WildPath

Yeah, seems to confirm what I've been watching. Goltz has outplayed Pierce this year. Seems like the coaching staff, or maybe just Burke, has a belief that Buck will 'find his form' eventually and lead the team to great success out of the gutter. Really disappointed with the choice to promote Buck to #2. Don't really know how that's justified. I thought I remember Burke saying on a coaches show earlier in the year they were making some moves with the practice roster in order to stay under the salary cap. Still floors me that we've found a way to be close to the cap even after releasing Hef. Its probably only a matter of time before Buck is eventually released.

Hmm, really interesting post. Wonder how the Riders and Bombers compare to the rest of the league.

Somehow this seems like a momentous occasion even though it was expected by many to happen this season. I like the idea of players transitioning into coaches and having stability in the organization, but I don't see Buck as a great QB coach. It seems his strength is being a competitor, not necessarily having a great football mind. I don't mind seeing him stay with the team beyond his playing career, but if this is 'grooming' him like Calgary has done with Dickenson, I'm not a fan.

I've been lurking OB for many, many years now. Usually I pretty dedicated follower, yet never signed up for a post. Especially in the last few years I've been disappointed to see so many threads turn from a civil discussion about a difference of opinion to personal bickering. I have to admit, I was a bit disappointed to hear about the people leaving OB to start a new site(it took a bit of searching to even find this site unfortunately). I figured the split meant either that I would have to follow two sites or that several great members migrated over to a new site (MBB) that would fizzle and die and OB would never get them back. After a while of lurking on both sites, I almost exclusively lurk around here unless I'm pretty bored. I don't all that much about site layout and how pretty things look. But I really enjoy an actual community message board where people self-moderate as Mike said, so threads aren't continually hijacked into personal qibbles and insults. Now that I've actually created an account and posted after years of lurking, maybe I will start coming out of the shadows more often.