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If they end the season on PR they are free agents anyway, so not sure what difference that would make.

Ferland is the best of a bad lot. It's not saying much though. If you must pick the best smelling turd I guess he might be the one. He doesn't start on any other CFL team and really has a low rent upside as a starter imo. Johnson got turnstiled a ton more than Ferland but Ferland had his hold my beer moments when you though the Rider OL couldn't get more incompetent. For some reason though you guys are all giving him a free pass. Must be his birth certificate. Also, the cracks were there in 2019 as well. The OL was already inconsistent and began trending downwards in a big way in the 2nd half of the year. The RIders and Cody Fajardo looked like world beaters in the first half of the year but really were average in the 2nd half and winning very ugly, when they did win. Fajardo was very pedestrian in the 2nd half of the season. Smoke and mirrors. We've been saying it over here for two and a half years now. I know that fan bases often have the blinders on when it comes to chinks in the armor of their own team, but we were talking about many of the same issues you saw get downright ugly this season, in the 2nd half of 2019. History has proven us right in that regard.

Honestly, they ran it back week after week with the 3 matadors in the middle and two IMP OL that were just brutal as well. Ferland, Bandy, and Johnson are not CFL calibre starters, may not even be CFL calibre players period. Every week they trotted out their trio and then looked befuddled when every single team turnstiled them. Game 9 before they finally cut ties with Rodgers who was getting beat just about every play, and they never did move on from the local trio of awful in the middle....just sign a damn IMP OL to stick in the middle to help.

That's because Jones filled your locker room with crap attitude players, because Jones is pretty skilled at handling those type of players and can generally keep them in line. If not, Jones has no issues with roster churn if it doesn't work out. However, guys like Gainey, Marshall, Purifoy, Duke, AC Leonard, Marino and the list goes on....poisoned that locker room to the point that the Riders might as well release everyone and start from scratch. Then your management picks Mr. Ferley, probably one of the wishy washiest HC choices ever, to try and handle an insane asylum. Made no sense then, makes no sense now....but I guess JOD was clearly over his head as well because EVERYONE outside the big rectangle knew that your OL was an absolute disaster before this season even started, hell it was a disaster last year and wasn't particularly good in the past few years....but hey let's keep drafting receivers and dbs in the 1st round and hope that scrubs like Bandy, Johnson, and Ferland are ready for primetime because they come from the big rectangle. Makes no sense. You guys don't honestly have a single OL good enough to make our PR.

Blows my mind that for most of the season they started more NATs than necessary, but never even once gave a thought to dressing 3 IMPs on the OL. Just terrible coaching and management.

Probably not. However, if we develop him and he goes on to start elsewhere it's still good for us. Anytime a good starter is added in this league everyone benefits as it allows for crap QBs to be turfed/demoted.

I am deeply saddened to hear that the Riders are moving on from Fajardo.

Also, just his presence alone changes the way an offence schemes against us. He is one of the big reasons our D still has the fewest ppg surrendered. He creates nightmares for OCs around the league and the QBs simply are in chuck and duck mode and that takes sacks away from him. Our D has been bombarded by injuries all year for sure.

Where did the 300k up front number come from? I can't seem to find that report.

Me too. Mainly because I want Calgary's games to mean something so that they dress their starters and hammer the RIders the next two games, Secondly, I don't want either team having the opportunity to rest players.

I suppose you are right if he is indeed trolling. However, he just might be that dumb. It really is a toss up. I say that because he makes insane statements like that to his fellow Rider fan brethren too.

I see no reason why he couldn't unless he starts getting banged up.

Can't be sure but that other guy is also Migs imo. He has been known to have multiple accounts on forums before so that it creates the illusion that other members are agreeing with his absurdity. If I were a betting man I would wager that Cereal Killer and Section 139 at Riderfans are never logged in at the same time.

Not sure but I would imagine that ZC used a lot of our up front money leverage that we had.

Some might. It's tough living on PR money. At this time of year our focus is not on coaching up our PR guys either as we fine tune for the playoffs. I believe we have seen guys released late season from the PR show up in TC the next year on a few occasions before.

They have, we have actually....many times. The SMS year runs to Jan. 2 I believe each year. Anytime you see big signings of extensions late in the season, or right up to January you are seeing teams looking to spend unused cap before the SMS deadline. As a general rule, unless teams really get decimated by long term injuries this amount is only a couple hundred thousand max but all teams try to use up current cap to offset future cap.

It is all when the money is actually paid. If we signed Collaros to a 3 year 550k contract but paid him 200k up front as a signing bonus his future cap hit is 200k less because of what we paid now. I would imagine we paid him every dollar we could to the SMS limit as an up front signing bonus with that money counting against this year's cap. Given the amount of guys we have had do full terms on the 6 game that signing bonus was likely pretty substantial and would reduce his AAV in the next 3 years.

End of the regular season. I would think that these 5 guys were definitely not going to see the field this year so we sent them home. Wouldn't suprise me to see some of them back in camp next year.

Osh, Walters, etc will be right behind once the season ends. They were talking about it last week apparently. lmao. I never heard it myself, just going off comments on twitter by Rider fans.

But I heard he had a strong relationship with JOD still and was going to listen attentively to the Riders offer. lmao

It is a tremendous extension. Using up our unused cap space I am sure.

I would think we should see some guys coming off IR shortly.

but...but...the guys on Sportscage said the Riders were going to make him an offer he couldn't refuse this offseason. Guess ZC wanted to end any chance of that in a hurry.

I just about crapped my pants when I saw that. Possibly the stupidest comment I've heard from a Rider fan, so you know that is some next level stupidity. We literally placed more recruits on the CFL All Star team last year than any other team placed from their entire roster.

Migs says we did not face adversity with our injuries so they don't count.