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To be fair Smith has looked dangerous at returner too. Not as explosive as Grant was but he's gonna bust some sooner or later. He's been close a few times.

This is criminal. GIven Bighills age and obviously declining play and Wilsons injury history to not have anyone pushing those guys HARD is just negligence. Even last year at least they had Clements.

So most of this is young player growing pains because they didn't do any succession planning last season or if they did the guys got hurt.

Thomas is not needed from a ratio perspective, if they had any inclination to move on from him it would be the absolute easiest decision in the world... instead he gets trotted out for every single series.

Absolutely nothing supports this idea

Something something faj

Yeah some definition of what a pressure is would help because I know I don't always agree with the criteria DT uses in his stats.

Doesn't it come into play during 3 way ties as well? I might be crazy

What's sadder? The fact that we are starting 11 Canadians or that demski wolitarsky a d clercius are no brainer choices since they're better than the Americans behind them...

Experimenting with boutique players just to give them a chance... now is not the time. Dl depth has been an issue for multiple years now. They should have guys on thenroster already that we know can play. I don't care where they come from but they shouldn't be dicking around seeing what they can do at this point.

oh for **** sakes really? So he's a linebacker... can't have DL depth but can have a million linebackers who don't play

Hey pot... this is kettle...

Dragging this alllllllllll the way back after that unfortunate detour... The thing about Demski is that his value is in a jack of all trades master of none kind of way. Super versatile and can be a weapon in a lot of different ways but he's not the guy you build everything around. He's a complimentary piece. Will you find another guy like Demski? Not likely but you can find comparable producers pretty readily. Oliveira I think is a very complete back... only thing really missing is the home run ability but he does everything else so well. Could you find an American to do the job? Yeah I'd bloody well hope so but as a Canadian and local product I don't feel his salary handicaps the team. The biggest salary handicaps are the not good enough backups earning big money for years of service or the old washed up starters.

This is a smoking hot wrong take... we start so many Canadians because they build the roster poorly and the PR even worse full stop.

Honestly I think that BC game last year broke him. He went from living life pretty cleanly in the pocket in winnipeg and suddenly he has a game where he got his ass kicked.... and I think now he's worried about the hits coming.

How many can we win with collaros getting smoked in the pocket?

Like seriously I watched the calgary game again... Johnson ****** him over 3 separate times on passes. 2 he over ran the zone, if he had say down easy completions and another the ball hit him in the face. But shitty passing and reading a D right? Our rookie receivers are not getting the job done.

What is he missing? We've seen him pass in all sorts of situations, We've seen him make reads... yeah he hasn't had much time but seriously we're trashing him for his passing stats last week? You seen the way the OL and receivers are playing right now? Collaros looks much worse in the same situation, or can collaros not pass either?

I mean does he need to progress and grow? Sure, but that doesn't mean he isn't capable of it. People are massively selling his ability as a passer short. He can make all the throws.

You're not providing reasons here...

Why isn't he?

He has been **** at short passing forever. Even when he does throw them they're not effective. It's just that when he first got here it was a breath of fresh air after the lapo special where it's all check downs or deep shots. Collaros worked the intermediate game effectively. Now teams know what he is all about and are taking it away and collaros can't adapt because his other big weapon was his escapability (think that td to adams against calgary in 2019) and right now he just doesn't have that ability to get away anymorem

Sweeten the pot by adding Thomas.

And that = never develop? You realize how stupid that statement is right? It's not like streveler has shown to be poor at passing this season... considering the OL problems a d receiver problems he has done about as well as you can expect passing the ball... and yes I would say better than collaros.

I don't care if you're right, thou shalt not besmirch Khari Jones.