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Buck needs to come up with a master class game plan like he did this week. If he does that this game is over at half time. No weather factor to worry about this will all come down to game plan and execution. No way that Arbuckle puts up a ton of points on this defence. We can be methodical and just execute well for an easy win. Rider fans will say that's what we thought but the difference is our defence is the legit best in the league not overhyped like theirs.

Agreed. The key to us scoring will be our OL vs their DL..or scheme that makes up for the advantage they have in that match up. It's my one area of concern outside of execution.

We better have a better protection/play scheme than 2 weeks ago or this game will be a 12-11 affair.

Our last 3 games have been against very good teams. Yea, we had some games against bottom dwellers..so has every other team.

Loved our DL play yesterday. Master class in stopping the run for the most part.

The key to the Grey Cup won't be whether we dress 6 or 7 DL, or what kind of additions/deletions we make at the fringes of or roster. It won't even be about Fatty starting or not for the Argos. There is ONE match up that can make or break the game. It is our OL vs their DL. For the love of God can we talk about that this week instead of roster composition that is of little consequence unless we do something bizarre like sending Bighill out in a wheelchair. In that case..flame away.

Glad I was away the last couple days. If we lose its on MOS, if we win it's despite of him is the summary of the past couple pages. SmH...This topic really gets tedious. MOS is a first rate CFL coach that we would have to be off our rocker to fire.

Nothing communist about private sector funding. Need more of that across the board.

Knowledge mostly I would think. Guy says some dumb stuff. You will find the dislike of his content nearly unanimous around here. No one has issue with the guy personally and full marks to him for taking the time. Just needs to bone up his xs and os before revealing to the world he doesn't have any on a weekly basis If he stuck to the news stuff and qualified his opinions as being that of a layman fan..no issues would be had.

My only issue with blogs is when they are stupid, uninformed, Pollyanna or Kool aid. I see none of that in Zachs blog. Debate the merit of the content people, not the fact it was posted

A normal person wouldn't but we are talking about the Strev. Guy plays with injuries that would have most guys in traction...lol. Probably did show up today with a couple pieces of broken hockey sticks duct taped to brace each side of his knee trying to convince MOS that he is fine and dandy.

I would normally be big on letting Dobson progress and throwing Wallace into the fray and let him get the kinks out. However, in a Grey Cup hosting year we NEED a dominant OL. To me that means parting with Kola and or Dobson. We can't have an interior of Dobson/Kola/Wallace (if Neuf retires) and in my mind our best combination would be Wallace/New Centre/Neufeld. Gyetvai was an OG though wasn't he?

Yea, Dobson was the very definition of a throwback OL. Had the beer belly and everything like those guys in the 70s Dominic Picard was not very big at all and he was a dominant centre for many years. Picard played his entire career around 270 I believe. He was 235 coming out of college and then went up to like 260 for several years, was optimal around 270ish, the bulked up to 300 for his last couple years in Toronto BUT was a pylon at that weight.

Overall I love our defence. I don't like the deployment of the DL though. If we are in a situation where we gotta rotate guys like Schmek and Thomas through it should not be in a 30 front. I know it was completely unrealistic, but part of me really felt that Streveler would come to practice today kick of the walking boot or brace or whatever and be out there practicing up for the West final. I mean before you guys give me the old "yea right", answer me if this would have been a huge shock to you.

I agree 100. Ford is Streveler without the beef and the fur coat.

I will qualify my earlier comment by saying that I hope we lose Dobson but hit FA hard for OL upgrades a centre and OG. It's a GC hosting year. We need a beast of an OL back.

I just don't think he is a consistently CFL calibre starting QB in this league. Maybe, he gets better but I wouldn't throw anything but backup money at him right now. Just my opinion though. His path to being a starter is probably the strongest in Edmonton and Hamilton where he can spend another year apprenticing behind a couple of grey beards, however, Powell is better imo....and then there was one.

Ford overrates himself methinks. Very disturbing that his team mates are recommending he test FA. That's not a good sign for the Elks.

If someone wants Dobson they can have him imo. As much as Gray got a rough ride on here he was a much better OL in pass pro then Dobson. My biggest fear is that we get to the GC and Toronto is there with a healthy Ceresna. Dobson got absolutely manhandled by him almost every snap and I watched that game like 5x and it wasn't on Kola at all in most instances. Kola was getting matadored by his own guy much of the game.

Great for you guys getting 18k. I mean it's half the amount any other playoff game will have but still a big improvement.

The problem I have with guys going off single analytics is that it usually replaces the old eyeball test and game situational importance. When used together you can get a more rounded view of performance but stats almost always require context and almost always lack context. Measuring a persons defensive prowess solely by tackle numbers or sacks is a fools game when you don't account for the variables such as team defence overall etc. Milligan, for instance, is a combination of INTs and ST tackles. Both are fairly meaningless stats in iso. Majority of his INTs resulted from very poor throws by the opposing QB as opposed to him actually making the play, and very few came in contested parts of a game. Glory stats gifted from desperate QBs whereas a guy like Ford made tough interceptions through exceptional reads and athleticism. End of the day all the media looked at were totals and not context and a guy gets hyped up even though, imo, Ford was the superior player. Overall team defence stats back up my viewpoint. Bombers best in the league vs pass, Sask near the bottom. Ford and our entire secondary were making every play, the RIders and their MOP Milligan, and allstar Sayles made some plays and were torched just as often. Individual stats don't tell that story.

I am completely gob smacked at the ineptitude of the CFL media this year. It's like they didn't watch a game this year because the weather was too nice and then threw darts at a dart board. I am not trying to belittle Anderson in any way but his stats tell the story of a defence not getting off the field more than anything. Wilson came into a depleted and struggling offence and outperformed every veteran receiver around him through a tough stretch until we got some guys back and then continued to produce a 1000 yard season. I like Anderson, but you look at the advanced stats of his defence and it shines a light on why he had the tackle totals he did and that they were hyper inflated by team ineptitude. Teams were literally running up the gut against Edmonton to kill clock for the first half of the season. His tackle totals dramatically tail off in the second half when Edmonton started to get into some games. I have always been a big skeptic of tackle totals as a stat in isolation though. Sometimes your tackle totals can reveal a team weakness more than anything.

Agree. I really don't mind a team sunsetting a guy like that though as long as it is done right. That one just blows me away. How does anyone pick Logan Ferland for anything other than marking a construction zone on a foggy day. He is the guy you drive around and almost hit every day on route 90 during construction season. He dresses up all in orange and is cone shaped.

I agree on Dobson. He was god awful for the first few games and has improved but then had absolutely terrible games here and there as recently as the Toronto game. I was actually thinking he was a guy who may lose his starting position next year via Wallace, FA or draft.

I don't think so. BO will win it this year imo.