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Stuart cleans up a lot of plays. Going to be a great one.

Funny how everyone always aches to see rookies then bellyaches when they do.

I am not excited about Elgersma as a runner. He's not the short yardage guy. He's 240 pounds but he runs at 6'5, not with a good pad level. Let him throw.

Jake Kelly just always in the wrong leverage. Big play against waiting to happen.

Secondary is really kind of hard to even worry about positions based on the kind of coverages they play. Everyone has to be able to do everything really in zone and cover man too. Kelly has had so much opportunity to learn and grow both pre season and regular, but just still doesn't look like a guy who will be a good player on D. He's at risk of getting passed by others on special teams too.

Singer didn't trust the arm there and stopped to track the ball instead of finishing his route which would have put him right on it.

Yeah anyone on CFL+. I'd bet they have some kind of bot trying to detect breaks and flip to the ad.

Elgersma has the best arm of any rookie QB we've had here in a very long time.

ZOOM OUT

At least the cheerleaders won't have to run as far to get to midfield next year. Will have to watch out for the goal post leaving the tunnel though.

TSN wasn't very accessible until the mid-90's. It cost a lot. Even until the early 2010s had to buy a whole suite of garbage cable channels to get it unless you were a commercial buyer (basically a bar). The reason why this is different though is that it's not adding games people can watch. It's putting games people can already watch on a really shitty streaming service (switched my own Sunday Ticket/Red Zone pack off DAZN to Shaw/Rogers because it was so glitchy). And making people who are maybe marginally interested in a Ottawa-Hamilton game in July have to try to find it instead of being able to have it running as the background in a lot of places and on a channel a lot of Canadians are already sitting on. It goes against everything you want in terms of marketing a sport that needs to grow, for the big cheque.

The sad thing is I think the league feels like rule changes will have a positive impact on their fanbase within Canada too.

The CFL could easily do this. This is exactly what the NFL does and holds it out as a separate product. In general the inevitability here is the CFL being pressured to be a spring league as a TV property. And that kind of kills the existing business. It’s the typical CFL story of chasing the sugar high unsustainably. Skalbania, McNall, US expansion….

Jenkins looked a lot more explosive than Dixon IMO. Dixon kind of plays like a heavier WJ. He's not firing off he's reading the play. Jenkins is in the backfield 1/4 pass plays before the OT even gets his hands up.

Maier wasn't terrible his last year in Calgary, but 2023 he was. Both him and Brown have been stuck starting for terrible teams. Brown has performed significantly better though, even with very poor OL and no ability for the O to run. And that's with the OC we're saddling up with now ☠️

But who got a nice chunk of change out of selling a bunch of games to DAZN? Bell. Where did Johnston work? Where will he go back to when he's a ******* nobody who put this league on its deathbed again within 5 years? Honestly can't believe the owners/governors are on board with all of this. I get the money piece in the immediate but there's big long-term implications too. And with the rule changes etc.

The other piece to this is taking reps with the same guys. Yeah it would be nice to give him a platter of CFL all-stars as a surrounding cast, but at least if it's the same guys playing the whole game and working together for the 2-3 practices leading up to the game you get a real look at a QB. The game in Sask was brutal with guys playing a couple series, going out for half the game, coming back in etc.

Yeah this is a little like sticking a roman candle up your butt and calling yourself an astronaut by the CFL. The NFL is literally the highest premium product in the whole world. The CFL can't really follow their lead. They need eyeballs, not barriers. And everything they are doing endangers the solid core fans they already have in each market. Underrated aspect in Stew Johnston's tenure is him doing the bidding of his former employer.

Bell is gradually extricating itself from producing live sports that it sells direct to consumer. It learned from the NHL it's not the easiest way to make money. Rogers also wants out of producing live sports as they are bleeding cash on NHL. CBC is already 100% out on pro sports. They want to sell everything to streamers or rebroadcast ESPN/Sky Sports (F1) and other international feeds. In the long run this is pretty bad news for sustainability of the broadcast market in Canada. If the streamers lose interest or realize the product doesn't sell, back to square one with limited production capacity existing.

I think we might have to drop the idea of Shay being a player on D soon. He's getting passed quickly here. He's kind of a tweener. Probably really needs to be MAC in this era. Hasn't really jumped off the page in preseason yet either year.

The real problem isn't paying Kenny Lawler 300k a year or not. The problem is our US scouting has been the absolute shits going on 5 years. Can't win sustainably like that. Yeah we can go buy free agents, like Broxton, Ceresna, pay someone like Lawler. The fact we can hardly even find good US players let alone impactful ones basically since Schoen, Holm is a major problem. You win when you find those guys. You could pay Lawler and he could break his arm or drive drunk, not renew his visa or whatever and not be playing anyways. You need a steady stream of good players to win. When we had that, we won. Now we're grasping at being a 9-10 win team.

Nothing you've said in this discussion makes any ******* sense and the lack of countering with something you think speaks to what you say wasn't discussed makes it just that much more pointless.

All of those numbers speak to usage. The context is there in terms of targets. He gets more passes directed his way than anyone else on the field. In terms of stats, the only way for a receiver to get catches and yards is to be targeted. What numbers do you think give context to usage?

Explain. Is it a mystery that the guy with the most targets gets the most yards? That's the context. How did Hamilton's offense perform when it mattered?

Really depends what the situation is. He has very limited upside, but has enough experience that he doesn't **** his pants if you put him on the field.