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Especially this year, he has had a much tougher go of it. He is soo seldom dropped by the first tackler, and when he is brought down he goes down pushing forward virtually every carry. His are the grittiest yards in the cfl.

On the ends, https://www.hogshaven.com/2018/3/30/17162582/marcell-frazier-has-great-measurables-but-has-a-lot-to-learn-as-a-pass-rusher https://www.nfl.com/prospects/marcell-frazier?id=32462018-0002-5599-4020-1d0ded64e7c2 All I need to know about mackay. https://www.rgj.com/videos/sports/college/nevada/2018/03/16/patrick-choudja-runs-mackay/33009941/

Yes.

Kinda muddies the waters. Mcg the round prior was doing a lot better, despite his bad cardio. The win doesnt set up khabib as a p4p best / all time great. Ferguson looked very human too. Sets up a big khabib ferguson fight again though. Im soo tired of the douchey stuff. Mcg, khabib the jon jones dc crap. Was just left feeling gross by the ufc, again.

Its going to be a very interesting offseason. I bet jennings ends up a back up for another team.

Streveler is pretty good in general with his ball placement. He gets a little wild trying to make things happen sometimes, but most of the time he tosses a very well located catchable ball and puts his guys in a position pick up yards after the catch.

Brian brohm, nick grigsby, romby bryant, ejiro kuale, nuefeld, sam hurl x2, lin-j shell, addison richards, ryan smith, shologan, Macho harris, Rock carmichael, bowman etc, The list is soo ridiculously long I dont have to prove the point. It makes it self very clearly, only you seem to be clinging to the opposition of it, so reverse onus. hes kicked around and stuck with teams that had among the deepest wr talent in the league. Its almost like jacksons out put has scaled up with a drastic increase in play time and use hmmm... Hes primarily a return man. Givens didnt report to camp after awful miss management the previous year. White out played and performed bowman easily. Cant say he was given a fair shake in camps when the best player doesnt win a spot at the position, see DL this tc. He was brought in, we threw to him what three times? Thats not an opportunity.

Watching him play even last night I don't think his knee is 100%

The way dressler ran him off deep enough then broke and ran him into the goal post was masterful. Idk if it was entirely on purpose but i suspect he atleast intended to use it as a pick to slow the db down and make him take a deeper longer route

The last two weeks we handled the no 2 team in the west and the best team in the east. We could still possibly host a home play off game. 1 more win and we are very likely to cross over two more wins and we are sure to make the play offs.

This was probably the game of the year so far for me. Soo tense, back and forth great play on O and D at times. A thrilling victory.

1 bighill* with the play to win the game 2 Harris carrying the team on his back 3 medlock the automatic Hh to dresslee for the td right after the UR play

Agree on the stamps stuff. Best move for claybrooks is to hang out for a fist full of years and soak it in. For a guy like him it makes no sense to me to jump to a bottom feeder team rebuilding, or to a team like us that wont dedicate the time and resources like in a rebuild.

All about the D and harris imo. If the D keeps it rolling and harris has a big game we got it. No matter what nichols shows up, I cant see us winning a passing shoot out. Having demski back could prove huge as well. He was the punishment when teams cheated against the run with harris too much.

sam hurl 2.0 (in terms of role) they drop him a decent bit too from that package though. But imo the reason he is on the roster is teams. They could use a bunch of other guys in that role, as well as actual DL.

steinhauer is a great candidate for a head coaching job. Between him and claybrooks id lean slightly to steinhauer.

Beat ott, beat sask, cross over to the east in the play offs. Do it up.

this year we are using wild for his play on teams instead of flanders as the DI. Which is a poor move imo. how the als have escaped without tons of fines and a couple suspensions for the crap they have done vs us is beyond me.

The point named several guys at several positions who have been forced onto the roster at the cost of superior players. I wasnt saying lankford was here the entire time, I was saying we have always had some one like lankford, often multiple players like that forcing out better players. Look at all the talent we cut loose that continued to play well in the league after. Then look at how long lankford, for instance, has been here. Look at how many chances he has been given. Look at how few those other guys got. That, is the point. The thing is, other teams saw enough to give these guys more of a chance then we did and it worked out. A rookie having a poor mini-camp is hardly rush to judgment stuff imo. Thats why we have minicamp. Its to ease these guys into the transition to the cfl to improve the quality of TC. You can easily excuse one or two guys slipping through the cracks. But many, at several positions you cant.

I'm not sure if mos is salvageable or not. I do not believe we are in a position to go back to a first time cfl/pro head coach though. The franchise cant afford that major step back. And I don't know what we could possibly do to get one of the few HCs that would be a clear upgrade.

Too raw. A long with a big pile of big bodies we drafted in the last few years. He is one of those all or nothing guys. Like joe flemming was. Every once and a while he dominates, the rest of the time he is MIA. Pound for pound id take just about all the DL over him. I wish corney had been healthy this year. Yeah and when weve had demski in he has filled that role really, really well.

Yup, sums it up perfectly.

It seems to me that the type of guy we bring in after NFL cut down is the fringe young guy. Guys with tools but not a history of production. We seem to use our PR expansion as a chance to get an early look at guys for next years TC. The turnkey type of guys who have a chance to step in and really play at the pro level are few and far between. Givens, who didnt get much of a chance, white who was a bit of a victim to numbers, and thompkins. But even when we squeezed givens in (and others) we make such little use of them. Lets not forget, weve found guys that can play. But have habitually underused them and cut em. We have repeatedly kept the likes of stankford over tj thorpe, martese jackson, givens, white, ricky collins, flanders, kenny stafford, and so on. You can pick at that list. But stankford imo is worse then all of them. Our biggest problems are 1) not using talent well. We never ride the hot hand. A guy has a big game and we go away from him. We are limited on offense, the deep ball is not our friend that doesnt enable us to use it but also allows teams to cheat underneath. 2) not recognizing the talent in-house. See the list, + sam hurl kuale etc etc 3) We over emphasize the value of average quality STs. I get it, teams are important. They are not as important as O or D. And our teams are not as dramatically better as they should be for as much roster commitment as we make to them. We have found the talent. We have not made use of it most of the time. And even when we do we dont use it optimally. We have not identified who is a higher teir talent in the guys we bring in. We have not developed guys. The entire coaching staff is at fault, none more then mos.

if the offense did not take the field at all, we STILL would have won based only on defense. This team is soo bi polar. If we get the best of the offense weve seen this year and the best of the defense, we will roll through every one 100-0.

I was wondering during the game if Dressler wouldn't be better deployed as a DI and used in packages designed to involve him. The beating of every down football seems too much at this age, but he is still very effective with the ball in his hands. The loss of bond in the running game is pretty strong when teams play to take away the run game. Though at this point I think our best hope for any real improvement on the OL is for Gray to come home.