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Yeah for sure. As I've said, the "starting" thing is a red herring. All teams declare is: The game roster, the QB's, the 4 DI's (to me 2 of ours are obvious...Castillo and Mitchell, I'd guess Ayers then it's between 1 DL or Bridges) and how many Canadians on each side of the ball (7 across O and D...doesn't matter if you "start 10" this doesn't change).

Spent 5 years at Nebraska and started in his 6th at Buffalo. If he was in the CFL Draft "talent evaluators" would need to change their shorts.

Lapo is in the mix with people like Jim Daley as a head coach. His play not to lose decision making style results in a lot of 4-14 type seasons. And he's never developed a QB. He needs an O'Shea or Ken Miller to make sure he is aggressive.

American "backups" who aren't DI's can sub for anyone. So say Adams isn't marked as a DI. He can sub for Thomas/Gauthier etc. If he's a DI when he comes on the field an American has to come off. But ultimately they only need 1 Canadian on the field any given down on D. Just a bit nuanced as to who can sub for who.

They should have to list who the DI's are. Big difference if it's one of the DL or Bridges. Castillo and Mitchell for sure. Ayers likely. 4th would be DL or Bridges.

We might have a silly looking DL for this game. Surprised they didn't keep a Canadian LB/DB type around.

Sounds to me like people are aching more for actual football analysis from media here rather than narrative analysis. It's a problem with all sports coverage in this town going on a couple decades. Nothing stopping CJOB from having that show, or putting together a podcast. They have a decent podcast with Mackling and Doug Brown. Could put that on the air. You can really expect a coach to go on air and breakdown his own team or the next opponent etc.

Stanback is kind of a one dimensional player. They will have to commit to the run. He's pretty useless from pass sets as both a runner and receiver.

I disagree. Kelly would be willing to tear guys down and go into depth on why what he was doing was great. O'Shea isn't going to talk about personnel as a full boundary. He isn't going to dissect players in public. And that's fine. Whenever he is engaged on intelligent football discussion about tactics, schemes etc he will go into great depth and engage. It's just that we don't really have media who can engage that way.

IMO BC's Canadian depth on D and OL is worse than ours minus Betts. They need a lot from Bemiy, Cherry, Hladik, Beaulieu, Greene. And they are hoping Covington isn't cooked. We need to stay healthy though.

It's too bad 3Down has lost the insider kind of edge it started with. At least 7 of the 9 people making those predictions contribute nothing journalistically. Abbott fawns over BC and Hodge's basic knowledge of the sport is lacking.

Blitzing in general is a bad strategy. Teams on O and QB's are prepared for it generally. Need to be able to get pressure with 4 which was a deficiency last season.

Mitchell didn't return a single punt in two preseason games and won the job. Scared as **** for miscues on special teams.

Not in Winnipeg. Yeah in other markets.

Bighill became very predictable and didn't disguise anything. He was either 12 yards off the ball to drop into 2 deep/Cover 2 or standing over the centre to blitz. Interested to see how things look without him.

I'm not sure that's true though. The core NHL revenue is getting $250-$500 out of every seat in the rink each night. And even more for the Jets with a smaller rink. They just thought they had such high demand that they could piss on their fans and they'd thank them for it.

I don't think it will be much different and that's a good thing. Going to use everyone on roster, lots of guys that fit multiple roles. Really well disguised. Important thing to learn from 2023 looking back at earlier teams is importance of that DL rotation...8 guys need to be running through there.

All I know of the Jonas bros.

I'm in a Day 1 group for the Jets and we had to wait 9 years to move our seats....our ticket rep told us multiple times we could give up our tickets and they'd gladly keep our deposit and find someone else to pay for them more than once. Basic communication with them was so disrespectful to the point of being unbelievable.

They'd have the interior guys plus extra LB. Lots of situations they ran 30 fronts last year, used LB's as rushers.

So some have chosen to **** off then?

In contrast to O'Shea wishing for more penalties and turnovers.

Hopefully Mitchell can set his drop target to his jersey number.

For years though Bombers haven't played with guys in static positions, basically as long as Hall has been here. Basically the corners and HB's are locked in and everyone else is playing multiple spots. Wouldn't get too hung up on depth charts. I think we'll see Cole at all levels of the D in the same game. Guy like Bridges could be very similar between DB/S/LB spots.

For 28,000 of the people in the stands they know Collaros, Willie, Oliviera and maybe Schoen or Bighill.