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Yep. Here it’s a ride them into the dirt type of business. Even if they started out as dirt. We seldom seem to scoop other teams nis actually now that I think about it. And these days teams seldom scoop up our nis short of coming back from the nfl.

It’s not as much trouble keeping guys it’s fringe guys with fringe roster and career movements. That said we haven’t had trouble converting short yardage, despite the turn over. Even when a guy like prukop struggles Early on. Brown I think will get better money in the off season else where and maybe a chance to play. None of our recent back ups were shakier in short yardage at first than prukop and no one nearly as bad as brown in his first partial year here. He looked completely out of place. Like I said, if he’s that bad at picking things up it’s a move that should’ve been made a month a go. But if brown gets the leeway he has, can’t tell me pigrome doesn’t deserve that much or more. that’s lots of possibilities and each could be true, it’s all wild speculation at that point. But what is clear and factual is our roster useage and development is problematic. Was Thomas the same? Are szott and Schmekel football geniuses and the greatest team mates/locker room guys in history? Do we have a secret stash of ni depth guys waiting to come in and fix our teams? Is abu the greatest db in practice like holm was in camp and that’s why mohammed sat for a green rookie who got torched? etc some of the speculated reasons could be the problem in this case or that case, but not all. And the amount of poor decisions doesn’t lend the benefit of the doubt to those possibilities.

Having Eli and Dobson as the subs to come in for short yardage is an insane amount of beef. If Jackson is still dressed that’s just over powered. Short yardage crew should be automatic for 2 or 3 yards at that point. though hopefully that extra beef means we won’t carry Jackson. I Really want to see Lawson and fox side by side. Good luck dealing with Willy and Habba off the edges when those two collapse the pocket and eat 3 o linemen’s lunch. if our defence could just get healthy. Hansen Habba jeffcoat Willy Lawson Thomas fox with kyrie biggie the Canadians and clements at lber. Then 7 deep at the 5 cover spots with the possibility of ford coming back. Man that’s a really good roster.

Not likely. If he’s healthy for the last chunk of the regular season and is in shape and ready for the play offs they’ll keep him. Guy like that has tons of leash. I think short of a season ending injury or trade the earliest we split ways is the off season. Iirc jeffcoat is on a 1 year deal. Man that’s a lot of good news. I’m sure Brady and schoen will be good to go as well. If we get Houston Eli and Lawson back that’s huuuuge. worried that abu is still with the first team. Really don’t want to see him start again this week.

Removing a guy with high end potential, for a guy with none, in order to fill a specific role that is the easiest in the league and that we aren’t struggling with. When the team is already the oldest in the league and struggling with depth and health that’s a tough pill to swallow. If you can’t coach a guy up to do a qb sneak from rookie camp, through main camp, pre season, and a couple weeks of the regular season that’s messed up. If a guy is that bad that they couldn’t learn it, you have a failure in talent evaluation keeping him that long. personally I’m sure it’s just he wasn’t turn key and they didn’t want to spend the time on qb3 in practice for now. Which is lame. Disappointing talent development, and roster use is hardly a surprise at this point. Hopefully he goes to the pr sits and gets an opportunity down the line and in camp next year.

I think he’s more the Flanders mid to modern term mos di who never sees use on offence or defence. Boy I hope that’s the case.

That’s bs.

He’d be palaced on the pr which is essentially being released. Brown is the only one of the three with a prayer to actually run the offence he wouldn’t be the one sent down. Also some guys just aren’t willing to sit on a pr. We’ve seen that before. And for the 400 what ever bucks a week I can understand. It’s gotta be more than that but I doubt it’s much more. I think it’s just about time. He got one rep, on which our centre got pushed back into his lap. Probably after the first bye week they will retry rather than making it a focus of practice during prep for a game.

I know you meant parity and I’m not trying to be pedantic. I legit find the idea of this season as a parody funny. Alberta sucks at football, the east is holding it’s own at the top, the bombers have had a 2015 type of loss, bc is only giving up 7 points per game, ssk attendance is mediocre, feels like this season is taking place in the twilight zone.

Good dbs can struggle with poor supporting cast, and high turn over. We saw it early the last two years. Especially when BA was out and even before we moved BA to saftey. I’m not ready to write off Lawrence, but we should dress an extra imp db and not have to lean on Lawrence. best case scenario imo is one of rose Parker Houston is healthy and good to go for this game. Then we start Muhammad and da Lawrence as a back up.

Yep. Imagine if we get healthy, get ford back and cut the dead weight? 2 nis on the active let go and 3 wasted spots on the pr. Bring in a couple imp wils and another nose for the pr. Then if we pull a ritchie type trade and send out a couple draft picks for some turn key special teams vet ni who provide some depth. We’d be set. We’ve been drafting like we retain our nis and guys that go to the nfl. And retaining our nfl talent like we are still turning out stud draft results like we did a couple years back. And we just aren’t.

It’s not just depth though. Walker isn’t good enough. Habba is depth and he’s going to be a star. 4 games less than 5 weeks 4 sacks and a bunch of tackles. We need to get healthy and we need to pick and nose and go with them.

No, they kicked our ass.

That’s crappy for the league. Cal should call Darvin Adam’s

Next week time to go 1-0. I expect a better roster and effort.

Not excellent no. Good for a qb. He doesn’t have bust or a top gear and he doesn’t run with power. A strong arm and no accuracy or ability to read a D isn’t much to work with. He’s a poor poor man’s version of cornelius or strevy. McGuire wasn’t a runner, he was far more dru brown esq. if it wasn’t for pigs I’d say go grab an option qb off the nfl reject pile. Prukop is pretty average in that group. One play. We don’t seem to want to run that package or he have gotten more work. Prukop was as bad for a few weeks and kept getting attempts. qft

When you’re in that tier there is no better or worse imo. It’s varying shades of poop. Difference is schlitz could have upside. Blm only has down side.

If he’s gonna get a shot Vs being qb4 I’d think he would go. Cfl pr money isn’t great either. I mean Edmonton for example is such junk he could get a shot to start in a few weeks. Kai isn’t really a qb, and jones doesn’t wanna go ni with ford. He could be qb2 behind the worst starter in the league. Or no4 behind the best qb in the league.

Prukop is what he is. He’s not particularly fast quick dynamic or powerful. Short yardage is nearly 100% on the oline. The first few games he was running too upright lost a fumble and missed a conversion. Dru brown is automatic as any one behind our ol. I don’t buy this in proven running thing. Two different teams he walked away from defenders and was the most explosive guy on the field. Imps in a cfl preseason game who are fighting for jobs are not short on athleticism. If any thing you see more raw athletes from those groups than regular season squads as teams try to hit home runs. if piggy went to the pr, some one like Edmonton would scoop him up right away no question.

He’s worse as a passer than brown and worse as a runner than pigrome. He was running too tall for far longer than pigrome got a chance at.

Yeah just hard headed stubbornness and a bunch of I don’t know what coming before on field quality. Gauthier is a strong dude and Briggs is smaller but crazy explosive. I’d even try Dobson as a nose in defensive goal line packages. Tons of versatility options to off set our depth.

Not wrong. But also they rotated all the guys a whole lot. It’s smart and effective but you gotta have a lot of faith in your ability to produce high sacks in low reps to get paid. And kongbo is more of a rep eating gap stopping contain sound guy then some one who can pad their sack total. 100%. They failed to turn that team around with soo much free agency money and now since he has come in the team has gotten dramatically better. And making the games more desirable to locals Can we all pitch in and buy the Argos and have him own them too? And Calgary lol.

Imagine how good the cheetah pack will be with the Jeff’s Habba and Hansen? Even the three with a nose like fox, yes please. Coach Brady up to do the situational fb duty and put Augustine in at tail. Or gauthier. Or even Bennett, he sure hasn’t been good on teams or D so far. Even boo and woli are big dudes. Woli has played a te in a few packages and is excellent blocking. I like Jackson and we’ve done a lot worse with a di spot in the past. But with the thin depth we have now we need more value he either needs to be useful on D or miller Esq on kick cover. Imagine if we did that, abused the designated Canadian like other teams and used a di on a guy like Mohamed? Instantly our depth is dramatically better.

6 game is revocable. So it only makes sense to put any one who will miss more than 1 week on it. If he misses 6 we get that portion of his salary back under the cap. Which in his case is probably 1.5 - 2 rookie imp base deals. But when you consider the time missed from the season it is a pretty solid 2 rookie imps or one decent league vet he does miss a lot of time. But especially with haba if he is healthy for the stretch run and play offs to platoon with Willy and Habba that’s the best case scenario.

They didn’t have the horses to do it. They haven’t had a good dl till part way through last year. The year before it was that all rookie dl.