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Quarterback questions for 2024:
BLM returns to Calgary: is he washed up or is he finally injury free? Has he had to change his throwing motion? Can he still scramble? Does he have all the CFL savvy he used to have or is his confidence shaken?
Do the Stampeders have a competent quarterback this year?
Will Cam Dukes in Toronto become the real thing? Will Kelly ever played another game in the CFL?
Was Bethel Thompson now in Edmonton ever the real thing?
Can Vernon Adams carry the Lions?
How many more new quarterbacks will be brought in this year by the Saskatchewan Roughriders?
Can Brown in Ottawa adapt to a whole new culture and completely different blocking schemes? Or do we see yet another quarterback controversy?
Does y Michael Fajardo still have a hot hand to go with his offence?
How many downs per game can we expect out of Chris Sreveler this year here in Winnipeg?
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51 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Oops.... Sorry.
ONE OF THE MONITORS changed the title of the original title to the ABOVE
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3 hours ago, CrazyCanuck89 said:
Are they favoring less talented players or are they considered less talent due to your inferiority complex?
The only people who discuss inferiority complexes are those who have one
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The big question in Saskatchewan is what to do when Trevor Harris, THE glass quarterback, goes down to injury again. Will Shea Patterson be the solution?
Patterson has been with the Kansas City Chiefs, B.C. Lions, Montreal Alouettes, Michigan Panthers, and New Orleans Breakers... Is he more than just a journeyman? He does seem to have some scrambling ability and that's big. But once the defences have had the chance to study him, will he be able to show starters skills?
Personally, I don't think he has the jam. Our star quarterbacks don't go this route in our league. You get two maybe three years and if you don't emerge impressively, it usually does not happen – – at best you become a career backup.
Now if Regina puts a superior team on the field then maybe he can get the job done. However, that's a big IF.
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Keon Hatcher, Dominique Rhymes and Lucky Whitehead will not be there for Vernon Adams to throw to.
Will Justin McInnis, Ayden Eberhardt and hopeful Travis Fulgham, a Philadelphia Eagles castoff, be enough to at least equal or upgrade the receiving core? Will these players even get enough balls thrown their way as the BC defence undergoes massive rebuilding.
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42 minutes ago, greenrider55 said:
Riders signed Marcus Sayles, recently released by BC.
I could be wrong, but he’s kinda washed up isn’t he?
This is the problem that we find when players leave for an extra 10 or $15,000. If they're not fantastic that year of their switch, their overall value goes down so much with missed games and teams trying to re-sign them on the cheap after they have been cut. They also lose the team chemistry that might've made them above average players. Player agents are so often self-serving and urge their clients to make these kinds of switches. Just stop and think about what fate has been for veteran players that have left the bombers for other teams.
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3 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:
You're not going to get new fans with a 30min halftime show. That's just never going to work. Should they try to solve the attendance issues with CGY and TO during GC halftime too? Lol.
what I would like to see is to bring in high quality local bands and forget about trying to get celebrities… further, I would get them on the field bandstand for an hour before the game, PLUS, the halftime show. That might attract a lot of the under 40 crowd and even a bunch of teenagers.
Community-based teams are strengthened by the community, if we let them.- Pete Catan's Ghost and wbbfan
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2 minutes ago, BigBlue said:
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Yeah, I am very concerned about the bombers brain trust choice of the lineup on Friday night. Not only did they rob the fans but they also rob the team stars for an opportunity to tune up at game speed. Now Thursday night is in jeopardy because the coaches think they can make instant pudding with a whole bunch of linemen and other players who are just not used to playing with each other, even a little bit. Changes take time to adapt but the brain trust is denying that.
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6 hours ago, Noeller said:6 hours ago, Noeller said:
I'm very concerned about how rusty a lot of the 1s will be, especially on O. I feel like it's gonna look outta sync for the first bit... Especially Brady trying to get used to the blocking at game speed again.
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"It’s easy to understand why so many people are bullish on the club given that its veteran core from last season remains mostly intact"
I am taking just a glimmer of hope that we have not done anything stupid or disastrous in the preseason and are very close to having THE right people. Yes I'm putting it in the Negatron phraseology.
Stated in its opposite, I think we done good. We are down to very few "aging – out" problems and they are easy to identify. As for all our newbies it just feels like this is the most changes we have made in half a decade.
The only identifiable huge problem we have is our kicking game. I don't think we can "handle it internally"! We gotta go find some one, (or two, or three.)I expect Montréal will be more ready to go on Thursday night then we will be. At least we will have well rested enthusiasm!
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30 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:
In contrast to O'Shea wishing for more penalties and turnovers.
Not even you could get that wrong!
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I like the alouette attitude here, compared to what the bombers did on Friday night:
TSN: " I don’t like to say the (pre-season) scores don’t matter, because when the scoreboard is on the objective is to win. But it’s also to get better every week. I feel today made us better as a football team,” Alouettes coach Jason Maas said.
“We’ll correct the things we need to, but the things we pride ourselves on is try not to take too many penalties and not turn over the ball, kind of bit us a bit tonight"
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the stamps 2 victories were meaningless ... I still think they fight with the Riders for the basement
toronto has enough talent to still win without a QB: special teams + decent D
- JohnnyAbonny and Noeller
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2 minutes ago, Atomic said:
4 - OL Gabe Wallace, WR Kevens Clercius, RB/FB Michael Chris-Ike, DL Kyle Samson. That's all four second round picks.
DE Owen Hubert made the practice roster. He was our 8th round pick .
They also put Ian Leroux on the suspended list as he is going back to school. He is probably our next long snapper after Benson retires.
so about 80% ???
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7 hours ago, Mark H. said:
What is the fan loyalty cost - of not using preseason to properly evaluate talent?
Our season-ticket holders and other fans would actually like to see some battles going on and a certain amount of competitiveness. They're the ones who pay the money.
I don't buy that you just throw out all the vets and let the rookies stand there in their underwear. To evaluate a player you need some degree of game -like conditions and we had none. We might as well have watched them do drills; that would have been more fun.
We should've at least tried to put out enough skilled players to give us a distant open of winning. Anything less is fan abuse. It's totally selfish with disdain for the paying customer.
It's also a team spirit killer. If were going to do this kind of thing in a preseason game, we would be better off to kill the entire preseason and do something else instead. I can think of lots of ideas. We have a president and the general manager that are capable of thinking and enjoyment.What we did Friday night prevented any notion of personality evaluation. You can evaluate nothing when you are shooting fish in a barrel. There is no sense of harmony or team. You cannot see the subtleties of what real talent can do in a noncompetitive situation.
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How many of this years draft picks made the club?
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3 minutes ago, bigg jay said:
Fox was brought in mid-June last year, Cole was mid-July the year before while Lawler was in September 2018.
3 people since 2018?
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17 minutes ago, bluedawg said:
I don't think this is true at all actually... Miles Fox last year. Brian Cole and previously Malik Clements. Kenny Lawler was originally cut by BC before we picked him up in 2018.
Michael Griffin was cut from Calgary after playing the full year there last year and made PR.
Were those not off-season pickups? I am talking about players brought in during the season. Does that make sense?
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47 minutes ago, Mike said:
I’ve wondered if we were going to call Worthy. We have the cash to make a move with Lawson out for the year.
So now we have the season-opening roster. If history is any predictor of the future, then this roster is going to look remarkably similar to our playoff roster this fall. MOS sticks to his starting lineup all year. Changes only get made when there is an injury, and when they say "next"; there is a preset pecking order to fill that spot. This is the Marine gospel.
Unless there is a massive injury problem at a certain position, Walters doesn't make trades during the season. He's a good GM but he just hasn't made trades to simply upgrade an average player.
We also have not been picking up other teams cuts, traditionally. There is likely two or three players who have been cut from other teams, that could immediately help us on special teams as in punter & returner. There is likely a couple of dandy receivers that we could look at as well. I don't know this has anything to do with loyalty; is just the way we do things around here. In this, it seems to me, we are uniquely alone.
The other amazing thing is that we just do not pick up veteran cuts from other teams. I don't know but often we won't pony up the dough they want. Or maybe we just don't want them breaking into our culture. This board often points out certain available players from other teams, but that just leaves us standing around our tongues hanging out - - no action, not even sniffing. Sigh!And if our scouting staff does come up with an excellent import talent, he is guaranteed to be on the PR for the rest of the year in preparation for 2025… Nothing sooner.
So what we see right now is what we get for the season. Our opening roster is our closing roster except that some of the PR comes on to replace the injured. That's just what we do.
So don't worry; Be Happy!
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what about fan loyalty? the blue have the best fans in the league ... friday nite was complete dis respect for the entertainment value of the loyalists in the stands, treating "the game" as another practice ... there is contempt for managements picky self service
what is the non loyalist cost of zero competitive entertainment for the season ticket holders and their wallets?
- Bigblue204 and Noeller
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14 minutes ago, Goalie said:
Yes something about wanting to tell all the guys first. It makes sense.
the rest of the league makes the same consideration, do they not?
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https://www.cfl.ca/2024/06/01/cutdown-tracker-teams-make-their-final-roster-moves-2/
only BC & Winnipeg have not published their cut downs
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1 hour ago, JuranBoldenRules said:
Here's a cut at Week 1 roster (Need 6 Canadians on O every snap, 1 Canadian on D every snap):
QB- Collaros, Streveler, Wilson
RB- OLIVIERA,
AUGUSTINE, ROSERY, Smith*
REC- WOLITARSKY, DEMSKI, Lawler, Schoen, Johnson
CLERCIUS
OL- KOLANKOWSKI, DOBSON, NEUFELD, Bryant, Lofton
WALLACE
DE- Jefferson, Haba/Garbutt (whoever is healthy)
Upshaw*, HEBERT
DT- Fox, Adams
THOMAS, SCHMEKEL
SAM- Cole
MAC- Gemmel
WIL- Wilson
Petrishen*, KRAMDI, GAUTHIER, CADWALLADER, Karamoko (G)
CB- Ford, Fuller
FORD
HB- Holm (could shift to corner), Nichols
S- HALLETT, KELLY
K- Castillo*
P- Sheahan (G)
LS- BENSON
Practice Roster: Thomas (LB), CHRIS-IKE (RB), Weitz (G), Bridges (DB), Coleman (OT), Barnett (Rec), MURPHY (REC), VLAHOGIANNIS (OL), Ivy (OL), Norman (DB/LB), SAMSON (DL), CHARBONNEAU (LB)
IR: Bighill, Alexander, Haba/Garbutt, LAWSON, ELI
you need to add Adams at LB
GDT Can the Bombers D shutdown the Als?
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Every bomber fan knows that the offence of any team in the CFL takes longer to develop than the defence. The linemen and the blockers behind them need to know what's happening immediately beside them, how to adapt to their fellow teammates. The running backs need to know where the holes are going to emerge. The blocking schemes on passing plays have similar challenges. You can't learn this in practices...
The Bomber Brain Trust decided player evaluation for the few positions that were open was far more important than getting the veterans in harmony with each other. So we have major rust to deal with, more so than usual this season.
There has been such a major talent improvement on our defence that just maybe we can shut down what was a very hot offence in Montréal at the end of last season.
On offence Brady Olivera is going to need a lot of determination as he tries to guess where the holes will be as his O line feel each other out. He's pretty good at seeing what is developing. If he gets 50 yards of rushing that would be pretty good. I'm not sure how open he will be on checkoff plays and other swing passes.
Collaros is going to get sacked a lot on many missed assignments. But he can scramble and is very good at it. He loves the long bomb and we can only guess how many touchdowns he will throw. That's how the offence is going to score, I suspect.
What I think will make or break the game tomorrow is how many touchdowns the defence can supply on turnovers. Maybe one pick six and one or two forced fumbles. There is a real chance pressures on the quarterback will be up significantly this year.
How else can we win this game?