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Veltung, Marshall, Shell and one of the DL. Tyler and a NI will sit, probably Brown or Morgan. Both the DL - 8 Canadians means 5 backup Americans One wouldn't be a DI though and could sub in with no restrictions. I'm guessing one of Gibson or D Johnson are it, and I'm guessing the Bombers are only declaring 2 NI starters on D. Wouldn't see an upside to using that extra Canadian, backup American without DI restrictions on offense with Veltung or Marshall.

To me Hurl looked lost .... continously in the wrong place That's how Bass looked to me, continuously letting the ball get past his outside shoulder on the stretch plays to the weak-side for Allen and Messam. They weren't running at Hurl, and when they did the runs went nowhere. They really attacked the weak-side, Anderson, Westerman, Bass for the most part.

Veltung, Marshall, Shell and one of the DL. Tyler and a NI will sit, probably Brown or Morgan.

I agree on Bass. In watching the game again, that's the guy the Riders were really attacking, and Bass did a horrible job of gap control on the stretch/read plays, letting all those runs get outside away from where he has help. Bass is obviously learning to play the width of the field, but he better learn fast or he should be off the field. Hurl was not that bad, he didn't really have a chance to make a lot of plays because of how easy it was to get to the sideline on the weak-side of our defense. The big passing plays were both huge busts off of blitzes that were totally ineffective. Hard to blame the guys in coverage on those, if you're sending 6 or more at the QB and can't even make him change his launch point the guys blitzing have not done their job.

I don't believe we should overrate Bass and toss a guy like Randle under the bus based on what we've seen. Randle is playing a coverage position. Other than one cover zero blitz where our safety and MLB did not do anything to disrupt Durant, Randle had a clean game. The Riders run game primarily attacked the weak-side of our defense with stretch plays, and Bass didn't really stand up to it. The DL also had a lot of trouble holding their gaps which shift on those stretch plays. Once the Riders started trying to run between the tackles, the run game fizzled out.

On Demski's run too, gave him about 20 extra yards.

The Bombers scored a TD on the drive resulting from the called back return, so no impact on the score.

Anderson got destroyed by a down block on the huge run off a stretch play by Messam. If he gets in his gap on that stretch play that run can't happen. That's the kind of stuff that was happening all night. He got close to Glenn once and forced a bad throw, but had a really bad night overall.

The injured Canadians will absolutely gut them. They have no replacements.

source? The Roughriders.

Probably likes to see how the Riders attack the different coverage shells, what blocking schemes they are using and their sub packages. Can't really see that from field level and they don't get the overhead pictures like the NFL.

Ask him if Glenn has completed 88% of his passes in a quarter, let alone a game.

Didn't see much of Sherman/Newman/Waggoner on D. Hope that shifts. We could hedge our bet on Hurl and spread the snaps around if we shift that NI spot more to WIL. Hurl on first down, one of the others in dime.

The Argos?

One was our own LB providing a bust in coverage, and I'd be curious to see how the new safety graded out. On the long TD pass he was blitzing along with Hurl, cover 0 and Durant read it pre-snap. Randle was playing Smith inside shade and Smith broke outside deep, no chance for Randle to cover him with no help over the top. Bigger problem with that play was how ineffective that blitz was, didn't even force Durant to move the launch point. If you're late on a cover 0 blitz, it's over Johnny. Deion Sanders in his prime would be tough to stop that. Hurl's gap opened up wide based on the twist run by the DL, he was just way too slow to have any effect on Durant.

One was our own LB providing a bust in coverage, and I'd be curious to see how the new safety graded out. On the long TD pass he was blitzing along with Hurl, cover 0 and Durant read it pre-snap. Randle was playing Smith inside shade and Smith broke outside deep, no chance for Randle to cover him with no help over the top. Bigger problem with that play was how ineffective that blitz was, didn't even force Durant to move the launch point to give the DB's a chance to make a play.

It was driving me crazy hearing the announcers just swooning over Messam. The guy has a huge lane with nobody in front of him for yards and he's all of a sudden a top 10 player in the league. Give me a break And he can't handle more than 8 carries a game. Although Cornish is trending that way too.

It ran out last season. Once guys start getting serious leg and shoulder injuries they are never the same.

Our DL needs less Peach and Westerman, more Gibson and Johnson. Sad to say based on what he's getting paid, but Westerman should be rotating with Thomas, probably about 60-40.

Not on the one that knocked him out of the game, but he did have a couple others that fit that^ description.

Got hit low after he threw a pass in the pocket by a falling DL. Probably ACL.

In the standings yes, but you don't think they were concerned about their starting D coming out of that game based on how they played against Hamilton's starting O?

They got torched against Hamilton's starters in the first half last week. Torched for 500 yards tonight. It's a legit concern. In a ******* pre season game. Seriously, some perspective would be great. Ya, starters vs starters in a pre-season game. Not meaningless.

They got torched against Hamilton's starters in the first half last week. Torched for 500 yards tonight. It's a legit concern.

Too much blitzing, especially when it's completely ineffective, in the first half. Second half and 4th quarter in particular were much better. I'm worried about our DT's and our two real LB's (Hurl and Bass). They were overpowered tonight. 24 looked awful quite often at safety as well. Real weird angles he took on Messam and gave up yards because of it.