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Not really. We gave up about 2 yards a carry without Kuale last week, even with Montreal trying to establish the run to help their QB's early. They ran at will vs Ottawa last night. Pretty clear who/what is getting picked on by opposing teams.

we were 3-1 with Sears in the lineup and 1-0 with Kromah in the line up... do you have a point you would like to make? And 0-2 with 360 yards rushing against in the last two games Kuale played.

I don't really care one way or the other about Burris but his contract is another matter. With an established QB on the roster, all the RBs had to do was spend the money they wasted on Burris and acquire FAs. How many could they have acquired? At least 2, probably 3, and they could have been receivers. (Nick Moore for example) Of course Glenn couldn't have done much better but you never know. Being an expansion team, you have to develop a team over time. They had Glenn - develop DeMarco, or at least determine if DeMarco is the way to go. One or two clutch receivers would have helped. Look to the draft and the next Free Agency. IMO, they went to far, too soon when they went all in with Burris, especially when they could easily have lost all those games with Glenn instead. Coaching, well that's another playbook in the writing, isn't it? I think the best thing Ottawa has going is probably their coaching staff, long-term I think Rick Campbell and his crew will be there long after Marcel D. is gone. They have the Henry Burris of coaching staffs. Gibson and Nelson are a step above where they belong, both nearing retirement. Campbell is looking more like a Tim Burke than a Milanovich or O'Shea. Punting inside the 3 minute warning down 10? Something Burke would do.

O'Shea is starting to trend toward irrational loyalty to certain players. What does Don Unamba bring to our team that Johnny Sears wouldn't bring, or Alex Suber, or Marty Markett? Unamba is not very good on D, good on special teams. All of the previously mentioned guys have been excellent special teamers, and two of them have been or are arguably elite CFL defenders. Unamba and Kuale always fly around at 100 mph (often to the detriment of their game), but they don't make a lot of plays for us on D.

What's Kelsey's? a Saskatchewan fine dining experience Living in Calgary you would know all about mediocre dining experiences. IMHO of course. I've only been out here for a couple of years, but I'm still searching for a really mediocre greasy breakfast joint. All the places close to me are the type of restaurants that charge $12 for eggs and have huge lineups I lived in Calgary for 10 years and that city can't compare to the Wpg. for culinary experiences other than corporate chains and the upper end. Doesn't have 1/10th as many independent burger joints or greasy spoons. Closest I found to a good greasy spoon was the Deerhead Cafe low down on Edmonton Trail in the N.W. and it wasn't great. Husky serves up a mediocre breakfast as well but nothing to compare with the Red Top, Nick's in Headingly or the old Paladin. Did they ever re-build after the fire? Problem with Calgary imo is that it doesn't have any soul. Paladin has not rebuilt and will not. The fire came shortly after the owner died and the family was not interested in the business, so it does make one wonder. The insurance only paid out if they rebuilt. They didn't benefit from the fire.

Need to score down by 10 points with under 2 minutes. Ball needs to be moving down the field. Can't waste half a minute trying to nudge the ball across the first down marker. In that scenario, down and distance barely matter, you only have so many plays available and need to score twice. They just can't see forest for the trees right now. Paying attention to minor details, forgetting the goal is to win football games.

Ottawa can't even compete with the next worst team. Just look completely unprepared to compete, even watching their late game offence, they have zero urgency. Poorly coached team on top of being short several players. Down by 10 points, punted under the 3 minute warning and ran two QB sneaks on 2nd and 1 when they need 10 points with a minute and a half left. Horrible.

Love how Burris gets stripped and immediately looks for someone to blame. Ottawa is getting worse, not better as they should.

His production would indicate otherwise when Moore has been out. Denmark has been fairly consistent through his career regardless of other weapons, more a matter of quarterbacking that will affect everybody.

Vega isn't healthy and probably won't be for the rest of the season. They are trying to preserve him a bit. He's basically at the if he really needs to play, he can stage.

Has Volny even taken a snap on offence this season?

Mike Quinn 2.0.I don't expect much more from Brohm based on the pre-season, granted the limited reps. Personally I don't think he's mobile enough to be much of a QB here. If we could make a clone with his arm and say, Alex Brink's mobility, that would be a CFL QB. Willy hasn't shown much mobility here either. Or are u referring to pocket presence? Willy has dealt with pressure pretty well on the whole. He can escape, he can scramble, he's mobile. In that sense, mobility and pocket presence are related. Not that useful to be mobile if you run into a defenders arms or lose a bunch of yards. They aren't running many designed runs for him, only a handful of draws. Keeping him in the pocket is by design, and probably something our offence should be doing a little less of, but I'm a fan of rollouts to give a quarterback easier, higher percentage throws and keep guys like Chick off his back. Brohm is a pure drop back passer. His lack of mobility was a problem for NFL scouts, and clearly they don't value that skill as much as our game does for a QB.

Mike Quinn 2.0. I don't expect much more from Brohm based on the pre-season, granted the limited reps. Personally I don't think he's mobile enough to be much of a QB here. If we could make a clone with his arm and say, Alex Brink's mobility, that would be a CFL QB.

Especially when you consider the amount of guys who pop dozens of pills daily with phony prescriptions from sycophant physicians...something that is way more harmful and ultimately performance enhancing.

Sure but it makes the league kind of a joke. Like the KHL compared to the NHL.

How can you really apply it to a guy without a contract though? Player X has no contract, therefore is unable to serve suspension. If he is unable to serve his suspension, why should the CFL be expected to honor it? It's a catch 22 until the NFL says that the suspension clock is still ticking if you're not under contract, which it totally should. Simply honour the suspension. If you are suspended a full season by the NFL, when you sign with the CFL you have to sit out the same amount of time or number of games. Most likely the suspended players wouldn't even sign in the CFL in that case unless they actually wish to play in the CFL and aren't just looking to run down the clock on their NFL suspension.

So the rule on suspended NFL players is pretty useless as it only applies to guys like Ricky Williams, maybe Josh Gordon this year, who are suspended and not released by their teams....interesting.

If Mo Price and Nick Moore are getting 180K, Dressler is worth 200K easy.

It is. If Stegall or Simon in their prime were available in 2014, they might get close to that, but Dressler is at least one tier below guys like that. It would be an overpayment by at least 50 thou.

Jim Bell is a top-notch individual. IMO if he was ever given the full title of team president after Bauer, a lot of pain would have been saved.

Hall is not lining up anywhere inside the outside shoulder of the offensive tackle and being effective. Pure finesse pass rusher. He's going to get manhandled inside off the snap. Hall is nowhere near the football player a guy like Chick is, he's a specialist.

Could they have picked a worse location than Plessis Road? Couldn't afford route 90 or Portage Ave?

I don't really understand O'Shea's comment. We have no import DL off our roster. Who do we release to make room for Hall or any other DE? Bryant, Kemp, maybe one of the three import OL we have who are currently not dressing? That said, I'm no fan of Hall, and don't really see him fitting here, Vega and Peach are the style Etch wants, all-around DE's who can drop into a zone almost as well as they can fill a gap. We do need depth on the DL though. We had to play Vega with a pretty significant injury for at least two games because we have no depth.

Isn't he working as a real estate agent in Regina?

The Riders aren't signing him for 250k.