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Except that it's a personal foul for spearing and targeting. You can't lead with the crown of your helmet as a tackler and particularly when you are hitting high. Rule exists on both sides of the border but is not applied often enough. Really it's to protect everyone because the tackler is putting himself in danger of neck, headand spinal injuries too. ARTICLE 8. INITIATING CONTACT WITH THE CROWN OF THE HELMET. It is a foul if a runner or tackler initiates forcible contact by delivering a blow with the top/crown of his helmet against an opponent when both players are clearly outside the tackle box (an area extending from tackle to tackle and from three yards beyond the line of scrimmage to the offensive team’s end line).

The NFL (and CFL) really need to add the ability to review personal fouls and unsportsmanlike penalties in-game. They handle the Shazier spear correctly and keep the Steelers coaches off the field and they avoid that embarrassing mess that reflects poorly on the entire sport.

Pretty much everyone around the world who plays football runs zone blocking where the linemen are not blocking to create a specific gap but adjusting their block to the defensive front and leaving it up to the running back to make a quick decision to find the gap. These are "search" plays, "zone read" and can involve any ball carrier really. 99.9% of the time you're running to a specific side of the formation and the line might slide a touch that way. For instance, if the end is lined up outside the right tackle and the run is going right, he right tackle is going to slide right with that end being his primary block. If that run is going left he's probably going to chip the DT and try to get into the second level or might even be pulling. Ultimately you're trying to get the back outside contain but since that is such a key for defenses the cuts upfield are usually inside or to the gap directly off tackle.

That stuff works to a point. Defenses are getting pressure consistently with 4-5. With the couple teams really committed to the zone blitzing, you don't know who those guys are going to be so quick game is just a pre-snap guess, and that's why Hamilton and Edmonton had so many takeaways. I believe Ottawa led the league in sacks and they run a pretty straightforward rush. The OL just aren't good enough. It doesn't matter what is called if guys like Picard and Neufeld can't even figure out how to be speed bumps.

Agree completely. If I were managing a CFL team my goal would be to have 4 NI starters on each side of the ball. What position they play is almost inconsequential. You need to have contingency plans for injury and poor play, so realistically you need at least a dozen NI's who can play offense/defense at a level where you aren't scared when they are on the field. IMO we are reaching a point where the supply of NI receivers and running backs who can play in the CFL is about that same or greater than NI OL who can play in the league at a reasonable level. There's no reason to force a certain number of NI OL on the field.

The vision problem was well-known and dealt with before he was a Bomber. Lapolice simply couldn't figure out how to use him. There's 9 routes on the route tree, Bowman struggled tracking the ball with 2 of them running to the boundary. Lapolice insisted on running him on those routes, shattering his confidence and making him look like an idiot. He was an absolute monster on every route coming into the field and continues to be. I'd put the chances of Bowman signing with a team having Lapolice designing and calling the plays at less than zero. The guy nearly killed his pro career.

If a guy who is a head coach under contract can actively shop/be shopped for other jobs within the league, it's the wild west. The timing of when the league actually decides to act is always just a little too late to avoid stepping in the doo doo pile.

I have no problem with Randle at SAM, I hope they move Leggett up there to challenge him though.I personally thought Leggett was more valuable at safety than linebacker as well as Randall at db. Leggett was a monster at SAM.

Basically everything. Import talent across the board. At least another interior OL, NI if they are rigidly counting on starting 3 or 4, probably 2 more realistically cause we have no backups either.

I'd like Lawless to find the relevant piece of labour law for compensation. Labour law does not cover this. In any regular line of work the employee gives notice and moves on, even contract employees. Precedence will matter too within the industry. Civil law is quite flexible this way. There's no professional sport in North America that compensates for assistant coaches leaving for a promotion.

Can't recall any precedent for compensation in this situation, moving from assistant to head coach. Don't believe there should be any. Would look real stupid on the league if they force compensation on the Eskimos given that their head coach just bolted while under contract with no compensation.

Maas is going to be head coach and playcaller. Guy has one year of playcalling experience. Nuts.

According to the guy he called the Bomber office and was told that the number on the site was correct. Clearly at some point they checked after it went unclaimed, made the correction to the website without attempting to contact the winner who had apparently called them. You would think they would manage the situation a little more carefully. The initial mistake is one thing, how they handled it is what is going to get them in **** with lotteries. Clearly mistakes were made on both sides. I just think people are blowing this way out of proportion. They have run many more successful draws than not. While an investigation is necessary it will not prevent future mistakes from being made. It is a human run enterprise and humans make mistakes. How we learn from and deal with them is the important thing. There is no perfect human designed system. The standard for lotteries is high, and rightfully so given how easy it would be for some shenanigans to happen to benefit an individual or the Football Club. This one defies even common sense. Given the amount of media the Bombers do, and people they have working on just that, they couldn't announce on CJOB, on their website etc that they goofed up typing the number on the website and the correct number was now up? The sneaky stuff is what will do them in, not the mistake.

While mildly interesting because it broke some news about Ken Ploen and featured some legends, that "feature" came off incredibly half-assed to me. Not much background, not much research or digging.

Even if he didn't, they could have put out a release asking him to call back, or simply put out a media release saying that the original number posted online was incorrect.Communication doesn't seem to be a strong point within the organization or with the public, even though they employ more communications people than personnel/scouts.

According to the guy he called the Bomber office and was told that the number on the site was correct. Clearly at some point they checked after it went unclaimed, made the correction to the website without attempting to contact the winner who had apparently called them. You would think they would manage the situation a little more carefully. The initial mistake is one thing, how they handled it is what is going to get them in **** with lotteries.

Valid explanation, so how was Harper spending those funds within the same family budget? Wrote it all on sticky notes so no one would ever know.

Well no, people on the no-fly list already can buy a gun. Many don't support changing that because the no-fly list they have now is chock full of names put on there by mistake. And I mean chock full. Plus it's a secret list that the government can just add you to for any reason they feel like. So you're not exactly getting due process before the government goes ahead and denies you the right to bear arms. It's interesting how people lost their mind when Trump suggested keeping out Muslim immigrants, yet think it's a great idea to deny thousands of Muslim American citizens (because the list I'm sure is mostly Muslims) their constitutionally protected rights with no due process whatsoever. You'd think people would be more worried about their rights in terms of being allowed to travel freely than buy guns. If the no-fly list is so arbitrary and absolute, why is that not an issue? And Trump wasn't talking about immigrants exclusively. He was talking ALL Muslims...like a Muslim person who is American through and through, in the armed forces, gets posted overseas and whether or not they are allowed back would be scrutinized for no reason other than their religion.

This draft isn't deep. I'd work hard to move up and grab a guy like Timmis, but I'm not sure the Bombers have the ammunition to get into the top 3-4 picks to get him. The top 5 are all likely NFLers.

Well, if you don't like Denmark as a screen/end around guy, you better hope he gets cut. Lapo used him in that role a heck of a lot more than Bellefeuille or Crowton did.

It's not a stretch to say that one wouldn't affect the other, now would it? Wouldn't affect play design as much as the order of the reads and the decisions of the QB pre-snap.

That's absurd and can't say I saw that at all. Always deep routes, intermediate. Fewer deep throws after Willy went down because the QB's weren't good/comfortable, including Nichols. If the routes were ran at the same depth all the time you literally would complete about 20% of your passes maybe. That's someone with an agenda IMO. I should have stipulated that that observation was for only the @ BC game. And that would fit more into what you're saying because, with a Willy in the lineup, it seemed to me there were more deep routes, or more of the playbook was open.After Willy got hurt, I can see MB using less of the playbook, safer, shorter routes, with a deep route, now and then. I definitely could see more of a 'grouping' of receivers....which is never a good thing. Anybody else? I'm not talking about routes being different, the willingness and ability for the QB to make the read and hit the deep route was different.

It's very difficult to observe the routes our receivers ran last year by watching on TV. But I was told, from an observer field level, that the routes were run practically to the same depth, which of course, makes little sense.Now, if there are STHs, or even casual game by game observers who can confirm or dispute that, please, let us know. It would explain a lot about the failings of that offence. That's absurd and can't say I saw that at all. Always deep routes, intermediate. Fewer deep throws after Willy went down because the QB's weren't good/comfortable, including Nichols. If the routes were ran at the same depth all the time you literally would complete about 20% of your passes maybe. That's someone with an agenda IMO. Damn. Should have kept Bellefeuille. A bit different, even with a supposed upgraded O-line, a healthy Willy, he still couldnt generate functional offense. 81-106 76% 1134 yards (283 per game) 7 TDs 1 INT in games Willy started and finished. Looks pretty functional to me. If you put the best 4 games by all QB's combined in Lapolice's last stint here it would probably pale, and two of those games would be Joey Elliott. Change was needed, but let's be realistic. Lapolice over Bellefeuille is not likely to be a significant upgrade. The significant upgrade will be personnel based. Let's hope that Walters & Co are being realistic too.

It's very difficult to observe the routes our receivers ran last year by watching on TV. But I was told, from an observer field level, that the routes were run practically to the same depth, which of course, makes little sense. Now, if there are STHs, or even casual game by game observers who can confirm or dispute that, please, let us know. It would explain a lot about the failings of that offence. That's absurd and can't say I saw that at all. Always deep routes, intermediate. Fewer deep throws after Willy went down because the QB's weren't good/comfortable, including Nichols. If the routes were ran at the same depth all the time you literally would complete about 20% of your passes maybe. That's someone with an agenda IMO. Damn. Should have kept Bellefeuille.

I like Willy a lot but he's got a ways to go before he's at the level Pierce was when the Bombers signed him. Our receivers are a lot worse than they were when Lapo was here and it's up for debate how good the OL was because our qbs got the crap beaten out of them last year too so I don't know how you can sit there and say "we're so much better than last time!" We might be better, but a lot of that rests on the coaching, and Lapo has a bad record getting Bomber qbs killed. Disagree about Willy vs Pierce. Pierce had a bum throwing shoulder by the time we got him. He also had really bad happy feet. He had the odd good game, but not many. He was the definition of game manager here. I don't want to look it up but I feel like Willy had more 300 yard games in his first year here than Pierce had in his Bomber career. Agree that our OL now is significantly worse than 2010-2011. IMO, we had below league average play at every spot this season. Some hope for Chungh and Goossen, but need a lot of help, probably more imports until some NI's show they can play.