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  1. Do we really though? I think so. Look at our Canadian depth compared to the Mack and even the Taman regimes and you'll see its much improved. Sure we don't have any superstars anymore like Doug or Henoc, but we have a lot more guys who are capable and can contribute as starters or at least as rotational players. Most of that is having a coach who is willing to play Canadians. Berry and Burke absolutely were playing their 7 best and nobody else on O or D. That's why we were always hooped with a single injury. Lapolice was a little more in the middle but still loathe to use Canadians on D as role players.
  2. Reminiscent of the late 90s when both franchises were in shambles on and off the field. At least the players know they will be getting paid now.
  3. Pro style offences at both colleges he played for, which means a fair amount of throwing from the pocket. He was a 4 star rated top 10 QB in his class but never fit the bill in NCAA, struggled pretty much his entire career as a passer back through college other than a handful of games against really bad teams as a senior. 200 yards rushing on 150 carries, granted the NCAA counts sacks in QB rushing stats, but still not the numbers of a running QB. Lost his starting spot in Miami, lost it at Purdue, both due to on the field and off the field struggles. Doesn't scream QB of the future to me based on his past or present, guess we'll see how he does in Regina.
  4. This is hopeful, but Walker has a long history of being a terrible receiver in this league. Where's the "Fire Walters" thread?
  5. Different schemes would make a difference though. Only if you bring in Paul Johnson and the triple option. Marve can't pass, probably can't throw either, Brohm can't throw for sure. Good luck. lol, you are shoveling it on a little thick there chachi. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=robert+marve+highlights&qpvt=robert+marve+highlights&FORM=VDRE#view=detail&mid=9ACED657D3397B5BCDA09ACED657D3397B5BCDA0 A couple nice scrambles there. Too bad everyone clued in on that. Even in that game his longest completion was 18 to Kohlert. He needs to make someone respect his arm, because no one does and the offense isn't going anywhere with him until they do. He's thrown almost 80 passes in the CFL and hasn't completed one in the air for 20+ yards. That's incredible and not in a positive way. When do we get to see the "strong arm?" And how many deep balls has Willy hit? You actually need time for those deep routes to develop, 2 steam boats isn't long enough. There were only a couple snaps in the entire game vs Calgary where Marve didn't have a suitable amount of time. They rushed 3-4 the majority of the Bombers pass plays. The biggest problem in terms of "steamboats" is Marve's lack of pocket presence leading him to panic and get stuck as the pocket closed in on him due to the disciplined rush of the Stamps not giving him any exit lanes from the pocket. Willy has hit a ton of long balls this season. A month ago the silly mob was criticizing him for looking to go deep too often.
  6. JuranBoldenRules replied to M.O.A.B.'s post in a topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
    Who of those 3 is covering a slotback? Bass or Wild. I don't know if Simmons has the speed. Neither do the other two. Randle isn't going anywhere, and even if he is you're still playing a DB in that spot.
  7. Different schemes would make a difference though. Only if you bring in Paul Johnson and the triple option. Marve can't pass, probably can't throw either, Brohm can't throw for sure. Good luck. lol, you are shoveling it on a little thick there chachi. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=robert+marve+highlights&qpvt=robert+marve+highlights&FORM=VDRE#view=detail&mid=9ACED657D3397B5BCDA09ACED657D3397B5BCDA0 A couple nice scrambles there. Too bad everyone clued in on that. Even in that game his longest completion was 18 to Kohlert. He needs to make someone respect his arm, because no one does and the offense isn't going anywhere with him until they do. He's thrown almost 80 passes in the CFL and hasn't completed one in the air for 20+ yards. That's incredible and not in a positive way. When do we get to see the "strong arm?"
  8. JuranBoldenRules replied to M.O.A.B.'s post in a topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
    Who of those 3 is covering a slotback?
  9. From what you've seen with Marve, with coaching and reps, does he have the talent to be a legitimate CFL QB? Too soon to tell. He needs more game reps. But if we remember Reilly's first year with the Esks. Most wouldn't have expected much more out of him. Is this a joke? Reilly threw for 4000 yards that year. No...I don't think so. Reilly had some absolutely horrible games and he played behind a porous O-line. All I'm saying is that many on here are writing Marve off after 2 games. Its exactly this short sightedness by fans that makes it difficult to develop QB's. And yes I'm still not laughing. Seem hardly comparable to me. Like apples to the planet Mars.
  10. Subway needs a pitchman.
  11. From what you've seen with Marve, with coaching and reps, does he have the talent to be a legitimate CFL QB? Too soon to tell. He needs more game reps. But if we remember Reilly's first year with the Esks. Most wouldn't have expected much more out of him. Is this a joke? Reilly threw for 4000 yards that year.
  12. From what you've seen with Marve, with coaching and reps, does he have the talent to be a legitimate CFL QB? Not so far. I would say he doesn't have the basic skillset that a good pro QB has, particularly as a passer which is the majority of the game for a QB and his inexperience just magnifies that. He's got a long way to climb to even be in the league of guys like Brink and Elliott.
  13. Different schemes would make a difference though. Only if you bring in Paul Johnson and the triple option. Marve can't pass, probably can't throw either, Brohm can't throw for sure. Good luck.
  14. JuranBoldenRules replied to M.O.A.B.'s post in a topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
    Question is will they be able to afford Wild on the open market. It may take a little chop chop of vet salaries to make it happen. Willy's missing at least 1/3 of the season with that not counting against the cap. That's well over $100,000 right there. That's more than enough for Wild, that's $200,000 prorated if he signed this week.
  15. I'm no fan of Bellefeuille, but it's ridiculous to think that someone else calling the plays is going to make a lick of difference with Marve or Brohm.
  16. You take advantage of that by making throws from the pocket. At times Calgary had two backers spying/coming on delayed blitzes. That means there's a bunch of space in the middle of the field and deep when Calgary was having their safety fill in behind the backers. There were one on ones deep all day, Calgary had no respect for Marve's arm, and he gave them no reason to respect it. Until he can, there's not much you can call to make him look good, maybe some option runs. I may be wrong here, but to me it looked like Marve was told to stay in the pocket, and as a result he held onto the ball too long several times. If you're supposed to stay in the pocket, but get no time to throw or find second and third reads because the Oline is the shi...ts, then it stands to reason you are not going to look good. I couldn't believe the line on several of the plays, they looked awful. Our so called great signing from Calgary is not earning his $$. So who is that on? him alone or the blocking schemes? Probably a bit of both. Seems to me with our Oline, doesn't matter who the QB is...they are all not going to accomplish what they should, which is why we were still last in offence even with Willy healthy. Of course he looks better because he has a lot more experience, but if nothing changes, we will always be last in offence. He couldn't leave the pocket because of how Calgary's defense played him. As soon as he tried he had at least one linebacker running full speed at him from 3 yards depth. Calgary's ends also worked fully from the outside lane in to Marve, no inside pass rush moves, just disciplined and gradual work towards the QB pinning him in the pocket allowing that spying LB to clean up, other than the one time Bryant fell asleep before the snap and the one end ran right around the edge. That's why I spent two months telling you guys that a scrambling QB is the easiest type to defend if they can't do anything from the pocket. It's extremely easy to force a QB to stay in the pocket and very hard to counter that if that QB can't make a throw. Now you're seeing it. We're not last in offense with Willy. We're last in offense with everyone, Willy's only started and finished 4 games. Marve and Brohm have thrown 112 passes now to 156 for Willy.
  17. You take advantage of that by making throws from the pocket. At times Calgary had two backers spying/coming on delayed blitzes. That means there's a bunch of space in the middle of the field and deep when Calgary was having their safety fill in behind the backers. There were one on ones deep all day, Calgary had no respect for Marve's arm, and he gave them no reason to respect it. Until he can, there's not much you can call to make him look good, maybe some option runs.
  18. Marve's strength is rolling to his right and throwing. I haven't seen him do anything else well in terms of passing. When that's taken away, he's lost. And it's very easy to take away. That looping end or LB from the opposite side of the formation does it quite easily. If he can't make a throw from the pocket, he's useless in this league. One dimensional players can't play this game, it's just too easy to defend them. It's just going to get worse if he can't start to make some throws as teams will be hugging the line of scrimmage and taking away the run game entirely as well. My hope is that they move on relatively quickly if Marve doesn't show RAPID improvement the next couple weeks. There's an opportunity here to actually develop someone to be our backup, don't waste it on a guy who can't play at all.
  19. So if Markus Howell calls the plays Robert Marve will be able to pass like a real CFL QB? Sign him up!
  20. Doubt it. It was re-evaluate at 6 weeks, not ready to play at 6 weeks.
  21. He was drafted by the Als. And he's about 365 lbs. Maybe they'll Kabongo him if he comes up north.
  22. Seriously? He took over the Riders D directly from Hall and it's completely tanked. It's about as close as you can get to a direct comparison between two coaches, and Chamblin clearly loses. In his other season as a DC he ran the 6th ranked D out of 8 teams. He'll be back coaching DB's for awhile, on either side of the border.
  23. You must be the only person on earth that's seen Yantz play against CFL players. You're making some massive assumptions.
  24. Remember the games against Sask last year when they would start running the ball? Everyone knew what was coming and there was absolutely nothing we could do to stop them running the ball down our throat. Calgary did the same to Sask the game before this one. If your backs are good and your oline can block there isn't much a team can do to stop a run-based O. It doesn't help when your OC doesn't believe that a running game is important to a balanced offence. You should look into Bellefeuille's past. He's often had one of the best running attacks in the league and many 1000 yard rushers. There's some bigger issues here related to lack of talent, particularly at QB and OL. Bellefeuille is an average to good OC, nothing spectacular for sure, but he's taking a ridiculous amount of grief for QBs that aren't CFL quality, regardless of what people feel their potential might be.
  25. I could do that too if I never threw a pass further than 5 yards downfield and took 5 sacks. All I'm saying is that in the 1st half he was moving the ball but we couldn't capitalize in the red zone. That I lay squarely on the OC. When did they move the ball? They got into the red zone on two turnovers from the D and special teams and couldn't muster more than a first down and a field goal on each. Did they have a single drive with more than 3 first downs?