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And at pivotal times of the game. It's very concerning.

I don't want to go to SSK twice a year. Can u blame me?

That's a fair assessment. At every level from management down to players, we are underperforming.. No team can win like that. Too many big plays surrendered to be suggesting our D is playing good

I respectfully decline, wbb it's all yours. Lol It was a very baffling offseason for sure.

GMs don't build the roster, they just bring in the players. So..in your estimation we have all the OL/DL/receiving talent here to be tops in the division but MOS is refusing to play them? Do you know how highly unlikely that is?

I mean those pieces aren't going to make them better, but yea, we need to be way more active.

Everyone clamoring for a different QB. Who?

Baloney...Walters definitely is very involved in NAT scouting and your argument that O'Shea has too much say in player retention is more telling about the quality of Walters job than O'Shea's. Talent level of any roster is 100% on the GM. That is not even debateable. GMs build the roster, and coaches coach the roster that is assembled. If Walters is listening to O'Shea too much then that is on him. It's his job to assemble the talent not Osh's. Bottom line. Been my argument here for the past 2 years, but round and around we go. Everyone was willing to overlook the fact we are hemorraghing talent because MOS apparently likes Jake Thomas. Still way too many people here blaming roster usage for our record. It's not optimal to be sure but if we are going to have a 2 year conversation and calls for dismissal of anyone, it should be the GM and even that I don't agree with.

Amazing what losing does to a fan bases common sense. "We are losing this is awful but I would significantly downgrade our starting QB to save money that we can't really spend right now because there is nothing worth it." Geez Louise. People here expecting high level QBing on the cheap and it just doesn't happen all that often. If we had a Dru Brown knocking on the door behind Collaros again, then it might be a valid idea but we don't and it becomes an over reach.

Like I said. you guys are not wrong to be pining for Mayala....BUT has it really come to that? Like so many positions on our team, Walters had really done a poor job restocking the shelves. That damn O'Shea telling him not to acquire talent all the time.

Psst...they be the SSK Roughriders....end of story. I am sure that this will get the eye roll emoji that you are so famous for. Have at it.

I have no issue with NAT rookies not being tried at positions. They are on 3 years deals and we have ample time to let them ripen on the vine so that we don't put them in a situation where we shatter their confidence. That's what any smart team endeavors to do. I get that IMPs are a different story because there is no real team control for the same length of time so they got to show up quicker in the lineup to survive. However, grousing that Shay or Smith are not in the lineup and getting meaningful reps in the first half of season one is not a valid point imo.

Yea.. Castillo is literally playing lights out.

There are some who believe that rotational mediocre DLinemen Fox and Garbutt will lead the Ticats to the promised land.

It's all good Zach..keep on keeping on.

Has it really come down to us pining for Hergy Mayala. Not saying any of you are wrong about it, just kind of hits home you know. I know politics is taboo so delete if required but Premier Brad Wall is rushing a bill through his legislature before Labor Day to outlaw the reverse cowgirl position. He said he wants the fans coming from Winnipeg to know that Saskatchewan is not a province that will ever turn its back to family.

At the time we gave up the singles we had the lead and were going against the wind. The points are irrelevant if we don't blow a 17 point lead. You play field position against the wind with the lead. Look i get that those points were the margin of victory but it's not why we lost. Should have never come down to that. Asking a coach to predict his team shatting the bed is asking him to have a defeatist attitude and that permeates thru a locker room. You coach to win believing your team will make the plays that justify your decisions. Instead they drive only to fail on 3rd and inches. Those points were the margin of victory lost.

I didn't like the decision to give up the 2 points either but anyone suggesting that's why we lost is missing the plot. The points we missed when our OL couldn't convert twice on 3rd and short is a much better indicator of why we lost. We are getting manhandled game in and game out now.

It's not just that we bled talent, we bled the players who shined brightest when the game was on the line. I don't care if a guy is mediocre for 59 minutes but makes a big play for the win. No one is making nearly enough of those game deciding plays for the win and we have too many big plays for the win going against that's for sure. 17-0 even after the 1Q was usually garbage time for the rest of the game because no team could ever, or at least very rarely, erase that against us..now it's being done 20 mins of game time. Even last year, our D was shut down..now with mostly the same personnel we are getting torched. I don't get it, other than Younger got figured out and has nothing else up his sleeve, or does not have the personnel to fix it. Last week we got 2 players playing out of their minds (Vaval and Jefferson) and it tilted the game in our favor..this week bupkus. We need standout performances more often, doesn't have to be the same guys, but football is a game that requires those half dozen huge plays a game. Lawler would give us at least a couple a game. That's why he was a bigger loss than his stats even showed.

22 yards isn't much of an upgrade He is a problem but it's way down the list.

Man...our receiving corps sucks. 75% of the sacks tonight were coverage sacks and Zac being told, for good reason, no more 50/50 balls. Our receivers are not winning those battles.

The 30 IPA part might actually be accurate but kudos to him for following his passion. Our coordinators are getting thoroughly outclassed. Yep..not to mention the vet contract status is now in effect so we gotta pay them or 6 game them no matter what. Other than sending a message it serves zero purpose SMS wise to release any vet.

You can't let a guy like Lawler walk and not replace him.

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.