SpeedFlex27

This. We saw in last night's game on short yardage the Hamilton FB go behind Center in shotgun while Mitchell lined up as a receiver. Mitchell just stood there doing nothing. he wanted no part of the play. So then, why bother? Mitchell isn't much of a receiver. He won't block or catch the ball lest he injures himself. So, he's a useless decoy. Like Mitchell, moving Zach over to another position just takes him out of his comfort zone & his concern about getting injured.

They weren't going to keep Dru Brown as they can't have two qbs taking over a third of the salary cap. The plan all along was to sign Streveler & ditch Brown. Besides, Brown wanted to leave anyway. While he looks better than Dustin Crum handling the Ottawa offense, I have my doubts Brown is ready to be a starting qb in the CFL. He seems to be just above average at the control of the RedBlacks, he certainly doen't look like the Next Big thing. Brown looks slow getting rid of the football. Certainly not very athletic. He could have benefitted from staying another 2 years as a Bomber under Zach.

Fernwood 2 Nite.

Does Kate Bierness even work anymore? She can stay home. They give LaPo a chair off camera below the analysts desk. The producers have no idea what to do with him.

If he keeps developing he'll replace Lawler. Certainly a cheaper option.

There were more fans than usual. I figured 22,000. After yesterday's **** 4th quarter ending for the Stamps, I'm sure they'll be back again to 12-14,000 next home game.

Yes, there are backs on the seats. If the capacity is 35,000 then nearly 30,000 seats have backs. The attendance issues go a lot further back than just backs on the seats. Stadium sucks. Ownership refuses to engage in trying to get a new stadium built. Absentee owner & Swiss citizen Murray Edwards doesn't care about the team. Well, it can't be ignored. You have a percentage of the population who are far right & don't trust government. To them, the vaccine mandates including the ones the CFL imposed on their teams affected a lot of fans. Most have come back but a significant amount still refuse to ever come back.

Well, I got indigestion last year when we couldn't (or wouldn't) sign Desjarlais or Couture. Yeah, supposedly they wanted to play in their hometowns but it's funny how being paid changes loyalties. It was a deceision not to overpay & look at what that's got us now. We overpaid for Oliveira, Lawler & Schoen but we wouldn't pay to get two outstanding Canadian OL back. Imagine the difference with them both starting instead of Dobson & Kolankowski. Even if we only got one back.

Collaros won't be out the rest of the season & will probably be back next week. So, your comments won't even be a consideration. Streveler is who he is. A running qb first. No one is going to mistake him for a qb who throws the ball first.

As long as Streveler is our qb throwing the ball will be a challenge. Although Streveler does bring a lot of intangibles to the table to make up for it. It was nice to see our young receivers finally become more involved in the offense. Unlike when Zach was playing. Streveler as more than willing to let these guys earn their paycheques. unlike Collaros ignored them the past 4 games. How can young receivers improve if all they do is run routes all game long & are never thrown to? The more I see Dru Brown, the more he looks like a game managing qb who'll never be able to put a team on his back in order to win. He plays like an automaton. Nothng exciting. Does his job. Goes through his reads. We'd have not been any better off by keeping him. Dustin Crum is Dustin Crum. Still can't read a defense & relies too much on his legs instead of his arm trying to win games. Destined to be a career backup.

The Riders have never recovered from the vaccine mandate of 2021. They lost a lot of fans who have stopped following the team. Calgary the same thing. The Stamps have lost tens of thousands of fans in the City.

We have a vanilla front 7. Faceless players come in & go out on the DL. Our linebacking group is the worst in the CFL.

Chad Kelly says hello. "Betcha y'all thought I was done..."

Now, Dukes is just throwing the game away with two huge picks.

No way that 11,000 fans come down from Saskatoon for any games.

Riders 3-0 first time since 2013. They can't even get 22,000 to their game tonight. Their fanbase is so overrated. Ouelette never should have left the Argos. His style of running just looks so out of step with the Riders offense.

They're just using age as an excuse. Too bad we can't do that with Jake Thomas.

He hasn't lost any speed.

Better question would be, Would Jake Thomas the HC play Jake Thomas the player?

**** Westjet.

No accountability for that OL on the play Collaros got hurt. Dobson gets to start even though he abandoned his block. The Mike O'Shea Way.

Demski

Oliveira

I never felt Mark attacked me. My gosh, if I came across that way then I'm sorry. We were just having a football discussion. That's all it was. I wasn't attacking Mark.

Just reacting to your earlier comment, "Could be. Sometimes you work with the qbs you have-like the Als with Fajardo." To me, it seemed like you made a backhanded comment right in the nose. I'm happy for the guy. I don't hold it against him just because he played for the Riders. There's a few people that want him to fail just because he was a Rider. BTW, not saying you feel that way.