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Great post MyDogHasScheifeles

Balderdash! If 23 goals counts as 25-30, then 23 years old is pretty much 26, right?

So... 1 last year and 4 the year before, in the entire league. Ya, that qualifies as rare, actually... never mind the fact that most of your 'rookies' are 22-26 years old... which Laine and Connor aren't.

Maybe you aren't, but there have been several posts lately like this one:

If you don't want to discuss it you don't have to. No need to shout down those who do want to.

Gotta love these poll results so far. 26-0 for both Hamilton over Sask, and Ottawa over Montreal. Not often you see unanimous results.

Lol. Yes, every player is going to improve, all the rookies will be successful, and the PP is going to be awesome. Unfortunately reality gets in the way.

How can you judge a team's performance without considering their opponents?

I really think that TBURGESS is taking a lot of unnecessary flak here. The question was "Is it real?" To me, answering that question requires going beyond "a win is a win." It is undeniable that the team is playing better, that's obvious from the 3 game winning streak. But where do the Bombers stack up against the contenders like BC, Ottawa and Calgary? And to a lesser extent Hamilton and Toronto with Collaros and Ray, respectively. To answer that, you have to take a deeper dive into each game which includes noting the facts that TBURGESS is talking about. It's also similar to the people saying that all the replacements are playing better than the starters. Well, let's see CJ Roberts, Travis Bond, Manase Foketi and Taylor Loffler going up against Calgary, BC and Ottawa before we make any grand proclamations, maybe?

We've also lost Ladd's 20-25 goals. So Laine is expected to replace 40-45 goals between Ladd and Stafford's absence? Not high expectations at all... or wait, are we expecting Armia to pot 20+ as well? Now that's a laugh and a half.

Constantly injured... not sure he would provide much value to us, depending on salary expectations... certainly he's not an upgrade on Shologan or Thomas.

I am expecting to split both the home-and-away series with BC and Ottawa. Playing in Calgary is a write-off and we should win at home against Edmonton. 3-3 in the last six seems more likely to me. I'm also expecting 2-2 over the next four, for a 9-9 finish. This really does look like a .500 team at this point.

The Riders aren't firing Chris Jones any time soon, lol let's get real here... I think people are making this into a bigger deal than it really is. Almost feels like fans outside of Saskatchewan want Jones to be fired because they're nervous that he will turn things around in Sask given enough time. Let's be honest, Jones and Murphy have had no problem finding and coaching up talent in any of their other stops in the league, they didn't just forget how to do their jobs when Sask hired them.

The reasonable move, if BLM was actually concerned about the Riders' roster management, would be to contact the league, at which point they would have informed him there was an ongoing investigation.

I'm sure Keeping can play guard and we could move a guard (Bond) out to tackle. The biggest requirement IMO is the ability to play Centre because if Goossen goes down, I'm not sure any of our current starters have taken many, if any, reps at centre. So to me, the question is whether Keeping is an upgrade on Couture or not at this point in their respective careers. I'd also suggest that Neufeld is still our second best option at RT after Hardrick, although I'm interested to see how Foketi progresses.

Getting rid of a GM after anything less than 3 years would be insane, barring some sort of massive failure ala Kelly or Reinebold.

Finally some logic!

I've never seen a pro football player put as little effort in as I saw from Martin on one play in Montreal's last game. He was either tired to the point of total exhaustion or couldn't be bothered to do more than go through the motions. Either way, not a great sign... Edit: I guess this was already mentioned on the previous page by Bigblue204. Oh well. Now I've said it, so you KNOW it's true.

Realistically if a team is a playoff contender, they are a Grey Cup contender. It's the CFL, it only takes one or two wins to make it to the big game once you get in.

Hecht isn't great but the Riders desperately need Canadian DBs.

It's a stupid contest anyways!!!

Nuke Saskatchewan!

They're all low percentage plays in terms of getting a first down. Its 2nd and 20. The short game is favored because the chance of turning the ball over is much lower, it helps in the field position battle and the chance is still there for the player to make a couple guys miss and gain the first down.

Riders are done, chalk up another loss

What do you mean? Looks to me like Harris is having one of the best years of his career.