the thing that is easy to see with Winnipeg is that after all those great years, they have become pretty 1 dimensional on offense. Oliviria gets hurt, they have no chance.
the thing that is easy to see with Winnipeg is that after all those great years, they have become pretty 1 dimensional on offense. Oliviria gets hurt, they have no chance.
You take away Dalton Schoen and Kenny Lawler from the Bombers and those are tough shoes to fill. At times, I think that Nic Demski might be the most important offensive player on the Bombers aside from Collaros.
Also, for as much praise that Willie Jefferson received from Nielson and Suitor during the broadcast, I didn't really notice him all that much yesterday. Demery has done a great job against Willie in the three games they have played.
The whole narrative that Dave is a really bad or bad coach is just really wrong to me. Is he a great coach, not really, I don't think he is.
But coaching is more then just schemes, its having the right talent in the right places coming together at the right time, and Dave has been in a situation where he's had that and he's taken advantage of it really well.
MOS is a really good coach, but he's also had a divinely talented roster to work with as well.
I remember having a talk with a currrent CFL QB that probably should be the MVP of the league this year, and he was full of praise for Dave after he left the team.
I also remember going to a coaching session with a former really good defensive coach in the CFL and he broke down coaching on offense really simply.
If you can run 30+ plays in a game as an OC you're in really good shape.
If you make 3 to 5 calls that could be considered to be brilliantly timed, your really lucky. You know the calls where you catch the defense in the perfect scheme with the perfect matchup that you want.
The other 15 to 20 plays might be good calls, or not great calls but your talent and your matchup or a lucky break bails you out.
And your going to make 5 to 10 calls that could be considered to be really bad calls, where the defense gets the perfect formation or coverage matchup.
It happens. Some of you know I've been coaching for about 15 years, out of that 12 years have been at an Coordinator level, and I've had a hand full of games as an interm head coach (winning record yo).
I consider to be a pretty good coach for my level, with a high level understanding of the game. But I think in most games I have maybe that 5 or so plays where I'm like, I totally caught him. The rest is managing the results and there are a few plays every game where I look at my position coaches and mutter, "That was a moronic call".
Going back to Dave, when he has good personal he does a decent or better job. He's not a scrub and saying MOS should be embarrassed to be outcoached by him is moronic. The guy has a 84 and 53 coaching level, he's got two Grey cup rings one as an OC and one as a head coach. He's won a coach of the year award.
The last few years has been as much about poor personal especially at the QB position then anything else. But look at how VA has progressed, some credit of that has to go to Dave and game planning as well.
With this game this team found a way to win and keep in the game and dominate in the second half, and that goes to Dave and the coaching staff out adjusting Winnipeg, and the team finding its emotional core.
Anyways, radio off, great game, I love this defense which is young and really aggressive and just seems to find a way to elevate their game when they need to. This offense is a lot of fun to watch and has to be ranked up there with Hamilton's offense in terms of explosiveness when they're healthy.
I would add that 90% of the coach's job is before game day. It starts with choosing assistants who buy into their role and can complement what the head coach wants to do. It involves the personnel they choose and the basic scheme they employ. Breaking down film to find weaknesses in your opposition and anticipating how the other coach will attack your team so you can exploit that in your game plan. They have to prepare the team to be ready to play. When a player makes a mental error, that is as much on the coach as it is on the player. Great teams don't have players making a ton of mental errors.
During the game, mostly it is up to the execution of the players. There are some adjustments and play calls that can make a difference, but like I said earlier, 90% of the coach's job happens before game day.
Captain, I miss our great discussions on the radio show.
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I would add that 90% of the coach's job is before game day. It starts with choosing assistants who buy into their role and can complement what the head coach wants to do. It involves the personnel they choose and the basic scheme they employ. Breaking down film to find weaknesses in your opposition and anticipating how the other coach will attack your team so you can exploit that in your game plan. They have to prepare the team to be ready to play. When a player makes a mental error, that is as much on the coach as it is on the player. Great teams don't have players making a ton of mental errors.
During the game, mostly it is up to the execution of the players. There are some adjustments and play calls that can make a difference, but like I said earlier, 90% of the coach's job happens before game day.
Captain, I miss our great discussions on the radio show.
Its funny because the movies with coaches in them, I could never be those type of coaches, and I don't think that they exist.
Bulletin Board style coaching is rare. I think I've only made in 15 years of coaching, three F you to the other team speeches.
One when there was a CBFA podcast a few years ago, and I felt that we weren't getting the respect that we were due even though we'd spent a lot of times rebuilding the program and we suddenly had a really good well coached talented team, but we went into the first round as an underdog . . .fine. But they basically predicted that we were going to get crushed. So I used the F you to the podcasters and everyone else speech and it worked and we not only pulled off the upset but the blow out.
The big speech is rare, because if you do the big motivational speech every week, it becomes useless, and when players hit that certain age they shouldn't need a pump up speech, they should be figuring out how to self motivate.
The point above is right, preparation makes game day a lot easier, That's literally why as a coach, there' a ton of preperation and game planning and practice planning and install planning, but game day should be about making sure the players know their job, don't put their helmets on backwards and don't tie their shoes together.
Here's the other thing. on game day, we're not coaching technique, we're not coaching feet and hands. We're talking about your responsibility and your knowledge of the game plan. That's it. I'm not talking to my QB ever about his throwing technique, or his footwork in climbing the pocket.
I might talk to my QB about what I've seen ie "They're blitizing the outside, watch the Sam or Wil, and climb the middle pocket and look for your dump". Or "they're sending the Mac so either climb the tackle and look at the mesh, or roll and rumble"
As a coordinator, I actually don't talk to the players much on the sidelines, if they're injured I check on them. But most of my time on the side lines is working my game plan, talking with my position coaches about adjustments and changes and talking to the spotter in the booth between offensive series.
At the half, I talk to the spotter, I'll talk to my QB about what he's seen. and then let my head coach and position coaches know about my planned adjustments and first plays. And then I talk to the offense for 5 minutes with a quick message depending on if we're up or down. then go into the adjustments ask players what they've seen, and then send them to their position coaches. I'll grab the QB coach if we have one and my QB's and walk through any changes, let them know what I'm seeing from their game and then I turn them loose.
I've been lucky with head coaches, they mostly leave me alone, if they're not happy they'll talk to me, they might make suggestions, but they'll ask me what I want to do. I maybe talk to the head coaches 4 times on game day. Once pregame because he'll ask what I want to do first. At the half. At the start of the 4th quarter.
I had one overwhelming head coach a few years back, and I finally told him in a nice way to get away from me while I'm calling series.
Funny story of that same coach, we had a game where our offense in the first half of the game wasn't going well, and at the half he ripped me up and down. I went to my QB and pulled a play from so simple that we couldn't not execute it, but it seemed appropriate, given how the other team was playing. Then I walked up to the coach since we were receiving the kickoff in the second half and told him to get the convert team ready and I walked away. And we scored.
"Trips motion Left 37 lead toss"
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The Blue Bomber's on-field product is catching fire and disintegrating into utter cow feces, but the good people of my hometown have just sold out the tenth straight game for Thursday.
It's gonna suck watching Dru Brown go in there and unload on my team
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50% of the Stamps first 10 games are against Bombers and Riders.
70% against three teams (with Ottawa).
Please add more teams! Quebec, Maritimes, London, Okanagan.
It'd be so awesome if Halifax got a team. I could just drive there for the games and be able to see the Bombers at least once a year.
50% of the Stamps first 10 games are against Bombers and Riders.
70% against three teams (with Ottawa).
Please add more teams! Quebec, Maritimes, London, Okanagan.
To go over half the season and still not face two teams in the division isn't great scheduling at all. I assume there are reasons for this but ideally the schedule would be more spread out so fans have a little variety in opposition during the summer months.
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