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He was playing the lower tier of arena ball after getting cut by a European team.

Cyril Penn has done jack ****. Hamilton signed a bunch of free agents. We have years of piss poor camps in his tenure and barely any solid American prospects outside the secondary.

So you'd cut Adams/Woods, Person and J Jones for those 3? I wouldn't. Can complain about how they are using Americans on D...but those 3 in Hamilton as players are nowhere near being impact players. Average is probably overstating their impact on D...both here and now half a season in Hamilton.

No Kelly was in from the start. Bonds didn't go down until right before half. They were essentially playing two deep safeties to shake up VA and try to negate the explosives. They had Griffin playing more LB style SAM than DB style. Worked for a quarter until they started running single verticals and posts at Kelly's side as an adjustment.

They essentially use 2.5 American spots on D for special teams. And our kicker is American too. And our best American receiver is probably Jerrith Sterns.

I track it series by series, not as precisely as DT. Probably the last game I'll be able to do it though because my season starts this week. Kelly played basically that entire game...him, Kramdi and Griffin essentially functioned as the WIL/SAM/Safety but not always static in position. Griffin most likely to be in the box or blitzing. We had a lot of snaps with 4 Canadians on D. Most with 3, some with 2. We are starting 6 Canadians on O. So we only need 1 Canadian on D. Now if we have Canadians who are better than our Americans...ok. Not sure Kelly is that. Not sure Thomas is that. Also no reason to start 6 Canadians on O if we're going into a game knowing we're going to play Jake Kelly the entire game on D. But...not sure who the Americans would be we have ready to go. Allen is an obvious one, Woodbey would be one but we're kind of loaded where he would fit in...but might be more useful than Ayres being able to play 2-3 spots on D. Don't think we have anyone on O ready to go aside from Vanterpool when he gets healthy. We don't have enough American players....which is a huge indictment on the past 2-3 training camps.

Streveler has never been good at the wedge play. He hesitates and looks for a gap plus he's way too upright. He was bad last year too. We lost a game because of it in Toronto last season. If they are going to use him they need to use more of a veer, QB power/option/zone blocking kind of look out of pistol. It's insane to me to have him out there with no back, no even potential pass option, no motion across formation. In general I hate that look where everyone ambles up to the line of scrimmage, no handoff option, no pass option...D knows exactly what's coming and it's only going between the guards. Way too easy to defend. If they want to run the wedge, then it should be Wilson.

Yeah their average game is 31-27...so it's not like anyone on their D from here is lights out. If we're worried about Miles Fox, Tyjuan Garbutt and Brian Cole our heads are firmly planted in our asses. Those guys are not good pro football players.

Personally I think he'll have to come on to play boundary corner with Nichols at half. Kramdi at safety, Holm at field half, Lawson at field corner. Kelly as the dime I don't really think we should start Vaval, ideally wouldn't have to play him on D at all.

Start by using our American roster spots. 3 American OL when Vanterpool is back. I'd even try the guy they just signed in the interior if he's looking physical. We need someone/a few guys to drag the O into the fight. Don't think Brady will be that guy, he's busted up. Cam Allen should be in, likely boundary corner given who we have healthy. Might give Russ Dandy a call from camp get him a couple weeks of practice. We seem to be losing a DB a week to injury. Get creative with deployment. Woodbey should be ready to play. Use him at SAM/WIL...pop Griffin/Kramdi back to safety when we go 2 high. Woodbey might fill Ayres special teams spot and give us a lot more on D. Kelly should only be out there when we really need 7 DB's. Or use him at field corner or even kind of a blitzing dime style spot. Don't think he can process fast enough to be the guy responsible to support up top, even in cover 2/3. He needs to just have one job where he doesn't have to make many reads or decisions. IMO if we prioritize O and D a bit we have spots for 3 American OL, another American on D (even 2 if you swap out Ayres and another of the LB's for guys that would have roles on D, secondary and DL).

Any single one of their receivers on Jake Kelly or whoever we play at field corner is a bad time. I'm hoping Cam Allen comes on. Kelly might be better off at field corner just given the task of managing the deepest outside route instead of trying to read into backfield and make decisions. He kept stopping his feet then trying to recover which was 3 deep balls, two catches, one for TD and his PI. Athletically I think Kelly is a good prospect (yeah he's in year 3) but the processing clearly isn't there yet at game speed. The most egregious roster management issue is that we're forcing a guy like Kelly out there when we only really need to play one Canadian on D. The DL guys don't kill us as much as is talked about, but putting a guy out there to just be a mark for the opposition in the secondary is not good. We've dressed 3 American LB's (aside from T Jones) to take about 70 reps in the past two games on D between them. That's a bit less than half the snaps on D. But we're dressing a secondary with no backups aside from our primary returner (who is not an outstanding nor experienced CFL DB) and using two Canadians in the secondary when we only need 1 on the entire D based on the number of Canadians we're starting on O. So....beef up the OL with Americans, bring in another receiver/playmaker...beef up the secondary or interior DL with an American. We can easily do two of these things. It's crazy how we're utilizing (or not) our American roster spots.

They built a great team. As it’s aged they haven’t replaced a multitude of all-star players. Then it’s death by a million paper cuts with assignments being missed down after down, no spectacular plays and silly decisions around scoring or giving up points just piling on to the struggle.

Yeah one of them the ball hit at the 8 yard line. He returns it 15 yards they are at the 25. So at best we’re conceding a point for 15 yards.

Well at least we have something to build on.

Once PornHub started getting shut down in a bunch of states.

Self fulfilling prophecy. Gotta cut some of the low effort crew. Start with the receivers.

If you replaced all those guys with rookies you'd have low six figures saved. So like basically the difference between signing Vaughters or starting a rookie DE there. Them being here doesn't stop them from signing other guys.

Only if you can pay some roster spots $0. Math doesn't math if you're paying replacements.

Honestly his takes on the games are way more accurate than Bauming's. Bauming sounds like what people complain Ed Tait is....all while say "just being objective."

Bauming is way too much of a "other teams can make plays too" style analyst. Uses that as an excuse for horrifically poor Bomber play.

Money not an issue there. If they sign a rookie they maybe save $20,000 in that spot. Stupid to let Lawler walk. If we want to complain about money...look at Mitchell. His money plus a rookie salary = Lawler. We have 2 starting receivers on rookie salaries anyways. No financial barrier to keeping Lawler.

Yeah most of our position groups are losing to their opposite position group in any game. Our OL loses to the other teams DL, our DL has lost the battle most games, coming on a bit past couple weeks. Our receivers and DB's lose their matchups basically every game but Edmonton or BC.

Well yeah they had time to get those points back...but why give them up for like maybe 10-15 yards of field position on a kickoff? It's not like a punt where the returner has way less time when he gets the ball. Vaval catches the ball and runs up the field he's got 20 yards clear...and that's if he doesn't beat anyone. So ball coming down at 8 yard line, should get out to 28-30. Give up 1, you get it at the 40. Poetic that they lose by 2 on the points they gave away for very little benefit. O'Shea is outsmarting himself.

Think the problem is opposite RE veterans. Lots of all-star, all-time players who have faded and ended their careers, haven't been replaced. Lots of bodies here, not a lot of players.

Not really. We lost a game in Toronto last year because of that too. He's always struggled with that wedge play. Great at running option stuff.