Official Game Day Thread - BC @ Winnipeg, July 30, 2026

[Tecno]

Pretty clear Younger's star is no longer ascending and his ambition of becoming a HC, if he had any, may not be realized.  Might have to content himself with being a young version of Richie Hall if he can show he has the intelligence to pull it together in the remaining games and put a good defence that works well on the field.

I'm not sure Younger has ever been the brains behind anything.  It's not really possible to know exactly how the D coaching is structured, but I have my guesses.  What if Hall was still the brains but Younger is the people & ops guy?  You do need both, and it was clear Hall couldn't do the day-to-day on-field stuff anymore.

Regardless of the breakdown of duties, it's failing big time.  It's really sickening how the middle fat and at least one edge are usually 100% wide open for 20Y every direction on basically every play.  Teams have learned that's what we do, so the QB run up the middle or the edge run/hitch is almost always available on every down for a free & cheap conversion.

And if anyone was going to know how to abuse it, it was Buck.

[Tecno]

I don't think Jones is going back to MLB... We're using him on many downs as a DE, sliding over from his WILL spot.  A couple of people already noticed this.

I think this lets us show 3 and bring 4, as well as spell Willie, and give us flexibility on subsequent passing downs.

We have been doing this so much, I think it's becoming an integral part of the scheme, and it's something Kyrie can't do.  If we wanted Jones @MLB we'd need to swap out Kyrie for a beefier guy.  I'm not sure Smith or Woodbey is that guy.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

I'm not sure Younger has ever been the brains behind anything.  It's not really possible to know exactly how the D coaching is structured, but I have my guesses.  What if Hall was still the brains but Younger is the people & ops guy?  You do need both, and it was clear Hall couldn't do the day-to-day on-field stuff anymore.

Regardless of the breakdown of duties, it's failing big time.  It's really sickening how the middle fat and at least one edge are usually 100% wide open for 20Y every direction on basically every play.  Teams have learned that's what we do, so the QB run up the middle or the edge run/hitch is almost always available on every down for a free & cheap conversion.

And if anyone was going to know how to abuse it, it was Buck.

The good news is there are not that many brave running QB's left in the league, maybe Rourke  still has the green light to go but Alexander, Adams and Kelly run with caution that the next long gallop could be their last.