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  5. 2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News

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    2 hours ago, wbbfan said:

    This will probably piss some people off who through the lens of nostalgia will remember sellers as a perfect player but here goes. 
    Big mike was such a rare and unique talent, he was much more valuable than a fb, but at the same time less effective in some areas than other much lesser FBs. 
     He was, one of the greatest blocking backs in football history. He was as good as an extra tackle in both run pro and pass pro. 
     He had tremendous hands, can’t count how many times I saw him pick passes out of the air or off his shoe laces. But he had a tendency to look up field and drop some easier ones. 
    with a head of steam he was one of the hardest guys to tackle in the league. 
     But this was also his biggest fault. He needed a good bit of room to get up to speed. If contact was made with in a few yards of him getting the ball, he was much easier to tackle. Most FBs excel in short yardage. We frequently used blink in short yardage because he hit the hole soo fast and hard he was tough to stop. He could also squirt though a tiny gap and turn a 1 yard dive into a 50 yard gain. 
     Sellers didn’t run particularly well out of a fb position. For instance the game Charlie missed and where mike decimated the riders defence in Winnipeg, we ran out of extemely deep sets with him 7 yards back, or on delays from shot gun. He had a big td production season in the nfl where they did the same with him, or wrapped him from the back side h back spot to the play side. 
     

    Sellers however, was also one of the best teams players. From blocking, to kick cover where he broke into the league. He was a pro bowl caliber teams guy, blocker, red zone threat, great catcher, and had devastating power. 
     

    He wasn’t alstott, but he was probably the most valuable player at fb in the modern and semi modern history of the league. 
     

    He was basically an OL that could catch. And it was damned glorious.

  14. 2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)

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    12 hours ago, Jesse said:

    I think some of us just appreciate the extra content. The only thing more embarrassing than 3down’s terrible takes is forum posters who don’t even have a blog trying to Uncle Rico from the sidelines, “if only I had a blog, I could write way better than them. I just know it!”

    Anyone can start a blog, I've got no interest in that. I'm here for an open exchange of ideas with other fans... people who write blogs wa t their opinions heard without them being open to challenge. As seen by the butthurt here when people call their opinions trash.

  19. 2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)

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    Yeah and his 2 receiving touch downs were at a time when a DL came in as  TE type situation in goal line packages. Plenty of DEs catching endzone passes. More recently they've just used a fullback for those types of situations. 

    The cool thing about oosterhuis was that he was the pick we gave up for Doug Brown and wound up with him anyway.

  21. Dru Brown

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    Just now, Fatty Liver said:

    I'd be surprised if it looked like that, Strev. played more like a RB than a QB in 2019 and barely made it through the season.  If he wants to establish himself as a future starting QB in the league, he'll have to show his game has grown.

    I'm thinking more.along the lines of both guys getting reps. I mean we did see as mentioned above the sweet td bomb to Harris in 2019 grey cup.

     

    Prukop ****** up his chances to throw, they won't have that issue with streveler.

  22. Dru Brown

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    10 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:

    Hopefully this happens and Buck establishes a pattern of making use of a Strev. package often very early in the season, and everyone is good with it.  Not always an easy decision pulling Zach off the field when things are going well, it can kill both momentum and drives and it can be looked upon as a questionable decision made in critical moments of tight games.

    They shied away from inserting creative packages much last season as Prukop and Brown were rarely given opportunities other than real short yardage or well defined garbage time.  Pretty sure Prukop was given less greenlights to throw the ball and less bootleg options last season compared to the one prior, maybe due to the criticism he received for the costly mishaps made in the Argo GC loss.

    Worked like a charm I'm the 2019 playoffs so I expect that to continue 

  25. Dru Brown

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    16 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

    the Bombers actually dropped him.

    This is certainly wrong... Brown wanted an opportunity to start, he was leaving.  You don't think if he was willing to stay behind collaros the Bombers would have said "nah"? Careers are short, brown wanted to be the man he left for that chance and the Bombers had a backup plan. 

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