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You'd be hard pressed to find a football team in Canada from high school to the pros who are playing the kind of 80s defense you guys are describing with guys guessing where the ball is going and chasing, and not gap control on first downs and 2nd and short. The only major variations are on passing downs.

Denmark is the guy other teams are choosing to sit on with a guy over top and covering him on a curl drop too, bracket coverage. Since teams have been doing that our offence has been awful. Moore isn't a #1 guy, other teams don't respect him and just hand him the rope to finish himself off, drops and fumbles. Adams is lazy as all hell, it's been awesome for the few halves of games he's decided to play hard. I wouldn't bring either of those guys back next year. Denmark is a very good player, hard to get him the ball though when there's no one else who is a consistent threat.

Because that is the system they are running. It's all about keeping OL from getting to the second level and forcing cutbacks. Bass is basically your MLB in the way you're thinking of it, the guy chasing the play. He's been a beast once he adjusted to the width of the field and figured out how to get on the right side of the play to make tackles with his inside shoulder.

It's not even that they lost guys through attrition. Taman made extremely short-sighted decisions around the Expansion Draft. They decided to give up all their interior NI DL. Within a year they were plugging Canadians in as starters on the interior DL. Just poor management.

Glenn has been relatively awful since he returned from injury.

Who was the quarterback? Picard was in for all the debacles vs Hamilton and Edmonton. He's not adding anything, even mentally.

If he can get out of his stance and not get blown 5 yards off the line on the majority of run plays he's already better than Neufeld.

And an illegal block. We were over due to catch a break though.That wasn't a block. It was just a collision. Stoudermire was running his route and the BC player ran into him. That's a key point. Stoudermire is running a hard dig into the field. He's allowed his space too and he didn't really veer off his route. Phillips was stationary then read the route and reacted late. Looked like they had banjo zone coverage on with Phillips taking the curl/flat (ended up being Denmark) and the corner taking the deep route (Stoudermire). Phillips turns his hips and starts to run toward the boundary to chase Denmark, runs into Stoudermire's path. Stoudermire isn't even looking at him.

Worked though. Would have worked better if the left guard blocked anyone. I honestly don't know how people expect any offensive coordinator to build even an average running game with so many overmatched OL. Capers wasn't getting off the line at all. He looked fine at tackle. Neufeld looks bad everywhere. Routinely getting bullied off the line by guys like Khreem Smith in the run game. Just brutal.

Start with handing Neufeld a plane ticket to Saskatoon.

Made it look pretty easy. Also almost pinned a single on BC on the last kickoff.

Fire Tedford? Wow did BC ever continually shoot themselves in the foot in the last 3 minutes. Outcoached in a big way. Two special teams fakes and two blocked punts.

Addison Richards still alive? I guess Stoudermire is the next guy in at receiver, or you go tight end all the time. Stoudermire is much better at defending pass routes than running them.

If a tailback at 4 ypc is one of your best finds, you probably deserve to be fired.

I think people would like that elusive 4th impact import receiver so that there would be no justification for dressing a Bastien or a JFG.Also need guys to fill in at an adequate level at the very least. The guys we've had playing when Adams or Moore have been out were terrible.Adams is very inconsistent and prone to lazy efforts too. He's handed the opposition at least 3 picks this year just being flat out lazy on a ball. I can see why the Argos moved on.

Agree but what competent players do you put in there ... Veltung for Stoudermire? Castillo for Hajrullahu? Goosen for Picard? ??? for Neufeld? Who do you have in mind? There's about 10000 football players who are pro quality looking for work south of the border. Should be able to find a kick returner who doesn't kill the team and a punter. I'd be playing 3 imports on the OL until we have a 3rd capable NI, and I'd bring in a guy who actually is a guard to play inside, not be moving guys like Capers who is a tackle, inside. Easier to hide a weaker NI player at receiver or in the DL rotation.

The only problem with O'Shea is that he has too much confidence in players who are a net negative on the team. The killers this year are Stoudermire, Hajrullahu, Picard and Neufeld. Put competent players in those roles and the Bombers are easily .500 and probably nipping Calgary's heels as they have two wins on us they don't deserve.

Bucknor plays way too far off the receiver. I don't know if it's because he lacks speed or what but throwing under him is easy as pie. Somehow he still manages to get burned deep too so I really don't think much of him. Not sure why he is even on this team. Surely Walters could have done better by now. It's more the deep stuff that is the concern. Field corners in zone or man always have to give a pretty significant cushion, usually 8-10 yards, to avoid getting beat deep. The routes available to that receiver far away from the QB are limited. Bucknor gets picked on a lot when teams use a lot of bunch formations and bring him into the play.

Yep some people are ignoring those things...probably because they have absolutely no bearing on this conversation. You can't apply generalities across the board as if they are absolutes. You judge MOS solely on his body of work, and with the facts you have, if you are the Bombers....certainly not on historical data. If we ignore history, we're doomed to repeat it. If you ignore context, you're doomed to sound like an idiot.

Bucknor is a horrendous safety. That's why Hamilton gave up on him.

Payroll is lower this season than the two before, right at MLB average. Nice of MLB to schedule the Jays ALDS home games during weekday afternoons so nobody can watch.

Burnett, Walker, Cone.

At the very least Castillo has to come on the roster to punt. That change should have been made 6 weeks ago.

That record is essentially meaningless. Kickers across the board are much better now and we had almost two decades of mediocre Westwood to start the modern era. It's the proverbial tallest midget award. Hajrullahu has cost us two wins this season directly (@ Calgary, vs Edmonton) and been a major contributor to more losses, home vs Toronto another big one. That could very well be the margin of being a near .500 team and a bunch of people losing their jobs. I suppose it's O'Shea's fault to a large degree for not putting a punter on the roster anyways.

His punting has been fine. Can't blame him for crappy coverage on returns. He has continually put punts right down the middle of the field when they should be going near sidelines. You cannot blame a punter if a cover team fails to cover. Even if they kick a ball right when it should go left you should be able to compensate in coverage. In every case this year either the cover team was blocked out or did not stay in their lanes. If you stay in your lanes you rarely will get scored on.I have watched lots of teams kickers place the ball in the middle of the field or not pull of a great punt and not get scored on. This is junk. The likelihood of a kick being returned a long way increases the further away from the sideline it is because the return teams blockers come into play and the returner is making one guy miss away from having a huge seam. I'm not sure how a coverage team is supposed to adapt to an inaccurate punter. Look up and watch the kick, then run and cover? It's pro football, there's no margin for error and wasting time. In high school you cover the whole field because the kickers have absolutely no idea where the ball is going for the most part. Shouldn't have to be that way in the CFL. The kick doesn't even have to be pinpoint accurate, just anywhere inside the numbers. The Bombers coverage unit has done a good job this season despite Hajrullahu routinely misplacing the ball and out kicking coverage. He's not a punter and that's obvious.