Quote Originally Posted by paulwoods13 View Post
O-line depth (no quotation marks) is an area of concern at every level of pro football, not just the CFL. Those are hard positions to play, and they take a physical toll on the players. Having reliable guys waiting in the wings matters at all positions, but I would argue o-line is at or near the top of the list of importance. Argos are fortunate to have two experienced NATs who can serve as primary backups (Mackellar and Giffen), but if a starter goes down with an injury, they'll be dressing a rookie or seldom-used prospect. So they better find someone who can play among Vandal, Noll, Paradis and this year's draft class.
Sure; but ignoring other positions of obvious need, just to load-up on more good ole NI "depth" at a certain position group, is more of a CFL GOB thing. There is little chance that say Vandal & Noll, plus 2 new O-line from this draft are going to be kept on the roster with MacKellar & Giffen already in place as "depth". And if you need more down the road, you just use the next year's draft to address it (IMO there are pretty well always at least 5 or more very good O-line prospects for each CFL draft). And meanwhile - this Argo team has all of one Canadian RBs in Adeboboye, but they ignored the chance to draft one of 2 top notch RB prospects - in mid rounds - to instead take another O-lineman, and when they still added 2 more pretty good O-line prospects later in the draft. This might make GOB good sense to you; just not to me.

Ego_Jones just used his first 2 draft picks, plus a 3rd this draft on interior LB types, and when he had used a top pick on a similar type last year's draft; plus has other interior Canadian LBs on the roster. Over-kill that makes zero sense and when he does not have much for Canadian receivers and of course zero use for Canadian RBs. So typical & myopic stupidity.