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GCn20

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    I very rarely go to Rider fans, my annoyance with them isn't just from dealing with them online. Transplanted Saskatchewan folk are very common in Calgary and in my field of employment, I have had encounters with a lot of Rider fans. Your teams fanbase is annoying as all get out and you don't need to go to Riderfans to figure it out. 

    So what do you call the Rider fans you work with in Calgary? Here's my guess... "Boss?"   :)

     

    mostly I call them *******. 

     

     

    What a horrible thing to call your janitor. These guys came all the way from Saskatchewan and the Phillipines to clean your work station and are earning minimum wage. You should be a little more tolerant.....lol ;)

  2. What if things were reversed & the West Division was the doormat. AND...the Bombers were out of it in August? How many fans would be going to the games at IGF? This is an anomally. Things will be different next year.

    They just need to make the schedule a little more carefully. The West has been beating the crap out of the East for years now. The league was always able to schedule East vs. East enough times during the first part of the season that no one really paid attention to how big the variance in divisions were. This year the schedule did not hide the CFL's dirty little secret.

  3. The league should never have a schedule like this again. They need to have the intra-divisional games evened out between the early and late season. I get what they were trying to do, build excitement and make games more meaningful after labor day when attendance traditionally fall off, but it has to be considered an embarrassment to the league to have such a stark difference between the divisions at the halfway point of the season.

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    Rod Pedersen is an idiot, period. Thank goodness for Irving...

    Only an idiot Bomber fan would say something so juvenille.

    Rod Pedersen is the voice of the Riders and a well respected

    person in the community

     

    None of which makes him any less of an idiot. 

     

    Exactlly. Don't want to be considered an idiot then quit floating idiotic rumors every couple of months.

  5. Guys...this deal is not happening. Rod Pederson does this a couple times a year. He floats a wild rumor and it never comes to pass. In recent years, he posted rumors of imminent trades by the Riders for MILT STEGALL, RICKY RAY, among many others. There is not a single trade rumor he posts that is semi-believable. He is the World Weekly News of CFL reporting.

    Also missing from the OP's post is the back half of the tweet where even Pederson suggests that the rumor is unfounded and kind of farfetched.

  6. There was nothing brilliant about it at all. Nearly all the players signed this offseason had bonuses built in for the eventuality of the cap going up. Sure the cap went up but so did bonuses the minute it happened. Couple that with the expansion of the roster and PR and the 600k increase is minimal. We all have seen how brilliant this maneouvering was this offseason already when Taman lost several top notch NIs and other players to FA and was unable to sign anyone of consequence. Further proof will be when he is unable to sign both Dressler and Sheets.

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    CFL could always declare that you must balance the ratio... teams have to start 3 on one side, four on the other... up to them to decide which - that would allow teams to play more import OL and, pretty much, make defences worse across the league so you get more scoring.

    I like this idea.

     

     

    Would make NI receivers and RBs pretty much disappear.

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    Just found some interesting information from an ultra reliable source on Riderfans. He is our Mike. Apparently, when the Riders signed Chick last year they were already tight to the cap so they deferred 120k of his salary to this year in the form of a roster bonus. This apparently happened to various degrees  with a few players. He believes the Riders may have deferred as much as  300k to this year's cap.

    Taman's M.O. In full effect. Steal from Peter to pay Paul.

     

    Do you think the dogs would be howling here if we did that en route to winning the Grey Cup? Most likely we would be pooh-poohing it as a minor "oversight".

     

     

    Maybe a few years ago. However, after Taman tried the same thing in 2008 and it left us virtually crippled as an organization through 2009 and 2010, I am not so sure too many people would be happy about it. Thrilled with the GC victory to be sure, but there wouldn't be a parade thrown for how he got it done.

  9. Just found some interesting information from an ultra reliable source on Riderfans. He is our Mike. Apparently, when the Riders signed Chick last year they were already tight to the cap so they deferred 120k of his salary to this year in the form of a roster bonus. This apparently happened to various degrees  with a few players. He believes the Riders may have deferred as much as  300k to this year's cap.

  10. You have to think the Riders would have budgeted to have some money socked away to offer Dressler or Sheets or both a contract if they didn't make the NFL.  

     

    If they didn't, then Taman should be looking for his next gig.

     

    It has been reported in both the Winnipeg and the Regina media that Taman, even with the 100k overage, doesn't have the cap space to sign both players unless they are willing to go to the Riders for a hefty discount. Taman blew the wad last year. This year he has to budget for that. Not saying it's all Taman's fault. Hoppy wanted the Riders in the Cup at home and likely told Taman he better make it happen.

  11. Sask already re-signed TBrack and he's old enough that his next contract will be lower.  They lost guys too.  I mean where do you think Sheets and Dressler's cap hits went...?  Sam Hurl?  Taman has space even if he backloaded stuff last year.  Rookie RBs, LBs, REC...

     

    As for Toronto, I'm supposed to believe that Barnes, Durie, Owens, Emry don't take up a ton of space?  Okey-dokey.

     

    I'm sure that Toronto does have some very handsomely paid players. Just not as many as Regina. The Rider OL is close to a million dollars all by itself.

  12. Sask already re-signed TBrack and he's old enough that his next contract will be lower.  They lost guys too.  I mean where do you think Sheets and Dressler's cap hits went...?  Sam Hurl?  Taman has space even if he backloaded stuff last year.  Rookie RBs, LBs, REC...

     

    As for Toronto, I'm supposed to believe that Barnes, Durie, Owens, Emry don't take up a ton of space?  Okey-dokey.

     

     

    Let's correct what I will charitably call misconceptions that you have.

    TBrack is in the final year of his contract that he signed prior to the 2013 season. Since then he had an allstar year and was nominated by his team for Defensive player of the year. His contract is going up.

    Sheets was playing on an entry level contract when he left. Ford is making more money this year with the Riders than Sheets was getting.

    The Riders signed lucrative contract extensions with big signing bonuses to Labatte, Getzlaf, Rob Bagg and gave Durant an almost 500k a year contract.

    Also, Taman backloaded a bunch of salary from 2013 to this year. Rumor has it that a hefty portion of Geroy and Chick's 2013 salary on the books for this year's cap.

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