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  2. 15 hours ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

    Dammit if Wilson isn't a pretty good colour guy.

    yeah, I liked his breakdown of Kiondre Smith's big catch where Lawler ran a clearout route that drew the entire Als secondary, and I like how he diagnosed the pick six as BLM taking too long to throw to the curl route.

    People who know about football -- if you're a receiver and you run a curl route and the ball doesn't hit you immediately, shouldn't you go find a soft spot in the D rather than standing flat-footed staring at the QB? I was taught that flat-footed receivers cause interceptions...

  3. 20 hours ago, Booch said:

    But his season as a whole had nothing wrong with it was all I saying...If we were to cut guys who chockd a play or 2 in playoffs ZC would been gone 3 yrs ago now

    yeah, that's not fair of me to judge a guy by that one whiff .. but that play was the hope crusher that ended our season, so I remember it really really well and I was surprised we invited him back.

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    5 minutes ago, Booch said:

    there was nothing wrong with Kyries play last yr...none at all

    nothing except for that time that he got totally deked by gimpy Davis Alexander on a critical play in the final two minutes of the ESF.

    He makes that tackle, we're getting the ball back with a minute left in a one-score game. Totally not clutch.

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    13 hours ago, kelownabomberfan said:

    One advantage for Elg (yes I am trying to make that a thing) as a rook is that he's played the Canadian game so he is used to accounting for 12 guys on D, something that always confuses US QB's when they come up here.

    hoping you're right, but I think CFL level DBs are gonna close windows a lot faster than USports guys.

    question for the guys who know: do USports defences run the same schemes as CFL defences? Will Elgersma have a leg up in his presnap reads and recognition having played USports, or is it a different world in the CFL?

    (edit: just saw that Gcn20 says that CFL is indeed a different world when it comes to scheme a few posts back.)

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    51 minutes ago, Booch said:

    AND in all honesty...he played well in playoffs and if not for a seive defence vs..was it BC??...He would have pulled off a playoff win...we lost but not from his play. I bet his playoff stats are much better than ZC's in his time here

    I was at that game. Matty Ice was red-hot, we were up and down the field all game. Classic CFL playoff game except it ended sad for us.

    2 hours ago, Noeller said:

    I'd put Matty Ice in the Bombers HOF but definitely not the Ring. He's one of the most underrated performers from this glory era.

    100% Matty deserves recognition and fan love but he's not an all-timer.

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    I don't think you can rank them, I think you've gotta tier them.

    S-tier is Flutie and Moon

    A-tier is Ray and Calvillo

    B-tier is the rest of the top ten plus a ton of other guys. Lulay and Durant are on the bubble of B-tier for me.

    C-tier is Nichols, Glenn, Pierce, Bell, Maas, Slack, K. Joseph, Jarious -- guys who could start and win games and who had extended careers in places, and who occasionally shoot the lights out.

    D-tier is Bishop, Q. Porter, Jyles -- guys who showed just enough to win a starting job for a season or three, but never found their home. Would put the one-season wonders like Printers or J. Jennings in there too.

    The tweeners are the interesting guys. Glenn is a C-tier quarterback who had a B-tier career. Allen was a B-tier quarterback who had an A-tier career. That dude won a lot of Grey Cups in a lot of different situations, was freakishly durable despite being a pretty little guy, and went out on top.

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    So I was thinking about peak Collaros vs. 1992-1994 Dunigan and for me, it's Zach because peak Zach was much more durable and more clutch. Matty had teams good enough to win Grey Cups, but in 1992 the Calgary D owned him and 1993 he had an Achilles tear.

    Thinking about durability, though -- if you look at games before the 2000s, there was very little official protection for the QBs. Pass rushers would routinely torpedo a QB two or three steps after he delivered the ball, no flag. It's astonishing to see some of the hits that old-school QBs would pop up from. So it's kind of a function of the era that makes Zach more durable ... tho Zach doesn't seek contact like Matty did.

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    16 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

    QB Tom Clements in his prime. He could run a modern 2026 offense with his skill set.

    I am a big enough Clements fan to have him as my avatar, but I dunno how 1987 MOP Tom Clements would stack up nowadays. Hard to compare QB play over the years. Quarterbacks are so much more careful with the ball now. Watching vintage Clements games, once or twice a game he'd make a ridiculous backfoot prayer throw into a crowd of DBs just because throwing a pick or three was no big deal back then, picks were just something that happened. QBs had to be really good at throwing picks, like Vince Ferragamo good, before their careers would suffer.

    Hell, Sonny Wade stuck around for a decade with the Alouettes despite throwing 2x many interceptions as TDs.

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    19 hours ago, Brandon said:

    Hopefully he doesn't come off as a smug pr**k when interacting with the PBP guys.

    his on-air sideline reporting has been solid. He breaks down failures in a way I can understand and calls out underperformers, especially repeat underperformers. He's a little bit more aggressive than the usual CFL color (except when Matty was in a mood to talk ****) but I'll take it.

    Just needs to leave that Twitter persona at home.

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    I do not understand the problem that the revised playoff format is attempting to solve.

    Every year when the playoffs come I'm glad to be rid of the bottom third of the CFL but now two of those three teams will be hanging around.

    A divisional winner might not even get a bye in the playoffs, if they lose the "showdown" game, and they'll lose their home field advantage in the semifinal round if they lose the showdown game. In the past, winning a division vastly increased a team's odds of going to the final, but now? Seems like the regular season is kind of an afterthought here.

    I'm not sure why the East always gets the eighth seed in their play-in game while the West gets the seventh seed.

  25. 2 hours ago, GCn20 said:

    The Americans would not allow our ratio rules in the USA. Had nothing to do with visas. If the teams of the day wanted Canadian players they could have used them, they just didn't have to abide by the ratio rules of our league because the US wouldn't allow them.

    I think I might have been too fast to dismiss this. Did any established Canadian players try to catch on down south during the expansion era? Canadians heading south for lower taxes and harder currency is totally a thing, so it's hard to imagine that someone didn't try.

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