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Let's hope he is still in our plans and on Walters speed dial.

Yea...I thought he had a really good pre-season game where he made a lot of good plays. I don't remember which game but I remember he stood out to me.

Forgot about Gemmel and I was on his bandwagon...lol.

Really liked Ayers in camp, and Thomas was good as well. Petrishen I don't recall one way or the other, Moses was a mix of both good and bad at various times.

I agree. Every QB needs an OL. Strev and maybe a couple other highly mobile guys can mask the problem somewhat but it exists and if we want to go back to being a well balanced offence the buck stops at the OL and not QB.

Strev still needs work in the passing game. That is not to say that when he has the timing down, comfort with his receivers etc that won't come. It certainly might but it would be foolish to think there isn't going to be some rough games from now to them. Hence, the dilemma the coaches are in. IF the OL continues to play sub par Strev might be our best bet, but if they continue to show improvement as they have the past couple games and can provide Zac the protection then our best chance to win right now is Zac. At the end of the day though, it is quite apparent that we definitely need to see more Streveler than what was initially planned and I think a strong rotation can be had between the two guys and provide our team with a tandem that will really make it tough for opposing defences to prepare for.

It is to be expected given the unreasonable run of injuries we have sustained thus far to very key players. It is not an excuse for losing, and the Bombers have to find a way to continue to win, but it certainly does make it much tougher for sure. Schoen/Lawler is a ton of passing yards and big plays lost.

One can only speculate as to a million things that may be causing this unexpected down turn in his career. Personal issues? Maybe. Personnel issues? Maybe. Conflict of personalities? Maybe. Could add another hundred to the list probably. I guess to sum it up....hard to say what is going on with him. I agree. Lawler made a mistake, owned it, did all the right things in the dressing room to make up for his selfish act of stupidity. Kelly has a long history of boneheaded moves like this, and a history of less than acceptable behavior towards women. He has learned nothing, and there is no indication that he is willing to do so.

I agree. However, we NEED good OL play or Strev will end up looking like dog poo as well. Strev making our OL look better is not a good solution either. He will need a good game by the OL and he most certainly could do just that.

Yes, at least imo. Certainly, and that is why I could see it happening. It will be a choice of success now or success down the road long term. It is a tough choice. Zach is not cooked. He has been getting creamed and has been subject to playing behind an OL that is having growing pains from all the transition this year. I don't think there is a QB in this league that excels with our OL through the first few games.

As of right now, Zac is still our best chance at turning this around. Whether we would have kept Brown, or if were to turn to Strev as our starter....Zac is our best chance. Decisions may need to made after this season or next, but for this year neither Brown or Strev are better options. An argument could be made about starting a transition for the future with Strev...but it would come with the growing pains and losses that such a decision would inevitably yield. Perhaps, if we cannot get back on our horse that's what we do, but for right now we gotta roll with Zac.

Right on. Lucky will be a great add for us.

Yep...I like Fatboi more than most but at most he should get 25% reps.

For sure. All stats can be useful to a certain degree. However, like PFF does, claiming that Jake was the best DL last week....that must be put to the eyeball and situational test before anyone should make such a claim.

Still would be very subjective. A 30 yard play in garbage time vs a close game for instance. Even a pass knockdown on a 2nd and medium in a close game late in the 4th carries a ton more weight than an interception when up by 10 points for instance. Just too many variables to weigh. There are significant moments in games that we as fans usually point to that just don't seem so obvious until after the fact. How do you weigh that on stats alone. You can't. You have to put each play to the eyeball test by significance of circumstance, and that renders analytics of a game like football kind of useless. Great for games like baseball, or even hockey, but football has too many moving parts that have to move in synchronicity for player analytics to be largely useful. Unlike most team sports it is extremely hard for any football player to excel if those around him do not as well. TEAM analytics, one could make an argument for, but not player.

Yea...our DL is gonna be dog poo until we get bodies back. We are just too thin.

My problem with analytics is that it doesn't weigh the gravity of the situation. Each play is given equal value, and of course, that is not how football works. It's a game of big plays at the right time.

Crap forgot Lambert was a 1st rounder. I was referring to Lucius as part of the group above. At any rate nothing tiny or undersized about any of them. Some real good size really especially Lucius and McG down the middle. That being said I would love for us to plant an oak tree like Nuke in front of opposing goalies like the Avs do.

We are at a point in time where we either have to play guys on rookie/RFA contracts in significant roles or eat crap and try trade away bad contracts for draft capital. Sure we could move an Iafallo, Pionk off bad/semi-bad contracts but we will have to pay teams to take on these contracts. They aren't going to return anything.

All of our 3 last 1st round picks are 6'1 minimum and 200+ lbs. We can't. That's the economic/cap space reality.

We weren't seriously in on these guys. We have 8.75 cap remaining after who we signed (all league min really and completely necessary) and 4 RFAs still left to sign. We maybe have 2-3 million in cap room left. That wasn't going to get Monny or Dillon to stay or Henrique. Everyone beyotching about us signing people with no cap space to do so.

People are criticizing Chevy for not spending money with no cap room to do so. Look at the cap people, the only way our team is changing signficantly is if we are moving pieces out too. Dillon was a cap casualty and there was no way we were signing Monahan unless he came cheap. Why not trade Ehlers and McG and do something with the freed up space? Because teams aren't buyers on the trade market at the opening of FA. Just a fact.

Hard to judge the DL right now with all the bodies we have lost but I tend to agree with your assessment. Playing with our current group is not getting it done, but that wasn't the plan for sure.

ST coverage craps out....Mike Miller loses his whole season to injury. Not the totality of the problem but certainly a big part of it.

Harris being injured, and likely injured again when he returns, was not unlucky it was inevitable. All discussions this offseason here the main criticism of the Riders running it back with Harris was that he was highly unlikely to be able to survive an 18 game schedule. It was a mistake re-signing him for that reason. I think the over under on when he would be out long term was about 3 games. He did not disappoint.