Mike

To be fair, we got Michael Couture for Chris Greaves and that's a pretty worthwhile trade in my mind.

The way you're acting is portraying it as if it was an active choice they made to NOT go pick a Canadian lineman off the Canadian lineman tree. If the problems were as easy to solve as you're making them out to be, Canadian OL wouldn't be considered as valuable as they are.

I think the log cookies in Ottawa and the steam whistle in Hamilton are both awesome.

The problem with AJ making something out of it is that it already seemed stale because the same schtick had just bricked a few segments earlier.

RAW was awful last night - how on earth did they think running the "run to the ring, back off, run back to the ring, back off, run back to the ring, back off" garbage was going to work ONCE, let alone TWICE? It was unbearable. Seeing Seth do it was terrible, they're doing all they can to give that guy heel reactions but the crowd just hates the angle instead. Then AJ does it shortly after? Garbage. Who wrote this ****

You're just mad because your team probably would've been better off drafting dead guys last year, Ottawa style. STEAL OF THE DRAFT COMING UP RIGHT HERE (I already have mine for this year)

Life got in the way of me participating last year as I ended up taking on a bunch of stuff that really tied me up but I'd be interested this year.

He claims to this day that he didn't know they were black when he said that. Seriously.

I've never had more fun on an online forum than I'm having today. At this point I've had 5 or 6 Rider fans PM me to comment anonymously on the spin going on from their fellow fans in that thread. It's pretty amusing. I hate saying this but some of those guys aren't all that bad.

Stronson and Rotor are pretty well connected, I'll give them that. But both of them, especially Stronson, have gotten a bit too high and mighty and find themselves guilty of feeling like they're allowed to make up whatever bull story they want and expecting no one to call them on it because of the "don't you know who we are?!" factor.

I'm getting a real kick out of that too. What he got caught doing in that thread is so perfect. It's obvious that he has some team connections, but he definitely got busted taking his accurate information and added the Aardvark style commentary to it to make it more of a "story". Market correction my ass.

Pretty much. As long as by "they", we all know it's two specific posters.

But imagine a Clarence Denmark face turn?

Heenan didn't make anywhere near that much in his first year. the 400k is a ridiculous ask - that's not the issue that I'm laughing about over on Riderfans. The thread is a great read right now.

Was thinking about this earlier and I'm really torn on who I expect more from this year between Ryan Smith and Weston Dressler. Smith is younger and probably has more room to grow, but Dressler brings that increased professionalism to a group that really needed an injection of it on the offensive side of the ball. I'd love to hear opinions though because I'm fairly torn. Dressler or Smith?

DL Cameron Henderson added to retired list WR Lestar Jean added to roster (6'3", NFL experience)

Or how about whoever scores gets to punch out the guy defending him

Plus then you can keep your eyes on the clouds so you don't miss the chance to yell at them as they go by.

New plane would be cool. I don't like the plane right now, but I think part of that is because it looks like it's decades old.

I think the guy that could make the biggest impact this year is Loffler, to be honest.

*If* Jones actually did offer the league minimum to JSJ, he's an absolute idiot. I don't think he did, for what it's worth. Rider_Stronson is going on and on over at Riderfans about how this is a market correction to make up for the deals Walters and Desjardins gave out last year to Chungh and Mateas, but what a joke. He wants to blame this on some valiant effort to right the wrongs of past GMs, but really it strikes me as Jones (again, *if* true) trying to combat stubbornness with stubbornness. The #1 overall pick hasn't made league minimum for years. Heenan didn't, Muamba didn't, even Shomari the Marshmallow didn't make league minimum. I don't know what is going on with these negotiations, but if there was a league minimum offer tabled then Jones is going to find out in a hurry that JSJ isn't in any hurry to sign for that amount.

No doubt in my mind Saskatchewan has a worse defense than us this year. The only spot they rate out evenly to us on paper is in the linebacking group. They've added some great pieces but that secondary is going to be a nightmare early on.

Guaranteed you.

I don't dislike Muamba - I just choose to not even factor him into my thought processes regarding this team because let's face it, his agent will be a headache no matter what. I like Henoc. His agent is an absolute ****.

Who cares about Henoc Muamba - he's dead to me, to be honest