Not quite sure I would agree with that. With Milanovich calling the plays, the Cats primary running backs ran for 1000+ yards in each of the last 3 years.
2025 - Bell - 1038 yards
2024 - Butler+Bell - 1151 yards
2023 - Butler - 1116 yards
Those rushing numbers increased significantly after Condell left and Milanovich took over the OC duties.
To me that just means y’all were good at running the ball! 
Not that Milo puts run first. But that may be my bias. He’s from the Trestman school and Trestman was 100% a “block first, run second” type when evaluating running backs. It’s not that running wasn’t important, but if you couldn’t keep the QB upright, you weren’t going anywhere on Trestman’s team no matter how well you ran.
Boo is gone to elks
As fans we probably focused more on Bell’s running ability, which he was very good at. Puzzling at first why they wouldn’t try to retain him, however, the coaches would have noticed things in film study that us fans might miss.
I think that’s a good sign actually. It shows that our coaching staff is always looking to improve. 
Ya gotta wonder just where in the Hell is Hervey getting all this cash from ? This by the way is not the FA news I was waiting to hear about today . This one sucks big time !
I have no clue
As someone posted earlier, these are offers made before official free agency begins. Can a players existing team match or beat existing offers before free agency begins? Nothing as yet is set in stone until then?
We kept hearing about how tight the locker room was; a band of brothers kind of vibe. All these defections surely point to something else.
This is a good question. In theory that’s how it’s supposed to work but in practice it never seems to. For like 95%+ of the deals reported in the communication week they go through.
We don’t know which were initiated by the player and which by the team.
Bringing back an entire team that didn’t get the job done likely won’t lead to better results
Exactly
neither will not signing any good free agents to replace what was lost. I get upgrading but what have we upgraded?
And playing devils advocate busting up a team that went 11-7 , finished 1rst and came up short of a trip to the Cup by a walk off fg also probably won’t lead to a better result .
Right now we have a total of 15 players who dressed for that EF game that are no longer on the team . We also have an additional 5 players who didn’t dress for that game who are no longer on the team . Add it all up and we are sitting at a total of 20 players already gone from last year and we are only in the first week of February .
Might need to find a new source. We’ll is drying up
Gotta wonder if Ted were stil around, would the past week have looked different for the Cats (I.e. more signings and re-signings). We miss you Ted.
Perhaps Ticat management didn’t get the memo that this week you can negotiate with other free agents. Give them the benefit of the doubt.
And I will say in my opinion the 11-7 team just wasn’t very good last season.
Better than a terrible Toronto team-YUP
Better than a terrible Ottawa team-YUP
Pretty mediocre otherwise.
That hole of a defense was terrible and we have lost 2 good DBs, and not added a single player.
The teams strength O-Line has been severly compromised.
Right now we have openings on Defense for a DT , MLB and 2 DB’s . That’s a third of the defense from last year that is going to be replaced with possibly more openings coming up as the season progresses .
I don’t disagree with this sentiment either but some of the players we all agree we can improve on.
The OLine and secondary losses are the biggest hit as far as I’m concerned.
We absolutely have to sign Mcmanus and bring guys into camp to push our average DLine.
For what it’s worth Milton , in the latest podcast, thinks Brayden Swartout is our in-house starting left tackle. 22 years old, 6 foot 7.