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It seems pretty clear that he's not focused on football. You become a dog pretty quick when you aren't working as hard as the rest of the people competing for spots on pro teams. He was brutal in the NFL vet combine and when they kept showing him during pre-game in Ottawa I was wondering if he was going to put on a sports bra. Doesn't look to be in good shape at all.

And back to the pro wrestling made up storyline drama....

Starts with H, ends in ajrullahu. He's extremely inconsistent, especially as a punter. He can hit a coffin corner kick and then 5 minutes later hit one right up the seam 25 yards away from where it needs to be. Stoudermire has stunk too, although better this week in that he didn't have any backbreaking gaffes. On the whole special teams has been pretty good otherwise.

If Khari Jones isn't qualified to be a CFL OC, who is? He's been an assistant on the offensive side for almost a decade, including 2 stints as an OC. Are you really wondering why an assistant coach has bounced around? Khari's actually done pretty good, I don't think he's been anywhere less than 2 seasons yet.

He was pretty good, obviously inexperienced. Biggest problem is he's always injured.

Yes, and bring in an American interior guy, don't play a tackle at guard as we have anytime we've went to 3 imports on the OL. I don't know how they can keep running Greaves/Neufeld and Picard out there. Starting QB knocked out of 3 games already. A good game for them is having the QB rocked in the pocket only a half-dozen times.

The issue with this whole thing was making it a long-running reality show. I lost a lot of respect for Sam when he took that route of actively seeking media attention instead of just going about his business and more or less dealing with the media crap as it came up. Like for instance having a press conference in Montreal when he signed. When is the last time an import who has never played a down in the CFL or NFL for that matter had a press conference to announce their signing? If I'm Sam I'm telling Jim Popp and whoever else to handle my signing how you would any other. It's clear that Sam saw $$$ in things like that. I hope he saved up some money at least, but it was pretty clear from the time of his NFL Draft that he was on the path of media exploitation. He was always a marginal player on either side of the border, I don't think he needed the added media pressure, and I think he could have avoided quite a bit of it.

My guess is that they had the next play in to Marve if it was 3rd and longer than a couple yards or a first down, same play, before that 2nd down play. Hard to really prepare for the scenario they ended up in with it being 3rd and almost 2 yards. Harder with a very inexperienced QB who was obviously fighting pretty hard just to get through the game at that point. The read option wouldn't be a bad call because you are isolating one defender and giving two of your better guys with the ball, Marve and Marshall a chance to get it done. By that point it seemed to me that Marve's ability to throw more than about 7-8 yards vertically down the field was severely compromised.

Kind of like how Jeff Garcia wasn't available for the Al's last year? Oh no, wait. He was. And now he's an assistant OC in the NFL. Garcia was still thinking about playing last year. That was a pretty unique circumstance. So unique that it's not even worthwhile to try to use to make an argument.

How do you know he doesn't? Maybe Willy doesn't do the check down to them. Maybe he changes the play slightly. I agree though - they gotta be more creative for pressure packages as when a defense brings more than the players left in to block, there are at least TWO open players on that play right at the start - and the QB's job is to find them. Cavillo could - Khari Jones could - that's the best way to protect against the blitz. Burn it a few times and the defense has to change their tactics or get blown out How do you check down to a screen? That's an extremely set play because of the blocking required. If Willy wasn't throwing called screens it would be very noticeable. You're describing hot routes, and no doubt they have them called, it's a silent communication between QB and receiver to read the blitz and know where the ball is going. Problem in a lot of games for this team is that the QB doesn't even have time to throw those because by the time he gets the ball there's a defender in his face. I've never seen anything quite like it even last season. I think Picard's crappy snaps have made our OL even worse along with the fact he couldn't block a fifth grader.

The fact that the Bombers signed Picard should tell you all you need to know. They obviously don't think Goosen can do the job yet (ever??) or they wouldn't have spent the money on a vet. And since we have no first round pick next spring we'll be spending even more money on OL free agents in the future. There's no OL after the first round? Seems to me there was a guy snapping for the New York Giants today who went in the 3rd round a few years back.

Why did O'Shea put them in that position? With a 20-14 lead the Bombers are stopped on offense deep in their own end. O'Shea sends LH out to punt from his own end zone. Lirim out-kicks the coverage and the Argos bring the punt all the way to the house. Score: 21-20 Argos. The game is over at this point as the momentum shifts in Toronto's favour and the Bombers never score another point. Why doesn't O'Shea have LH take a safety giving up two points. The argos then can: a. Scrimmage at their own 35-yard line, b. kickoff from their own 35-yard line or, c. Accept a kickoff from the 25-yard line of the team who conceded the safety touch. Either way, we preserve the lead at 20-16 and probably gain tremendous field position? Isn't this another coaching blunder of epic proportions by O'Shea that proves he doesn't know what he is doing out there? Am I wrong about the safety? Yes you are wrong. The way the defense was playing there's no reason to give the safety. Hajrullahu was kicking with a strong wind, should have been able to net 45 on that kick easy. Hajrullahu hit a terrible punt in the middle of the field. The goal is to put it between the numbers and the sideline. Just a terrible kick, no coaching mistakes, unless you think we should get a better punter.

Marve looked past his first read a ton, I mean about 70% of his completed passes were scrambles. He struggles in the pocket, and that's what your seeing with the wobblers and bad accuracy. He needs to settle his lower body down when he throws in the pocket, on any throw he makes where he's not on the run. He's got a really frantic passing motion but it's entirely from his lower half, he's got a real nice arm action. Accuracy/time it takes to get there sucks because he's taking himself away from his target with the lower body movement when he should be finishing towards the target ideally. We can do without the chuck and duck bomb tosses and throws across his body on the run though. The sandlot stuff is good for a couple of exciting plays a game, but really not going to get anything done consistently. Also looked like Marve had a pretty bad bump/bruise/nick on his throwing hand for a good chunk of the 2nd half. All that said, the difference in the game was again a big special teams breakdown on a horribly placed punt by Hajrullahu.

I doubt that play was called from the sideline. Seemed like a very chaotic hurry-up situation, I was surprised they got into a legal formation with how chaotic it was.

Couldn't challenge. No timeout

They should invest in radar so powerful they can tell exactly where the storm cloud will hit and open up. But an Old Boys Club would never make that kind of investment, they are too busy being best buds.

Wasn't that when he was already an OC? He's just a QB coach now, so he should be ready to listen. No, that's when he was a QB coach for the Roughriders. We offered him OC and he said no, that he wanted to be HC. I'm not sure what happened after that, but he took a job OCing in BC instead of coming here. Then when they hired Cortez, they made Cortez OC and QB Coach, and they demoted Khari and now he's Receivers Coach, not a QB Coach. They didn't offer Khari Jones anything. It was heavily rumoured that Miller preferred him for certain jobs, but that was essentially baseless and founded on the fact that they have a personal relationship, idle gossip. He interviewed for OC prior to last season and O'Shea decided to stick with Bellefeuille. Why are people making things up about Khari Jones now? Sorry, I didn't mean we offered him OC, I meant he interviewed for it. And I'm not making things up. Many of the guys in the media stated that he wanted HC position and wouldn't come here for just the OC position (take that for what it's worth considering it's the Winnipeg media). The only place I've ever heard or read this is on this message board.

Mostly because if Cato's first read isn't there he's leaving the pocket regardless of how much time he has. Feel bad for those OL, it's the worst blocking for a QB with happy feet like that because you never know what he's doing. You could have a great pocket and then the idiot runs right into the pass rusher that you've blocked perfectly.

Wasn't that when he was already an OC? He's just a QB coach now, so he should be ready to listen. No, that's when he was a QB coach for the Roughriders. We offered him OC and he said no, that he wanted to be HC. I'm not sure what happened after that, but he took a job OCing in BC instead of coming here. Then when they hired Cortez, they made Cortez OC and QB Coach, and they demoted Khari and now he's Receivers Coach, not a QB Coach. They didn't offer Khari Jones anything. It was heavily rumoured that Miller preferred him for certain jobs, but that was essentially baseless and founded on the fact that they have a personal relationship, idle gossip. He interviewed for OC prior to last season and O'Shea decided to stick with Bellefeuille. Why are people making things up about Khari Jones now?

The one about the "old boys club" of Miller, Walters and O'Shea, which is laughable. People are really expecting mid-season firings with a 3-4 record? Lapolice had an interesting point on 1290 yesterday about developing quarterbacks in Winnipeg. Hopefully the mob doesn't turn on Marve when he struggles, which is almost 100% certain.

Walters & O'Shea along with Miller are triplets. I doubt anyone gets fired. They're all good friends. You're really committed to this conspiracy eh?

Or how much playing a team with no offence at all helps.

If Montreal had any offense the game would have been over by halftime. Edmonton repeatedly handed the Als the ball.

Too bad you can't challenge offensive PI. Holy hell did Bailey ever push off on that big play that's probably going to win Edmonton the game.

87 on Edmonton is getting away with some pretty huge push offs, hard to sympathize with Montreal though as SJ Green has made a career of that.