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yeah its really hard to burn a DI on a k, plus a global on a P. We should work on developing a K again that is G or Ni and who can do all the jobs. In the mean time we should also give the P job to sergio too. I like that he has a high floor, but I hope we don't give up on his high ceiling as well. I hope he was working his butt off in the off season on running and catching drills. I hope we see a heavy dose of him carrying the rock in camp and PS this year.

useage will be important, as much for opening up other opportunities in the scheme. Brady isn't the threat out side logan is, so the classic fb dive hb toss type thing we have seen maybe 2-3 times in the past is a good basis. As well as subbing logan for the jet sweep that demski stopped running last year. I think Logan likely subs in for the last imp wr in sets where we have both backs in play. Logan can still run some routes and is a big catch+run threat any way. I don't think MCI will get as many reps or the ball. I think his offensive reps will laregely be blocking in heavy set unless we lose a string of ni pass catchers. Or unless MCI takes some massive leap forward as a ball carrier. How he looks in camp running the ball is one of the biggest things I'm waiting to see. Won't see too much of the scheme on open days. So it's mostly how MCI runs, if kev/gabe took a stepforward, if zach can throw with out a finger falling off, if strevy is being decisive and throwing with authority or allowed to do those things, who moves around in the secondary, and who steps up in the front 6.

Yep, you got it. If he was cut tomorrow, half the league would show up at his door ready to pitch him as a reformed man and them as a forgiving enterprise willing to give a guy a chance.

I think the reality of our situation is that we are going to be really tight with DIs. with Ayers, kyrie, and both jones' we are married to carrying atleast 1 di Lber. Not to mention a chunk of those guys are very good teams players as well. Castillo is locked into another spot which pretty much leaves Logan. None of our Wrs are eligible to be a nat american either. Logan needs to be a super sub and back up for us. I think we also would be really smart to draft a WR that can play this year too.

Yep, guys who are toxic manipulative abusers don't change unless forced and he hasn't come close to being forced. And for me, I wouldn't sign or play a guy like him under any circumstance. Idc if it is a flag football game with my house on the line and no one else can throw.

All the wrs aside from lawler got significantly less than they have been getting for the past several years. DL is actually trending down aside from the top couple guys by a decent margin, LBs are down and DBs are down that aren't on the bombers or named ford. None of the positions have benefited from the salary cap going up as the majority of pending FAs and AR free agents have signed deals before the cap went up. They will benefit from it next year, and NFL cuts may well benefit from it this year. OL and QB are the big ones that are continually trending up across the board. Zach could play at a level where he is worth 350-500k this year, and kelly could be a guy whose salary counts the whole year and isn't worth a buck. Zachs bad out come for the year is being on the IR, Kellys includes a possible pr nightmare where he cant play and you still have to pay him. In generally with the 500k cap increase, every team would rather be in a situation where they have an expensive qb, than be sitting on 600-700k that they can't get value for.

I'd take any one over that guy. Idc who they are or how talented they are. 600k is maybe more silly money than it used to be. With most of the other top positions having their salaries go down rather than up the gap is bigger than its been in a long while. 600k is more than the 2 highest paid none qbs in the league. Last year and prior it was less than 2 of the top few. Now with the cap going up, 600k next year likely won't be as much an outlier. We could see a few of the 200-250k guys going up to 300k range.

Yeah, I mean their are reasons/excuses that can be made for him, but we saw basically all of those run out of rope at some point last year. Not doing more to help zach be protected was really playing with fire. Imagine how our year last year would've gone if he got hurt after strevy and couldn't play? I think a guy like logan is ripe for a multifaceted role. He isn't a grant level KR where you need to protect him and maintain that production on return teams alone. And as a career RB, he is far more conditioned for the physical demand of multiple jobs. When teams get 180lbs wrs doing multiple jobs thats where problems happen imo. Logan is a stocky back who has been putting up in the range of 500 yards of offence on top of his KR duties. He had over 500 touches in college between catches and runs, as well as around 50 returns. He was the same guy in hs too, 300+ touches 100+ a game, catching, running, returning. He's a 26-year-old back with fairly limited wear in the prime of his career. I think you use him fearlessly and have him take wear off Brady. If Payton doesn't play much past 30, but adds a year or more to bradys career that is a huge win. It would be smart though to have a 2nd guy who can return kicks decently on the roster. You don't want Logan to end up in one of those spots where he runs one back, then the D forces a 2nd ou,t and he has to go back out, especially when he's our insurance for Brady. Drafting one of the really athletic offensive guys or dbs and moulding them into the 2nd kr might be good. Or if sterns makes the cut maybe he fills that role.

I think the list of his biggest errors from last year would be longer than WJ's wingspan. At the end of the day, he had a bunch of directions he could've gone in to insulate our offence from the struggles he successfully did none of them. Idk how well Zach could run that system. I can't wait to see what our new offensive brain trust will do. Giving a guy reps, isn't the same thing as giving a guy a chance. We kept johnson and ran him out for 10 starts too. All too frequently, what we like in a guy doesn't translate to being an impact player. We consistently downgraded our KR position throughout last year ,finally settling for the paltry shadow of lucky.

He'd be the most likely candidate for sure. That said, Kelly could implode at any moment. Has the league had 3 qbs getting more than 600k at the same time? How about 3 guys making that cash with each having such a serious question mark hanging over their heads? All 3 could collapse this year and be completely out of the MOP discussion. I'd say that is more likely than them all excelling.

That should be the goal. A Swiss Army knife who can play some wr/te, catch out of the back field, run and fill all the blocking roles. He’s got the measurables, the work ethic, character, and the head for it imo. He needs reps and polish running with the ball running routes and catching. He may not need to be a 1k rusher, but a 400-500 rusher and catcher would be great. Id be in favour of that, a bit more sustainable long term. Mci is one of the guys I’m most looking forward to this camp. The 4 top picks from last year all are poised to take big steps. Mci, big Kev, Wallace and Samson (kind of the forgotten man in that group) I don’t normally do camp posts but I might this year specifically on a couple guys including those 4. He was a big guy top to bottom, but big square shoulders really don’t benefit RBs like big thick legs do.

You’re right, mci isn’t close to ready as a rb for that kind of role. But roster wise, we will be carrying 3 already. I think the 4th needs to offer more than a rotational piece with Logan. knight mid draft would tremendous. (I’m kinda going 3rd down as mid as the end rounds aren’t much of any thing.) I think we have a couple guys in this draft that could run the ball in rotation and who will be available mid draft range. With out another team locked into a Canadian starting rb or a top end guy available, I think the rb class is stuck in a 2nd tier at best bracket. I don’t think these guys are who teams would target to flip the ratio. It’s kind of a bonus depth position to draft Idk what to expect from mci in terms of upside as a ball carrier. I think a lot of that will be determined this year. Like you said, he’s got a great niche / high floor role that he’s basically ready for now. And it fits much better than what we’ve had in the past. We also have to see how his athleticism will translate to the gridiron. I don’t think mci will be at risk, I doubt we draft another guy like him or stop going soo heavy with the ar. He should be pushed hard in camp though especially if we bring in a back. One of the most impressive things about mci is his uptake. He went from no where near ready for fb/teams reps to a good contributor in year 1. Don’t see that much improvement in season often. I fully expect this draft to be a big bolster to our depth and other teams. I think we could see 3-4 guys making the ar out of this years draft being the norm, and contributing not just sitting.

I like that he does a good job of getting low when he needs to, and doesn’t let defenders square him up. Very much in the right mold for our running game. This draft has a couple guys that are athletic enough to play rb, with good size (too tall if any thing) but who have the classical failing of not getting low enough in their pads. They try to run upright like a small cut back. And mostly the guys in this draft have one or two good measurable traits and a few meh ones. Yazbeck is pretty consistent across the board athletically. I don’t think we’d look as high as 2nd though. Already having Logan and mci I don’t see an easy path to the active roster or in game reps for another rb. As such, I think we could look at who of those guys slides to mid draft range. Maybe 3rd if it’s a guy we really really like. I would like one more ni rb to push mci, and fill out the depth chart. Unless that guy is a strong pass catcher or teams guy I think they’d sit on the pr a good bit.

Ooof nothing funny bout that creep ass loser

Right? Could be Ritchie or just about any other hc in bomber history. Idr the last time I looked at a football coach and thought, “damn that guy has great hair!”

Mci needs more time to develop as a ball carrier imo. We will see where he is at in pre season though soon.

pre check down nichols maybe. Certainly needs to be more like him, but I don't think he has that in him. We will see though.

Its the first solid season BLM has had since 2019 and good season since 2018. And yeah, chucking up a bunch of yards in losses isn't a goal. Bos' injury string also starts in 2019, when he was 28 turning 29. Not 36 turning 37. No chance does zach have the amount of time to get healthy that bo took. He basically needs to be the guy he was in 21, this year. He at least has to be much closer to that, than last year or the year before or he isn't likely to finish the year.

I’m soo excited at the thought of Logan and Brady in the back field together. That’s gonna be such a nightmare. Yeah I know he’s given some control up. How much and where? I couldn’t even guess. He’s the kind of guy you’d love to learn from but hate to work for imo.

It can be hard to differentiate which the cause is; if you don't know the scheme fairly well, it's almost impossible. Unless the failure point is something like drops. At that point in the game, though, if the players aren't able to execute, it's a failure of prep or implementation. It's not often that either type of failure is fixed mid-game, though. When you see repeated, systemic failures, change is the answer. But the hard fact sometimes is you don't have a winning combination. We've all lived through that plenty in the past dark ages. We saw games where any changes or installations would make no difference. On a good team, you should have a few pivots built in. On d, Hall is one of the better coaches at having and triggering those. And it's not like he suddenly fundamentally changed his style/system. He didn't switch to complicated zone blitz schemes, or heavy sets etc. He changed just enough with in his system to cover gaps. On offence, I think Jason maas has done the best job of in week installs that give his team options to counter being countered. DD used to be good at adjusting in game, but every thing in Calgary is cracked now. Idk who I'd say is the best pure adjuster on offence today.

https://3downnation.com/2025/04/11/canadian-db-tyrell-ford-turned-down-multiple-nfl-offers-to-stay-in-cfl-sign-with-edmonton-elks/ But why? I mean, really... Yup, you got it. Spreading the formations blockers, having off-tackle gaps (like we see more down south now), and forcing the run fits to cover a much wider area is the key. It also opens up massive cutback lanes. We gave up on the multiplicity of backfield threats last year, which gutted our ability to run out of the heavy set. With just 1 back to threat, you only need your edge seal to be fast or wide enough to take it away. If you widen that point 5 yards, then you either need to line up on that point, creating another inside gap that's open, or need to be fast enough and be able to get outside of the blocking scheme before the rb has an angle. That play call was atrocious, too. Just battering ram streveler and the shallowest routes from the Nichols era.

I really don’t think CFL defences are ready for a team to go 22 spread set heavy run. I want soo much to see some 6’4 250+ te using the waggle to block at the second level. Teams are reasonably prepared for our 7ol + fb tight bunch sets because the gaps are close and it narrows the field. In order to run higher volume in general we need to diversify our run attack. The amount of izr/tite zone we’ve run with out balance is insane. Especially last year with out using a secondary back field threat.

I’m pretty sure he just heard that and is writing it down.

Yeah, South east does have a couple good places to eat fake Chinese food.

Oh damn I gotta check it out! qft