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Has Ottawa found much anyway? They got a pile of their receivers through free agency...

So the feds have you by the balls and your plan is to keep trying to bullshit your way out of it? Not a great plan.

Lapo likes to focus on a couple guys and ignore some. Honestly he probably would have continued to ignore Wolitarsky if Streveler hadn't had that connection with him. Dressler, Harris, Demski and Adams, these were the guys Lapo was always going to give the ball to heavily. Harris, Dressler and Demski cause they can take those short passes and gain yards after catching it and Adams cause he was Lapo's deep guy. The other receivers on the field? By and large distractions seeing only the occasional ball their way. Lapo is good at showcasing a few guys but he's not great at using everyone to their full potential.

I'd bring back Nevis for sure, think he could really do well with the Jeffs on the outside.

And if Nichols does falter we have Streveler who showed a hell of a lot of potential to spell him off. Honestly our qb situation is pretty good. Yeah we don't have a guy like Reilly who can do it all himself, but our team isn't built to need one.

We signed more of our own free agents than anyone else. You know who else didn't make many big splashes other than re-signing their own players? Calgary. You know why that is? The teams that have had success prioritize keeping their own pieces rather than raiding other teams. The BCs and Edmontons of the world who weren't as successful made big changes to try and catch up. Always happens. The crappier teams generally make more moves.

Invest in Saskatchewan hospitals. Man between Collaros and Lulay would they even get 18 healthy games?

It's the CFL, every team has big changes every year.

and I think you are wrong. Nichols put up big numbers 2 playoffs in a row and was let down by his defense and this past season it was less Nichols problem and more the game plans problem. Had a good D and Lapo wanted to let them win it and didn't try and challenge the opposing defense. It was a tactical error.

Demski needs to be more like Harris and run through people more often instead of trying to run around them all the time. He does that he'll be a great player in this league. He keeps trying to outrun everyone all the time he will always leave you wanting a bit more. Good player, but needs to toughen up to be a great player.

I wouldn't be shocked to see them use a Canadian at DT.

You want depth or a couple stars? That's what it comes down to.

aww the waiting game sucks, let's play hungry hungry hippos.

To be fair the Riders are always the biggest losers, but yeah in terms of teams that have lost out Ottawa has had a real ***** of a day.

In the CFL you need both offense and defense to win. It's why Calgary has been the top team the last few years.

What if Ottawa is a dark horse there?

Non issue, handled internally, next question.

and, as other teams blow their wads on the big ticket items it means there's less money to go around to the ones who are left standing so their price goes down. Honestly it's smart by Walters. To me the best FA deals are the ones that aren't the premium ones.

BC and Edmonton were the bottom teams in the west last year, had the most reason to make moves.

They're trying their best...

so the Chris Jones Riders approach?

in those days we didn't have 4 starters anyone else would want. It's taken a long time to build up this depth. even 2 years ago it would have been hard, but the past few drafts have treated the bombers really really well.

No one is downplaying it, just saying it may not be the end of the world because Kyle Walters stocked the cupboards well at the position knowing how important it is.

We talked a lot about having the best OL in the league the last few years AND having depth on it. When you have the best group in the league everyone else will look to poach players when they can. We have depth, see if Walters is earning his pay by having good enough depth to replace the losses.

Walters invested heavily in drafting OL, if he can't replace guys then why make the picks in the first place? It happens to every team, you lose guys and need to have people who can step in and replace them. Gray is a pretty high potential guy, no reason to think he can't do it and Couture has been groomed for a long time. Still got rock solid tackles, see if the depth is as good as we thought it was.