Thursday, July 1, 2010

Ticats Season Opener Depth Chart

The depth chart for tomorrow is up already. Apparently I should have paid more attention to training camp, since I was surprised by a few things.

The offensive line is pretty similar, apart from Simeon Rottier at right tackle, with new pickup Ramsay as his backup. Gauthier is the left tackle, Dyakowski at left tackle, Hage at center and Hudson at right guard. Some guy named Dewit is backing up at center, with Morencie backing up Hudson. A veritable festival of non-imports, with nary an import to be seen. With Jimeniz on the nine game injury list, it will probably stay that way. Hopefully Rottier can hold up his side.

For the receivers, not much difference from the end of last year. James and non-import Bauman are the receivers with the slotbacks being McDaniel and non-import Stala. Bruce again is listed as backing up Bauman, like they did last year, which makes no sense, but he'll be out there all the time. Cobb is the running back, with two year man Darcy Brown, out of St. Mary's is actually listed as the starter. I predict a shitload of five receiver sets with Cobb in the backfield. Glenn starts. That's eight Canadian starters on offense. Crazy and good.

On defence, Long and Hickman start as the ends, with Bolden in the middle and non-import Kirk listed as also starting in the middle. McIntyre is listed as a backup, but I assume he'll be in a lot for Kirk.

Linebackers, Knowlton, Floyd and Johnson. Easy.

In the secondary, Bradley and Tisdale are the corners. Dennis and Shivers are the defensive backs, with non-import Beveridge starting over Barker at safety (a bit of a surprise). That's potentially ten Canadian starters, although Kirk and Bauman strike me as not being true starters, no matter what the chart says.

Deangelis kicks and Palardy punts. Hopefully Palardy can do the job.

For Winnipeg, they apparently don't have it listed yet. I'll check and go over it tomorrow if they deign to list it.

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