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Prime roster management.

Correct, though it was certainly sub optimal. Clearly we needed to jump off board from some of these vets already and didn’t. But yes, I fully believe in the young talent we’ve brought in. Frankly as long as guys like jj,wj,yoshi,Bryant,Neufeld,biggie, rose etc are on the roster it wouldn’t matter if we had the best nfler available at those positions, mos wouldn’t start or roster then over his guys. I think we have the pieces, that said, we should’ve kept couture if possible and paid the ransom for desjarlais in retrospect. That combined with 2-3x more sacks than those previous years. He’s still the best qb in the league, but he’s not in a tier all by him self any more. Yoshi steered him into the qb, the move is to ride the guy down field, never closer to the qb. Zach didn’t have a pocket to set up into and was pressured from the other side. Idk what you think collaros should’ve done in that situation. Yoshi barely got a hand on his man before he was around him then just hugged his pocket into Zach.

Doesn’t have to, but it needs to go well up, have a better basement and a cap per person. More scouts = more talent and better league.

When you break down blocking schemes even zone they seem complex when you look at the whole line, but when you look at your specific assignment and rules it’s very simple and has to be so guys can quickly decide and act and make the same calls. Marty Costello has two ol coaching seminars on the bombers site where he goes into painstaking detail on our system, calls, assignments, what they look for and what it takes to succeed. Any one doubting Booch should watch the first 20 minutes of the first one. And no, before people say it, we aren’t decoying with those videos. Ols don’t get by on disguised reads and assignments. As long as you aren’t tipping pass or run pre snap that’s all you need. Every team knows our run plays blocking schemes and calls.

Yeah I don’t agree. Dl being tired late in games has a huge effect on play call max execution. Look at the bc game in 21 where stove returned, and compare the previous games especially big runs. One guy makes a massive difference. A guy like Thomas or Schmekel or Bennett losing 20+ snaps for a higher quality guy and letting every one stay fresh is gigantic. Every one said we couldn’t recruit WRs, which was also wrong. We brought in a bunch of blue chip guys at the needed positions and cut the guys with out getting much of a shot. Even if they showed well. Di’s are extremely important and valuable. Wasting them and refusing to use the na is a huge edge handed to the other team every week. Look at the impact grant has coming back. And yet we wasted what 10 weeks on 2 guys who aren’t pro quality kr and pissed away tons of field position.

Imo the team doing it the most is Toronto. But it’s still a fraction of what it could be. Also hs senior scouting. The front office cap has been a nightmare. All the money is going to the top billed jobs. Not to the badly needed scouts. It needs serious addressing. Cfl self scouting has gotten pathetic as well.

Don’t agree. I think roster issues are at the crux of not playing more aggressive in the secondary and most all our problems. That said, some of the roster issues is just that our old stars have gotten real old. That’s true. The easiest way to see this is how they communicate mid play switching off twists and stunts. Any one really interested should try to watch that. When you follow the ball you miss most of the play. I think the pressure and hits in general have collaros pissed off most of the time and tilted at others. He’s not shell shocked from his days in ssk and ham as a knock around guy but it certainly effects him

The tackles are showing issues, however ol alignment (gap size) also changes with the interior ol ability to pass pro. Our interior has been the source of a lot of pass pro issues too. I was watching yoshi mostly as he was giving up the pressures. Here’s what I saw. Firstly, bc did a great job of lining up their ends. Both our tackles are tall and long, but bc has been very good in the first and most recent game of aligning and timing snaps so the ends get a good start with out getting a hand on them. They also do a great job in general of winning hand fights. It’s a critically under rated part of pass rushing and pass pro. So at the jump yoshi is in a tough spot needing to cover a lot of ground to stay in front of his man. This also leaves an interior lane open for a stunt twist or blitz if he kick slides aggressively. But, he seems to be struggling with that lateral movement. He’s barely able to cover ground or recover angle vs fast ends. This could be a lot of things, age, size, injury or a combination of that and more. Also, bc runs a heavy rotation of undersized athletic pass rushers that are hard to keep up with for any one. Once he’s engaged with speed by a de out of position he stays none committal to recovering. He does try to match hip angle or drive his man up field he instead ends up looping and following his man to the qb. Props to him for not taking bad penalties in those positions, though some times a holding call is better than a sack. Most guys in his position panic and mug by default and generate a ton of flags. In run pro he’s usually well down field even earlier this year he was flying into the flats and down field on the pin and pull screen at times. Vs bc he seemed to be a turret trying to pancake but not even trailing pile engaging position. This time of year our ol always seems to be playing banged up which is no surprise given their age. Hopefully we see the west wrapped up soon and Richmond getting a lot of play while yoshi especially but also Bryant rest. I don’t think size in an issue per se. It’s the combination of his being the size of young couture and having Matt Sheridan mobility. I think he’s valuable as a 6th ol. But our former star ol are no longer able to carry guys and need a guy or guys who can carry them a bit. If we had couture and desjarlais I think we’d a given up half as many sacks and won two more games with ease. pff has been really under whelming and lack lustre. It’s also easy to over grade a centre especially when teams aren’t playing nose. It’s also note worth imo that when our ol and team plays well he grades high as does the whole ol but he never puts up a good performance when the other ol don’t. Yeah eli is a beast in the run game. His under performance in pass pro at guard was a concern but pass pro at c is a lot different. I don’t think he’s played much guard. Some guys struggle randomly at guard.

And they normally age out fast. We really need to replace Augustine with a change of pace back who can take a few more touches off the Brady train. Not like Demski is getting younger either.

My wild ass based on nothing but eye test bs is that he might’ve got his bell wrung but not had it caught by the spotter. Neck shoulder back would make sense similarly. Looked to me like he was tender and a bit discombobulated on the side line. But again based on the smallest glance. He has been taking hellacious hits the past month and year in general. It’s possible he was a bit tender and the staff decided to just sit him which would be smart. I doubt we will get any thing unless some one here does a deep dive on a rewatch.

What’s the kolo played fine based on? Is it just because the right side allowed soo much pressure in pass pro? Cus that’s pretty weak, especially to launch such a silly extended tiff with maybe the most knowledgable poster here. Lots of posts have been made going into depth about kolo and his failings. Can’t get to second level reliably in the run game, weak at handing guys off, blitz pick up and adjustments etc. And into the value brought by great centres being more than blocking a guy heads up. With out a doubt in general kolo is the weak spot in the ol. Far from the only one, but the biggest no doubt. And in general when you have a sub par centre and see all stars struggle beside them you can expect a dramatic improvement with the one position being upgraded.

If holm takes the next step next year he is gonna be special. He makes boneheaded plays some times and just misses making a great play. But he’s got such a great instinct and reactive ability to make plays. It’s some thing you can’t teach. Combine that with elite athleticism and a clear love of playing and you have a great young dude. He isn’t Alford, but those are few and far between. Some guys gotta work more for it as a pro. I look forward to seeing what he does next year. One of the few guys playing for us who has his best football infront of him.

He’s the greatest natural football talent I’ve ever seen. 5’6 171 the dynamic change of direction speed was insane, the ability to instantly be at his top speed unreal, but the strength and toughness he possessed was truly freakish. Like grant now, he was just soo hard to take down once you did get a hand on him. He fumbled soo much the first two years just because he would fight to the death for a chance to get a few more inches. It was common place to see him bounce off and fight off tackles from macs and dl. It was also especially hilarious when mike sellers would use him like a battering ram in pass pro at times lol.

And with a trash ol compared to what Harris and Brady have had here.

Plus his reliability catching and iq too. He’s a game changer returning.

I was seeing shades of the milt miracle in edm for a second from the wrong side. Then Parker exploded and made that tackle. Probably the most underrated play of the year. That was a monster play. luck is the residue of hard work. I haven’t seen any one say he’s a bad coach either. Even the greenback trolls. Hc includes a lot of roles and mos is great in many of them. Not roster management, but still many. Being either a player coach or an authoritarian has diminishing returns. Mos needs to take the next step and figure out what it takes to overhaul a veteran club. That’s always the final lesson for great coaches to work on, and the hardest. Going to a guy like biggie and saying you need him to do and give more when he bleeds blue n gold and has lead winning soo much here is crazy hard. But it has to be done.

I was wrong, mos is a roster management genius. He was playing tri level chess and every one else playing checkers. He rope a doped the whole world into thinking we were wasting a di spot on a fb who can’t run catch or cover kicks. I hope we didn’t unleash mike sellers 2.0 too soon and allow teams to game plan for him before he can be the gc mop. 😉 Back when he coached the stamps they actually had one of those plays, and an on side punt that was slick af but the refs blew the call on. Despite seeming punch drunk at times he’s pretty sharp. Same with us tbh. 12 Carries, 1 from the start of the 2nd half to the 3 minute warning. Every one was chucking deep shots, and tbh bc place seems like a hard place to land em some times. Some domes have strange air movement and mess things up in baseball.

Oh captain my captain! I thought we were going down with the ship in the first half.

1 Brady monster game between catching rushing and blocking game winning score 2 Zach first half sucked red zone was a real struggle but over came a ton of hard hits to win 3 lawler stepping up in a big game hh1 Parker with the td saving tackle to force ot hh2 the short yardage stop hit of the game Bailey stone walling a cheap shot block of the game Demski on Brady’s td run awe that’s dirty all the cheap shots on Zach and WRs New, cry baby Betts award to Betts.

Win!

What a second half wf is gonna be wild

Sack to start

And the 2!

Brady!

Pi lol