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Yea....Ceresna would be highly unlikely....I would say impossible but one side of the equation is Chris Jones after all.

At the very least it means he will need some time to learn our defensive system. I think he is a good young player, but coming out of Hamilton's style of defence with no familiarity with ours there was no way we could put him on the AR yet. Mark Washington and RIchie Hall have very different defensive styles.

In fairness he did not become their punt returner until later in the game.

They didn't help...but they most certainly weren't the nail in the coffin either.

Absolutely no team coming out of TC with an OL of Vaughn, Ferland, Clark, Johnson, and Rodgers as the starting OL ever had a hope of attaining double digit win totals. That is just the reality that these guys don't want to face. Not a single one of those guys would make our roster let alone start. Only one might make our PR. When your GM shits the bed that badly on an OL build you are going to be a crossover team at best no matter what transpires the rest of the way. Bad luck or circumstance had nothing to do with their tire fire right now. Bad roster construction, poor coaching, lack of culture, and me first attitudes are the culprit over there. Injuries just provide their fan base with a convenient excuse.

Cereal Killer is the probable third alter ego he has on that forum. Dude is just as sad as that last guy on OurBombers who had multiple accounts and talked to himself on an empty forum. If we didn't lose Mercy Maston in TC I am positive we would be undefeated right now even though errant kicks lost us a game....Mercy would have made them. Sorry Mercy, just making a point.

No need to clarify for CoFaj, he will read this and be on the news at 6 to talk about it himself with a box of tissues tucked under his arm.

The words Cody and Fajardo are the very definition of panic response. He sees a DL on the distant horizon and immediately runs backwards spinning to his right the whole time.

Not only does he know the system, he thrived in it last year.

I suspect that will depend whether we play him at boundary HB or SAM LBer, Methinks the latter. Darby is not the guy to cover a 1A or 1B receiver and I'm not sure why Hamilton played him there. He is however pretty damn good at picking up coverage on a team's 4th or 5th option, tackles well in the run game, and is great at keeping contain on QBs. Hmmm....where to play him?

I am not sure you are understanding that he played a vastly different position in Hamilton than he will here. Your comparison makes no sense because Cody was QB then and is QB now. We are going to move Darby to a position he has demonstrated he is better at than being in the secondary.

Back on Riderfans...section 139guy. That should surprise no one really. lmao. Pretty sure he has 2 accounts and is actually RileysRompers as well so that he can make it look like someone agrees with his outlandish statements of delusion. Should we be looking for something in his tweets?

They played him at boundary HB. We play him at SAM LBer. The difference in the situation should be obvious. He struggled at HB because he is much better suited to being a LBer.

He is an all star SAM in this league. He proved that last year. Hamilton did not play him at SAM. They tried to force a square peg in a round hole by playing him at HB and CB. It would be like wondering why Willie Jefferson is not a particularly great DT after a team moves him from DE. We brought Darby here to be our SAM, a position he is far more well suited for.

According to Migs the RIders are an 11-12 win team right now if they are middle of the pack in injuries this year. LMAO. That's the level of delusion that very few fans ever attain.

Not to mention Hamilton never utilized him at SAM at all, they had him playing HB and CB. That's a completely different ball of wax altogether.

What he did in Hamilton is completely irrelevant. DIfferent team, different system. He had great success, all star success, here last year and there is no reason in the world to believe he cannot/will not play at a high level on our team in our system again. DB, particularly, is a position where sytems can make a player look great or awful depending on whether they are well suited to them. Darby is well suited to our system.

Wilcotts showed some promise but if Darby is the same guy as last year in our system this is a big win for us. This was move born of necessity as our secondary is razor thin too. I will breathe a little easier with Darby back.

Same could be said for a lot of OC's. No QB...no chance. That's life in the CFL, and very few QBs are developed along the way. That's why we consistently roll out guys like Vernon Adams, Cody Fajardo. Matt Nichols, etc over the past several years. It's the reason that a clearly broken BLM will get a contract, it is why 2 teams traded against long odds on Collaros's concussion problem. I agree with a lot of what you are saying about Lapo, but holding it against him that he has never developed a QB is a criticism a lot of OCs in our league wear.

Awww man....sometimes Rider fans just make it too easy.

Dan Clark would have singlehandedly led them to an undefeated record according to Migs.

Reminds me of 2010 when I hung onto the league power rankings (they had some formula back then based on the stats as opposed to wins/losses) having us ranked 2nd in the league for a lot of the year. Wins be damned...we were statistically impressive. They were a cocky bunch back then weren't they.

Was that me? I doubt it...but I was young back then and so I drank a lot....and I am a pretty happy drunk.

His name was being mentioned as a dark horse for MOP at the time of his injury. Poor guy was playing the best football of his career and had finally been able to succeed a bit with his long ball. Andrew Harris was by far and away the MOP in the CFL in 2019. A healthy Harris may have given him a run for his money. Fajardo was not even in the same realm of play as those two guys.

Last year he had some good production in a couple games where they targeted him a dozen times, but he has been below average since then and in other games around then. The guy is slow, fat, and lazy...there I said it. Every team loses a game or two a year that they should have won. It is near impossible for a team to go 18 games without laying an egg once in a while. It happens. Sometimes, as a team you lose focus for a few days or you are just plain tired and it catches up. People reading or extrapolating anything from the Hamilton game are overthinking it. The only thing we learned from that game is that the Bombers, just like every other team, need to be focused and energized in order to win. No flaw fatales or chinks in the armor were discovered by Hamilton...our guys just laid and egg and let it snowball for one game.