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Can't read too much into a couple of reported reps. Every DE ever gets swallowed up and heck of a lot more than they dominate. All QBs would be in the hospital if this weren't the case. He will definitely be rotational for all this season though. The last two really good NAT DE's I have in recent memory are Ricky Foley and Mathieu Betts and both were rotational until year 3 of their careers.

It has been confirmed in recent interviews and reports that the coordinators decide who starts and where and that OSH fills the rest of the game day roster. Bottom line is that it is still OSH's responsibility, but his coordinators have much more say than you are suggesting. I agree that we should start the minimum number of NATs as possible unless some guys really truly win the job that happen to be NATs.

I think it is a misconception that Nichols couldn't push the ball downfield. In 2018 and 2019, up until his injury, he led the league in offensive explosion plays (receptions 30+ yards).

Yeah.. all starts by rookie Strev on a broken foot and probably the main reason we went shopping for ZC. No one here is knocking ZCs contribution to our Grey Cup, just pointing out that Nichols was having a very strong season that year and played the best football of his career pre injury. We may have won the cup with him as well.

Personally I think they are trying to decide whether to play 3 Nat receivers or 3 Nat OL. That would give the illusion we are starting 9 because you have to give each set of 3 a long look. Day 5 at the beginning of camp is probably not what we are going to 5 days before the end of camp. IMHO, if we went with 3 NAT receivers either Cobb/Corcoran/Clercius would have to have incredible camps or our contingent of new IMP recruits a total disaster

Sometimes, as fans, we value backups more than starters until we see them play. Myron Mitchell was cut in camp? If you are asking if he should have been cut the answer is probably. Coaches always value vets, every coach ever, if all things are equal you go with the vet unless there is some serious cap savings, or the other players upside is so high that you just gotta let him take his rookie lumps. It is nonsense to say that MOS does not give young players a chance. There are a ton of guys that were year two starters on our team. There are even a few guys that were rookies with us and were starters first year. Just because we don't replace every player based on a TIMEX like they do with airplanes, does not mean we refuse to use young guys. To be the man you gotta beat the man. Sure OSH gives his vets a little more leash than most, but I think this board goes a little over the top sometimes when it suggests that MOS won't make changes if need be.

Agreed with the caveat that salary is also a consideration though. If two guys are near equal but one guy is making 100k a season more than the other, you might take a very slight downgrade to free up cash if it is close enough of a gap.

Jordan Younger's ideology is exactly that, so they don't really have to say it. Just watch his defensive schemes. It isn't really built for PKDs they are just a good result. He likes to drop WJ out of pass rush a lot.

It's entirely possible he doesn't know what "dominating" means. He said he dominated in Denver, but was not signed, now he is saying he could dominate up here. Maybe the bar he sets on "dominating" is low.

I don't want a player in TC that doesn't believe he can win the starting job. All Nuer did was say out loud what every single guy on our roster secretly thinks. Being a high level football player REQUIRES confidence in yourself.

Cfl rookie salary was ALWAYS a tough sell. NIL makes it tougher. However, at the end of the day nothing has changed for those chasing the NFL dream. We are the only credible league that offers fans in the stands, a chance to play decent football and get decent tape. A few guys, because of NIL, may give the UFL a longer look but seeing their garbage on field product most guys will realize their chance at quality film is almost non existent

That's not accurate at all. KW is as much to blame for the last 3 years as Osh. It's HIS job to go out and get/keep/replace talent. This isn't to excuse Osh, but a narrative that suggests our winning was due to KW but our losing was because of Osh is not accurate. KW was MIA the two previous seasons when it was abundantly apparent we lacked talent in key areas I mean honestly, Osh made things tougher but look at our FA crop from last year..garbage

Not really. Very different strengths and weaknesses. Kongbo was more an all around DL who excelled in stopping the run and being sound positionally, he wasn't known as more than an average pass rusher. Nuer has one big strength, he can get after the QB, but needs work on other aspects of his game. I suspect we will love it when Nuer is on the field on passing downs, and hate it when he is on the field against the run.

I can't imagine any HC having the time to coordinate in game player usage in every aspect during a game. This is where non-coaches don't really grasp what exactly a HC does. I imagine discussion on roster are done prior to a game, but I think that you hit the nail on the head, it's not MOS sending specific players in and out.

I agree. Zach did an awesome job considering he was thrown straight into the fire with us, and deserves kudos for making up for his lack of time in our system with some clutch throws down the stretch, but Nichols was firing on all cylinders that year and had he not gotten injured, and our defence plays like it did in the playoffs we win the Grey Cup...no doubt in my mind. I feel for Nichols in that regard, and that is why I actually wanted us to cut bait on Collaros and bring back Nichols. (I had no idea is shoulder was mush). Was going to say that he wasn't the game manager people thought. We led the league in explosion plays both of his last two seasons with us. This notion that he was a game manager stems directly from him having Andrew Freaking Harris balling out and getting 25 touches a game. If that is "game management" or Lapo small ball sign me up for more. Maybe our biggest flaw last year was that we went away from feeding our stud running back the rock 20 times a game (altho in fairness BO was obviously not playing 100% healthy all season).