Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread

[wbbfan]

2 hours ago, Mark H. said:

I find the quality of American OL being brought in especially disappointing. Bryant, Bond and Hardrick in their prime - those were the days. 

vanterpool isn’t bond at guard, but he’s not far off. Randolph is good at RT, a lot better than early hardrick was. Them and lofton aren’t bad, and not the weak spot on our ol that’s for sure. if we went forward with them as starters our ol would improve. problem is really the rest of the old guard. wallace is developing too, and a bit better than what we stuck with in gray, dobson etc prior. 

[Mark H.]

34 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

vanterpool isn’t bond at guard, but he’s not far off. Randolph is good at RT, a lot better than early hardrick was. Them and lofton aren’t bad, and not the weak spot on our ol that’s for sure. if we went forward with them as starters our ol would improve. problem is really the rest of the old guard. wallace is developing too, and a bit better than what we stuck with in gray, dobson etc prior. 

I guess my thinking is, with 3 Americans starting, they should dominate. I do agree they would improve if all 3 started consistently.

[Booch]

50 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

vanterpool isn’t bond at guard, but he’s not far off. Randolph is good at RT, a lot better than early hardrick was. Them and lofton aren’t bad, and not the weak spot on our ol that’s for sure. if we went forward with them as starters our ol would improve. problem is really the rest of the old guard. wallace is developing too, and a bit better than what we stuck with in gray, dobson etc prior. 

Yeah hardrick was on way out of league when we grabbed him off the scrap pile

Was a turnstile...no wind...fat...bad footwork...from being way to fat

We saved his career with good coaching

15 minutes ago, Mark H. said:

I guess my thinking is, with 3 Americans starting, they should dominate. I do agree they would improve if all 3 started consistently.

3 at interior dline...u generally have more success than not

Save for the odd prime Laurent type...which is rare

[BigBlueFanatic]

1 hour ago, Mark H. said:

I guess my thinking is, with 3 Americans starting, they should dominate. I do agree they would improve if all 3 started consistently.

They would all improve without the embarrassment of a turnstile we have at center…

[Booch]

1 minute ago, BigBlueFanatic said:

They would all improve without the embarrassment of a turnstile we have at center…

100 percent...110 percent