HardCoreBlue

I'm with Booch. Good is the enemy of great. 🙂

Traditionally C's are given to the 'best' player on the ice.
Best being the argument you give the C to a player who puts a lot of G's and A's on the board because then their actions match their words.
I've always thought this to be very narrow minded in what makes a true great leader in sport on and off the ice/field.

was my choice all along.... has all the intangibles you want in a Captain. 

mic-ed up....
 

Two buddies looking after each other at the expense of KJ if I was being cynical.

And he still chose poorly! 

Have I mentioned to anyone lately the Argos suck?

Have I mentioned to anyone lately the Argos suck?

Doesn’t over talk too, and it’s all good football stuff. Not random stupid crap. 
 Have plop and blm split each game and the broadcasts would be dramatically better. 

Plop in the booth is pretty good I like it 

Have I mentioned to anyone lately the Argos suck?

Have I mentioned to anyone lately the Argos suck?

Have I mentioned to anyone lately the Argos suck?

Every. Time. 

Yup a few will have some explaining to do.
I’m constantly amazed how BO keeps the pace with his style of running. I’m guessing he has adopted the mantra of our man Milt that your body is your temple. Treat it as such.

the tldr to a long and for some boring post is that innovation came to the spread to pass and spread to run offence. It didn’t come to fb. These offences found ways to take tacklers out of the equation while allowing for more of an offensive threat with more creative twists
 
 
 A lot happened over 20 ish years that killed the fb, 2 back pro form offence. 
 In the 70s the first wave of spread offence innovators started to have great success. First at hs then college and the nfl. From mouse davis to bill Walsh. These guys had their first batch of disciples take power in the 80s, and saw the most successful nfl version in the 49ers. 
In the cfl, when don Mathew’s was playing a lot of cover 0 teams at first tried to counter with going heavier with double tight sets. But then real success came with 5 and 6 wr spread sets and just getting the ball out quickly. 
 At that point the fb was already becoming rarer. The west coast possession passing offence that the nfl hadn’t embraced beyond a few coaches had flourished in colleges. That created a plethora of highly accomplished QBs with no pro path other than the cfl. 
 Mean while at the college level talented athletic big guys made bigger impacts at other positions and wanted to play those positions with better pro futures. So the talent pool at fb fell, while wr talent pools stayed pretty high. 
QBs became more and more athletic, which makes pistol and shot gun even more viable. The on set of pistol greatly reduced the wild snaps to the qb. 
In the late 90s the zone run scheme had the same explosion in disciples as the spread had in college and hs in the 70s and 80s. 
 Teams who wanted to dominate with the run found it easier to run fewer big bodies  the defence has to have more db types to cover more WRs who aren’t likely to beat a block and make a tackle one on one with a rb. A full time fb just means a db is off for a lber and that’s an extra guy in the box playing the back field. 
 The spread to run concept and the flex 11/21 packages with pass catching tes put two guys on the field in place of the fb. Kr types who could be schemed in to run and catch out of the slot while running jet motion, and big guys who can block down but can also run and catch and be hard to tackle for dbs. 
 All while the fb position stayed stagnant. 
the two rb sets were replaced with motion. A wr on jet motion before the snap or at the snap is harder to defend and opens more gaps plus demands a contain guy on the edge.
This and mobile QBs created ways to take a tackler out of the equation.
 With the size of the field in the cfl it was always much more suited to the extra passing threat especially stretching the field side line to sideline. Even more so now with the hash mark move. 
 Though teams have become soo homogenous that they we now see the bombers running two extra ol and a fb while defences just done have the depth and talent to counter that with. Funnily enough last year was the first time the nfl saw an increase in fb use in over a decade too.  
 
 
 
Idk great talent but with Habba sitting on the pr that’s a big spend to get his rights. 
If we were gonna spend those assets we should go get a big dt. 

The only answer to that is:always "yes", with an inconvenient time and  location  capped off with a no-show.
 

Cant remember if it was Riderfans or on here... But funniest comment by far:
The safe word is 'no crossover'

When u run like that tho...u have less risk of injury as u are the punisher...and as we seen ..guys stop wanting to get in way...how often did u see guys like Pringle ..Reaves...Walter Payton...even Harris get hurt...not often

High school long-standing rivalry football games are fun in my experience 

Tre Ford throwing his receivers under the bus. Keep that in the locker room, take the heat for the int’s in public. Have a chat with ZC, you’ll learn.

Makes sense but throw it anyways and trust your player. The worst case scenario of losing has absolutely no negative impact on us.

Makes sense but throw it anyways and trust your player. The worst case scenario of losing has absolutely no negative impact on us.

At all levels teams hardly play under centre so usually have a tailback and blocking/receiving back or 5 receivers.
With the QB starting 3 or 5 yards off that’s really too deep for I with two backs.  We have a split back formation and some wing back stuff with motion where we get the ball to more of a “fullback” at the high school level but it’s all misdirection stuff and not really down hill.  In my opinion you’ll only see multiple backs from teams that are run heavy with a running QB.  Otherwise you want to spread out the D.
Hamilton is pretty firmly in 3rd in the East.  They’ve got a two game lead on the crossover with 1 game in hand.  Ottawa is basically done.