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Bighill was unplayable with his injury. I can understand bringing Schoen out there with a snap count and for specific situations, and he did well in those situations as a clutch second down converter. But the roster decision of Bighill over Rose or Haba/Fox, and then having him out there in the second half covering a slotback instead of having Cole or Clements do it was in my opinion the biggest blunder. Gauthier was noticeable in a very good way compared to a hobbled Bighill.

The O was going to be a slog to play ball control.
The D was inexcusable.  Fajardo has the ability to do exactly one thing as a passer which is to get the ball out quick/toss up those 50/50 balls.  You can't leave yourself exposed to giving receivers chances to make plays on inaccurate tosses by running so much cover 0/1, basically man coverage the entire game.  Further, there's not even a point of rushing 6-7 guys if they are always in max protect.  Sure if they are going to only leave 5 in you might be able to disrupt timing but they clearly were going to hunker down.

I'd say Rose off..hurt us big...Biggie on...Hurt us big....No legit end to spell of the Jeff's...Hurt us big...Jackson in lieu of Fox...whiom we saw was very disruptive in 2 games and would have been major fresh....hurt us big....thats roster mamagenent

Yes. In reality Halls play calling left lots to be desired. We weren't aggressive on D or O really. Almost seems like we thought once we were winning,  Montreal wasn't gonna win 
Honestly it seems like we took Montreal lightly. Thought it would be an easy W 

I see Hansen as a guy being mentioned who maybe could have got more run, but when he did play this season he was a total non-factor.  First year back off achilles but another guy who is getting up there and might never what he was in his prime.
There's a lot of guys who count as Internationals out there and I hope we don't hamstring ourselves there either.
The problem with believing in those guys who were too busted up to even chance aggravating the injury in warm-up is what are you communicating to the other half of the team?
We better not hear "next man up" or the like coming out of that locker room because it's not a philosophy they are following when it actually matters.

That bolded part is simply someone in a management role who doesn’t want to do the hard parts of his job. 
 
Seriously, does MOS think this is a ******* Disney movie? 
 
How can you think like that as a pro head coach? When the mantra has been process and preparation for nearly a bloody decade. Actually JFC. 

Nothing wrong with the read to Lawler, he just didn't get the ball out there far enough. If he puts it where it should go, the DB can't make that play. The route isn't designed for Lawler to be stopped and waiting for the ball.

It didn’t look like Lawler and Collaros were on the same page on that play. A throw further to the corner of the end zone would have been a TD 100%. The play looked especially bad since Demski was so wide open for an easy pitch-and-catch on the same side of the field.

I was losing my mind on the final td pass when I saw them show full blitz again. Normally hall wakes up at half and knocks the stupid stuff off. This time he gave us one of the worst clutch moment calls on D since edm went cover 0 and gave up a game winning 100 yard td to milt. 
9 starts 6 tds 8 ints 1854 yards(206 yards per game) 144/209 (68.89%, 8.87 ypa) in a full season of his play off games he’d be on track for 12 tds 16 picks 3707 yards. 
 
2019 
 11/21 193 1 td
 17/25 267 1 td
 17/23 170
2021
 17/21 229 1td 3 ints
 21/32 240 2tds 2 ints
2022
 14/20 178 1td 1int
 14/23 183      1int
2023
 14/21 158
 19/23 236.    1int

Just here to say the sun will rise today, boys. Don't dwell on it too much, there are more important things in life than football.

Brown is the Aaron Rodgers behind a Favre of Zach Collaros. We may get a couple more good years out of Zach, or eight of Brown. I think the franchise would be better with the latter (my forum name aside)

Move on from DT! He’s the Jinx!

So who is the guy in 2 years then when we are actually hosting the Grey cup? It sure won't be Zach 
2025 ain't next season 

Yeah it's never going to be on one specific factor.  But when you look back and we have multiple guys rostered to do almost or literally nothing but two other rush ends, another 3 tec DT there that compliments Walker perfectly wearing their sweat suits you might go "HOLY HELL WISH WE HAD THOSE GUYS IN THE 4TH QUARTER!"  Some coaches might think that would be more useful than Greg McCrae in a parka over his uniform in a playoff game.

Brown is the Aaron Rodgers behind a Favre of Zach Collaros. We may get a couple more good years out of Zach, or eight of Brown. I think the franchise would be better with the latter (my forum name aside)

All year collaros has been underthrowing deep balls. He had 2 easy touchdowns if he leads his receivers.  Instead one was an interception and another knocked away. 
He doesn't handle pressure in the pocket well anymore either. He ran himself into several sacks. Guy has been figured out at this point. If not for Brady dragging this team along it would have been obvious earlier.

Brown is the Aaron Rodgers behind a Favre of Zach Collaros. We may get a couple more good years out of Zach, or eight of Brown. I think the franchise would be better with the latter (my forum name aside)

Ok let’s settle down now. Going to four straight Cups isn’t a fluke. We just don’t finish when it matters. 

Football is a terrible mistress. We were winning on 2nd and 18. Then had a 3rd and 5 to win our 3rd cup in 4 year. 
You could also say if not for Hamilton missing by an inch we would have just lost our 3rd straight championship.
Time to move on. Dru has to be the solution; Zach's getting old .

Brown is the Aaron Rodgers behind a Favre of Zach Collaros. We may get a couple more good years out of Zach, or eight of Brown. I think the franchise would be better with the latter (my forum name aside)

Trade Zach. Sign Dru and Strev 

The teams that keep rolling make these decisions is all I will say.  I fear we won't even have a second thought on it for QB and a lot of positions held by vets.
Dru Brown looked pretty damn good, nearly perfect, running the same scheme this year.
I think we have much bigger roster issues that need management, and that is telling some of the guys who were on the field tonight but contributing almost nothing, injured or not, that we are moving on.
My easy list: Bighill, Alexander, Hardrick.
Yeah it's hard for all of us because we never won until this group in our lifetimes.  But if we want to keep winning we need to smarten up.  We are dressing guys who aren't CFL football players whether that's due to base skill level, age or injury in a ******* Grey Cup game.  Stupid, stupid, stupid.

He ain’t it anymore. If the cost is letting Dru Brown walk, we need to make sure we don’t pay it. 

He is great on panel 

If I was in Hamilton I would give the entire defense a full body massage for that effort