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Honestly I’ll settle for not having karamoko/ni on at wil/dime and a Canadian dl at the same time. We frequently will have 3-4 Canadians and a global on the field on defense. One play last week I saw 3 ni dl, karamoko, and 2 dbs on the field together.

We’ve struggled with assignments on that side. Don’t switch well etc. we’ve also been using karamoko as a dime on that side on second downs and he’s been real bad, ba as well. With ford you can see the potential, needs a good bit of polishing still. Not worried about him in specific, and happy that it looks like karamoko is coming off the ar. Ba is the big concern in the secondary rn.

Same here, trying to be optimistic about his health. But yeah it’s gonna take some thing big to get the change made unfortunately. Haha! That’s awesome. I followed them casually for a while, I was a big fan of Chris fumatu-maafala, the bus, ward(he was my kind if dirty especially for a wr) polamalu, and the way they approach head coaches. The pats are the modern model of success following in the 9ers mold but the Steelers are a model of consistency and character for a front office.

It isn't though, nor is it that simple. Nik and woli played exceptionally well, and we ran the ball 25 times, which is more than we've completed passes all year long. it's 10 more runs than completed passes we had in ott. Of the 17 attempts to woli and demski only 2 went incomplete, meanwhile they averaged about 11 yards per catch, would you prefer those passes go to wilson? Our offence hasn't been staying on the field, we are averaging less than 20 completions a game. Yet Lawler has as many catches as wheatfall, brady, augustine, and 1 less than wilson. Wilson, has the 4th most catches on the team in the same proportion you saw in previous years for the bottom 3 wrs, 2 of which are generally checks across the field. FInally, the catch rate of the top 3 wrs here is almost 68%, zachs completion % on the year is 61%, wilsons catch rate is 50%. Wilsons is averaging 5.4 yards per catch. Wheatfall was replaced by strevy, who did get a target, and clercius who took over woli's job of chipping and blocking, which meant more targets for woli down field. It isn't a suprise, that when you have 3 of your best wrs on the year go down that you suffer at wr. especially when you don't have a lot of roster depth at wr. Zach isn't doing a good job of checking down, but our passing schemes, like dagger concept, will have 3 ish targets in the line of site of the primary ready. Zach reads the down field back. They do a good job of mixing different spots through those concepts to keep the ball spread amongst targets. This is part of why wheatfall had such a great game. He was working down field a couple times, coming back to the ball and separating. This is exactly why lawler demski and schoen have worked great with zach from day 1 as well. I've seen zach miss open guys off the primary read area, but not once has that guy been wilson or Mitchell. Mitchell has seen few reps in the O compared to wilson. Could be vet day for Eli, seems like we are rotating guys through it right now. I have a feeling we will see a lot more of burnt alexander, until after the first 1/3rd is over any way.

Maybe trying to keep brady pissed off and hungry? LOL

That isn't the case with Zach. Last year he had 6 guys between 38-71 catchest. The difference in catches, despite lawlers missed games, among the top 3 was just 21 catches. The difference in the bottom 3 was 9 catches. We had a 4 way tie for 2nd place in receiving Tds with 6. Top 3 guys between 900 and 1200 yards, bottom 3 between 668 and 482. That is not relying on one or two guys to do all the work. Even the guys below the top 6 all had big games, agudosi, bolo, gmc.

It's the CFL, that does happen. Jason maas didn't earn a HC job after being fired as an OC, but he got it any way. And he's made the most out of it. Are you familiar at all with how plays are called? The cos don't just dictate what the team is doing while the HC watches. The large portion of plays in the first half are practiced and prepped the week leading up to the game. The install and bases are formed after position and group meetings in a meeting with the Cos and Coaches. The HC largely operates the subs, and will call to go for it, run, pass etc. Different Hcs have different levels of input in different aspects. The Cos though, work for the HC. The HC has final say in all things game day.

We might never know the nature of the power balance between wade walters and mos. Any way you cut it though, I don't think walters could've done much with mos prior to this year. He had all the leverage. That should be changing now. Time will tell if they are all in the boat together, or if mos has been rowing them down towards the rapids. 100%. Falling into a generationally good team has people forgetting that roster management, amongst other things, has always been an issue. If any thing, I think Mos has regressed as a HC from the days before zach. He had a big impact early on with our teams being consistently the best punt/kick and cover unit in the league, and in the mid season overhaul of halls D as well. We went from a team that couldnt win, to a team that won with some cloak n dagger stuff, to a team where the D expected to carry us to wins and where ever time the ball was kicked we gained considerable field position. People forget that in the matt nichols era, we had the best 3 job kicker in league history. Medlock was years ahead of the curve in punting, and for most of his career the most accurate kicker in league history. 50 yard fg into the wind? automatic. Need 7 fgs to win? No problem. Our D, shattered records for forced turn overs for 3 ish years. We scored with insane regularity on D, and our O played on half a field for the most part. That team was built to grind down the clock on O, with teams yielding insane amounts of yardage, while the D won the game. Then all of a sudden you add a QB who can hit tight windows down field and loved to take deep shots, which aided in developing guys like lawler and schoen, and a D that still expected to have to win the game them self. The biggest battle we saw for a couple years in bomber games wasn't our team vs another, it was our O vs our D to see who would carry the day. But the D quickly took a back seat to the high scoring offence, and then the O now expected to carry the load suffered from loses and age. Mos was atleast aggressive and coached to win prior to the GCs, even if plop and hall were passive in play styles. Mos doesn't produce a good roster and make the most of his assets, and hasn't in a single game in ages. He doesn't have his team chomping at the bit and ready to go at kick off. The culture has become one that is content even in defeat.

He isn't doing it on purpose, he has bought into his own propaganda. No one is saying its 100% mos. Even the most critical on here are saying that walters and wade need to deal with this. That said, the talent was there. Walters has been pruning Mos boys club the last two off seasons. To an extent, you want the new guys to win spots from the old guys in camp. That brings a ton of value, vs cutting guys and having rookies battle rookies for the spot. We had all the talent at every position save punter to fix our issues. The huge majority of the problem, is mos. Because it isn't just roster problems, our coaching is poor, our team plays flat as hell, and our prep is poor. Many factors out side of the roster are hurting us, and those all fall on mos. The roster isnt calling plays that don't work for the squad we field. The roster, isnt having us kill clock before we get what we need from the drive. The roster isn't having us not run the ball in the red zone. The roster isn't why this team feel comfortable losing. The roster isn't why we can't adjust in game, or to what teams have been doing to counter us since last year.

I don’t think mos will pull the ripcord, I think it’ll have to come from above him. I think the point Walter’s and co will have their hand forced is in the next 3 games if we win less than 2. That will see attendance plummet, and us put in a position where we need to win out to control our destiny. The two game series with bc followed by a couple weeks later is hard not to split at the best of times. The rip cord should include getting rid of guys like Thomas biggie neuf kola and ba. And any under whelming rookies like Wilson, for air lifts. How old was bob cameron when he retired? 48? Jake’s still young!

Dare to dream! He’s been such a waste on D.

Yeah but we all know training camp and pre season have no value. I look forward to the day we can call him the punted

Listed snaps not pressured unless I missed those. Some of those would be pretty easy lol

Generally wrs have to pick between top speed and diving. Very few guys even in the nfl can leap from one leg into a full dive or do a gather and leap from a full stride sprint. If he played for the dive he’d probably be 5 yards shorter. Only he really knows which way he covers more distance. That ball perfectly throw, goes over his shoulder to arms in front of his face. In a tighter spot you drop it in the bread basket with the wrs arms bent. Demskis wheels made that player closer than any other wr on our team would’ve been. Zach missed by the smallest margin for a catchable ball, which is hard to fault. It’s also hard not to expect that pass to be completed. Isn’t fair but that’s football. Are you tracking pressures as well?

Yes, it does. We literally won a gc using mainly a 30. Toronto used a considerable amount of 30 as well. No front works, when Jake Thomas is taking the most reps follow by wj coasting.

Strevy all the way

Walter’s likes to use roster bonuses more than performance based, and loves to use bonus space to reduce cap hits.

Can you renegotiate deals as many time as you like with in the same year? f%*#ing way she goes eh. Sad that the best roster improvement we can hope for right now is guys getting hurt. Really sucks.

I thought about that but tbh, many of our big contracts shouldn’t be back any way, and have been restructured any way. Idk if you can keep doing it in the same year. We don’t hand that much out in incentives, here’s the top few guys. Lawson 135/141k, lawyer 135/285, Schoen 125/230, while guys like garbutt, Habba and Parker are base deals. That means we likely save 100-130k on the three guys at 6 games plus 80-100 on the younger base guys which also includes Hallett and Kelly. Then you can pro rate that money for 2/3s of the year as well if some one was available of an impact status.

We are going to clear a TON of cash at game 6, I wonder if and how we will use it.

No joke, ba gone and we stay imp at S? Pipe dream but a beautiful one. If woods is out we need to play Adam’s inside far more. We have ali Hubert and wj who can all play out side. The best thing with the pieces we have is stay 30 front, rotate the 3 ends play Adam’s largely at nose with a Canadian spelling him. Unfortunately, Jake will take every rep inside. Adam’s likely slides back as forth with schmekel spelling him. We really need to dump some guys from the ar and pr then start airlifts.

that'd be a great pick up Als also cut Jazston turnetine, who is an actual tackle and was real good at LT for the seminoles. Id cut kendall, one of our two imp guard projects for him in a heart beat.

Sad that he’s the best wr we could dig up. We aren’t treading water any more, we are drowning.

No part of qbing is easy. When we are paying north of 800k combined on those two, expectations should be high imo. Demski (along with strevy, Brady, and woli) played his heart out. Zach still left a good bit of opportunity on the field. Vaj completed 2 Less passes for 151 more yards. On the list of faults for the loss though, the buck starts and ends with coaching. Going into time killing mode before you get to the area/ lead needed is soo damned dumb. Not using our best weapons and running in the red zone in the clutch? Dumb. Continually calling cover 0 and putting ba in man cover when keeps getting burned and the pressure isn’t getting to vaj also dumb. Roster management, dumb and dumber. Zach played his best ball since before we locked up the west last year. It would be a lot more encouraging though if bc didn’t suck. If we had miraculously won all 3 games we’d still be in deep trouble. As it is, we are getting close to win now territory.

Almost count the reps Jake came off for on one hand. Late in the game we had a half a series with all imp dl. Meanwhile any time another dl made a good play they came off