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Might be good trade bait though- for Demski?

I just don't think you ever outright release NI OL. It's way too important, even of you don't personally think the guy is very good. 

No way they release Neufeld as he is still a fairly valuable commodity but he might slip away in the off-season for a draft pick.

Really? how many other teams have put a DT on the ol this year?
You provided an opinion which your entitled to, but I provided stats. Do you have any facts to your point?
Least in the league with 2 other teams. 1 has a massive amount of injuries the other has 1 win. the best team in the league, has the most. No thats not in the majority. Especially not the majority of teams sitting in play off spots.
Couture hasnt looked great or bad. Id agree hes had some flashes not nothing stellar. He hasnt looked terrible. But his glimpses have been far to few and far between. Do i want him to start? ideally no. Him or neufeld? id take him. Him keeping or goossen would be tough tbh. 
The change would be corney to the majority of reps at DE. Thats not a bad thing at all honestly. he needs snaps to develop. 
There is also a lot of assumption here that an extra ol has no value if no one gets hurt, and that isnt the case. 
The massive amount of lbs we have hurting the depth we carry else where isnt just OL. DT, wr, and rb are thin aswell. We are banged up at wr, but we are one injury at ni wr from having a guy whose caught 3 passes in 18 games from starting. And have been close to putting dbs or fbs out at wr this year.

Your kind of missing the point 1 backup with little experience in the CFL and one tackle making his first start how many games have we gone this year not losing at least 1 olineman? 

bc 7 ol, 6 dl
edm 7 ol, 7 dl
cal 6 ol (3 on injured list)  7 dl
ssk 6 ol (6 on injured ist) 6 dl
ham 7 ol, 7  dl
TO 8 ol, 7 dl
ott 7 ol 8 dl
mtl 7 ol 8 dl
wbb 6 ol (2 on injured list) 6 dl.
We are right at the bottom of the league in terms of depth on the line. Sask has 4 more guys on the IR at that position. If rb, wr, db, lb, de kr go down to a drastic point you can plug one of the others in. Weve seen keith stokes start at KR, wr, and rb. Weve seen geoff drover go in at db and make a position change permanently. In an emergency you slide a dt / ol around. But thats a lot of spots that we dont have bodies at. Not to mention overall we havent done a good job with blocking again this year (improved 2 weeks ago but still over all poor) the ability to throw a heavy set wouldnt be bad. 
Weve got 7 big spots filled by 9 guys. Can any one imagine one of our DEs or lbs playing OL?

Yes I see your point but keeping Nichols upright should be our no 1 priority and not hurting Couture by throwing him to the wolves too early.So yes get an American olineman as insurance we have depth at lb none really right now on the oline. TO is dressing 8...

thomas at tackle would be a disaster if more then very limited time. Even then itd be bad. Him filling in at guard is much more coverable. 
I think couture is gonna be a gooder. I can see him over taking goossen in terms of quality next TC. I think if he is thrown to the wolfs and has to start we will take some lumps. But in the long term wont look back. If its bryant that goes down though id be really worried. 
You then use the extra OL in the goal line formations instead of a LB/back up DL. On both offense and D. You throw him out in some of the situations that we've had our small WRs pinch blocking or been motioning them into the TE position for full time blocking on plays. You block and release or send harris on a route each time. You have that OL who can change his number and go in at DT. Because what happens if an a ol goes down and a DL goes down. Then we have no back up at DT or OL. 1 injury from having some one go both ways and play out of position.
You can make use of guys like ol backing up on the roster. NI ol dont grow on trees, we wont dig up any one better then what we have with any ease. It sucks to burn a DI on depth, but with our ability to start NI out of position we are in a better position then most teams to do so.

yup and I still remember the "Oh no I'm going to die" look on Willy's face when Thomas came into the game at guard...

actually we carried 2 back up ol early in the year. We got down to no healthy back up ol and had to have jake change numbers, Which means we have no back up DT. 
Carrying soo many Lbers and soo few linemen will haunt eventually. Not to mention if tackles go down we have to put jake in side and move a guard out side thats an even bigger risk. 

Man considering that Nichols has a lengthy injury history, and serious injuries to boot do we really want to bank on the guy staying healthy? Unless there's some kind of huge cap crunch you keep your depth at the position because we've seen what happens without depth at qb far too often in this city.

No idea why on Earth people want to get rid of Drew.

Subtle memo to MOS and Walters: DO NOT PUT MACHO BACK AT SAFETY, KEEP LOFFLER IN AT ALL COSTS! 

Don't forget that last night was his first game action in more than 2 years.  I won't form any opinions until I see him for a couple more games.  But you gotta like his size compared to our other receivers 

I have to eat crow, I was wrong on Shayon Green.

Need Loffler for ratio purposes to keep three import OL though, which they better do.

Wishful thinking unless we could get Popp here as a head scout? ? I jest I jest all is good in Bomber land when we win and I couldn't be happier about it.

Great synopsis as usual DoD thnks.My only complaint was not seeing Davis or Willy later on, was kinda worried Nichols don't get hurt lol..

Great synopsis as usual DoD thnks.My only complaint was not seeing Davis or Willy later on, was kinda worried Nichols don't get hurt lol..

If he's willing to make the switch, i'd try to turn Bridge into the next brad sinopoli.  He's got the size and right passport. 

Yep Bond looks dominant and man he can move for a guy his size? I think with Neufelds past injury problems when he comes back should be as a back up only,I know alot of dough for a backup but gives us our best oline and backup who can play guard or tackle☺

True, the 2 Q system in my mind still has a clear number 1 but use the 2nd guy more often to change things up. I believe it's not done enough in certain scenarios.

The Bombers need a new crystal ball, this should have been the obvious strategy from day one.

Nope gotta disagree on this one Huffer would come in from time to time but Clements was the clear no.1

Nope gotta disagree on this one Huffer would come in from time to time but Clements was the clear no.1