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And that's basically it right there. If I put on my D Coordinator hat to try and stop/limit Chad Kelly, the recipe is to take away his big-boy throws or at least try to. Force him to be patient and play small-ball because he simply has never been able to stop himself from trying deep balls in those situations. He has total belief in his arm and burning desire to win the game on his next throw. Every defence that plays him like that knows that he won't try to Fajardo his way into taking what he is given to have 10 play drives, he will attempt a haymaker toss and sometimes no matter how well you defend him, the pass will still get to a double blue receiver (and those guys are all good)... but other times he won't see the extra coverage and the pass rush will hit him during release, tip a pass at the line or make him force a ball. And that's how you get him. Bend but don't break was made for guys like Chad.

I see this as the Argos' biggest pitfall to avoid. The home side needs to get out to a 1st quarter lead or else it'll be a lot of Oliveira. I expect that the pass defence will be brought in tight, basically daring Condell and Brown to try a deep game. The byproduct of that will be a general softening of the rushing lanes and Brady storming forward 7-8 yards at a time and breaking a few long runs on us... and then strutting forward to spin the ball and signal a first down. If the Scullers want to avoid seeing that, the best way will be to get out ahead and make Condell chase the game, force Brown to go vertical, then make him pay for it.

sure... but that was in one single game as a data point when the Bombers needed a win and the Lions didn't. I can't really look at that game and think that it means that Dru Brown is now something that he never has been before.

A view through opposition goggles: Part of what has made switching to Dru from Zach either mid game or from one week to the next is how they are polar opposites in playing vertical or not. Their Average Depth of Target sit at inverse ends of the QB spectrum with Collaros being an aggressive deep-ball gunslinger who works off of play action, whereas Dru Brown is short to intermediate and higher tempo. If you imagine you are the Argos and you're getting ready for Collaros' style and trying to take away his deep game only to end up facing Brown, you can see why Brown would have a production bump against that defence. We got switched up on by the Bombers both times we played them (in Bomber Home games, I might add). In week 5 Elgersma filled in for Zach (who got 6 gamed). So when you went out and obtained Brown, we didn't have much to go on in setting up against him. His timing and tempo were precisely what the Argos weren't set up for and Brown took what we were giving him for free and laughed his way to a big win. Imagine you're a defensive back who was preparing to spend the day dropping deep only to have hitches, slants and everything else happen 5 yards in front of you. Or you're a D-Lineman expecting to turn up the heat on Zach only to find that Brown has made a completion by the time you've taken your third stride. Then after Collaros got subbed by Brown in week 15, you had a bye so we didn't know who or what we were getting in week 17. We clearly prepared for Collaros as evidenced by the early surge of the Bomber offence. But this time we had a book on Brown and flipped the script at halftime. Our safety started coming shallow into Browns patterns and it paid dividends with two 2nd half picks (including the one to ice the game when Winnipeg was threatening a game winning FG). And I'm not trying to pick a fight with Booch here, but I just don't see Brown as a roll-out/sprint guy. To me, he is all about his clock, his "schedule", and getting rid of the ball ASAP, and if you can mess with that he gets nervy and bad things happen. Note: I feel this leaves us vulnerable to rushing yards as the safety being brought in to contest short/intermediate passes opens running lanes. It seems fairly certain that we get Brown this weekend. We see him coming this time and my inner defensive coordinator feels better this time than for the previous two times. 12 degrees, no rain. Good luck youse guys. I'm waiting for the lines to open, but I'm taking Coxie for the "over" on whatever yards and catches they offer. Also taking him as a "to score anytime" bet.

Hail Caesar. Ugly win. Tough beat guys. Maybe see you again at BMO.

How close does Castillo have to be?

Wishing the miss-FG rouge was still a thing.

Helluva time for a gadget return! Damn.

Flags keeping us alive.

Our clock management continues to be a joke. Feeling good we're only down by 1 score at HT. Need a locker room reality check. I was concerned for the remainder of the year that since we probably can't catch Montreal and the teams behind us can't catch us that we would coast. We aren't good enough to coast and we haven't played a game where all three phases clicked yet this year.

Bombers making it look easy. Argos making Brown look like a stud.

Grant didn't do a TD celly. Classy of him for his former club and supporters.

No idea. It was never a catch. Only ourselves to blame. We had this and let it slip. Thank Flutie the TiCats suck so bad that we likely will still walk into 2nd.

This is what being overconfident looks like. We've been so bad at challenges for so long. Now we don't even know how to register a challenge.😆😆😆 And now we get penalized because we suck so bad at challenging.

Their D is out-physical'ing our O. Our D is out physical'ing their O.

Am I right that this is a fun watch for neutrals? The Surgeon vs The Gunslinger.

Well... You don't see a returned convert too often.

Never let it be said that waived players and mid season FAs don't make a difference. Our D changed completely when Bolden and Lemon got added. Suddenly we are hitting again.

Ungerer just got a penalty and caused a convert miss for fighting with a ball boy trying to get a TD ball as a souvenir 😆😆😆

50% of our offence ought to be figuring out ways to get Coxie 1-on-1 deep.

Ugh. Saw that one coming on the pre snap read. Harris wasn't going to miss. 7-7

Bold call by Coach Mace on 3rd and 3.

TD. 7-0 in 3 minutes. At this rate, we would win 140-0...

Bombers and Stamps did us a favour... Hoping we can repay it. Need to overcome our weakness at OT.

Dang. Wide open doesn't even begin to describe Bell on that one.