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The only reason he should be happy is that the game ended.

You act like these are positive things. I'm not saying if they were positive or negative, I'm saying it is very clear that Burke was uncomfortable with Palardy as his kicker, back to the Banjo Bowl last season, and Goltz at QB. Pretty clear that he wasn't making those roster decisions and Mack was. Mack standing on the sideline isn't interfering with the coaching staff. Mack setting the game roster is.

I don't care if a GM is on the sidelines during a game. All you need to know about Mack interfering with Burke and the coaching staff's responsibilities is that the minute he was fired Sandro Deangelis was on his way to Winnipeg and Max Hall was the starting QB. Clearly Mack was doing more than procuring players and managing from the front office. The coach (and coaching staff) should decide who is on the game roster.

Based on what? How many passes has he thrown as a pro? Still a prospect, a weak-armed immobile one at that. If you bring a guy like that in you have to teach him how to be a passer at this level like he was in the spread in college, you won't get anything immediate.

If Buck was under the amount of pressure you're suggesting, nobody would be able to tell what his reads are because he'd be on his ass before his eyes are even downfield. Buck can't handle a blitz, it is why he gets blitzed and why our offence is useless when he's out there. He makes brutal decisions like stepping into the rush rather than getting rid of the ball or stepping up but not keeping his eyes downfield. Rookie mistakes from an 8 year vet.

When teams are blitzing 8 guys, someone is not going to be blocked. That's not going to change until we put in a QB who can make a throw.

Bellefeuille used Marcus Thigpen pretty well.

Higgins would be in the deep part of the shallow end we've been fishing in for coaching hires. My preference would be to pay what it takes and give title to someone who deserves it and is the best candidate available. Hard to know what the chances of that happening are, but you see the guys like Milanovich (the Dickenson of 2010) turn down interviews here because they know that they won't get paid a top CFL head coaching salary and that they won't have the conditions in place to do their job properly. Hopefully this doesn't happen to us this time around.

BC's offence had a half dozen chances to end the game in the 4th quarter and could hardly move the ball against a pretty vanilla blitz scheme. BRUTAL!

Chapdelaine is having a bad night.

Chapdelaine abandoned the run and screen game with Montreal blitzing like crazy. Why?

The point I was trying to make actually was that having a strong arm doesn't mean a guy will be a top QB. Yes Bishop and Jackson had more success that Dinwiddie but there are also QBs who weren't overly blessed with arm strength who have had a lot more success than Bishop and Jackson. Doug Flutie immediately comes to mind. Hell, Jeff Garcia didn't have a cannon for an arm either and still had a great career in both the CFL and NFL. Garcia was quick and accurate so he could thrive in West Coast offences. Also above average mobility. Just when you'd get comfortable with the Stamps pass game, he'd take a drop and then pull down a QB draw for a first down.

Glenn was benched for 3 games. His huge September brought his numbers way up, but he had some truly awful games in 2008.

Every CFL QB has a major deficiency, otherwise they wouldn't be here. That's just life. Most of Hall's flutter balls came when he was dancing in the pocket, if he settles down his feet those balls will be tighter. That said, he's a pure pocket guy with an average arm and a nothing special release. Tough to be a great QB in the CFL or even NFL now without being more mobile (or having a lightning release to run a West Coast) as coaches are designing plays with 3+ options including the QB taking the ball. I hope they really think Hall can win games, because if we are developing someone it should be Goltz.

Was he adopted by the Shaw family?

1 correlation does not imply causation. 2 these shares do nothing to influence the organization or create accountability. It's essentially a fan club. The shareholders elect the board in Regina and Green Bay. The Riders have had an unprecedented era of stability and success both on and off the field since adopting their current board structure. I guess you could stick your fingers in your ears and say "la la la la la" and say the two things are unrelated, but that would be pretty ridiculous.

Successful as in not finishing projects, getting paid off to get out of the picture and leaving the taxpayers on the hook? Name one successful Creswin (or more commonly 352833 MB Ltd.) development. There isn't one. It's a shell company.

I'd take O'Day before I even consider Forde, speaking of lack of experience. Just because he gets on TV and can talk about football doesn't give him any management potential. NFL teams aren't clamoring to hire Mel Kiper Jr.

Laugh all you want at the shares. Since the Riders adopted the Packer model in the early 2000s they have been among the most successful CFL franchises after being a laughingstock for decades prior. The Packers are clearly one of the most successful pro franchises in North America in the smallest market. The big problem here is that there is no accountability for the board. Private owner, Jets for example, their accountability comes from the fact that if they don't run a good business and team, they'll lose money. Riders and Packers, if those board members don't stay in the lines, they won't be board members for long. Here they just do whatever with only the board members keeping each other accountable, and they spend "community" money.

We could just call him Beautiful Sheet.

Howell couldn't figure out how to play receiver in a decade in the league. He should be helping with special teams and little else.

The OC in Lapo's world would always just be a puppet, like Baressi was. Lapo wants to be a playcaller. This setup rarely works in the CFL or NFL, takes a special coach, which Lapo isn't.

Jerseys are UFL quality. Crap for a league with an actual history, especially for a team celebrating their 60th season. Paw prints should be avoided IMO. Hufnagel made some bad calls. Giving up a safety with 2 mins left to make it a 4 point deficit was the end of the game. Needs to have some faith in his special teams and defence. Also keep wondering why his 3rd best QB is starting. Dunigan tore a pretty good strip off Glenn for his wasting of about 30 seconds of clock on the last Stamps drive in the hurry-up.

Assuming only rostered players are in the draft (not guys who teams own CFL rights to like Bilikudi and Mulumba): Greaves, Swiston, Pencer, Etienne, Kohlert, Muamba If Bilikudi and Mulumba are included, I'd knock off one of the receivers and protect Mulumba.

The fact he could even get near some of those passes behind him is impressive.