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That's what they did in 2019 & 2021. Base D with a ferocious front 4 applied pressure. Then you add Biggie & the pass D & that's why we gave up just 181 points in 14 games in 2019. Ritchie Hall's D killed other teams.

No answer for a blitz because 5 blockers on the line can't block 6/7. Bring a running back up or a slot to block then you take away offensive choices & weapons. The qb has no one to throw to & gets sacked. It still works today. We see the best teams doing it in both leagues. What';s even better? Creating pressure with just 4 pass rushers like we used to do & the guys on the back end don't have to blitz.

He either makes it or not.

i think we could be a very good pressure defense with four & five man fronts stopping the run & sacking the qb. I think we expose our defense to big plays if Jordan Younger runs a 3 man front & blitzes. We saw it with Detroit with four man fronts in the NFL playoffs 2 years ago. They ate the other team's OL & spit them out. We saw it in the Super Bowl with Seattle vs the left side of the Pats OL. Pressure & intimidation wins all the time. We had a pressure front 4/5 in 2019 & 21. We were physically scary & dominated to the point the overhyped Ti Cats just quit in 2019. They were beaten & broken team. Oh & look, we also won two championships those years. Then we changed Defensive Coordinators & went to a 3 man front with no pressure from the DL. Wbbfan called it a Cheetah front. i called it Cheetos. Yeah, we didn't give up a lot of points as the back 8 or 9 played well. No coincidence we also didn't win & lost 3 straight Grey Cups. If the Bombers had signed another interior DL in free agency, I'd have said they're invested in creating havoc up front like in 2019 & 21. I don't think Younger is that kind of DC. He wants to beat you through trickery & disguises on the back end. I'm not a big fan of that type of defense. I want smash mouth football where we own both sides of the LOS. Havoc & intimidation. It's more than proven to work.

I was just thinking this afternoon how he'd be a great fit for Zach with those contested catches. Then I read he retired. Sorry to see him leave the game but he did it on his terms.

Rourke will be that guy. Rhymes was available. Like Chevy always does, Walters slept thru free agency.

The last year of his deal in 2028 pays Rourke $800,000. He'll probably become the first QB in this era to pay him a million dollars a season.

It is what it is. He needs to parlay it into big bucks like Nathan Rourke did. Like Zach Collaros did. And any other qb who played well. It's not NFL money but would anyone of us sneer at $5-600,000 a year? Nope. Most, if not all of us here will never make that in a single year.

Desperation move.

I'd like him here. Not convinced that Clercius/Cobb is the answer.

#@$%! %%^ !! @#$??? Looks like Noeller is just sliding into a raging old man role. Lol. Welcome to the club, Old Man. You're not even 50.

Zach's making up for lost time. He lost a more than a few good seasons with injuries & concussions. So, physically he may be fresher than some qbs 5 years younger than him.

Yeah, exactly. he may be cooked mentally. Thing of it is, I get the impression that playing in the CFL is beneath him. I mean, I hope not but everytime he fails down south, it has to kill him bit by bit. His agents need to get him on the wagon & start playing again. He has that option here.

Based on the arena, the cheap bugger Edwards would want the City & province toi throw in 60% of the cost like he got for the new arena. He'd also underbuild & put up a new facitlity with 22000 seats. If he wanted a new building. It appears he doesn't. Edfwards won't even build an indoor practice facility for the team. Wants govt to pay for it. He diverted lotto money that was designated for inside stadium improvements for fans to build office space & a new locker room for the coaches & players. The sound system died 4 years ago. Edwards hasn't replaced it. Refuses to spend the money. He now has 2 gigantic speakers that blast out sound. So loud at times you can't talk to the person next to you.

That's not what Booch is saying... He is saying he doesn't know how to maximize the talent he already has. That he's played favourites with guys for many years who had no business being on the roster anymore. Like Koala & Thomas to name a few.

I don't know how you rebuild a fractured fanbase with ownership & management decisions like this. The Stamps GM & HC Dave Dickenson recently announced that the team has no money to go after any impact CFL free agents after re-signing some of his teams own free agents prior to the tampering window. They also lost 3 starters on defense to the NFL & haven't replaced them. So, they make a big deal that they signed thousand yard rusher Diedrick Mills but let Dominique Rhymes go. The owner Murray Edwards is equally as bad if not worse than MLSE. Just doesn't care about the Stamps & their fans. They'll be lucky to draw 15000 fans a game.

Delete.

I was told recently that if I study & work out hard that maybe I can still be an astronaut at 70. My lifelong dream, btw. Should I believe whoever said that because that analogy is just as silly as 6, 7 or 8 failed attempts to even get a roster spot in the NFL? Then it becomes a losing self fulfiiling prophesy. It's even gone past the point of wishing the guy well. It just reaks of desperation.

Walters & Osh should have both been let go when their contracts were up at the end of last season. They got a reprieve from Miller. Probably told to smarten up & actually do their jobs. Walters certainly took that to heart. Now, we'll see if Osh can get back to where he was in 2019.

Again, he has to actually play. If he's third string on a UFL team then who cares?

Then he competes against this year's crops of draft picks or free agents that scouts are excited about. It won't get any easier. Plus, he has to earn a spot on Birmingham's team. If he's third on the roster, that'll be of little help.

I think the Ol still performed as we had Brady reach 1,100 yards rushing despite Hogan ignoring his rushing abilities at times. The upgrades we have are going to help. On D, it was the DL that was such an overall weakness. How it was allowed to deteriorate is something I'd like to know. You win championships with a dominant line. Not sure if I'm happy about playing a 3 man front. We'll see.

"He needs to go somewhere he'll get reps...which is NFL pre season or UFL". Oh yeah, like those teams just can't wait for him to show up. The big time Canuck to solve their qb problems. "But he's really wasting his time now because the path from CFL to NFL is to play up here for 2-3 years, take the reins & dominate, then go NFL". When was the last time that happened? Thirty years ago with Doug Flutie & Jeff Garcia? That's no plan.

The tall foreheads in the CFL & in this case the bald forehead supposedly running things just doesn't see anything like that as a problem.

No arguments there. Yet, like the coaches & admin cap, the league doesn't see the rookie cap as a problem. Yet the size of the field is. The priorities of the CFL are crazy.