Regarding the grey cup drought... yeah it would be nice to win it but... what would be nicer, is to win it one year and then still be good the next year and so on and so on. Taman might have got them a grey cup but.... at what expense really? They will be moving in to a new stadium soon, i would think they would like it if that team was good but it sounds like they will be going in to rebuild mode.
IMO, rebuilding in the CFL isn't that difficult however the part that gets tricky is trying to rebuild your canadian content, that doesn't happen in a season or 2 as we have seen here, it happens over time, Riders are dangerously close to not being able to even start 7 Nationals, they are gonna be in tough for a few years i think and this is the problem with Taman really... sacrifice the future to win now, it's nice and all but when you get to the now, what do you have? not much really.
Grey Cup win a couple seasons ago? awesome but... that was a couple seasons ago now.
The Blue Jay comparison don't work really cuz outside of Price, the guys the Blue Jays have picked up are under contract for several more years...