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You would literally die to defend JBR's right to slam Josh Neiswander's arm strength on an internet message board?

He flew too close to the sun.

He flew too close to the sun.

Riderfans is over ----------------------> that way. 

One up side is breaking the LDC losing streak would piss off Rider fans just a little extra if Henry was the QB that did it.  

One up side is breaking the LDC losing streak would piss off Rider fans just a little extra if Henry was the QB that did it.  

Obviously Huff doesn't read this forum or else he would know how much DelMonaco sucks.  

Pretty sure "dealing with WPG media" is probably far down the list of worries when coaches/players consider coming here. 

Replacing Palardy with Sandro was one of the weirder decisions of the past year.  

Replacing Palardy with Sandro was one of the weirder decisions of the past year.  

Replacing Palardy with Sandro was one of the weirder decisions of the past year.  

Replacing Palardy with Sandro was one of the weirder decisions of the past year.  

The thing is, and I'm not trying to be argumentative, is that is probably not true.  Because the people that do grade him out brought him back.
 
It could be the youthful OL's we have so much hope for (Swisten, Pencer) really suck according to the new coaches.  Or that we will just end up cutting Morley before the season.  
 
Not that I like either of these guys anymore than the rest of you.  It's just that as of now we need them because they haven't adequately been replaced, yet.

The important thing is we didn't lose Boltus.

Personally, I feel that Stubler has been done for awhile, back to his last couple years in Toronto (07-08).  I'm not a huge fan of the avoid the deep ball but give up most of the rest of the field (including the run) approach, that's how we ended up killing Stubler's defence on route to the 07 Grey Cup game.  CFL offences have evolved (call it the Trestman Revolution), and the deep ball is the lowest percentage throw, the shorter the pass the higher the completion rate.  Offences are all about high percentage plays.  Top OC's will run the ball when they are getting 8-9 YPC.  Defences need to challenge QB's and hold gaps.  The best approach for a defence is more of a hybrid and showing a million different looks so the offence can't safely decide where the ball is going before the snap.  Nobody is having success because of this style of defence in recent CFL history, basically since Stubler and Marshall were the top DC's in the mid-00's.  The only way this defence works is if you have an offence that is going to stay on the field for long stretches.  You could see it's downfall when BC lost Lulay.  It isn't going to create turnovers or 2 and outs.  Toss in Stubler's rumoured health concerns and I'm not that enthused about this rumoured hire, unless Stubler is going to be a consultant or something.

This is nice to see, assuming they are adding both Danny Mac and this guy.  I can't say if either hire will work out but I love they brought in two guys.
 
I could never understand how Walters replaced Hodgkinson and assumed all the scouting and draft responsibilities Ross didn't have.  Who was performing all those logistical jobs Ross used to do?  
 
It was clear we needed more bodies.

As someone who knows Wade lets just say the odds of him "staying outta the football side" are somewhere between slim and none. 
 
He'll be in his GM's ear whenever he sees fit, which for him makes a sock puppet the ideal GM -- or Walters. 

The thing is there are a lot of people on this board with so much credibility capital wrapped up in Joe Mack that they can't admit what a dog of a roster this is.  So whatever shortcomings Burke may have need to be blown 10x out of proportion in order to blame him rather then the lack of talent on this team for the disaster this year has become.  

Pretty much agree.  Gary has had a lot of very inside stuff on the Joe Mack era.  Examples, who Kyle Walters really wanted to draft, the Kevin Glenn stuff etc.  .  Reasonable to assume that comes from Walters.  So Gary is returning a favour.  
 
I don't necessarily think Kyle is wrong for the job but no way he's the most qualified.  Remember, he only got the AGM job because Joe wanted to protect his own hide by having a someone in that chair who was completely unqualified to take over from him.  

I'm not even discussing the pros and cons of keeping Burke but any of you fools that think he should say "well I think I should be fired" are crazy. No doubt he'd have a better record with a better team.
Then again we would have a better record if we had kept Lapo and part of the reason for that is Burke would still be our DC

at this point, I'd start him ahead of what we've got...

Sure these guys are all great but shouldn't we be trying to get Drake involved?  Now THAT'S how you turn around a struggling franchise. 

Sure these guys are all great but shouldn't we be trying to get Drake involved?  Now THAT'S how you turn around a struggling franchise. 

Download the Corus app.  Listen to it on the phone.  Easy.

Download the Corus app.  Listen to it on the phone.  Easy.