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Tbh he’s only a 2/3 snap guy against teams that won’t run or read option off him. He gets completely exposed by every team that goes at him with a read play and refuses to play contain on any one in the back field. The ol played well vs Toronto this time and the dl was good enough pretty easily. I do agree with losing on the lines in the previous two cups though.

Right? Didn’t even look like he hit a helmet. One of the strangest I’ve seen. he will be if he didn’t. Who knows for now. I can’t imagine how you’d throw with touch and nerve damage in the throwing hands index finger.

Just imagine if he took another hit to that hand or fell on it or any thing.

They also said it was dangling in that interview and he could see into the finger. Idk what all this is for damaged but it sounds awful. No kidding eh? As bad as that I can’t even imagine.

Nailed it. Tbh this isn’t nearly as worked up as the previous Two cups.

The bombers have had difficulty stringing dominant performances together. But I don’t think they gassed from the wf. They did break in the 4th though. Guys gave up with the turn overs.

Qft

Totally. Really wanna see the khari eras. I’d like to see a simple clean 30s style as well. Simple blue, gold pants, no white no stripes etc. give me all of that logo love it.

Cc and challenge system needs a major overhaul. Fans in every market will agree to that.

If Paul came back, we’d all have to agree to be nice to him, sign an apology card to and send his wife some thing nice. She was piiissssseeeddd at the fans lol.

I worry he’d have vaj running the strevy wildcat. But if not they would complement each other well. Vaj, Paul, with qb coach Khari or Masoli would probably be as good as any team can do this off season.

With lapo you can’t have zach, or a running qb. You can’t have a qb who is happy to check down either. You need a qb who will push his system and read down field back.

I’d hire beau Baldwin to be the oc, away from Calgary. Then if he retires I’d hire masoli to be the qb coach and assist beau. That gives you as much diverse, high end offensive systems experience as you will ever see in the cfl. Masoli, with his experience is able to help Baldwin adjust to play calling in the cfl as well. If Masoli doesn’t retire, it’s khari jones. After beau id have a varied short list with guy like Brennan Marion, and some other d1 young disciple or divergent types. The idea would be a newer to the cfl co with a vet qb experienced in many systems to support his adjustment. Failing that, it’d be give AC ast hc title, or June jones, and Marc trestman type picks. I’d rather develop the guy and start early in the off season, but failing a blue chip guy id go for a guy who’s been a hc and succeeded. I think with Paul you’d need some one as his qb coach to temper him. Maybe some one to take over calls in the hurry up signalling etc. Paul’s down fail has always been getting in his own way, similar to buck. So I’d want a qb coach who could push him.

I liked what I saw from Wilson for potential. I wonder if dole went in and stayed in though, might we have won the game? Can’t know now, but he sure wouldn’t have done worse.

I thought zach was past it last year. I was past his post season performances last year too. He might have a few good games left in him. I would not rest a season on his shoulders again. Buck is the main problem, but zach is toast too. The cfl offensive systems are soo stagnant Paul would be Better than average. My short list wouldn’t be popular I don’t think.

Zach isn’t gonna get dumped for turn overs, it’s cus he’s done. Maybe atleast here, and he’s had 1 good play off game. BLM got dumped because he was done. Zachs been throwing hospital balls for a while. I did the numbers this time last year and that looks right to me. Take out the west final and it gets even uglier.

Yep. I’m sure they are who Randy was alluding to in terms of abusing the appearance money as well. Christmas Day, Jake kola the punter and biggie sign extensions with considerable raises. 🤢 I think we will hear some kind of change by Christmas actually. Retirement, firing (buck), release no intentions to resign etc.

I think winning made mos ultra conservative, and that winning 2 in a row took away the hunger to win. The old go 1-0 this week became less about being present and focused on the task at hand, and more about wins covering up the stink of coasting/bad execution/ bad game plans. I think the mood is more not wanting to lose than wanting to win. Wanting to enjoy prep rather than being tireless. They built it, they achieved the goal twice. It feels like they are very complacent to maintain it rather than tear it up and rework it every year to make it better. You have to kill good to become great. And when you stop improving you quickly get worse in sports. There is no static. It’s growth or death. I also don’t think that is equal across the mafia. No chance does wade have that. Or Jy imo. Walter’s has some, mos has a lot, buck has nothing else.

With zero insider knowledge I’m seeing the classic red flags of turmoil. I think it’s offensive and with buck/zach mainly. I could see the dl being un happy too, but I think that will sort out. I think the loss of yoshi, and sheed in the off season hurt leadership and the locker room more than any of us could know. Those were our two biggest glue guys. In the past we lost guys like kongbo who set a very high work ethic and held every one around him to that standard.

I mean we duped them into khari back in the day lol. I legit think once Alexander is off the market and vaj too that you could trade any former all star qb. BLM was traded and he was as bad as zach. agree. And I don’t like how turn over prone he is.

I’d add kyrie and Haba to your underscore list. I also think benson retires and leroux comes back from college to take over. 100%. Break the bank year. Take the fines, give up a draft pick if you need. It’ll be interesting to see how far over they are. Most overages have been dollar for dollar in the first two tiers so far. They might get a heavy bill or even a draft pick taken away.

Oh damn thanks for sharing for the not twitts like me! I really think we see some change this off season more than we saw in the last off season and regular season. fool me once shame on you. Fool me 3 times… Damn that’s interesting and nauseating but some how not surprising.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

And to be fair having a well prepped back up qb with full roll over of your back ups in the same year is very hard. But it is also critical. I put part of that blame on us insisting that 1 qb spot is just a short yardage guy instead of using that as a full development slot. We never should’ve lost brown and had to start from scratch with a new guy. Elevating your no3 to no2 is how you successfully move a 2 to 1 eventually and Stop ending up in situations where you have completely raw qb2s.

It’s not about motivation. You can’t motivate pro players these days. The dynamic just isn’t like that any more. Preparation is about film study, finding opportunities, then applying tactics to accomplish your strategy. Players are a part of that film study, on the back end. The coaches find the opportunities and bring in the tactics. Some players, guys like Willy, will do more of that. But it’s just not gonna happen players up. Especially in the cfl, especially with 20 some thing imports. Down south you’d see a guy like von miller back in the day heavily involved in that process, but even in the nfl that’s an outlier case. Position coaches have the film prepped and come in with the plan. It’s their job to have a plan for the start of positional meetings. Players will help shape that more or less. But it’s coaching to get them into position to succeed. We wouldn’t have won. We were losing the field position battle and couldn’t sustain drives at any point. Even with the lead we were sliding into a loss. Go look at any high end football coach talk about prep and execution. Watch Seattle’s coaches talk and coach tackling in the legion of boom era. It’s crystal clear. It’s all coaching. If one guy fails to execute you can blame a player once or twice. When multiple group sets fail repeatedly you only have coaching to look at. How many times this year did Wr struggle to execute? many times in the past 2 years has zach struggled to execute? Look at the calibre of wr we have. 3 healthy guys capable of 1k plus. It’s not a coincidence that players repeatedly struggle to execute in multiples at the same positions. It’s coaching. Honestly in the NIL era you don’t even / can’t motivate kids in D1 much any more. Coaching is all prep, execution, installing tactics and strategy, leading with character. Coaching isn’t what it used to be, people have Ill conceived notions of what it used to be and now that is just way way off from reality.