Jesse

I never really had a problem with the Daniels pick, it just seemed like he was wedged in too early.

Maybe in the first couple of weeks. He was also injured and missed a game or two early. But he was involved very early on. There's just plenty of examples, so no need to shoehorn in an actual example of talent winning out and earning a spot on the roster and pretend he was being held behind for too long.

I mean, was it really? He's in his second year. He's been heavily involved in every game and was first man up when Griffin went down. This is kind of the ideal progression.

Yeah, I used to be able to beat the kids on my track teams (at least the ones who weren't the gifted athletes)...no more..

Didn't hear that. Had no interest in listening to any of the post-game. But something switched with Zach at some point. He was getting the ball out quick, finding the hot route with pressure in his face, and like a light switch was flicked, he suddenly couldn't do it anymore.

Only push back I'll give out of all you said was A) I saw Clercius on the field a lot and B) Zach missing a wide open Pokey on 2 occasions cost us the game, imo. Coaching didn't do that.

Meh. It’s a little cringey, but they’re highlighting amateur football and having fun. Let’s keep one foot out of the grave and stop hating on people just for having fun.

Also, Fajardo is a 10 year vet, a Grey Cup champion, but has a career high of 18 passing TDs. He’s passed for 4000 yards once in his career. It’s ok to admit that he needs the support of a good team around him to be successful. He’s not and has never been the guy who drags a team on his back.

I don’t expect a blow out, we usually manage to keep things pretty close for the vast majority of games. And if we can convert some TDs instead of FGs, get some help from our ST (time for a Vaval take over game) and a turn over or two (wishful thinking but it can happen), we could surprise. And if BC can beats Sask tomorrow, we got a stew going.

I guess I’m mostly talking about their offence, which I think will/has regressed to the mean a bit. Their defence is lights out though. I can’t take anything away from that. The league leader in drops will always be one of the top receivers who sees the most targets.

They’re absolutely in the top third of teams, but I do think they’re punching above their weight a bit and will come back down to Earth.

Morning Big Blue Field Games!

They've caught a couple of good breaks - they just ruined them.

As a team, whoever is doing the recruiting, has got to be able to find some receivers who can contribute on teams then. And Miller needs to be coaching them up.

I guess I'll take being called immature as opposed to cranky old man. And I did just run my fastest mile in years this past week, but any kind of sprinting is going to send me straight to PT.

Yup, it's very obvious that there's zero correlation between being a good player and being a good coach. Completely different skill sets.

You're quoting Booch, not me. But I also never suggested he should be #1 or that anyone was implying that. I simply said he failed to secure a roster spot so we worked to upgrade him. We re-signed Pokey, grabbed White in FA and our top 3 were Demski, Pokey, and White. Wheatfall would be, at best, our #4. They decided they could recruit another guy. And if you want to discuss their failures at being able to scout receivers, I am all for that conversation, but based on Wheatfall's play I was more than happy to see him move on. And again, nothing this year has made me believe otherwise.

In two years with us, Wheatfall had a big game to start the year which resulted in a big chunk of his production, but then fell off. 2024 - 273 yards (39 per game): but 111 yards came in week 1, most of that being on a single catch which came on a busted coverage. He actually fell over while running on a play that should have been an easy TD for him. He played in 6 games the rest of the way, averaging 27 yards per game. 2025 - 655 yards (41 per game): Again starts the season with a big game and does ok in week 2, after that he goes on to average 31 yards per game the rest of the season. If you look after week 5 last year (when Schoen got injured and he needed to step up), here are the yards per game: Wilson: 64 (over the final 6 games after he returned) Demski 57 Sterns 44 Brady 38 Wheatfall 28 Clercius 19 Even in the context of last years offence, he fell off and disappeared in comparison with everyone else around him. He did not take advantage of the opportunity and was replaced. His lack of production may even have caused the shift to starting 3 Canadians as we weren't getting any additional production from our Americans.

I’m not arguing for our receiving core - it’s weak. Simply that Wheatfall was given every opportunity to take over a starting position last year and disappeared. Some went out and replaced with White. We should absolutely be starting another American, but Wheatfall played his way off the team.

It was them prioritizing Tim White. It was the right move at the time and honestly I don't feel different in hindsight.

I believe it was a throw away comment by MOS one day. No reason to think he'll ever be a GM or even that he would like to be.

I just looked at the numbers. Opposing QBs are not having these extraordinary games against us. They're completing at or below their yearly averages in yards and completion percentage. Our focus is ovbiously on the Bombers, but scoring is at an incredible clip right now against all teams. The bigger problem is that our offence isn't keeping up with the pack.

That said, Maier averages 297 yards per game at about 70% completion rate. We surrendered 314 at a 65% completion rate. In this season of scoring, we seem to be pretty average in our pass defence. It's been our run defence and lack of scoring which is killing us.

Yeah, the second I stepped outside I regretted not bringing my jacket. I only made the switch to pants last minute.

I'm going to be so toxic if we barely win