Mike

The big decision we made this year that irritates me is we brought an entire batch of receivers to camp to take up spots, gave none of them any significant level of game or practice time with QB1 and then cut every single one of them. The only one that even made the PR is a gadget guy who is a carbon copy of a guy we had last year. If you decided before camp even started that none of them were going to get an opportunity to show out, why did we even bring them all in?

The problem is we appear to be banking on our impact defensive players to gain the ability to play MORE as they age through their 30s. That doesn’t seem like a safe bet to be making. Our offense looks scary good but honestly, our front seven rotation looks really ugly to me on paper this year. You’re not going to convince me that Ricky Walker and Jake Thomas is the combination that is all of a sudden going to let Jefferson/Jeffcoat run wild.

I wasn’t looking to cut Bighill or Jeffcoat or anything like that, that’s not what I’m after. I’m not even sure my complaint (more of a frustration, I guess) is even directed at the coaching staff although I think part of it is. It just feels to me like we almost wasted training camp. It feels like instead of finding some answers to the questions our roster has, we’re just banking on the questions going away and I don’t think that’s a safe bet with our roster getting older and older. Let’s not kid ourselves, we’re not aging into our prime here, we’re aging out of it.

Isn’t that the point we’re making though? We had these same holes last year (rotational LB and DE) and they’re only going to become a bigger issue this year as our players get older and we appear to have done absolutely nothing.

How many wins do we get in this year’s standings for any of that? You’re not wrong. I just don’t really understand the relevance.

Yep. I like him.

It’s tough to say, because in a lot of cases they didn’t even really get a chance to compete. Who the hell competed with Adam Bighill in training camp? Lol

I’m not sure how you justify it, to be honest. I don’t really love the fact that we brought in like 11 receivers and 3 running backs to camp and our coaching staff essentially said the only guy worth keeping is a gadget returner style guy who came in halfway through camp. Same thing with the defensive linemen. Doesn’t really speak well to our scouting that we couldn’t find a linebacker better than Malik Clements for the 14 games this season that we won’t have Kyrie Wilson. We now officially have one American linebacker on our roster who has practiced in training camp.

Did anyone new other than Pigrome make the team? Looks like a real wet fart of a recruiting year.

He had a super close up picture of his face as his Twitter profile picture for a long time 😂

My moment of the game was when I saw Gbill2004 walking through the concourse with a fake Matt Nichols jersey on and he had the tags hanging off the back

“maybe if I just write a lot of words, nobody will notice I’m not really saying anything at all”

You can keep saying this all you want but at the end of the day, you’re wrong. Being placed on the suspended list does not automatically imply suspension i.e. discipline. ESPECIALLY in training camp. It’s a way to move a player to non-counting roster status without placing them on the 1 or 6 game injured list. That is it, and no amount of you babbling about “standard labour procedure” is going to change that.

Nobody ever said he got suspended. He was added to the suspended list, which basically just means “doesn’t count on the roster because he’s not here” Not sure where the implication he did something wrong ever came in

Talent

This is going to blow your mind. Tobias is Bloi Dei.

And who can forget Bloi Dei

That 2009 season had some TC names for sure. Justin Surrency was all the rage at receiver, then there was Ronyell Whitaker at DB. I seem to remember Jasper Johnson being a big name too.

I actually looked up Ramonce Taylor the other day when a buddy and I were talking about old training camp stars. Seems like he got his **** together. Played indoor football in Texas until 2017 and he’s now a high school coach and seems super involved in youth sports and charitable stuff in the Texas area. good for him.

BOLO is probably closer to stealing Wolitarsky’s spot than he is to being on the PR

I personally want to limit Biggie lol

Nevermind. They have to be designated imports. That still changes a lot though, because you can definitely play with the ratio in a sense where you can get creative in ways you never would before. As an example, this could be our starting set of Canadians Oliviera, Demski, Wolitarsky, Bryant (I’m assuming he’s the easiest choice as our “Americanized Canadian”), Neufeld, Kolankowski, Gray, Gauthier There’s the 8, you could technically designate Kyrie (as an example) to play 49% of the snaps in Gauthier’s spot and run two American defensive tackles all game. You could also do it with Kramdi/Darby (I think this may be the direction they go in) or I guess theoretically you could even do it with Bennett/Jeffcoat but I wouldn’t assume that would be a smart idea. If we get Ford back, you could also do it in a scenario with Ford/Rose. Not entirely sure what the overall benefit is other than limiting Jake Thomas to minimal snaps. But it’s going to be interesting to see how we deploy it.

Has anyone clarified if the new roster rules where we can have 3 “Americanized Canadians” take 49% of the reps for a Canadian allow those players to be considered Canadians in the makeup of the roster? That would change a ton. You could essentially make Rasheed Bailey, Kyrie Wilson and I dunno … let’s say Adam Bighill all count as Canadians in terms of the roster makeup. I would imagine it isn’t this way, but nobody has really clarified. (EDIT: my bad it’s 2 this year not 3)

3 stars is tough but I’ll go Good, Bad and Ugly Good - Pigrome, Lawler, Caleb Thomas, Holm, Swaray, Damien Jackson, the kicking in general, Jeremy Murphy Bad - Augustine, Clements, our QB contain efforts on Ford, Kornelson, the drops by Beaulieu/Westfield, most of our new DL guys Ugly - Matt Cole fielding kicks, Les Maruo trying to tackle anything, Josh Jones, Dobson snapping the football

Hard as hell to judge but those two had an ugly ugly drop each