I think i'm past calling out individual players at this point. This is organizational and systematic failure to put a competitive football team together.
We have managed to regress from a Grey Cup 15-3 team to this in 2 seasons, with many of those players still in their prime, in the league on other teams.
This Defense is GOOD but not great, and this offense is simply not well built.
Back to the offseason...
"Boy they really need to figure out what to do with the Oline that has been manhandled in 2 consecutive Grey Cups" Ticats draft 1 OL in the 2022 Draft - in the seventh round. EVERY SINGLE TEAM not named Winnipeg drafted at least 1 OL before we did in the 7th round, most took 2.
"The Ticats need to get Dane some weapons if we aren't going to re-sign Banks or Acklin - or he'll be a sitting duck"Of all of the WR's available and there were a ton. We signed Lemar Durant - with an injury history, who has not played a down. BC has a bunch of NBA players out there playing WR.
"How are they going to replace Ja'Gared Davis?"Easy. They signed a guy that retired, and then thought a washed Micah Johnson in a position of strength would somehow help. It hasn't.
You could see this coming a mile away, and yes while I was called a ton of names for it I stand by my position that not only is Stein not fit to be a President of Football operations (the results of his first offseason are showing) but this organization has made an effort to cut costs. Canada day marquee standalone game, no flyby? no fireworks? Just hours of marketing the latest money grab jersey? At some point it's a fair question to suggest this organization isn't spending what it could be on players. I think 4 games in that time is now. It's simple - we are either not spending, or we're so bad at where we are spending that there should be consequences for it.
As with all bad teams there's about 10-15 really good football players on this team and obviously you have to sift through what you have, but guys like Ungerer, Turnowski and Papi White aren't the answer, they aren't starting caliber players and frankly they're an insult to the franchise QB that we actually did put resources in to. (I realize i said I wasn't going to call out players but really I'm calling out that entire unit).
The argument about Condell, Gibson, etc are all futile because if you want them gone, then you should be mad at Stein for not pulling the trigger. This type of regression and failure doesn't fall completely on one man (who might be in over his head) but on all of them... the difference is Stein is responsible for the roster that gets put on the field, and then then what that team does. Just like Austin, just like Lancaster.
And I don't want to hear a peep about Evans. We know what he can do. The issue with this team is the overwhelming number of players that don't belong.
