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He's a YAC guy. Probably not a bad fit with Streveler but Collaros with both OC's has been a guy really locked in on vertical. Get him big guys.

Looks like Mike Miller got who he wants. And there wasn't that much to choose from really with the injuries.

LaFrance and Coombs came same year and Demski came into U of M one year later. All tailbacks from high school. LaFrance and Coombs both went to Sturgeon, LaFrance a year older and played a year with Rifles. Coombs was mostly recruited as a corner, even by the Bisons. Demski scored 8 TD's in the WHSFL D1 Championship game. And Dobie picked Coombs and LaFrance over him at tailback, which probably wasn't the best decision for them competitively because they mostly had horseshit QB's and really limited Demski's touches. Demski by far the best player of the 3, and most dangerous with the ball in his hands. Coombs was very boom or bust as a tailback even back to Sturgeon and high performance teams at Canada Cup. LaFrance was best suited to being an every down back. Demski really never got a chance at it with Bisons.

Or just put Person in for Ayers if he's an impact player. We have 8-9 guys on who IMO are mostly there for special teams. So that number is potentially a little high. Our offense is incredibly thin. I can't see changing much on that side to dress another guy on D.

I don't know who Drury is but Demski played receiver his entire U Sports career. Safety to DB or OLB to DE is hardly the transition that moving a guy from a option program in high school and NCAA at running back to playing receiver in Canadian football would be. I'd put Bailey in there for some rotational reps. But he's hardly jumped off the screen. I'm not sure why we assume our whole coaching staff has vendettas on certain guys while all the players can do is talk about how much they want to be part of this team even when they aren't on it. Where's all the former players trashing our organization if there's deep seated problems? Best field CB in the league when he played here. Not so hot against BC Week 1.

Gotta say....kind of rich seeing people complain about someone at LB being listed as a DE but wanting a total 4 back his whole life turned into a slotback for Game 1 of his pro career. Think you could probably slot Bailey in on the DL, but he was also pretty pedestrian in the pre-season. It's not like a "OMG, how can you leave that guy off" situation. We're going off his college stats to some extent in being excited about the potential. Wilson is cooked, so pretty sad that he's one of two American LB's we're going to use. Who is watching and reporting on actual practice?

Or blocker. People's eyes get really big. So we're impressed with how the guy runs the ball. Now let's get him to do something he's never done in his life in pro football...while someone else does all the running of the ball. Be patient. We'll need the guy at some point I'm sure.

It was that's why it's not 2 games.

How many snaps did the entire league play last season with 2 tailbacks on the field? I'd be surprised if it was more than 100 and probably 90 of them were Toronto. Castillo, Griffin (DB), D Mitchell, American LB/DL

They'd go 5 and 2. So your 5 Canadian starters with Corcoran, Peterson, Cobb, Chris-Ike and your extra OL as backups. 2 Canadian defensive players need to be on field every snap. So it's not too bad. They could use K Wilson or Jefferson as DNA's and sub them in for one of those Canadian spots 25 snaps too.

I'm interested to see what Hogan does. Streveler has a really quick release and to me he looked a lot more confident in his pre-snap reads in pre-season. I don't think we'll see him hold the ball very long. But he's not like Collaros where he's always looking vertical. Very different skill sets as passers.

Streveler isn't a starting quality QB either. I don't think that's who Ford would want to be compared to. Ford is a useful player, but he needs a really specific game plan built around RPO looks and him passing from the pocket as little as possible. Can he survive that to be a starter for 8-10 years? Probably not....especially if he doesn't develop any consistent pocket passing skills. More likely he's kind of a role player nearly exactly how Streveler was for us in the 2019 playoff run with Collaros.

TSN producers really didn't want to bother showing any good replays of that hit. Issue for tackler here is hit vs form. You launch yourself into a guys upper body in this era you're probably taking a penalty. You dive at his knee/shins without the guy having a chance to react, you're getting a penalty. So make a tackle with your chest plate and a wrap. The launch here is the real problem. And any head contact is called. Doesn't matter at all what touched first or where the target was.

They'd be thin out of the gate to always have 2 Canadians out on D, but it wouldn't be that bad. You'd need 2 of Kramdi, Lawson/Thomas, Munier-Bailey, Shay, Smith, Gauthier, Hallett on the field on any given snap. Chances are we will have 2 of those guys on the field anyway. If the difference is QB having time to move the ball vs QB not having time to move the ball, it's a pretty easy call.

Yeah I think they solved VA last year basically taking a similar approach to how they played Rourke...and really most QB's. Less blitzing, better disguised blitzes, more drop 8-9 out and variable on who is where in our zone coverages so QB can't make any assumptions pre-snap without risking a turnover.

Not so much spy specifically but lots of dropping out 9 and being very unpredictable in coverage in terms of having different guys drop into deep thirds, different guys sit in flat/curl zones. Heavy match zone so really hard for receivers to get open, really tight windows.

I think Streveler is going to need to be in the 230-250 range because I don't expect him to do much running or RPO type stuff year 1 off the ACL. That era of his career might be done. Like how he beat Ottawa last year.

Carey is a weapon. Ouellette is a 235 pound slug who runs upright.

I think Rourke's running is a real sign of his lack of maturity as a QB at this point. He takes a lot more sacks than he needs to as well because he starts looking into the rush and looking to escape to run. He hasn't developed the ability at this level to avoid staring down the rush. Maybe BC's OL last year didn't help him in that area. He looked somewhat improved in that regard yesterday. Alexander is a Dave Dickenson clone. Just zero fear and scrappy. No one has anywhere near the arm Dru Brown does. Collaros and Rourke are the only guys in his league. You watch Adams, BLM etc work from the pocket. Floating balls, off time all over the place. Guys having to work back to balls thrown behind them, dive at balls on the turf, leap at balls sailed with no velocity. You pin Adams and Ford in the pocket 90% of the game, stay patient, just wait for them to hand the ball to you. Ottawa needs to stop paying washed up Americans on D and get a OL. Start with playing a centre who can snap with his eyes up. WTF is Jacob Ruby doing there?

Every pass under 15 yards the receiver has to leap to try to catch it from Ford.

They really need to actually build an offense to suit him if they are going to try to do this for real. He can't pass from the pocket. The RPO stuff is dangerous and tires out defenses. Get them guessing where the ball is going to go and choosing to cover downfield or come up to defend the run. Fajardo is a terrible partner for him because if they end up using him he'll be butthurt if they give snaps to Ford for a special RPO pack.

Returner runs the ball out of bounds at the 3 yard line on a missed field goal. JFC. Anyone coaching these guys?

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Yeah he can't do much from the pocket off a 3 or 5 step drop. And I'm not sure how you win many games like that in this era. You go RPO and let him be poor man Damon Allen but also get cranked 8-10 times a game.

God Edmonton looks like a clusterfuck of a team. They'll be fun to watch but I don't think they'll be a threat to anyone good.