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Also, this is pretty funny: https://twitter.com/nexttokimdavis?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

I think issuing marriage licenses is a pretty essential service. With the way health insurance runs down here, marriage can literally be a matter of life or death.

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Doesn't running a 3-4 leave you vulnerable to the run game? You're gonna have more OLs getting to linebackers. We ran 3-4 during the glory days in the 80s, but Ty Jones was mainly a pass rush guy instead of a linebacker.

Looks like he was in the Argos' camp this season, but when you harvest the bumper crop of receivers that they did, you don't need Aaron Kelly.

Montreal rolled out an Edmonton castoff and went on a big run last year ... let's hope it works out as good for us.

Who of those 3 is covering a slotback? Bass or Wild. I don't know if Simmons has the speed. You seriously want one of those guys covering receivers like Green and Dressler? This team uses two linebackers, not three. Our D is a 4-2-6. Hell, it looks like a 5-1-6 on a lot of occasions because Hurl's usually jumping into a gap right after the snap.

JBR, it sounds like you broke down Marve's last game a lot ... what was called, who he was looking at, how much time he had, how Calgary defended him with a disciplined pass rush, and so forth -- would love to read a blog post dissecting all that stuff. Bring back 2nd and 10! (The complete game is on youtube, so you could even embed video links...)

These are super interesting but they seem off. Want to see more about the methodology. Also, Calgary at 8th in yards per rush doesn't seem right -- my numbers have them at 5th after all week 9 games. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jP_cypt8ZfpOxDRSNNkYYBG_Cfl3IHJ-EWysW5X1r7c/edit#gid=0. Though the margin between 5 and 8 is super tight -- just 1/10 of a yard. Maybe Mark's numbers are for an earlier week. Good lord, Saskatchewan is great at running the ball this year.

I think Garrett was the best back we've had since Roberts and we haven't seen his equal since, though Marshall is looking good. Garrett didn't quite have Reid's massive burst, but I remember him playing way stronger. That 6.7 yard average in 2011 wasn't a few 90-yard run and dozens of 2-yard runs. He was a reliable producer with the rock. When he blew out his Achilles in 2012 before the season even started, I was seriously bummed. Simpson, no thanks. All that juking and jiving and east-west running he did out there, trying to win the game by himself, made him look more like a rookie kick returner than a starting running back. Take away that big game he had against Toronto (the one where Adriano Belli put away his sailor suit and came out of retirement and was in way over his head) and he really wasn't that great for us.

This board has a great ignore list feature .. but when people feed the trolls, it becomes less useful, alas.

That trio would be sick.Sure I'd love to see Ian Wild back here, but as a dimeback? C'mon, seriously. Who here would prefer to have Wild and not Randle regularly covering guys like Dressler or S.J. Green?Remember that -- outside of short yardage situations -- we are running a 4-2-6 defence. We have only two linebackers. So I doubt there's a way we'll see all three on the field at once.

Three straight years of chaos in Montreal. 2103: Dan Hawkins and AC publicly spar, Hawkins fired after five games, Popp takes over. 2014: Worman / Dinwiddie / Garcia / who's the OC? 2015: Michael Sam / John Bowman / Higgins / Popp Very glad to see they're still pulling 20K+ fans because man they are starting to look like a clown show.

Oh man we owned Javier Glatt so bad all game. Open up a dictionary, look at "chase position," you'll see a picture of Glatt. I'll never ever forget this game. My wife and I had flown to Istanbul on vacation. We were in the air for a day, we were too tired to do anything when we landed. Got into our hotel, got down into the lounge, had a beer and some awesome mezze, opened up my laptop, found a stream just as Arceneaux caught that sweet TD bomb from Jarious. Figured, aw ****, here we go again .. and then Reid and Bernard got to work. Amazing.

I've been watching Hurl and I can see why he draws the ire. He does look a little awkward out there and he sure isn't gonna beat anyone to the sidelines. But when the scheme puts him in the right spot, he executes .. again, more than you can say for our interior OL. watching him against BC, I noticed that whenever Harris ran between the tackles, Hurl had an OL in his face. Is a LB expected to shed an OL regularly? I understood that the tackles are supposed to prevent the OL from getting at the linebackers and that OL vs. LB is the sign of a very well-executed running play.

I just don't know what to say to anyone who's got JFG down as our weakest link. The guy catches most everything thrown at him. He's on pace for respectable fifth option numbers, and he throws good blocks downfield... He ain't spectacular (hair excepted) but he does his job. That's more than you can say about our guards, who have rarely been able to block one-on-one with consistency.

Very sharp uptick in the number of American cops indicted for murder in 2015: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/the-shocking-number-of-cops-recently-indicted-for-murder/401732/

From what i recall, Jones wasn't really a true LB. He was a edge pass rusher 90% of the time, lining up wide off the tackle usually very close to the LOS. Watching Odell play in Tim Burke's 'jack' position reminded me of how Jones lined up. I think we could use that trio nowadays -- West at mac, Battle at wil, Jones at DE. But yeah, they'd have to bring Rod Hill or Ken Hailey along to play SAM/dime. (It'd be interesting to see how Jones would fare in today's option-happy CFL. Because the man was about one thing--destroying quarterbacks.)

How big a change is it for a cornerback to move to halfback? Because Randle isn't an LB, SAM or otherwise. He plays dimeback -- essentially he's just another defensive back, one who's lined up in a part of the field that sees a lot of attempts.He's rarely cancelling gaps or blitzing or spying quarterbacks or doing the linebacker stuff that Bass and Hurl are doing. He's downfield covering receivers and he doesn't appear to have a lot of other responsibilities in the defence. Even against BC, when Harris was running all over the field, Randle was exclusively watching BC's receivers. On 1st-and-10 in that game he was typically lined up at the same depth as our regular HBs. The only time I see him get drawn into the box is when the other team is using a tight end, because he's almost always lined up opposite the innermost receiver on the strong side.

You seriously think we're better off playing Sherman at safety than we are playing Bucknor on the corner? If Leggett would be so great as a dime back (which, from looking at the depth chart, is what they call Randle's position) then why have we always lined him up at safety instead of at DB?

I don't understand why you want to waste Randle or Adams on the field corner where they can cover the Nate Coehoorns and Sam Gigueres of the league. I don't understand why you want to turn a rangey playmaking safety into a HB/LB.

Looking at North Carolina, the pollsters find what I asserted before, that people who currently support other GOP candidates won't migrate to Trump when their favorites fall: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/08/trump-grows-lead-in-nc-gop-leads-most-match-ups.html

What separates an every-down player from a 25-snap-a-game player? Is it just raw endurance?

I think the early version of the replay rules we had were okay -- a limited number of challenges and a limited number of things that could be challenged -- ball placement, catch/no catch, fumble timing, etc. It's the pass interference review that drives me crazy. It's killing the pace of the game. Every contested play in the endzone is challenged now and the outcome is a coin flip. I'd rather see occasional bad calls than see receivers and DBs waiting around to celebrate a big play.

My suspicion is that the vast majority of the 78% who don't support Trump currently will not migrate to him as their candidates fall, and so he won't come anywhere near the GOP nomination. A third party run from him would be hilarious. Bring it on. A Trump schism would look as good on the Republicans as an 0-18 season would look on the Roughriders.