JuranBoldenRules

Summarize what happened in Edmonton since 2009 as Tillman, Ed Hervey, Chris Jones and the cast of characters in their wake as the board panicked more and more as the bottom fell out over the last 20 years.

The stadiums in Alberta are like the third circle of hell. Just terrible facilities and they keep putting lipstick on the pigs.

And you know it’s true because Ottawa can’t stop changing their name and their stands are empty too.

Spring football isn't a popular spectator sport on either side of the border.

Ottawa and Toronto both look awful so far. They'll hype the hell out of Kelly but he's lucky he didn't throw about 12 picks in that one. He's got nothing on the ball, but some great receivers.

If I'm being honest in 2026 the only reason Bryant should still be on a pro football field is to count for the ratio. If we want that to be an American spot we damn sure should be playing someone a lot better.

Mike Benson got that old waiting for Mike O'Shea to give him an opportunity to shine.

The sad thing will be rules coming in next year taking a bunch of points off the board.

If Kyrie Wilson got lost on his way to the stadium, would we notice?

Let's just gain some perspective here in that we're talking about a 12-14 win team becoming a 8-10 win team. Between 95 and 2015 we won 10 games twice, 11 games once, 12 games once and 14 games once.

And I won.

Do you want to go through game threads from last season and see what you wrote then about Wheatfall and Stearns? What your belief system told you then?

This is only partially true though. Look at the DL. We've given multiple "young guys" 2-3 years and they all stink. No one has emerged as a difference maker. Adams, Woods, Garbutt, Haba, Fox, Walker. An even longer list of guys we ran for half seasons, Wilcots, Cooper, K Adams. Now the crew this year, Dixon, Jenkins, Fletcher, Reese. Best guy of that bunch is probably Fox who is just an average CFL player at his best to this point. Not really any playmakers yet. Hope the crew here now can turn that page. Looks to me like a major issue is recruiting the right guys in the first place.

Not really how the ratio works. Daniels doesn't start either. All the "starting" issue means is we're locked into 6 Canadians on the field every snap on O and 2 on D. He plays kickoff return but no cover teams, and basically plays 6 OL on offense. So really he's the 7th OL for how he's being utilized. If they really want that H-back/TE role as being crucial to offense, why not use an American there who can do the job and force teams to actually have to cover the guy when he's out there? There are a ton of American guys who are tweener receiving tight ends who would be actually useful. It would cost a DI spot which would mean instead of Ayers chasing kicks you swap out Daniels for another Canadian who can actually play special teams and Ayers for the American tight end.

Randolph is a big meh to me. His pass protection was horrible and a big reason why our O stank last season. See a massive difference changing him out for Broxton already. Collaros has a chance to get his eyes downfield and get the ball out without having to scramble every drop.