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They both have been, and its cyclical. You go 2 and out none stop, more then half your drives consist of 5 plays or less including a punt and you lose field position your defense stays on the field longer your offense plays from worse field position gets discouraged by the score etc. 2 and outs, and the offense going MIA for extended periods has been a problem for a long while. The defense playing soft af in coverage and constantly letting the other team drive the field through the air has been a problem for a long while.

lies and slander. i can hear the tears on social media right now.

Durant not showing was pure serendipity. Streveler wasnt likely to fall through the cracks, he had NFL camp invites but came here because we offered him a contract. The guys raw tools are off the charts. Led an offense with zero turn overs for a year and change. A guy like him would have bounced around TCs and PRs for a couple years before falling back down to the cfl then possibly through the cracks. If we had durant, and nichols, streveler wouldnt have fallen out. Our franchise wastes no time in spitting out QBs who dont have what we look for. So a guy WITH the tools we want is gonna stick.

Some guys have instant chemistry. Other times, you have a guy like darvin who is hands down our best deep threat. Which naturally creates chemistry. Wolitarsky and streveler had it for sure. Wolitarsky has shown he can play. Our offense has to do a better job of getting him involved. Especially with dressler out. You can have previous experience and no chemistry after. Weve seen that with nichols and the ex mo wr we brought in last year.

It wasnt 5 years of rebuilding. THIS is his 5th year. We won 23 games the previous two years. Weve improved our divisional seeding every single year. Yup we havent won a play off game. Things need to improve. Thats not optimism for me, that is just how i think it will play out based on our management style. I agree. Id take All three young NI wrs over stankford any day. Returning or playing WR. I dont like how wolitarsky sees soo little useage with out streveler, and same goes for the other two.

lol. Yeah good ole stankford. Also, plop didnt do a good job of re balancing the offense to take pressure off when nichols has struggled. The whole staff should have been smarter as well and kept nichols out when he got banged up. Like come on that is high school level coaching.

It hasnt been 6 years of futility. We saw consistent increases in performance. From cellar dweller to home play off game and expected grey cup contender. We went from an offense that relied on medlock kicking a record number of FGs to win games to an offense that can roll average 30 points and roll 50+ at any time. We went from no pressure on the QB to one of the better teams at getting to the qb. so on and so forth.

The knee is more worrisome to me. Legs are where you generate all your power. You dont need to be able to run like streveler in the cfl, but you do need to be able to buy time and throw on the roll. Any thing in the throwing chain foot to hand is bad for a throwing sport. Multiple in the chain is really really bad.

Nichols, no doubt. Nicked up and rusty from the shut down right after TC. BLM, I think the luster is just finally coming off the long time reigning regular season champs.

because we got spanked. If we win, then clearly production in all positions was good enough to win and doesnt need to change. And when we lose, or especially if we get spanked its a 5 alarm fire.

Every team gets punched in the mouth at some point during the season. Its not how hard they get hit, its how they recover. Nothing has really changed since last week. Weve merely seen what can happen if you play down to your opponents, or if they out prepare/execute you.

That was on a notoriously slow testing ground too. He easily would have run a very fast time by nfl standards other wise. Iirc his fast time was 4.4.

I would suspect their action was based on believing they could shape and hone hall into a much better dcor then what was available on the market. Should things have been improved beyond this point by now? Yes. But this coaching staff is always slow with fundamental change. Is that slowness bad? yes. Is it enough to clean the slate? not this off season. Maybe the following year though. Edit, I would add previous to this year halls half time and in game adjustments were pretty good. This year they have been none existent.

Id rather see the NIs rotate in more with demski, demski take full time KO return duties and carry any one other then lankford. Hes a worse option in returns, and at wr.

he is listed on the active roster. id love to have him back while dressler recovers.

I think it means he is loyal to a fault, i also think he has put a lot of his own stuff in halls scheme, especially in the front 7. I think wade and walters are also loyal types just not as loyal.

We find guys, but yeah the coaching staff tends to fall in love with awful offensive/defensive guys who play teams and can fill a minor role. its time for an end to the stankford experiment.

mhm after finishing with the second best record in the league iirc and winning his division. I would say right now we are on track for some shaking up of the coaching staff in the off season. I dont think wade/walters n co will settle. I think plop will move on to a HC job and hall will be canned. I dont think mos is gone short of a gigantic implosion but I do think his seat gets warm next year if things dont move forward.

Our defense is the perfect type to go for two against. I like the call to go for 2 more often. The biggest reason we seldom do it is medlock is money.

Barrett didnt get pushed out of the cfl though. He left for greener pastures down south. Some cushy college jobs (realistically college jobs are the best positions in all of football for a coach imo) then the NFL. he could be a head coach in the cfl if he wanted. Most isnt barrett, but they are similar types of coaches and people. And frankly Im good with that comparison.

Yep. This fan base is past the point of being happy to make the play offs each year. Its time to turn the corner as a franchise and do what ever it takes to get that done.

Nichols in general has done very well facing the blitz. The usual issue would be the offense disappearing for stretches and being too conservative. Last night was different. To be honest i feel like the CFL today is a race to 30 points. Like 100 in the nba I feel like the team that hits 30 first has a gigantic edge, and that any thing short of 30 is not a solid out put / lead. Such few first downs blah blah blah thats what happens to defenses in the 4th. Same issues with the D as always.

ill never get tired of them getting trolled over that.

right about now half the fan base would be only too happy to deal plop n matty to the riders. I wouldnt send nichols. I do think plop is a better hc then OC though. His greatest strength as a coach is as a teacher and leader. If he ever stops getting in his own way trying to out think him self he'd be great at x n o stuff too. At this point i expect him to be in bc sask or mtl as a hc next year.

Not surprised this has drummed up. Since coming back from injury he hasnt performed at his previous level. The feast or famine nature of our offense has always been this way though. So its hard to pin point how much is nichols and how much is plop. nichols doesnt excel at the deep ball, but then why are we tossing em soo much more suddenly? The big thing Im seeing is nichols is not beating the rush this year. Previously he beat the rush with his pre/post snap read and quick decisions. If that meant throwing the ball away he did. Its not just teams running more complex schemes either, hamilton uses mostly man coverage. Harris had 3 catches for 6 yards. 3 wrs made up 90% of our pass completions and 1 was well over 50% of our passing yards. One this is for sure, As fans we expect better and better things. And the team is taking a bit of a step back. One way or another we cant have double digit 5 play or fewer drives including a punt.