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It's the ultimate anachronism in football. Paul brown thought that the longest distance players had to run was 40 yards on punt returns. So they timed the 40 to see if guys would be fast enough to cover punts. Its from the early 60s, a time when they didn't have better analytical tools. Its pretty crazy they still cling to it. Yup. Those smooth, fast guys who make others look slow. Tbh that really seems to lack from pass rushers up here these days. We don't see many rushers who can bend the ol then break it back. It can be a decent tool to identify outliers, but sometimes you see guys who are drastically faster on the field or in the 20-yard range than their combine time. Like Grant.

If you can catch a power toss, shovel/flip, you can catch a screen pass, out etc. If you can run a stretch play, wide zone etc, you can run those routes. Especially as the backup and package guy. We aren't talking about him getting 10 targets a game in these situations. He could run sweep/motion, motion into the lead blocker, and mainly stretch the field laterally so Demski doesn't have to any more. If we lined up and raced every one on the team in the 40, Mitchell or Schoen would be our fastest offensive guy. And at best the fastest would be at the back end of the teams top 10. Janarion Grant came in just under 4.6 at his pro day.

Buck has struggled to adjust to defenses previously and had his worst year last year. Yes, Zach was part of that, especially early. But Buck was also part of Zach's struggle. He had a ton of ways to off set zach and the offences issues last year, but failed to do anything, at any point of the year. He kept trying to hammer away at the same crap that didnt work. This. They are both like this as well. But it's the coach's job to solve stuff like that. Especially when you are both QB coach and OC.

You mean Flanders? Or Augustine? Or Greg McCrae? Cus that is just 3 times off the top of my head we've done it in the past. We also did that with Streveler last year. We also slid Johnson into running plays, having never done it before, and did it with Lucky. We tried throwing to mike miller a hand full of times. Also, no one said he was going to be on the roster this week. We are talking about the emergency reserve imp wr. And btw, half our wr core ran 4.6-4.7 pro days lol.

That’s bad wow.

Yeah, it’s a legit concern. You can game plan to make his plays as easy as possible, and the fastest way for him to get up to speed is by playing. We stuck guys from Flanders to Augustine into positions they’d never filled before. At worst you can have him do big kevs blocking and have him playing more of a pass catcher. Even he didn’t have a ton of actually college experience as a pass catcher. Mbt didn’t as a qb either etc.

I would rotate Cooley with a slot. I’d have him run screens, motion plays, and block instead of big Kev. He hasn’t had much reps pass catching or blocking but he showed a real aptitude for it. I would also have him return kick offs with the punt returner and have him fielding punts in practice. He agreed not to and in exchange they gave him 1 game instead of 2. Really hate it, no precedent for these suspensions. Yep. Plus, in a league where every one is trying to run variations of the same offence, going against the grain can be a huge advantage. Defences today struggle with run fits against one rb, that’s part of why jet motion is soo effective. You are already pulling a db or two into the fits, now you can force the 3rd best run stopping db to be in the front side of the run play. If you read / use zone to get a dl/lber out of the play good luck stopping Cooley and Brady.

Yeah. From zachs off season comments especially. But we also saw a few other signs. Last year mid season ish zach commented about having the play call go too long in the head set at times, which we saw on field frustration from him a few times as well. Covering his ears, hurry up signal to buck on the play call, buck coming down out of the booth during the losing streak etc. for guys like Buck and zach it was just about every red flag you’ll see.

You can see some of it on the bombers yt, mos was asked about it and commented a bit in his usual way.

Interesting to hear big Kev talk about how much better this years play book is compared to last. Especially from a year 2 guy. Seemed to be a lot of friction between Buck and the offence last year. Zach had a few eye raising comments in the off season about relationships with oc position and expectations. Similarly, Jackson’s comments about his relationship with zach, and how he views coaching QBs (not micro managing) sounds like a lot of his hiring was that fit both with hogan as an ast but also with the room.

I think that would be a good move to, I like Vaval as a db and a returnman. I think he's in a spot where that wont happen till the KR and or Bridgesc craps out. Imo, they are locked in on vanterpool too. he's been with the 1s most the whole time. I would go Bailey in for sure, I think they might go with wallace over the 2nd global as a 7th ol though because we like that and we have run really thin at DL especially imp dl for the past few years. I don't think Weitz brings any thing in particular. He should be a warm global body incase some crazy rash of injuries happens and not much more. Id much rather have cobb return and cooley DI to be used situationally and rotationally. Maybe that happens eventually.

I wouldn't start Mitchell based on salary. Maybe you give him an extended look because of what he did in the past and maybe you think he had a bad camp, in that case I'd take off sterns. I wouldn't take off wheatfall for him.

The big outlier is Wilson. At least Thomas will be relegated to a sub role this year. I think the likely sub-outs will be Vaval/Mitchell (likely Vaval), Woods/Adams (Woods), and Ayers/Jjones (Ayers). If we aren't starting Wallace, I think he is a strong candidate to come off the bench, as well as Kornelson in general. Novak should be a strong candidate to sub out as well, but I don't think he will be. Otherwise, I think Bailey for Weitz has a good chance of happening, or Weitz for Wallace. I don't think it'll be optimal, but I think it'll be a solid lineup, especially for us breaking camp. I'm not sure using a DI on Mitchell to return over Cobb is great usage. Or just starting Mitchell over Sterns. I'd much rather have Bailey and Person on the AR, and I'd bump Birdges, too. But starting slow with changes isn't terrible. I think we need to see a good bit from a few guys early in this season to keep younger guys off the roster. Vaughters, Woods, Wilson, Jones, Bridges, and Parker, namely. I like some of those guys, but they have a good push coming from behind on the depth chart.

It is odd, but maybe that’s a good sign.

Strevy

Yep

100%. but will he break ajs record for most rushing yards in their first game with a new team whose team name starts with R, and when the sun is up but not all the way out?

Yeah think aj is toast. Riders get better and cheaper.

And riders sign Mr 18th best player in the league Carey. It’s a good move though. Especially with aj ego lifting gymbro hurt.

Agree. He’sa run to throw guy like zach. I think condell will do well with brown. Alexander has a strong advantage in Montreal, I suspect the ALs will be a lot better, but brown will probably have much better stats. But rourke will get all the publicity of the 3.

His longest run here in the regular season was just under 20 for a first and he had a run slightly longer in pre season. Not only did he run for some firsts here, he had some great run and throw plays. He also had over 300 in his first year of college with a long of 62 yards. He’s a run to throw guy, but he’s fully capable of picking up a first with his legs if needed.

He isn’t a run first guy, but he is plenty mobile.

Brown is also getting a fraction the support in offence Alexander is. If you swapped places I think brown would look insane and while Alexander would run for more yards he’d struggle more. But at that, it’s great to finally see the next crop of young QBs stepping up in the league. Brown and Alexander are well above rourke imo in every thing but hype. But still that’s the best 3 young starting QBs we’ve seen in the league in a long time.

I think he will have a job up here as long as he wants. Be it scouting/player development, or one of many position coaching spots. He might just not be cut out of be a hc though. Having him as a position coach like wr, and an extra scout in the off season, while being able to assist a CO, is one of the best values you could want under the coaching cap.

He first broke into head coaching in 2015 as the interim hc of ssk. He’s been the rbs hc since 22. Two full seasons plus almost a half. We are way way past learning quickly on the job. I love bobby dyce. Great football mind, excellent talent evaluator, tremendous guy. He’s been coaching in the league for 22 years and he’s already 2.5 into this hc job. The leash is gonna be real short on him, and if it doesn’t work out he doesn’t likely get another hc shot short of some thing miraculous.