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I get not giving legs the benefit of the doubt. Tbh the only kicker in a long time that I give it to is medlock. If we had medlock on that snap nothing changes. Put wade mos or walters on the line to make that block and we got a shot.

He did at centre and in goal line packages. Take it with a bit of a grain of salt but he was our highest graded ok in the last like 2 months. Our ol is flat out different with him in too. We don’t have a mauler inside with out him. If you try to twist across his face you’re gonna get dumped on your ass. Opposition dls and blitzers don’t fear going between the tackles when he isn’t in. Snapping is critical but tbh both Eli and kola do it equally well. Pass pro as a C is about switches, pick ups, knowing who to help when etc and Eli is better at that. Kola rides his pre snap read into the dirt even if it ends up with empty hands and Zach laid out. He lacks the ability to make post snap adjustments especially physically. Kola has also been exposed against nose tackles. I really don’t think he will be at C long next year even if we breaks camp as starter. We are gonna see a lot of packages to exploit him on the nose. We actually run heavy set more than you’d think. The grading of a centre is about ability to read pre snap, set the line, adjust post snap personally and pick up blitzes stunts twists etc and start vs ending point when you do have a man. You might pick up a guy and keep him infront if you, but if he drives you back 3-4 yards that’s the best kind of pressure the dl can get with out hitting. It collapses the pocket and messes up throwing lanes in a big way. This was a big part of what made our D great with nose tackles like stove and drake nevis. You flush the qb into ends, and cut the field in half when you collapse the pocket from the nose. Only thing I can hope is he signed dirt cheap and will take any role needed. Not surprised s bit disappointed and worried.

Honestly that’d be great for the league. remember when the nfl shunned spread offence QBs because it wasn’t viable at the pro level? For like 30+ years. Juco is a risk, and pro scouts do not want to take the risk and neither do teams. Now with the cap on ops it leaves scouting departments spread thinner than ever. It can also be more work up here. A good us pro or semi pro juco alternative would be huge. A lot of the top talents are too talents because they don’t have alternatives including school.

Dunigan is a solid sneeze away from forgetting his name. You can’t judge a kick before it passes the line, especially if you have to kick around an un blocked guy. lol blocked kick isn’t an excuse. Show me clips of guys left un blocked up the middle on plays where the kick makes it. Blaming legs and not the whiff is insane. Feels like our defensive and line identity will change a lot. I think we might see some guys in other unis we wouldn’t expect too. And age/performance reason too. Secondary has to get better.

It was blocked. It’s not his fault some one literally let their man go free. You’re also ignoring the fact Castillo and legs were comparable last year. Do you blame bob cameron for the blocked punt td in the 01 gc loss?

You might be right about that, I’m not sure. Honestly it might be far more reasonable to have one or two teams host these guys for regular practices, then have them run combine and rookie camp type stuff in other cities. Maybe it’s literally like a pr contract but with the league and would piggy back on that coverage. Some athletic sanctioning bodies are much harder to work with than others. Man and ont are very tough on combat sports I know for sure. I feel like a lot cis kids would really benefit from playing younger super athletic imports. It would be such a huge win for the league even if it developed 2-3 nis a year.

Zach has been like Brady’s balls around here. Deflated lol. I feel like we are gonna see some serious shake ups here and league wide in free agency.

I feel like we want to not use a di on him. Imp kickers are getting rare these days he hasn’t been resigned and we are bringing in competition By that standard Zach is more responsible than legs and that’s over the last two gc loses.

They could play each other or they could be a travelling inter squad practice team for cis / juco. You could build the roster with half juco us kids and half Canadians who fall out of junior or college up here even those who age out. Having a pipe line to juco type talent and a development system for candians would be huge. It could be like an expanded practice roster where teams assign guys to it, every one pays equally for it, and any team can claim any guy the team that assigned him just gets the right to activate them or lose them.

If the league went to the govt with a plan to bring up troubled juco kids and give them a chance to turn their life around they could make it work with out question. A lot of people get passes going both ways for all kinds of legal trouble so they can work. Might be on a 1 strike system, and might have to bring a list of kids each year but this happens all the time. With the nfl expanding prs, and taking smaller guys, and taking spread guys now plus the spring league, the cfl really needs to tap new fertile scouting ground and juco is a huge opportunity. If the xfl 4.0 taps that the cfl could be in trouble long term.

Poopkup houston Castillo rose thomas kola I can’t see more than 1 of those guys being back. Walker really took a good step forward last year. He’s not sayles but he won’t be nearly as expensive either. Great value bringing him back I’m sure.

I’ve thought about digging up fatjartoes career play off numbers to add to the break down of zachs play off games here, but I’m afraid I’d die from the vomiting.

Stanback was a monster and such a pleasure to watch run the ball pre injury. (Still like him too) but his hands and run blocking were sketch. That made the over pay tougher imo. 100% and we really should be splitting Carrie’s this year Brady or not. The value of having a change of pace back is immense as well. If we go deep dive juco, premiere d1 programs benches, and undersized small school backs we can get any thing you could ever want in a back. As a franchise we need to get big value from our next big contracts. We already have a ton of money hard set. A bad deal could screw us in a big way.

Totally agree. Gotta be a bargain for any one. I’ve actually heard that a lot. Couldn’t name a song of hers to save my life but she is one of the biggest performers in the world and not a jlo head case. That’s an achievement. I’m a bit of an ass on a good day with no fame. Zach should live it up. Just like swifts hype has been a windfall for the chiefs Zachs exposure down south is good for us. But for us it’s in terms of recruiting Americans. their ratio isn’t set, because they are staring down the hardest off season in their recent history. The ability to flip an extra imp ol would be huge for instance. I’d bet he’s back on a 200k contract. I don’t think competition exists in the market to drive him up crazy.

Carey is a good back likely, has decent wear left, but he’s gonna be 32 this year. He probably gets a contract, but I doubt he goes into camp as a no1 or gets much money. It was talked about with Dru but not with Brady. The cfl is pretty set on starting RBs right now. It might really hurt Brady’s draw in free agency. The best shot he has is if some team decides to flip ratio despite having a really good back. Toronto maybe?

I’ve frequently seen places top those lists that are awful. Idk how that stuff is cooked up but I’m real skeptical.

He was such a hard hitter and fun db to watch. way too damn early.

I don’t think so. We might have 5 backs in camp compared to 25 WRs. Half of the off season pick ups will likely be db or wr.

That’s very true. Big changes abound this year but yeah I can’t see it. He loses a step it’s over for him and he’s up there in age already. I don’t think so either, though I do love the package and idea of what he offers. We’d need to find a rook young blood version of aml. And honestly likely a better version automatically. Credit where it’s due, he did put in good work and improve a lot on teams. Honestly with his build you could possibly keep him on the roster as a multi purpose ni and teams guy out side of rb. The bomber starters and none starters too I think the one guy maybe two on here.

He’d be a good guy to split reps, like what Hamilton used to try to do. Go ni rb extra imp wr package. Or go imp rb or two back etc. home run hitter with an ni pass port. He’s not consistent, he can’t grind out yards, isn’t a capable catcher or blocker. If Augustine becomes the starter people will be off his bandwagon faaast. Just doesn’t work with our o.

We seem to have a converted qb in camp every year. I think they love the flexibility but we haven’t of yet actually kept one. Currently we have 4 QBs on the roster not including burmeister. If we don’t sign strevy or another qb, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him take reps at both qb and we in rookie camp and go from there. If we sign another guy I don’t think he will. Not sure but I believe he could either come back and play out his sophomore year or sign a new deal

I’d say 4 is the min needed for camp to keep your no1 from over working.

I think it was a very good question to ponder. It’s the exact situation we are in after all. That is certainly part of it. Because basically every rb at the minimum replacement level could be on an nfl roster. The nfl has known this and worked this way for a long while. At wr it’s harder to find that nfl roster quality player. Brady is 1000% a fifo guy. He’s a great player, person and team mate I have no question. If he played the rest of his career here I’d be happy. If he goes some place else I’ll cheer for him. End of the day I don’t have any emotional attachment to an individual player on this roster that is close to the attachment to the team and it being good. There is no guy I wouldn’t cut or trade to make the team better, if a better player was available. Though I do have it add, some times the team is more than the sum of its parts. If we replaced wj biggie yoshi and Bailey all with better players, we might well get worse due to shattering the locker room. That is a hard thing to gauge for the mafia who know the core intimately. Impossible for me or us on here to say where that line is.

It’s all speculation based on talks of wanting to reset the market. Imo, 300k is the absolute max for a wr. And I don’t think we can succeed with 2 WRs at 300k. 200-250max hard money imo is the range. Any thing in that range I keep schoen. If he wants 250-300 I take a long hard look at him vs lawler. Perhaps sign schoen and trade lawler if the market exists for him. going double rookie rb could have a cap hit in the 160k ish range, vs likely 300-350k for Brady and Augustine. That money could buy us an elite dl in free agency.

Every one loves Brady. A guy can become too big for the team though. I wouldn’t sign Myles Garett or bosa for 5 million dollars a year. Wouldn’t make sense. Even a million a year would leave a team un able to compete. Prime Derrick Henry or any other top tier nfl rb, wouldn’t give him 500k. If two players combine for a mil against this cap you’re pretty much doomed in the cfl. Brady might get crazy money from some one. We lost out on drew desjarlais to ott for 260k a year. Which is crazy money for a guard especially. Desjarlais, is a better ol than Brady is a rb. Both are great, but drew has legit 7-8 years of elite level play left in him. Rookie RBs don’t have that. I can’t see us giving Brady more than like 225k. And I could see a desperate team going crazy. Kadeem Carey went into last year on 145k hard max salary. At that point he was the best back in rb league. Kevin brown made 121k last year in hard max money. Devonte Williams probably made 90k range and was 100 yards behind brown, in 3 less games played. How much is the passport worth? Gittens jr off his career year made 200k. Demski made 175k. If the pass port is worth 60k, Brady is worth 200-205 ish. But if some one offers him 250 range it just makes more sense to go rookie for Pennie’s on the dollar.