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we used it situationally, mostly after we had a big play we would use it for a bit to try and catch the D un prepared. Would like to see more nichols calling plays and running hurry up.

Imo you are over rating collaros. If durant, lulay, glenn and ray retire, jennings is still young with more success and up side. Franklin will be the most sought after guy. More likely atleast half of durant, lulay, ray, and glenn stick around and trade teams. Collaros will be on a team next year im sure. But he will be the guy some one settles for as a back up to push some one else. 14, 13, 12, 10, and 8 games over the past 5 years. No one is a major upgrade when they are gonna miss half the season every single year. Id bet he gets released to save cap space.

ya that must be why you went back almost a month to necro post....

I believe OB said hes the back up punter and jake thomas is the back up kicker. You dont carry a guy in specific to be the back up kicker/punter. You take a guy with inclination or experience (a lot of college and hs athletes will have played both ways or kicked at some point) and give them some reps and go with it. My tendency would be to try out the RBs/fbs, that position requires quickness and leg drive. Its far from often that you see what we did with a back up position guy kicking/punting. I can count on one hand how often ive seen it for us.

Id say so. But i dont see any chance mos does an about face on what seems to be his most core believe. Or that wade/walters would pull the rip cord on him while about to secure a home play off game and a spot in the play offs for the second year. Coaching extremes have limited half lifes. Extreme authoritarians eventually rub their team raw. So when an adversity cycle hits the team breaks. Extreme play coaches who give all the lee way in the world lose the room. Players coast in prep and play. Players develop a quitters attitude. etc. For the short term, we need better controlled aggression on defense. Defending first down yardage on 2nd down, and getting steady pressure and disrupting qbs. Especially out of our blitzes. This is SNAFU for us. We have got to send atleast 1 guy as much as any team in the league. But get easily the least production out of our blitzes. We send hurl a TON, but the guy has 8 sacks in this his 6th year. 8 sacks in 86 games. We run out tons and tons of talented DL all to similar results. In a traditional system I think JSK at mlb mo at sam and wild at will would be a very nice set up. They like wild more at mlb but even if he is back at 100% right away I think JSK has a better tool set to play mlb. Dont think its as simple as more man less zone/match zone. I think our core philosophy is fatally flawed. Especially in this modern cfl passing era when we will see some thing like 7 or more passers throw for 5k yards. In todays cfl, you can keep rolling up first downs at a steady pace.

Ya wouldnt have paid what he got from the riders.

Thorpe was brought in as a return man and is highly decorated at it. So no. Yeah i agree. But there is a right way to do things and then the pout and go home way. Frederick also. the amount of time some guys have sat in the face of inferior players (jsk, hardrick, bond, poop, jeffcoat, etc) is staggering. Look at the players weve brought in, let go and are on other teams. Talent and skill are far from the first thing our coaching staff looks at. Its frequently over ridden by all kinds of other factors. At some point you need superior skill and talent to win. I would wager far more championships have been won based on talent and skill then character. Maybe in every major sport as well.

Yeah he is, another guy who could use a different team. messing around with richardson makes no sense.

as much as i hate the crieders, i want to see bridge succeed. Id much rather see it happen else where though. is he a pending FA?

The way stankford gave up on that ball got my goat pretty good. Im generally the last person to blame a WR, but that was inexcusable. He did on the field what thorpe did off it.

not ideal no. But going into the play offs healthy (hope fully) and with 12 wins is pretty dang good. Its also why hosting the west semi is huge. We could win any or all of those games. I dont see us winning less then 2 though. and dont call me surely. leslie nielsen couldnt resist.

The offense has been very steady at 30+ points this year. I agree, i think wed a found a way to scrape out a win with nichols.

2-2. Split with bc beat toronto. Back ups vs back ups in calgary i imagine.

OB also reported they were looking heavily at his wrist too.

Not much positive tnite. But here goes. 1 Don jonas. The pregame show contract to retire a bomber and him asking how much he was gonna make was hilarity. 2 The refs. fantastic job tnite. 3 Richie hall. Best defensive co ever? HH, that trick play direct snap to darvin adams was awesome.

I dont tune in for the full thing any more. Normally half hour to 45 mins. I happened to start earlier today. Soo glad i did, best pre game show moment ever.

On the OB pre game show, don jonas is signing a contract to retire as a winnipeg blue bomber. Bob asked him if hed want to do it? He was all for it. Wade brought in the contract. Bob said this is the same contract every player signs (but for one day) and Don said, how much do i get? Bob let out a hell of a laugh and wade said once a player allways a player with a chuckle. Oh man what a great moment. One for the archives for sure.

that is certainly the key world LOL. man he was something. The most average passer to ever win games.

Like what big games pray tell? And how many RBs have big games in the clutch and see their team lose?

blink on little sleep post party was better then all but a small handful of rbs in football history. Saw him at teasers at like 2am well in the swing of enjoying him self the day of a game with the riders. He turned a loss into a 40 yard or longer run and scored a td on the first drive. 01 was blinks rookie year too. remember harris' rookie year? 0 yards. That 01 flop had a lot behind it. The whole team was flat and either woke up too late into the game or not at all. Its the only time i can remember bob cameron having a punt blocked.

Id still take blink. Harris is a guy you mix in and chip away at the defense with. Blink is a game changer. Like milt he is a guy who can single handedly win you games. Which out side of QB is exceedingly rare. A glancing look twice harris' longest run of the year was over 50 yards. Blink had that almost every year. 49 one year in the middle, first and last years here where he didnt play a full season less then that. with a higher peak. 01-08 10,285 rushing, 69 rushing tds, 3396 receiving 13 tds 10+ tds and 1700 yards from the line of scrimmage a year. 11-17 6,026 rushing 36 tds, 3988 receiving 24 tds 8.5 tds a year 1430 yards from the line of scrimmage. Plus blink was a much better return man. Didnt count harris first year, but did count blinks first, last etc. Blink also spent a lot of time sharing touches. Keith stokes, mike sellers, blount etc his first year. The time before we brought bond and hardrick into the starting position when our OL was playing awful harris was averaging like sub 2 yards per carry. We saw blink run for 1500 in years with Ols that bad or worse. Id put forward that the comparison isnt really fair. This is like comparing ben cahoon to milt or geroy. Harris vs mike sellers is more interesting and fair imo.

Cant say for sure, normally would worry about wild cat usage. But with a flanders + harris offense + our smith package its actually and advantage. I think at best they pick one of these guys commit to him and hes the 4th in camp next year. More likely both are gone in a few weeks ala apodaca and many others.

Id look, pray and do terrible horrible things for a NI thats a side grade to one of our imps so we could end the hurl time. Would also look for a MLBer then. I wouldnt other wise look too hard at LBer, wild will get healthy, as will mo, and JSK looks better every game. If dressler is out, would look at a WR. Might look at a returner/wr to push/replace lankford.

Blink and its not even close. He played behind OLs that our current back ups would be starters on. Maybe the better of the starters too.

Im sure milt thought so too...