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Brian Cole on pace for MODP yet?

Maybe they are both coming on and Vaval is coming off.

My 2 cents... The league got bogged down in logistics for Calgary and completely forgot about the fans. How they handled this was completely ridiculous. They've significant shortened how long they will delay games for thunderstorms, but an air quality delay can be indefinite? Policy should be the call is made based on the numbers 1 hour before the game. At the latest. 1.5-2 hours would be more reasonable. If they want, have the decision made in consultation with public health in the city or someone like that. The CFL can't seem to figure out their own parameters on what is safe or not, or whether it's Labour Day and we can't cancel or not. Take the decision out of their/TSN's hands then. Need to have some respect for the health, safety and time of the customers.

Lapo basically creaming himself at Ottawa running a screen pass to kick a FG on 2nd and goal outside the 10.

Not a surprise they were willing to sit out and inhale toxic gas for 6 hours. That's Saskatchewan life.

Sask is the #1 D against the run because everyone is throwing for 350 yards on them.

How do you dress Carey and not have him touch the ball until 1 min left in 3rd Q?

Yeah he's pretty good when no one is within 25 yards of him.

Used to. I liked how he didn't get how Greg Ellingson's (G Elli) nickname is Gelliman.

When we gave up 222 passing yards? Sask just gave up 300 in 2 quarters.

Not many games where our D gives up as many passing yards as Sask just did in that half.

Sask's secondary is seriously awful. If they don't get pressure with 4 they are absolutely ****** on D.

Harris has no awareness of blitz. Maybe needs more time with concussion before he gets next one.

Mills punched it out when he should have tried to recover it. Doesn't matter who touched it last in goal it's D ball.

Yeah BC was going to win it all in 2024 too.

Harris looks like a pile of puke out there.

Harris is getting passes tipped by a 5'10 DE.

Wonder if Sask is down a DB already if Exume out there.

Sask has only stopped Calgary when they've handed the ball over. Every other play getting gashed repeatedly.

Takes years of practicing against Collaros to understand he wants to hit the vertical and doesn't go quick.

Our most impressive lineman athletically is Adams. Not sure we have a ton of evidence to give him flowers. He's got stats on like 2% of the snaps he's played. 0 sacks, 0 TFL's. He's not some unstoppable, transformative force even if he's an impressive athlete. Not disagreeing that he shouldn't get more reps, but not exactly willing concede to him playing more = more pressure from DL, more big plays from DL. So far he's an alright CFL player.

Our receivers are great if they are wide-open. Schoen looks quite limited. Only guys that really fight through contact are Clercius and Demski. Easy to defend us. Kill the vertical stuff, force our receivers to make plays underneath and beat zone. We can't.

The justification is the scheme. With Younger they have no commitment to rush from the edge. They are disrupting QB eyes by challenging their reads in who from their D will be managing which routes and potentially who/where pressure might come from. They'd rather have a guy like Griffin out there as a hybrid at 3 levels than have 4 DL driving into the pocket/off the edge on a potential passing down. We're basically running a 3-4 defense in this era where DB's are LB's. Our only true LB out there is Jones or Gauthier if he's out there....It's basically a 3-1-8 if you're thinking about who might do what, for the most part those 8 are coverage players but they also will rush aside from the corners.

Biggest mistake they've been making from 2022 on is Willie Jefferson. Great luxury piece to add to one of the greatest CFL D's of all-time if you have the cap space. It worked for 3 years amazingly when he played about 2/3 of snaps. But he's not a building block. And especially as he reaches his mid-30's. Jeffcoat was the building block and they've never replaced him. They misread who was dominant, but I mean the whole world does with Jefferson because he's out there and obvious. Not that Jeffcoat could still play, but the role they needed to replace in the scheme to be dominant. Instead, Willie has got paid at each time his ticket has come up as his play is less and less effective without that dominant core in the front 7 around him. I am not a fan of Younger's scheme in comparison to Richie Hall's. We hardly turn the ball over, and we rely on coverage which is foolish. Even when you watch our DL play there's no attempt to get pressure from out side. Vaughters will rush B gap, Jefferson will twist sometimes and end up B or A gap, but from the edge they are just reading the QB to disrupt passing lanes. Any DE we've dressed for the past 2 seasons. It's basically a coin flip every week if it's going to work, but you see how even 1 or 2 guys having a bad game in the secondary sinks this scheme. Pressure is how you build championship defense, and if you're going to have one without the other, consistent pressure is way more impactful. If you have good players in the back end you'll probably never be worse than .500 with this scheme. But it's not a scheme that's going to beat another team that is in rhythm and playing at a championship level. We make no attempt to be aggressive at the line of scrimmage and are mostly trying to disrupt QB downfield reads while that QB basically knows they won't be pressured. Our team stats look decent right now, but we played the worst quarterbacked team by a longshot (BC) twice and Tre Ford.

2025-07-07 CGY WILCOTS II, Cedric DL A New Mexico State DEL Active Roster https://3downnation.com/2025/07/07/calgary-stampeders-release-veteran-dl-cedric-wilcots-ii/ Here's a guy we can pick up. 1 sack in 17 career CFL games.