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Not just the D but coaching was heavily questioned after both losses as well. It does feel like we are on track for the same despite having by far the most talented group of defensive players in that period of time. The previous defenses and teams fed off a TON of forced turn overs though. So Between that and the rook qb and the added talent on D I have greater hope for this team. But our coaching, especially hall but also the plop out smarting him self and no one else stretches have to improve. Coaching is our primary limiting factor right now. Which is kind of scary.

It can, when one team is the stamps (perennial power house that cycles through talent at positions that make the rest of the leagues head spin) the rudders who spend and spend and spend and make moves galore but dont move forward and the bombers who take giant steps forward only to fall back. The difference is the level of management and coaching. Calgary was far better prepared to counter what hamilton did. And adjusted better. We didnt. The solution isnt the same for every team as I illustrated. A team that lives more off the pressure of blitzing then just off your line it makes sense to beat the max pro with pressure. Jail break blitzes etc. If you are a team that relies on its front 4 for pressure like us, not so much. The answer will be a bit different for each team so you cant just copy paste other teams answers. Until its in the past fully its schrodingers cat. Both hard and easy to crack at the same time.

yes certainly. eventually any heavy change is figured out by every one. and either becomes adopted (modern spread offense from the days of two backs and under center snaps) or gets countered enough that it goes the way of the dodo (montreals cover 0, the stubler, bend but dont break etc) Very similar to the previous years with plop, when the offense goes hurry up it improves drastically. We gave up on the run for too long of a stretch, again. We didnt give him plays to let him get into a rhythm and we still seldom use option stuff. When we do its looked really clunky too. Id rather see buck pierce calling the plays. None of the throw aways by streveler looked bad to me. One was on a broken play where he flicked it into the ground but it was that or sack. Streveler is a great athlete, but he isnt michael vick. He isnt a first step guy who will pull away from every linemen in the league. He is more of a top end runner. Cant under rate the level of athleticism of the DL in the league either. The most athletic position in football today are that DE tweener and RB imo.

Wonder how long before they kick the tires on speller. Im surprised they didnt go after tyler johnstone. Ohhh maybe we could trade them neuf. Thatd be great...

To a certain extent this is true. But the largest share of the blame goes to hall. he never adjusted to Hamiltons max pro offense. We knew what was coming, we tried some thing that failed miserably and never adjusted. The cats ran the same routes over and over and over again and still beat us silly. It isnt one side of the balls job to single handedly win the game. You especially cant expect that of the offense with a rookie qb. It shouldnt and cant be forced from on high. If mos cant figure out the problem and solve it then he is too big a part of it him self. I like him, and he has grown a TON as a coach here. But he has to be able to turn the corner here. Thats some thing thatll happen this year or wont happen here at all.

Logic? Good sir that has NO place on a bomber forum following a loss. The sky is clearly falling.

best team in the east hands down. Still I wouldnt put them no1 or no2 in the west. And by LD I dont think theyd be no3 either. But as we have seen many many times in the play offs the team from the east still has a good chance at winning the cup. Scheme changes like this, that drastically go against the league meta always take a bit of time to crack. I remember when the Als used to play cover 0 as a base teams trying every thing to beat it. At first every one tried playing double tight heavy sets. max protection. And it didnt work. What eventually killed the als cover zero days was extreme spread offenses. The harris big run draw play that was called back, screen passes and quick high percentage tosses. This is kind of the opposite. Hamilton goes max protect and we tried out blitzing them. But the max pro is what they practice and prepare to run. We are a low efficiency blitzing team. Our weakness against their strength. I think the way teams will crack the tigernaughts offensive scheme is by having the front 7 all on the line, then dropping guys back into coverage. Sending 3 or 4 guys. using twists, dropping ends and sending Lbers, and playing tight to the side lines. Force the wrs inside to the sea of Lbers, Hbs, and saftey. Make masoli read the defense, find the right route and make the right toss. The threat of pressure forces him to have to process his reads quickly with out actually pressuring him with sending rushers. If we had switched to that type of defense, which plays into the hall system, we would have beaten hamilton. A team designed around pressure and sending guys sure stick to your system.

Bc is coming off a high scoring loss. I expect us to win this game. But bc will make big plays. Some thing along the lines of 38-30. Though I think the score will flatter them. I see us dominating TOP and line play.

this years supplemental guy. no doubt he will bring a first round pick. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/06/29/final-supplemental-draft-features-former-oregon-star-lineman/ https://www.3downnation.com/2018/06/29/offensive-lineman-tyler-johnstone-big-get-upcoming-cfl-supplemental-draft/ http://www.nfl.com/draft/2016/profiles/tyler-johnstone?id=2555207

not surprised montreal came out and stole this game. The riders are in a bad way right now, I wouldnt be surprised to see some more panic moves in the next few weeks. The basement of the league is going to be close this year. We beat bc next week and we are in good shape though.

myles white added to the PR of the argos.

it isnt often a pro team gets blown out in back to back games. Just like its hard to put up big out puts back to back. I think ssk beats mtl, but by a far less then comfy amount. Ham felt like it was gonna be a hard game to win. Next week we have bc, which feels like a game we should bounce back and win. And the riders have the cats. Which feels like a game the riders will get whupped in.

I believe james stanley is here in part to take up the reigns of DC mid season if needed. Kinda like plop being ast HC and oc when mos was on the hot seat before turning the ship around. I could see young and younger as guys groomed to be dcs eventually as well. more and more the only thing left resembling the richie hall D is the stink of bend but dont break. Soo true. If our D plays competently lapo over thinking becomes a minor issue. Neuf idk how the guy sticks around. even with the right passport. He is beyond lousy even at guard. We gotta do some thing to get foketi in at guard, or take our lumps with the other younger nucks and let em develop.

what is really stupefying is that we just kept trying it over and over and over. at some point you gotta go ouch that element is hot im gonna try some thing else rather then keep touching it. but nope.

when it comes to defense, passive football is bad football. agree

because hall has us playing 10 yards off the wrs and the cats threw the same 8 yard out over and over and over. You can fool guys early. But once they know what you do you have to change it up. our bend but dont break D wasnt working in its own right early in its inception. Now its just shot. It also doesnt help that the cats play a lot of max cover and we thought some how the way to beat max cover was to send pressure, but less pass rushers then they have blockers. All we did is clear the field for ti cat wrs to make plays.

aka the fire hall edition. Not easy to pick guys in a mess like this. 1 Harris. We quit running for a long time after the big draw play was called back. But he ran hard as always. 14/66 + 3/17 2 Streveler, padded a bit late in the game but the hurry up made a big difference. 17/29 146 5 for 55 and a td. He didnt turn it over, and he ran the offense. Its too bad our play call was soo lack luster this week. 3 Medlock missed his first fg attempt in what was really a long punt attempt (59 yards) 1/2 7 punts for 43.7 yards 4 kick offs with an average of 69.5 yards. we did a job containing the return. hh Couture with his first ever catch.

i hate football games on mon-thurs. I also feel like the gap between reilly and the rest of the qbs in the league is growing.

Kinda torn. want the cfl to do well of course. And the league could use more eyes from down south opening up the path for fringe players to try out up here even more. but man i feel like if the views get too good the awful us expansion discussion will happen again. and that should never ever be done again.

I thought the same thing about japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-League Holy crap its been going since 1971? how has no one come from it before? Osaka Gas Skunk Scans wow the names of these teams... max 4 imports, 2 on the field at a time. To be fair this isnt crazier then when ottawa brought in kerry joseph who was like 30 years old, out of football for a few years and had been a saftey in the nfl not playing QB since college. kinda makes me wanna see a one game exhibition each year with a cfl team and an xleague team haha

poor poor bastard he stands no chance. Rip spock. He will be KIA or MIA and we will have to search for him soon enough.

i dont think the nfl is a real competitor. we are too niche. I dont know any one who goes, oh i was gonna watch some cfl but nfl is one so im gonna watch that instead. Maybe im just detached from the average sports viewer out there. But I think people who watch cfl do so and will short of being up against most stuff.

this move smells more like a move to try and get more entry level guys into Tcs. More payments into the PA, especially by guys who wont cash any thing out. I feel like LD and rematch weeks should be the same games days and times. I would think its tsn too. The scheduling cant be that tight for most stadiums. But I mean what is the cfl up against right now? golf?

The short turn around games are what they should be attacking. pre season and in general. you shouldnt be playing football games twice in one week. not at any age or any level. we have a lot of serious health concerns in football. more and more parents are keeping their kids away from early years football or football in general. I wish they would crack down and focus on the real issues rather then tip toeing around none issues, modest issues at best and time wasters.

imo, if you are hurt in none contact practice either it was a total fluke that could happen at any time to any one or you came in out of shape.