week four games

[Mark F]

seems reasonable tburg. 

 

nothin wrong with the redblack d. they hung in there for quite a while.

keeping it close with field  goals is fine, till the other team scores a td. then its close to over.

but their receivers dropped a lot of good passes. sure the rain did not nelp, but bad day for that group.

[JuranBoldenRules]

Lapolice hasn't presided over a great O since 2002.  Beyond all the greatness he needs out of his players to even put an average ball control O on the field he's needed exceptional special teams and defense in terms of field position and scoring.

He's been lucky to have an absolute superstar in terms of performance and durability in Harris in his last stint here.

If we went through all the ST and D scores direct and influenced by short fields in last 4 seasons a lot of shine would come off his resume.

The fact that he ran away from Arbuckle and installed Nichols should end his tenure in Ottawa rapidly.

[TBURGESS]

2 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

...The fact that he ran away from Arbuckle and installed Nichols should end his tenure in Ottawa rapidly.

Dumbest move of his HC career IMO.

[Brandon]

My memory is a bit fuzzy,  was our O so terrible in the play off run in 2019?  

 

[TrueBlue4ever]

58 minutes ago, TBURGESS said:

PLAP's offence works when you have a decent QB, a good RB and a great O Line. Ottawa has none of those. Once they get behind, they can't open up the offence because Nichols deep ball accuracy is sub par. All they can do it the same thing and hope for zero drops. I'm surprised they even have 1 win this year.

Any coach will be better when they have talent. Don Matthews, Bill Belicheck et al have shown that time and again. But not all coaches with talent can go all the way. Dave Ritchie showed that. 
 

And right now there is an extremely low level of talent on Ottawa’s offence. 

Edited August 29, 2021 by TrueBlue4ever

[17to85]

3 minutes ago, Brandon said:

My memory is a bit fuzzy,  was our O so terrible in the play off run in 2019?  

 

Good in the Grey Cup and awful in the West final. Semifinal was ok because in the 2nd half a one legged streveler ran all over the stamps d.

[Floyd]

1 hour ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

Lapolice hasn't presided over a great O since 2002.  Beyond all the greatness he needs out of his players to even put an average ball control O on the field he's needed exceptional special teams and defense in terms of field position and scoring.

He's been lucky to have an absolute superstar in terms of performance and durability in Harris in his last stint here.

If we went through all the ST and D scores direct and influenced by short fields in last 4 seasons a lot of shine would come off his resume.

The fact that he ran away from Arbuckle and installed Nichols should end his tenure in Ottawa rapidly.

Funny to watch Lapo yapping about how the RedBlacks are more where the 2016 Bombers were and need time to grow and develop... while he trots out Nichols and Davis - neither of whom will be in the league in 2-3 years... if that.