Mike

“maybe if I just write a lot of words, nobody will notice I’m not really saying anything at all”

You can keep saying this all you want but at the end of the day, you’re wrong. Being placed on the suspended list does not automatically imply suspension i.e. discipline. ESPECIALLY in training camp. It’s a way to move a player to non-counting roster status without placing them on the 1 or 6 game injured list. That is it, and no amount of you babbling about “standard labour procedure” is going to change that.

Nobody ever said he got suspended. He was added to the suspended list, which basically just means “doesn’t count on the roster because he’s not here” Not sure where the implication he did something wrong ever came in

Talent

This is going to blow your mind. Tobias is Bloi Dei.

And who can forget Bloi Dei

That 2009 season had some TC names for sure. Justin Surrency was all the rage at receiver, then there was Ronyell Whitaker at DB. I seem to remember Jasper Johnson being a big name too.

I actually looked up Ramonce Taylor the other day when a buddy and I were talking about old training camp stars. Seems like he got his **** together. Played indoor football in Texas until 2017 and he’s now a high school coach and seems super involved in youth sports and charitable stuff in the Texas area. good for him.

BOLO is probably closer to stealing Wolitarsky’s spot than he is to being on the PR

I personally want to limit Biggie lol

Nevermind. They have to be designated imports. That still changes a lot though, because you can definitely play with the ratio in a sense where you can get creative in ways you never would before. As an example, this could be our starting set of Canadians Oliviera, Demski, Wolitarsky, Bryant (I’m assuming he’s the easiest choice as our “Americanized Canadian”), Neufeld, Kolankowski, Gray, Gauthier There’s the 8, you could technically designate Kyrie (as an example) to play 49% of the snaps in Gauthier’s spot and run two American defensive tackles all game. You could also do it with Kramdi/Darby (I think this may be the direction they go in) or I guess theoretically you could even do it with Bennett/Jeffcoat but I wouldn’t assume that would be a smart idea. If we get Ford back, you could also do it in a scenario with Ford/Rose. Not entirely sure what the overall benefit is other than limiting Jake Thomas to minimal snaps. But it’s going to be interesting to see how we deploy it.

Has anyone clarified if the new roster rules where we can have 3 “Americanized Canadians” take 49% of the reps for a Canadian allow those players to be considered Canadians in the makeup of the roster? That would change a ton. You could essentially make Rasheed Bailey, Kyrie Wilson and I dunno … let’s say Adam Bighill all count as Canadians in terms of the roster makeup. I would imagine it isn’t this way, but nobody has really clarified. (EDIT: my bad it’s 2 this year not 3)

3 stars is tough but I’ll go Good, Bad and Ugly Good - Pigrome, Lawler, Caleb Thomas, Holm, Swaray, Damien Jackson, the kicking in general, Jeremy Murphy Bad - Augustine, Clements, our QB contain efforts on Ford, Kornelson, the drops by Beaulieu/Westfield, most of our new DL guys Ugly - Matt Cole fielding kicks, Les Maruo trying to tackle anything, Josh Jones, Dobson snapping the football

Hard as hell to judge but those two had an ugly ugly drop each

To me, there are some very easy cuts you could make after this game QB Jones, WR Beaulieu, WR Westfield, DL Agnew, DB Cole, DL Kornelson all stand out for the wrong reasons

“Some handfighting” lol

It’s starting to get annoying that the feed the booth crew is using is like 2 seconds behind ours

Lol pretty obvious example right there of what JBR was talking about re: competitive level of some of these guys. Beaulieu with a hideous drop.

Nightclub elevator music

Nice stream glitch and it cuts back to 7 flags on the field

Oink oink oink

You gotta think our offensive guys competing for spots aren’t thrilled lol

Well … Because they’re using their starting OL against a very green DL? Because offensive concepts are pretty much universally understood to be installed cleaner than defensive concepts? Because we’re not throwing anything but vanilla looks at them? Because they’ve already played one game aka they’re not actually in the same boat?

Maruo stock is way down, especially with how noticeable Karamoko has been.

Always makes me chuckle, the doom and gloom. These are the first live reps these guys have seen in months. With players they have little to no chemistry with. And a set of rules they’re only beginning to get comfortable with. I think the key is to not get caught up in the result, but what’s the process look like? Who is showing a pattern? Who’s standing out?