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Honestly our deficiencies are as well. We aren’t doman wealthy but we should be flying in a plane that’s falling apart, struggling with food either. Tc being bad is not surprising but interesting. I wonder if that boils down to teams just handing out bad deals vs being frugal.

He hit the wall seemingly with cardio. Was damn good before that. Really like that get for the Argos.

I do agree. Ayers might benefit from a bit more muscle and some nfl coaching at the same time. A camp down south would be good for him, but hard to imagine that would be better for us than a sophomore camp. I’d really hate to see him jsk, find his stride and bail. they’ve really been trending smaller and smaller for wil/sam and de. As much as they look at measurables, the ability to dominate plays ish huge. Right though? Ajou isn’t 10% as good as big kev at any role. And Kevens excels blocking and is good on teams as well.

Boy they really worked every one eh? Ayers is a bit of a surprise, but his ability to make major impact plays on teams solo is huge. If he can bring that to D he’s gonna be special.

That’s a great point. Maas in Montreal has been a completely different animal vs how he was previously. Idr the last famous Maas meltdown. Always a keen football mind and talented coach. Hes certainly turned a corner in Montreal. yeah ssk had decent possession WRs. Mtl has guys who are extremely dangerous with the ball in their hand. But the ol is the big difference. Literally from worst ol to best ol in the league.

he deserves the look. That said he’s gonna be 27 before camp next year and has 1 year starting as a pro, while his college time was at a low level. Hes gotta make a really calculated decision on his football career this off season. Dee Alford had a lower level college career,(still higher than ford) and is 27. But he’s played 44 nfl games over 3 years. Ford should be very particular with nfl interest. Guys like stiggers and Alford got good chances. Ford shouldn’t consider any thing that doesn’t come with guaranteed money up front. Some one will likely give him a fat 3 year deal this off season if he wants it. Probably in the 180-200k range a year. And with his passport he can easily get a contract after he turns 30. In order for him to make 700k+ in the nfl some ones gonna have to give him a real shot. No doubt lots of teams will give camp invites. But taking a no cash camp invite, getting cut or even worse getting hurt then trying to come back mid season with out camp etc will leave him in a bad spot. Kongbo signed a couple good deals but only managed to cash like 300k plus pr money. The broncos coaching staff loved him too. He was lucky that he played a premium position and B.C. was handing out money like drunken sailors. Db isn’t paid like de/dl. If this off season goes poorly for him he stands to lose a life changing amount of money.

I think a lot of that comes down to Maas doing a great job of off setting fajardos weaknesses. Plus having stellar talent at ol and wr. But he has certainly matured and doesn’t just need to rely on spin move left to right! lol Qft

Yeah I’d agree with that. He’s like the cfls Johnny manziel.

Broken plays, and extremely fast timing plays. Hes really effective at one step drop timing routes. I don’t think his issue is actually football iq, It comes of to me more as being mentally soft. He doesn’t have that mental toughness that Dru brown or zach does. If he went through what either did he’d break 10 times over. If you tell him he can’t make a throw enough times, he won’t be able to. Public opinion has a huge sway on his confidence as a player as well. Which isn’t good.

Good point. Though as I recall neither was really filling a vacancy. January I think is the best bet though at this point. Yeah is really hard to say. I can’t imagine they would’ve requested to interview him if buck left to delay it a month plus. I could see wishing he a double edged sword. Oh one hand a bunch of top guys will be gone. On the other hand, a bunch of guys who wanted a chance to move up didn’t get it and we will be their last shot. That could be the case for some one like beau Baldwin, Howell, or even jackson.

Pro football players, especially QBs are weird people. What a guy goes through especially playing ball in the us growing up warps their perception of reality. And of them self. Mbt as a player is an oddity as well. He’s a guy who can put up numbers and not propel you to wins. But he’s also a guy you can win with. Hes the strongest testament to football being a team game and wins not being a qb stat that exists. I group him with Trevor Harris in terms of quality. I actually agree a lot with his criticisms of the league last year. He is a nut though even by nutty qb standards. Imo Damon Allen was a smoke and mirrors guy till his renaissance. Some times QBs need that. Like ac did.

I believe it was rumoured that they had started, but you’re right it is possible. They might be trying to fill Ted’s spot first. I hope they are working on both at the same time but any thing is possible.

Good point. Been really healthy for a guy who’s a dual threat. Hes kind of in the Matt nichols tier between 2nd and top rank QBs. He’s not any one’s first pick for starting qb. But he does enough to give his team a chance. The team that gets him to be a back up will be pretty happy. Not wrong. 74 starts in 124 games. Basically 3 years as a back up, followed by 5 straight as a starter. I think that’s pretty normal for cfl QBs though. Most guys don’t become starters in year 2.

That’s a good question. I wish I might know for a fact, but I suspect that it is just because. I mean that’s how we roll with every thing from injuries to roster changes. Top secret for the point of being top secret. I agree that it just wouldn’t make sense to have this process drag into the new year only to announce an in house hire. But we also often make befuddling decisions like that. Logically, the only thing I can see is if they want the in house hire but want and outside hire to be an assistant to support and guide them in the job. Like hall has done for Jy. Kevin and Marty would really benefit from that type of support. I’d honestly be good with having Marty and Kevin work together then get a vet oc on the way down in their career to be qb coach and support both. That being bourgoin as the pass game co, Marty the run game co, where Bourgoin likely calls the plays from the booth and Marty is on the side line with said qb coach. Maybe Khari.

With Fajardo, you can micro manage an offence that will produce, though under achieve for sure. Greene you basically run wildcat type stuff and some old timey passes as trick plays early football days stuff. And he would still underachieve. ford vs Fajardo, who has the better year in 25? Even though he doesn’t have a team and won’t have a path to be qb1, i still take Fajardo.

At this point I expect the announcement in the new year for oc. Small chance some thing happens this week, but we could be the last team to finalize the cos.

A bit more upside on best games especially big games. Greene was more limited.

If they stuck to mbt all year, and canned jones before the start of the year Jackson probably leads them to the play offs. Or atleast respectability. he had a mile high ceiling imo, but very little chance of achieving that. More dynamic running vaj for upside, but more realistically, it’s between Nealon Greene and Fajardo. I like his floor as a qb3 who can run some packages n stuff. I haven’t seen the ability to adapt, read, manipulate, or beat Ds.

Some teams have a history that includes long stretches of great coaching. Especially the buono teams. The Argos and bombers are not those teams. We’ve both succeeding with fleeting runs of truly top level coaching. Mos and dinwiddie are quickly rising in the ranks of all time coaches when it comes to wins and gcs. And dinwiddie is a brilliant tactician. Neither guy has entered the level of buono, the don, etc. It’s like Emmitt smith becoming the all time rushing leader. He isn’t a top 5 back of all time or in that tier. He is for forever in the shadow of Guys like Payton, sanders and brown.

Time to go full on amar doman.

I do agree the ol early on gave no help. First half of last year was the worst ol play he’s seen in blue n gold. He was also just not game ready after skipping pre season and parts of camp. The play call was also not conducive to getting the offence in a rhythm the entire year. If zach wasn’t getting time and the WRs weren’t clicking with him buck had nothing to help slow things down and make easy gains. Or adjust to take what the D gave. It was the worst stretch of offense we’ve seen in ages. And many players have blame, none save for maybe Brady are blameless. If healthy the ol are certainly settled together now. I’d really like to see an upgrade at any ol position in the off season. But I think the only chance will be internal development. However just having the unit play like they did down the stretch last year will help a lot. Oc will be a big factor in our success on offence this year. We need some one who can reign in zachs impulse to chuck. I worry that guy doesn’t exist in our staff already. Last year was an embarrassment for zach too. He hasn’t played that bad since the stretch to end it in Hamilton. I’m hoping we see angry motivated zach early and often in 2025.

Those things didn’t help, but he was much worse in the early games before guys got hurt. Worse than every game but the gc any way.

Actually his play off stats here over all are bad. Not just gc games. But he has had some good play off games like the west final this year. Which, if you look at his stats in the play offs here gets even more depressing. But that requires accepting that winning is more than some kind of personal player magic. Im consigned to the fact we will have zach back this coming season. I am however also optimistic that he can’t have a worse year than this last one. If our pass pro is at the level we saw down the stretch, all year next year and we have better game plans and play call from the oc any thing is possible. I think it’s possible with a good off season that we end up with a D that can carry us to gc wins. Id love to have a young franchise qb. But one isnt available. Wish we kept brown maybe next year.

As much as I want to see re ups, right now I want to see us score a good oc

I feel like the longer the oc search goes on, the more likely it is we are hiring from out side.