I believe the Cats are going to have a dilemma at the running back position. Cobb in my opinion with his performance against B.C. has played himself onto the team. I can’t see them putting him back on the practice roaster. So who do we start next week if Caulley is healthy and who do we put on the practice roaster? Then the other question is do we really need K.K.?
8) The Cats will not dress all three import running backs, that is for sure !!
For now, I would stay with the hot hand and that is Cobb, until he proves otherwise.
As far as KK goes, I don't think he will play at all with the Cats this year, unless injuries again change that scenario !!!
You scheme for teams, you don’t play certain players against certain teams.
You have to ask who looked better? Caulley or Cobb? Cobb has looked better and has better stats.
I am not in the group that says you don’t lose your job because of an injury. If you get hurt and the person who replaces you plays the same or better than you, you should have to wait your turn. This is playing your hot hand.
Never mind 3 import running backs, I’m not sure who would sit to make room for a 2nd import running back now that we’re using 4 import D-linemen. Would we go back to 3 there?
The Cats have to assess who can play and when. From game to game, week to week.
Cobb has assumed the starter's role with his performance in B.C. He has taken a position that was ho-hum thus far this campaign with the other backs and raised my Spockian eyebrow, both in his preseason effort in Winnipeg and on Friday night in B.C.
McDaniel is our return guy. Tre Smith can help return kickoffs if he is in the mix, but Marquay needs more time to develop. His game in B.C. was tremendous.
If I had to choose between Caulley and Smith, I would have to choose Caulley. When he is good to go, he has more upside. Smith has had more turnovers when he's been in there and I don't think he's as dynamic as Terry in space.
As for Keith, they will have to monitor his health as the weeks go by. They do not have to rush into anything here. They cannot trade him until he is off the 9-game list, anyway. Since nobody can say what the league-wide situation re HBs will be in a month, even -- including with the Cats -- all this is speculation. A healthy Keith in mid-September will be huge for a playoff push if the Cats can stay in the mix. There will have to be a decision to be made whether in the fall or during the offseason, but the Cats have to deal from strength and not from desperation.
Another part to this is the assumption that runs rampant on this board that every spare part that a 3-15 team has is going to be drooled upon by the other members of the league. Guess what? GMS LIKE TO WAIT FOR THE CUT IN THE CFL. That's why in this cap age we don't see a heck of a lot of trades! Kenton Keith may find himself available against a big free agent pool coming up from NFL camps, guys who don't have his injury history. People assume that trade values in the CFL are static and that name value = back up the truck, here comes the payback. Trade value fluctuates during the season. We might find that Obie can't trade Keith when mid-September rolls around even if he wanted to.
Exactly for the reason we have now. We have great depth and we need them all. Who knows what will happen when KK comes back. Hopefully all the backs will stay healthy but we could see other injuries with these guys. Its a brutal position and unlikely that we will have 4 healthy guys at the same time.
I agree you go with the hot hand, but no matter who is back there, the O Line still needs to step it up. It looked like several of Cobb’s good runs were designed to go inside, but he was able to use his speed to get outside when he discovered there was no hole.