Brandon

Is anyone losing interest with the Blue for this season? With all the losses and with the Jets and the NFL now on it seems to me that these boards are much more quiet...... It would of been nice if the team brought in a few guys who could of made a difference on the club... but with the same *talent* they have and with all the injuries it's pretty much expected that we won't win any more games this year...

I'm shocked Tangradi had really any trade value... I'm guessing Hutch played himself off the team?

Well the defenses on both teams have picked it up. Ultimately the game boils down to if they give Burris time to throw. Ottawa has an awful returner and no running game..

At this point of the season why would Edm. want to help the RR and potentially lose out on a home playoff game and all those $$$? Nicholls learning a brand new offense and the fact that he has shown only "good" and not much great would make it ideal for them to fleece the Riders in a trade. I think they could get a 1st rounder and a starter for Nichols and some scrub.

Is Klingberg considered a bust?

Not to derail this thread but who is this dead weight you're referring to? Romby , Kuale, the crappy int o line guys, bench warmers etc..

Where are all the Rider fans who have been flooding these boards? So what retread will Taman dig out for next week? Goltz? Joseph? Can Max Hall sneak in the country?

Why can't the dead weight on the team ever get hurt? Why is it mainly the guys who are performing.

This thread is ridiculous. You can't plan how an injury will heal. The doctors won't know at all until the week of.

It was very very quiet in that stadium. It was very very quiet in that stadium.I was watching on television... I could hear crowd sounds.And I was there and I'm telling you it was much quieter than any other play that game. Yeah, I agree. Just sayin' it sounded loud on television... Hard to get a true gauge when I wasn't there. It was dead quiet. Noise was not an issue..

Except for the part where Troy Smith had actual trade value... other than that, pretty solid. I can't remember the original idea but Smith would be the throw in with other picks.

What do you expect the Rider club to say? You think they would ever say Durant is done for the year and that they have zero chance to win? Of course they have no clue if he will be ready by then but it only makes sense to give the fans hope I.e. sell tickets

My original theory was a three way trade involving Montreal with Troy Smith going to Ottawa.... Nicholls may also make sense.

Anatolin showed well in pre season.... he may get the job done

I used to play an obscene amount of games...then I got married...and then had a child.... Now my video game life is dead I used to play a lot of 360... Now I'm back to playing games on PC. Since I'm so far behind on games I can buy most of them off of steam for under 10 dollars and they look and play much better then anything on a console.

I don't think Willy has a bunch of time , but he has enough time for a few reads. My issue is why not Kevin Glenn style quick hitters for 7-8 yards? When they did it for the last two series he had more time in the pocket. Just bad play calling and bad awareness on Willy for not throwing it away at times.

The stadium was dead quiet and theguys were lined up with 5 seconds on the play clock. At two seconds some fans yelled hike the damn ball and they didn't until it was well past the buzzer. Poor execution on Willy no excuses.

Watson was definitely hurt on the field he limped a lot... Denmark blocking is a site for hilarity... Romby is non existent... Kelly I will say is one of the few guys with some balls and drive ... Grigsby can fall down from the wind....

Boss should be angry that he doesn't have a long snapper 5 weeks after he should of signed one..... Boss should be angry that his guys are taking STUPID penalties when the refs clearly are nitpicking against the Blue.... Boss should be angry that his O Coordinator calls a very bad game and has moments of success only for him to then call horrible red zone plays.... Boss should be angry that the O-line situation is this bad.... Boss should be angry that he doesn't have control of his team right now .....

Walters needs to get off his ass and sign a proper long snapper.... one or two screw ups is acceptable but this is getting ridiculous. My thoughts on the game/team... As I complained frequently in the chat... the team is not playing disciplined football and seem completely out of focus which is weird considering they are coming off a bye week. Earlier on in the season we rarely ever took any "bad" penalties... tonight we killed 3 drives in the first half purely on bad ill timed penalties. O'Shea is a special teams wizard?? Maybe at covering but he made two huge brain farts IMO. First taking the kickoff rather then taking the ball at the 35 early on resulting in a field goal and then that awfully timed short kick in the 2nd half. Their is times to take the risks... the times he chooses to take these risks are always poor. In a close game where your team is so damn lucky to be only 5 points down and when Hamilton couldn't move the ball .... you dont' f'ning hand them the ball at midfield with the wind to their backs. I like a risky gambling coach but you save the bag of tricks when you are desperate. Also thank you Mr Walters and OShea for not getting a long snapper resulting in pretty much losing this game. Can this team learn how to do both proper time management and the ability to maybe call several plays when their is 16 seconds left and 3 cracks from the 4 yard line? Total mismanagement and just all around incompetence. I understand the coaching staff and the team is *young* and learning but had our team played a clean game we would of won it. Side note... Austin will die from a heart attack soon... that guy gets animated on every down. Also his guys never ever seemed to be zoned out like our guys do on the bench. I'm seeing a lot of Burke droopy dog looks on the guys faces.... we could use a little life on the bench.

How could Willy not hear the play call? The stadium was dead quiet and if their was an issue why not at least run a sneak up the gut???? Also did we not have our time out??? Willy isn't *bad* but he definitely is showing his inexperience. I don't know who to fully blame.... it was clear that he didn't have the time to make all his reads and we had success doing quick hitters early on.... yet we abandoned this until late in the 4th quarter? Was it the play call , was it Willy being scared.... regardless something wasn't right. Also the blocking of our receivers was downright awful. Contrary to what Goalie thinks..Watson was limping an awful lot and me thinks the receivers need to get healthy and or some guys need to go.

The issue was that on the jumbo tron at the game... they clearly showed the play yet the refs refuse to look up??? O Shea was pissed and was telling them to look up and it clearly showed that the call should of been over ruled yet they didnt.

I have not watched the game yet... but wow nearly 300 yards rushing against the Riders.... I'm sure a whole bunch of ankles will be broken tonight and tomorrow out West....

I wish the CFL had more in depth stats.... because to me it feels like Bowman is targeted at least twice as much as any other receiver in the league.

Decent deal on both parties no one stole and both get something of value. Cfl draft picks IMO are over rated so going down a round is not a huge loss.