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On one hand most teams didn't spend through that whole 500k increase, he also had an upfront bonus of like 250k this year, so you'd only be eating the Pro rated amount for 1/3 of the year. That said, I want no part of kelly. 3dn lists it at 600k for this year, I believe next year was the same deal but it was never officially announced.

we went all in on extra meh

as in his average production per game, about 319 passing yards and 1-2 td, like i referred to. Which makes it hard to expect improvement by swapping him for kelly. we aren’t desperate though. just another season, hosting the gc and our window closing is just another year. /sad

boy we are getting less healthy as we go. Wonder if makonzo is close. be nice to have him on the back end of the roster as a guy who can actually contribute on 5-10 defensive snaps a game. that’d be soo hilarious and fitting if we did that in game. Id like to see oyelola get a look on the back end of the roster. we could use bailey more, but oyelolas dynamic athleticism and what 2-3 years of nfl coaching. could be interesting on teams to see if he’s turned a corner.

yeah, one of his 2 good games on the entire season lol. Probably his best game in 2 years. and 1 run stop.

I don't need to, do you know how to evaluate film, understand front/techs, and run fits? Because it sounds like you watch without understanding how to watch and what's actually happening. Kyrie has had 1 good run-stopping game this year and 11 run stops all year. The D is funneled to Jones, and Kyrie only gets to run gaps if they happen right in front of him and he doesn't get picked up.

Idk, toronto is playing edmonton this week. I would certainly expect Arbuckle to maintain his average-ish performance. I belive the trade dead line is begining of october as well. Which leaves edmonton, montral and BC for games for them.

What do you do if you're the argos? Arbuckle has thrown 6 straight 300+ yard games, and 7 of his last 8. Since week 2 he's had more Tds than Ints. He's averaging 319 yards passing per game. He is 31, and he's healthy as can be. He's also not in the 13 highest paid qbs in the league. Does kelly make them any better at this point? They have heavily under achived but I don't place a lot of that at arbuckles feet. Kelly is also 31, an off the field nightmare, the 2nd highest paid qb at 615k, coming off a major injury and his best year isn't as good as arbuckle this year. Personally, while I'd hate to tie my self to arbuckle as the qb1 prior to this year, I'd trade kelly. Some one will likely be desparate enough to take the bait on him and give up assets. You can still resign arbuckle to a team friendly deal and add an all star player with the salary difference.

Imo, he should go in as a lion. If he was 2 different guys, the lions player and the bomber player, the bomber player doesn't get half the personal accomplishments and doesn't go into the HOF. The lions guy on his own, does go into the hof and wins every thing he got still.

He's said that countless times every year since 18/19.

nah canadian college qb is not getting the call up after one season here, unless he throws for numbers that would make doug flutie blush. I think we all remember that time late in milts career when he was plastered over the middle and out old twitching on the field. then came two and jumped up but was clearly confused and wobbly. He played in a far worse era for player safety. He isn’t the guy to say some thing for clicks or throw out calls for retirement lightly. I understand what mos is trying to say, but I think all the needed info IS available. you have a qb who turns 39 in a couple weeks, who has been knocked out of games 3 times this year due to high hits, who hasn’t been 100% in about 2.5-3 years, and who has more concussion history than the entire rest of the west division. Not an exaggeration either. In grappling they say “every thing below the eyes is the neck”, in football especially for qbs/concussions every thing from the shoulders up is the head. if you get whacked in the neck, it jostles your brain. smashed with a clean hit in the shoulder pads, rattles the cage. So when you see a qb with concussion history’s head hit 3 times and once bounce off the turf, it’s a concussion issue. After concussions, every injury near the head causes issues. no such thing as close but didn’t cause issues at that point. Post concussion syndrome/ppcs is no joke.

lmao he’s our 2nd lber, the 3rd and 4th man in run fits are both dbs. We don’t have another run stopper. Kyrie is only able to make stops if he’s in blocked and the runner hits his gap. that’s not being a good run stopper. Kyrie has zero ability to disengage from a block, or win a battle. Even against none linemen. There will never be a 4 lber set again, here or else where in the cfl. we don’t even employ a 3 lber look at any point this year. dt just put the biggest jinx on kyrie ever

Or done any thing of impact at all. If we had just gone into the market and replaced 1 of the top tier FAs we lost each of the last 3 years, our roster is miles better.

Yeah. He had a couple of stretches where he was the leagues MODP imo. But they never lasted, and always took time to get to. He's had 1 great and 1 good game this year. Arguably 2 great, but not a 3rd good game even. He's basically late stages lamar mcgriggs now. Great guy, tough as nails, smart, can still flash great games, but can't consistently play at that level any more and is limited in use. We'd be soo much better off running NI Lber, or even going NI at both and all imp on the DL with lawson to rotate. If we could have Jjones and the imp DL plus lawson our D would improve drastically at every thing.

yeah, Idk if he is lucky or a tank but he's held up behind some bad OLs.

I love strev, but you’re 100% right about crum. He has that resilient toughness and that find-a-way-to-win that brown has. I wouldn’t want to be depending on crum becoming a qb1, but i sure like him as a back up. And he's got tons of tread left.

what sets him apart is 1, he’s the only lber worth a damn when it comes to pass rushing, and 2 he’s the only guy who can be a run stop mlb and can get back in pass cover. We love to blitz lbers and none of them are effective not just in pass rush but even in eating a block. Kyrie is capable in the run game if he’s not blocked. he can’t get off blocks or close gaps with linemen in them. jones would be the front runner for modp, if he was capable in pass D. he’s been in the area but just not getting deep enough because he has no coverage instincts or ability to read the qb/play. he’s great at scraping to the ball but that’s it. All he brings is the ability to run after ball carriers. thats good in the run game but not in coverage. And the cfl is a passing league. Lber is the least impactful position in the cfl, unless you have some monster like wynton. Which is why soo many teams are flipping the ratio at lber. it makes so much more sense to start a canadian at lber especially if they are athletic outliers. The roster impact you might lose in starting smith/shay, vs what you could get back 4 fold with adams/woods or lofton/4th imp ol. And for my money, shay/smith platooning with J jones you gain a lot. because you won’t have to hide a lber. and you don’t have to dress an imp db to play wil.

For Dinwiddie, honestly, I have no clue what the Argos upper brass would do if they missed the playoffs. I would jump at him to for that other job. I have been extremely impressed with what hes done.

Honestly, our OL is meh though Vanterpool helps a lot. I wouldn't mind seeing lofton at G and eli at C. I actually think WRs aren't so much a problem for us right now. With Wilson, Demski, Wheatfall, Clercius, and then Mitchell/Sterns/Echols. I think Mitchell and Wheatfall should get shutled around with Echols and Sterns. I'm not sold on either guy but thats a pretty decent battle for the last imp wr spot. Our Wrs have under performed, but I think the system is hurting them. It's not an ideal WR core, but Its above average for sure. I agree that too much gets dumped on strev. I think he could do considerably better with the right coach. But he's also about to be 31 and far from 100% healthy. That's hard to bet on, with a team that needs change. I do think he is gonna get a chance though. We will see what he does with it, and how much hogan messes it up.

we could even run 30 front, bracket both lawler and white, run a S in the middle, and have a lber in the short mid. defensively, hamilton gives us lots of options to counter them. If we don’t try to blitz or run 40s with two canadians or more.

If we don't win this game, most every game after becomes a must win game. Not my biggest concern actually. If we get houston on, and he's smartened up, we need to run the 30 front dropping the rest. I don't think hamilton can beat the base cover scheme from last year. And they won't run. We can't get pressure, but if we play to cover on D we can keep them under the range they want to throw to. If we run 30 front neither should be in 1on1s. lawler also has as many games with under 29 yards this year as 100 or more. The huge portion of his damage this year came in the month from week 2-6. 491 yards and 6 tds in 4 games vs 556 and 4 in 8 games.

I think the only chance they do, is if Elgersma comes in soon and looks far more ready than you'd expect. In that case, you keep strev as the back up next year. Other wise, I think you pull the plug. Even though I don't think strev is largely responsible, He's been used as a battering ram far too much and been banged up, while not being developed. Idk who you get to build a system around him at this point, other than maybe maas who you have no chance of getting. If we had a target who could build with strev I'd say keep him. I think the options above jackson are pretty limited for oc. Maybe if AC is ready for a promotion, but idk if we'd even be viable for that. Or If dinwiddie gets fired but he also would likely get a mroe desirbale role/team.

If you bbq well enough, the imp linemen (and ni) will appear for sure.

When he faces a tackle he can’t beat or faces double teams he gets really soft. hes so geared towards pass knock downs he barely tries to pass rush any more. which makes it a lot harder on the rest of the dl. then we basically always have 1 often 2 dts on the field who can’t pass rush either. hes still able to turn it on an dominate, if he’s kept in one on ones. I think he needs a wake up call to play each game like it’s the play offs, focus on pass rush and play the lanes with in his rushing, needs to be played with a competent pro quality dl, and needs to be rotated. He should be our naturalized canadian.

He’s supposed to be in control of his body and not let his head slam into zachs lol. that’s not one point of failure on his part, it’s two. he has to not contact the qb high, and has to be in control of his own head. It was 100% a penalty, it was not some horrid dirty hit though. I don’t expect supplementary discipline and i don’t think it’s needed.