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97-98 was like a constant airlift. In those two seasons I bet we had more players dress for a regular season game than we’ve had dress during this entire regime back to 2015. One guy who jumps out is Mario Bailey. WLAF great and Washington legend, receiver, perfectly suited to the CFL undersized and not that speedy. Came in for a couple games here during the WLAF offseason and tore it up, then we released him almost immediately. Maybe he could see the tragic mess our organization was. Can’t even remember which QB he played with so many those years.

Yeah and he flunked out of the NFL for missing some kicks too. Kickers and goalies. Gotta be patient and sometimes willing to pull a guy off the scrap heap who's maybe turned the mental corner.

I could hit from 60, but only once.

Disagree. The West Coast (Trestman) stuff is real similar to what Lapo runs. Collaros is more of a downfield passer and scrambler, he's not throwing 30 yards laterally to go 3 yards downfield on a timing route. When we get bogged down running that stuff he starts struggling as he did earlier this season in Toronto. Collaros runs a nice screen game with the majority of the passes in that 10-20 zone and a good amount of 20+ in there too, but most of the stuff he throws under 10 yards is off a scramble when he draws the second and third level of the D to him.

The same marginal 34 year old Canadian DT took 6 offsides penalties yesterday.

Flanders seems completely unable to gather any momentum as he takes a handoff.

I'm glad we don't have to see Lapo struggle to use Collaros' arm and ability to get the ball downfield (deep but also in that 15-20 range where he's always hitting Lawler, Bailey, Wolitarsky, Demski sometimes).

Same regime he signed with in 2020.

Gave away Arbuckle.

Sean Whyte was on BC's PR for years and played for Montreal before Edmonton as well. Vanderjagt was with Sask and even played Arena ball before he made the CFL for good, and then the NFL. Paredes was here for two camps two years before he made the Stamps. The only guy on that list who played regularly as a rookie pro is Ward.

Yeah he would be eligible to play earliest for the game in BC on October 1.

And who kicks? There's no punter here right now so he's on the roster regardless. Only option to come on the roster this week is Crapigna if he's healthy to kick field goals.

Leone shows Nichols how it's done.

Well it's basically 3 games worth of quarantining for anyone coming in here that's not already in Canada, so it won't be fast. Liegghio can make the kicks and he has. Made a game-winner. Have to work with him this season, if they wanted more options they needed to set that up before camp.

He was supposed to do both they brought in Crapigna late in camp. Liegghio was over 90% combined in CIS on FG's and converts, so the ability is there. He's a raw rookie though, pretty rare for a kicker to just jump in without sitting on PR for awhile behind a vet.

O'Shea has given Liegghio a shot to kick some longer field goals but I think heading into Edmonton he needs to gear down a bit, punt those ones and let Liegghio earn trust to try those 45 plus yarders by showing consistency in hitting converts. Focus on the converts and go from there. No one is coming to the rescue with the quarantine requirements on the way in.

Edmonton is exceptionally bad. Calgary is low average, they should have this one by 3-4 scores but they've kept Edmonton alive.

The D was never brutal. This D from the time Richie Hall came in has been solid. Turned the franchise around, tons of turnovers, scored tons of points itself and with short fields for the O. Having Nichols at QB was a huge handicap for this entire team and the fact they've been able to stay top 3 in the West relied a lot on D and Medlock scoring a bunch/dominating field position plus Harris being an all-time player into his 30's as a 1000-1000 type player. It certainly annoys people to see other teams march and pile up first downs, but the scoreboard is what matters.

Rod Black: "IT'S ALIVE"

Yeah if the receiver is going to make an attempt on an underthrown ball like that through a DB and the DB runs into him he'll get that call. The receiver immediately quit once Jones got to him, and Jones did end up playing the ball while the receiver grabbed a handful of popcorn or something...wasn't trying to make any kind of move toward the ball.

Would have been PI if the receiver finished the play. He basically just quit. A preview of the Riders in the second half.

Anyone else notice the Elks players disappear when they run over the screen for the "on-field" ads that we only see on TV. Might have to move away from the dark green jerseys.

Collaros ability to scramble and get the ball to a spot with some zip make building an offense possible. We don't need Harris to be a 1000-1000, he's barely a factor as a receiver now that we can throw downfield and scramble out of the pocket.

Yeah it was highly visible. I'm not sure how Micah Johnson didn't get ejected. I think Harris and Johnson were the easiest ones to toss out of that. Johnson really started it by going after Demski and kept getting it going again when it calmed down. No punches but lots of bulldog throws down by the head to a few guys, then piled on Harris toward the end.

The key thing that the two Riders who got booted did that the other 22 guys on the field didn't was to rough a player who wasn't even involved in the altercation. Marino slapped the QB (McGuire) and the other Rider ejected jumped Hardrick from behind then threw bombs at him on the ground. Both McGuire and Hardrick were relative miles away from the actual fracas.