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Last year BC came in here 5-1 for first game of a home and home. Basically a chance for them to put us in their rearview for good, split the games and they'd have tiebreak plus be up 3 games. Win both, up 4 games with tiebreaker. Bombers were 2-6. Vernon Adams was the MVP. Bombers had 6 DL dressed. 10 LB's. Schoen was gone. BC had 1 first down in the first half. I think we can put some trust in Jordan Younger to build his D to beat this team. Bombers won here 25-0. Bombers won in BC 20-11. Bombers won the West Division. BC averaged 12 points a game against the Bombers last season. They didn't even get a chance to play us in the playoffs. Now they have Rourke and Buck, so we'll see. I wouldn't expect Vaval to get any reps on D unless there are injuries. He's on to return. So put that guy who's a returner and does nothing else at DB, receiver, backup place kicker, does it matter? Can't get too deep into the weeds here.

If Younger is complaining I can't imagine Hogan is pumped about having Corcoran, Chris-Ike and Peterson as the only depth players on his chart. Literally all guys who have never or barely taken any snaps on O in the CFL. Demski or Schoen have a bad sneeze in the warmup and they are in for the whole game. Seems to me this roster is really built around Younger's scheme and who Mike Miller wants on for kick cover.

Lawson and Ayers too. Plus if things went haywire with injuries they'd roll with the 30 fronts exclusively. Kornelson might surprise some people. Look at who is getting picked and not in CFL Drafts these days, and who is getting cut. There's no participation medals anymore. I haven't seen many DT's come through Canada West who were as disruptive as him. He's not just a gap filler, he'd finish as many plays as the Bisons LB's. Huge motor, great tackler. Strong as ****...think he has multiple weight room records in the Bisons room. Faster than Schmekel, stronger than Schmekel, more explosive than Schmekel.

Iron man sure. Level of play is my concern. And it's been gradually dropping since 2022 IMO. Which means he's still a good player, but eventually won't be good enough. We've basically lost the past three Grey Cups because we couldn't pass protect well enough to score more than a couple TD's. Yeah D could have made the big play in the close ones, but we could also score a hell of a lot more. We have 11-12 starters who have changed over since the 23 Grey Cup. 22 different players on the game roster. There has been a lot of turnover, whether it fits the narrative or not. And I 100% agree that there could have been more or different guys kept, let walk.

Dressing 4 DT's says that? When half the defensive snaps we'll probably only have 1 on the field? I think they are kind of thin on the edge but it's also been a conscious decision of the DC to change their approach to pressure. I don't agree with it, but they have built for it. More basketball style defense from the first 2 levels of the D, which can be disruptive but often isn't consistent.

8 rookies by my count. Plus guys like Wheatfall, Bridges, Vanterpool and Randolph stepping in as starters. I think in some ways people's biases toward what they think the biases of O'Shea are is colouring their view. But for sure there's some guys on there vet for the sake of a vet because the DC trusts them. Bryant and Neufeld scare the hell out of me. They've been have trouble putting together more than 8-10 solid games a season the past couple years. But they are building a team. Not just slapping together the most impressive looking athletes and sending them onto the field. This team has had a lot of changeover in the past couple seasons. I'd argue they probably could have kept Lawler and Wolitarsky, and maybe that's what you're alluding to with the discussion about $$$.

Your memories and recall might not make the best scouting report.

FWIW....Sterns, Mitchell and White are all within about 3 yards per game average in their CFL careers. So fair to say nearly exact same level of production in 23, 32 (White) and 45 CFL games. IMO keep/roster the guy the QB's want/mesh with and who fits the offense....which we haven't seen yet with Hogan scheming and calling the plays.

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.