Enough! Maas cannot lead a team or run an offence. Last night’s back breaking defeat is on him.
He is losing this team. Players will probably start to phone it in soon.
He cannot effectively design an offence built for Fajardo, and he makes bad decisions as a HC.
Who do you have as HC for the rest of the season you may ask? I say promote Calvillo to interim HC for the rest of the season on a trial basis, and also let him run the offence. He could only be better!
FIRE JASON MAAS!
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Tellement d’accord.
C’est clair que Calvillo lui a été imposé. Il l’a tassé presque subtilement. Maas devrait se concentrer sur sa job de HC et laisser l’attaque entre les mains de Calvillo. S’il avait débarqué Fajardo pour la 2e demie, je suis certain qu’on aurait gagné. Vous allez dire que l’attaque a été bonne en 2e demie, mais CF a le don de bousiller une remontée. Tout le contraire de Harris l’an dernier.
Lors des deux derniers matchs locaux, les unités spéciales ont fait deux solides jeux en fin de match…pour voir Fajardo se faire intercepter par la suite. Archambault devait être en 
, avec raison.
C’est triste pour les joueurs qui étaient animés sur le banc.
Cett défaite va faire mal, très mal. Les deux matchs en Alberta seront très difficiles à gagner. Calgary doit gagner et Edmonton est sur une bonne séquence. Je crois que les Alouettes viennent de perdre toute chance de jouer un match local en séries. Bravo Maas! Quel mauvais appel de jeux à la fin. Eh la la…je suis vraiment en
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Johnny is on a rampage!!
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My choice for HC was AC from the get go. Surround him with a competent OC.
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*** NOT *** supporting Maas … but giving AC both the HC and the actual OC responsibilities would IMO be setting him up for failure … if Maas were to leave (and I don’t expect there is any chance it happens) DM would have to step in as the HC/Manager and give AC full control of the offence.
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If this team slides like last season’s Riders. Maas will be one and done.
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You know, I’ve heard a lot worse ideas than firing Maas and promoting AC to interim HC and OC.
I highly doubt any change will happen until the season is over, though. Maciocia isn’t going to do his buddy like that even though the offense is categorically worse than it was under Khari Jones, whom he was quick to fire. Gotta love the buddy system. “My friend has infinite leeway to screw up but everyone else can be fired or cut at a moment’s notice.”
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And given the management cap that likely means DM returns as HC.
Not really, he would likely demand a new contract and it isn’t a given that PKP would give him one. They could give Thorpe, Archambault or AC and opportunity or bring back Bolduc, there are many options. Personally I think if Maas fails, Maciocia should not be offered an extension, he just does not have the network to continue, when you compare Maciocia’s four year run to Pinball’s it becomes very obvious.
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Maciocia may not do his buddy in, but hopefully he is having some choice words for him behind close doors.
He can’t be satisfied. This team is not perfect but it is 1) underachieving, 2) Lacks confidence, 3) Lack Discipline and is unable to correct its flaws. What surprises me the most is that the team has no killer instinct, I didn’t expect that from a Maas coached team.
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One has to wonder how PKP may view Maciocia right about now.
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Probably congratulating himself he hasn’t extended Maciocia’s contract yet.
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I think the offence has quit or is in the process of quitting on Maas, because they no longer believe in his playbook or in Fajardo. If I’m Lestage or anyone else on that O-line, I am right angry at how poor QB play is leading to all these sacks.
Edit: This year reminds me of 2007, actually, when Popp was “head coach” and Marcel Bellefeuille and Charlie Carpenter were basically getting AC killed with their garbage playbook that no one could understand. Avon Cobourne was rotting on defence as a linebacker because Bellefeuille had a man crush on Jarrett Payton. Everyone was saying AC was done and the line looked awful. The next year, Trestman came in with Vince Martino and Scott Milanovich and the line looked amazing.
Also, by refusing to balance his offense and allow his Oline payback on the defense, he’s has set them up for failure.
Remember too This was Vernon’s team, he was absolutely the uncontested leader of this team. I am certain a lot of these guys have not forgiven Maciocia and probably AC for what happened there. It will be very difficult to clean this mess by leaving Maciocia in place and while he’s made a lot of good decision. Like a wise friend told me a long, long time ago as I was getting into business. Son, it takes a thousand little things to make a business successful, it only takes one or two bad decisions to destroy it. The decisions to get Vernon out of town because he was the leader of that locker room, there is no question in my mind this is why Maciocia wanted Vernon gone and we know from the BC owner that Maciocia had tried to get ride of him even sooner and the owner refused to endorse the trade. The decision to hire a damaged Maas is also, looking like it is one of those one or two bad decisions, my friend Abe was talking about.
To be continued… five to go, hopefully more.
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Never let it be said that coaches aren’t stubborn, sometimes bafflingly so, to the point where their own careers suffer as a result.
Maas seems to think he can have Cody Fajardo drop back 35-40 times a game to pass when all the evidence says this does not lead to success. Cody is a one-read QB and most of his reading is done post-snap, sadly. He is not a field general. He cannot read enemy defences effectively before the ball is snapped. He is neither Anthony Calvillo nor Ricky Ray. He’s not even Trevor Harris. Yet Maas has spent the whole season calling plays as if Fajardo can pick apart defences and check down to the right targets. In the face of a crap ton of evidence that suggests otherwise.
We are doomed without a run game to take the heat off Cody, and we are doomed if Maas continues to think he can drop back Cody 5-7 steps for a long intermediate route on second down. The only time we had success yesterday was when we mixed short passes with runs and play action off runs.
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Just a baffling, huge blunder. Unnecessary. They yanked Adams 1.25 games into the 2022 season and even then, he had led the offence to 27 points in a season-opening loss to Calgary in which the defence couldn’t get the job done. Man, 27 points on offence would feel like we won the damn lottery these days!
And in game 2, with the game well within reach, they sat Vernon down and gave the keys to Harris (who lost that game, by the way – well Cote lost it by missing that 20-yard FG). Baffling.
If Maciocia gets fired, it will be absolutely his own fault. The worst position at which to make this kind of error is QB.
That’s what I am saying. They didn’t yank him because of his play. They yanked him because he had been traded 
But when this was announced to someone he said NOPE… and we know who that is.
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Yeah, it really had nothing to do with his play. I cannot think of a comparable situation recently where an established starter lost his job so quickly and so comprehensively with so little justification. The man was coming back from a season-ending 2021 injury (sustained standing in the pocket to make the kind of pass Trevor Harris would never have had the guts to make) and all it took was like a quarter of preseason and 1.25 regular games for the team to turn their back? That was planned. They knew they wanted to get rid of Adams the second they re-signed Harris without telling him first.
During that second game, Maciocia reached out to Jones and let him know Vernon had been traded and to pull him out (risk of injury most likely).