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Maier needs to be a much better passer because he certainly isn't a standout athlete at this level.

Did you read what you quoted, or are you trying to be a parody account? 16 and 17 we led the league in turnover differential. There wasn't a huge emphasis on pressure but was on turning the ball over, always has been under Hall. He doesn't have the players right now though.

The D so far is always a step behind, and in the case of the corners usually 2 steps. Not a lot of playmaking, so in my mind they need to work on being more aggressive earlier, mostly on the coverage side. We can't let teams drive down to the 35 and then count on a turnover/sack etc as in past years. Even though some of the names are the same the playmaking isn't there anymore, and especially in the secondary. They need to break tendencies because they aren't simply good enough to just execute the same schemes repeatedly and beat people. Be less predictable. If you can't get pressure with 3-4-5, play more aggressive coverages. Don't simply throw blitzes out and leave a bunch of green grass out there for the O to work with. Against Fajardo if you keep him in the pocket you'll get him to make bad choices. Tighten coverage first, not so concerned about pass rush vs Fajardo, but it is a general concern. Going to have to be ready for a physical game vs Stanback. If I'm Maas I'm just feeding him until the Bombers show they came to play.

If Maier has to throw a ball more than about 10 yards he's absolutely screwed. I hope we aren't playing 15 yards off vs Calgary.

Sask running a sandlot reverse to Bane.

Harris puts up a hospital ball to Emilus under 10 seconds in the half deep in their own end. Like they need more injuries.

I'm not ready to say that until we see Pigrome do something with real players on the field. But he's not really getting an opportunity. Prukop we know what he is. Speed, good in space, not going to fight much through contact. Always got it done on short yardage.

They are really fixated on that wedge play for some reason this year for short yardage. We've hardly run that play aside from when McGuire was the short yardage guy. Streveler and Prukop did a lot more off-guard/tackle stuff.

I'd gladly take Prukop back if that means they actually run that option run package. Pigrome would go to PR.

Even in the back half of the 00's the Bombers won there fairly regularly. Calgary is the graveyard.

I think our best secondary is likely Parker at boundary corner, Nichols at boundary half, Holm at field half, Houston at field corner. Holm and Parker are somewhat interchangeable. Muhammad is a bit of a wildcard. I think he'll get on with Parker out but I don't see him displacing either HB. But we'd be lucky if all those guys are active by the Sask rematch here even with the current injuries. I'm not sure how much Rose will be active this year. He hasn't been healthy at all since he came back from the NFL.

A few things for me on the offense... There's a 0% chance the Bombers are running any called run plays for Collaros. So why would we ever go empty backfield? Why would we ever go empty backfield with no jet or orbit motion through the backfield or coming behind Collaros? Now all 12 players on the defense KNOW 100% we are passing from the pocket if we are empty with no motion. HUGE advantage for the pass rush we're just handing over. Especially when you're 15-30 minutes in to this game and you realize that the BC DL is killing our tackles with speed rush. Oliviera was gashing them over and over, and then we go empty a bunch. Don't like it. That's a schematic flaw, poor execution by a playcaller. Shouldn't even have empty plays on the call sheet. Now plays where Oliviera motions out to lead block or seal edge for a jet sweep...nice play. Where was Augustine? He needs a role in the offense. He's not an every down player, but he's useful. If they don't think he is, get an American back on and with the new rules we can slip him in almost half the time without subbing out an American. Agudosi can sit. He has exactly one route he can get open on and his hands are suspect. Nice luxury piece, but not bringing anything we're missing and BOLO/Murphy will be fine as our 5th option. We need the help in the backfield. If not RB, we need another American DB, DE, LB on the roster. Where's the option run package? Hallmark of the success of this offense. Streveler, even Prukop, the change of pace set, the stuff where you just get the OL and everyone rolling people over, the stuff the D can't really prep for. Pigrome can be a weapon. I think our D is extremely out of sync, very young, very new to each other and in many cases Canadian football. Lots of work for the coaches there. No depth and that makes it way harder because we have at least a couple guys who are likely not CFL level players out there and maybe more as we get more of a look. Bennett shouldn't be out there, both corners were terrible. Fox and Schmekel aren't getting many reps so we're running the starting DL into the ground which doesn't really fit what has made this overall scheme successful back to when Hall arrived here.

I don’t know. The offense was a blip. The D is kind of an issue week by week. Secondary is getting torched especially Lawrence. Not a lot of big plays happening from anyone to stem the tide. Lawrence is entering Roc Carmichael territory for teams just ruthlessly picking on him and piling up yards and TDs in the first third of a season. If something doesn’t change there next week (and I say this because we literally have no one else currently at corner) I think Lawrence is done here. Nice over the shoulder grab in stride, but dropped what should have been a TD with the Adarius Bowman 2010 hands down loose frying pans catch attempt instead of high pointing it with strong hands.

Is there a non-salary related reason why they wouldn’t dress Murphy even as an extra body to play a couple special teams? Maybe planning to send him back to school?

Again, crazy to me how the depth has been allowed to get to where it is. I don't really know what their plan is at this point if a Canadian goes down in practice. The only guy not on the roster is Murphy. The guys on 1 game are OL and DT. Razor thin. They basically haven't replaced Miller and Burtenshaw.

The squared off jaw is a major symptom of gear or growth hormone use. He was jacked when he played football, now it's just silly. But I guess that's bodybuilding.

Corney's head is literally a block.

Augustine’s stats are basically meaningless. He started two games 4 years ago with Streveler starting when they were running heavy RPO. Most of his carries aside from that are in garbage time. Past 2+ seasons almost entirely reps after beat down like in the Sask game last Friday.

Jarious Jackson is QB coach in Edmonton.

Sask didn't have the ball down less than 11 in the 4th.

Figueroa chases a blitzer and lets the end right straight into his QB. WTF was that

They are way too excited about Ouellette and his 5 yards per touch.

Toronto getting away with a lot in this game though.

That's 100% on Bo with the corner blitzing, can't make that throw on the screen.

Matt Dunigan was the inspiration for Jason Bateman's character in Dodgeball.