I remember the ridicule on this forum as so many critiicized GM Desjardins personnel decisions.

 

He drafted Glenn then outbid us on Burris .... he went out & acquired talent for him ... your QB doesn't have a record breaking career year without that

 

We paid up for Westerman but we didn't do what it takes to get players like Muamba and Chris Williams

or Collaros or Burris or further back Mike Reilly and so many others .... neither Montreal nor Ottawa has been shy about acquiring veteran receivers or others

 

Teams are built on stars and leaders .... the middle class of players don't make a lot of difference, they usually live up to what is around them

 

What would Ricky Ray in a BB uniform mean for us this year? More than Picard? As much as Burris?

 

Of course acquiring one big signing per year isn't enough to hold a self-congratulatory fiesta but we seem to do exactly that every year with the exception of Mack's "everything from within" era.

 

So do we:

 

1.  lack the will to get the job done (building a champion)?

 

2.  lack the football IQ to recognize what it takes?

 

3. care enough about a championship to make it an all out priority?

 

And who is really responsible for answering these 3 questions, who is the one who really controls the purse strings? And is this person a genuine leader?

 

Do we have anybody in our org that has what it takes?

 

 

What would it meant to have all 5 oline guys play every game and the QB. Ottawa is not the best team in the East they are the healtiest.

I wonder if when they drafted people off other teams in the expansion draft,  track records of health played a role in who they picked

 

*dont gotta be the best, just gotta stay healthy

It is all well and good to stay healthy. Good luck with that. Injuries are part of the game. The solution to that problem is depth. Depth especially at QB and depth everywhere. The teams that made the playoffs had depth, especially at QB. Calgary had significant injury issues on the o line that they dealt with.

The teams that made the playoffs had depth, especially at QB.

Hamilton's backup qbs weren't very good. Ottawa's qb depth is terrible, but they were lucky enough not to need it.

What would it meant to have all 5 oline guys play every game and the QB. Ottawa is not the best team in the East they are the healtiest.

With Collaros, Hamilton is the best in the East by far. I'd put Ottawa 2nd though.

Other teams had Quarteracks go down....and didn't go 5-13

 

The teams that made the playoffs had depth, especially at QB.

Hamilton's backup qbs weren't very good. Ottawa's qb depth is terrible, but they were lucky enough not to need it.

 

 

Montreal's QB depth isn't anything to scream at either .. came down to the final weeks of the season and they went out and picked up Glenn from the Riders.  

 

It's not just about depth.  That's only part of the equation.  The other part is coaching and the ability to get the most out of players who need to step in when another goes down.  We have a coordinator who failed to do that.  Who, at the best of times, struggled to put together effective game plans week in week out.  No amount of "depth" is going to help when it looks like an entire unit looks completely unprepared for what's being thrown at them.

Being an expansion team last year, Ottawa has better Canadian content than Winnipeg, and that's huge. Desjardin didnt need to sweat to get that Canadian content, it was gift wrapped to them by the league.

They also had tons of money to throw around cuz of lots of cfl rookies. Let's see what happens in a year or 2 there when the rookies get paid. Pruneau being one. What will happen when hank hangs them up.

Tonnes of money?? They paid Burris and a bunch of other guys big coin.

Why are people making excuses?

Ottawa hired good coaches and signed key guys plain and simple.

Desjardins is doing a way better job then Walters.

It would've been nice if we could've landed one of those big free agent signings. Chris Williams, Lemon and Henoc all would've been huge for us.

Tonnes of money?? They paid Burris and a bunch of other guys big coin.

Why are people making excuses?

Ottawa hired good coaches and signed key guys plain and simple.

Desjardins is doing a way better job then Walters.

If WIlly had stayed healthy and Burris had been done for the year before Labour Day would anyone be saying this? Walters has to get better but let's not pretend that Desjardins did anything special. Only team in the East to have their starting qb all season, I think they're the only team to have used the same OL all year... those are huge benefits. 

Ottawa was 2 - 16, they had a boat load of cap space, and used it wisely.

Tonnes of money?? They paid Burris and a bunch of other guys big coin.

Why are people making excuses?

Ottawa hired good coaches and signed key guys plain and simple.

Desjardins is doing a way better job then Walters.

 

 

You don't think the coaching isn't miles ahead of us.

I think had Burris gone down.. DeMarco or whoever still would of done better then us.

You don't think the coaching isn't miles ahead of us.

I think had Burris gone down.. DeMarco or whoever still would of done better then us.

I'll give you the OC being an upgrade, but their backup QBs would have them fighting for a playoff spot..like us.

 

Tonnes of money?? They paid Burris and a bunch of other guys big coin.

Why are people making excuses?

Ottawa hired good coaches and signed key guys plain and simple.

Desjardins is doing a way better job then Walters.

If WIlly had stayed healthy and Burris had been done for the year before Labour Day would anyone be saying this? Walters has to get better but let's not pretend that Desjardins did anything special. Only team in the East to have their starting qb all season, I think they're the only team to have used the same OL all year... those are huge benefits. 

 

Do you think that had we gone through the whole season with the O-line we had coming out of training camp, we would have been all that much better???

 

 

Tonnes of money?? They paid Burris and a bunch of other guys big coin.

Why are people making excuses?

Ottawa hired good coaches and signed key guys plain and simple.

Desjardins is doing a way better job then Walters.

If WIlly had stayed healthy and Burris had been done for the year before Labour Day would anyone be saying this? Walters has to get better but let's not pretend that Desjardins did anything special. Only team in the East to have their starting qb all season, I think they're the only team to have used the same OL all year... those are huge benefits. 

 

Do you think that had we gone through the whole season with the O-line we had coming out of training camp, we would have been all that much better???

 

Yes truthfully. Losing the RT had a pretty big impact on things because it kept pushing people into positions they couldn't handle. 

I would disagree. Right tackle was a problem, but so was the center, left guard and even left tackle more than it should have been, given Bryant's resume. Even left guard was unsettled a fair bit.

Not real sure about our blocking schemes, either....given how many times the opposition would zone blitz....and get in clean, while our OL stood around with totally perplexed looks on their faces,,,,,

Confusion offence doesn't sound very productive ...

Yup, the idea is to confuse the opposition, not yourselves......

People are fooling themselves thinking that the only reason Ottawa was better this year was because of Hank and the oline being healthy. That's not reasoning, that's excuse making. Drew Willy's winning % as a starter isn't comparable to Burris, and the receiving core and O line quality isn't even worth comparing. Might as well take a dump and compare the smell to a bowl of a flowers.

I was wrong about Marcel Desjardens. He did a great job this year. All the bad stuff I said about him was wrong.

 

RebusRankin

 

November 9th, 2015

lol.

 

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