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Just now, Goalie said:

Osh will send out bighill with 1 leg over some of the younger guys with futures. Maybe bighill starts week 1. 

He has to be out until at least Week 2 since they put him on 6 game.

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Rosery makes no sense to me.

We are short Canadians.

We start a Canadian at tailback.  We want to start 2 Canadian receivers.

Augustine is 30.

Rosery showed really well too.

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Terrell Bonds returned punts for the San Antonio Brahmas.

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Just now, BigBlueFanatic said:

Forgot about him. Any thoughts on Ayers vs the others who got cut?  Noticed Thomas and Petrishen more, but maybe earlier in the games before the defense got worn out.

Ayers was all over the field on Friday in the 2nd half.  Special Teams too.  

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Just now, bluedawg said:

Ayers made active, Gemmel PS. Shocked Tre Thomas didn't stick around. 

Never saw it with Petrishen the way others did on here. Thought he looked the part but didn't play the part.

Assume they would've kept Moses but he got hurt early in the game

IMO Moses was bottom of the American LB's.

Thomas is one I thought they'd keep for sure.  But maybe he refused PR spot.

Knew they'd keep Gemmel.  Think he's a guy who will be in the league for awhile.

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Just now, Mike said:

They kept Ontaria Wilson too I guess so maybe Mitchell is the returner and Wilson is the receiver? 

Or one of them won't be active.  Between them and the DL we have on roster I think we'll need to adjust to be able to dress right amount of Canadians.

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Think there's more moves coming when they sort out IR because if you piece it together right now we basically couldn't even dress the right number of Canadians with who is injured.

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Who returns punts?

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Rosery too.

Our Canadian depth is the shits right now.  If an OL gets hurt the replacement will be an American.  Yet we send a guy like Rosery packing who can play special teams and back up two spots on offense.

[2024 Blue Bomber Training Camp]

18 minutes ago, Noeller said:

I was fully expecting to see esime disgruntled tweets today that might tip us off but nothing so far....

Feel like anyone under 30 doesn't really Tweet.  You'd have to be getting the Snaps.

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1 hour ago, Mike said:

There’s genuinely some surprises around the league … I’d be interested in Bennett for sure and McFadden from Toronto

Tevin Jones is kind of Bailey-lite.  If that’s what they really want.  Doesn’t seem like anyone really grabbed the 5th receiver job.

But anyone coming in now would basically be for Game 2 given the stupid condensed schedule from preseason to Game 1.

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1 hour ago, Goalie said:

Saw that also. Kinda interesting. Not sure if he’s a need here depending on which way they go 

1000% a need.

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Lenius is cooked physically.  Lisfranc that never healed.

Just now, Goalie said:

Both fine and pipkin let go. Who the backup in Sask now. 

Shea Patterson and Jack Coan.

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17 minutes ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:

The question is- is that all coachable.

Yeah will come with experience but kind of scary that he’s potentially next man up without a ratio change.

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I’d have a hard time cutting any of Gemmel, Petrishen, Thomas….even Ayers was flying around in this one both D and kick cover…before Moses.

Sounds like Moses might have a big injury anyway…which has kind of been an issue for him too.

Pedigree means basically nothing when we’re watching reps side by side. Most of them come from Power 5 conferences anyway.  Don’t really care where a guy was ranked when he was 17.

The next guys for the 2 backer spots could very well be in that group.  Petrishen and Gemmel are ready to go.

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Last thing...if they nationalized Jefferson they could get another 22 snaps out of the DI's on D.

Will be incredibly stupid if they don't.

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2 minutes ago, Pepper_Brooks said:

Kyrie Wilson has been our glass cannon for three years. Time to let go. He's only managed to make it in to a third of the games since 2019.

Yeah you don't fall in love with American WIL backers.

That's a spot where you have a guy on a rookie deal.

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5 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

He played 4 nfl games but then blew his acl? I think it was. Might not be the same guy he was then. Even though he has been solid. 
 

JBRs roster is good. I too would slide in a second imp lber. Either way I’d throw petrishen on the pr and Moses might make the club in the tub. 
 Honestly I hope our roster management is that good. 

I’d be pretty worried if vhlagio is on our ar as a 6th ol. Dobson neuf Wallace inside would tear up dls though. 

Wallace struggled badly in this one.  Bad reads in pass pro, slow feet in general, leaning.  Kind of concerned with him as our 6th but I don't think Eli will be ready.

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Just now, JohnnyAbonny said:

Rather see Thomas in from the start over Wilson and Kelly over Hallett honestly but I’d have to agree this is the most realistic for week 1. 

They'll have all those Canadians playing on D at different times aside from a couple pure special teamers.

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Here's a cut at Week 1 roster (Need 6 Canadians on O every snap, 1 Canadian on D every snap):
 

QB- Collaros, Streveler, Wilson

 

RB- OLIVIERA, 

 

AUGUSTINE, ROSERY, Smith*

 

REC- WOLITARSKY, DEMSKI, Lawler, Schoen, Johnson

 

CLERCIUS

 

OL- KOLANKOWSKI, DOBSON, NEUFELD, Bryant, Lofton

 

WALLACE

 

DE- Jefferson, Haba/Garbutt (whoever is healthy)

 

Upshaw*, HEBERT

 

DT- Fox, Adams

 

THOMAS, SCHMEKEL

 

SAM- Cole

 

MAC- Gemmel

 

WIL- Wilson

 

Petrishen*, KRAMDI, GAUTHIER, CADWALLADER, Karamoko (G)

 

CB- Ford, Fuller

 

FORD

 

HB- Holm (could shift to corner), Nichols

 

S- HALLETT, KELLY

 

K- Castillo*

 

P- Sheahan (G) 

LS- BENSON

 

Practice Roster: Thomas (LB), CHRIS-IKE (RB),  Weitz (G), Bridges (DB), Coleman (OT), Barnett (Rec), MURPHY (REC), VLAHOGIANNIS (OL), Ivy (OL), Norman (DB/LB), SAMSON (DL), CHARBONNEAU (LB)

 

IR: Bighill, Alexander, Haba/Garbutt, LAWSON, ELI

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I think Wilson sticks around as 3rd QB.  Not really sure what else they would do at this point.

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Barnett is a wildcard to me.

Kind of shitty he's getting on the field with 2 mins left.

Know that they've been after him for a couple years.  He was a guy with no passport (which is also another argument to bring back the March US spring camps).  His sophomore and junior years in D2 were insane.  Like take a 3 yard pass and run through a whole team kind of thing...also lots of vertical ability.  Kind of a do everything guy, even punted and kicked off.

Wouldn't be surprised if he was on our roster Week 1.  But think he'll be on PR for sure.

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1 minute ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

Has there been a single offensive player in two games that has popped off the page? Like, of we have any injuries, don't we want to have guys in our back pocket?

Johnson looks good at receiver.

Rosery looks good running the ball.

Smith looked good running the ball.

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Just now, JohnnyAbonny said:

The 2 guys pumped by Tait all off-season/camp (McGhee and Myron Mitchell) have sucked fwiw. 

If you've ever been to a practice you'll see Tait spending most of it staring back toward the concourse talking to another reporter or two who are also barely paying attention to the field.

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4 minutes ago, Mike said:

This is just the cherry on top of the let’s make training camp as pointless as possible sundae

 

Before you all jump all over me, yeah there are guys to be excited about but this is two years in a row now we’ve just completely misused our preseason 

The sad thing to me is a lot of the guys showing really well for us have entirely no shot to make the team.

Like WIL backer.  We have a 31 year old there who's had major injuries and hasn't played preseason.  We have guys making plays at all levels of the field from that spot and they have no chance to make the team.  To me that's a spot I don't spend money on and I let guys like this compete, bring in fresh guys who are all over the field every couple years into that spot.