some interesting stuff here about an American TV deal incoming.......

 

 

34 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Harris doesn't need receivers or running backs in Saskatchewan. He'll have Dan Clark. 

They just don’t know how to use Dan Clark properly over there. Guy should be leading the league in something, if not everything. 

"Trevor Harris is playing some of his best football right now" - Craig Dickenson hahahahaha

 

2 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Herb Zurkowsky says the league is broke. Since the pandemic & the lost season in 2020 & the shortened season teams don't have the $$$ to prop up a team. WQhere have you been the last 4 years?

Herb has made a lot of predictions over the years. The cost of losing Montreal is immense as it is written into the TV deal with TSN that the league would lose a significant amount of the revenue if it loses either Montreal or Toronto. I believe it would be more costly to lose that revenue then prop of Montreal for a while while they search for a new owner. Plus they are adding new revenue likely around 4-5 million a year from the US TV deal.

Any think of the lost money when the league has to pay Winnipeg to move to the East Division again.

Edited February 7, 20233 yr by Colin Unger

I made the mistake of going on the Riderfans page to see what they are thinking and I was pleasantly surprised that most of the people were giving honest opinions...... until I read this:

1 hour ago, Colin Unger said:

Herb has made a lot of predictions over the years. The cost of losing Montreal is immense as it is written into the TV deal with TSN that the league would lose a significant amount of the revenue if it loses either Montreal or Toronto. I believe it would be more costly to lose that revenue then prop of Montreal for a while while they search for a new owner. Plus they are adding new revenue likely around 4-5 million a year from the US TV deal.

Any think of the lost money when the league has to pay Winnipeg to move to the East Division again.

This league is run by a bunch of ass clowns.  How can you be surprised? 

1 hour ago, Brandon said:

I made the mistake of going on the Riderfans page to see what they are thinking and I was pleasantly surprised that most of the people were giving honest opinions...... until I read this:

Yup...basically sums up the intelligence there ..or lack there of ...almost sad in a way

7 hours ago, Brandon said:

I made the mistake of going on the Riderfans page to see what they are thinking and I was pleasantly surprised that most of the people were giving honest opinions...... until I read this:

That is just a really bad take. Like, almost 180 degrees from reality.

Impressive.

7 hours ago, Brandon said:

I made the mistake of going on the Riderfans page to see what they are thinking and I was pleasantly surprised that most of the people were giving honest opinions...... until I read this:

In fairness, even the other RIderfan posters tell him he is out to lunch on the regular.

9 minutes ago, bluto said:

That is just a really bad take. Like, almost 180 degrees from reality.

Impressive.

I wish I had a magnifying glass. 

12 hours ago, Noeller said:

Nothing happens until next Tuesday, but apparently in Riders country, it's already happened.... 

 

 

A football podcast and the best they can come up with is a baseball analogy? I suppose it makes sense in NoTeethTown. 

"No disrespect..."

Proceeds to follow up by labelling Mike O'Shea the coaching equivalent of Forest Gump, and then puts his smoothbrained mental gymnastics on full display.

Oxygen pilfering stubblejumpers are never short on such takes, though.

I am just curious by which metrics that big brained poster thinks the Bombers are having a poor offseason... re-signed basically everyone that was a priority... no one can actually sign free agents yet, there hasn't been a draft... the only thing that can be judged is how you retain your own guys.... which walters has crushed.

I don’t say this lightly. That was the dumbest football opinion I’ve ever heard. It’s not even close. 

19 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

I am just curious by which metrics that big brained poster thinks the Bombers are having a poor offseason... re-signed basically everyone that was a priority... no one can actually sign free agents yet, there hasn't been a draft... the only thing that can be judged is how you retain your own guys.... which walters has crushed.

I'm really pissed off that Walters re-signed Collaros, Bryant, Jeffcoat, Demski, the entire secondary, etc.... how is the team supposed to compete with garbage like this??

1 minute ago, bearpants said:

I'm really pissed off that Walters re-signed Collaros, Bryant, Jeffcoat, Demski, the entire secondary, etc.... how is the team supposed to compete with garbage like this??

Too much money in old guys!!!!!!

Ignore the fact they won 15 games and played in the last 3 grey cups winning 2, the wheels are about to fall off!

 

Jealousy is an ugly *****.

That fanbase and inept franchise deserve each other.

As an aside:

 

I wish to register my disappointment that nobody has taken @Bubba Zanetti's "sad sack" cartoon from yesterday and done a credible job of putting a SaskRR logo on it. If it's done well, that's a meme that has potential to be around for years...

All we need is a Kicker and I’ll be a happy Camper.

4 minutes ago, bluto said:

As an aside:

 

I wish to register my disappointment that nobody has taken @Bubba Zanetti's "sad sack" cartoon from yesterday and done a credible job of putting a SaskRR logo on it. If it's done well, that's a meme that has potential to be around for years...

I am also disappointed.

53 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

I am just curious by which metrics that big brained poster thinks the Bombers are having a poor offseason... re-signed basically everyone that was a priority... no one can actually sign free agents yet, there hasn't been a draft... the only thing that can be judged is how you retain your own guys.... which walters has crushed.

Metrics....lol...you are talking about a province that loses count at a dozen. There are no metrics. There is a lippy Argos fan over there too suggesting that Walters is vastly over rated and that Stove was average at best. My goodness, that forum attracts fantasy takes on things like no other.

31 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

Too much money in old guys!!!!!!

Ignore the fact they won 15 games and played in the last 3 grey cups winning 2, the wheels are about to fall off!

 

Jealousy is an ugly *****.

That same poster has been saying our wheels are about to fall off since we beat them in the 2018 playoffs....lol. I would be a bit worried now if he didn't say it every year.

Edited February 7, 20233 yr by GCn20

13 hours ago, wbbfan said:

He’s really good at moving the ball between the 30s. Terrible in the red zone. Imo toxic wasteland when it comes to leadership. 
 Far more dependant on an ol than fajardo like you say. And even with an ol would struggle to put up the scores the riders will need to be competitive. 
 An upside for the riders is he is used to a balanced offense and doesn’t need to drop back 40-50 times a game. 
 I feel like the lack of an established oc is attractive to Harris. He will get an offense tailored to what he wants to do. 
 

 

To be fair duke was making like 250+ right?  The pieces aren’t available to fix that ol though. The best thing they could do is start a 6th ol and a really good pass blocking back. 

That's the problem. They're doing the exact same thing that didn't work last year.

1 hour ago, 17to85 said:

I am just curious by which metrics that big brained poster thinks the Bombers are having a poor offseason... re-signed basically everyone that was a priority... no one can actually sign free agents yet, there hasn't been a draft... the only thing that can be judged is how you retain your own guys.... which walters has crushed.

and reading there...they think Oday isnt sitting still...but killing it...re-upping guys on a team that sucked...had crap culture, and have been trajecting downward....just because u re-sign guys off your roster...doesnt make it successful off-season when it was a bad team.....just a bunch of clueless bafoons there

 

51 minutes ago, bearpants said:

I'm really pissed off that Walters re-signed Collaros, Bryant, Jeffcoat, Demski, the entire secondary, etc.... how is the team supposed to compete with garbage like this??

yeah...resigned key pieces to the best squad...all i their prime or just getting to their prime....what a failure

2 hours ago, bluto said:

That is just a really bad take. Like, almost 180 degrees from reality.

Impressive.

So the conclusion is delusional bordering on mental deficiency

we have made some progress, re bigotry. article about Johnny Bright.  tv movie coming out.

 

"But as the crowd roared in Iowa, a devious plan was allegedly brewing among the football players at Oklahoma A&M, more than 500 miles away.

"They are coming after Johnny Bright," said Jerald Harkness, producer and director of "The Bright Path: The Johnny Bright Story," a documentary which airs 7 p.m. Feb. 9 on CBS Sports Network. "They don't want him on their field.""

 

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/2023/02/06/drake-football-johnny-bright-heisman-trophy-dreams-ended-oklahoma-am/69804469007/

I (barely) remember Johnny Bright, Jackie Parker, Normie Kwong.

glad that I was brought up not to think of any them as black, asian, white, just great football players.

 

 

 

Edited February 7, 20233 yr by Mark F

Here is my take on O'Day's offseason so far:

25 pending FA's going into FA spells rebuild, so what does he do? He puts out a massive offer sheet to a 37 year old QB that MIGHT have a good year left in him but probably not two. Has done nothing with his incredibly inept OL so far, but tried and failed to get Desjarlais. Is reportedly wooing Eugene Lewis, which would be a great add, but he currently has no other receivers at all worth anything really. So, to date he has half a DL, no LBers, a secondary that got lit up like a Christmas tree last year, a historically inept OL that he has not addressed whatsoever, No playmaking receivers....hell no real receivers at all, and potentially an ancient QB that has been riddled with inconsistency the past 2-3 years, a coaching staff that still hasn't been completed, a lame duck HC, and 25 spots on his roster that will be impossible to fill all through recruitment meaning he will have to overpay in FA.

This is a GM that is drowning right now and just flailing his arms and legs about as the riptide takes him out to sea.

Yep...he's killing it alright. 

Edited February 7, 20233 yr by GCn20