This trade has raises some questions for me. Mainly, can or will glenn take the starting job? 

Glenn has the Raw tools to excel in this kind of system. Quick release, strong ability to find his best receivers especially in the clutch, ability to win the game and produce in volume. 

Nichols is the small ball, game manager and has shown strong ability of late to drive the field late in games. He knows the system and fits very well, hes shown strong intangibles through out his time, that winning mentality and attitude. 

On the down side, glenn is a gambler. He may lead the way to several blow outs, but he will also throw away games. Mean while with nichols we play close games that should be blow outs. 

 All in all its a great situation to be in, so long as it doesnt become a distraction to the team. Its certainly better then willy/nichols. Some one to push nichols for once could be a good thing too. Hes stepped in for injured and failing qbs. But we havent seen him be the no1 and have a qb behind him pushing him. I hope that when the win streak ends and equalizes a bit nichols wont be un fairly thrown under the bus if he continues to execute at the same level. At the same time I want to see the offense finally produce at a high level. 

23 hours ago, wbbfan said:

If a wr dives, lays out and just touches the ball its not a drop. Its easy to say if a wr touches it they should catch it. But a qb throwing wide or behind or leading the target into dense traffic will allways lead to plays that should have been hooked up that are not. Weve had a lot of that. Sure weve had drops too. But every game nichols had one where the defender should have caught it even by defender standards and muffed it. 

 

watch the replay... that's not what happened... the ball was firmly in his hands after he reaches forward... that one is completely on Sheppard... that is the one you're talking about, right?

EDIT: apparently replays of drops are hard to find... I couldn't find this one, it's not even in the 6 min CFL.ca recap....

Edited September 14, 20169 yr by bearpants

If you can touch it, you can catch it.

Well not really, but that's what my dad always says.

1 hour ago, bearpants said:

watch the replay... that's not what happened... the ball was firmly in his hands after he reaches forward... that one is completely on Sheppard... that is the one you're talking about, right?

EDIT: apparently replays of drops are hard to find... I couldn't find this one, it's not even in the 6 min CFL.ca recap....

I agree it depends like I said the Dressler one okay lets not count that one; but Sheppard's was clearly a drop even when they showed the replays it hit him in the mits he wasn't stretched out or "laid" out to make that catch. 

2 hours ago, bearpants said:

watch the replay... that's not what happened... the ball was firmly in his hands after he reaches forward... that one is completely on Sheppard... that is the one you're talking about, right?

EDIT: apparently replays of drops are hard to find... I couldn't find this one, it's not even in the 6 min CFL.ca recap....

I mean in general though with more reference to the dressler play. The sheppard play was a drop out right. yeah pretty much have to go to the game on YT, go through and find the exact moment and link the minute it happened. Its a hue PITA. Nichols tends to lead his passes over the middle / away which makes for more diving efforts from wrs. If we opened up the play book a bit, used the hurry up more, and made better use of progression plays it would help nichols and our wrs a lot more. 

2 hours ago, GimliJetsMan said:

If you can touch it, you can catch it.

Well not really, but that's what my dad always says.

Thats the old saying, but yeah. Thats from an era when guys werent crazy athletes for the most part and you didnt dive soo far and have a crazy reach. Athletes in football today are good enough to some times make them self look kinda bad by nearly making a crazy play. Kinda like how middle infielders in baseball with the highest range factor create more errors then a guy with shorter range would because they can get to a ball to touch it but not catch it or catch it with out time to throw.