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There really is no good solution right now. Our offseason was a fiasco. Maybe see is Myron .Mitchell picks up the phone and hope Wilson comes back. OL? Yikes. DL airlift...it's about all we got.

I dont mind sending guys packing but we are on the hook for their full salaries if they are vets. If we shuttle out vets we may not have the money to play a new face. The only guys we can shuttle out without impact to the SMS are rookies. I believe after game 8 all veteran contracts are guaranteed for the rest of the year. If we shuttle out, for instance, a Jake Thomas we have to pay him his full salary against the SMS. That limits how much you can do really because new guys get game cheques too. Some budget is left for that for sure in every SMS, but not blow up the roster mid season money. I would rather we take that SMS wiggle room we have and Walters be active in NFL cut down.

In season purge? What's the point other than to look at some new guys. Vet guarantees will have kicked in and we are on the hook for there salaries. Teams are built/rebuilt in the offseason. We can't expect to save our season with new faces past the halfway point. There is no money. We can audition new faces but we can't dump salary or do much of anything meaningful. With any luck we will be very active on NFL cut down to get some guys looking to return to the CFL. KW needs to be very aggressive on that.

Every game now matters. We need to go on a run. We are looking 3rd, maybe even 4th place, dead in the eye. Can we play better than we have been? Cripes, I hope so. As you stated, coaching definitely matters and our coordinators have not been good nor has our roster usage. However, as you also stated you can't blame guys for underperforming when they are just not good enough. That's a huge part of the problem and one that falls outside the ability of the coaches to mitigate. We needed an influx of talent this offseason, we didn't get it. Our FA was a disaster to put it nicely, and our recruitment was not up to snuff either. KW is as much a part of the problem right now as coaching. I am not seeing anything going on to add to our roster that may help either. Not that there is much out there right now, that is where we had to do better than what we got in FA right now with Sterns being the only guy getting playing time. We needed OL help, didn't get it or retain it. We needed DL help, didn't get it or retain it. We needed receiver help, didn't get it and didn't retain it. Just a giant F grade for our offseason, and it's showing up early this year.

If things don't improve significantly the rebuild will be on for sure. Not sure that includes Collaros or not. Our team should have looked incredibly different this year. We let studs go and kept duds. That's the bottom line right now and it's showing up in the win column. Not going to make excuses for anyone from management, coaching, or players. All three phases have taken their turns underperforming. I agree that Collaros has terrible performances tied to that money, but some of that isn't really his fault. Not to excuse him, but our OL has been a leaky boat, our receivers are sub par (and that's kind), and our OC is not ready for prime time. Now Zach ain't no MOP calibre QB anymore to be sure, but give him a decent OL and receiving crew and an OC that will realize 2022 Zach has left the building and we may see some improvement for sure.

He makes starting QB money. He's not holding the team down anymore than any other starting QB in this loop. That's a bit of an exaggeration. Zach struggled early last year but in the 2nd half of the season he was the 2nd highest rated QB in the league. Early this season he has only started and finished 2 games so it's a little early to write off the entire season. I am more concerned about the frequency he is getting injured. The INTs is are much coaching as QBing. Both our QBs are tossing up picks at an alarming rate, and that's not all on them. Some of that is the aggressiveness of the OC. QBs will throw up 50/50 balls all day long if you give them the green light to do so. Every single one of them.

They come with everything so it goes without saying lol

Zach certainly can be and should be the best QB on our roster easily. He needs to quit throwing back breaking interceptions though. If Hogan smartens up, and Collaros smartens up, then he can have a very nice bounce back remainder of the season and put us in a position to win more often than not. If he keeps playing the way he's playing...it really is a toss up between him and Strev and Strev is not playing very good either. We need Zach in order to win the GC. Our only shot is if he bounces back into form and Hogan goes back and looks at the 2019 film on how to use Strev in a platoon role to take pressure off Zach.

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It all depends on what Hogan was seeing in that situation previously. It's not necessarily a bad decision if that formation was seeing different coverage previously. We don't know. At the end of the day a play call was made with Sterns as the primary in that situation. Most times that happens it's because in a similar situation the OC noticed something defensively that led him to believe that the play could be successful. Toronto likely adjusted their defence and Strev did not read the situation well. There is absolutely nothing wrong with testing whether the defence noticed what you noticed, however, what absolutely has to happen is the QB has to notice. When a 50/50 ball is thrown in that situation I don't blame the OC for running a bad play. QBs always have the option to throw the ball away and in that situation it is coached as the better option than throwing the 50/50. I guarantee you that Hogan did not run that play on the hopes of Sterns coming up with the 50/50, and I can guarantee that he did not coach Strev or Collaros that this is right play. I believe if Collaros is our QB he either throws it away, takes the sack. or goes off his 1st read and tried to make something else happen. This was a poor mental decision on the part of Strev. The decision to run a passing play is a good one if the QB goes into it with the situational awareness that a TD would be a bonus but I can't take a risk with anything less than a sure thing. That is the type of discipline our QBs are lacking right now and why we lead the league in turnovers by a whopping margin. We are throwing balls into coverage that have very poor chances of success. That is poor play design, not calling, but more importantly poor decision making by our QBs. There is always a 2nd and 3rd read on every play.

Yea....secondaries are dependant on the front 4 getting home. I don't think our secondary problems are personnel right now.

Not shocking at all when it comes to Bridges. I don't think any coach could possibly have faith in him anymore. It was between the ears mistakes that cost him his job, and the kind that no pro should ever make.

Bridges by all accounts had a great camp, but really got mentally rocked by Alford and never recovered.

I am hoping that we can get a little more disciplined ourselves, We have been making egregious mental errors on both sides of the ball all season.

I don't think Eli is the answer either. However, I can't see what it would hurt to have a look.

I agree. I have no issue with Hogan's play call in that situation but the play design does not appear to be a particularly good one. However, that being said we don't have much of a receiving crew to work with. I do think we would be celebrating a Kenny Lawler TD with same play call and him as the primary though. Walters has really bungled our receiving corps. Used to be the league envy, now its a joke.

I really think we need to peel back the green light we have given our QBs to go after it. That is 100% coaching. Collaros didn't suddenly become an interception machine. We had Lapolice and we would play safely to a fault, Buck went entirely too far the other direction, and now Hogan seems to be saying Buck hold my beer when it comes to allowing QBs carte blanche. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the play call to have a look and see if you can iso a receiver as long as the QB plays with situational awareness. Hogan can't possibly know that pre-snap. That is up to Strev to read.

If it isn't automatic then you launch it into the 3rd row. I am no fan of any play call asking a 5'8 receiver to climb the ladder either, and I can't imagine that they are particularly successful with it in practice either. I am assuming that Hogan saw something in the D alignment he wanted to go after and it wasn't there. In that case the QB has to be aware and not throw that ball. There is only one really bad outcome on that play and it is interception. Completion or incompletion are the desired outcomes of that play.

I do agree the play design wasn't great, but I really believe that in that situation the QB really needs to be cognizant that there can be no interception on that play. If you don't get the matchup you desire on that play you take the incompletion. A QB has to have that situational awareness, and the OC needs to remind him as well. I have no issue with the play call. Take a look see if you can get a guy lost in coverage, but if you dont the fans should be getting a souvenir. An interception on a 50/50 ball is on the QB. That is a throw that should never have happened.

The QB needed to either audible off that play, or throw the ball into the 3rd row or somewhere that only his guy had a remote shot at. A 50/50 was a stupid throw to make in that game situation.

No you can't. It's a throw that was unecessary, and that is execution. Just because you call a passing play doesn't mean the QB has to put up a 50/50 ball.

Not going to argue with that, but at that point of the game if we choose to be aggressive I am ok with it too. It turned out badly, but could have been the nail in the coffin making it garbage time if it works. I am OK with the play call at that time of the game, but the QB need to launch it thru the back of the end zone if the guy is not wide open all by himself. That's where i have the problem with the play. Try it out on 1st down, if the play is not there fine. We didn't need yardage so have a look at salting it away. Streveler needed to have more cognizance of the situation and the OC needs to make him more aware of the in game situational result he is looking for. The problem I have is not with the play call, it is with the players lack of situational awareness and overall execution. If Strev drops back sees that his man is not open and launches it into the 3rd row, we are hailing him as savvy and Hogan as smart for taking a look at maybe salting it away.

We could easily have played very conservatively as well, and maybe should have, but if you are going to go out and continue through and play then you see what the defence gives you and play from there.

Every play call in the world is wrong if it doesn't work out? Nope. Hogan's right, the defence presented us with pass being the right call. Execution was the problem not play call. Can't blame the play call for poor execution.

I think Bridges had a really good camp and started the season well, but got into his own head and started making egregious mental errors. When that happens to players at a position of strength, yep you let them walk.