Bob Dyce

Nick Constantino back with the Tigercats after a tryout with the Cleveland Browns in the National Football League.

What do you think special teams coordinator Bob Dice's message to Nick is going to be tonight?

oh, just be yourself.

He was out in practice hitting bombs.

"Hey, Dad, blah, blah, blah." He's like, "Shh." You'd think I would know, but then I would be on the field 'cause the Riders, certain coaches back in the day let me go [laughs] literally wherever the hell I wanted, which I believe became a problem problem.

But anyways, Bob Dice was one guy that I remember, uh, [laughs] Bobby was in the zone walking by me.

I'm like, "Morning, Bob." Walks right by me, didn't even acknowledge me, and then I'm like, my feelings were hurt.

I would never do that, but maybe I would.

And because of that, I think it would be rash to fire a coach because of what has transpired.

What do you make of Bob Dice? Do you think that they should be looking at him? Because I haven't been overly impressed with the special teams.

Like, yes, obviously the kicking has been good, but that's just on the kicker, right? I mean, he kicks field goals.

That's what he does.

Is it Dice's fault, or was he lightning in a bottle? Was it a one-season thing? And would the team have been better off keeping Mario Alford? Again, we don't know the actual answer to this question, because it's not as if Wooden or the special teams unit has been put in a ton of trouble.

A ton of opportunities to be successful, but they haven't done much.

Whether that cost Bob Dice's job, like, I don't know.

I, judging and evaluating special teams is not, I don't really think it's anyone's specialty.

Well, once things start to tumble, it's engaged.

I asked him, like, is it worse with Bob Dice there? Or, like, what are we doing here? I don't know.

Because isn't he the special teams coordinator as well as assistant coach?

Yeah.

He's very blunt.

He's very, you know, just even with the media, he's like, which is probably a little bit different even compared to like Bob Dice, who didn't want to say anything negative in the media.

You knew he probably was feeling something different, but with Ryan Dinwiddie, it's, it's very transparent.

Yeah.

He inherited a terrible situation.

People forget how down people were on the Red Blacks after last year, and they felt like they carried on for an extra year of Bob Dice where they shouldn't have.

And with the way that the CFL coaching salary cap or whatever the hell you want to call it works...

Like

Our punter was better than their punter.

Our scheme from Bob Dice was better than theirs.

I think this is the game to do it, right? Like if you're going to win the football game, let's definitely win this phase of the game.

Let's not allow Janarian Grant to get a big return either on the punt or the kickoff.