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As much as they talk about new season, last year means nothing blah blah blah, you know that this ad is embarrassed and angry about what happened. Cody better be praying hard or he might just get to meet Jesus tonight.

Really if you want another DE on the roster then one of the DTs comes off simple as that.

To be honest I think you are so conditioned to be critical at this point you're being unreasonable. We got 2 ends, we got 2 DTs as backups with enough athletic ability to swing outside and take some snaps there. Not going to cripple the team for one game. Last year we gave snaps to Bennett and Jackson who couldn't accomplish ****. This year is not the same IMO just because they actually kept some athletic types on the DL.

Is burning them out a concern? If one of WJ or Haba goes down you still have Adams and Woods and whatever other linebackery type options you want to use to keep guys from being totally bagged... they have like 7 or 8 defensive linemen on the roster, an in game loss won't cripple things.

If they feel the tackles are athletic enough to handle it... I dunno it's not the worst thing in my mind.

Holding off for garbutt to be healthy and Bennett to get here?

I look at the roster and don't really see anyone who is complete dead weight so that's an improvement from last season.

Ok having seen the depth chart now... 100% that is MOS trolling and "starting" 10 Canadians because he can. All those guys will take reps.

I guess my point is that Jackson was a useless body... at least the guys on the roster now aren't useless regardless of the starter/backup distinction. Guys will take meaningful reps, contribute on special teams, whatever. Jackson played but didn't do **** not even on teams.

Well not much else to complain about these days. First world problems

Disagree because in theory your backup pieces can step in and contribute... which Jackson couldn't do in any aspect.

Murphy has not been talked about nearly enough. His actions are every bit as bad as Kelly's. In this day and age you can not sweep this under the rug and fire people bringing this up to you.

Tricky part is as a head coach he was also the oc... and his offenses there were most certainly not near the top of the league.

He is a better head coach than he is oc if you ask me.

Get out.

Yeah lapos bug weakness as a coach is his offensive playcalling. Dude knows football, he just doesn't know when to go for it and when to play it safe. Down by 2 scores with little time left is the best lapo. Up by 2 scores with half a game left is worst lapo.

You can drop the guys with absolutely no chance and still have new faces in the mix for work you know...

Vs. Keeping them around the while time and cutting them regardless of how they've performed? Like our import running backs 2 years running. Tons of reps in game, decent production but sorry you were just a warm body in camp.

I mean the question I want answered is why keep so many guys for so long when they had no chance of making the team.

But we can already give his answers. I just gave you exactly what he'd say about his DL last year, regarding no one butn100% players, we'll they were medically cleared and ready to go. Boom answered.

Yeah but you won't get a satisfying answer to that anyway. You'd get fluff about roster limitations, had dl guys on the roster already (just ones no one else liked such as Bennett or jackson) don't underestimate O'Shea's ability to give a non-answer.

Do I make a Shawn lemon joke or an AC Leonard joke....

Yeah, try targeting an act that football fans might tune in to see and maybe some of those NFL only fans will enjoy the game and stick around.

First 2 weeks minimum in the cfl are absolutely glorified preseason games, especially when it's the first action the bulk of your starters actually play. That doesn't mean giving up... just means that it's very much still a shaking the rust off and or figuring out how your roster actually shapes up. Week 1 depth chart rarely looks at all the same as week 5ish. That's one of the complaints about the training camp we just saw... an awful lot of guys were kept around for no reason. They could have made a half dozen plus cuts way way sooner than they did.