robynjt

I shake my head at the results of the last few games - but I want to be clear I absolutely agree with this article and the posts here. Ya, it sucks to lose, but the team is light years above where it has been the last few years.

This funk reminds me a lot of last season (hell we got smoked by the Bombers), remember when you guys wrote the Riders off after that? Sorry to inform you that Durant will be back before the end of the regular season. "You guys"? Just a general comment about Bomber fans? Because... you weren't here. I take back every mean thing I ever said about Bluto. As for Durant, good luck with that, that's all I say. What happened to all the Tino love posts? You mean, a highly touted young QB is... struggling? Say it ain't so. Also for the love of god, if you're going to be here, and feel the incessant need to respond to every post, PLEASE LEARN MULTIQUOTE.

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.

It was very very quiet in that stadium.

Our defense actually did quite well aside from a few plays. Now was that because to they were good or because Hamilton isn't really that good? Grigsby is fine when he gets a decent hole. Oline had a few good plays (even if people refuse to see them) but that was it. The thing that bugs me as I mentioned in the other thread - why did Willy not even try and give his receivers a chance at the ball on the last few plays? The ball was nowhere near them. And he had decent time for those throws. All this stuff that will slowly improve but it still stings.

This. Willy throwing it out the back of the end zone twice with three yards to go really grinds my gears.

Perfect. What he did is as bad or worse then what Rice did to his wife. Worse. The wife has every opportunity to pack her bags and walk away. The child doesnt. I also find it difficult to believe that Rice never raised his hand to his wife previously... Just talking this over with the boyfriend yesterday. The complete lack of action/emotion when she was knocked out was very, very disturbing.

Nothing is a given in football. If it were, why play the games?

I agree - but it is also different from the Ray Rice situation, imho. My biggest issue, with the Ray Rice situation in particular - there are sleazeballs ALL OVER, not just professional athletes that do this to women, and men, every single day. They get the same "punishment" he does. The only difference is he, and his now wife, are losing millions of dollars from it. The average Joe gets to keep his job, and often keeps beating his wife.

... Seriously Spuds?

Trolls were fed. Maybe we can give the Rider fan his own forum so he can post ad nauseam about the history of message boards, the politics of message boards and his own message board career in an echo chamber. Seems to be what he/she wants. Then the rest of us can talk football. Seriously, I come here for Bomber talk (good or bad) and all I get is crap comparing them to the Riders. I live with a Rider fan, I get enough of that at home thanks!

How the hell did this get about the Riders again?

Not as huge as you might think. They have the best oline in the league and other backs have come in and had 100+ yard games - not a coincidence.

Every time we try a screen pass and the blocks are so pathetic, I die a little inside.

How did I miss this? Our best player last year, by a huge margin, was overrated? C'mon son.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/nfl/adrian-peterson-reinstated-by-vikings-expected-to-play-sunday-1.2766642

This storm was ridiculous. A power line went down in our backyard - first (and hopefully last) time we've had to call 911.

... am I an idiot, or what is a switch?

Not to mention, who cares. What is the max fine, $500...?

Woldu deserved the fine. The official was positioned correctly and Woldu could have avoided him. Please. That is the very definition of a stretch. It wasn't like he steam-rolled the ref. He basically brushed into him. Haha actually maybe you should watch the replay again... I don't think he deserved a fine, but he absolutely steam-rolled the ref... I was ok with Morley getting ejected in that game... I don't actually know what happened but he's not the kind of guy to just lose it for no reason... I assume he was sticking up for a teammate, which I'm ok with... the o-linemen gotta be the enforcers... Who came in at center once he left? I was too drunk to tell at that point.

See, I thought the first games he looked great - because teams hadn't caught onto the fact he would stutter step (sometimes backwards). As soon as they "figured" that out, as soon as he'd hesitate/cut, he'd get tackled. He's improved quite a bit in the last few games, imo.

You don't get it - I don't hate anyone. I HATE crap like that.

Learn to embrace and love the hate. It is there because the Riders are a winning team. See... it's comments like that that really rub me the wrong way. Makes me gag, literally.

I will admit, seeing him hesitate and get tackled over and over again at the LOS was frustrating, but he seems to have really improved; and when he DOES get a hole (not often) he sees the field quite well and is very fast. He has a couple of plays a game where you nod and say "oh, ok, you're ok in my books." But JBR is right, he doesn't seem to dig in and drag some guys 4 yards after initial contact. ... Grigsby in Calgary's offence would be incredible. That oline.. .dang. Cotton -could- do well with more consistent play, but he is not light years ahead of Grigsby from what he has shown. Putting him on the PR is not the end of the world - for the Bombers or Cotton.