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I dont think there is much of any concern about the blue WRs this year. weve got a pretty good bumper crop goin on here.
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13 hours ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:
O'Shea hintd at that in his last interview, he thinks Couture is ready mentally but he's not quite where he needs to be physically. If he starts hanging around with Corney he'll put on some pounds.
From game one he looked really good. I could see him being ready by mid season imop. This draft could be the draft that just keeps on giving.
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8 hours ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:
Jones needs to get Popp on the phone and pick up whichever QB he's willing to get rid of. Cato or Crompton would be a much better security net beneath Durant than the backups they currently employ.
I actually like those two. Idk why they went soo qb crazy in the off season. Glenn backed up with cato and crompton with the canadian developing is solid.
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12 hours ago, AtlanticRiderFan said:
He's still coming back from a serious injury. No use risking him this early.
I'm sure he will play next week so as to warm him up.
Is he 100%? I thought he was for the start of riders camp. Would make sense if hes any thing under 100% to ease him on back. Other wise it seems strange no to play him. Heres hoping hes 100% for the season. The league is much better with the best qbs playing, and I wanna beat the riders at full strength not running on back ups. Though tbh for the last 10 years or so its seemed like back up qbs are a bigger issue for us then starters xD.
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9 hours ago, J5V said:
Would have liked to have seen him use his hands on that one instead of trying to squeeze it against his body. It was pretty crappy luck to have that thing deflect to where the defender could snag it.
Drives me nuts seeing guys with good hands use the body.
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2 hours ago, MTA said:
No way tony can play sam. I still dont understand how ppl think sam is a LB postion its not, its a true db spot. Its not 1980
Yeah the media dont seem to get it.
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1 minute ago, 17to85 said:
Yes Mr. Lumsden...
xD didnt we have a football players mother on the old boards for a while? Super defensive n stuff? Idk maybe it was a troll. Wickmans dad was awesome though.
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11 minutes ago, ddanger said:
I'd have to look at that video of Corney again to see if he played strictly on the one side in college, but he was definitely stronger rushing against the left tackle. He does have great speed, and I believe he got credit for 2 sacks.
personally I dont think its a big deal in the cfl which end you rush from. A very few guys will be technically limited or have a mental hang up about coming from one side, but I dont think its any where as near a big deal as in american football where you have a strong and weak side.
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3 hours ago, Brandon said:
The Neufeld of Canadian receivers?
not good enough for that >.<
1 hour ago, Goalie said:And here comes the never played a contact sport in their life brigade ripping on Richards. Man. Some of you guys are just ridiculous with these posts about a 22 year old kid.
Played football, boxed, did TKD, bjj and was on the national team for kickboxing. But you dont need any of that to know the old saying, you cant make the club from the tub. I hope his recovery is speedy and he can show some thing finally. But at this rate he's a bad year from being out of football.
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8 hours ago, TBURGESS said:
FWIW I'm getting tired of hearing of all these great catches where the receivers have to reach behind themselves fully extended. I'd rather hear that the QB's are placing the ball in front of the receivers so they can catch on the run. In real games, DB's will kill receivers who have to reach behind for the ball or maybe even pick it off.
Its not just a QB thing. Youd be surprised how many wrs run a 8 yard out on a 10 yard out play, how often a qb throws during a wrs break and the wr doesnt burst out of the cut etc. Short to intermediate passes over the middle should be on the numbers. Pretty much every thing else should lead the WR. If you throw to one side or the other and put it on the numbers its liable to be a pick 6. You have to put it where it cant be picked and only the wr can get it. Thats just life in the modern cfl spread offense.
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2 hours ago, IC Khari said:
Duh-OK ... will this guy ever make it on the field for an extended time?
insert every 4 letter word in history here. And some of those color full sailor swears / ryan reynolds lines here.
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10 hours ago, kelownabomberfan said:
the year still depends on the health of Drew Willy. Matt Nichols just doesn't have what it takes to be a starter.
People would have said the same thin of kerwin bell his last year here.
He did pretty good in a brutal offense last year. That said Its dang hard to imagine us being better then if willy is healthy and his old self. I hope he's just shaking off rust, he hasnt looked as sharp as usual. But a new system running vanilla plays and lots of changes will add to that too. And no dressler.
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17 minutes ago, ediger said:
I heard Addison Richards' name last night. That's progress, right?
Seriously though, great game. Looking forward to seeing them against some stronger competition. Still, it looks like we finally have some depth. It will be nice to be able to breathe while the starters are getting some rest. Also, isn't it nice to feel confident in your kicker?richards all in all didnt look bad. Had some flashes. Small sigh of relief hope fully he can keep it up and progress into a factor.
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25 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:
Jones will throw Durant under the bus and Pederson will spin it for him.
i dont doubt he will try it. But when star qbs fight coaches the qbs seldom lose.
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23 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:
watching Pederson and the rest of the Rider "media" try to spin it as a positive will be even more delightful.
wonder what jones is gonna do for work next. You know durant can do no wrong in dirty old regina.
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1 hour ago, kelownabomberfan said:
You can't type this unless you are wearing a hat signed by Tom Landry.
Or atleast his hat while striking a homer simpson though pose.
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1 hour ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:
Main complaint with smaller scat backs is getting wrapped up in the backfield which leads to 2 and outs far too often. I'll take a "low potential grinder" like Curtis Steele who can get 4-5 yards on almost every carry over the occasional flash any day. Hopefully the O-line can make the holes this year so that will not be an issue.
Round two goes next Monday, there will be blood. Don't miss it sports fans!
Thats a drastically out dated notion. There is a reason why we didnt use mike sellers running short yardage and used blink instead. Ive got much love for tackle breaking, pile pushing power backs, but flanders isnt one. Messam, ranek those guys are few and far between up here. What im saying is flanders is the kind of guy who will run for a steady 5 yards when a back like anderson would run for 7+.
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4 hours ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:
The problem I see with Anderson is that he is a small RB and needs space to look good, As we saw with Cotton unless there is a good hole smaller backs can be easily rendered ineffective. Flanders seems to have some power and can break tackles as well as run well in the open field, more like Andrew Harris in that regard.
Anderson is certainly smaller, but that isnt a big issue to me. 1) weve seen high usage durable small backs in this league before. Its not nearly as big an issue as in the nfl. Lbers are a ton bigger then Dbs and Des are only a bit bigger on average then LBers. A side from the odd miracle worker all rbs need a hole. If the OL gets gaps eliminated unless you have an off tackle play called its making the best of a bad situation.
If any thing the type of runner anderson is he has more of a chance then flanders if no hole is available. Hes shown the ability to scrape the line and find the edge, cut back in a small window and make people miss. Flanders is bigger, but he will still only push through bad angle arm tackles. He took advantage of good gaps and basically ran to defenders. He isnt a tackle breaker, he doesnt seem to have the ability to move a pile even small groups of LBers. Anderson's ability to be a threat returning kicks, and being a change of pace from harris is a great fit for us. If it was for a no1 rb, id say split carrys feature flanders and let anderson be the change of pace back again. His skill set is just really well set up for that. But luckily we have harris to start.
A low potential grinder of a rb flanders doesnt seem to do any thing poorly. But he doesnt do any thing great either. Hes the kind of guy thatll run for 4 or 5 yards with a decent push from the Ol with high regularity. Not a bad fit at all for the cfl, but a guy like that needs a lot of touches to be effective.
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3 minutes ago, Logan007 said:
I hope they keep Mayo and McDuffie. They both did well last night.
I liked Flanders and Anderson also did a good job. If I had to choose after one game, I'd probably go with Flanders. He just seemed to have some decent runs.
Davis and Bennett did really well at QB. I enjoyed watching them both. Nichols, who we won't get rid of, was pretty meh out there.
Veltung didn't really blow me away considering what was thrown to him. And who was it that ran that return near the end of the game and kept cutting across the field instead of just running straight up? Was that Anderson or McDuffie?
I was quite impressed by a lot of the newcomers actually.
This is true, but flanders tore it up later against lesser competition with more touches then anderson imop. Anderson is also a legit kick returner, I dont see flanders beating him out short of injury or monster game in ottawa and anderson looking bad.
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3 minutes ago, bearpants said:
I will state definitively that Drew Willy WILL make the team... you heard it here first!
thats ballsy but will he be 1st 2nd or 3rd string?
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dont think any one did soo bad they gotta be cut before game 2.
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6 minutes ago, IC Khari said:
Ventung is in big trouble, probably one of the early cuts, McDuffbeer hasn't got the greatest hands but made something happen every time he touched the ball ...
Idk i think MoS is slow to cut vets. I agree for a guy whose been around as much veltung sure got out shined by a few rooks.
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thats what the cook (she) said.