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How badly smushed up are the bodies to only be called “presumed” human remains? What else would it be? Don’t imagine they took pets on board with them.

I wonder how much of the secondary issue is scheme and how much is ability. Against Sask and BC seemed to be a lot of soft zone coverage and 10-15 yard cushion off the line. Is that strictly a Hall system issue or is it because the players aren’t good enough to play man-to-man or tighter coverage off the line? Thoughts?

When Thomas gets picked up by another team and starts and stars we can re-visit “he is better”. He had a good pre-season game, and Tyrell Pigrome showed that this is not the litmus test for “he is better”. Mohammad just got here, so I’ll hold off on “the better player is not starting” for now. No evidence Salima is better than last year’s favourite new flavour McCrae. And who exactly or our current starters on the o-line is worse than Machino and should be replaced by him? Not even sure who you are referring to as “Des”. Bottom line, all this carping about “roster management” is kind of silly given how little it has impacted our actual success the last 3+ years. We didn’t lose last week because the number 40-45 spots on our active roster were worse than the guys at 46-58 on the practice roster, and we dressed the wrong guys and second and third back-up. We lost because our top 2 o-linemen could not handle the speedy BC outside pass rush and forced Zach to stay in the pocket, and got turnstiled much of the game. We lost because our best receiver had an off-game and may be playing hurt, which affected his breakaway speed and likely cost us a long bomb TD pass he could not catch up to. We lost because our game wrecker Willie J was not, that Bighill was not a difference maker at MLB, that Alexander was not breaking up passes and making BC receivers fear making the catch over the middle. That our front 7 got little pressure and our co-ordinator on D decided to play a soft zone coverage that got picked apart. That our offensive co-ordinator made no adjustments to handle the blitz like hitch screens, jet sweeps, or short passes, or even sticking with a running game that was working early. It was the starters, not the back-ups to the back-ups, who cost us the game. Now if you want to debate that the big name starters should go (starting with Jefferson, Bighill, Hardrick, and Bryant) then let’s debate that, but don’t tell me Machino is the next coming and is clearly getting screwed by not replacing them, and O’Shea is blind to not see it. Plus, if the talent is inadequate, is that not a GM and scouting fail as opposed to coach (I may be splitting hairs, but I’d call that a “personnel” issue, and not “roster management”, meaning who we bring in and keep as opposed to how we use those we have here, which was the original complaint - the argument seems to have shifted)? Where are our cuts excelling elsewhere in this league, outside of Liegghio (and I don’t hear many gripes that we opted for Castillo over him)? You know who else has a buttload of rings and wins? Mike O’Shea.

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Interesting tidbits from the NHL Awards: Connor McDavid got 195 of 196 first place votes for the Hart. David Pastrnak got the lone holdout vote, and that reporter who pick Pasta also decided that McDavid should get no better than a 5th place vote for MVP. That (presumably Boston) writer should be kicked out of the PHWA. Hellebuyck was the only Jet represented, finishing in 11th place, with a total of 10 votes (2 for 3rd place) Cole Perfetti finished 11th in Calder voting, with one 4th place vote and two 5th place votes. Shockingly, Jets were almost totally absent from Selke voting, with Adam Lowry getting one 4th place vote to finish tied for 30th overall. Rick Bowness got one 2nd place vote for the Adams trophy. So did Paul Maurice and Sheldon Keefe. All finished tied for 11th, one spot ahead of Tampa’s Jon Cooper. Josh Morrissey finished 5th overall in Norris voting, with 3 first place votes as part of his 80 total votes (out of a total 196 voters) Hellebuyck finished 3rd in the Vezina voting, with 2 first place rankings as part of his 14 total votes. Only 30 of the 32 NHL GMs voted this year. And finally, 3 Jets got Lady Byng votes. Last year’s winner Kyle Connor finished 28th overall with one 2nd place and one 5th place vote. That put him one place behind Nate Schmidt, who finished as top Jet in 27th with two 3rd place votes. Hellebuyck also got two votes for the Byng, one of five goalies to get votes for the award.

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And with that post, you just became the Yoko of this forum.

You get 3 strikes for this pick. Better luck next year

And Alex DeBrincat does not want to re-sign with Ottawa. This is a legit issue with smaller market and Canadian teams. But some talking heads dismiss it because “Toronto can attract free agents, so it’s just a myth that no one wants to play in Canada”.

I wish I could laugh at the absurdity of that, but it is so much closer to truth than anyone cares to admit.

Frankie Williams had the most memorable highlight, just not the way he wishes. Never. Gets. Old.

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What is this, the cfl.ca stats page??????? All good, appreciate the effort in running this for us.

I would say the same, as I went with all home teams except Winnipeg.

But, putrid roster management.

I guess the Tyrell Pigrome experiment is done for now.

Here is the link: https://d3ham790trbkqy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-CFL-Guide-PDF-for-site.pdf Page 204. This is the CFL Guide and Record book. If you go to cfl.ca and click on “stats” in the menu (the 3 stripes on the top left side of the web page is the main menu) it will list 2023 CFL Guide book in the drop down sub-menu. That guide includes the record book, updated yearly.

Actually, record is 20 for both teams (Ott @Ham Oct. 23/71 - each team had 10) and 13 for one team (Toronto, in Winnipeg on July 20/90). Winnipeg has 6 in that game as well, so their 19 combined was just shy of the record.

Alcohol.

60% of the time it works every time.

Now now, don’t be nasty.

https://twitter.com/swimcharlieswim/status/1668815618404155393?s=46

Not this year. Was out of town.