Booch

yeah you gotta do what you gotta do to get the butt's in the seats...once there you need to give em a reason to come back..kudos to B.C for looking at all angles

Zack looked confused there...timid....zero confidence, and yeah like you said in interviews it was sad, and made a person wanna just tell him to hang him up...but you could see once he got here, in interviews and his poise and body language on the field that a a switch came back on...

HAHA...yup....difference though when Collaros dressed and played he was a difference maker and still has his talent..Labatte...not so much...he riding the wave of former ability now...he is very average and average at a high SMS hit

thing is...Rider's will be lucky to be 4th...maaaaybeee 3rd this year, so we won't get the chance to whoop em again in play-offs at IGWest

watched a fraction of that....they must be piping in crowd noise for those games..for such a piddly crowd sure sounded like a big crowd

Man when he works off the line he shows some great brute power..

Well him and Kevin Fogg were at a party on an episode of real housewives of Atlanta..so he prob recovering from that

Wonder if Vince will reconsider his investment/time willing to put into it when he sees he may loose half of what he budgeted for 3 yrs in yr 1...with a possible yr 2 to hemmorage even more?

Considering of the last 4 offenders it was them 3 out of the 4...what a laughable fan base

Well don't think it would be..would essentially be your Draft picks..national and globals..I guess even American guys you cut who were willing if no other opportunities for them..and if each CFL team was designated a feeder/development team or teams..then basically they serve as your farm team in a sense...would make the international leagues stronger and be a good tool to truly integrate this CFL 2.0 thing and give it true substance and worth

I think that teams should all get an affiliate team or 2 in these leagues..and guys on bubble..especially Canadian guys can be assigned there to develop (if they want to keep plugging away) With hopes of getting called back/re-signed or get another camp invite..they could be exempt from the TC roster as well as part of this initiative and to make it actually worth while

Funny how they are squawking..and not sure how they think they should be favorites seeing as they lost more talent than got in free agency They are an older team Sure they resigned some of their guys..but they are aging guys on downside..and guys who couldn't get it done last yr....

someone apparently went over cap for 2019...wondering who...point of note the lat 4 times it was broke it was by Rider's 3 times and Al's once

CMON...It did...4 times in 110 years...that allows them to claim that in 3% of their existence they were a Champ

well based on that...Mtl beats Sask in a semi...at IGWest...CGY beats Edm...then we paste MTL at home to face the Stamps or Hamilton for back to backers at IGWest to complete the final of the first ever's at IGWest...looks good to me

yeah it's about time we put up those 11 banners...yes 11....makes the Riders 4 look..well kind of sad and pathetic

could be a Streveler type guy...though not as powerfull

agreed...we need a field stretcher/dynamic guy, not a possession guy..we have that already

you just encapsulated what went on in Rider land last year, got very lucky with a career journeyman...one whom your whole forum/fanbase mocked when signed...and comparing a thin weak o-line, annd injury replacement/back-ups to it with zero experience isn't the same thing as a back-up QB question.. I'd feel much better about my team with a solid second year guy coming into the game..with entire offence he worked with last year, same coaches, and best running back and oline in league to hold down the fort than have Tom Brady at his best step in behind a crappy oline with no depth, and most likely a totally new offensive scheme (which is sure to cause o-line communication mess ups at first) and get him killed, or gave him the happy feet to force and rush things leading to turnovers and incompletions..

With possibility of the eastern weak sisters being able to garner 6-8 wins this year, it's most likely sask won't even be able to cross over this year, and if they use the new play-off format that wont help them either

well we will prob take McGuires Grey Cup ring off his finger and the offence behind the leagues best o-line will continue to hum right along, and Zack will put his feet up and polish his up a bit...just cause He also could have played earlier but good ship Argo choose not to dress him Big question is what are you gonna do when the o-line resembles a high school team..Fajardo displays what he truley is (career back-up) and gets hurt...again...he hasn't shown he can play a full season without injury (seperated shld/Oblique)???...Not sure Franklin smiling and grinning will do much behind a line of swiss cheeese..he couldnt in T.O

Schramm was adequate at best and at already 27 and no real experience hardly a guy you want as a 6th guy. let alone a possible starter..the was a reason Hamilton let him go Bennett is an undersized guy again with no experience and not even in the same ball park in terms of Eli and potential..Eli was a top ranked interior O-Lineman in the NCAA and if not for his injury would have probably gone somewhere in the first 3-4 rounds of NFL draft...so hardly a realistic comparison. JSJ is probably better than both those back-ups you mentioned and that is trouble for the Riders..when you look at back-ups (Speller/Gray/Eli) vs (Bennett/Schramm/JSJ and the other middling talents whose names escape me) its not even close...your national component consists of aging and rapidly declining Labatte...average Clarke, and then a whole lot of unknown, unexperienced "possible" potential nothings And for Starters (Desjarlais/Couture/Neuf) vs (Labatte/Clarke/Shepley) again not even close..Labatte I doubt even plays 10 games..and Shepley though has upside hasn't proven himself yet as a top notch starter...and he may just bolt for another NFL try next year, and that leaves you even worse off than this year...that oline situation and the next few years there is a mess

that's how I would draw it up too..and basically for same reasons

part of which though was due to the Bombers game plan and coaching...BLM said so himself that Bombers showed looks they did all year, so plays were called to combat that, and then at snap of ball the bombers switched things, and totally baffled them...that played into things big time as you could see nobody on their offense was on same page

and lost in all that is Fajardo oblique thing, and his apparent separated shoulder thing that was mentioned...could become an ongoing thing with him until surgically fixed if it was a bad one, and also who's to say he can withstand being a full-time starter...wasn't really able to last year, so history, albeit short says possibly not