Official Game Day Thread - Winnipeg at Montreal - October 26, 2024

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

Ouch.  That TD was embarrassing.  I guess we were convinced it was going to be a short pass... in the past MTL usually has passed in that situation, like one of their infamous unstoppable hitch screens.

They are not a run-first team.

Ya, that's not going to cut it when, since the Loffler years, we've demanded that our FS be more of a bruising run-stopper.

That said, I wouldn't mind if we changed tactics to being more of a Dequoy team with a roving pass hawker @FS.  But that's not what we are this season, that's for sure.  Was there any hint that Kelly was trying to be more like Dequoy?  Was he still sneaking up for run-stop or was he fading to support the deep routes?

I wasn't even referring to run stopping, with a reconfiguration of the LB group Younger has wisely phased out the Safety's involvement in run stopping, unless the runner is already 20 yds. down field.  Kelly lopes up behind receivers that need to be tackled as casually as Cauchy Muamba used to, he should draw a flag for spectating or non-participation in a violent activity.

[TecnoGenius]

I wasn't even referring to run stopping, with a reconfiguration of the LB group Younger has wisely phased out the Safety's involvement in run stopping, unless the runner is already 20 yds. down field.

I think BA37 still sneaks up closer to the LBs on 1st downs against running teams.  He's still in a lot of run stops up the gut.  No idea if Kelly was following suit or not, wasn't paying enough attention to FS.

I'll take your word for it.  But that doesn't mean a shift in strategy necessarily unless you saw the same thing with BA in the situation I mention above.

Kelly lopes up behind receivers that need to be tackled as casually as Cauchy Muamba used to, he should draw a flag for spectating or non-participation in a violent activity.

      Straight fire!

[gobombersgo]

[55StickCar]

We just missed going to the Wpg/Montreal game by 2 days. My wife is from Mount Royal and we drove past McGill. Would have been glorious except for those darn horns.

[blue_gold_84]

Those horns should be banned. That insufferable noise is just straight up terrorism.

[Sir Blue and Gold]

What do you mean they don't matter?

Because ratings exist for advertisers and RDS doesn't matter to almost all of them.

Companies buy usually on 25-54 demographic info and TV advertising is most effective and has the most inventory nationally (so ads that are shown from coast to coast). For nearly all companies that can move the needle for the CFL or Bell/TSN, they run spots across English-speaking Canada. Because RDS is niche to Quebec and requires totally separate creative, whether 95,000 or 175,000 people watch on RDS has no real benefit from a revenue generating point of view or the value of the TSN contract in future negotiations which I would imagine is why most people care. Cool for fans to know people watch on RDS and I'm sure they can charge a small premium for being niche to some businesses (It's not nothing, CFL needs all they can get) but it's not significant. It would be far better if everyone watched on English-speaking TSN from a strictly TV contact/league revenue standpoint. To make it a short answer: TV gets valuable when there's density across the prime buying-aged public across the country.

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I wasn't even referring to run stopping, with a reconfiguration of the LB group Younger has wisely phased out the Safety's involvement in run stopping, unless the runner is already 20 yds. down field.  Kelly lopes up behind receivers that need to be tackled as casually as Cauchy Muamba used to, he should draw a flag for spectating or non-participation in a violent activity.

Cmon now, no reason to hammer Kelly like that, Cauchy Muamba!!! Ouch!!