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The first game of the week has the province of right angled borders invading the center of the universe. 

 

The Riders look to remain undefeated to start the season, as the Argos are trying to bounce back after a less than stellar effort last week which saw them fall 24-16 to the Lions.

 

Rickey Foley will be having his first game against his old team, one that he helped to win a championship with his Most Outstanding Canadian performance in the 100th Grey Cup game.

 

For the third straight week Geroy Simon will be on the sidelines with a nagging injury. He has yet to play for the Riders after they traded import receiver Justin Harper and a 3rd round pick in the 2014 to the BC Lions in order to acquire him. Harper was later cut by BC during training camp. Geroy signed a new contract with the Riders, rumored to be worth $170,000 plus bonuses. When will the Riders start to see some production for the pay they are dolling out? As long as they keep winning, does it matter?

Saskatchewan looks pretty solid right now.

Glad Rod Black isn't doing this game. He'd be slobbering all about Taj Smith in coconut oil.

pfft he rubbed shoulders with him slightly as he went for the ball.

Which is still contact before the ball got there. The explanation they just gave made it pretty clear it was a good call.

What a bad game. Toronto looks like garbage, Offense can't move the ball & defense can't stop the Rider offense. 

Durant appears to be injured.

I wonder if that is the same foot he injured in 2011. Durant doesn't look happy. Probably a sprain. 

TV is out of order at work here (Boourns) so going by the comments here I can only assume that the new secondary for the argos still has plenty of holes in it eh. 

Inman and Durie injured in last quarter, lets hope they not flying to Winnipeg next week

Good to see the chumps get their lunch handed to them at home.

TV is out of order at work here (Boourns) so going by the comments here I can only assume that the new secondary for the argos still has plenty of holes in it eh. 

Plenty. Especially the Argos corners. 

Only 18,000 at the game. That is embarassing. 

Maybe letting TOs entire defence except for.. McCune?... walk, wasn't the best idea

 

Right now SK and Calgary are the teams to beat.

I'd hold off on putting Calgary in that group just yet. Yeah they were damned good in week 1 but week 2, and specifically the 2nd half against the riders were as bad as anything in the CFL this year. 

sask looked gooooood...

collaros looked solid.. if i was to make a play for anyones back up, that might be my gamble..

sure garbage mins but nice passes, excellent evading the rush and thst side step on whoever it was before his TD was pretty sick..

sask oline looked best in league tonight to me anyway

Cue SSK hype/praise machine turned to "11".

Quite possibly all year long.

Its not going be pretty. It's not going to be fun.

Cue SSK hype/praise machine turned to "11".

Quite possibly all year long.

Its not going be pretty. It's not going to be fun.

 

the hype for the riders is always turned up to 11, this might actually cause the end of the universe as we know it. 

the hype for the riders is always turned up to 11, this might actually cause the end of the universe as we know it. 

 

 

We can send the universe back into it's natural state if we beat them on Labour Day though...

Saskatchewan looks good. Sheets is an absolute force out there right now.

 

I'm not expecting them to maintain this level of domination but they look like a real well oiled machine right now.

Their Oline looks like it is in midseason form with respect to their run-blocking... some of their run schemes were pretty sick

Getting George Cortez was a great move.  The guy has had awesome offences wherever he's coached.

 

 

Their Oline looks like it is in midseason form with respect to their run-blocking... some of their run schemes were pretty sick

 

Yeah, that Scott McHenry block on the end-around, where he was just hanging around waiting for the play to develop and then he totally springs the runner .... that was something I'd never seen before.

Getting George Cortez was a great move.  The guy has had awesome offences wherever he's coached.

 

 

Yeah, that Scott McHenry block on the end-around, where he was just hanging around waiting for the play to develop and then he totally springs the runner .... that was something I'd never seen before.

 

I really liked the play where they had their fullback (McHenry?) line up on the left side of the formation.

 

That caused the end on that side of the formation to widen, expecting that the full back was going to try and pinch him in for an outside run.

 

On snap the Fullback ran to the right side to stop the pursuit from the end (not that it mattered since the play came so smoothly that end had no chance to catching Sheets) while the Left Tackle and Left Guard opened a hole between each other - Big hole due to the widened position taken by the end.

 

We might be talking about the same play actually.

 

There was also a really nice play where their Left Tackle/Guard both came off the line almost horizontally and opened a huge hole between the Center and Left Guard for Sheets

Inman and Durie injured in last quarter, lets hope they not flying to Winnipeg next week

 

Durie certainly looked pretty woozy after getting his jaw rocked like that.

Durie certainly looked pretty woozy after getting his jaw rocked like that.

 

Inman took some pretty huge hits from Brackenridge too... the hit where he just kind of crumbled after catching and taking the hit looked pretty bad

They definitely rushed Inman back too soon.

They definitely rushed Inman back too soon.

 

 

Iunno... he looked game ready to me... just got absolutely rocked probably a little too much for a guy who isn't built terribly solid.

 

Not sure if it was SSK Defense or Ray / Argo Offensive schemes but it seemed like every second or third pass that a receiver caught ended with the receiver taking a HUGE hit.