Mike

This is what frustrates me the most. People are going to say I’m overreacting, it’s just Saskatchewan, whatever. All of that might be true but I’m not worried about the result. I’m frustrated by the process. There’s absolutely no realistic way that anyone can tell me with a straight face that replacing our all-star edge rusher with a guy we signed off the street 4 days ago who plays an entirely different position is what our staff drew up as a solid plan. Oldest defence in the league and we’re using our extra American spots on a ******* fullback, kicker and defensive tackle. Ridiculous.

Well, at least we got to week 2 before our poor training camp and roster management put the team in a bind.

I know it’s just a preliminary injury report, but stuff like this is exactly why I hate how we manage our roster/practice roster. Let’s just say Schoen, Oliviera and Jeffcoat can’t go (which I’m sure they can.) Who is taking their spots on the roster? Probably Miles Fox, Amare Jones and/or Greg McCrae? Or do we retry the failed Janarion on offense experiment? So positionally, we have no equivalent replacement for any of these guys.

He’s apparently healthy but I’d have little to no interest. He was cooked before the injury.

Sounds super egregious. ”Hey buddy, specialist drills are at the end of the day so if you wanna not sit on your ass and keep loose, you can help us with some stuff”

If (big if) Chad Kelly is legit, they’re a very serious contender. Great roster.

Everything the league does from a technology standpoint is beyond incompetent. Their website is atrociously over complicated, the stat tracking should’ve been figured out months ago, even this “CFL Game Zone” thing they did this year is just a more convoluted, less accessible way to run the same pick ‘em games they ran last year. It’s embarrassing.

I don’t think we need to move on, but what we really need to do is consider the idea of deploying him as that 23 snap a game Canadian.

I like Muhammad but I’m really getting tired of our PR being a revolving door because guys rarely get an opportunity

That roll out call for Harris on third down there is incredibly stupid when you play in four days

Kevin Brown

You’re not wrong, until the stubbornness costs you the wrong game.

The one for me that I’m keeping an eye on is if we scratch Haba or Cole tonight. It needs to be Cole.

It’s not suddenly. I’ve been annoyed by it for years. Everyone thinks O’Shea is still the same rulebook wizard always gaming the system trying to find an advantage, still the same guy who was busting out trick plays, still the same guy who will do anything to get one up on the other team on gameday. He hasn’t been that guy for years. O’Shea is an amazing head coach and he’s going to have a spot in the Ring of Honour, Hall of Fame, statue out front, etc when it’s all said and done but his actual game day management has been questionable for a few years. But I get it. I don’t always love it, but I get where he’s coming from. I just wish he could find a balance. I understand the importance of making Tanner Cadwallader feel like he’s just as valuable to a winning roster as Willie Jefferson, but there is importance in putting a guy on your roster who is better than Tanner Cadwallader as well. You think the offensive and defensive coordinators are telling O’Shea they want less skill position players in the lineup in lieu of special teams crash test dummies?

Please identify where I said it has. I said at some point, it is going to in the future. It’s almost inevitable.

I mean is saying they expected nothing less of MOS when they were right really all that moronic? That being said, no we do not win in spite of him. But his roster management IS piss poor and it’s likely going to come back to bite us at some point.

Not having live stats to start the year is so CFL

Walker can’t be a designated National, but what they could’ve done is started Haba, DA’d Jeffcoat and then rotated in Caleb Thomas 23 snaps for Jake Thomas.

Nothing like providing an inaccurate depth chart to kick off a season with brand new confusing rules.

Maximizing this obviously isn’t their plan, considering they didn’t even deploy it on D.

Off to a great start. Super glad we’re rostering 47 linebackers to chase down kicks so that we can have 40% of our lineup change positions if one DB gets nicked.

It really has been. And just like I hinted at yesterday, the depth chart came out and he’s making absolutely no effective use of this new rule at all. The roster management has been awful and the talent has carried us. I like O’Shea a lot, but his roster decisions leave more than just a little bit to be desired.

This could (and I hope it does) turn out to be a wildly wrong take, but I really think there’s a chance this ends up being the year Bomber Nation starts to turn on O’Shea a little bit I think we’re going to end up very frustrated with how our roster gets managed this year. It’s been a weak point of his forever, but I think there’s a very good chance it costs us some games this year. If we’re trotting out guys like Gauthier and Maruo because we don’t wanna play dirty with the rest and game this system, we’re going to be in trouble. I guess we’ll see tomorrow how they play it.

I would assume our designation on O will be Bailey and Agudosi will start so then Agudosi can come in for Wolitarsky 23 snaps a game and then Grant will be the other starter and Wolitarsky can come in for Grant 37 snaps a game so that Grant can play for Demski on 12% of the snaps that Oliviera is on the sidelines so that Neufeld can line up at running back which will free up Schoen to play QB.

I can’t see it happening. Hamilton probably views us as direct competition and they’re hosting the Cup. They’re probably in zero mood to help us out.