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230k for smith? That’s kinda nutty.

I don’t see it the same way, for what ever it’s worth. He barely clung to realistically being qb 3. Dukes was not good at all, stepped in late and wasn’t better. I don’t think we would’ve won with arbuckle honestly. I don’t think we’d a won if zach was 100% the whole game. We had our asses handed to us in terms of coaching and execution. I think it would’ve taken some thing much larger for us to win. People look at the game being close on the score board until it wasn’t. But the play on the field was slanted for longer. I don’t think arbuckle has become any thing more or less than he’s always been.

Buck took him after our search for oc replacement was under way. If we wanted Bourgoin we’d a kept him. But yes if buck wanted hogan over Bourgoin he would’ve got hogan.

Could be. But we’ve never been good at attracted or bringing in WRs from free agency in general. Kenny on his return is the only time we’ve paid one competitively in recent history. Also, zach has a tendency to throw hospital passes. Here they are “handled internally” *TM Mike Kelly

That’s a good question, impossible to know though. Would love to have that answer.

How do you find that move? He played the gc the way he had to. I wouldn’t want him though.

Every reference size is small with hogan. He’s got 2 years of being an oc ast in college and an oc qc once. How exactly has hogan been around and worked his way up? He may well prove to be a worth while hire. But with out question he is taking a huge career leap forward and is by far the least experienced co in the league. Both at his position and in the league/pros. It would seem we made the active choice of him over bourgoin, Jackson, Marty, lapo etc. I’m really interested to see what kind of offence he runs.

Not even close. Marty and Bourgoin are highly regarded coaches like Jy. Jy would’ve gotten a dc job else where, we had calls about him and had to move him up to keep him. Bourgoin got that call and took it, we didn’t match. Marty is high on that list now league wide.

This is a head scratcher. I don’t get point hogan over Marty. This is a hyper young Jump. Bourgoin would’ve made more sense too. Putting him over Jackson is even stranger. If you’re that big a believer in hogan, make him ast the oc under Jackson and develop him. This is a giant leap for hogan. I think he’s spent 2 years as an OC at the college or higher level in his coaching career. He’s spent as much time as a defensive assistant. Maybe hogan is one of these young brilliant offensive football minds. I’ll be very happy if that’s true. We will see soon enough. Should be Kelly. I’m not holding my breath on globals. We went from top of the charts finding talent there to after thought. Very good question.

Except for the players in the league. That’s who you really make it on time for. better not be a Hallett involved

I love the athlete as a NI especially, and the play making skill you cant teach. But yeah, just cant build around a DB making crazy money. I think DL could be better, 2nd de was awful. Less jake more lawson. Wr we were soo hurt and with out a proper no1 for soo long it all depends on schoen tbh. I think we will be stronger at the bottom of the core weaker at the top. But maybe more consistent. I think that is likely. Though I am hoping we continue to fill en battled spots with league vets to push rookies at. I agree. I think it suits us well. We need a big score from some place, but that could well be recruitment and development. Schmek is flat lined, and jake is a year older and slower. How doe jake getting older not cause regression? It isn't significant but it is a thing. Talent has seldom been the issue here.

I believe our strategy is that we cant improve the team enough with what star players we can afford, so instead of chasing top guys to replace ford/lawler, we are chasing our weakest import positions to improve the weakest chains instead of adding new strongest chains.

He was, Toronto beat us still inside out across the board. Toronto also doesn’t use heads up rushes on the line. Which is why they destroyed all our ol men with every dl they threw out on the field. I can find hope that he improved his ability to improve red zone play call, check downs, and maybe the abundance of out think himself plays/constant trick plays. But I don’t think he will have figured out how to use a mobile qb with out having run an offence with one. Dare or dream but that’s a worst case combination imo.

Randolph is a tackle, he should swap with Lofton who isn’t a T. But Wallace is key. If he takes a step forward, he will easily pass where Dobson was last year. Honestly we won’t be going 3 imp ol now. We are kinda looking locked in on nis now. I’d still love to see Wallace get a pre season game at rt. If he continued to lose weight this off season he should be more than mobile enough.

Better not be if lapo is the oc. Lapo get Masoli, strev with any one else is fine.

He was excellent after 4 ish games or so. He’s a strong starter, but he lacks the consistency. And at that he hasn’t shown nearly enough road grader mentality. If his first punch move doesn’t pancake a guy he just kinda leans. He’s good at reading a guys lean then striking them off balance, but guys with a strong base just aren’t unbalanced much at the pro level.

Honestly we allow it in certain circumstances already. Down field when a scrum forms, and in the red zone it happens frequently. Most red zone sneaks that don’t go up the middle end up being tush push. And I say that knowing full well we have been the biggest offender when it comes to down field scrums.

He wasn’t and I’ve firmly been in the other boat and I’m still not broken up about losing him for a premium pay day. You just can’t go around paying Canadians elite money on potential from a partial good season. Simply not the case. Lawler is a big loss for the 4-6 strong games a year he puts up, not for the 1-3 invisible games and the half season un able to play. Love the talent, not much else.

Looks like we have 1 db, 1 wr, and 1g spot to fill. Db I think we will promote and fill the dime from with in. Wr I think we will replace with a rookie and maybe bring in a low risk high reward vet to fight for the spot, then I think we will have Wallace at guard unless we take another fringe starter free agent into camp at that spot. I think the rest of our free agency is gonna be kicking the tires on dbs, WRs, ol and teams/depth nis.

Rest of the league trying to get wr deals back in line with other premium skill positions and Hamilton screws it up. I love the talent of lawler and Dobson but they aren’t with that.

I’m surprised the run on ol hasn’t started yet. He will likely play 18 games for them, so long as the contract is 2 years or longer lol. I’d bet my house on the under of him playing a full pre season through the playoffs.

Yep. Being able to identify and scoop up 2nd and 3rd year guys from other teams that you can turn into some thing more is the real success indicator. Scouting and bring up rookie Americans takes a lot of time and work. Then they generally need a year to adjust and have the game slow down. Being able to skip those steps is what we excelled at early in the mafia era. A lot of people forget how many of "our guys" came up with different teams.

It's been fairly common the last few years for guys to back out of deals at the 11th hour.

It does start and end in free agency. but your scouting and development has to be at least as productive as free agency if not more. We started our rebuild with randle and bryant, capped it off with rose and biggie. The reality of our situation (and how we are approaching this off-season) is we are looking for the next hardrick type find in free agency. Not the next rose/nevis/bryant etc. I think we are turning over every rock in free agency, except the premium guys. We will see how this continues to play out over the next while.

Really Ted? lmao at least we didn't bring him back