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Maybe, or maybe not if Ted offers him a similar role with the same freedoms and more money.

That’d be a great low risk high reward get and a great fit if he pans out.

Especially not for a guy like him who spends most of his time at home in the states, especially coming up from that beautiful weather into these storms. He can pretty much come here for work paid as he pleases. Ham all expenses paid isn’t nicer than 20-30c and a drive from the beach. Generally guys who aren’t really wanting the job but going through it for experience etc pull out in the first week after 1 interview trip. Staying in longer than that to pull out or decline is kind of looked down on.

Right? It’s like tsn and suitor with the ford v ford grudge all over again. And still some how wrong lol.

https://www.cfl.ca/2024/11/29/cfl-cas-top-30-pending-free-agents-10/ these lists are usually trash but wow this one is extra steaming hot dookie.

I get that, I think with our offence though he could really flourish. And he fits a big need for us in a big way.

They have the same ast gm title. Could be more money though. they might since they are entirely reshaping the front office. The Hamilton connection, maybe he wants change, maybe they can offer more freedom especially if Ted leaves, might hire one of his guys as a scout under him etc. I don’t think Danny will want to leave, but who knows it is possible. You don’t take interviews and stay in it for a week with out having interest.

Extra job in Hamilton is interesting. I wonder if they offer Mac a similar snowbird role as he has here with a better title and payday. Could open the door for them to poach both Ted and Danny.

The chris jones technique. Now just needs to resign him self to a multi year cap crippling deal

Lmao soo true.

That and a truck full of money maybe?

Could’ve worded it better with grouping the two.

I’d be all over that. Better than the retreads. imo we are in good shape for him to go to bc. Unless for some reason they are married to maksymic

Is tampering still even punished? In his case, does he also get an nfl look? I wonder what kind of cash he gets, can’t be desjarlais money right

Yup. how would you build a coaching staff this off season? Top down for me, I’d try to get ac to be hc and oc, then Jy to be dc and ast hc. Ted as gm, Costello as ast oc. Maxie and Greg quick on D. Travis Moore and idk if he’d actually leave western but Greg Marshall on offense as well. People will hate it but I’d get reinebold to coach teams. After that 1 analytics guy, and room left over for extra scouts.

I feel like they’ve already cooked their own goose.

The big differences for me is 1, obviously a hof career as a player, and 2, mos was a bigger part of a more liberal coaching staff vs being a much smaller part of a very controlled coaching staff. Killiam became the ast hc just as the stamps decent into dumpster fire began as well. I think the only way you hire killiam is to be a figure head while keeping benevides and maksymic plugging him in as hc/sts co with one of the cos becoming ast hc. And that assumes killiam would want that kind of role. With the coaches cap now, it’s much harder to balance a staff around a hc whose hands on section is special teams. You are gonna be hamstrung paying both cos more, and struggle even more with position coaches. (The situation we are in, only we’ve developed both our cos in house)

I don’t get maksymic. He’s run offences that struggle to protect the ball, run the ball, and get the most out of his QBs. They basically chuck the most and score some of the fewest tds and struggle in the red zone play the big games. Also, doesn’t make sense to consider him for hc along side buck. You aren’t gonna keep him and bring in buck. Benevides has slowly been back sliding in his career for the past 11 years. From hc, to ast hc dc, to dc, to teams co and spent a year out of football at least. qft. this is an ugly list of hc candidates for a team that wants to compete right away. Atleast buck has modern rings, and has run offences that have lead the league with the pass and the run. He should have a big advantage on this Job. A veritable who’s who, of people I wouldn’t hire or interview for that job lol.

Yeah he was a great find and again is a guy in that slimmer more athletic modern linemen mold that we excel with. To change topics a bit looking at other teams free agents here’s guys I’d love for us to go after. Mcinnis. If he hits cfl free agency, I’d offer him Brady money. Even if it means we’d lose lawler. Mauldin. Feel like he’d be the perfect complement to wj. Ceresna. Replace one Jake with another. Would be a terror along side our imps and Lawson. Give us a ton more ratio flexibility. Similarly betts would be a good pick up but I like ceresna much more. Mcmanis, and Pickett. Picking on the rbs and Argos here but both are modp type guys and among the best at their positions with tons of versatility. Some thing we lack on D now. Leake/grant. Prefer Leake for his offensive fit as a Swiss Army knife as well as a dangerous returning but either would be a big win. A vet back up qb with starting experience. Couture. Won’t happen, but I’d throw a bank at him if healthy. Ol has not been a shell of what it was since he left. We’ve treated Canadians and ol like they are replaceable but not done a good job of replacing them lately. haggerty (failing that, zema, or grace) replace shanky with a much better punter. Haggerty might be too old for an nfl look too. Shouldn’t be real expensive to upgrade p.

Randolph is a good project, he was damn good at G. More legit of a T prospect. It didn’t work out well swapping Lofton and Randolph it seemed like they’d be better playing LT and rt than switching both guys spot. Randolph should be a prime candidate for a T spot even LT when Bryant retires, especially if he takes the year two step forward. But we need a guy to raise the level of competition in camp at that RT spot. When you have a bunch of prospects you tend to get the least bad of the group. When you have a good player you tend to get the best every one has to offer.

We did have other guys working the front office, most were coaches doing double duties. Bob Dyce was a huge part of that front office for instance while being a wr coach as well. He did more in the front office than coaching imo. yup. Old Dave early on handled a lot of the gm duties and taman assisted him. This is how the team and league worked back then. Khari and most QBs called their own plays, not the oc. Coaching staff’s were your scouts etc. some teams had it better, but it was basically the way things worked from hs to college and up to the cfl at that time.

For 10 plus games Dobson was in the top 2 best performers on our ol. Kola is in a tier by him self. After that, at worst Dobson is better than most all of nuefs games this year, and 2nd worst is handily Lofton. Lofton has no idea how to gauge the distance he needs to cover. Hes repeatedly kick stepped him self out of plays and right into zach butt tackling him. He struggles greatly with speed off the edge, and only wins pass pro battles if some one bull rushes directly into his frame. And that’s despite the fact that holding calls have been out on a shelf. In run pro, he doesn’t have the ability to drive ends, get to the next level or wall guys into his double partner so he or they can secure the gap and one can get up to the lber. He has all of the physical tools to play line very well. But seemingly none of the cerebral ones. When you can’t win locked up one on ones consistently against guys 70lbs lighter than you you just don’t have any where to go. It’s hard to find develop and upgrade Canadian spots. As jbr said, it’s not likely that we will be able to find a FA NI guard who will be better. But for imps, we can find better at T with our too much effort or money. Imo, if any one wants a bidding war on Dobson you let them take him. Then you flip to an imp guard, maybe slide Lofton back to his natural spot. Bring in a real RT and replace kola. If Dobson comes back, I’d still favour that change and slide Dobson/eli in for Lofton unless we hit on a rookie C like we have in the past.

He did good at part of his job. Dismal at others. Trades, good. Bringing in rookie talent, good. Free agency, worst ever. Managing a team, not good. Canadian draft, not good.

I believe a big part of it is they highly prized his role as the 6th ol and back up centre, strange as it sounds they are crazy about our back up being a C, which is why we double switched twice at guard in games we suffered injuries and ran with rookies. Eli isn’t a great guard either, but you can go back to previous ols and they put great importance on having 7 and the 6th guy who comes in for package work is a big deal for them. Eli would be plan A for me. Then sliding over Dobson, then neuf, but then also depending on what we find in the draft we’ve found good ones all over. Also worth considering is bringing back Cody speller. Who I think is only 30. He got derailed by injuries after he left here and went to the Argos but he was a gooder.

Ideally you want your most mobile ol to be the C. A lot of what I see with him is hesitation. He isn’t actually plodding, he just isn’t sure enough to commit early and hard to his assignment. He looked real good in his 2nd game at C in ps. If he could get to a legit playing weight of 295-305 it would probably be a good fit. Neuf is taller than I like Cs generally to be. And he isn’t the most mobile. But his decisiveness and instincts plus patience would be big. And if he’s gonna play another year, he might have an easier time holding up at C than G. Not nearly as many guys lining up on the nose, especially with him there. It up and down is a lot though. Really depends on what bothers him physically. Wallace is too damn big in every direction. A sleeper pick is drafting a rookie. We have a tremendous knack for finding undersized Cs who are able to contribute very quickly. And at developing that type of ol. We haven’t really had much success developing ol who are over sized. Which is no surprise given the heavy zone scheme we run. Smaller more athletic ol with nasty attitudes we’ve churned into all stars with ease.