Mike

It’s not my fault you don’t know what you’re watching. I thought that interception was his second worst play of the game. Should’ve knocked it down, although at that point in the game it was absolutely irrelevant. Did he get burned on that double move? Absolutely. Great job by McAdoo to set that one up. I also think Houston kind of slipped, which isn’t an excuse but hey whatever, it happens. I’ll stand by my opinion on Houston. I’ll take a combination of him and Nichols that effectively takes the strong majority of the targets away from one side of the field and forces the offense to do all kinds of stuff to free up their preferred receivers. I’m not going to rag on a guy because he gets beat on a double move every now and then. Get back to me when teams stop actively scheming to avoid throwing the ball in his direction as much as they can.

3 stars Lawler … Walker … Brady

What does that even mean he should know better? What do you want him to do? What does that even mean he should know better? What do you want him to do?

I wasn’t a big Ricky Walker fan but he’s been really good lately. Didn’t like that call on Cole … he didn’t even hit Cornelius, he ran into him and made a clear effort to pull up. Sell job.

Yeah lol I think it’s terrible use of a roster spot but credit where credit is due, he’s been playing his unappreciated role pretty well

I feel so bad for Jackson. He worked his ass off that drive and then the one replay they show where he’s visible, he gets blown up, trails behind Brady, whiffs on another block and then ends the play on his ass. 😂

Seems to be but the announcers are too busy talking about guitar chords and rules they have no clue about

He’s been doing a great job

Run up the middle twice, we don’t wanna embarrass anyone edit: except ourselves

Kramdi overshoots another tackle. Shocker.

Good thing we have Kramdi to replace Darby. Equally terrible so far. Play calling on both sides of the ball has been atrocious. OL, Stanley Bryant included, has been terrible. again.

All there really is to say about the roster management is this: if you took the names out of the equation and just explained the decisions (“dressing an American fullback”, “having no backup import edge rusher”, “not using the new DA rule out of stubbornness”, etc), tell people Chris Jones is the one doing it and all they would be talking about is how stupid he is

I mean, obviously we can’t draw an exact line between roster decisions and losses but Jesse Briggs seeing his way onto the field and blowing tackle after tackle on the final drive in regulation for Ottawa last week is a fairly safe line to draw. Does having a better option in the lineup win us that game? Obviously impossible to say but it likely would’ve given us a better chance to win.

Maybe, but other teams have nowhere near the same issue so why would our prospects be declining and other prospects wouldn’t be? The use of our practice roster has been problematic for two years now. Who’s the last American player to start on the PR for us and earn his way into the lineup?

I remember when people called me dumb for saying the Argos would be a better team than us this year. I remember when people also called me dumb because I said O’Shea’s roster management was going to cost us games this year. Maybe people should stop calling opinions dumb just because they don’t like hearing them.

I keep asking you this but I’ll ask again. What magical behind the scenes stuff do you think is going on that prevents us from signing competent players to the practice roster?

That’s totally fine, but if that’s the case … it really just goes back to what Booch and I said all off-season. Why would you not have competition in camp? We’re starting Les Maruo and Rehda Kramdi this week and the only reason is because longevity on the roster is all that matters to O’Shea. Absolutely no competition at either spot. And this is what we’re left with.

You know who else can play DE? An actual DE

I hate to say it, because it seems like such a ridiculous idea and I know it’s never gonna happen anyways but … if O’Shea is going to just blatantly handcuff our roster with his stubbornness and overall mismanagement, are we going to let him just because he won two Grey Cups? Or is Miller actually going to step in and do something? At what point do you tell O’Shea get your **** together or thank you for your services but they are no longer needed? That roster is literally a joke. And we’ve done it to ourselves.

That lineup is ******* pathetic

I’m more annoyed about Kelly. Classic same old ****.

This exactly. Loyalty to one isn’t loyalty to all. We need a bit less of the first and a bit more of the second.

He doesn’t, I just don’t think the majority of fans who are watching defensive backs play really have a hot clue what they’re looking for. Defensive backs are going to get beat. It’s inevitable. Every single one of them does. The expectation of performance can’t be a 100% success rate. Look at the scheme our defense plays, the whole idea is to keep guys in front of you and not give up the big play. Now go look at Nichols/Houston’s tackle numbers compared to ADS/Lawrence/Holm, etc. the side that plays opposite of Houston/Nichols gets targeted because those two guys have essentially locked it down. The numbers are low for Houston because he rarely, rarely gets thrown at. If Houston was as bad as you think he is, he’d be seeing a lot more targets. Teams actively gameplan to throw away from that side of the field on us. There’s a reason for that.

Darby needs to go, whether they put Parker/Holm/ADS there … there needs to be a change. I’d even consider putting Alexander there and moving one of Parker/ADS to safety, as well. Get him closer to the line of scrimmage. Something’s gotta change though. This is exactly what I was talking about in the off-season, so many people suggested we were going to be good because we were good last year and guys just weren’t gonna fall off a cliff. Neufeld fell off, Kolankowski fell off, Alexander fell off, Darby fell off, Hardrick fell off, Thomas fell off and now look. We sleepwalked through training camp, handing out spots to guys who didn’t earn them instead of attempting to bring in actual legitimate competition. We roster guys to thank them for their years of service (hello Jesse Briggs) and don’t let the best players on the field when we need to. I understand the loyalty and I understand there’s a lot of merit in his approach, but O’Shea needs to be loyal to the locker room in its entirety, not to each individual. As stupid as I think the whole FIFO thing is and as much as it makes me cringe when Noeller parrots it like some battle cry of the super fan, the team sure isn’t doing much fitting in right now. There’s no reason for the personnel decisions we’re making, I saw it coming a mile away and some of you laughed when I said coaching and roster management was going to cost us games this year. Then I see **** like Jesse Briggs being on the field collecting participation medals because who the hell knows why, and it’s apparent that coaching and roster management really is going to cost us games. The worst part is, they’ve mishandled the whole situation entirely and now it’s probably too late to fix it this year - we don’t even have most of the pieces we need on our practice roster because we’d rather work on having 7 globals and 5 offensive linemen we’ll never use. On top of that, O’Shea is so stubborn that even the advantages we could pick up, he won’t because he doesn’t believe in them. Stupid.

lol what the hell? Demerio Houston is legit one of the best corners in the CFL.