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The D is playing like it’s the arena football league tonight

good hold on that one maybe call it hands inside the shoulder pads pulling him back no flag

ugly kicks all around tonight great players are great players. boy lapo is in peak plop form tonight

brown with a perfect read and throw

vaval and cadwallader the only guys to show up so far

rohan crossed the field and was never picked up, holm came back off his man to try to make the play but couldn’t in time. Nichols/kyrie should’ve been on the te but went mia

must be nice to draft a te who can play football

sacre bleu

2nd and long is a gimmie against us

broxton with A massive jump classic first drive

Bad teams rely on the breaks of a game to win. Hard to expect anything except us getting pants'd today. Next week is likely the must win game of the season.

Football sees its soft and foolish reasons for missing games. Not much of lawlers time missed was caused by accident. Football has a tendency to make great athletes wilt. Be it with physicality, exhaustion, or extreme weather conditions. The hardest one to deal with is the one you see the least. For me, the hardest game i ever played in was driving rain on a muddy grass field. The conditions broke every one that day. no one celebrated winning, every one celebrated surviving the game. Obviously this was far from the cfl level, but every player has a breaking point and a weakness. We basically hope guys develop them self. Mos always talks about how guys experience the game slowing down in year 2, and how it helps them take a step forward. He never talks about how they try and help guys slow the perception down and play smooth. No competition really at any point for the roster. We don’t see the return of guys scrapping in mid week practices any more. but if guys had to fight for their spot and could win a role, it would raise the level of play across the board.

Yep, Smith is our best draft pick in ages. That guy balls out at the hardest position to play. Im guessing that he is not 100%, but maybe not injured. Especially in the case of an sprain of an ankle,high ankle, or turf toe etc. They may hold him out a week to get back to 100% rather than have him the rest of the year at 85%.

Tim white has the best ability, and the biggest one Lawler has lacked here. Availability. That said, white is a FA at the end of the year. Pending a large over pay, I would struggle to see him wanting to stay here. Nailed it.

years from now, as an old, frail guy needing a wheelchair, with a full-time team of caregivers, zach will say the exact same thing. and mean it.

Maksymic certainly came with Questions, and plenty of them from around here (including me) during our various OC hunts. I don't think its fair to question his commitment to running the ball, though. This year he has Ranking in Edmonton, who is already over 1k and 2nd in the league. In 25 they had the 3rd leading rusher (Butler 1200+) In 24 they had the 2nd leading rusher (Stanback 1100+) In 23, they didn't have good stability at RB or OL, and Mizzell led in the games he played. In 22, Butler was 2nd in the league and over 1k. In 21, they did chuck a lot, In 19, in Edmonton, he had Gable go over 1k while missing 4 games. So, over 6 seasons, his feature back for the year has totalled over 6700 yards. Which is not including back up rbs playing for injured guys, or the games not yet played this year. That's 13 more games. Considering he has had running qbs, and we have been a lock for a top 1-2 rushing team every year, him having the no 2/3 running back on average over the past 6 years is pretty great. I also wouldn't say Buck was a bottom feeder. Buck was really on the upswing in his career as a CO here until Zach got deep-shot happy and the roster management left us with some pretty poor WR cores. Though TC is basically a former OC walking right now. Like a Lancet fish. They run around eating up other smaller Lancet fish and get huge. But they get so big and confident as predators that they end up prey for larger salmon, sharks, etc. It's a nasty-looking guppy-esque fish that wants to eat enough smaller, weaker kin so it can become a shark. But instead, it becomes shark bait. Drives me insane. Can't protect? Why even try! Best guy with the ball in his hands, get him the hell away from the ball!

we don’t see him in the draft room any more, so i really don’t think he is.

franco manitoban community would agree with the separation of québécois, so would new brunswick. I live in a french manitoba community, and work with some businesses in quebec a lot. The difference warrants notation imo. The Quebecois are their own thing that’s for sure. The one thing you can be sure of, when you mix french canadian and Québécois, a fight is bound to happen.

True. That is the best source of disruption as well. The easiest and quickest way to impact the offence is to push the C back onto the QB's lap.

The dangers of buying into your own hype and propaganda. Even more so it's the dangers of prioritizing ideology over winning.

Not to mention, Zach loves to hold the ball and try for deep shots, and is not quick mechanically to get the ball out. He really has to put in max effort to get velocity on the ball now, which has greatly hurt his ability to get it away. Mechanically, he's the anti-Danny Mac. But the outcome is almost the same as late-career Mac. Elsbury isn't worse than Kolo, imo, but he might not be better than any other C in the league. Which, going from old Kolo to a young Imp on the interior of the OL, is mind-boggling. You have to work hard to suck at replacing a guy that bad. It falls on basically everyone on O. From the system to OL to QBs to WRs, even Brady has struggled more this year in pass pro than ever before. When you make good players struggle at something they've been great at for a long time, you've really messed up. The sad thing is that doesn't get all the way into how bad our pass pro has been this year. 2.5 sacks per game against us vs. BC, giving up 2 sacks per game; vs. Sask, giving up 1.4 sacks per game. But the pressures and hits are what really separate us from even other basement-dwelling teams. We will almost certainly end up giving up more than 200 hits and hurries this year, and 45-50 sacks on top of that. Maksymic isn't reinventing the wheel over in Edmonton, and he doesn't have some insane talent set on offence. He's giving Cody easy, quick decisions and not letting the D dictate with pressure. He's running a balanced attack really well. If Maksymic had ended up here and TC in Edmonton, we would be in the battle to win the West.

similar to blm.

Respect the crap outta that. It's pretty clear now he trolls to try and kick up a tizzy just to get eyes on him and the cfl. I hope he tones the twitter stuff down a bit, but I love this guy in the booth. He needs to be the main colour analyst for as many cfl games as possible. He and lapo elevate the broad cast a massive amount over suitor etc.

i’d put pokey on, but i’d sit no show nield for a week. stick him on the 1 game and let him sweat.

sad thing is, even short of strategic moves, if we just made competent moves that every team has we would’ve been much better off. Every team adjusted to the ratio changes and nat imp. No other team suffers vets who are completely un able to play their position for more than weeks, we do it for years. Not to mention wasting DI spots more times than i can count.