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That's probably the most frustrating thing about this roster. There are Americans on our team who completely don't belong on a CFL roster, even after a few years, like Knox, Lankford. These guys should be interchangeable, you shouldn't need more than a season or even a few games to figure out how to play WIL at a decent level and not screw up in basic ways. If someone is still making these mistakes after two games you run the next guy in there. Knox is done. As for Lankford, he's great at taking kickoffs from the goaline to the 25 and out of bounds. We need better and it's a joke that he's taking regular snaps at receiver. Thorpe, Washington, probably most of the NIs we have kicking around and about 5000 wannabe pros in the US could fill that role and be more productive. Time to say sayonara.

Have a weird feeling we'll be trading him to Montreal in the next two weeks.

Other than the 25 targets to Harris and the 10 to Flanders.... You can't avoid throwing at a halfback. Get real.

Crazy trade proposal: To WPG: Dean Lawrence Washington Conditional Pick 2019 on Neufeld re-signing To HAM: Neufeld Okpalaugo

Sask rushed 3 and dropped 9 lots. Needed to run more to churn 5-6-7 on most first downs and take some deep shots on some combo routes to isolate DB's. Nichols had good time. Lapo's gameplan sucked.

What would they do if the Bombers put Medlock in at safety and had him drop on the field like he was shot as soon as the Riders lined up to snap the ball?

Exactly, there are rules and the refs have discretion around unsportsmanlike and objectionable conduct. They don't have any balls however.

Well unless a guy is having a heart attack or seizure it almost never happens that someone goes down when play has been whistled in and subs completed. Blatant attempt to circumvent the rules around hurry-up offenses.

Wouldn't need another starting NI. Would need an import to play safety and honestly safety in the D schemes nowadays is basically another half with an extra read on some downs, most of the time where they are going is prescribed by the play call. I don't doubt that we could fill that role fairly easily with Alexander who is comfortable being up in the box when needed too.

All fits together. All works for or against each other. None of it worked tonight.

More than 2/3 of passing yards when trailing 3 scores or more.

Yet we start at the 40 yard line and kick a FG.

Well 2 TDs tonight were on 1st and goal situations that the D walked into from a big return and a brutal INT. If we're looking at a D in terms of points given up, they don't look nearly as bad as if you look at yards. I think you could start a What to Do About the O thread too because they've been horribly inconsistent and comatose for long stretches of many games which has a pretty negative effect on the whole team. This D isn't built to carry the team like say our 2011 one was.

It's like free training for the CFL. The Americans are meh, missing the Canadians hurts a bit but less when it's guys that are rookies anyway. If they are smart they won't sit on PR's too long because Gray would make the same or more up here even as a rook.

Disagree on Loffler. He spends a lot of time in man coverage or in match zones where he ends up in man coverage. He likes to play closer to the line and is a ball chasing kind of player. He doesn't spend a lot of time between the tackles, he comes into the box sometimes, but he makes a lot of bad decisions on ball carriers and coverages.

Nichols was horrible until garbage time IMO. That early INT was the turning point, just couldn't happen, especially like that, maybe on a throw trying to push it deep.

Move Loffler to LB. He'd be a better WIL than anyone we have and his performance at safety is mediocre IMO. He makes some hits but also makes some pretty big mistakes. YAC against us is huge and he's a big part of it, mostly due to lack of footspeed and poor angles, he'd be better closer to the LOS IMO, and that's where he plays mostly anyway, where he tends to end up. We are basically playing with a secondary short a player by Loffler's tendencies and our scheme. Need more from a lot of guys. To me Knox is off the roster, might be by injury anyway. Hurl needs to play a role to fulfill the ratio but we can't have a useless WIL beside him too. Scheme to hold guys in the middle of the field, always have guys playing a deep half from the seam out (meaning their priority is middle not sideline, more aggressive cover 2) and increase the difficulty of throws for opposing QB's. The softest part of our coverage is smack dab down the seam right in front of QB's, way too easy.

Split in Regina. Rubber match in Winnipeg

Thorpe would have been useful on O. Deep ball isn't happening, need the misdirection and YAC.

There's a couple pretty long EMU highlight tapes for Mulumba kicking around. Most plays he's playing defensive end with a hand in the dirt.

Worst part of TSN is how they pick a storyline for each game and just cannot move off it no matter what actually happens in the game.

Good at collecting data, but he makes up obscure ways of synthesizing and analyzing it that aren't recognized or used by anyone else and are often missing some key information or context. I like it when he sticks to more core stats with controls that but still stuff the CFL doesn't necessarily publish.

Yep let him get paid and practice there. Save us a roster spot and hopefully we get him in a year or two when he's really ready to play.

In 2006. Was a boost that season.

Mulumba is an edge rusher, since he's been out of college he's mostly played for 3-4 teams so he's labeled "LB." It would be a pretty big leap to play MLB in the CFL for a guy who hasn't played that position in his life. Westerman was "LB" in the states too. Terrell Sinkfield was cut by the Vikings. There's a type of player we could use RFN. Huge upgrade on our returners, has been playing DB for the Vikes and pretty impactful offensive player up here previously.