Jesse

I kind of shrug my shoulders. He’s not even in my top 5 of things wrong with the Riders. Every team is always looking for the next great QB, but there’s actionable things they can do right to improve their team.

Dickie hopes to keep his job: “I believe you earn your keep on a day to day basis, I’ve been around Craig (Reynolds) and Jeremy (O’Day) enough over the last four years that hopefully they see the work that we’ve put in as a staff, the comrade in the locker room, they’ve for the most part a pretty good group of men, not a lot of out of the field stuff, we’ve had a blip here and there, but for the most part they’re gentlemen and they’re good community people and the season didn’t go as planned. ” https://www.620ckrm.com/2022/10/14/303599/#.Y0qmCrs-7ys.twitter

I’m not going to respond but fans of ‘the office” know what I’m thinking here.

Fair, but we're talking about a foot not a concussion or back injury. So, I guess I would have more faith in the process and just letting Rourke push himself as much as he feels he can. Again, I do not expect to see him play.

Again, you let the player and the medical team go through the re-hab process. I do not believe at all that we will see Rourke. But I wouldn't force him to go home if the doctor's say he's ready to throw a ball to see how he will physically react.

He did not have surgery. I just knew that he also had a lisfranc sprain. I take that it was much less severe.

Najee Harris has been playing like crap, but he's been playing. EDIT: Harris did not require surgery, of course.

I agree with those that have said it's a high risk/low reward strategy. If his dream is the NFL, he gets no benefit from coming back except a few game cheques. The CFL will welcome him back at any time.

I think it's more protecting against injury.

He took a couple of bad penalties in that game.

He also can't stop the recovery process because people don't want him to rush... If this is the step of his rehab that he's up to, then he does it. Simple as that. And then of course the social media team does their thing with the footage.

DA has weird takes a lot. I don’t think it’s indicative of the media voters at all.

No idea who might get MOOL - could go to a Bomber as a legacy thing. MODP - Probably goes to a Calgary player. MOC - I think there'd be a strong push for Rourke - but Demski in the running

Zach’s having a great season. Rourke was on pace for one of the best seasons in history. Had he stayed healthy and close to the pace he was on, he would have unanimously won every award he was eligible for. To suggest anything else is ridiculous homerism.

Toronto's TV numbers are still good. And like it or not, those markets are important for sponsorship dollars. Attendance is reducing across all sports and TV numbers and sponsorships is what has to carry teams/leagues.

Of course. I'm not the first to point this out - but Zach lost his MOP in 2015 because he only played 12 games.

I mean, it has the same importance as it always did - tradition and guaranteeing the larger Eastern markets home games and play-off dates.

The definitions around the awards are so loose. If you are simply asking who was the "most outstanding", it's easily Rourke. So each voter have to make up what limits and requirements around that makes sense to them.

They have to discuss other candidates. But there's really no discussion.

People mention it out of respect for what he did - and he does deserve to be mentioned, he was playing on a level I've never seen before and would be unanimous if he continued to play for 14+ games. But of course you need to show that you can do it for the better part of the season and he did not.

Fair enough on that first bolded part, I just know he's taken interviews so there has to be some level of interest. As to the Mack thing....better check yo self before you wreck yo self.

I have always liked the geographical rivalries. And it doesn't make any logical sense that it's always the East that is so bad, but it just always is. Not sure how to defend it anymore.

They're getting the trial by fire treatment this year - next season I bet they're lights out all start candidates. There's no one else in the competition.

I'd rather face BC or Calgary, but the play-off system doesn't work like that.

Disagree, the problem is O'Day. He is the worst team building I can recall seeing. He has no sense of team culture - ignoring character concerns in favour of potential talent - but also assembles pieces that don't fit together while also ignoring team needs.