That right their is why fans need to stop panicking. You can’t have three diffrent games with three diffrent Oline combos and expect a dominant Oline. Even in the NFL, Olines won’t be as dominate after losing four starters.
Fontana played like a player who hasn’t played in two years. Since he opted-out of last season, it’s not surprising. If he was the only player the Three Monkeys could find…
I agree with the beer part but not the result part .
If the O-line had been constructed properly in the first place (I admit that injuries have a huge impact, but neither Fontana nor Saxelid impressed me much when they DID play), then there wouldn’t be this issue. As someone has pointed out, there was a coaching change between the great 2019 season and last year. This also coincides with the decline in O-line play since the beginning of last season.
It doesn’t excuse the Front Office (and Scouting - they certainly shouldn’t be left off the hook) from the errors that started right after the 2019 GC (and some would say the lead-up to that game too). They simply have not aquired/re-signed the proper players (they HAD to know about Filer’s upcoming decision) the team may not be in the predicament they’re in right now.
Sorry, what I meant was if you can’t win your first game of the year, at home.
Steinauer seems like a Chris Jones type of guy that thinks he can cut veterans and find replacements himself because there was no need to let some of the players go that they did but here they are struggling. Cant wait to see the new Tiger-Cats vs Old Tiger-Cats when Ottawa and Hamilton play!
Jones has no loyalty to anyone but himself . Why would you insult Coach O with that analogy ?
It isn’t hard to show loyalty when you hold out for money and power until it is given to you Orlondo needs to learn that his veterans hold more weight in the room then he does
In the NFL you can plug and play much easier. You have a massive roster with backups to backups.
CFL with the small roster size leaves you completely exposed if you have a run of injuries at a position…except us and LBs LOL.
You can plug and play, but their is still a dropoff from starter to backup in the NFL.
Then you need to go back and watch film, when he played LT for the Elks, because Saxelid is a hell of a player and Chris Jones is a moron.
Good answer. Straight and to the point.
Why couldn’t he start on our awful o line
Saxelid is a LT and Jones doesn’t play Canadian tackles. So the Ti-Cats made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Same with Boateng and Betts.
Doesn’t answer the question
I totally disagree with this comment.
In the NFL, each team starts the season with the strongest roster that they will have that year. As injuries mount, the strength of the roster declines steadily throughout the year, UNLESS some starting players return from a short term injury. As CrazyCanuck points out, there is a big dropoff from Starter talent to Backup in today’s NFL (the Salary Cap has a lot to do with this).
Now we need to recognize that trades represent an exception to this . . . rosters can be improved through trades at the deadline, if the team has Cap Space, but this is very much a recent development. Mid-season trades in the NFL used to be as rare as an honest politician.
This in-season “declining talent pool” simply does not apply to the CFL; at least as it pertains to Import players, but on a smaller scale the same applies to non-Imports attempting to latch on to an NFL team, as well. A CFL team can pick up a player in the middle of a season after he gives up his dream of a career in the NFL. Now those sorts of substitutions do not always translate into a big improvement, but the point is, with the mid-season turnover in CFL rosters, the roster that a team enters the playoffs with at the end of the season, can be superior to the roster that they started the season with.
There is still hope Tiger-Cat fans . . . I certainly wish these gentlemen the best of luck in their NFL pursuits, but we could still see Jordan Murray, Nikola Kalinic, etc. suit up in the Black & Gold during the 2022 season. It happens . . .
Ticats don’t have extra Canadians they can start on Defense. Multiple Canadians ticats have on defense are mainly special teamers . Only could start Laurent over Johnson at NT .
Bennett over Carney
There’s always extra focus on which seven Canadians “start”, but is we decide to start two Canadians on defence it almost doesn’t matter who is listed as the second starter alongside Adeleke. The team just needs to field two on defence for the entire game.
Should they opt to declare two starters on defence, they will likely get to two in a variety of different ways including alternating Laurent and Bennett on the Dline, but also sliding Katsatonis onto the field on second and long situations which would allow them to have all Americans along the DLine.
Unlike most other Canadian starters, a second starter on defence is really just a placeholder for having a second Canadian on the field every play.
Bennett has started over Carney the last two games. When Bennett has, come out so has Johnson or Wynn and Laurent has gone in. Sometimes both Laurent and Bennett have been on the field at the same time.