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They were talking about Nichols' reaction post-game. They didn't get into why the fans were booing and whether they were right or wrong, what O'Shea did. They were talking about Nichols.

Because that wasn't what they were talking about.

I thought that was a pretty good discussion, point of view of teammates and Barker giving his point of view as a coach/GM. Found it interesting that they pretty much unanimously were disappointed with Nichols' reaction and felt his teammates/organization might be disappointed that's where his head is at too. I didn't find them shitting on the fans at all.

Argos fall for the most obvious fake possible. Backup QB literally in shotgun in front of the punter and they totally fall for it.

Agreed. He's been in the box a lot the last few weeks and missed a ton of tackles. I don't think he can tackle well enough to play there every down. He's playing more like a rover than anything now, lots of blitzing, some in coverage, sometimes up in a gap. His tackling is horrible though, he can hit but he can't get a guy on the turf.

This doesn't make any sense. How does a huddle affect motion? They still have the same amount of time they just don't sub and call plays at the line. The D can't sub either, thus the advantage. They sure haven't been using much misdirection pre-snap in the last couple games. Lots of straight ahead drop backs

I just don’t know how you can go for 1 when the opponent puts up a few scores and converts them with 2. How do you ever expect to catch up if you don’t match that when you score a TD? There’s only so many possessions (chances to score points) in a game. At a certain point 7 vs 6 matters not at all when the other team is scoring 8’s. You gotta go.

That was a flop.

If you watch that game last night and think Lankford didn’t make a difference I don’t know what to tell you. His terrible kickoff returns made a huge difference on field position. 2 terrible drops. Big difference. Football isn’t hockey. Everyone has to do their job and if someone is playing almost every snap it’s nothing like a defenseman sitting on the bench for 45 minutes and taking matchups against the opponents worst players.

Lapo gets in a funk when he doesn’t have confidence in his players and he runs a passing game that’s all 5 yard hitched and screens to Harris. His playcalling this season demonstrates no confidence in Nichols. Lapo gave an interesting interview after practice to Bob Irving that they played on the pre-game where he basically said if he doesn’t call the deep shots Nichols won’t take them, and that’s why they are forcing them lately because they are becoming too easy to defend. Just be thankful we have Harris because if we didn’t this team wouldn’t be able to score.

Somehow he’s missed every lesson on ball security. I don’t know how they stand having that guy on the roster and I don’t know why it takes 2 years to figure out he’s useless. Do O’Shea and Lapo really get hard watching the guy run? What else can he do? Can’t catch passes or kicks.

I worry about the young Canadian talent being wasted here. 82 gets the ball he makes plays. 81 has only made plays when given the chance. 13 too in a very brief look. We put Lankford on instead and watch him drop passes and kickoffs repeatedly, leave a kickoff on the turf and then remember it’s live. Man oh man.

He’s not wrong if that’s the best answer they have to handle a basic edge blitz.

He’s not wrong if that’s the best answer they have to handle a basic edge blitz.

Keep in mind we’ve basically taken 4 of 5 wins off backup QB’s (whatever you call Montreal, Franklin x2, Jennings). Not trending well!

Without that defense and Harris going off in several games you’re probably looking at a team that beats Montreal and maybe splits with Toronto. This offense ain’t winning ****.

Lapo’s playcalling lacks confidence. He said in his interview with CJOB this week that he’s basically forcing the deep routes in an attempt to make the offense diverse so it does not stagnate. I think we’re getting past that in terms of the passing game. It’s Harris or bust.

That’s something he really has to think about. If your opponent scores multiple 2 point converted touchdowns and you keep kicking 1’s, how do you get those points back? You’re shorting yourself a possession once that gap is 3-4 points just from converts.

Our quarterback couldn’t counter it. Either not prepared by Lapo and Co or doesn’t pick it up and hit the hot route.

And it happens fast. Ottawa gets two first downs but our D stop them. Our O comes out, two dropbacks and then punt. Ottawa puts together a drive and they are rolling. O gets the big play to Adams. Then D turns it over on plus 40. O doesn’t score. Game turns in a big way there. O doesn’t do anything for the rest of the half and Ottawa puts up two TD drives. Game pretty much done there.

Only two games vs the East left, and one of those vs Ottawa. Need to step up big time to even make the playoffs. Probably have to win at least 4 if not 5.

Plus fumble for Ottawa TD which basically ended the game halfway through the 3rd. I’m surprised Nichols didn’t put up 450 staring into prevent for almost a whole half.

Find it hard to be critical of the DB’s with the amount we blitz Bighill/JSK/Leggett/Loffler on passing downs and play cover zero. Any decent pro QB is going to rip that apart and there’s not much the DB’s can do. Middle of the field is wide open because 6-7 are rushing most passing downs. Can’t expect 5-6 guys to defend the whole field. You’re gambling the blitz gets there, but most often it doesn’t affect the throw.

So he could lose 15 in a row before you’d look at his play?

Either can’t read the blitz or can’t get the ball out fast enough to counter it (by Nichols or play design). Teams are going to throw the same WIL/Half/Safety blitz at this offence until they can counter it. Same thing repeatedly in the last two games.