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Goes both ways.

And roughing the passer.

Jeffcoat is a ******* animal. No way they can take him off the roster.

Promising that we can play so bad and win or be within a score like in BC. Need to start playing well though.

Man TSN and the ALS put the W i their column. Glad our guys didn't quit like they did.

Durant is more like Michael Bishop right now. He could come out and throw for 450 yards or he could throw for 200 and 4 INTs.

I hope they are looking for it. That's exactly why you run it. Get their DBs and LBs flat footed and leave open space to complete passes.

Key matchup for me is Nichols vs the zone blitz. He needs to show he can count past four and make quick decisions or it's going to be a long night of hoping for big plays from D and kicks.

They need to find/develop a QB.

If a team president micromanaged to that level no coach would work for them, much like if the manager at McDonald's micromanaged the fry salter. The guy wouldn't leave his basement.

More than the offense couldn't get a first down for 6 drives at the most critical juncture of the game.

Put him in the booth alone?

They play 13 out of 18 games in the same time zone with minimal travel. Teams in the West aren't crying the blues for them.

Well the offense doesn't execute... It kind of depends what you're looking at. If it's second and five from the opposite 40 you aren't going to come up and try to cover everyone off the line because the QB is going to read that and then throw over it for a big play. They do play shorter zones and alternate running some pretty aggressive fronts and dropping guys out to disrupt timing and reads, that's often the most effective way now with the way PI is. You have to kind of think of plays in the larger context of the game not just that down or even drive.

I'm more disappointed in Loffler when he's actually playing a more traditional safety. If he gets caught in coverage we are screwed and he's been struggling at taking good angles at guys running in the open field from deep. He needs a more aggressive role where he's attacking and has less ground to cover/decisions to make IMO. They should just make him the WIL full time already and use someone with better cover skills as a safety.

Playing man to man in this era of PI and IC isn't going to fly. Thr Bombers are playing mostly a match zone with cover 2 safeties, two guys covering a deep half of the field and everyone else watching a specific receiver or back as well as flowing to the ball. That's a very simple description. It changes up when they blitz and based on offensive alignment, 3 man rush they run cover 3 on long passing downs. I didn't think they played horrible. Lulay hit some lucky heaves in the first half. He didn't do much in the second half until the scoring drives after our offense didn't get a first down in six possessions.

I agree, but you also have to make a defense pay with execution to slow down blitzes and loosen up coverages. Misdirection has been working quite well but is not used consistently. IMO they need Flanders on the roster. Diversify Harris' role, run some split backs and run Harris out as a receiver (something they already do quite a bit in Empty sets). Imagine if Harris was running those sweeps or if you had Dressler and Harris both cutting through the backfield and defenders had to keep their eyes on whether it was Dressler, Harris or Flanders getting the ball, or is it a fake and Nichols is tossing a bomb for Adams who's defender was looking into the backfield and is now a step behind. Also just let our OL impose themselves with some downhill runs.

Honestly with the inconsistency of our offence and more precisely QB play for 4 games this season it's impressive that we've basically been in every game, for 3 quarters in the case of the Calgary game.

Passing Charts Interesting from Marshall Ferguson. Nichols completed 5 passes over 10 yards on Friday night. There is absolutely no way that's by design. That's a guy who is taking a long time to progress through his reads (too long) and move the ball leaving himself with no options. Also from Ferguson:

Nichols has put up basically the same numbers with each team and OC he's played with. The one thing he's done better the past two seasons is significantly decrease the amount of turnovers he is responsible for.

TBH I wouldn't count that Adams catch as difficult. He chose to grab it one handed. The ball was placed where only he could get it and he had a step on the DB. He chose not to turn his shoulders and took it one handed but also could have rose up and caught it with two.

Not sure it matters. We couldn't move the ball for long stretches. We have a great OL. If our QB threw for 400 yards we wouldn't worry about our rushing game.

Those phony subjective stats are kind of a joke to be honest.

Consistently executing the basics would be a good start. Watching Nichols in the pocket he's clearly struggling with pre-snap reads, either making bad ones or not trusting the ones he's making, and really struggling to account for blitzes (luckily BC only blitzed intermittently). There's a lot of double clutching and dancing when he isn't under much pressure. That is a really bad sign. He seems to do better when they give him those little quarter rolls to move the launch point and get his shoulders towards his target. Otherwise he's doing a lot of twisting and tossing some funky inaccurate tosses on anything downfield. Obviously we can't see film quality footage but I'd assume his indecision and slow release is often leading to the number of checkdowns he's "forced" into. Simply, the ball has to be moving faster whether they determine it's on Nichols or play calling, and those two can help each other out.

He had 3 great drives. That's excellent. If our D didn't come up huge repeatedly with the field tilted and both D and teams score or set up the offence in the red zone it's a blow out. Guy needs to find some kind of consistency. And it was half of the 3rd Q and most of the 4th where we couldn't get a first down. Not exactly clutch.