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34 minutes ago, 17to85 said:
Shoulda just kept legghio to punt.
Probably not in the budget to pay Castillo and Legghio. Don't know how much Legghio made last year but it was more than a global.
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3 hours ago, Tracker said:
I will be watching (and hoping) for LaBarriere to break out and be good enough that Streveler worries.
Speaking of him just happened upon this article about him coming here https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/apr/17/northern-exposure-former-eastern-washington-quarte/
Looking forward to seeing what he can do up here.
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1 hour ago, Mike said:
For whatever reason, I feel like I’d really lost sight of how many interesting prospects the Bombers brought in this off-season. Not too worried about the massive amounts of WR or DB, that’ll sort itself out with reps but I do appreciate some of these names … real high calibre guys being brought up here.
5 names to watch in my obviously incredibly educated opinion: WR KJ Hill, DE John Waggoner, DT Jamal Woods, DB Travon Fuller, DB Juan Lua
Bonus name, I think it’s a foregone conclusion he’s QB3: Eric Barriere
Bonus name if Janarion Grant doesn’t come back: WR Aron Cruickshank
33 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:Burmeister intrigues me. He was a decent QB at a fairly high level (ACC). Started for Oregon as a freshman so just on raw talent there's something there. He just converted to receiver with Rams last year. Kind of wondering if they are looking at him in both spots....or even just QB.
He must really have NFL dreams to come up here as a receiver because I have no doubt he could play QB in the UFL based on some of the guys playing there.
Thanks guys for rescuing this thread!
Time to get excited for camp where we hear one good thing about a guy and then can imagine him being an all-star! Can't wait!
- Stickem, Bigblue204, Noeller and 3 others
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2 hours ago, wbbfan said:
This will probably piss some people off who through the lens of nostalgia will remember sellers as a perfect player but here goes.
Big mike was such a rare and unique talent, he was much more valuable than a fb, but at the same time less effective in some areas than other much lesser FBs.
He was, one of the greatest blocking backs in football history. He was as good as an extra tackle in both run pro and pass pro.
He had tremendous hands, can’t count how many times I saw him pick passes out of the air or off his shoe laces. But he had a tendency to look up field and drop some easier ones.
with a head of steam he was one of the hardest guys to tackle in the league.
But this was also his biggest fault. He needed a good bit of room to get up to speed. If contact was made with in a few yards of him getting the ball, he was much easier to tackle. Most FBs excel in short yardage. We frequently used blink in short yardage because he hit the hole soo fast and hard he was tough to stop. He could also squirt though a tiny gap and turn a 1 yard dive into a 50 yard gain.
Sellers didn’t run particularly well out of a fb position. For instance the game Charlie missed and where mike decimated the riders defence in Winnipeg, we ran out of extemely deep sets with him 7 yards back, or on delays from shot gun. He had a big td production season in the nfl where they did the same with him, or wrapped him from the back side h back spot to the play side.
Sellers however, was also one of the best teams players. From blocking, to kick cover where he broke into the league. He was a pro bowl caliber teams guy, blocker, red zone threat, great catcher, and had devastating power.
He wasn’t alstott, but he was probably the most valuable player at fb in the modern and semi modern history of the league.
Thanks for this great summary. I wish there were more games from this era available to re-watch. Fuzzy memories from 20+ years ago just aren't the same for me.
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Or basically anything on the main page here: https://www.cfl.ca/
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12 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Amazing two years ago we had no idea who dalton Schoen on. Just think about that. Such a dynamic receiver.
That's one thing I love about the CFL. You never know who from the long list of off-season signings will be an all-star.
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RIP Dave.
I became a hardcore fan watching those 2000 - 2004 bombers.- Jesse, Mark H., rebusrankin and 2 others
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2 minutes ago, 17to85 said:
To my eye some of the hits he took were his own doing hesitating.
Fair enough. He does like to hold on to the ball to make the big play.
Taking more hits can lead to hesitating and taking even more hits.
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47 minutes ago, 17to85 said:
Is that realistic? Every qb gets hit.
Every QB gets hit sometimes, some more than others. Gotta keep it as low as possible.
What I meant was it wasn't time catching up to Collaros, it was the number of hits he took last year that was the issue.
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39 minutes ago, Noeller said:
the thing about Collaros was consistency. He had at least a couple of games where he looked like his old self and tore the other team a new *******.... and then there were games where it looked like time finally caught up with him..... not sure if we can expect more regression, or if it's an aberration...??
Keep him clean and it won't be an issue.
- coach17, Bigblue204 and wbbfan
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1 hour ago, coach17 said:
I honestly dont think Strevy signs with Brown penciled in as the starting QB.
That makes a lot of sense to me too. Easier to sign for less now when you have the chance to show that you can take over for the old guy over the next couple years.
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1 hour ago, Rich said:
Here is a depressing thought for everyone watching these games from the 80s.
Watching a 1984 game today in 2023 is like watching a 1945 game in 1984
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Yes, I feel old.
Even worse since we're a couple months into 2024 now!
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1 minute ago, Mike said:
I guess … except if we get an injury at pretty much any position other than the defensive secondary.
Augustine is not a full time running back (although we’d go American there), Jeremy Murphy is nowhere near as proven as BOLO nor does he bring the same toolset, our DL depth is nowhere near as good as some of these other teams, our OL depth has been thinner than it’s ever been. We’ve got 7-8 starting calibre players and a bunch of kick chasers. That’s about it and that’s not good enough for a team with championship aspirations. The draft will be huge for us.
Yup and those kick chasers haven't even looked that great at chasing kicks.
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8 minutes ago, 17to85 said:
Kelly didn't have much of a reputation to start with.
Won't somebody please think of the precious reputations of Chad Kelly and John Murphy
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5 hours ago, johnzo said:
I listened to that game on the radio and I can still hear the Bob Irving call.
"He dropped it. He. Just. Dropped. It."
edit: found the play on youtube:
Damn that still hurts 19 years later
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Can't ever fault a guy for trying to get paid for the job he's doing.
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I'm mostly thinking of this play when I say his arm is nothing special haha
https://www.cfl.ca/2023/08/20/outstanding-td-grab-from-samuel-emilus/
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7 minutes ago, bryan35 said:
Ricky Ray?
Ray had the timing down and nobody said he had a big arm.
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10 minutes ago, Booch said:
Dolegala can throwit deep...but not with any authority...long arching soft tosses....so easy to adjust and would be a interception machine...Unless he has 3 Lawlers/Gino Lewis's and push off Rhymes to win the floater battle...same deep ball as the Faj...just that he can get it downfield a lot further
was a reason he couldn't stick in the NFL with his height
He also has been poorly coached and holds the ball in the pocket, and when moving around trying to move his launch point in a really poor position and will be a fumble machine as well and be strip sacked a ton
That's it right there. He can get it deep it just takes a while to get there.
2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)
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LB preview https://www.bluebombers.com/2024/04/24/positional-preview-3-the-linebackers-2/
Not a lot of fresh talent here. Hope the couple guys brought in are good because Biggie is on the downslope.
DB preview from yesterday too https://www.bluebombers.com/2024/04/23/positional-preview-2-the-defensive-backs/
Offense lost but the D still allowed Cody @$%!ing Fajardo to put up 3 TDs on them. Almost like it is a team game or something and not all the blame can be put on one player.