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Thanks you guys! Def going to be watching for the Big Stan Flop next season.

here's something I've always been curious about -- how on earth do OL play into their late thirties? how do Yoshi and Big Stan keep their footwork up to cope with freak 24-year-old speed rushing DEs? a guard like Neuf is getting heavy body contact on every play from jacked up DTs and generally will play the majority of snaps in a game. That's a lot of punishment to take over the course of a career and yet the dude is still doing it at a pro level (tho I guess opinions differ on this)

people tell me the team needs to "get younger" and I'm like isn't he our DC already?

I am not qualified to judge OL issues, but it sure seemed to me last year that Brady was getting the holes he needed at the point of attack and that we were getting OL into the second level often enough. The ugly OL moments happened in pass pro, Zach dropping back against teams rushing 3-4 -- sometimes Zach wouldn't even get a steamboat before he had to start scrambling, he'd have a DT in his lap or an DE coming round the horn. Which makes me hopeful that if we get pass pro sorted out, Zach will return to form.

I think Tyson Philpot is indeed the best Canadian WR and has gamewrecking talent ... but agree with others that yikes that's a lot of money for someone with his injury track record.

yeah, the dude had some serious success with MBT in Edmonton -- his OC track record isn't long but it looks pretty good.

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Durable too ... has missed only two games in the last three years despite doing a lot of work in heavy traffic and he doesn't shy away from run game blocking either.

Would love to see Justin Hardy here. Dude is a legit #1, makes plays all over the field, has had three straight 1000 yard years. His 2023 season had Terrance Edwards energy ... he hit 1k with rookie Dustin Crum, bad Nick Arbuckle, brokedown Jeremiah Masoli and Tyree Adams as his QBs.

oh man I've done that cv19 / flu double vaxx and it kicked my ass hard.

Do coordinators and assistants typically get deals that are longer than a year? Do we have any coaches on our staff that aren't free agents?

huh, yeah, that's an elegant way to put it. nice.

yeah, the Riders were both lucky and good yesterday, but I think they were more lucky. Montreal oopsies were a 3 TD swing in the game. still, a pretty entertaining game .. a B or B- on the Grey Cup curve ... and was impressed to see Alexander allllmost gut out a 3-score comeback with one leg. it's seven months until we get more CFL Dusty so I guess everyone needs to get their fix before the gloom of the offseason wrecks them.

pathetic. lol. how quickly you've forgotten how bad it can really get.

Not sure why people are eager to move on from Neuf. Wouldn't be easy to replace at the same skill level, passport, experience, and durability -- he started all 18 games last year. Of course, he's at the age where he might decide for us, or where he might suddenly break down. It astonishes me that guards can play into their late thirties. Is guard the most physically punishing position on the field? Jefferson is too expensive for the one or two games he wrecks every season. Or maybe he could still be consistently dominant if got spelled off once in awhile? I dunno. Saw Cadwallader make good plays on teams all year, so would like to see him stay. We seem to be able to dig up great DBs every year so I don't know how critical it is to retain / give raises to any of our DBs.