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Except that hasn’t happened the last couple of drafts. Picking our type of guy is great, as long as they are an actual viable contributor at a position and not sts guy who doesn’t have the potential or ability to play a position.

https://www.nfl.com/prospects/larnel-coleman/3200434f-4c29-6981-8da0-eb2a705b0aa8 https://nflcombineresults.com/playerpage.php?i=30686 Looks like a really good athlete, and excellent T prospect.

A deep top heavy draft could see higher than usual trade activity too. Maybe cam Lawson type deals

Shouldn’t we have the posts going for the count down with player numbers then? even better, we get training camp crazy. It’s extra special crazy cus we’re all shaking off the football withdrawals.

Honestly that runs all the way up to the early 2ks. Some of the most baffling calls ever back then. I remember a rtp call for ac in a late season must win type game in 99/2000. Montreal got like 6 cracks at it from the one yard line and got shut down each time. They got an off side call which might’ve been a bit soft but probably fine. But the rtp was egregious. The fans threw stuff on the Field for like 10 minutes and eventually we got a crowd penalty. Mtl scored and won, but I always remember that as a culture defining moment. Ritchies team expected to win and fought like one was against them. It was the light at the end of the dark ages. And as much as it was hating to lose, it was hating to get jobbed. The stuff defences got away with on milt up till 2001 ish was insane too. A lot of guys got mugged back then, but WRs on bad teams got it like linemen in the 50s. the blown onside punt call with time running out in dunigans year with Calgary as a hc. All the insane cheap shots on khari by ed Philion. and I saw soo many guys take runs at blinks ankles especially when he had that turf toe injury. reffing is bad now. But it used to be a serious problem. The deal with the nfl for the option year etc that started the joint ref stuff helped a lot.

Agreed. Also the top players by position and dark horses / sleepers post. I think it’d be fun to have a bunch of media types do their own mock draft. Say barker picks for Toronto, farhan for bc etc. wouldnt be much out side of entertainment but I think it would be fun for 3ish rounds.

It would be hilarious if victor cui bought the elks and fired every one.

Boy idk about that onside kick alternative.

I’m not sure about Ottawa. Maybe they go ol. I think gio goes to ssk though. He should any way. I’d love to get that guy here. Even if he gets a udfa deal.

The cfl is the hardest league to make a mock draft in, some teams are going to take gambles on nfl guys while others aren’t and some ones gonna do some thing way off board in the first two rounds and you aren’t really sure till late who will actually be available. personally I expect the run in ol to happen early. Off set by the ncaa defensive players. I don’t expect to see many WRs or any FBs in the first two rounds. I suspect most of ssk, us, bc, ham and the stamps to go linemen.

NFL useage of FBs is actually at a 20 year peak and has been rising. Montreal used the fb the most in the cfl last year.

Or Montreal

Not in year one or two. But big athletic under skilled tes are pretty common each year down south. Cheerleaders are fb horny? Damn no wonder wade is always working. On a side note, I think we’ve got lbers that could fill the fb role as well. Id love a big running tweener rb/hback to free up a Canadian spot, but I don’t think any of the guys this year are that. A te/fb hybrid would be good over a wr, but not worth a high pick.

Theo will for sure. Tanner will get a decent look for a year maybe two. It’s possible that a coach will fall in love with his work ethic and intangibles alone. But he’s a pretty good investment for a mid draft pick or later. His chances of falling out after a year then two is pretty high. And his floor up here is pretty high as well. Geoff gray? Idr when the timing changes with respect to the nfls draft. But we did in that period of time take a few nfl risk guys. I don’t think any one other than hodge thinks we will or should go fb in the top half of the draft. If the right guy is available sure, but I don’t see that happening this year. Stranger things have happened down the road we could see a first round fb at some point. But I mean both tes and maybe both FBs probably better than kalinec was.

My fear is we draft more low upside special teams guys who aren’t good at special teams :s

If we really wanted to go after some one that hard I’d go for a guy like tanner mclachlan. 6’5 245 te who put up good athletic numbers 4.61/35” vert/9’10 broad/ 1.58 10. He seems like a real fifo type too. Hard nosed, tough, good blocker does the little things. He might end up being a late pick if not he will be a priority fa but good probability to end up here if you take him. the other Canadian te Theo Johnson is gonna be a decent mid round pick down south. 6’6 260 4.58 40” 10.5’ broad all the eye popping numbers. Doesn’t have significant Production though or any of the intangibles of mclachlan.

I’d add de to the wil option. As for priority, it’d be ol then rotational dl/lber. Wr would depend on who is available, while we need a guy or two this could as well be one of the TEs or a lower number pick who fills the woli role. I don’t think we need to look for a home run ni wr, we have soo many guys on offence that need touches a high upside offensive guy wouldn’t develop much in the next two years. A big body versatile teams wr who can block, a ghetto woli prospect would be a strong pick up. We could fill the fb/teams/back up ni wr all with one body. That type of roster efficient ni would be huge for us. The perfect world guy would be able to run the ball and catch, playing h back plus. But that is likely too much to expect.

Only if the fb was both an instant upgrade on teams and blocking, as well as a guy who could be a back up ball carrier to Brady immediately. Other wise we have too much need else where.

https://3downnation.com/2024/03/13/john-hodges-2024-cfl-mock-draft-1-0/ Hodges mock draft. I can’t see us taking 2 FBs in the first 3 rounds. But I’d love to get a versatile fb who can block play teams and do some power running.

https://www.nfl.com/prospects/isaiah-coulter/3200434f-5516-0662-8b6d-a1ee4723ab0a looks like a bit more of a project but with tons and tons of upside. Might be a guy worth keeping around and coaching up if he doesn’t make the team.

lol people do that? Im kind of stunned that people actually go that far. Doesn’t seem like that many people have been banned from the out side. Maybe it’s just the perspective. Though maybe it makes more sense if it’s one complete nut off the meds again. I probably don’t notice bannings because it doesn’t seem to happen frivolously and threads get cleaned up pretty quick when they do go south. Either way I appreciate all the work done by every one who keeps the wheels moving around here.

Beepboopbop bot detected. That’s a pretty cool tool, but pretty messed up that some ones actually using ai to post. Wth would make a person want to do that?

This isn’t the nfl. Few guys will be as big as him making the tackle, we don’t have any safety’s up here hitting like they do down there. The larger field especially with the hash change makes the running lanes way bigger.

Strevelers injury, a broken ankle, isn’t a wear and tear thing. It was a freak accident made worse by riders targeting it. Both streveler and buck need to evolve to the modern qb run packages. The cfl on the whole is lacking in this area. But I see no reason why he can’t put up a ton of rush yards while staying healthy and productive. Doesn’t hurt being bigger and stronger than half the guys on the field for defense.

I would love to see the cfl do in game advanced/specialized/charts/ngs stats in a few areas for the game of the week. Yards after contact, tackle depth, qb hurries/hits, player speeds, ball velocity, average separation, play/formation break downs charts, yards per target, tackle % etc. it would cost too much to get that going for every game (since we barely had stats at all half of last year). But I don’t think it would be too much to have one more stats guy and the equipment with tsn to do it once a week. It would certainly add to pre game, post game and half time segments.