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Zack Williams is the guy you tamper for. Local kid, still lives here. Easy top 5 Canadian OL in the league today, in his prime. There's your RG for the next 7-8 years.

Neufeld is getting worse and worse in pass pro. Lots of chicken wings and shoulder checks. Doesn't get his hands on many people these days. Toronto ate him alive. Montreal ate us alive on the whole, we played 1 good quarter against them out of 8 this season. That's the kind of team you need to be able to handle to win the whole thing. If a guy like that is on the team next year we're not serious about winning. Dobson is terribly slow to get his feet moving in both run and pass. He's ok, and a bit more physically engaged, might be as good as anyone they can get in free agency. Should be pretty easy decision to focus on building out 3 Americans on the OL for next year short of Desjarlais being cut loose by Ottawa due to his salary or something.

Based on how he acted at the end of the season he'll be toxic in that role. They'll have some better options of guys who can play and might end up winning a bit of a competitive situation. Like Maier.

Actually looks pretty gaunt. Hopefully intentional and not health related.

Lapo is nowhere near monetizing YouTube. I'm kind of wondering how long he will do it for. He does a ton of speaking, consulting and coaching clinics. That is pretty lucrative.

It's been like 40 years since that was a real thing though too. Name a Bomber player you can remember in your lifetime who joined the team right out of a NFL camp in September....a guy who we didn't have before...and was an impact player right away. There's two I can remember in my life...Stegall and Orlando Bobo, although he hadn't played football in 2 seasons when they brought him up midseason. NFL rosters are also 85-90 deep with IR these days. That first layer of 250-300 cuts aren't signing a 3 year deal to come up to Canada, yeah they have an out if they get signed by NFL in the next February.

Sure, but you're not going to fix that in September. You got a guy ready to play who is already well acquainted with your QB and offense on the street.

Maybe, maybe not. Wheatfall was basically a void out there. Whitehead was busted up and can barely move. You have another reliable target that Collaros trusts. Maybe get 3-4-5-6 first down catches out of that guy. In our back to back with Sask Wolitarsky had 6 catches for first downs in those close games. Who took his place?

Talking in general over the course of the season not the Grey Cup game specifically. Collaros and several of the rookie receivers could not get on the same page or took half a season to. It's not an easy plug and play spot. Schoen is the exception not the rule. I think if we had 1-2 more guys around he trusted we wouldn't have seen the offense stalling out as much. Like Bailey might be a couple years past his prime but a guy like Wheatfall out there was worse than useless. Midseason we know Schoen isn't coming back and even that Wolitarsky is probably not going to be available much if it all the rest of the way....crazy they didn't pull the trigger on Bailey.

Goveia is a major loss, and a guy who would be a quality GM. Think McManus moving on would be good for us in terms of getting some new eyes in on the personnel side, especially in the US, but don't think he has a hope in hell of landing a GM job. He's like the Van Wilder of the CFL.

Toronto has 8 guys within the box and 5 yards of the LOS on that play. Bombers have 6 blocking. It's in the Lapo breakdown about 20 mins in. That's a pull 100% of the time in RPO. Shitty route by Lawler and shitty throw by Wilson otherwise it's a pitch and catch TD at the back pylon. Really Demski was the only somewhat healthy vet outside of Lawler in the majority of games. Clercius started more than half the games. Crazy they didn't make a move on Bailey. We got eaten up by zone D because our receivers didn't know what to do and Collaros didn't trust them. Like you said, Wilson improved a lot. Wheatfall was useless all the way through.

Interesting how easy all the RPO stuff worked both pass and run. Why would you run straight drop backs 9 out of 10 plays?

Those guys are both free agents. If they trade for VAJ those guys aren't coming back.

They have the guy from Laval stashed. Probably let him do it for the next 3 years on his rookie deal.

Think we have to realize that a 15-20 years ago 32 yards net was the goal of any punt team as an average. Now the entire league is basically at 37 yards net. The kicking game has evolved a lot. And it's not just about hammering the ball. This mythical "kick out of trouble" stuff is bunk in this code and not even really possible anymore with the out of bounds rules. Teams used to concede the safety basically any time they were scrimmaging inside their own 15. Now they kick more hoping to give up 3 and not 5-9 (safety and another score). Yeah lose points with more opportunity potentially, but for Paredes quite likely he maintains the make % on 20 more kicks and his average distance is basically the same as Castillo. Castillo definitely cashed in on those 60 yarders in the xP calculation. It's a nice luxury to have a guy who can make those kicks. But if I had to pick a guy to make a 45 yarder to win the game it wouldn't be Castillo.