TrueBlue4ever

Toronto can compete. MLSE has oceans of money and the Argos are a thimbleful of water for them. The problem is MLSE doesn’t WANT to spend any money on the team.

Nah, some will still trash him no matter what. Once viewpoints are established that someone is no good, a segment of the site will double down in spite of success rather than concede their point as being premature or incorrect. Or will conveniently forget that they made the diss in the first place.

Maurice was asked this in his pre-season media availability. Media wondered if Nic would get a look on PP1 and Maurice said he wanted to but Ehlers threw him a curve, and liked his role as the lead guy on PP2. Here is the interview, go to the 1:40 mark. https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=389781522590664&_rdr Now, it is possible the interpretation was “I wanted to move him but since he was doing well on the second unit I decided not to move him” as opposed to “ he asked to stay on the second unit” but when Kelly Moore re-played it he said Ehlers made the request to stay on 2 as the QB. Not in the clip but also in that presser, PoMo ended the session after questions about the vets and how the rookies looked with “well you all know it doesn’t matter because I love the vets and refuse to give the round guys a shot, right? Isn’t that the story with me?” Throwing major shade at the armchair GMs on Twitter, it was hilarious and beautiful.Media all got a big laugh out of it.

Yep, lots of stuff can happen during the bye week. If Mourtada goes 5 for 5 and makes a game-winning kick, that would create a possible dilemma. And this place would lose its mind with angst.

I guess it will all shake down at some point, but lots of possible assumptions that could be made, which can be a fool’s errand to guess which one it is. I will wait until a presser from O’Shea for clarity. Who knows, maybe Mourtada has one more game in him before all the changes occur.

We didn’t get Crapigna until after his original comment to be fair. But it apparently is easy to bring in kickers on the fly. Now, as to the quality of those kickers, we’ll……..,

Ok, this would suggest Castillo is not a slam dunk to come here if they are stockpiling kickers. Sounds like training camp auditions 2.0 going on right now. TBurg called it back in pre-season when he said they shouldn’t just gift the job to Liegghio and should bring in some competition. Oh well, I guess week 11 is better than nothing.

I would think we can’t, but I am not sure how this NFL option stuff works. Perhaps this is why we got him for a 4th rounder, if it is only his rights but not the body we traded for (let’s see who wails about giving up precious CFL draft picks, lol).

So he opted out of his BC contract to go to the NFL. So does this trade force him back to the CFL, or did we just acquire his rights but he can still opt out for the NFL even under contract to us?

We should demand royalties from cfl.ca for doing their work for them. 😁

Didn’t we cover this already?

First - it’s just at practice while Wheeler is in COVID protocol. Doesn’t mean Wheeler isn’t playing tomorrow. Second - Nash is a righty and was directly replacing Wheeler (at practice, mind you) taking the passing role that Wheeler has. Perfetti is a lefty so that would change the whole power play system for one practice. Third - Maurice went to move Ehlers up to the number one unit and Ehlers said he wanted to stay and be the quarterback of the second unit, being the player who drove the power play on that unit (like Wheeler is the QB on the first unit). Nothing more sinister than that.

Legit question - how much of Darvin Adam’s gameplay is “run a deep route, or throw blocks if we set up a hitch screen?” Am I wrong that a sizeable amount of his game was going deep on every play and getting one or two bombs thrown his way? I know it’s not that simple, but wasn’t he the designated deep threat for the most part?

Even then, when I visit the farm, I don’t want to spend time in the pig sty.

The last thing Hajrullahu wants is to be tied up in a CFL contract until December if he feels he is a phone call away from joining any NFL team in any given week. He will hold out for another shot for the entirety of this NFL season I’d wager. I’m sure he has plenty of tape to send to interested teams.

Why would you ever vacation there????????????

Hard to know. No obvious buckle or twist when he spun after catching the ball, but it looked awkward and he stumbles in. Then the hit was on his thigh but he grabs the back of his leg. Hard to know what triggered the injury, or what it in fact is. Grabbed behind and just above the knee, so is it a hamstring or a posterior crucial ligament?

Except I did not say what you say I said. (This is starting to sound like an episode of Three’s Company🤣) I said we clinch first with a win - comma - or a tie AND a Sask tie or loss. We clinch second if Sask. loses OR we lose by 20 or less to BC. I do try to strive for accuracy, so thank you for proof-reading and checking my work, much appreciated. But as we have all said, JUST WIN BABY and it is all academic. There is one more playoff scenario this coming week. Ottawa is eliminated from playoff contention with a loss AND a Montreal win or tie, or a loss AND a win by BC.

Nope, factored that in as best I could. If Sask won out or went 4-0-1 and we lost out, they would have more points than us. So a Bomber win OR a Sask loss is required (or the aforementioned combo of ties).

Close, but not entirely accurate. In scenarios 2 or 3 either Calgary or BC could still finish ahead of us (but not both). Right now, the ONLY scenario in which we finish 3rd Is with BC and Sask. passing us. This week, we clinch first with a win, or a tie AND a Sask. tie or loss. Beyond this week, we would need the above scenarios you listed in 2 or 3 PLUS a loss by 20 or less to BC AND a loss by 1 point to Calgary. To clinch 2nd and a home playoff game this week, we require no worse than a loss by 20 to BC OR a Sask. loss.

Clean things up. That’s the attitude. Be happy, but not comfortable. Be satisfied, but not complacent. Be confident, but not lazy. Be proud, but not arrogant. We went 1-0 this week. Celebrate tonight, get back to work tomorrow. We are 0-0 again and working towards 1-0 next week. Calm, even-keeled, methodical, relentless. That’s the O’Shea way.

“The dark tribe” would be an awesome name for this defence, if it was not to be mistaken for a racial slur, which I am certain it was not intended to be. Kind of like a black hole (again no racial underpinnings), it sucks the life out of everything, it is unstoppable, and once you are in its grasp, nothing, not even light escapes. 91-6 in the fourth quarter, those are TEMCO numbers. A sight to behold.

I don’t see anything controversial with this take. Harris is not the fastest guy out there, he will not win a 40 yard foot race to the end zone, but he reads his blocks very well, knows when to let the blocking develop and when to burst through the hole, and often survives first contact and churns out another 3-5 yards when being tackled rather than being stopped dead. And his blocking a and especially catching are what set him apart from others.

You have made up your mind on Mourtada no matter what, so OK. But 4 out of 5 is objectively and improvement over 4 out of 10, unless of course you took your math class in Saskatchewan. And when Crapigna wasn’t trying field goals from the 40 in the second quarter, it was O’Shea’s smart tactics rather than a weak leg, but up by 7 with two minutes left it’s now a kicker failure to punt away and pin the opponent on their 10 with the best defence in a generation? I can admit that there is a LOT of work to do in the kicking game and I still hold my breath, probably will for most of the rest of the season, but. can you find any way to admit that this week was a step in the right direction, rather than another week of “blow it all up and being in another guy and start again”? We all fretted about what would happen if we had a game where we needed the kicks to win a game, well now we have seen 2 games like that and both times our kickers came through and got us a win. I am satisfied but not overly complacent about how things turned out for this week anyway, and hope Mourtada continues to work at getting better at his mechanics.

If O’Shea didn’t cut him last week, he’s not going to cut him this week. Save yourself the ulcer and put the worries aside until next Saturday. We can all navel-gaze again after the BC game.