Battle of Alberta - season starts on labour day

[Hugoagogo]

Re: Battle of Alberta - season starts on labour day

Adjei has been the team's leading receiver in 3 games this season. We won the first two times.

So we are .667 when Adjei is our leading receiver, but only .500 when he is not?
Interesting

[ben_the_eskimo]

Re: Battle of Alberta - season starts on labour day

So we are .667 when Adjei is our leading receiver, but only .500 when he is not?
Interesting

More targets for Adjei!

[Esks1975]

Re: Battle of Alberta - season starts on labour day

Adjei isn't being targeted, nor is he the number 1 read in my opinion. Simply that Calgary's secondary was locking us down, and Harris wasn't finding anyone open and forced to dump off to Adjei.
Calgary can sit back on him because they know he is slow and they are fast, and his dump routes won't get first down.
Harris probably had little fait pushing the ball to Collins after he bobbled a pass into an interception, and then got outrun on an endzone route for another interception.

At the start of the year I was concerned about our receiving corps. That has all come to fruition. Ellingson was also invisible.

Was that getting outrun on an end zone route in a different game? Wasn't there only the one interception on Monday?

[Maas_12]

Re: Battle of Alberta - season starts on labour day

keep in mind guys, Harris' time in OTT with a different OC... im pretty sure i recall he had his redzone struggles also..and did dink and dunk too, sprinkled with the Ellingson bombs once in a blue moon no?

Harris now 0-8-2 vs cgy

[danlaurin]

Re: Battle of Alberta - season starts on labour day

Pre snap reads...

7 throws out of ten .. the qb knows where the ball is going before the ball is ever snapped..

This is regular 1 step / 3 step drop

The anomaly is reilly who will hold the ball looking for the deeper route to evolve.. I’m not gonna complain at my qb if he sees pre snap x is open and he throws it.
That’s on ME as a playcaller if I don’t call the right play

As far as redzone yesterday was a little different we only went in there twice I believe.. Calgary was in there 5 maybe 6 times and only got 2 majors.. your not gonna score tds every time. However what I have taken from this so far is we miss reilly short yardage more than anything else... on our first redzone attempt on 2!d and 4 we would have ran that last year and if we didn’t get it, reilly was auto from a yard
Reilly was also double digit td runs last 2 seasons and that really helps our rz.. this year our 3rd and 1 are an adventure with Harris..

Lest we forget harris was player of the month just a few days ago.. let’s not jump ship.


I’m also perplexed at the pass the defence is getting this mornin

On 3 and 1 1/2 bring in Briscoe he is a tank very athletic and would be better on short yardage than Harris or Kilgore in my opinion.

[tigerdar]

Re: Battle of Alberta - season starts on labour day

keep in mind guys, Harris' time in OTT with a different OC... im pretty sure i recall he had his redzone struggles also..and did dink and dunk too, sprinkled with the Ellingson bombs once in a blue moon no?

Harris now 0-8-2 vs cgy

At this point I'd settle for a tie

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In case anyone is wondering Edmonton is 1 point fave this week

[writfiler]

Re: Battle of Alberta - season starts on labour day

On 3 and 1 1/2 bring in Briscoe he is a tank very athletic and would be better on short yardage than Harris or Kilgore in my opinion.

The Esks have dressed only 2 QB’s for the past 6 games.
Would be hard to bring in Briscoe if he’s out of uniform!

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I wouldn't mind seeing Gable sit for a game in exchange for Cooper, if they can't find a way to get them both on the roster.

Reid Wilkins discussed this very point on his show following the Esks post-game Show.
His point was that Cooper is nowhere near the blocker that Gable is, hence their reluctance to play him....

[boydo]

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Cooper might not be the blocker that Gable is...but if he's got the ball and is running it - he's not needed for blocking.

[popo]

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Cooper might not be the blocker that Gable is...but if he's got the ball and is running it - he's not needed for blocking.

Is there any way we can get Cooper, Gable, and Jones on the roster?
It'd mean two designated imports, and I think you only get four.
It means you'd only get to dress two backups out of: Vickers, Bazzie, Walton, or a backup defensive back.
This is where Canadian depth is huge, can you find quality rotational Canadians? Onyeka back up DB. Blair Smith/Mulumba as backup LB's. Jesse Jospeh, or *fingers crossed* Mathieu Betts as backup DE.

[Eskie54]

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Cooper might not be the blocker that Gable is...but if he's got the ball and is running it - he's not needed for blocking.

Exactly. There has been a fair bit of criticism on here that Harris gets rid of the ball too quickly and doesn't wait for plays to develop so does he really need the superior blocking that Gable provides? Gable only rushed for 35 yards on labour day and 27 yards in the first game against Calgary so I think maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to see what Cooper can bring.

[writfiler]

Re: Battle of Alberta - season starts on labour day

Is there any way we can get Cooper, Gable, and Jones on the roster?
It'd mean two designated imports, and I think you only get four.
It means you'd only get to dress two backups out of: Vickers, Bazzie, Walton, or a backup defensive back.
This is where Canadian depth is huge, can you find quality rotational Canadians? Onyeka back up DB. Blair Smith/Mulumba as backup LB's. Jesse Jospeh, or *fingers crossed* Mathieu Betts as backup DE.

The ratio really got screwed up when the oft-injured Colqhoun went back on the 6-game IR before the Calgary game.

[Hugoagogo]

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I wouldn't bother with a return specialist. Until our blocking schemes improve, it doesn't really matter anyway. Just find a guy who can reliably catch the ball and tell him to run forward. Use the roster spot for Cooper and mix it up at RB. It will probably bring much more to our field position and maybe we can get some TD's in the red zone.

[T-BONE]

Re: Battle of Alberta - season starts on labour day

I wouldn't bother with a return specialist. Until our blocking schemes improve, it doesn't really matter anyway. Just find a guy who can reliably catch the ball and tell him to run forward. Use the roster spot for Cooper and mix it up at RB. It will probably bring much more to our field position and maybe we can get some TD's in the red zone.

I agree but for reasons I don’t understand, Maas is very committed to having a designated returner AND getting him on the field as much as possible. How else do you explain constantly choosing to return a kick after field goals when the numbers clearly show we should just take it at the 35.

[ben_the_eskimo]

Re: Battle of Alberta - season starts on labour day

I wouldn't bother with a return specialist. Until our blocking schemes improve, it doesn't really matter anyway. Just find a guy who can reliably catch the ball and tell him to run forward. Use the roster spot for Cooper and mix it up at RB. It will probably bring much more to our field position and maybe we can get some TD's in the red zone.

It's funny because that was Maas' philosophy in his first season as HC and people around here roasted him for saying just that.