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Doug Flutie was a pretty good ad libber as was Tom Clements. The difference between them & the other guys at qb was the fact they could see the whole field & both were very smart players. They both made things happen.

The irony is not lost on me, either.

Streveler went out & DID HIS JOB. He did it well so let's congratulate him& let him enjoy the week leading up to the game in socialist BC. 

Rider fans would have said he'd have gone 20 for 10. 
 

Rider fans would have said he'd have gone 20 for 10. 
 

He was playing against a lot of guys who won't be here in 2 weeks so let's take a breath before we annoint Streveler "The Next One". We're all happy he played so well but let's temper our enthusiasm a bit here & be a bit more realistic.

To use a football analogy with your son & football. Run with it. Enjoy the journey & let him have every opportunity to succeed. My son was a qb in Calgary. I put him in a lot of qb camps when he was a bantam & high school player. It was nothing for us to get into the car & drive a thousand miles to a football camp in Idaho, Washington, Oregon & California. The camps were great & he learned a ton but the chance to spend time with my son in the car... goin' down the road... just talking & hanging out together was priceless. You never get that time back when your kids get older & move on with their own lives. A coach at one of those camps saw my son, liked him & recommended him to the coach of the junior college team he would eventually play, start for & win a State championship with in Northern California. So, you never know who is watching & when opportunity presents itself. 

I can relate Booch. I had the same amount of knee surgeries minus one on the second knee. Tore all the ligaments twice in the right knee. First time was at age 17 and the second time I was 19. They had to take tendons from the left to use to graft the ligaments in the right. Meniscus was eventually taken out at 24 because you can only shave it down so many times. The pain from arthritis throughout my late 20s and and 30’s was torture. It was to the point I was chewing up percs like they were coming out of pez dispensers. Finally and thankfully in 2015 at the age of 42, I got my knee replaced and i have zero pain. Dr Burnell from Concordia hip and knee clinic is absolutely amazing. I don’t even need to take an Advil anymore. Right hip needs to eventually be replaced, but cordisone shots every 6-9months are doing the job for now. I totally recommend getting a replacement if one is required. I can’t begin to tell you how much of a difference it makes and the improvement of quality of life. 
 

hey... he earned it.

Rider fans would have said he'd have gone 20 for 10. 
 

What I don't like is when a team is up 45-7 & the starting qb is still playing padding his passing stats. That is wreckless as he could get hurt & the backups get no playing time. That is when I start questioning the sanity of a head coach. 

Rider fans would have said he'd have gone 20 for 10. 
 

I didn't put my son's health at risk. He is an adult. He makes his own decisions. He was also on a scholarship & playing football was the only way to get his degree to which he was a year away from receiving at the time. He wouldn't have been able to afford university along with the cost of the dorms & meals if he hadn't have played. His decision, not mine. Besides, if you've ever played a sport at a high level... walking away is not easy. Ask guys here who have played like Booch how hard that is. I could have got down on my hands & knees but he still would have played. He was 24 at the time. It was his decision to make. 

Rider fans would have said he'd have gone 20 for 10. 
 

Rider fans would have said he'd have gone 20 for 10. 
 

He was playing against a lot of guys who won't be here in 2 weeks so let's take a breath before we annoint Streveler "The Next One". We're all happy he played so well but let's temper our enthusiasm a bit here & be a bit more realistic.

TSN doesn't care. They are the only network to do the broadcasts. They need competition. 

I just find him to be too inconsistent for my liking. Ricky Ray may be boring but he is the same game to game. That kind of player earns a coach's trust.

To use a football analogy with your son & football. Run with it. Enjoy the journey & let him have every opportunity to succeed. My son was a qb in Calgary. I put him in a lot of qb camps when he was a bantam & high school player. It was nothing for us to get into the car & drive a thousand miles to a football camp in Idaho, Washington, Oregon & California. The camps were great & he learned a ton but the chance to spend time with my son in the car... goin' down the road... just talking & hanging out together was priceless. You never get that time back when your kids get older & move on with their own lives. A coach at one of those camps saw my son, liked him & recommended him to the coach of the junior college team he would eventually play, start for & win a State championship with in Northern California. So, you never know who is watching & when opportunity presents itself. 

Yeah, he is, thank you. He is getting married July 7th in Portland, OR to his fiancée that he met in 2011 while playing football at Junior College in California. 

I just find him to be too inconsistent for my liking. Ricky Ray may be boring but he is the same game to game. That kind of player earns a coach's trust.

Its a mugs game to draw any broad conclusions from an ex game. Masoli was dicked by some uncharacterisitc drops by Tasker and fumbles by others. Manziel did some good things, put in some tough spots, for a guy coming into a new new style of game ice cold he did fine I thought. Flashes of talent.
Mildly shocked at the sloppiness of the supposed starting unit.

For his debut he did okay. I think the Ti Cats have to be concerned with how bad Masoli looked at times. Granted his running back who fumbled twice didn't help but Jones was expected him to play better than that. Jones said he kept him in the game longer to play himself out of it but he didn't look like a cool veteran in there. 

To use a football analogy with your son & football. Run with it. Enjoy the journey & let him have every opportunity to succeed. My son was a qb in Calgary. I put him in a lot of qb camps when he was a bantam & high school player. It was nothing for us to get into the car & drive a thousand miles to a football camp in Idaho, Washington, Oregon & California. The camps were great & he learned a ton but the chance to spend time with my son in the car... goin' down the road... just talking & hanging out together was priceless. You never get that time back when your kids get older & move on with their own lives. A coach at one of those camps saw my son, liked him & recommended him to the coach of the junior college team he would eventually play, start for & win a State championship with in Northern California. So, you never know who is watching & when opportunity presents itself. 

Cato had mental health issues some say PTSD from where he grew up. Manziel doesn't have that but is bi polar which is treatable. If we said people with PTSD such as soldiers returning from a theatre of war or people who are bi polar are headcases we'd be criticized severely.