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OL was great IMO. The only way Montreal got pressure was by bringing more than 5. Too bad our QB can't make a hot read and get rid of the ball. Montreal's OL was having big trouble, even with most of their offence being quick screens and misdirection. Hard to blame one guy in this sport, but the difference between winning and losing this game is the QB position. Brutal turnovers, no drives at all. The only reason this game was close, and there was a chance for us to win, was the defence. Not surprisingly, they wore down in the 4th when the offence did nothing. Exciting game to watch, but tons of room for improvement.

Count your Canadians! 4 man needs to be 3 IMPs and 1 NI to make the ratio requirements for our 42.

The league's backup long snapper is working on an oil rig right now checking his messages, waiting for an injury.

Douglas, Kowalczuk, Anderson/Matthews, Markett I think McGee plays because he has experience at multiple spots.

Watch them hurry their butts for the Als.

I doubt Calvillo has more than a couple hundred rushing yards for the season, so the read option part will be two options not three, the reason our zone read with Buck has been next to useless.

Plus the SAM needs to make a lot of reads. Having a guy in his first CFL game there against the all-time passing leader doesn't inspire confidence. Hopefully we can get pressure.

Our receivers are becoming a problem area. Edwards is chronically injured, but can play through it. Anderson's been injured, Poblah, Kohlert, Matthews, Pierce. Running out of bodies.

We have a spot on the active roster so claiming a PR player wouldn't be an issue, although the player has to agree. With Thomas out we are short a DL and Burke likes to run 6-7 guys through the rotation. I don't really see anyone (NI) out there who could jump into the rotation though, Antwi or Kashama?

Antwi or Lopez would be useful here. We are lacking special teamers.

Tristan Black is no better at WIL LB than Labbe. He's primarily a special teamer. Black would be competing with Rene Stephan to make our roster. I hardly see adding him as a solution to the WIL LB spot.

Wonder why the PA doesn't make a stink about the 9 game IR being used for extra practice roster spots. Sure the guys get paid full salary, but who knows if they were exposed to waivers they might actually get a chance to play. Hamilton has at least 3 guys on their 9 game who are "injured," we have Pencer. Maybe they can come up with some kind of protected list where guys have to clear waivers to be put on it.

You want Tristan Black starting at WIL LB?

I'm not sure how it isn't the question. You can't criticize someone for not adding veteran free agents without being able to back that argument up. CFL free agency is populated by guys that are there for a reason. Being a free agent is not a good thing, because it means the team you were on did not want you. It's not hockey or baseball. Generally changing teams in football is a really bad thing for a career, particularly for CFL imports. There is the odd guy who hits free agency who was stuck behind other guys on his team, but those guys are not usually the ones that people clamouring for "veteran hole fillers" are interested in.

He's making all the throws. BC's 3rd string receivers don't look too sharp in terms of hands and adjusting routes to coverage.

I think they want to keep all 4. Clement or Hall will be on the 4 man. Clement might even be #3 if they think he's the best short-yardage QB (Goltz sucks at sneaking). Doubt either Clement or Hall would take a PR spot.

I'd bring Brink back first.

QB (3)- Pierce, Goltz, Hall RB (5)- Simpson, Ford*, VOLNY, PONTBRIAND, FITZGERALD REC(6)- WR- Matthews SB- WATSON SB- POBLAH SB- Anderson WR- Denmark, ETIENNE OL (6)- LT- January LG- GREAVES C- SORENSON RG- MORLEY, SWISTON RT- Boatman DL (7) DE- Mainor, Anderson* DT- Turner, LUCAS DT- Gilmore, THOMAS DE- Hall LB (5) SAM- McGee MLB- MUAMBA, LABBE, STEPHAN WIL- Parker DB (7)- CB- Johnson HB- Washington S- MUAMBA, WEST HB- Suber CB- Stewart, Markett* ST (3)- K- PALARDY P- RENAUD LS- CVETKOVIC 4 man reserve- PENCER Clement KOWALCZUK Frazier PR- WOODSON CARTER DUNN PAVLOPOULOS SHERMAN Harris Marshall W. Brown D. Pierce 1 game injured- Edwards Sears Garrett KOHLERT Miles Douglas

Some of them probably had a "We landed on the moon!" moment.

Wow, there must be like 5000 people there!

That Bishop Grandin-Pembina-University Crescent intersection is a big problem. If they can divert a good number of buses to a different route, that would help.

There are a few, particularly at DL and DB. Harris and Anderson look like they can play. Marshall and Markett. The two returners are duds IMO. Jake Thomas looks ready to take the next step and go from a 1/3 of the snaps type guy to a 2/3 of the snaps type DT.

Meh, not a surprise given the rush. They were still pouring and cutting (egress for field level) concrete during rookie camp. The shabby, ugly last minute work they had to do to get occupancy should be more of a concern.

There a couple issues when the starters aren't given time in the pre-season. Their timing is going to be off. The first regular season game will basically be their pre-season game. The other issue is that we can't make adjustments. We won't be trying even the blandest vanilla of the new Crowton plan with the guys who will be executing it in game 1, so we don't know which ideas are working, which need to be scrapped or adjusted. All this stuff will happen when the games count.

Funniest part of this whole thing is that the pools of water weren't from the rain, but from pressure washing the seats.