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BC is gonna be hungry coming off that close lose and with an early end to their play off hopes near. We better not play down to them. I expect both our lines to feast on the bc lines. The score might be close ish but I think the level of play will be one sided in our favor.

The best special teams and return game we have in my life time. Defense among the best for points against. Because harris is the top guy in terms of useage every year here, and in his time here no one else has been nearly as run heavy as us. Its a big difference between using him alot, and him being our only hope. i 100% believe that he is our 2nd check down at least on 3/4s of passing plays. Its a chicken or the egg situation. Is the pass game gimped because of nichols or is nichols gimped because our play call is gimped. I think its both to an extent. Clearly nichols has played poorly the last few weeks over all and early was taking massive advantage of the incredible field position (not by any means a bad thing) and its also clear plop gets overly conservative and out thinks him self. Instead of off setting each others weakness, they compound the same problem. Hense the plop vs nichols thread. Replace plop in season gives us the best chance at improving this year. As we arent going to just get an elite qb dropped into our lap. However, our ability to retain plop past this season is much stronger and I think he brings more long term value. Not an easy decision. And not a decision that is going to be made now or tomorrow. But it is a discussion and real concern. Right now thats our primary limiting factor. If it wasnt for that, we would be the biggest favorite to win a GC since the lopsided 90s.

ABA L-O-N ABBBAALOOOOOOON. Because you can stack the box and shut down the run AND nichols cant deal with the pass rush. You put your front 7 in gaps more. You cant expect to play old US heavy run with very little passing and win. Even in the past when the run game was a much bigger part of the game you couldnt do that. He can, because its true.

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Might happen once we have a grey cup win and an elite qb for the first time since khari. Maybe. But probably not.

The wind gusted towards the kick twice right prior to the kick. It was gusting intermittently from the south all game. Except the exact same thing happened in the other 3 games, and in previously.

According to mos, neufeld was gonna be ready for the first preseason game. 🤣 No doubt it was a tremendous value especially with our drafting prior to walters n co. Yeah he did. Thanks.

It was a gutsy kick. Though Id say he lets medlock choose to try if he thinks he can make it. Wind was gusting now and then from that direction too.

Wasnt he a back up for most of those first two years too? Tough year for healthy. Finding decent NI ol mid season is hard. Is spooner still with edm? Maybe oullete de carlo or Koczwara? Or see if Dumouchel wants to try now.

right? Offense didnt score any points? This is fine. Offense cant buy points or first downs in the 4thq of games? this is fine.

Yeah 94. That was heart wrenching as a canadian those poor expos. Ncaa makes a lot of sports more interesting. I greatly prefer college football and basketball to the pros for game to game enjoyment. Interesting. I could see that having a very strong correlation.

Im a moderate baseball guy and a stat nerd. Baseball has been the front runner for a long time, and in recent years basketball has broken into it as well. The nfl is slowly transitioning though a few outlier sites like footballoutsiders.com have been doing it for a long while.

WAR is an advanced stat in baseball. Wins Above Replacement. So the average guy you could pick up mid season as a FA is around a 0 war guy. The base level replacement. A great player in baseball might be worth say 8 war. Meaning over the course of the MLB season they will cause you to win 8 more games then the fringe pro you could pull in off the streets.

So actually its .96 years per starter. But if you remove the low outliers and count the entrenched starters, guys given the reigns and margin of error for more then say half a year its more like a year and a half. Only pierce and glenn have been around as much and only khari longer. But QBs age funny. Ac was old when he became a star. Same with khari. Danny mac hit his stride late, and damon allen played till he was a living fossil. That said things are not trending well for nichols here.

Qb driven league, but no matter what its far more a team sport then any one guy. More of a team sport imo then any other. The drop from good team to bad team is the quickest in the cfl. And the cfl is known for its flash turns of fortune. They had iirc the most games lost to injury, especially on both lines. Cant win in football with out great line play. No matter who you have. I think its 100% true. Id love to see sabremetrics applied for qbs and in general in the cfl. Especially an indepth WAR break down.

To throw a wild number out there I would guess the average starting qbs term of service here is a shade over 1 year. And I think Im guessing high. The league as a whole seems to be on the verge of a massive roll over among starting qbs. (i mean its allready happened a lot due to injuries but I think a lot of guys fall out of the league between this off season and next year that would have been in starter battles now and prior)

Think thats bad get a load of this. I went back and looked at all our drives in the 4th quarter this year this is what our offense is putting up in the 4th quarter through 8 games. 11 first downs and 1 touch down. The rest of the team has 12 first downs, 8 of those from harris. (a first down not involving nichols is one that he doesnt do more then hand off/screen) The rest of the offense has 4 tds. All from streveler. While weve kicked 3 fgs. The offense has put up 17 4th quarter 2 and outs. (17 2 and outs to 23 first downs) And 5 of the first down drives have been 5 play drives or less. 1.37 times per final quarter of a game nichols is throwing a pass "down field" and completing it for a first down. 1 td pass in 2 games worth of final quarters. Half his picks come from the 4th, along with 1/14th of his tds.

That would bring the best immediate improvement imo. Even just let pierce call the plays. Plop is a good player coach and good xs n os guy. I With out offensive touchdowns and the ability to get first downs in the last 5 minutes of the game its no better then smoke and mirrors.

If he doesnt he should start.

Not over rated imo but nothing fancy. He's a real steady back. A good guy for a team that doesn't need big gains but grind out yards on first down some. Better guys available though. Tough Canadian who can play teams block and rotate in not a bad guy to have around for any team imo.

He was playing much better earlier in the season but it's hard to tell if it's the injury or he's returning to his previous level of play. Still young and can be a starter but isn't in our best combination. He'd start for maybe half the league imo.

Tackles are not an indication of success at the safety spot. If any thing it trends in the opposite direction. Hecht has been very good this year. I was shocked he too the job over Jones but he has shown why on the field.

Yeah much higher demand on quicks. Teams have been running long drag routes slants etc to exploit Fenner and Hecht. Hecht can't over commit and doest have the speed to make up for it in cover 1. Having mo even as the extra rotational db on cover 2 would be big. Plus he was a beast on teams.

Or dig in about injuries like nuef. Local media had gotten exceptionally soft.

We've seen glimpses in pre season and regular. He's shown enough to be a ni back up but not more. Likely out come. It's true. But in our offense playing the flat for dump off passes is as valuable and forces the committment from defense. We block n release a lot too. We don't have an every down back up ni that's proven. That's a crazy rare commodity.