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With calvillo in comparison, the difference is healthy. I’m not sure Zach is remotely capable of either continuing his norm or revamping due to physical limitations. Harris didn’t actually change, he just got out of the red hot dumpster fire. Even when he went edm to mtl from getting destroyed by us to besting us he wasn’t different or doing things different. Now blm was sitting in some serious injury stuff for a few years. Then he also played on a team where he got to pad stats with out the need to play to win the game last year. But that is a better comparison. But, he needed to bounce around and recover. Zach has no such luxury with time. Dru was carrying a pretty underwhelming offensive squad with a bad system/roster. Dru lead his offence and team last year. Blm, padded stats on a team with out a chance, zach was carried almost the entire year. You have to go off play on the field as every ones stats are pretty similar but they all got there a different way.

To an extent, it’s a good thing. The idiocy of denying water, hard ass two a days ending with wind sprints till you puke then forced ice bathes was awful. That said the pendulum has swung too far imo. I’d rather see an extra week, with 3 days 1 apart where teams do a full pads two day practice of about 3 hours each including one scrimmage. No stupid drills, but reasonable approximation of football game play. Stick the extra week before/in the middle of the pre season depending on the year for teams.

They do. 1 quarter and 1 half in the two games is standard and should be pretty close to it plus or minus a bit. honestly, with the failure to execute in the pivotal game the last few years, I’d consider running them out longer. It used to be a hand shake agreement with the hcs when you’d switch to rookies and how long vets would stay out. That doesn’t seem to be it any more. I might split up quarters of the first game, then let the best players of the first game play 3/4 together. Send a strong message to the locker room, every game is important and no one is taking a month off this year. Be ready be sharp or be replaced.

Like gm/football ops and president. That’d be much better.

It is. The lack of experience in football will hurt in areas like punishment, rule enforcement/adjustments, etc. it almost needs to be 2 jobs in reality.

Good athlete, big modern athletic build, he’s more of a project not a lot of experience.

Was a teammate of big Kev. Didn’t get a ton of catches or yards at uconn either. But he’s got a good release, smooth fast runner more than an explosive quick guy.

https://3downnation.com/2025/04/03/roughrider-foundation-invests-1-8m-in-saskatchewan-amateur-football/ riders put out a big investment in the grass roots game with some much needed equipment. We do this and a couple other teams do it every soo often. I’d love to see the league and the teams go in together on this stuff. If every team was invest 1 million bucks every 3-4 years like this, and grouped that money to make a single large purchase I’m sure they’d get a lot more bang for their buck. Id also love to see a compensatory pick round for the two teams that do the most each year to grow the game at the grass roots level.

Yep, the lack of progression is one of the biggest issues we had. We didn’t set any thing up. We saw a heavy reduction in the play action to set up deep shots, and we went from a team that ran every play in our book out of every formation we used to extremely predictable plays out of formations. The pa screen off motion / half boot was getting jumped soo fast even by bad Ds.

Same. I mean demski was that guy most of the time previously, and we threw all kinds of guys at it in the past new and old. If bailey can leg those out no one else has any excuses IMO. Agree. Zach is an issue, but buck was a big one.

Yep 100%

It’s entirely true of the product on the field. We took vanilla and made it bland gelatine. I have no doubt the room was watching and talking about stuff but virtually none of it made it to the field.

The scheme certainly did get lazy. But I think the cause was a bit different. It seems to me like the last year and a half or so so a lot of frustration between zach and buck, and possibly the staff and buck. I think zach became a weak spot for buck just like nichols did for lapo. We saw a few games prior where the screen game and read option seam attacks worked brilliantly. But that is not how zach is wired. I think Buck wanted to rewire the offence to work around stuff that doesn't suit zach, and he got push back. So he pulled out the old wrinkles and let the offence flounder running just what zach likes.

That’s a good point. The ol is for sure an entity all its own. They Maybe the greatest anachronism in all of sports. Especially the Canadian ol up here. May as well still be the 70s with them in many ways. It’s kind of funny too actually, ol are more athletic and trim now like they were back then. Still gigantic human beings these days, but the middle of the late 80s through early 2ks we saw a ton of heavy none athletic guys. Think he was banged up to end the previous year too. Being a tall guard who turns 37 this year and has played some 140 games mostly starts will make it hard to stay healthy. And slow down recovery

Honestly, camp isn't nearly what it used to be. The limitations on impact, banning of junk like Oklahoma drill, length, etc, have de-toothed it significantly. It isn't like the old days where the 2 a days had guys re-tapping raw skin and doing 2 full run-throughs of full contact and high exertion. The off season for players is also far more active, and you don't need to do nearly as much reconditioning. Now that said you still have to be smart, not like chris jones blowing out a half dozen guys ACLs per day for the first few days. Frankly, I don't care if the vets sit half the day or every other day or what ever they need to. As long as they can be ready to play 1q of the first preseason game, 1 half of the 2nd, and be at full pop for the first regular season week. Aside from injuries in camp and guys coming back from injuries, if a vet can't consistently do that, they are probably done anyway.