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Kelly has basically been the deep cover S in most of our packages this year, so not much changes for him aside from a few more snaps. For sure his best position on the field. I like Jackson in as well. He's a real good fit for kramdis role. An athletic S/db/lber tweener type who can drop back or play in the box. I really hope it doesn't mean that Wilson/Jones will be on the field full time agian. Back to no DI on the DL, which sucks. We need real DTs and big bodies, but Korny isn't the answer to any thing. I hope we are just easing Clercius back into action and thats the only reason he's behind Cobb. The roster got better for sure, but we still have some glaring weaknesses.

90% of Pavia's earnings came in his senior year, which was largely orchestrated by a donor rally to keep him. We will see more guys like Reese, and I think that type of situation is a key one to watch. If the option is to come up to the CFL for, even let's say 90k/50k take-home (which is generous), or stay in college and make maybe 50-100k/35-75k take-home, it's going to be harder for the CFL to compete. The real holdback will always be that 99% of kids overestimate their NFL chances and come out early. If more guys stick down south for their full eligibility, it could actually benefit the CFL. It would hurt in the short term, but long term, if the guys aren't making millions and get out of college around 25, you can be looking at an athlete in their prime with as much polish as possible.

Better then subway napkins I guess. Idk how they came up with numbers though. Look at what we pay DBs now vs a couple years ago (when the secondary was much better)

Yep. He went to coaching right after he left here, and he's done real well for him self.

NIL started, iirc, in 2021. A lot of factors are negatively impacting the quality of QBs coming to the CFL. The sheer size of NFL PRs, the NFLs struggles with the QB position, The NFLs adoption and development of west coast/option/dual threat QBs, Spring ball, the length of time the NFL can sit on guys in TC now, The pay increases to the NFL PR, the speed at which NFL teams churn through guys on their PR now, also as you stated the NIL. The CFL hasn't often been the landing spot for the starting QBS from top 25-ranked teams. The starting QBs on the top 25 teams (plus a few here and there) range from 400k to 5.5 m. But Average more like 1-3.5m. That's a lot for a guy facing a rookie deal up here, but we have long been out of the bidding on those guys. Save for a couple rare outliers. The non-top 25 starting QBs on Power 4 teams range from 400k-1.5m. Backups and lower-tier school kids are averaging 50-300k. The kids primarily coming up here now have backed up and/or red-shirted at a big school for 1-2 years, then hit the window and gone to a smaller school, or went to JUCO and then up to the backup spots. It's also important to remember that with the transfer window and the nature of what that has unleashed, we don't see many 4-5 year starters anymore. It's mostly 1-2 year starters, often with 1 disappointing season, if 2, and either juco/low level time or backup time. We also have to remember that even those who do get the bag for 1-3 years are still kids. Some guys will be smart and disciplined with money, but many are not. And while some guys will end up being independently wealthy on 2-5m of career earnings, many more will fall into the classic athletic earnings trap. Underestimating taxes, representation costs, hangers-on, and family costs, personal training, and overestimating the length of time they will be able to earn. Diego Pavia made just over 2 million before deductions in his last year, but that is significantly more than he made the rest of his college career. He signed an NFL deal for over $ 3 million, but 885k for his first year. If he makes the team, he's already taken a step pay cut. The top 25 kids last year made $ 2 million a year or more from the NIL. You have 67 Power 4 football teams. And 266 D1 football schools. So you run out of millionaire players long before you go down the list of the top 5 at each position group and the top 30 QBs. Yep. I typed up a big ol rant on the realities of the NIL, but you got a perfect TLDR right there. Its hard when you have guys who need to be in a rhythm passing. But if you don't have a top tier Qb1, I think you could do very well with mixing in 2 limited skill set guys. Especially with a dual-threat and with a read-option-heavy offence.

Can't be worse then our depth NI wrs. Its sad how much of an upgrade that is

Ball, Schmekel and Clercius should all see the AR. I kind of think Ball will end up on the PR though. 3DN says we've cut Fredrickson, Mazzccua, and Moore. We needed to clean out the PR and bring guys in but I thought Mazzccua was solid inside. 3DownNationWinnipeg Blue Bombers release three from practice roster...The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have released three American players from their practice roster, including receiver Christian Fredericksen, offensive lineman Micah Mazzccua, and defensive back Kaylin Moore.

Yep, many of our best sts guys have been late picks. Cadwallader, Exhume both 7th rounders. we’d have to start any one we grab off a pr, and we aren’t going to find a canadian worth the ar sadly. The way to start fixing the ol is a subtraction. Not an addition. every one who hasn’t made them self willfully blind knows it and sees it. big stan needs to go, and not at the end of the year

yep they dealt with it the best way they could. I’m impressed. honestly, there are soo many gaps that fall between the cracks from synthetics to stuff like kratom. Not to mention contamination issues in all kinds of facilities for supplements and more. The regulation around this stuff is terrifying and the variances un real in manufacturing. I’m not gonna make any excuses or assumptions. Frankly if he was drunk, high or just driving really stupid it doesn’t matter. both he and the victim are dead. It’s tragic and sad as hell. I don’t think any further revelations will have any impact on the reality of the situation.

yep, it was our best chance to avoid the critical mistake of next years rule changes too. It’s not my cup of tea as far as football goes but it’s great for the league.

and the high scoring high qbr start to the league starts falling apart. Hopefully this is the worst of it and guys get back to healthy quickly. But with almost 2/3 left to play im not betting on it.

couture was a second round pick, and chungh over rated. Wallace was a second due to availability questions, manu and cline are easy first round talents. but you’re right, we stopped investing picks in guys we thought could start and went with teams guys are the priority. that lasted entirely too long. And we never really got back to giving young high potential canadians an actual shot to take jobs. Either they got empty spots by default or ride the pine. Our canadian depth is paper thin now, and we insist on playing more canadian snaps than any other team

play off zach save for like 2 games has been the biggest problem on the team. Zach the past two years was putrid. This year, he hasn’t been a problem even once. A big part of that is we fell into dru brown at exactly the right time. if we didn’t, zachs health issues would be ruining this season before we even get to ld.

grazed both hands then hit him in the face. I like nield but that’s salt in the wound. We have Addison, and lee hull coaching wrs and execution is only getting worse. A bad drop game across the board is bad but isolated isn’t the end of the world. The fact no one has a damn clue what to do when the qb scrambles, none of the wrs can get on the same page as the qb, and none of the wrs are able to catch down field or catch short and gain yac, is really damning. The biggest coaching loss we’ve had in a long time is kevin bourgoin. He should’ve gotten the treatment and opportunities that Hogan got. What he did with our rbs then wrs was incredible. Even when we didn’t have great talent at wr, we got the most out of what we had. Now, we get the least out of what we have.

this ankle injury has been going one most of camp and through 7 weeks, And clearly still isn’t very close to full health. I don’t think he’d pass physical for a trade

yep, from what i’ve heard it’s us against the world in his qb room and it he keeps you around he has your back. they also seem to scout mental fits to the dd mold really well. He produced almost exactly the same amount of yards with drastically less help from his wrs, and a worse game plan. He also protected the ball better (despite all the tips and drops that put the ball at risk), and did it against frankly a better D. Some truth to this, I hate qb wins as a stat. But what dru did is when the game was on the line and his back to the wall, he turned it up and produced. Those 2 point conversion shoot outs was basically him throwing guys open faster than the D could react. Major props to brown for that. Another underrated asset that dru brown brings, which maier and zach lack, is he doesn’t throw hospital balls. He’s one of the best in the league at protecting his wrs with placement and leading. Brown has what nichols had, but with a drastically better set of tools. iirc, dru has only lost 1 start as a bomber. Also 17 td passes to 3 ints. 5 years of actual playing and he has never had as many picks as tds thrown. He does a tremendous job of using placement, timing, release and zip to take the danger out of a lot of routes. 20 years ago? i can feel my self rot with that fact. One of my all time favorite bomber plays though

we did, but ott is about the worst run d in the league

hth is this guy coming back again.

Coaches like him tend to be harder on their position. Maas is the same way.

quicker release, better accuracy by a significant margin, better footwork, better poise, better ability to move the pocket, roll/throw on the roll, better at avoiding pressure, able to run a far more diverse playbook, more athletic, drastically less turn over prone, capable of drastically better peak out put and capable of game managing neither of which maier can do.

as the founder and president of the plop haters club back in the day it is painful to admit, but I agree. I actually think browns skill set would compliment lapos system really well. so would our tiny wr core. it should’ve come at the end of last season tbh. Play into a spot, sit on the ir, or pack it in. that’s a discussion the mafia should’ve had internally. but they still won’t. ever since schoen fell off. he was the straw that stirred the drink. bailey set the tone and did a lot for the culture too.

I was thinking the exact same thing with respect to benoit. Man what a mess.

Not just pressures too, it’s the penalties every game as well. If you’re getting flagged, grab em every time they get past you. refs in the cfl are not going to call one guy 4-5 times a game on the ol. they just won’t. It’s better to take a penalty then serve your qb up. 100% worried about calgary. That dl is insanely talented. totally. Especially when you have young guys on the ol. Like booch said, they do too much like wallace is right now. Worried about qb health in that game. What makes it worse, is TC uses empty back sets all the time. That’s a good way to get your qb killed at the best of times.

I could see manu being tossed early, if it’s too early i think he will get another look. Hes got almost no chance in detroit. Agree on wallace. I wouldn’t mind seeing him at rt and Broxton kick over to lt. Then if you get vanterpool in at G, just need C worked out. Agree on maz too, he’s got that nasty grit you need inside. Hes a mauler who loves the battle. If vanterpool isn’t ready he’d be good to go back to. Or try to mold into a C.

I hope you’re right, I think an early wave of cuts is good for teams and camps. we will see how it pans out. I can see a lot of teams sitting on a lot of guys. I think the guys who would shake loose early would be the udfa rookies and previous year pr guys. Maybe cline, not drafted guys etc unless they mess up bad. I don’t think eli is more than 60-65% healthy. At this point idk if he will be 100% any time soon. If he’s more than that then it’s time to move on. The ol is a real mess and is more than one move away from being where it needs to be.