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Changing this to strevy since he’s moved to the pr

If that happens I’ll eat my hat lol

It’s a strange dynamic. I can’t recall seeing that for the life of me. Every hc I’ve known has been either an O guy or a D guy that had a big hand in running that side of the team. Bobby dyce is the closest guy but he’s been both a passing game coach, oc and sts co up here. And he’s done a bunch of ni scouting with us back in the day. He’s more of a guy who has had his hand in many pies rather than a guy with too few. It used to be that most hcs were D guys up here. And the qb called the plays, the oc was a bit lower in power back then. Today’s game is run by ocs much more than ever before. Even out side of the cfl, ocs are generally the top candidate for hc jobs. Obviously it can work, and it has here. Sustainability is tough to say as all coaching is on a short half life. Idk if this is going to become more prominent, like player coaches have, or if this will be an aberration. If I was looking to build a coaching staff though, I’d build around an offensive mind.

All of this. Smith was averaging 11 yards per punt return which is very good. His 21 per kick off were kind of average. But he caught the ball and made good decisions. Some times a bit tentative but needed coaching more than any thing imo. case is a former part time return hybrid guy. Maybe lucky will come on the roster as well since we removed two offensive guys and they’ll split duties? jones doesn’t make sense when Cole and Ayer’s already aren’t getting a lot of snaps. but roster moves that don’t make sense and make the team worse are on brand

Dare to dream. qft I wonder if they will look to move mbt. That could be an interesting shake up in the league. If not, I wouldn’t mind getting ford cheap. I’d rather run him through the Strev package and groom big Chris as an actual qb.

Is that including injuries or the projected starters? The guys I listed that we added are all above that age as well. All other position groups? So we are younger at qb and rb? Cus we for sure aren’t. Year older Augustine and Brady, year old zach and brown vs strevy. Making a switch from a guy in his 30s to a guy in his 30s like rt isn’t going younger. Gray was our youngest full time starting ol last year. kramdi is older than Parker at Sam. Ford and bonds are older than guys we ran out last year. If jj could stay healthy he’d still be here. No way has age been a primary motivating factor in our roster changes.

I think his only bounce back chances would be with ham/ott if they blow things up. But I like some of their young coaches Better personally.

https://3downnation.com/2024/07/15/edmonton-elks-fire-head-coach-and-general-manager-chris-jones/ At long last, the cfl is free of Chris jones once again. I wonder how long it’ll last this time… I could see him getting another dc shot in the off season unfortunately. Edm is better than their record and could imo bounce back.

Great coaches are seldom former great players. Most are guys like dinwiddie who didn’t pan out, had all the mental tools but not the physical ones. Great players often get the first shot at coaching but seldom pan out. Even mos here has always struggled with roster management and coming from a teams co spot has never owned an aspect of the playbook like plop or hall etc. he’s always succeeded with former hcs and decorated cos. He’s like a baseball bench boss more than a typical football hc.

Premium pay for premium players at premium positions. When you pay premium cash to a guy who lack that you get in trouble. You can have one or two Canadians you pay a bit more to who are starters, but you can’t do that for all of them. At the end of the day you have to make up for paying super premium deals like qbs, lawler/schoen etc. and the way you do that is with young Canadians. If you get a good imp for a cheap deal they will be expensive or gone fast. Canadian roster filler is the primary place to save money. That’s just the economics of the league. We won ships on the back of cheap Canadians like Kongbo, desjarlais, Eli etc. flip that and make those guys expensive and suddenly you price your self out of the market and it’s a struggle just to keep some of your own free agents.

Nailed it.

I might die of shock tbh 6 of those guys played last week and finished the game, most have been walking wounded for a while doesn’t mean much. Mci played his best game last week and has been good for two weeks. If he’s healthy enough to go he isn’t coming off. qft. Idk what to expect from Garbutt having been out for 6 weeks either.

We do, but we haven’t done much of that soo far. 2025 should be the plan, but I don’t think the mafia work that way. 30 for grant is probably our overall average starters age. we are at a point where it isn’t even about age, it’s about quality. Our worst players are really old. We can get younger and better at the same time by either going to a better player who wouldn’t be nearly as old or going to a young guy. Thomas, biggie, ba, kola, neuf all need to go. Even if they went for an average age of 29 we’d get a lot better and younger. keep in mind strevy is 30, lofton is 31, bonds is 28, then we just brought back lucky who is 32. Mainly we’ve gotten younger through rash of injuries. We’ve actually gotten older and some spots like db and qb. Don’t expect mci to come out. I doubt ogbevoen will be though he should.

100% the primary limiting factor with grant is health. I get that we needed a young guy who’d stay healthy. Imo, with grants salary we could’ve easily continued to bring him back for half a season and used the other half to develop a replacement. Like the deal we handed to kramdi, Zachs guaranteed money, and Brady’s deal, it isn’t the biggest issue with our roster decisions, but it is an issue. We could make a whole list of all those mistakes and rank them, grant probably wouldn’t be top5, but we certainly lost value and made our self worse for a tiny bit of money. The grant move hurts, jj hurts less due to his salary but our dl sure would’ve been better with him here.

Chris smith, he’s due!

To a large extent that stuff is discipline from the coaching staff. Saskatchewans lack of discipline has been systemic from the top down.

Better than ours too

The 3dn articles on Mace and the riders are soo nauseating. Mace makes a brilliant move putting Harris on 6 game ir. Mace didn’t want riders to go un defeated. Mace schooled dinwiddie in first match up. Etc etc and it’s from all different writers.

Yep, not a huge guy but plays with tremendous physicality, very explosive. I think he’d be good at any db spot or even wil/dime situationally. My big question with him is how healthy does he come back is what % is he at?

The only reason we would need sheed now is the injury rash. If healthy our wr core of schoen Lawler Demski woli plus a rotation of lord Keric and Wilson plus clericius. If any thing in retrospect moving on from Lawler and keeping shred might’ve been prudent, but you can’t operate in retrospect. Grant still has it, but isn’t the entirety of what he used to be. Smith is giving us 25 and 10 ish on kr and pr with tons of upside and miles left on him for a rookie min deal. Hansen is a great guy and teams player. But our teams has been very good, meanwhile Hansen hasn’t been able to stay healthy and is a premium global salary. He’d be nice for sure but our teams guys plus hubert at de is more than sufficient. And gives us youth upside and cost savings. You can finger wave a lot of moves in the off season. These 3 aren’t strong cases.

Should be s/sam. Parker was a brilliant Sam previously, Cole has played both as well. I’d put Cole at S and Parker at Sam. Realistically we stuck with worse dbs over Parker previously. Likely, griffin comes off as the dime if Parker comes back.

Half a kramdi deal, 10k less than Augustine, what 15k more than the vet min? For a guy who would lead our none qbs in tds. Pretty good value imo.

Modern qbs are doing that and throwing back against their body way more than you used to see. With the hash change you also see a lot more of these throws now.

Yep. Riders are a mid tier team. Bc and mtl are on top, neither are run away monsters either. Then tor and ssk with tor in front, with Kelly back they might go into top tier. Next fringe play off tier is us, ott, and cal in a pickem. Then you have edm and ham. Edm I think could easily slide to the next tier and be above any of those teams. Ham is the clear bottom. Next week across the board is going to be real interesting Was he on a one year or multi year deal?

Very true. The first snaps I saw from schoen he was waggling like he’d be up here 10 years. He did get used some in 0 motion in college too, but he’s a route running assassin, those guys generally pick it up faster.