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I dunno that Montreal would be in a hurry to prop up a division rival like that.

The team that cut Denmark in training camp?

I mean this is the team that specialises in finding new ways to disappoint us fans right? Surely this 5 game win streak is just setting us up to crush our hopes and dreams right?

I remain unconvinced that Smith is better than Denmark, but Smith was a big ticket free agent signing so he has to go in, he just does.

yeah I have contemplated buying stamps season tickets a bunch and likely would have if my job didn't involve a lot of time out of town unable to use tickets. I just like football and the CFL that much that I'd go watch any game. A night at the football stadium watching football is still a pretty damned good night.

said it before I'll say it again, Bomber fans are the best fans in the league, Rider fans are the biggest bandwagon jumpers. No other team would get the support the Bombers have for such a crappy product.

Since it's opened you just got the sense that the crowd at IGF was waiting for anything to get rowdy about, unfortunately the Bombers haven't done a lot of winning there or made a lot of plays, but now with a 5 game win streak rolling into town and a sold out building they are going to blow the roof off the place. Get a few big plays in early and it'll be a sight to behold.

yeah it's dumb, let the canadian channels keep their commercial time, this is how the business operates right, you can see the commercials online if you really need to.

More so a case of Freddy Frederick looking better

Soft call but definitely a by the books call

Hey now, we still have the Foo Fighters.... But that's about it

Still preferable to a dipper.

en francais aussi sil vous plait.

Strombo is available right?

I said to Noeller just yesterday that the Rider fan base appears to have collectively lost their marbles after losing on Labour Day, a big blow out win by the Bombers in the Banjo Bowl would probably push them completely over the edge so I am hoping to god it happens just to watch the fireworks after.

lots can change between Labour Day and the end of the season. I suspect there will be a cross over though for one simple reason.... too many wins for western teams when the Riders are sporting the record they are.

so the insider who needs to be censored all the time has to be Kent Austin right? You just know a guy that angry has a potty mouth on him right?

This is exactly the point. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. It's a classic case of deflection. Why look at the real problems when you can blame an outside influence? Oh no we made a great move giving Cate Blanchette (had to steal it, too good a line) to Jones, it's just that damned Orridge and the rest of the jealous teams in the league conspiring to keep us down!

I'd trade Notley for the decomposed corpse of Ralph Klein

Don't hate him just cause he's more honest than you are

Willy didn't even play THAT poorly in the Calgary game. Yeah there were some misses but there were busted running plays and dropped passes that led to punting as well. The real problem in that Calgary game was that the defense was absolutely useless all game long. They couldn't stop Messam and they couldn't stop BLM. They let the Stamps own the ball and couldn't get a stop. The O got bogged down and didn't get back on the field because the D was giving up long drive after long drive. The Stamps didn't punt until the 4th quarter I am pretty sure. That's bad, real bad.

Especially when you can clearly see the defense improving before the change was made at quarterback.

Making the situation even better is that I do think Jones is a good coach and if he'd kept his head down and just worked on rebuilding the team he likely would have got the job done sooner rather than later, but he went ahead and created a circus and now he's burning bridges and making himself look foolish, barring a quick and impressive turn around he's likely going to wind up being run out of town. So many similarities to Mike Kelly it's not even funny. Kelly could have been a good coach but the ego cost him, same happening to Jones right now from the looks of things.

We talked all offseason how we wanted to see the situation with Jones in Saskatchewan blow up and now that it has it's glorious! Rider fans are falling over themselves trying to explain how this could happen and they've landed on the most ridiculous of things to pin it on and the amount of mental gymnastics going on to try and find proof for that point is highly entertaining. Bombers in the mix for a playoff spot and Rider fans showing how truly and utterly insane and deluded they are... best CFL season ever!

You can occupy the space and prevent the receiver from coming back, but you can't use your arms to block him out. I never said Dressler had a prayer for catching the ball, in fact I even said if you will read that I thought it was a poor throw. What I am laughing about is that Cox put himself in a position to take a penalty with the arm across Dressler when the reality is that he didn't need to do it at all. He keeps his hands to himself it's an interception and no one says a word, but he had to get the hand on the arm and then put the arm across the receivers body and give the refs all they needed to see to throw a flag. Poor throw, db in good position, but he needlessly put himself in a position to take a penalty and blow the game for his team. No conspiracy, no missed call, just a guy getting too physical in a situation that he didn't need to. It's dumb **** like that from players and coaches that have landed the Riders in the mess they are in.