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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.

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.

My wife enjoys Olive Garden so occasionally we go, I stick to the soup and salad special. Nothing spectacular but easily there best menu offering imo.

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.