wbbfan

Agree that the stamps will be around .500. The cats, I think BLM is done powell by LD for sure, but I don't see a lot of pieces there in general. Sadly, a LOT of back up qbs kill and have killed us. I always want to see it sustained vs different types of teams. Powell is as good as any of the young upstart qbs, but I think he's a year away from making an impact on a team that's that good.

Earlier this year I would've put us at 10 wins plus or minus 1. More likely to be plus one than minus, but we had a lot of question marks the biggest being would we fill the roster properly or old boys it up. At this point, I'd say it's at 11 wins with a range of plus 2 or minus 1. 11/12 wins while winning the west is likely imo. If we really hit on some of these next guys up could be 13 wins. And at that could very well be a better team than last years. If injuries persist could be a tough stretch. In the west I think BC again finishes 2nd. The rest are pretty close. But I think Calgary gets it done with Schlitz at the helm, while the green guys both battle it out for the bottom. In the east, Montreal really has been gift wrapped this year. I feel like they are likely to suffer a grey cup hang over, but still win the east with one of those records that 2-3 teams in the west would better. I think a late season push by the argos brings them back to the play offs, with or with out kelly. I think hamilton slides into last place in the east and the league, while the RBs continue to bumble along with a 4-5 win season. I think the bombers have 4 wrs over 1k yards this year. With lawler and schoen going back and forth for the league lead. I think Nichols/willy gets our DPOTY nod, I think our ROTY will win the league award, Grant wins Sts in the east on the strength of another partial season with a few td returns, Demski gets MOC, Bryant wins it as our OL has a turn around year while riding off into the sunset. MOP? I think the national media will give it to VAJ if given any sort of opportunity.

Roster management! That guy could’ve been a legend up here!1122 I think Habba and garbutts time up here will be tough to beat. agree with that. yep. If there is even a favorite at this point. Definitely no dalton Schoen head and shoulders above the rest. But might all be a muddled top end. They might pick some one based on all kinds of factors. If I could give one of those guys one word of advice it’d be, block. If a guy blocks his ass off his chances will sky rocket.

I agree mace is a great pick. But I don’t think he has half a roster around him worth a damn

Oh yeah. Their 3-4th guys wouldn’t be on any one else’s roster. That’s part of the trouble with a weak ol. You can realistically only get your hands on soo much decent talent. The less you have the more slop you carry. The more slop you carry the worse your bottom end slop is.

Yup. He’s a wing nut, but he’s way better than hasbeen Harris. Jones is even crazier, but he had been the architect of some good Ds. It’s not hard to see them passing the riders. I also like the stamps having shlitz to back up mayormccheese too.

Honestly, if the camera work was decent I’d prefer that to tsn.

I’d like us to run it back against the als in the gc. Agree though bobby dyce is great people and yeah I don’t think he’s gonna succeed as a hc sadly. If any thing, I think edm is closing the gap on them in the west.

Haven’t scene much of any thing from mci yet. He has a tremendous tool set, but he’s far from a regular ball carrier. Tons of potential, and the ability to contribute right away with teams/blocking. I think we will start to see who he is as a ball carrier in the next tc. If I was him, I’d be trying to learn all the niche jobs. Holder, long snapper, and etc. soak in as much as possible from guys like Brady, and the goat. Rb is his upside. But he can carve a very long and lucrative career out very quickly if he excel on teams and in the little tasks. Getting wr/db one on ones would be big too.

Exactly, agree with all that. Realistically, he’s an A++ get. D’abreau was maybe more a B+. The couple weeks a head isn’t critical at this point. Gonna be a whirlwind between the cuts and the last pre season game. Not gonna be a lot of sleep for the coaches.

He did. And personally I love dl with motor. The addition of Devin adams at dl may have also played into it. That guys an nfl blue chip quality athlete.

I don’t think either is a dynamic running threat like I have in mind. They could run it to some effect but I don’t think it’d be worth taking our offence off the field for. Wasn’t Johnson a converted qb? Some one like that would be decent in a pinch.

I never underestimate our ability to cling to those guys. I do think we need a 4th qb on the pr who can run the strev package.

We better not sign him again

More than any thing I think they look at the less tangibles. FIFO, coachability, toughness, prep and off field work ethic. The stuff you don’t get as much of from scouts and conversations with coaches. That and how quick they pick things up.

All our imp dl played well. Thing is, playing well against starting rider ol vs 4th string riders ol is a big difference.

At least in a buck and Zach era I agree. If buck took a hc gig next year and Zach retired, maybe they’d look else where.

Last year we had the most trouble protecting Collaros, and under thrown deep balls are a classic sign of the pocket being pushed back onto the qb. When you throw deep against a straight pressure or are hit when throwing the ball tends to sail. That’s why we saw soo many pics going back to the early mafia days we had soo many dominant import pocket pushing nose tackles.

I think they could also change time keeping like Booch is saying to accomplish a better pre season. If instead of 2-3 quarters they play the second half with only injury stops of the time and a few other tweaks you could half the time the second half takes. And that’s always the worst quality football. It’d be a bit on the wild side, but they could play a half of regular football then do an ot shoot out, or you could play a quarter then an ot then a quarter. 2 fast games and a full pad / contact half game scrimmage would be good imo.

And the best offensive weapon of the 3. Stiff arming much bigger guys into the dirt.

Yeah I don’t think longer games would be better at all. If any thing I’d rather see shorter pre season games and more of them.

Stokes was on grants level in terms of explosive gains, but no where near his consistent ability to gain yards, especially the tough hard yards. Stokes was a much better offensive player though. 2500 rec yards 10 TDS.

Can’t be. I hear he’s the fastest guy in the league. Right up there with tyreek hill!

That would be a great change. I think adjusting the amount of injured roster guys you can have would be good too. If teams want to over do it and hurt their own ability to handle camps it’s on them. Id say let players 1-2 years service or less be on a short term ir, can’t practice but can be at team meetings be practice too. Vets don’t need that stuff as much. I like the idea, but the team travel cost as pointed out would be bad and bad blood especially with a few certain teams would be an issue imo. I would add a full padded contact practice for teams to have a real scrimmage game as well. Not a full game, maybe like 8 possessions or one half timed. 4 games of pre season is way too much trash football. And it puts guys at a greater risk of injury in meaningless action. 2 games isn’t enough with the low impact nature of practice and tc now.

That’d be like going over to his house and getting arrested for domestic assault. Annndd banned lol If he does he might not be the same. A lot of time off rust to over come and he still hasn’t played that much. But I really don’t expect him to put in the work.