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I’d bring the house on every second play hence why i call plays from my couch and not on the sidelines.

That's a tough loss, but you have got to be able to score on a 5 on 3 with all that offensive talent - it shouldn't matter who's in net.

3 on 3 arcade hockey for an Olympic gold is the dumbest thing ever

worked for don mathew’s for an unfathomable length of time

I think you can count on the Bombers not running a smurf at boundary corner this year. They've got Allen plus 5 other guys 6'1 plus, two with CFL experience, coming into camp at DB. No more watching a 5'9 guy with no ability to play the ball eat **** on 50-50 balls vs 6'3-6'4 receivers.

Have to agree.

And you give me a confused emoji on not liking the way Cuthbert calls a hockey game? Sheesh.

My hypothetical DC resume would just be me screaming a quote from Remember The Titans “YOU BLITZ, ALLLLL NIGHT LOOONNNNG” So yeah, hanging on to my day job probably the wise move…

At least we can be happy for Helle.

Gretzky has lived in the States for nearly 40 years and is an enthusiastic glazer of Trump, so **** that guy.

Second and long. 5 DBs, bring the house! It was at the point where every commentator was noticing it, but opposing O's still had no answer for it. I DON'T WANT A RECEIVER...TO CROSS THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE!

you can, but blitzing is hard and strange in the cfl. The more guys you have that are reliable in coverage, like you said, you can do any ting and every thing better. D today is all about how well you can blanket with out breaking, and how well you can disrupt at the line. If a guy isn’t one of those or a guy who heavily enables others to do that easier, they aren’t an asset on the field. Just a body filling a spot. If you can take away over the top routes with out a massive bubble, you can run up and play the ball or the man and disrupt the pass too. Guys who can do both are worth their weight in championship rings. Guys like ba, biggie, and wj in their prime. jy/hall love versatile cover guys. Makes every one’s life much easier I wouldn’t be surprised if we find another db this year. We got lots of good vets, but we scout db and use them really well.

That's what they did in 2019 & 2021. Base D with a ferocious front 4 applied pressure. Then you add Biggie & the pass D & that's why we gave up just 181 points in 14 games in 2019. Ritchie Hall's D killed other teams.

Ugh this is the worst year for Canada to lose to the States...

Huge kidney punch having him come on to the panel to try to normalize his behaviour and then panning on him watching the gold medal game.

disruption with 3-4 and pressure with 4 occasionally 5 is best. It leaves you with the most options. No answer with blocking for the blitz. The way to beat the blitz is to attack the cushion. on either side 2/3 targets, you will have only 1-2 dbs on the line usually 1. So you have one guy clear out and throw to the under route. If it’s your 3 man side you have the 2 under guys force the nearest defender to jump one. If the cover all play up on the line you bust them off the line and take it deep on a timing route. That’s how dons D was beaten. Teams stopped trying to out block them, and started using the spread to get the ball out quick. The counter for coverage, is to show and drop guys, rotating coverage showing man and dropping into zone, generally forcing the qb to change his read at every point possible. If you take away the qbs ability to rely on his pre snap read, you make it very hard to run the quick game and beat the rush. After that, the best option is to move the pocket a lot. Drastic line shifts, slide protection, half and full roll outs etc. It is very hard to effectively rush the qb, when you don’t know where he’s going to set up. Some people get caught up with play action, but that just slows the process of getting the ball out and setting up protection with the back. Jet/fly/rocket/orbit motion packs on the other hand can be effective at beating the rush but it requires a very specific threat to work. If you can disrupt and pressure with your base though, it’s extremely hard to beat that with X’s and o’s.

Congrats Connor Hellebuyck, without you the USA doesn’t get a sniff of that Gold medal 👍🏻 BTW, are we going to start calling him Connor McLoser?

Happy for Helle.

No answer for a blitz because 5 blockers on the line can't block 6/7. Bring a running back up or a slot to block then you take away offensive choices & weapons. The qb has no one to throw to & gets sacked. It still works today. We see the best teams doing it in both leagues. What';s even better? Creating pressure with just 4 pass rushers like we used to do & the guys on the back end don't have to blitz.

I hardly ever watch curling, but I could not take my eyes off that game. And a well deserved bronze for the Finns in hockey

i think we could be a very good pressure defense with four & five man fronts stopping the run & sacking the qb. I think we expose our defense to big plays if Jordan Younger runs a 3 man front & blitzes. We saw it with Detroit with four man fronts in the NFL playoffs 2 years ago. They ate the other team's OL & spit them out. We saw it in the Super Bowl with Seattle vs the left side of the Pats OL. Pressure & intimidation wins all the time. We had a pressure front 4/5 in 2019 & 21. We were physically scary & dominated to the point the overhyped Ti Cats just quit in 2019. They were beaten & broken team. Oh & look, we also won two championships those years. Then we changed Defensive Coordinators & went to a 3 man front with no pressure from the DL. Wbbfan called it a Cheetah front. i called it Cheetos. Yeah, we didn't give up a lot of points as the back 8 or 9 played well. No coincidence we also didn't win & lost 3 straight Grey Cups. If the Bombers had signed another interior DL in free agency, I'd have said they're invested in creating havoc up front like in 2019 & 21. I don't think Younger is that kind of DC. He wants to beat you through trickery & disguises on the back end. I'm not a big fan of that type of defense. I want smash mouth football where we own both sides of the LOS. Havoc & intimidation. It's more than proven to work.

gotta think he’s a guy jy likes. It was interesting hearing how high jy was on moxie. sounds like to him getting moxie was on par with the white/jake/broxton pick ups. Db is gonna be a hell of a battle in camp

Now we no longer get to complain about how he always pushes off.

Bronze medal game is tomorrow, Gold medal game is Sunday. Leafs suck because there is a black hole at the centre of the universe.

**** any curlers that aren't from Manitoba... I'm as patriotic as anyone, but man was I rooting for anyone other than Jacobs and Homan. Fart noises.

Jacobs brings home the gold.