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Yeah idk if he does either. But we are married to him, and we aren’t going to instantly have a team that can win a gc with him chucking bombs down field on 2nd and short or when ever else he wants. (Which is a lot) He isn’t gonna become Ricky ray, but he’s gotta quell the chucking in the worst situations into triple cover. Thats true, but we’ve seen more miraculous late career changes Damon Allen being the biggest up here. this. No way he didn’t know what was coming with his and season interview. Probably didn’t want to believe it.

Un comparable, considering 15 years ago the nfl didn’t want mobile QBs, didn’t think spread or option was viable, small tweeners or a lot receivers. Now they do. But we didn’t see true pro rookies performing at such high levels at db wr or qb like we do now. So I don’t think it was as close to as good now. Just easier to get more optimal fits and lots of guys with out nfl interest. 30 years ago, they tried us expansion too. 30 years ago Canadian college kids almost never got nfl tc invites. Little on deals bonuses and drafted. Fans love player mobility. Most popular time of the year in sports worlds are trade dead lines, drafts, and free agency day. Leagues problem is trying to cater to the wrong people, and not focusing on innovation.

I wonder if being short handed played a part in it. We have to remember, buck and hall were in consideration for other teams positions and when that happens aren’t involved for obvious reasons, plus 3 front office people. It was basically mos and Walters doing all the work for a long time. He talked about it in the year ending presser. I also don’t buy he didn’t know the writing was on the wall here. Especially after we re upped jones and then kyrie. Far as Im concerned we gave biggie multiple victory laps including a top end pay day far past his prime. Love biggie, hope he coaches. Glad he isn’t playing here. Can’t be the only vet we move on from though. Think he will get one? I really don’t know.

Before players go home, they have exit interviews with players. I have no doubt that the bombers let biggie know what the whole league knew after he played in the previous years gc. Yuuuuup he’s the 100 year old media version of a social media $@&% poster. How long till he retires? Or will the sun go under first?

It’s a really hard balance that is deep in the blind spot for us as fans. Is he willing to evolve his game to extend the last bit of his career? Is he capable? What does that look like? How much do you try to cover for his weaknesses (forcing the ball down field, holding it too long) and how much do you give him what he wants? I feel like both alleged finalists, Jackson and miller are well poised to deal with him. But it won’t be an easy job. It the oc balances that well the rest will fall in place. as has been said, he can’t run and escape like he used to. He also struggles mightily with rpo and option play in general. He’s shown flashes of really good up tempo play involving Timing routes and select screens. He does a lot better with this stuff off PA. He also likes to read down field back to the line, so stuff has to be designed around that. The offence also needs to have some development beyond zach. It’s very likely that the next oc will be here longer than zach at this point in his career. So we don’t just need some one who can excel with zach, but who can develop the next guy and involve him.

Canadian football player exposure is always valuable in the nfl. It strengthens the pipeline of Canadian kids getting shots down south from ncaa to nfl and of American players coming up here.

And it could very well be a big aid for him in progression. For for Canada and the league. But just dumb at the same time.

They all are. Both halletts, kornelson, samson, schmekel, Thomas all of em. Not on any other team but here. Not starters capable of competing. Not better than any imps. But yeah they all starters. If cut maybe, maybe one guy gets another offer. But they all starters.

Yeah I get that. He’s pretty much tcf.

He sat out 2022, just the one year. Plus the cancelled season and the year out of college. But it’s just 1 year since he was starting games for us in 21. It did seem to hurt his being game ready shape when he came back. I think long term if he gets back to starting all the breaks will be good for his body. He had a bunch of wear in college. He struggled at guard, but other wise was his usual self in the heavy set stuff.

Yeah. General logic is guard is easier than c or t but some guys struggle on one side or the other, or inside vs out. Hardrick struggled a lot at G before sliding to rt. Bonds struggled switching sides and then couldn’t play rt when the riders tried to move him around. C is also an odd position. We all see the snap, but it’s a completely different position most of the time. G and T you know your guy, you’ve prepared a lot for that 1on1 and they end up being 80-90% of your snaps. C, you don’t often have a guy heads up. It’s about reading, adjusting and helping. Dobson was also in his first season as a starter. That’s almost never an instant plug and play. The rest is soo depressing I can’t even thinking about that going into FA lol. Kolo and Thomas are gonna play till they can’t walk or stand. I agree with both. Hope for de dream of a C. I think c likely has to be a trade. between the ears makes sense. He excels in short yardage and in prior years went in at G while gray and others kicked out of te. It could also be that he just needs steady reps to grow into the role at g.

Raw, intimates high potential. He’s instantly the least athletic guy in the nfl. His cfl numbers were embarrassing. Average height of a wr in the nfl is a tiny shade under 6’1, ajou ajou was 6’2 at the combine here. Hes slightly above average for a wr down south, not even close to a tall lanky guy in the NFL. And he flashed average hands. Aside from his best game he caught about 40% of targets. It’s not his fault by any means. And I don’t blame him for taking the deal. This is a capitol case of the nfl can get really really stupid when it comes to signing guys. It’s pure 80s eye test stuff. He over achieved here and could well turn him self into a good cfl pro. Jamie stoddard and plenty of other guys have done it. If he’s smart he will soak in everything down south and use it to propel him self in his career. I think we have an easy 100 players in the cfl who would be way more worth the look.

So the dude runs like Matt Sheridan at the combine with a full battery of test results in that range, he catches 20/32 for 300 yards, hurts his knee in week 16 and misses the rest of the year, then gets an nfl deal. That is insane. Big Kev had better production and went like 32/40 with out missing a pass attempt for like 14 ish weeks, tested exceptionally well and blocks like it’s his full time job. Hope they don’t come for him.

He isn’t an excellent tackler. But he is extremely smart. He does continue to get better. But his steps are a fraction of what ford showed from his first tc to his first start and then from his early starts this year to mid season. Kramdi isn’t covering other teams best guys man up, only when they cross his zone. The down side in his game is while he has an excellent anticipatory skill, his ability to convert those jumps into big plays is sub par. He just misses a ton of big plays. That, and his tackling is inconsistent at best. Hes basically hidden in our run fits unless he’s blitzed off an edge. Athletically he’s pretty solid for the passport. Though our secondary is filled with outlier athletes. Makes him look slower than he is. His decision making in not great. When he gets out of the instinctual play and has to make snap decisions despite having great football iq he’s too hesitant. Kellys improvement also hardly out paces Kramdi, as do guys like mci and clercius. Kramdi is solid. If he keeps grinding and stays healthy he could possibly have a Demski esq improvement in his 30s, but it isn’t likely. Hes basically a 2 year starter going into his 5th training camp. Hard to expect much more. Hes also 1 injury away from being a hallett. Hes a solid mid roster Canadian starter. Hes worth about half of what ford is.

Wonder if you guys go after ford. Did lokombo ever fully recover from that early career injury?

You know Pickett was the highest paid db of any position in the whole league last year at 165k right? Nichols hard money was 140k. How much you gonna pay ford this year, and nichols next year then? I’d say he’s an average starting Canadian db in the cfl. How most teams have deployed ni safety’s, we use Kramdi. Put him in a small box and ask him to come down/over to make tackles on pass catchers. Honestly I like that with an imp S better than vice versa. Except for the fact I think Kelly can cover S like an imp with development, and we don’t need the ratio help. Conceptually though I hate the small box mid deep Canadian S who mostly watches and takes what comes to him. It’s like an upright on the field goal vs Fajardo. I do like that he has a nose for opportunity and has good in the box potential. I think he needs polishing though. Tackling by our D has been a big piss off for me the last bit. We have had terrible tackling at every level. Couple guys like Nichols and jones tend to wrap welll with guys who they can get hands on, but we must’ve missed more tackles than any team last year.

He isn't a top 3 sam in the cfl. And being top 3 (at a 1 player per team position no less) doesnt equate to a premiere pay day for a guy at a position that doesn't get paid. Plus, we paid him the off season before last year, and any of our imp Dbs could've taken his spot with out missing a beat. He was also a big part of our early season secondary struggles. Ford, is a top 2 cb in the league last year, is younger, a far more dynamic athlete, and far earlier in his games played. That, is a guy you pay kramdi money to. Kramdi played his best ball late, which is always good. But he was one of the smallest parts of our D turn around. BA staying home rather than head hunting, biggie/kyrie coming out, Griffin taking over the wil db package, ford emerging, Jones stepping up in biggies place, it is a long list before you get to kramdi. And paying guys before they step up is extremely dangerous. ] What do we pay kramdi in his next contract? We bumped him to top 5 ish paid in the league as a fringe starter. As a middle of the pack starter at sam in the cfl do we need to pay him 200k?

I don't remember that being the rumor, though I do think he got a fat pay day. I also don't think we got the 3dn highest paid articles we get now. hard to say. That said, he's high on the list of FAs we've lost, that we haven't missed. Up there with houston. A lot of other guys we lost that hurt though.

He didn't do amazing, that is for sure. but he also got single digit reps. Dobson was much worse for much longer. He was much better in 21 than kola has ever been. But I mean, it's poop or get off the pot time with a lot of these guys. Well past it even. I'm not saying we are wrong to be out of the market on every single guy. But if we were in the market, I think only Chungh and goosen were gone. I don't think BC made him the highest paid ol, but it was an over pay. Especially for what we had in stock. If we retain a fraction of that list, this is a whole different team. Couture, and Desjarlais are the biggest misses. I fully believe both are back with reasonably competitive offers. 25 year old elite NI ol with an incredible knack for setting the aggressive physical tone, that is gonna get the big pay day every time in the cfl. We ended up paying lawler nearly the same money he had in edm, we haven't saved a bunch of money from losing these guys. I agree from Elis perspective. I would too. Desjarlais was gutting to see go to ott. Gray never settled properly at guard. (he shouldve been a RT, and shouldve replaced hardrick.) Couture leaving was awful too. Lawler I get letting walk. Grant going for like 10k? Hansen who took a cut with toronto any way cus we over paid him the previous time, lots of meat on the bone imo. Fact is, in the cfl, you just can not let that amount of OL especially candians walk for that many years with out gutting your franchise. Goosen, suhk, couture, bonds, hardrick, desjarlais, we lost a better ol than we had half of last year. How do you pay a guy like kramdi and lawson (and I love lawson) top notch money but cheap out on guys who brought you to grey cup wins?

I do agree we need that nasty guy like desjarlais. Ever since he left we haven’t had that. He set the tone and every one else tried to match it. Wallace could be that guy, don’t know for sure though. We need that back for sure. I don’t think we actually had that on the dl though. We could sure use it though. “Back home” is an excuse. Half our team is American and play away from home the whole season. Who is our last true home grown ol? Sheridan? We weren’t competitive in the pricing of any of those guys. Just like we weren’t in many free agent departures. Kongbo, sayles, other sayles, jsk, lawler the first time etc. I think we felt as though the next man up would always be a couture, desjarlais, stove, Alford etc. and we got to a point where the cupboards ran dry, and our ability to keep/attract top guys suffered because we wouldn’t give up on vets that will play for cheap. Case in point, Tui Eli has dressed for 52 games as a bomber. This is the 6th year since he turned pro. He started 5 games including the west final in 21, and I think one game since then. Kola has played 62 games in his career. We are soo married to maintaining the status quo and the value of the 6th ol, that we’ve made double switches on the ol to keep him as the 6th guy and play rookies inside. I fully believe in what he can do from what I’ve seen. If the bombers don’t, they should’ve moved on a while ago. If they think continuity with the 6th ol in a sub pack for a hand full of snaps is worth as much as an every snap ol, then we are pooched. Has familiarity bred contempt in the bomber brass? Sure looks like it. Has it been addressed now? Think we will know a week or two into free agency, if not camp through pre season for sure.

I did see Harris talking about yoga and movement stuff late in his time here. Gsp worked with ido portal, who is the greatest movement coach in history. And his head trainer, firas zahabi, is among the very best at running camps and managing fighters training needs. (Up there with winklejohn) every camp and fight cycle, firas basically tore down gsps game plan and style to rebuild and evolve it. At times completely changing it. He micro managed gsps to training regiment to an extraordinary degree. Every one saw movement coaches become popular from ido/firas and then condits crazy guy. But what a lot of people didn’t see is gsp doing some thing different every training day. In camp or out of it. A lot of people have tried to replicate what tristar and Jackson-winklejohn do/did. Almost none have been successful. Plus, gsp didn’t need a heavy active SnC routine (which if it brings any/enough value to fighting has been widely debated for decades) he basically never stopped training camp during his run. He was training 4 plus days a week multiple times per day in multiple disciplines year round. And his athletic potential was already maximized. The guy had no off button. Probably a half baked plan by Harris to try to shed the responsibility, time and work of football SnC. Which again, is awful for most people who aren’t gymbred. I’ve also seen people who get too deep into yoga, who end up doing more harm than good. (It’s more a mental failure forcing things rather than a yoga issue). In order to cheat flexibility they end up messing up joints and soft tissues rather than gaining musculoskeletal flexibility. I could see Harris having messed him self up stretching too hard/forcing it rather than stretching smarter. Billboard material, or maybe banner material on this site lol

Lmao accurate. Height in a rb is the most over rated attribute in football. Shorter the better imo. I cringe watching 6’+ RBs run through the trenches. gre hee heeasy. lol. I quit competing in kickboxing because I’d rather get punched in the face than run too. The dedication of guys who love playing football soo much that they do the required SnC work year after year is incredible. Most sports you don’t need that. Football demands it. Unless you’re blink lol. I played and worked with guys who were crazy talented but wouldn’t even do the ice bath to safe their life. That’s why to me it’s the best sport and the best athletes. You can’t be slow, you can’t be weak, you can’t be lazy, and you can’t be soft. Many sports you can be most or all of those.

I'm not even mad tbh. He was at least soo transparent and straight forward that it's hard to hate him. He lived every moment like it was his last. Played hard, partied hard, slept... honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he slept in the locker room with some of the turn arounds I saw from him partying to playing. I loved football as much as any thing in my life till my kid was born. When I turned to coaching low level I was trekking across the continent to every back water imaginable to participate in clinics from positional to coaching. Awful trips on shoe string budgets staying in places soo greasy it make the trailer park boys blush. The wish to play more was as strong after as it was when I got to play, but still I hated the weight room, and the strength and conditioning stuff. Some people just aren't wired for that. I'd rather work stupid hard than lift weights or run. Maybe thats part of why I love blink soo much. He's my spirit animal.

I actually think we have the core, if healthy. Wallace, and randolph could be impact players for us this year on the OL. On the DL I really like woods, Adams, fox, lawson and what garbutt rounded into late. I think we need to make some tough moves to get away from some old guys, and prioritize spending on the lines in free agency. 2 players, 1 end and C or tackle, away from having the best line play in the league again. And, the continued development of our young guys. Perfect world, we make a splash move at C, and DE. Garbutt rotates as a di, WJ rotates in the 30 to 40 swap, jake is either cut or the last NI on the roster, and we heavily rotate fox/lawson/woods and adams inside out. Randolph steps up and becomes the RT, and a new C stabilizes the interior. Wallace steps up and takes a G job. Maybe thats dobson, maybe its paddy rotating and playing the 6th ol.

Im honestly un sure. All the money they keep spending in FA, this year they finally aren't jettisoning half their previous years FA hall. But it is hard to know what any team is doing cap wise, or if penalties even exist in reality.