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The Riders recent downswing is almost a mirror image of 2010 to 2015 with the Bombers.

Lost in all the talk in Regina because of Shimoni-gate, is the fact that their OL is a complete mess that saw 2 QBs concussed in a half of football directly and indirectly because they couldn't protect them. Bladek and Labatte are months away, and Shepley was a matador out there and is most definitely not ready for reps yet. The QB situation is going to continue to devolve for them because, like last year, they can't give a QB 3 steamboats to operate without him being a puddle of goo afterwards. Was re-signing Collaros a terrible idea...definitely...what makes it laughable is that they expected him to survive behind a hopeless OL.

Yardage means nothing. When you throw more Ints than TDs you did not have a great game

No..you had the highest scoring D in the league last year, not the best defence. Calgary had the best D last year.

LOL. I agree that it's a fine line, but if football is serious about player safety then at some point they may need to take the choice away from the player. Collaros was concussed 3 times last year and numerous times before that. At the very least a league mandated full evaluation of his pumpkin, or something like that, should be the standard.

Do you have reading problems today? Where did I state that? I have stated repeatedly that the hit was dirty and should bring about supplemental discipline. All I said is that the result of that kind of play can be quite different based on concussion history of the player being hit.

There is no defence of that hit. It was as dirty as they come and deserves supplemental discipline. However, I think any other QB bounces right back up from that.

Exactly right.

Yes...because there is no difference between one concussion and a career full of them. That is weak ass logic my friend. Anyone with a thimble full of knowledge about concussions knows that with every concussion you suffer you become more susceptible to the next one.

I disagreed vehemently with the Bombers bringing back Pierce for his final year. Both because I didn't want to see him getting killed by a head shot, and because I knew that he could not stay healthy anymore. My position has not changed. Yes, I firmly believe that when a guy can't blow his nose without getting a concussion that someone needs to step in and prevent him from himself.

Please show me where I blamed Collaros. I agree that the fans don't set the roster, but they can express their opinion when a team chooses to employ a QB whose head is mush. They chose not to do that, and I have no sympathy for them.

I agree with Zontar. Collaros has every reason to be upset at Simoni. That hit was disgusting. However, the Rider organization should be questioned as well. They are knowingly putting a guy out there that is a hit away from a life time of Parkinson's. I was flabbergasted when they re-signed him, and appalled that the Rider faithful supported the signing. They get what they deserve out of this, no QB. Zach Collaros and the fans around the league that had to witness that disgusting garbage hit have the right to be incensed. The Rider organization and a great majority of it's fans bear responsibility for rolling him out in the first place and lose their moral high ground in all of this.

Collaros is damaged goods and everybody knows it. There is no excuse for the way Simoni hit him, it was a terrible dirty play, but Collaros would not have made it out of the game anyway. The RIder OL is AWFUL!! Bunch of matadors, and Collaros simply cannot survive contact anymore. He is done like dinner. Also, the Riders, by their own admission, had a very soft camp and it's resulting in injuries right off the bat. On several occasions Dickenson ripped his team on their effort during camp. It seems they are happy coming out of the gate half arsed and this is what happens. A QB and two NAT starters down in the first game.

The green swag machine has dropped of considerably since 2015.

For sure. The Riders like to equate profitability with being the richest. Simply not true. Without spending limits in place there are several owners in the CFL that could spend them into oblivion. We would be toast too. It is ridiculously stupid to think that the Riders could spend more than the rest of the league. They could spend more before losing money, but make no mistake, they would get trucked in a spending free for all.

He doesn't, because they don't exist.

Bottom line is that Hecht or Wilson don't need to be game changers for us, just solid. Both are capable of that.

Anyone expecting crisp. precision play in pre-season, obviously forgot that it's pre-season. There was very little useful information about most of our players to the untrained eye.

Pederson admitted recently in his blog that he was contractually obligated by the club to never publicly criticize anything. Derek Taylor now has that same provision in his contract and that is why he seems like he has lost his marbles now, saying crap like Collaros will be a MOP candidate and such.

Pretty risky plan....waiting for injuries and guys to come in out of shape is not the way I would do it.

A lot of it is the fact that the Riders control the message from the local media. It is taboo in the big trapezoid to utter anything but praise of the Riders. The sheep grow up hearing nothing but positive vibes and believe it. Rod Pederson, the most homerific announcer of all time, said one bad thing about Riders management and he was shown the door. Now Derek Taylor appears to have lost his mind as well....not a coincidence...it's in their contracts.

There is only one player on their starting 7 that I would want as a starter here and he is over the hill..

???...Ekakitie entered last season on the 2nd year of a 3 year contract with the Bombers. They did not give him any dollars pegged for Thomas. They purposely let Fatboi ride off into the sunset last year and only brought him back when Marouf suffered a career ending injury and Ekakitie showed up in terrible shape for TC. Had neither of those things happened, Fatboi would be out of football. He responded very well after being signed during TC last year, but let's not pretend that providence didn't play a huge role in him being brought back or that last year he wasn't deemed expendable..

Aah...it's alright, he's obviously related to him.,

The fact that Rempel is 38 is the ONLY reason the Bombers have brought this kid in for a little exposure. At 38 players, even guys in great shape like Rempel, can sustain freak injuries. Smart of Walters to bring the kid to camp, give him a taste of pro football, so that if their is a freak injury he's not starting from ground zero. Let's face reality though, he has almost zero chance of beating out Rempel. That's not a slight on his ability at all, just the undeniable fact that Rempel is the best long snapper in the league bar none. You simply don't cut someone like that. Age is pretty much irrelevant to the position of LS.