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I think he's done well but we aren't out of the woods. A significant injury to any of our NI D starters would be tough to manage while maintaining this level of play. Harris, Hurl or Loffler get hurt and we are in big trouble IMO.

I feel that fundamentally a second tailback is low priority for this staff compared to DBs and returners, but hopefully that's changed.

Not ready or just not as good as Westerman, Thomas, Corney?

That would be a short handed secondary especially with Loffler extremely iffy. No possibility of Lankford being the scratch or another receiver? I'm worried it could be Flanders.

I wonder if Harris had the option to keep the ball on that play.

Particularly if Loffler is iffy.

The likelihood of a turnover and scoring 0 points goes up hugely when you run those plays and many parts of it could have went wrong. QBs who are QBs make bad decisions, let alone guys who aren't QBs. Even Nichols piece of the play has to be almost perfect to ensure it's not an illegal formation, he can't make any approach out of shotgun towards the centre. It's a crazy call when you are just shredding the defence. No reason to increase the degree of difficulty.

For performance enhancement or recreationally? Haven't been prescribed anything stronger than a T3 but can't imagine anything that relaxes muscles to that extent could truly be performance enhancing.

Kickoff returner.

Why do you feel the need to make this post weekly? Enjoy the games however you want, you don't have to justify it. Personally I'm ignoring you now because your undue negativity has reached past my annoyance threshold.

Nope he's American.

Perry Solkowski.

Nobody plays QB's like that anymore. Nobody gives reps to backups. Gameplans are way complicated and practice time is limited.

Jennings has the yips. Wonder how long he stays in.

Banks is such a loser on and off the field. How they keep him on the roster is behind me.

The Kleenex Bowl...who's softer?

Shows you the relative value of imports. Basically nil.

There's a group of receivers who can't run routes and get by on pushing off and "winning" jump balls by handling DB's. BC has a couple, Trestman loves em (Richardson, Green), Duke Williams is certainly one. Barely seen that guy catch a ball aside from those

I think Nichols needs to be a little more aggressive with his legs too. Like on that toss to Lankford in the back corner when they showed the replay from behind Nichols he could have walked to about the 2 yard line, his first read was Thorpe on a flat that was covered and then someone else on a dig, covered. All those routes to that side of the field he rolled to pulled the defenders away from him and left a ton of space for him to run. That element changes how teams defend and how DB's cover too.

My only request is that Lapo let his guys dominate and not try to win the mind games with opposition coaches. He doesn't need to! He's got good players. The trick play was absolutely stupid and cost us 4 points. We had two drives that ended in goal to go situations where Harris and Flanders didn't touch the ball for those plays run or pass and we kicked FG's. That's a potential for at least a dozen more points from just keeping it relatively simple IMO.

Then they are pretty dumb, aren't they?

I think Edmonton's OL is average at best, they had 7 blockers on the line almost every play they ran run or pass. They got away with a TON of holds, and they clearly gameplanned to chuck and duck. Got lucky 3-4 times, otherwise not a whole lot of sustained production.

The use of steroids have decreased quite a bit in my experience among youth football players over the 20 or so years I've been involved including through junior and CIS. It's incredibly noticeable when someone is on them now. I think part of it is a positive peer pressure and part of it is that sport specific training has taken off and most realize that using steroids and growth hormone for any length of time is actually detrimental to being on the field. More of an issue now are other stimulants, amphetamines and "drugs of abuse" meaning stuff you buy on the street and take at parties.

FTFY

What a ridiculous rule eh? Watson literally tossed Heath to the turf, I could see it if he ran into Heath but it was a full on shove. Only in the CFL. Not applied that way in amateur football. Everyone is entitled to their cylinder (shoulder width field to sky) and position.