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Logan is a very average running back who like most has the occassional bright spot ... he is on the downside of his career and not nearly anything like he once was He is not capable of carrying the team on his back like harris can and neither is he a dominating player like Cornish He gives the Lions an alternate look ... not much more at least not that I have seen last year or this ... just the odd nice play that any decent back wil give

Then why is Taman having so much trouble replacing Sheets .... who has Montreal come up with ... what has Ottawa done? Why did Buono bring back the Logan retread ... not so easy, really, is it in actual practice? ,

Looks like LeFevour make take the number one spot from Collaros Marsh likely will get a real chance to replace the fair haired Heisman winner Beck the old pro (the 32 year old NFL vet) looks like he has too much to learn The way Reilly plays I bet we are going to see how good Matt Nichols is Harris will be no challenge to Ricky Ray ,,,, ditto Sunseri to Durant Ottawa better hope Burris will start all 18 games again this year Mitchell is winning but Tate seems to have run the team better in the past On average CFL QB's rarely start all 18 games .... Brohm will get his chance but I believe Marvel (yes I know no L) will eventually be our # 2 ... I am not sure why but I have my suspicions

yes good o-line and grandma could have picked up 50 yards behind them ... but the other 67 was Will Ford ... finds holes, breaks tackles, gets in the right position to catch passes, makes blocks ... doing all that better than Grigsby Management never gave a proven veteran (and an all star) a chance and that was a mistake .... still feels like they are cleaning house from last year .... Will Ford did not play himself off our team

Will Ford : 117 yards rushing Finding holes & breaking tackles Excellent pass & catch .... easily executed good blocking And oh ... 3 TD's I don't know who made the decision to cut Ford but lets just call it the mistake that it is At least we make decisions and I like that ( just hate this one) Well lets back the decision by starting Cotton next game

Glenn wears sweater # 2 ... its a psychological / symbolic thing I think .... I do not know if he will ever think like a # 1

We had that great Khari team in 2001 (?) but we have not had a dominating team since the late 1980's ... just a good year here and there ... we are on the way to building a dynasty the 01 team was dominant, the 02 team might have been better but ran into injuries in playoffs and a rookie Ricky Ray taking the league by storm. 03 they were a good team as well, hosted a playoff game. I think that counts as a good stretch of seasons, they just panicked too soon and canned the coach. Those were good years ... But a dynasty would have won one or two Grey Cups ... we have to go to the `1980's to qualify ... or the late 1950's early 1960's

Agreed. After the Willy interview I switched over to 1290. They take some calls but not nearly as much. Walby provides good insight as well. Does 1290 have an audio vault like CJOB to go back and lessen to later?

I love the progress in the line but there is a lot of work to do ... a lot and when Greaves gets back, I would like to see Neufeld go over to tackle leaving Knapp at the current guard position

The chat room does't do it for me ... I miss the 15 page game day threads from yesteryear

And one play was for 16 yards .... RB's need to occasionally find there own holes ... or bounce to where there is open spaces ... Grigsby is not a fullback like Hoss Houmard

We had that great Khari team in 2001 (?) but we have not had a dominating team since the late 1980's ... just a good year here and there ... we are on the way to building a dynasty

A lead hands FB would not have made that reception

I want Will Ford back .... I didn't see Grigsby do anything special ... not everybody is a Charles Roberts but the feature running back needs to be a play-maker ,,, getting a couple of first downs without the o-line making a hole for him .... carrying the game on his back ... Grigsby is very very average Since Ford is gone lets put the Cotton to the test Great improvement on the o-line ... we got pass protection ... next we work on running schemes

Carl makes a leaping catch and then runs for a 40+ yard gain .... not your average fullback/tight end .... Fitzy is definitely an under utilized asset .... a big man with good hands, he needs to become a regular part of our offence .... more than just playing in double tight end sets

I see various amounts of optimism and pessimism on this forum .... woes of our weaknesses expounded and glee about our new bright spots What I am the happiest about is the new structure of leadership, player management and talent search .... salivating really I am .... what ever bumps and bruises we have to endure in the short run I believe our long term prospects have never been better in decades

Now wouldn't this be a good way to jump start the offence? Slip Fitzgerald out of that formation and you'll have the outside flats at a time that you choose. Disrupt the box? Think outside the box. Outside the box ???? YEAH outside the box !!!

It might help if they went out and found a good TE. I'm not sure what skill set Fitzgerald has other than being invisible. CFL doesn't use true tight ends. We use Canadian fullbacks & most of them have hands of stone & aren't great runners at the CFL level. There are no Tony Gabriels or Peter Dalla Rivas out there to play. When Fitzgerald was drafted reports said he had good receiving ands ... I haven't seen a pass thrown his way yet

that sounds like good news ... know if we can give our defensive 7 some stickum and 3 other forms of glue to wrap up Harris Meanwhile Edmonton showed we don't know what to do when they stacked the box against us ... where are the Blue 's deep thinkers?

Stacking the box against the Blue has been very effective .... I am surprised we have not learned to counter it better Whwn they put ¾ of the defence between the tackles, so to speak, why try and run there (or throw there for that matter) ... On TSN this week we saw an effective counter: by "stacking" receivers outside the box and throwing short stuff against a thinned out set of DBs / LBs (because they were moved to the inside stack) .... there were many lanes open because the D was out-numbered beyond the box and the ball moved easily I also have to wonder why on running plays they did not attempt to seal off the end of the stack and get the running backs going out wide .... I know more easily said than done ,,,, but countering their lack of balance has to be something that comes to mind especially with all the flexibility enjoyed by our backfield in pre snap movement .... yes I think a light receiver can seal off an outside LB, at least some of the time Strategy is about hitting the enemy where they have made themselves weak ( in this case to "stack the box") .... its not about trying to overpower the opposition with superior macho! With this team and its tentative OL we don't need to be running up the gut into the face of 8 nearby defenders .... we need to make them pay for concentrating their defenders Good strategy can win out against superior force or numbers .... thats how superior generals gain the victory ... they adjust to the enemies deployment Yes I think we can be superior strategists .... now that execution thing

That's very good news ... when did that happen?

Does anyone know if our Blue has scheduled any TV blackout dates with TSN? Used to be we could still get around those by watching TSN on high def out of Edmonton Anyone hear about Bomber board / management philosophy on this? Last year we were selling out all the time .... this year overpriced endzone seating seems to be catching up to that decision ,,, perhaps

How many times has Marve been stopped? Other than once or twice at the goal line? I know he got stopped on the 30 yard line against Montreal but that was a bad decision to go for it in the first place. With the lack of push of the O-Line I don't think Refrigerator Perry would have gotten a first down on that play. But watching it you can see he hesitates or takes an extra step or something. There's something with him after he takes the snap that isn't right...lol I don't know what it is but I really hope come thursday they've found someone else to do the short yardage. I like him as a QB just not as a short yardage guy. If thats true it can be coached out of him

"Must improve his ability to read defensive coverages and run through his progressions. Needs to do a better job of settling for checkdowns. Overall accuracy and footwork are not adequate." To me the critical keys for a QB are (1) accuracy and (2) the ability to read a defence as it relates to going to 2nd & 3rd receivers when the primary is covered .. don't see that here .. the opposite of a Willy

"Oshea says same lineup for the Esks" I guess this is a team building thing .... personally I would like to see changes at 2 or 3 spots