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We have arguably the best QB situation going into next year.

not arguably...easily

35 minutes ago, Booch said:

not arguably...easily

You clearly are under estimating the Rider fans base and it's ability to blow smoke up their own asses. No matter who they get in the offseason they will have the best qb situation going and perhaps can trade their backup or even 3rd stringer for a couple Canadian starters. 

Chris Jones said today they had to terminate 6 football operations staff and everyone else took a 10% pay cut to get under new cap.

3 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

You clearly are under estimating the Rider fans base and it's ability to blow smoke up their own asses. No matter who they get in the offseason they will have the best qb situation going and perhaps can trade their backup or even 3rd stringer for a couple Canadian starters. 

true...I do recall at the beginning of the season them raving about their QB situation and the solid depth...tops in the league...as well as the embarrassment of riches in the receiving corp...one which had no 1000 yard guys or anyone with more than 4 td's...

2 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

Chris Jones said today they had to terminate 6 football operations staff and everyone else took a 10% pay cut to get under new cap.

Wow. That's really too bad for those that lost their jobs.

13 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

Chris Jones said today they had to terminate 6 football operations staff and everyone else took a 10% pay cut to get under new cap.

Does that include Jones himself or did he just make everyone else take a cut?

He did too

15 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

You clearly are under estimating the Rider fans base and it's ability to blow smoke up their own asses. No matter who they get in the offseason they will have the best qb situation going and perhaps can trade their backup or even 3rd stringer for a couple Canadian starters. 

Already giving Pipkin , among others, as QB of the future for a test drive. Pipkin. Seriously.

Did he fire training staff again?

4 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

He did too

well colour me surprised. ******* like that I was sure would protect himself. 

A new era of QB's for the CFL to come,   I'm ok with that.   It would be nice for other teams to have to suffer like we did by putting many different QB's on the field until they find one that sticks.

CFL haters in the media, who ignore league all year long, will be all over labour troubles , Toronto attendance and AAFL stuff.. ..Draining talent base, why should we watch watered down football ? , League is huge trouble etc.

 They'll emerge during GC week. Book it.

JUST IN: The #Roughriders announce they have signed running back Marcus Thigpen to a contract extension. He registered 48 carries for 408 yards and four touchdowns while adding 24 receptions for 233 yards and one touchdown.

 https://www.tsn.ca/roughriders-sign-rb-kr-thigpen-to-extension-1.1209144?tsn-amp&__twitter_impression=true

Regina - 27  26 free agent players

Not to worry, BC Lions have 34 free agent players..

43 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

well colour me surprised. ******* like that I was sure would protect himself. 

But remember, 10% of a salary of say 500k is a little easier to absorb than a hit of 10% to someone making 50k.   Now if he had taken a 20% cut so staff at the lower end could avoid a hit, that would indeed be something.

Tweet from Arash Madani:

"Some concerned Riders employees, being told of paycuts and bonuses removed, want to meet with President Craig Reynolds.

It's days like today that leadership is integral in an organization.

So far, staff have been told that Reynolds is "unavailable" to meet with them today."

Oh boy. House of cards is falling.

 

9 minutes ago, Bubba Zanetti said:

Oh boy. House of cards is falling.

 

House of cards implies that they were playing with a full deck..

21 minutes ago, Mr Dee said:

House of cards implies that they were playing with a full deck..

It's an UNO deck....

On the one hand, love to see guys like Jones and Reynolds feeling the heat but I feel really bad for those affected.

I didn't realize salary cap included support staff. Is that common across other professional sports?

12 hours ago, Booch said:

yup agreed...drop it to 6 starters...

Not enough quality Canadians to start. Maybe even 5.

8 hours ago, Mr Dee said:

JUST IN: The #Roughriders announce they have signed running back Marcus Thigpen to a contract extension. He registered 48 carries for 408 yards and four touchdowns while adding 24 receptions for 233 yards and one touchdown.

 https://www.tsn.ca/roughriders-sign-rb-kr-thigpen-to-extension-1.1209144?tsn-amp&__twitter_impression=true

Regina - 27  26 free agent players

Not to worry, BC Lions have 34 free agent players..

What's our situation?

1 minute ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

What's our situation?

I had a list, but I cannot locate it. I might have chewed on it in nervousness while watching the semifinal game. I believe it was in the low 20’s. 23 maybe?

1 minute ago, Mr Dee said:

I had a list, but I cannot locate it. I might have chewed on it in nervousness while watching the semifinal game. I believe it was in the low 20’s. 23 maybe?

Not good no matter what. Our esteemed Commissioner should get off his ass, quit worrying about Halifax for the time being & get a new CBA done before the AAFL ravages all 9 team rosters.

40 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

I didn't realize salary cap included support staff. Is that common across other professional sports?

The football operations salary cap is not part of the players salary cap. This June article from TSN explains the cap:

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The Canadian Football League has approved measures aimed at controlling football operations costs beyond those of player salaries, according to league sources.

The CFL has had a salary management system for more than a decade that applies to players. However, costs related to coaching and other non-player football expenses haven’t been capped – until now.

The new measures will limit teams to a coaching staff of 11 and other football operations staff to 17. The total compensation for those 28 employees is not to exceed $2.738 million. Player salaries are capped at $5.2 million for the upcoming season.

These measures, passed recently by the league’s board of governors, will go into effect for the 2019 season.

The league is also planning to enact measures that would control costs on other non-player football expenses, like mini-camps and scouting budgets.

The subject of non-player football expense was discussed in January when the team presidents met in Banff, Alta.

“One of the things we did this winter, we did a complete breakdown of our financials coast to coast, looking at where our revenues and expenses are. What we found is there were some incongruities in the way we operate our businesses,” said CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie during a visit to TSN on Monday. “Our players’ salaries are capped, but we had some other expenses that were growing significantly faster than our revenues so we started to dig in and look at those … Our non-player football operation costs have been growing much more quickly than other expenses.”

While the new measures may result in some teams having to cut costs before the start of the 2019 season, the league’s primary objective is to prevent the escalation on non-player football operations.

“It’s a little bit like an arms race. Someone hires a person for a position and somebody wants to match them,” Ambrosie said. “It’s this game of ongoing escalation that we need to bring to an end.”

 

I don't know if any other leagues do it.