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was it also willys fault harris had a 1.4 yard average on runs and was great catching the ball out of the back field?

he was 11/15 with no pics he got rid of the ball fine. He could release quicker but he simply did not have the time.

Yeah considering the pressure he faced and how much he got hit he didnt do poorly. Not that many people will look at it like that. A lot of short to medium routes. And not a lot of runs in the first half. 4 in the first half for harris, 6 in the 3rd quarter for flanders. Made things a lot easier for nichols.

all the rookie nucks, rbs and wrs for me.

thats what the cook (she) said.

I dont think there is much of any concern about the blue WRs this year. weve got a pretty good bumper crop goin on here.

From game one he looked really good. I could see him being ready by mid season imop. This draft could be the draft that just keeps on giving.

I actually like those two. Idk why they went soo qb crazy in the off season. Glenn backed up with cato and crompton with the canadian developing is solid.

Is he 100%? I thought he was for the start of riders camp. Would make sense if hes any thing under 100% to ease him on back. Other wise it seems strange no to play him. Heres hoping hes 100% for the season. The league is much better with the best qbs playing, and I wanna beat the riders at full strength not running on back ups. Though tbh for the last 10 years or so its seemed like back up qbs are a bigger issue for us then starters xD.

Drives me nuts seeing guys with good hands use the body.

Yeah the media dont seem to get it.

xD didnt we have a football players mother on the old boards for a while? Super defensive n stuff? Idk maybe it was a troll. Wickmans dad was awesome though.

personally I dont think its a big deal in the cfl which end you rush from. A very few guys will be technically limited or have a mental hang up about coming from one side, but I dont think its any where as near a big deal as in american football where you have a strong and weak side.

every one can throw in junior high xD

not good enough for that >.< Played football, boxed, did TKD, bjj and was on the national team for kickboxing. But you dont need any of that to know the old saying, you cant make the club from the tub. I hope his recovery is speedy and he can show some thing finally. But at this rate he's a bad year from being out of football.

Its not just a QB thing. Youd be surprised how many wrs run a 8 yard out on a 10 yard out play, how often a qb throws during a wrs break and the wr doesnt burst out of the cut etc. Short to intermediate passes over the middle should be on the numbers. Pretty much every thing else should lead the WR. If you throw to one side or the other and put it on the numbers its liable to be a pick 6. You have to put it where it cant be picked and only the wr can get it. Thats just life in the modern cfl spread offense.

insert every 4 letter word in history here. And some of those color full sailor swears / ryan reynolds lines here.

People would have said the same thin of kerwin bell his last year here. He did pretty good in a brutal offense last year. That said Its dang hard to imagine us being better then if willy is healthy and his old self. I hope he's just shaking off rust, he hasnt looked as sharp as usual. But a new system running vanilla plays and lots of changes will add to that too. And no dressler.

richards all in all didnt look bad. Had some flashes. Small sigh of relief hope fully he can keep it up and progress into a factor.

i dont doubt he will try it. But when star qbs fight coaches the qbs seldom lose.

wonder what jones is gonna do for work next. You know durant can do no wrong in dirty old regina.

Or atleast his hat while striking a homer simpson though pose.

Thats a drastically out dated notion. There is a reason why we didnt use mike sellers running short yardage and used blink instead. Ive got much love for tackle breaking, pile pushing power backs, but flanders isnt one. Messam, ranek those guys are few and far between up here. What im saying is flanders is the kind of guy who will run for a steady 5 yards when a back like anderson would run for 7+.

that was a bit of an over reaction there coach...

Anderson is certainly smaller, but that isnt a big issue to me. 1) weve seen high usage durable small backs in this league before. Its not nearly as big an issue as in the nfl. Lbers are a ton bigger then Dbs and Des are only a bit bigger on average then LBers. A side from the odd miracle worker all rbs need a hole. If the OL gets gaps eliminated unless you have an off tackle play called its making the best of a bad situation. If any thing the type of runner anderson is he has more of a chance then flanders if no hole is available. Hes shown the ability to scrape the line and find the edge, cut back in a small window and make people miss. Flanders is bigger, but he will still only push through bad angle arm tackles. He took advantage of good gaps and basically ran to defenders. He isnt a tackle breaker, he doesnt seem to have the ability to move a pile even small groups of LBers. Anderson's ability to be a threat returning kicks, and being a change of pace from harris is a great fit for us. If it was for a no1 rb, id say split carrys feature flanders and let anderson be the change of pace back again. His skill set is just really well set up for that. But luckily we have harris to start. A low potential grinder of a rb flanders doesnt seem to do any thing poorly. But he doesnt do any thing great either. Hes the kind of guy thatll run for 4 or 5 yards with a decent push from the Ol with high regularity. Not a bad fit at all for the cfl, but a guy like that needs a lot of touches to be effective.