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40 minutes ago, JCon said:
Did they get rid of the in/out on the depth chart this year? I swear we could tell who was on and off the roster last year without needing to think back to the last game. Fortunately it is easy to find out, but kind of annoying, especially after a bye.
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1 hour ago, WinnipegGordo said:
I dont recall.... did they actually change the rules and now allow Canadian QBs to be included in the number of Canadians on the field?
It doesn't count for ratio or anything, but I think it counts towards total snap count for draft picks.
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3 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
Tsn live app not working again
working for me now.
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If Strev is healthy enough to be on as a receiver, why does he not get a snap at QB? Even if his sole purpose is the short yardage QB, why not throw on one of them. The first year he was with us, he was effective because he might not run every time. Burned some teams with the fake short yardage run. Now teams know it will be run. Don't get it.
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57 minutes ago, voodoochylde said:
The more I watch this season the more I’m convinced they had no plan for Streveler when they signed him.
Was he on the field for the long bomb to Wilson?
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6 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:
Where's Bob Cameron when you need him.
Didn't he do some type of plank on the back of a truck a few years ago? I was amazed with it
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I'm surprised at anyone bringing up 0-18, but maybe that is just the sting from the game talking.
We're loaded with key injuries and it seems bad ones.
Our star RB is injured and has been all season.
We lost two effective receivers for the game and were playing our backup QB out wide.
I think there was progress in both roster selection and play that game, but it wasn't consistent and holes still exist, but going 0-18 is ridiculous. If we play that same game against Ottawa last week, we win. Losing Lawson, Schoen, Lawler for extended periods of time puts a lot of pay off the cap this year. Maybe someone shakes free from another team or NFL that allows us to fill a gap. We're finding some good rookies through this process too, just hope it comes together that we can make playoffs and we get a few guys back to make a run.
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Concerned that Smith may still be hampered by injury, otherwise it makes more sense to give him and Augustine duties at RB and rest Brady. Rather have Brady fully recovered and ready to dominate while learning what Smith can do in the offense.
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8 hours ago, Colin Unger said:
Who else is even going to the cup twice in a row these days?
Twice in a row?
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1 hour ago, JuranBoldenRules said:
Love it! Thanks for pointing this out. Exactly the type of content I've been looking for to get more in-depth analysis.
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I still think he's the best coach in the league, but his faults are absolutely obvious and given where we are as a franchise, his weaknesses are coming to the fore. Building around a group of core vets and establishing a culture can be a good way to build a team out of the basement, but sticking with vets and giving very little consideration to developing players and building to the future will increase the likelihood we need to do a complete rebuild rather than gradually shift out old pieces for new ones to stay on top. They do it in the offseason and I'm hopeful we'll see it throughout this season, but it is so discouraging to see nothing changed as a result of training camp. Again, it might just be that O'Shea didn't want too much change all at once, which I don't think is necessarily bad.
Shake the bad performance from last week, Collaros can find his form again especially having a higher dose of Strev. Find out who is on the roster that can step up during the season and let them take over for the vets that underperform. Still hard to refresh a team with horrible roster/PR management, but there's still hope.
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4 hours ago, voodoochylde said:
Zach is our starter .. no doubt about it. But ....
As I alluded to in the game day thread, you can't make Streveler just a gadget guy. He's an athlete and god yes, take advantage of that athleticism but he's needs to execute in passing situations as well - if for no other reason than to keep teams honest when he's on the field.
They used Strev at least twice outside of QB. I found that encouraging and I hope they don't go away from that just because it didn't work well. I think that could be very difficult to prepare for and defend against. I was hoping they would have two QBs on since they signed him.
I also think Strev will be used more in a QB role in the future, but it seems like the coaching staff believes that you shouldn't try new wrinkles when the offense is out of sync and that they need to play through it to find some rhythm. Judging by O'Shea's post-game comments about not properly preparing the team, I think he realized the team was set back by poor pre-season roster management. I think he rightly thought that they could find their groove if they shook off the rust, it just didn't happen.
Back when we were just starting to be a winning team we used "trick" plays a lot and O'Shea insisted they don't work well unless you're in a groove already. Hopefully part of the game plan going forward is that Strev is part of the game plan and hopefully rust can't be an excuse for others anymore.
I'm much more concerned about the long term issues with roster management and lack of competition than with issues from week 1 which I think were more symptoms of the bigger problem than a problem in its own right. Knowing the team had issues at the end of last year and that we host a Grey Cup next year, you'd expect some actual competition in camp this year.
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13 minutes ago, Pete said:
most of the posts point to vets that have been cut in the off season, Have we cut a vet in season or even at the end of training camp? Its either a testament to poor scouting or stubbornness
Even vets losing their jobs mid-season when talent under them in the depth chart has proven to be better. I can think of Winston Rose and Alden Darby last year and I guess that is good. Hopefully we can see some of that, but to see the depth chart really unchanged throughout training camp and nobody cut or even bumped is disappointing, especially when we did see some obvious deficiencies at the end of last season.
Not sure if it is indicative of poor scouting and weak players brought in or just a stubbornness to have a vet lose a job. My hope is that, with all the changes from guys not re-signed, O'Shea didn't want too much change at one time and the top talent will eventually be allowed to start.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but looking at our training camp cuts and depth chart, I don't think one vet lost a spot to another player. Not one cut and not one demoted to a backup role. That seems problematic to me. Not one person that jumped off the chart to gain a spot or a vet that declined to lose a spot (other than those not re-signed)? Not even something somewhat surprising like Eli jumping ahead of Kolankowski or Lofton losing the starting RT spot he was basically assigned when he joined our team? Augustine losing his spot to Rosery?
Perhaps that will change as the season rolls along, but I don't take it as a good sign that we could have penciled in the depth chart other than which rookies grabbed the spots not contested by vets.
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4 minutes ago, Booch said:
hahah....he definately scuffling for answers but you can totally tell its an "ooops" I screwed up admittance......
Agreed, that gave some hope to hear he acknowledged a problem that many others could clearly see.... but then he also said that Collaros didn't need any preseason time.
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7 hours ago, voodoochylde said:
I look at this depth chart and just see a giant hole right up the middle of our defence.
Same old same old.
Kuale, Hurl, Gauthier, Thomas (overuse), even Hecht if S can be considered "middle". Seems like some of the most obvious roster blunders over the last years have come through the middle, especially MLB.
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It seems like the marketing is always trying to push the non-fan into a social/casual fan. There's really very little attention paid to converting a casual fan to a dedicated fan by the league, team or national/local broadcasters. I assume there a lot more financial motivation to gaining casual fans, but it seems to leave a lot of people left wanting more depth. TSN simply chooses a storyline and tries to constantly (annoyingly) highlight it throughout the game, even when the flow of the game doesn't fit their chosen narrative. I assume some of that is just trying to retain the attention of the casual fan and force a storyline rather than letting the game tell a more dynamic story.
I wouldn't expect a current coach to sit down and discuss anything from the current season. Having a retired player/coach do something more in depth, especially with video would be great. Could be produced by teams, league or even PA. They could even just provide general insights and use clips from current/previous seasons to give examples.
My ultimate dream would be an expansion of something like CFL Plus where old games can be streamed and some original content could be produced. Surely there would be some fans willing to pay for streaming access to older games or even just to replay earlier games from the season. I'd think that would be a decent avenue for hooking casual fans into getting more in depth and giving serious fans some extra incentive to shell out some extra money.
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2 hours ago, wbbfan said:
I know it is a long standing un written rule at most every level of football that media doesn't talk to an ast unless its cleared by the HC, and virtually always just a media scrum thing.
I'm fairly certain there was a time where this was very strictly imposed in Bomberland. I'm thinking when Kelly was going into his downward spiral of hatred with the media, but I could be wrong.
48 minutes ago, johnzo said:sometimes in the oughts he had a Q&A column on cfl.ca and I wrote in asking how the defensive signals got from the bench to the defense. In response he wrote me a little book on how the D does its job. I was super impressed that he took the time to go deep with some fan on the Internet.
edit: and to follow onto the question of how to make the coach's show better, I would love more inside baseball about how the game actually works.
as someone who never played the game above the city-league flag football level, I find pro football is an astonishingly fast cycle of planning, reacting, and executing and the mechanics of that are fascinating to me. like, I would love to hear our center talk about how he calls the signals at the line ... the fact that the center can take the play call, eye the D, and then call out useful blocking assignments in one or two seconds in a potentially very loud stadium ... that seems like straight-up sorcery to me. or I would love to hear our QB give an eye view talk about blitz recognition, or about how he makes his RPO decisions.That's why I'd listen to the coaches show before, every once in a while there would be a nugget that I'd learn something from and give me greater insight to the game. I still thirst for this and this forum is where I get the most of it.
I was recommended this book - Take Your Eye Off the Ball 2.0: How to Watch Football by Knowing Where to Look - Pat Kirwan, David Seigerman - Google Books - I don't know from where, possibly here. Haven't read it yet, as I was hoping to find a source more dedicated to Canadian football, but this may have to do.
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Looking to take my 3 year old son to his first Bombers experience by taking him to see some TC this week. I don't think his attention span would make it worth bringing him to a game yet. My question - would it be better to take him to a normal practice or the walkthrough on Thursday? Thursday might work better for our schedule, but I'm concerned walkthrough wouldn't provide much excitement for a rookie Bomber fan.
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21 hours ago, JCon said:
Had to dig my card out of a drawer today for a hold pickup. Wasn't sure where it was. I've been using the app for a while.
App works for me to scan the barcode, just not requesting holds or updating information. Last I saw was that they expected the problem to last for a while.
Now that I have to use the website instead of the app, I've found an interesting service where they suggest books. You fill out a form and a librarian gets to you within 5 days to make 5 suggestions. I was impressed with the suggestions made for me. - Five-in-Five Book List (libwizard.com)
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5 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
He's a receiver. It was pretty obvious that we had no stretch downfield as Schoen couldn't do it. So, why wouldn't you play a CFL veteran receiver? Why didn't we sign a couple of other guys? Like Booch & others have said, roster management sucks.
I don't think the receivers were the reason we had no stretch downfield.
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10 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:
Its been a great 4 year run and I know I shouldn't complain after 4 straight cups with 2 wins but the past two years have been so frustrating.
Especially when we played not to lose two years in a row. We said it was just another game and the rest didn't matter - we played like it was obvious we would win and we just had to wait for that outcome.
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I don't come around these parts as frequently since what went down with the political posts, but I appreciate the kind words.
I've ruined a few floor mats trying to help people get out quickly, but it can be a good quick fix. One time my buddy plowed a friend's brand new truck deep into a ditch after a hockey tournament in Lynn Lake. Not even the ol' floor mat trick would have helped in that deep snow. Just a lot of digging and pushing. Fortunately we had a whole line of hockey players in the truck to help with the pushing.