.

not a game, not a game… we talking bout practice It isn’t. and on top of that we do little more than theatrical walk throughs. It’s possible to make the most of of them, though not easy. so we just dont worry about it.

tremendous arm talent and athleticism. really good poise too. My concern with wilson is he doesn’t seem to have timing, touch/accuracy on intermediate stuff and I didn’t see him take any steps forward from last year. He’s one of those home run swing prospects. his ceiling is very high if he puts every thing together, but he seems far from that point, very low floor. For my money, Grainger has more arm talent and significantly more dynamic talent, and was only a bit more raw. We saw dru brown start off with a really low floor and high ceiling, but he showed significant improvement after every opportunity. Wilson not seeming to have any of those steps this deep into year 2 worries me. reminds me a lot of dom davis. That said he hasn’t seen action since pre season, but with how limited/low quality practice reps are now I have a hard time seeing him take a step forward. But, we don’t stand to lose a lot by giving him a shot. he Should've gotten reps in the last game. If zach isn’t at practice to start the week, we should see roster moves. one way or another we need to bring in another qb with experience in the cfl.