BigBlueFanatic

1. DL - sucked
2. Game plan -sucked
3. Secondary -sucked
Crappy Honker - LB’s… sucked
Dishonourable mention - the Stampede Bowl trophy is fugly.
HM - me, for putting as much effort into this post as most of the team did in tonight’s game.

1. DL - sucked
2. Game plan -sucked
3. Secondary -sucked
Crappy Honker - LB’s… sucked
Dishonourable mention - the Stampede Bowl trophy is fugly.
HM - me, for putting as much effort into this post as most of the team did in tonight’s game.

1. DL - sucked
2. Game plan -sucked
3. Secondary -sucked
Crappy Honker - LB’s… sucked
Dishonourable mention - the Stampede Bowl trophy is fugly.
HM - me, for putting as much effort into this post as most of the team did in tonight’s game.

1. DL - sucked
2. Game plan -sucked
3. Secondary -sucked
Crappy Honker - LB’s… sucked
Dishonourable mention - the Stampede Bowl trophy is fugly.
HM - me, for putting as much effort into this post as most of the team did in tonight’s game.

1. DL - sucked
2. Game plan -sucked
3. Secondary -sucked
Crappy Honker - LB’s… sucked
Dishonourable mention - the Stampede Bowl trophy is fugly.
HM - me, for putting as much effort into this post as most of the team did in tonight’s game.

1. DL - sucked
2. Game plan -sucked
3. Secondary -sucked
Crappy Honker - LB’s… sucked
Dishonourable mention - the Stampede Bowl trophy is fugly.
HM - me, for putting as much effort into this post as most of the team did in tonight’s game.

yeah all those linebackers are a luxury this team can't afford anymore. Time to make some hard decisions and give your aging DL some actual help. 

I agree. I think for the rest of the year Wheatfall and Clercius need to be the 1-2, Schoen I’m afraid while not *toast* won’t ever be what he was.
Demski is a good 3rd /sometimes deep threat, but again he’s never going to be healthy for a full season. It’s always going to be an ankle or something, especially with the way they beat the **** out of him with the close to LOS/RB type stuff they use him for. He just can’t be a consistent top option at this stage of his career. 

Mitchell is a big unknown but I have to imagine he’d be able to do more than Sterns in this kind of offence. Even as a field stretcher like they used Pokey Wilson last year. 

Add: Having Kody Case and Gavin Cobb as the only receivers on the PR is a catastrophic fail by the organization as a whole

Yeah we don't really have the receivers to beat zone in any way.  Not much YAC.  Demski and Schoen are busted up from old/ongoing injuries.
I've liked Wheatfall on some screen/hitch looks into the field.
Our QB doesn't really run quick stuff.  But IMO at the moment we have one receiver out there who is a consistent battler for 50/50 balls, and that's Wheatfall.
Just a mess the past couple seasons trying to fill a couple receiver slots to build an offense.

This is a slippery slope.

Stamps attempted 18 passes all game. They got up big and then played not to lose. The way the DLine was getting dog walked and the DBs were getting outworked by the receivers in the first half, had the offense had the juice to turn it into a shootout Adams likely would have ended up with 400 yards.

1.  MOS/coaching staff. Just woefully unprepared in every aspect. The entire team had a lackadaisical mentality like the game would eventually just work itself out.  From starting a guy with the flu at defensive tackle to not being able to use a challenge in the most blatantly obvious situation. Playing dink and dunk down 3 touchdowns.  Just baffling decision making all around. 

2. The DL, this partially falls on roster makeup but Willie is already gassed out at week 5, Vaughters was a flat-out bad signing and Jake was good depth a decade ago.  
3. Collaros. 2 pick 6’s and panicked and overthrew a wide open receiver on a sure TD. 
Crappy Honker- Randolph takes a brutal holding penalty on the first drive of the game which more than likely took 6 off the board. 
 Non-Bomber crappy honker- The line judge who was giving Calgary extra full yards on multiple occasions. 
 
HM 
Devin Adams had a good game when he actually saw the field.
Brady had some nice runs when he wasn’t falling down
Clercius.

Yeah the DL was less than useless. 4 games in and willie is totally gassed. Jake is Jake and can barely even be a speed bump anymore. Fix the roster issues. If Eli isn't good enough to take Kolankowski's spot stop dressing him because 7 OL is a luxury this team can't afford. 

It’s a MOS team going into a bye week, no one gives a ****. 

And out trots Jake for no particular reason
Mills drags Jones for 4

This is the **** I’m so frustrated with 
let’s play 2 Canadian defensive tackles when we don’t need to, even though one of them is 53 years old and had diarrhea all week

I yearn for the old days when we had a gluttony of guys coming and going on the d-line who could play.   

On D, our backups break down like this
Don't play Defensive reps: Vaval, Smith, Shay, Gauthier, Novak, Cadwallader, Hallett, and Ayers.
Kornelson and Lawson rotate for Adams when Griffin comes in.  
That's 2 defensive DI's who don't play D, our highest upside young guys (4 of them) don't get reps, and our ends just live on the field. 
 
On O, we bring in Eli for a handful of snaps, as well as MCI, Peterson, and Corcoran is a depth/teams guy. Wallace will come in for short-yardage pack at most. 
 
Carrying MCI, 2 backup OL, and 2 backup NI DTs when half can sub for the other in short-yardage is crazy. I'd keep MCI, which is growing and big enough to bully small guys and talented enough to back up skill positions. But we could easily go down the big inside Canadians and dress someone who plays and has a chance to make a positive impact. When 90% of your snaps are goal-line plays and fg kicks, you don't have much of a chance to contribute. We need guys to fill those roles, but we don't need a half unit of backups for those roles. 
We do need guys who can rotate at positions like DE. You can see the sharp decline in WJs production when we stopped rotating ends with Hansen/Kongbo, and when we stopped employing an imp Nose. If younger, healthier WJ couldn't succeed in that situation, how is older WJ, who has been beaten up by every OL in the league, going to? 
This isn't some controversial, highly theoretical proposition here. We are talking about thinning out the crop of guys who hardly play teams, for guys who are professionals at what we lack. If Bailey and Person don't work out, air lift in more. All they've done, though, is show strong promise when given the chance. So it's pretty reasonable to believe that they would enable us to get more pressure than the virtually none our base fronts have been providing for a long while. 

Yeah the big thing for me is their mainstays on DL are Willie and Jake at 34 years old and the young gun Vaughters at 32.... that's not sustainable. We desperately need an injection of youth at end to keep the old guys fresh. At this rate we'll burn them out by the end of summer.

That's easy, a linebacker. 
This group does an awful lot of good things, but the way they've utilized the defensive line the last few years is bad. Full stop. 
The way they refuse to sit hurt guys in important moments is bad flat out.

That's a fair point. If we piss away this season though, I think things will get ugly. The casual fans aren't going to be happy with us not going the extra mile to win the GC in a host year. Instead of a few of us being upset with roster management, it'll get much bigger. I've got love for all the mafia guys, past and current. They've got to do more than maintain, though. 

What some don't realize is you can have both, i.e., trust, love, admiration, appreciation and loyalty to this 'trinity' but still question some of their decisions. Calling out the good and the bad is okay as long as the pendulum doesn't consistently swing too far at each end.

Why would Osh put Zach back in with a nearly severed finger tip sewed up & most of his throwing hand frozen in last year's Grey Cup? The decision was a disaster.  Why would he play four players who were too injured to play in 2023 & had no business being on the field in the Grey Cup? Because Osh coaches with some kind of warped coaching code that he uses. Instead of playing Wilson or Dolegala, he throws Zach back in who tells the team in the huddle he's in trouble as he can't throw the ball. Then a year earlier, he plays injured guys like Bighill, Alexander, Schoen & Demski in the GC instead of his backupsd at least compete. We lose.... And Noeller wonders why poster here ask questions??? I don't blindly go this is The Trinity therefore they can't be questioned. 

But when the signs are there of continued stupidity of doing exact same things...why would you move on tho? If we fail.again it will be basically from the same issues and it's stems from the HC
5 straight trips...not 5 straight championships
Anything can happen in one game..
And the same combination of things have literally happened in 3 straight avoidable defeats
Guys say this player...or that player sucked...was a big reason...yet fail to put together the fact that they were not properly prepared to succeed...and hence looked bad...aka...coached/schemed
When they perform well they likely were...you have some outlier incidents where a supreme talent and.effort will supersede anything...much like a inferior and declining player can have the best coaching and prep and just still suck...we have been a victim of both in all 3 losses...be it bad gMeplan and no adjustments...poor rostering...bad in game decisions and lack of trusted depth...which circles back to rostering all yr and.riding guys into the dirt all yr with no experienced viable depth behind them...but a buttload of st guys 
We been easily out coached in last 3...badly...will it be 4?? TBD

Feel free to roast this hot take, but if we had couture playing at his average level in those 3 years and gcs, I think we win 2. I also think if we had mop level qbing in the 3 gcs, we win all of em. 
 Zach and kola aren’t the only guys who struggled in those games. But that struggle connection is the most critical on field failure. 
 
I also think dinwiddies coaching staff on our squad would’ve won 2 if not 3. 
 
 

The main reason we’ve lost 3 Grey Cups in a row in my opinion has been the offensive line struggling to protect Zach combined with Zach not being as athletic as he once was. If Vanderpool provides a significant upgrade to the offensive line then I think it’s worth shaping the rest of the lineup around that.