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Have trouble seeing him with offers from every team. Probably NFL camp invites with no contact and holding out for the cash. It'll be interesting to see

Could be. He was alot more effective when used as a stand up pass rusher. Id like to see more of that. Create some angles for him. Maybe a package with a 30 front where richardson and thomas play 3-4 ends nevis on the nose and we use WJ as a Jack linebacker.

Masoli vs the als hope to be masoli-light. last week the tigernaughts put up 64. Its normally hard to follow up such a high scoring performance. The als nearly stole one from the Moes. Im gonna pick the upset with the als winning a low scoring game.

@ the crowd issue, A thursday game right before canada long weekend is idiotic. Weekday games in general suck. Idc whose fault it is, scheduling, stadiums what not. When you have an extra day you shouldnt be having weekday games.

100% true.

It was a big talking point in the chat last night, you are not alone. Late in the game he clearly turned it on too. The way we rotate linemen that shouldn't happen.

Yeah not 100% sure, but if they did like you say it wasnt any threat to score. Will have to see on a second viewing. Yeah they did. They really stood tall in the red zone.

It is some times. There are times when its too risky to throw away the ball and you have to eat a sack. Nichols has done it in the past. Injuries dont change that fact. Some times an end comes free or a center whiffs and you have to protect the ball and limit the damage you take in a sack not risk trying to throw it away.

This is a good point, we have historically struggled coming off a bye week in this era.

I think our Wrs and tackles played well. Interior ol didnt play bad. But the rest of the offense and the offense over all struggled. A lot of players didnt play well. Obviously whitehead and mathews looked great when the ball went there way. But the wrs blocking especially on whiteheads screen was great. its on the coaches now to get better execution and use better strategy and tactics. And for the players who had rough games (and thats a fist full of guys) to play better. I expect that to happen next game.

300 is a big number in the US game when they used to throw the ball 20-25 times a game. Its like 1500 yards rushing in a season it doesnt actually mean any thing in it self. Its just another number. However I would be interested to see the splits on W/L for teams with passing yards in the 350 and 400 range, 2 and 3 td passes, And a completion percentage over 70%. I feel like they would all be very close with a spike in win rate at 400, 3 or over 70%. If you looked similarly at 200 passing yards, under 300 total offensive yards, more punt yards then yards gained, 1 or less td passes, or and a completion percentage 50% or lower I think the result would be obvious. We won despite poor yardage production by the offense. We need better production for repeatable wins. Some factors are bigger then others, but its not a 1 dimensional problem.

In the two games so far he has tucked the ball and looked frantically to run with out extreme pressure. In the past when nichols has played well he has done a great job of knowing when to take a sack, and when he can throw it away. Some thing is a miss, but to be fair, the middle of our OL has a hand full of games in their careers. He was good over all in week 1. Rusty early but he didnt take many snaps in preseason. Last year he seemingly came back from injury early and had several bad games as well. Its not a 1 game thing. The offense disappearing for quarters and half's on end has been an issue since day 1 of plops return.

If we lost the game 100% That thread would have been bumped again.

Passing yards aren't meaningless. That's just ridiculous. The cfl is an offense first league, and a pass first league on top of that. If you dont drive the field you dont score. If you dont move the yard sticks the defense gets left out to dry and after a few weeks a good defense turns into a lazy one. When you put up under 300 total yards, and punt more yards (over 100 more yards punting then the offense gained) then your offense gains you have not had a good game as an offense. Or when the other teams offense has twice the TOP you do. Our wrs played well. The rest on offense need to do better. Did we really need another thread on this though? Its all thats being talked about in every thread right now...

It came up in another thread (or this one maybe) last night. I dont recall the moes even taking a shot to the end zone last night. When I re watch the game Im gonna dig into those redzone attempts. Between their attempts and our D the red zone was a no fly zone last night for the moes. In the past when weve seen qbs wrack up yards and not be able to finish drives (not far back) Ive felt that we could have done better with play call and design. But ive always given more blame to offense then credit to a defense in the cfl for redzone struggle. With the width of the field, depth of the endzone, and number of targets and options I feel like you should be able to convert at a high rate even against a superior D.

I heard he was looking for an nfl shot, but didnt see any thing happen in the nfl or cfl. And wiki says he is retired.

Eh its early and standings dont mean as much, and expectations are high for this team. Its frustrating because this team is soo much better then that performance.

Catch and fumble is kind of a grey zone. Its easier to judge a sideline catch then a catch and fumble. Imo if you get one foot down, secure the ball, and survive initial contact it should be a catch. But even that leaves a lot on judgement. At first watch I thought it was a catch and fumble. Watching the slow mo, I thought the same. Watching game speed replay didnt look like he secured it.

At this point I dont think we have any drop off from JSK to wilson. I didnt see much I liked from wilson previous to this year. But he has stepped up in a big way. He is soo fast and soo strong its scary. I want to see him used off the edge and in some other specialty blitz packages. With his speed if you can create an angle to the QB for him its all over. Teams from now on are going to be scheming for him every week. He could open up a lot for us. Pump fake the screen pass to whitehead and hit a deep man over the top of him all day.

Thats a good comparison. Though I feel like even then calgary was executing much cleaner while winning then we did. Last night seemed like we were on the ropes right after we scored the 2nd td till the end. Could be grass being greener on the other side. Or the veneer of a dynasty making their play seem better then it was. Or the expectation. I expect calgary to beat every one. And I expected us to play better last night.

Harris has a shakey game once a year it seems. That was bad even by those standards. I expect a big turn around from him next week. He seemed soo mad at him self. Hes still the heart and soul of our team. Nichols wasnt great in the first half, but he was alot better through a quarter and a half then late in the game. Our offense hasnt been able to find its rhythm early and thats some thing the coaching staff have to address and correct. Thats all preparation.

You have some good points. Bad play and play call work in sync together. And yeah a lot of the guys who played poorly tonight are guys you expect to lead the team. Here is hoping they play better next game. Idr calgary winning many like last night. Also we should have won that game easily. Its not like the team played poor in all aspects and eeked one out. We had a good lead for most of the game and then tried our best to choke at the end.

I swear the edm wrs droped 6 passes flat out in the clutch that could have changed the game.

Fajardo had 360 in one game.

Not to the best of my memory.