Coast Mountain Lion wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 8:11 pmJon Cornish, Mike Pringle, Mike Clemons, WIllard Reaves, David Green, Jimmy Edwards, Willie Burden, Bill Symons, George Reed, George Dixon...Toppy Vann wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 10:57 am
I heard I think Dave Naylor say that you can't pick a running back usually for MOP as it all depends on systems or something like. Yah right our system sucks.
My point was not to take Dave Naylor out of context which maybe I have here but to kind of make a point that if your team doesn't run, how can a RB be successful or an MOP and BC is a case in point.
There are teams not running much and other than the Lions, they've been losing.
https://theprovince.com/sports/football ... t-practiceB.C.’s ground game has lagged of late. The Lions were held to 48 yards on 12 carries against the Blue Bombers. They are last in the nine-team league in rushing (82.8 yards per game).
When Ryan Dinwiddie took over as HC in Toronto, his model was the Bombers and what Mike O'Shea has in place in WPG.
These dudes can and do run.
Imagine BC's offence with Vernon Adams playing like he is now and the capability of running the football consistently.
Just maybe we'd not have had to worry about a failed 3rd down (I think the placement was wrong) or if Rhymes went down.
The chart just had these teams so not sure where the Bombers or Ticats ranked.TSN put up a "Protection Problems" for "Most Sacks Allowed" yesterday:
OTTAWA 56
MONTRL 55
SASK'T'N 50
BCLIONS 46
EDM'T'N 43
ARGOS were the lowest in the CFL at 14
My point about systems and philosophies is that if BC could add that dimension with the likes of Oliviera, Demski, Harris, Ouellette and the flashier backs like Mizzell they could be challenging a GC for some years to come.