JohnnyAbonny

At the least, Lucky offers equal or greater value to Wilson or Mitchell right?

Grant- agree 100%. Unless he straight up wanted out, I have no idea how they couldn’t have worked something out. Bailey- In hindsight yes, at the time it seemed like the right call just because of how much of the SMS was tied up in receivers. I’d be curious to know what it would have taken to keep Bailey/Grant vs what they’re paying BA and Thomas.

I’d still say those guys needed to go, they just got the replacement hire way wrong.

500 yards and yeah Bryant caught the ball for the winner while falling on his ass with like 2 seconds left.

That’s maddening too as it’s such an easy fix. Move Holm to safety where he belongs and use Bridges or Griffen in the HB spot. I’ve never seen a team so obsessed with pigeonholing guys into the wrong position or role. Remember when it took 2 years to get pre-injury BA into the FS spot and they pissed around with him on the corner?

Not to keep Harping on Kolo, but I don’t think he wants his pro day footage out there.

It didn’t lead to anything else, but that was an extremely fun game to be at. We hadn’t beat the Stamps without a backup QB playing for them in like 500 games at that point.

Honestly, I was hopeful until I saw both depth charts. We just don’t have the playmakers right now to win a close game. I’m not saying there’s zero chance, but a lot of Bombers will have to have career games every week to get wins right now, whereas most teams can beat us with an average one from most of their guys. I have faith in Wade, to a lesser extent Walters too, but moreso in the off-season and heading into next year. Fwiw, last time they had a bad season with this group, they ditched a lot of guys and went hog wild in FA, and that was after a year where MOS did a lot of the same crap we’re upset about now. I’m thinking more and more this may be a lost year and the best course is to rebuild/buy the team in the off-season to win the home GC, without MOS if necessary. Honestly, I’d be pretty ok with that.

Did Kolo get hurt in practice?

Between Brady, Demski and Smith we should have a lot of options in the backfield. I think Smith’s gonna be what we wanted Greg MacRae to be. I’d like to see MCI in when they’re moving the FB out of the backfield. Feltmate isn’t a threat to do anything with the ball. Hopefully we see more than Brady up the gut, strev up the gut, PA fake up the gut. Ideally they mix that misdirection in a little more, and run the PA off that. This line isn’t good enough to drive everyone back like years past. They might have to try to fool the other team sometimes. Get the other team thinking about it, force them to watch the flats and then let Brady do his A/B gap stuff later in the game.

We really don’t stack up here in a lot of areas. Ottawas tackles vs our ends is the only positional matchup I like. I’m struggling to see a win. Ottawa uses 3 DAs, must be nice..

The punter

I didn’t have a problem with where his helmet was so much but the defender drove through and the ball was out. I wouldn’t exactly call it dirty but that’s by the book RTP.

Really? That’s awsome, I know that wasn’t always the case.

As a fan who had their heart broken too many times to count by this team, an appearance doesn’t really mean piss all to me anymore. Should be going on the drive for 5 right now, and that’s what this fanbase deserves, not standing pat and setting the team back 10 years. At this point in my life, I’m not satisfied with anything but dominant football and championships. I wish the club still had the same mentality.. There’s also the fact that Winnipeg as a city is a terrible sell for Americans. We got away with it for a number of years because we were shitkicking everybody and sending guys to the NFL. Now there’s a glass ceiling in place holding up underperforming vets, a losing streak and a coach who doesn’t play rookies when at all possible. Good luck bringing in top-end prospects.

The officials were absolutely out to lunch the entire game. It was actually only like the 6th worst call.

Yeah, we’re ******

No big changes, but man that’s a rough, rough looking WR corps, LBs too. Having Augustine, Feltmate and MCI is a waste of a roster spot. So is Myron Mitchell.

Not only Jake, he had the damn punter rated. Like, did that run count as a punting stat in that guy’s formula?

Yeah agreed. You can tell some of those analytics sites are put together by bean counters who don’t understand football.

Exactly. Self-preservation can be subconscious even. A 35+ year old simply isn’t going to take the same risks with their body that somebody in their 20s is, it goes against human nature.

I’d thought so too, but idk. Small sample size I guess. He’s made a few plays, but I now see some of what JBR doesn’t like as well. I’d still like to see him play next to Woods for the better part of a game instead of JT or Shmeck. I don’t know when Lawson’s coming back but I think our best interior combo would be him and Woods.

I just watched the recap of last years game in Calgary, zooming in on Fox. You’re not wrong in your criticism. There was a couple of plays where he drove forward and pushed the pocket, he got a sack on one, but on a lot of pass plays he was standing up straight with his arms extended. Kind of looked like Willie. Quite passive. The specific thing I’m talking about is at 4:54. He stands up straight and the guard handles him easily.

Appreciate the reasoning. It’s interesting, because I’ve always been enamoured with the 300+ guys that play on the nose. I’ve felt like they don’t have enough size and power in the middle of the DL for a number of years now. I like the 3-tech guys as rotational pieces, or like you said bigger guys at the weak end spot, but I’d prefer have a nose or 1 tech that plays almost every down and occupies 2 OL. Not Jake Thomas either, an actual one.

That all sounds realistic too, it’s just really odd how our ST coverage bottomed out so hard, then the once-lauded co-ordinator gets canned from 2 teams in 6 months.