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Way too easy for Mitchell to make a 5-10 yard throw. The point of zone defence isn't to cover turf, it is to cover receivers, if you are playing zone and you're not with a receiver, something is wrong. Suber and Johnson both got victimized bad on TD's because they were watching the QB and not covering their zone. Markett isn't a HB, and sure as hell isn't strong enough to play boundary HB. H Muamba really sucks at reading screen passes, and now everyone knows it. C Muamba just really sucks generally. We only have one DB who I have confidence in to make a play on the ball when it's in the air, that's Washington. The rest are lost. The DL got pressure but didn't keep contain so Mitchell just rolled away from it. Embarrassing mistakes all over the place. Lining up offside. Motioning the TE over but not having a receiver get up on the line (called for no end). Pretty good juxtaposition of a well-coached team vs. one that isn't last night.

Zone read all day. Every time we ran it there was a positive play, running and passing. Since Goltz is a threat with his legs he draws the playside end and LB, since he is a threat with his arm they aren't stacking the box and the lanes were there for Simpson, you get the HB's and safety peeking in and there are openings for the receivers. The triple threat factor makes the defense pause and then our offence can make plays. It was working incredibly well on the scoring drives, then we went back to straight drop back passing and stalled. I really thought they found a rhythm on the scoring drives, and they were flat out beating Calgary's defense, they were off-balance, then the play calling went away from what worked and our defense couldn't get off the field.

There's no reason why Anderson should be on the roster over Pierce. The 3 drops were brutal. First day of football practice in your life you learn to catch the ball with your hands, not your body. We had no big targets, our biggest receivers were Etienne and Kohlert, putting a 5'9 guy who can't battle a DB at boundary WR (Anderson), really limited our offence. Denmark would have made more sense out of the guys we had dressed, but really why wasn't D Pierce dressed?

Horrendous punt spot at the 2 for Edmonton. Even worse that the replay control centre couldn't get it right. The ball landed on the sideline 5 yards deep in the endzone! There's no possible way it could have crossed the sideline in the air at the 2. Game changing terrible call.

Likely an overuse injury due to returning too quickly from the ACL. Guys are pushing way too hard to come back early from a torn ACL. Not everyone is Adrian Peterson, the target for 100% return is a calendar year. Sears is about 3 months short of that right now, and has been practicing for over a month.

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And it is his job to put them in a position to succeed (win). That goes for being prepared x and o wise, and mentally. He doesn't seem overly confident in his ability or his teams ability. The first thing he led with when he took over last season was "I don't know anything about offence."

No excuses now. No "protect Buck" scheming. Goltz can do it all, so we should really see some creativity out of Crowton. The zone read should work good in the run game since Goltz is actually a threat to keep it and run.

Ya I misread the tweet.

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It's his team. Saying that they are mentally weak is saying as much about his skill as a coach as it does about the players.

He doesn't have to get outside the tackle before he cuts. Especially after he's run the search play off tackle almost every time we've run it. The wider he stretches the play without attacking the depth of the defence the less likely he is to gain positive yards because he is wasting all his energy running sideline to sideline while drawing every defender closing all the cutback lanes. Unless the play is misdirection or contain is broken he shouldn't be taking every search play off tackle. Simply, Simpson needs to make better reads, and honestly I think he is pressing way too hard to make big plays, and putting the offence is 2nd and very long all the time. Maybe he needs prescribed running plays.

Etienne isn't our 4th or 5th receiver, more like 2nd or 3rd, last game I think him and Denmark were targeted about the same amount.

That's not how I'm seeing it. I see us running a zone scheme where it is up to Simpson to pick a gap and make a cut to get upfield, he keeps charging off-tackle and dancing behind the line trying to win the race to the sideline. I'd like to see him make one cut and pound it up inside, much like he did for parts of last season and how Garrett did in 2011. The indecisive way he's running now it's either a home run or a 2 yard loss, and that just isn't going to cut it.

Hopefully the 2 seasons of game cheques while he was in no position to contribute to the team on gameday will help him make his decision.

Marginal player. Can't cover good enough to play SAM so he plays WIL, not really suited to that position either, he was a fit for Jones because he sends him on a blitz almost every play. We don't really blitz our LB's, so I don't see him being a good fit here. I think he got beat out by Shane Horton, who was all over the place last Friday.

I don't know about that. He seems to be pretty happy to misappropriate city funds for activities he's involved in, but other than trying to spend billions on a new subway line to his hometown, he's been cutting services and spending more. Weird how that works. Almost every ally he's had as mayor, right down to strategists, PR people etc have been alienated by Rob and Doug...and that was well before the crack allegations. Just ask Adrienne Batra, she's about as far right as it gets in Canadian politics (outside Alberta) and she almost didn't make it through the mayoral campaign as his PR director.

Well, Buck has no room for big errors if he can't find a way to be efficient. That's what it really tells us, and what's been told since 2010. The only chance this team has to win a game with the way Buck plays is if the defense is miraculous, if they are average or bad, it's a blowout.

Crawford is a long snapper. IIRC Boulay is too. Probably going to have a snap-off.

Woodson was the backup receiver anyways. He took reps as a receiver in 12 on 12 during warmup. We weren't short, we had the same number of receivers we've dressed every game prior including Woodson. It was an odd decision given everything that had to be done to make it happen for no gain (other than a cool night for Carter). Maybe Volny is injured, because that's the only way it makes sense. We play Toronto 3 times. The likelihood of our PF-PA against them being consequential at the end of the season is miniscule, like hasn't happened in CFL history miniscule.

Sure Volny isn't a receiver, but they clearly did not have enough confidence to put Carter out there at all, and he wasn't prepared for special teams. I'd rather have an extra RB who can play special teams than someone I'm not going to put on the field at all.

Plus they are committed to it. They use run formations that let the OL fire out of their stance and give Sheets the ball with a head of steam. We run read out of shotgun and if we get stopped a couple times start heaving 40 yard bombs to no one. Big difference between BC, Calgary, Sask and everyone else. And only one of those teams has a great QB, but they all start with being able to pass and run, get the ball in the hands of the playmakers, tons of bubble screens too. Used to be a great play for us in 2011 to Denmark or Carr.

I honestly don't understand why he dressed and Volny was scratched. Easy to complain about small roster size, but we've spent too many games over the last 3 seasons dressing someone who doesn't see the field at all. At least Carter got a nice paycheque.

He's damn near useless against the pass unless he's blitzing. Lots of room for improvement. Teams are using screens on us like crazy because he's not reading them.

He's damn near useless against the pass unless he's blitzing. Lots of room for improvement. Teams are using screens on us like crazy because he's not reading them.