Mike

I want to be fair with the last comment I made though: I don’t think our young players were the big problem this past week. It was definitely on the veterans.

Seeing what Toronto put out on the field yesterday was so frustrating. Do they have weak spots? Sure. But the young talent pool is impressive. They lost so many pieces and more just step right up - not necessarily rookies, but guys they’re recruited and developed and now asked to play bigger roles. Brinkman, Pierce, Dukes, Williams, Franklin … they do a good job of talent assessment over there for sure It’s not all on Zach though. A lot of it is, but not all of it. It’s crazy how in preseason, you were ALL OVER Booch and I for saying some negative things that ended up being entirely true but now that we’re one game in, you’ve got completely off the deep end on the other side of the argument. Our preparedness on offense left a lot to be desired. Zach wasn’t making throws, but those throws also involve rhythm, timing, understanding of blocking assignments, chemistry and a lot more. The whole offense was out of sync and Zach is a big part of that but he’s not entirely to blame.

I’m not giving up on these guys like Mitchell as options at KR. let’s be fair about it, we just spent the whole week saying the team looked unprepared and like they were not ready to play. Mitchell is the exception, he just stinks?

So kick returners and receivers are a weak spot despite us bringing in two of the best players at those positions that the league has seen in a decade?

So flip it to American. We start 817 Canadians.

I don’t read too much into the Feltmate add beyond they took the opportunity to add a good player who was available

We didn’t recruit him

Tony Jones was good for Edmonton in limited time last year but this annoys me because it just is another example of how we don’t want to ever recruit

You’re welcome

I mean, what’s unfair about what I said

Honestly what I’m worried about most is that he’s going to do something stupid while he’s injured. If he stays out of trouble, he’ll be back for the games that matter

It’s not injuries though. It’s coaching and decision making within the locker room. There’s been a laundry list of questionable decisions being made over the past year and the talent is no longer enough to overcome them. O’Shea needs to be more of a coach, which is what got us to the point we were at, and be less of what feels like a chaperone at times.

For a team that made it their calling card for so long, they’ve been lacking in preparedness pretty consistently in recent times

This doesn’t get talked about enough because it’s always lost in the overall success of the club but O’Shea hasn’t been making good coaching decisions for quite some time now. The shine is going to start coming off this year. You can tell.

To be fair we didn’t really start ten. The lineup said we were going to, but we didn’t. Jake Thomas played far too much though

Oof

Omg lol I just read this imagine being like “yeah I wish those guys who predicted this got some CTE instead of me being able to admit maybe I was blowing smoke up the wrong ass”

He never will this is literally the exact same dude who was crying about some of us stating our arguments and then making the exact same argument for us only posts later He’s absolutely lost as a poster

1st star Booch 2nd star me 3rd star the fans who stick around to watch this festival of diarrhea

This is the **** that costs people jobs

I’ll be the one who says it we should have moved on I’ll be the one who says it we should have moved on

The offense looked like they could’ve used some preseason reps gee who predicted that

I literally don’t ever want to hear about this “they are pros and you are not” **** ever again Booch and I literally could’ve done better

This game is 100 percent on O’Shea