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Yes. Not taking advantage of the DA rule is pretty ridiculous. It’s interesting seeing our depth chart vs others. I’m always like what is this DA thing Calgary is using or Hamilton or Toronto or bc or Sask or Ottawa or Montreal or Quebec City or Edmonton even.

Look at it from a different perspective - we literally handed this guy a roster spot. That spot doesn’t need to be a Canadian at all - the minute we start using the roster rules appropriately, we could change absolutely nothing about our current roster except make Daniels an American and finally call Stanley Bryant a Canadian like we are allowed to. Daniels doesn’t need to be interchangeable with those guys at all, he is currently required to by nature of us ignoring the roster rules because O’Shea doesn’t “believe in them”.

… I feel like you stick to an opinion and you are literally just unable to process a different viewpoint. He’s not comparing Cobb to Lawler. He’s saying he’s our fifth option, other guys had huge games. Not every receiver is going to get 100 yards a game. Our offense is clicking and you’re bitching and whining that we didn’t invest into THREE free agent receiver big ticket items (and also somehow forgetting that you pretended we didn’t sign ANY)

Yea, but if we want a guy in that role he needs to be interchangeable with Eli, Chris-Ike, and Cobb. I get what you’re saying but if we’re using a TE, it needs to be Canadian. In the contact of this whole discussion, a 2nd round draft pick who’s getting developed (while the offence has looked pretty good), isn’t really landing the point for me.

yeah it really felt like that today. Weather's been weird this week

OMFG, you're comparing Cobb to Lawler?? What are you smoking??? Lol,

Pokey would be elite. Vaval is also an elite return guy But other than that, maybe on D I’d say Woodbey was looking leigit and is a big loss, I liked Allen at safety last year, not sure if his injury is legit or not, but besides those guys, yeah really, nothing. Other than guys who were drafted like an MCI type who shows serious potential. I mean you could say Ayers is an elite sp teams player. But I dunno. That’s reaching here.

Not my videos to post tho. I’m not posting videos with my friends children in them. And now it’s fall again.

Just to touch on scouting and add to the conversation, look how much new talent we were pumping out from 2018-2022, who is a high impact player we’ve added in the past three years? Holm is the only example I can thing of. Obviously elite football players don’t grow on trees but when your core is starting to age out you have to build from scouting or free agency. Obviously I like what we did during free agency but when you’re picking up vets to fill those holes you’re paying a premium. Part of bringing in young talent is they’re still on rookie contracts, I think our team and roster is starting to see the consequences of poor scouting over the last couple of seasons.

I guess the problem I see. I’ll use Kramdi as an example. Regardless of what some say, the guy makes plays when he’s closer to the LOS, when he’s a LB, I think he’s a legit starting Canadian in the league. JY puts him at safety, further away from the LOS, he becomes less effective. I think instead of trying to reinvent the wheel on D, you just need to put guys in spots they are best and leave them there, how can you possibly gain any sort of defensive momentum or I’ll call it synergy when you constantly moving dudes around. Kyrie in the middle has been a disaster? Jones makes 8 tackles a game and none for losses but they are moved around quite a bit also. Hell one of these games ceresna gonna line up at corner.

There we go… scouting. Now that’s a solid discussion because since McManus has taken the reigns it’s not great is it? Don’t even seem to be able to find DBs anymore. Our use of the PR is mind boggling to me. Look at it right now. 4 receivers. 2 lbs but both small guys, 1 db, I mean, zero DL… just doesn’t make sense. I think the argument could be made that Wade Kyle and O’Shea are complacent and content. Perhaps being the pinnacle of the cfl has gone to their heads a bit. TSN starting to jerk us off a bit, the fans not the team. They prob take credit for that. Wade? He’s happy aslong as the stands are full. Kyle? Seemed like he did his stuff in the winter now it’s quiet time. O’Shea? Wasn’t happy with the D after the game that much was obvious, but think he’s realistic with his expectations and probably didn’t think they would go 18 and O. Maybe didn’t think the D was gonna be the problem after 2 weeks either, not sure any of us necessarily expected the D to be this bad. So I mean I guess, when it comes to O’Shea, if the O is solid, special teams are solid but the D is terrible, is that really on him? O’Shea comes across more as a gives a speech every now and then and not the X’s and O’s Type. Less Dinwiddie more Mike Ditka in that leader of men type instead of analytical like a Sean McVay or Dinwiddie. I’m not sure he’s not giving lots of say to his coordinators. Perhaps it’s time to reel JY in tho, cuz the O is solid, special teams are solid. D isn’t. Is that on O’Shea squarely? Definitely not.

Buffalo says no lol cuz Schenn is UFA as is Stanley.

He had 4 less receiving yards than Kenny lawler last game on 1 less catch. I mean do you think all our receivers should be pushing 100 yards cuz besides Cobb, Nield was over 100. Wilson was close, Demski And white each had 79 yards. Brady had 51 receiving. The last option had 4 less yards than lawler.

We have a receiver who contributes little or nothing. If we had a boundary receiver who could get open you don't think it would make it that much harder for defenses to defend? That someone may be open downfield because the defense can't cover everyone? There were other free agents available we passed on who could have helped us.

The Gavin Cobb obsession is now bordering on delusion. We signed Tim White and Tommy Nield, what on earth are you on about

Well to be honest changin anyone for Broxton would be massive The Condell effect with layered receivers and gguys running complimentary routes to free up space is also a huge difference I saw zero issues in Randophs game last night...sure its one game but he also another yr older and experienced...just like Wheatfall..was basically a rookie last yr so for sure you would think yr 2 as a starter he would take it up a notch..and seems he has..he schooled us mighty fine...and played well previous game fumble or not..everyone has fumbled

Adams..Fox and Garbutt all still on a roster..tho Garbutt is hurt Thing is we let Dobson walk and chose to keep Kolo instead..obviously our HC valued him over the younger better guy...and we didn't lose him to $$ issues..was poor decision making...easy fix..cut Kolo and his 165k salary he stole here...funnel it to Dobson and kick in a few scheckles but we chose to keep the lesser player...and thats not isolated incident. We used to find dline talent..but we also played them right outta the gate while a lesser JT was last in line..Poop...Bryant..Stove.. Then we relied on JT..Scmeck..Korn and figured we were "good and deep" never targeted some prime FA'S who coulda turned the tide and guys we did bring in had to scratch and claw for any reps while JT and Scmeck/Korn gobbled up the lionshare...pretty hard to develop and evaluate guys on minimal reps Best thing to do this yr is let Dixon..Reese..Fletcher get game experience early and often and see where they at in 4..5 games..and if we need better than get someone else up here..we just break camp and settle witu who we picked come hell or high water..that just baffles me

This is only partially true though. Look at the DL. We've given multiple "young guys" 2-3 years and they all stink. No one has emerged as a difference maker. Adams, Woods, Garbutt, Haba, Fox, Walker. An even longer list of guys we ran for half seasons, Wilcots, Cooper, K Adams. Now the crew this year, Dixon, Jenkins, Fletcher, Reese. Best guy of that bunch is probably Fox who is just an average CFL player at his best to this point. Not really any playmakers yet. Hope the crew here now can turn that page. Looks to me like a major issue is recruiting the right guys in the first place.

Not really how the ratio works. Daniels doesn't start either. All the "starting" issue means is we're locked into 6 Canadians on the field every snap on O and 2 on D. He plays kickoff return but no cover teams, and basically plays 6 OL on offense. So really he's the 7th OL for how he's being utilized. If they really want that H-back/TE role as being crucial to offense, why not use an American there who can do the job and force teams to actually have to cover the guy when he's out there? There are a ton of American guys who are tweener receiving tight ends who would be actually useful. It would cost a DI spot which would mean instead of Ayers chasing kicks you swap out Daniels for another Canadian who can actually play special teams and Ayers for the American tight end.

Ratio advantage if yeah a starter...and u have a backup to compliment..right now he just an end of roster guy We used multiple looks with him and Eli at same time..we could have done same with one of MCI or Clercius when healthy and used that pick on a legit reciever to compliment what we have and be able to pooch Cobb and Corc's or grabbed another defensive guy who can actually play...not just run up and down field covering kicks If anything thats the easiest thing to do on a roster...so picking scrubs with no upside is just a waste really Osh lost his plans.. when is last time he did anything unpredictable or against the grain? Besides crappy roster choices We have no plan...or is it poor arcitecture? We have this dumb idea we can go 3 national recievwrs..so we hold 3 imports on the PR...ass backwards Thing is its easy...we just dont give new or young guys the opportunity...and play tires with no tread basically right up to the steel belts

Yeah collectively they need to be better.. be able to make the tuff decisions..if it steps on toes or hurts egos..so be it...part of the business they signed up for...and if they can't do it..step aside..or get put aside And then dont get starteded on the poor use...and allocation of guys on the PR...Ours right now makes no sense

This another reason why it's important to not have too many 'overpaid' contracts. It leaves room in the SMS to pay a few depth players more than the PR minimum.

Randolph is a big meh to me. His pass protection was horrible and a big reason why our O stank last season. See a massive difference changing him out for Broxton already. Collaros has a chance to get his eyes downfield and get the ball out without having to scramble every drop.

The weird thing is they think they are simpatico. Like there's no wrinkle in the fabric at all. But since McManus took over the US side we've barely been able to find even average CFL players. Development is part of it too, but the American guys in most positions are kind of sink or swim. You're ready to play, or you're not. We have no DL, no receivers, not really any DB's (we've been recycling other teams cuts and vets they are moving on from), no real QB prospects out of the US, no LB's making plays, a couple OL but mostly guys recycled from other teams camps again, since McManus took over on the US side. It should not be this hard to find DL who can play in this league. We should never go from having an average guy in there to being absolutely dummied when we have to change him out (I'd say that's what it looked like going from Dixon to Fletcher, combined with the shift of Ceresna taking more edge reps) for another American guy.

Yep, though in this case I think it’s the rest of the front office as well. KW has never been a main source of imp talent. No doubt he does some work on that, but by far the least of his contributions. Maybe that’s a problem, but he’s always been mainly a canadian scout. For my money, he does a great job of evaluating ni talent. Now our priorities in the draft have been a bit of a mess. but we are still doing pretty well with ni talent, atleast on D and the ol. The us scouts have not done a good enough job, not by a long shot.