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Qb, Zach. Back up, TBD. Guy to watch, Perkins. He could go anywhere from qb2 to cut early in camp. Step up or step out, guys, Chase and Wilson. Need level is High for a vet backup, and a young guy who progresses. Rb, Brady. Back up Peterson/MCI. MCI is pretty locked in for his versatility, but this is the time we need to see him step forward as a ball carrier. Sleeper, JJ Taylor. Legit NFL guy in a very deep backs room, with the wrong passport. The need level is very low. Wouldn't be against drafting an interesting back in the late rounds to keep guys being pushed. Don't expect more than that. Wr, imps. White and Wilson as starters. Guys to watch, Banks (another legit NFL guy with great measurables) Need level, medium. We are likely flipping the ratio, but we at least need guys who push both NI and Imps for their spots. Wr Nis. Demski, Nield, and Clercius as starters. Clericius at that group needs to solidify his spot more than he should have to as well. Guys who need to step up and will likely be pushed by a draft pick(s), Corcoran, and Cobb. Need level, Medium-High. We have a lot of meh; we need more quality and athleticism. T, Starters, Broxton, Bryant, Randolph. More guys than spots can be a good thing. In this group, Bryant and Randolph should be fighting for the 2nd spot. One might slide in side—chances we DI an OL after that are pretty low. Back-ups, Stewart, and Poncius are league guys with upside. New guys to watch, Dooley, and the returning Elsbury, who has a ton of potential. Need level: Very low. G, Starters, Neufeld, Wallace, Vanterpool, and Randolph. Way more bodies than spots here. Wallace should be a lock to at least be the 6th OL, as he has snapped and worked some C in camp here. Vanterpool has been much better at G than Rando, but Rando has more upside, and long-term is an RT here. We've got some young guys, but for Imps, the chance of jumping up to the top 2-3 on that list is basically impossible. Need level: Low. You always need to be developing Canadian OL, but that's really its own thing as well. PR spot is fine, we still likely draft an OL high at G for that spot. C, Starter, Eli. Back up, Vibert. Our thinnest position on the OL. But there is a chance we actually flip the ratio at C, not G. Vanterpool could be a candidate for that, as could rookies like Bucky Williams, Zovon, and Mazzucca. Need level, medium-high. Need someone to step up and take that spot. We have lots of guys who could do it; we just need one to actually follow through in camp. DE, starters WJ. Fringe, Jenkins, and Jaworski. Guys to watch: Bailey, Bogle, and Dixon. Fletcher and Jaworski also have some ability to play 3t, and do more in 30 fronts with their size and builds. Especially Fletcher. Need, very strong. We have some guy, but we need more. And we need all the ends to step up this year. DT, Starters, Lawson, and Ceresna. Back-ups Schmekel and Kornelson. Schemekel brings a lot of versatility and motor, a career overachiever who probably doesn't have another step up in terms of quality in him. Kornelson is a warm body at best. The rest of the depth so far is really tied up in guys like Fletcher, who are tweeners. Need level, Medium. We need guys to step up and provide depth, and we need to bring in some true inside DL to push in camp. Lbers, starters, Jones, JSK, Kyrie. Needs to step up to stick around, Kyrie, Ayers, and Jones should be close to that list too. Young guys to watch: Smith, Shay, and Novak. Those 3 are basically locks to make the roster, but a 2nd year step forward would have them more than ready to steal jobs. Sleeper list, Bouyer-Randle (legit NFL guy) Aaron smith (versatile big play guy), Micah Cretsinger (play maker 5 defensive tds, 2FR, 7 FF, 10PKDs, 10 picks, 7.5 sacks, 32.5 TFL, 271 tackles in 44 games) Johnny Hodges (he played 16 games at NAVY... you know hes making this damn roster.) Need level: extremely low. But this draft has a bunch of teams' guys who roster as lbers, and you can bet we will draft at least 1. DBs, starters, Nichols, Holm, Kramdi, and Moxey. Vets who started and will be battling to keep/win a primary role, Griffin, Allen, and Woodbey internally, plus outside the team league guys in Lamont, McGhee, and Javier. We also have Mccuthcheon who was on NFL PRs for a couple of years, and Javaris Davis, who was signed to play last year but didn't report, and was extended late last year. He played a couple of years in the NFL and some time in the XFL. He looks to have been out of football for a couple of years and is 29 years old. Which you just don't see up here or with us in DBs. K, Sergio is excellent. An extra leg in camp is always a good idea. P, Sheahan was much more reliable last year. We should still look to bring in competition. I'd be happy to bring back James Evans from last year. KR, Vaval is coming in with a ton of expectation. We could use a contingency plan for him if he struggles in year 2 after such an insane rookie year. Overall, we still have needs at Imp WR, DE/DT, C, and backup QB. Draft-wise, we need Canadians who can step into starting roles in the future. We have solid back-end of the roster depth, and lots of teams guys.

Not to mention texada over holm, no vaval returning, just a mess of trash. Exactly what I expect from AI.

typical ai quality lmao. makes 3dn/cfl.ca look like the pinnacle of media reporting

"But it is what it is, free cap money for us." complaining we paid him too much. but like I said, is what it is. and hes already cashed another 200k of his salary. So if he spent the whole season on the IR, we would only recoup 300k.

Thats where he should top out with incentives. After the last 2 plus years, and nearly every single play off game here, his floor should be 350-400k. But it is what it is, free cap money for us.

watch him be an early cut, then still sit for an nfl shot lol strange for a one year deal, unless he really just took less. Wouldn’t had to do that if we didn’t hand him another deal for elite money after not being more than average at best for two years.

just last year, that was his only year in the pros.

the only experience wilson has is holding a clipboard and taking coffee orders. that’s the point. Plenty of value in bringing in a guy with actual experience like I listed. i’d be as inclined to not bring wilson back at all

we need one more arm for camp and walters said we would probably look at the retreads to fill that spot later on. We already have a bunch of raw guys with basically no snaps. Need some one who has game prepped at a qb1, started and play a bit. We need that for sake of running camp offence units smoothly, for the D to work against, some one to throw to wrs that has adjusted to the field already etc. Pretty simple. Normal amounts of crazy vs abnormal levels of crazy. Even by religious qb/football player standards, mbt is out there. He’s just shy of snake handlers and magic under wear.

mbt, I think evans, couple guys in the same tier. I think it comes down to who takes a cheap deal first. That whole tier is a mixed bag with comparable value imo. Mbt is whacko, and I think his propensity to speak controversially to the media would hurt his chances here. Plus the fact we had him at his youngest and washed him out quickly. Tbh, I expect mbt to retire or maybe go to the ufl. But any one of the meh tier veterans would be fine by me.

als cut james morgan right before his 30th birthday. if he wants it he will probably get another cfl camp from some one as the last arm/ extra arm. Hes got a great arm, decent release and he’s still got tons of upside. Almost no chance of fulfilling it though. He’s more of a pitcher than a qb. And qbs who get to the pros with out any touch or accuracy basically never pan out. Maybe a team thinks their qb coach can finally fix his mechanics and bring finesse into his game. Or maybe a team will just want that wild, raw arm talent in camp for depth defenders and wrs to work with/against.

By serious, I mean some one will hand him a contract and pay him to show up to their camp, during which he will get 3rd-4th qb reps, play a couple pre season quarters, and if he is the 3rd best qb on the team they will put him on the pr after camp. Not a camp invite, not TCF, but basically what a prio fa signing would get. Thats his best case.

Hes 28 though. And not the prototype like elgersma is. Or have the stand out pre season performance. It doesn't guarentee any thing, but at his age, he would get another look for sure. Im really high on Bailey. He should've been on the roster most of last year. Not only can he be a good rotational piece, he's a good teams guy as well. He will. A bit more polish down south and he might get here ready to be a qb3 going into a camp.

A whole lot, yeah. Maybe if he lights it up in the UFL he would get a serious look. Short of that or coming here and doing the same, I dont see it happening.

it’s not an official combine invite thing, it’s an extra combine arm to be used as needed. If some one pulls out of throwing, gets hurt, or they need extra tosses and don’t want to over work guys. A decent few qbs these days elect not to throw at the combine. Instead throwing in friendly confines to guys they know and can rely on. But this generally isn’t known until right before the combine or during. So you can end up in a position where you need a couple extra arms to do a full work out just to keep the wrs busy. It is not like he’s going to have his performance graded and considered with draft prospects. It’s the most basic level of exposure to the nfl scouts you can get. It doesn’t hurt him to take it, but he also isn’t riding it any place. It’ll still be if he can get reps in the ufl and the weight of the partial pre season game he had, that decides if he gets an invite to camp with some one. Or if there’s a mad rash of qb injuries.

Pass rushing does require development. Especially in the CFL. You will see flashes of disruption without it, but the skill gap for most guys' pass rushing is huge. That's a big part of why DL get paid, and DBs don't. I do agree the promise is very strong with Jenkins, Jaworski and Bailey. And to an extent, DL who want to excel have to put in a lot of extra work themselves in the off-season. Coaching DL is a very highly sought-after skill set, and the NFL has been focused on cornering that market for a while. We don't get polished rushers with good size and athletic ability coming up here anymore. Mostly we get raw guys with a ton of talent/athleticism that need to be moulded into something special. And a few higher polish guys who either lack a lot of size or athleticism. In Jake We Trust

TC the media was pretty negative about how raw he was. But he did perform very well in his preseason look. If it wasn't for that pre-season game, he never would have gotten another NFL call.

My hopes for developing DL are greatly reduced by the poor job we've done developing DEs over a very large period of time.

Reading a Canadian D is a much easier transition to make than making the transition to reading a high-level D. How many D2 QBs come up here and succeed, or are blue-chip prospects even? It's very rare. The competition gap is gigantic, which is why people question his abilities. Because the talent gap from the CIS to ncaa is even more massive.

100%. I am hopeful for the young kids, but I'd like to see a really good end brought in or step up. Especially with WJ camped out on the other side. Jaworski is exactly the type of guy we need on that opposite end, if he can turn his flash last year into substance.

Yep. I love what jy and hall, but that is pretty much the only stretch of time we had that consistent disruption/pressure. Haven’t had great personnel on the dl over that time, but we also haven’t developed or made use of guys in that time. I hope hall and thomas focus on the dl and disruption while jy runs coverage. we’ve seen hall run some brilliant front concepts when he’s had the horses.

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disruption with 3-4 and pressure with 4 occasionally 5 is best. It leaves you with the most options. No answer with blocking for the blitz. The way to beat the blitz is to attack the cushion. on either side 2/3 targets, you will have only 1-2 dbs on the line usually 1. So you have one guy clear out and throw to the under route. If it’s your 3 man side you have the 2 under guys force the nearest defender to jump one. If the cover all play up on the line you bust them off the line and take it deep on a timing route. That’s how dons D was beaten. Teams stopped trying to out block them, and started using the spread to get the ball out quick. The counter for coverage, is to show and drop guys, rotating coverage showing man and dropping into zone, generally forcing the qb to change his read at every point possible. If you take away the qbs ability to rely on his pre snap read, you make it very hard to run the quick game and beat the rush. After that, the best option is to move the pocket a lot. Drastic line shifts, slide protection, half and full roll outs etc. It is very hard to effectively rush the qb, when you don’t know where he’s going to set up. Some people get caught up with play action, but that just slows the process of getting the ball out and setting up protection with the back. Jet/fly/rocket/orbit motion packs on the other hand can be effective at beating the rush but it requires a very specific threat to work. If you can disrupt and pressure with your base though, it’s extremely hard to beat that with X’s and o’s.

worked for don mathew’s for an unfathomable length of time

you can, but blitzing is hard and strange in the cfl. The more guys you have that are reliable in coverage, like you said, you can do any ting and every thing better. D today is all about how well you can blanket with out breaking, and how well you can disrupt at the line. If a guy isn’t one of those or a guy who heavily enables others to do that easier, they aren’t an asset on the field. Just a body filling a spot. If you can take away over the top routes with out a massive bubble, you can run up and play the ball or the man and disrupt the pass too. Guys who can do both are worth their weight in championship rings. Guys like ba, biggie, and wj in their prime. jy/hall love versatile cover guys. Makes every one’s life much easier I wouldn’t be surprised if we find another db this year. We got lots of good vets, but we scout db and use them really well.