Colin Unger

The problem is becoming not enough variety. How many times can please get excited for a Calgary vs Ontario team narrative? Calgarians are more and more taking a win for granted and not caring so much to watch the game itself during Flames season. If a team that isn't used to being there in the West was in I think you would have seen much higher ratings. These days there's so much more competition for peoples TV time. There's an over abundance of great TV shows resulting from the streaming services fighting over the subscription dollars, the video game industry is still setting records, American News never has a dull moment, and Canadian NHL teams are performing.

If anything the league has been moving more towards contracts mattering and not going on the opposite direction. There was a situation with Noel Thorpe a couple years back where he was forced to return to Montreal or receive compensation. If memory serves me correct. Riders are just upset to not be receiving special treatment and not being able to buy the most expensive football ops in the league anymore. I’m pretty much over it.

If Goosen and Chung are back I think we have a real opportunity to go with 4 non imports on the offensive line. They should let Gray settle in a bit and wait for an injury to Hardrick or Bryant and then try it out. I’d prefer for this season to give Gray opportunities at guard and play Neufeld at Tackle if such an opportunity arrives. But long term I think it will be Gray.

Still holding out hope that we end up signing them all and trading Nuefeld.

I understand the value of a good offensive line. I just this Winnipeg would still have the best offensive line in the league even if they lost one of Goosen and Chung.

He’d be a very tradable asset.

Typically I would be in agreement with you but its really hard right now with the amazing depth this team has on the offensive line. I don't think we really have a ratio breaker that can fill in for Loffler for 18 games without there being a noticeable downgrade or end up changing the ratio. If Chung signs somewhere else i feel like Geoff Gray could step right in there and offer more than Chung did his first year in the CFL. If both Goosen and Chung come back it kind of creates a logjam with all the guys we currently have under contract.

Lapo wouldn't likely be human if he didn't feel anything after receiving a limitation. He'll get over it and be a professional. He was really upset after the riders had 13 men on the field in the Grey Cup but he got over that too. He comes off as being a quiet guy but i think he's got some passion.

Bring on the corresponding cap saving cuts!

The guy is a jerk.. However... He did the bombers a huge favor. Perhaps without having his salary freed up it would have been spent elsewhere and we wouldn't have been able to sign and later extend Bighill. Had he not done what he did Steveler would have a whole lot less experience now than he has and I would argue he helped the team more last season than Durant would have or an alternative to Durant like Kevin Glenn would have. It really worked out well for the Bombers and poorly for Durant lol

I'm not surprised to see that Reinebold tweets in all-caps.

Its just that father time remains undefeated.. Hoping Randle signs in the east though as he will be highly motivated. We need cash for offensive line, Loffler, Bighill, and a receiver. This team must take the next step next season. Looking forward to grounding and pounding versus the stamps with no Singleton or Thurman next season.

Man BC is foolish!

But eventually you need a gm who you’re comfortable putting out there. The head coach will always do more media than the gm but Kyle Walters still faces the media semi-regularly. It would really concern me if Atlantic Canada brings in Tillman to shape their franchise. In Atlantic Canada with an expansion team he will get an abnormal amount of attention during the first season. At first it will just be him before coaches are hired. And there will be an expansion draft ect.

I was wondering more if Hamilton simply didn't want to have him as the face of the franchise. I'm going to be somewhat disappointed if he's the face of the Halifax team. Way to introduce a potential negative into something that should be wholly positive. Tillman was supposed be just behind the scene in Hamilton but then when Austin left he kind of came to the forefront.

He gets paid good money in the CFL. Its hard to get figures on what a rookie defensive co-ordinator would make in the NFL but I don't think it would be a pay increase. I view him as a control freak who would rather run his own show and be in charge then take orders as a defensive co-ordinator in the NFL. But I was thinking that a more realistic situation would be him turning down a job as a defensive line coach. Don't think Millanovich would have left the CFL either had he not been working for a mickey mouse organization with writing on the wall that he was going to be fired.

I can’t imagine he would get serious consideration for a head coaching job and I don’t think he would accept a job as an assistant coach.

They will have plenty of football ops cap space when Chris Jones gets hired by an NFL team http://www.3downnation.com/2018/12/31/riders-chris-jones-candidate-nfl-job-report/

Sounds like a guy who would be well suited to our current offensive scheme.

The part Rider Prider is missing here is that the Riders won a lot of close games this season and it inflated their record. Won't hold long term. I wouldn't consider Zach Collares play as having been that of starting qb. Seems like all the media coverage out of Saskatchewan is that they need to do a better of finding qaurterbacks. And whether or not the hit on Zach was properly punished by the league Zach is the most injury prone qb in the league and wouldn't have played in the playoffs even if a suspension had been handed out. The no call on Jackson Jeffcoat again wasn't a game changer. They would have still been looking at an extremely low percentage hail mary had the play been penalized. Dwelling on injuries and reffing is a losers game.

http://3downnation.com/2018/07/20/cfl-reinstates-nfl-window-into-player-contracts/

The cfl can have a better bye week schedule once Halifax comes in if that happens. It’s nice in the nfl the way they get all the bye weeks taken care of I think after week 14 and then everyone plays the last few weeks. It’s great for fantasy playoffs lol

Yeah but when you have one at the end and the beginning you have a massive stretch of 17 games with only one game breaking it up. It will be nice though to have an extra prep week before the playoffs though. Let’s hope it’s a two week break nah mean?

Week 2 bye and week 21 bye is simply unfair. You don't need a bye after the first game because you're not warn down yet. The team basically has one beneficial bye during the season.

I'm on the fence about Nichols. I'm not a big supporter but by no means is he not still a massive upgrade over a Drew Willy type guy. At least he makes conservative decisions and gives the team a chance to win. He had one tough stretch there but pulled through and posted a bunch of wins down the stretch including a playoff win. With Bo likely heading to the NFL we end up having the 2nd best starter in the West this season and the best up and comer with upside in Streveler. To me a lot will depend on how much Nichols can rehab his knee in the offseason. If he can come in 100% with his 2017 level of mobility there's a lot of hope he can have a better season than 2018. But we gotta keep having a role for Steveler game in and game out. Just because we start the season with Nichols doesn't mean Streveler doesn't take over at some point. Lets see how he looks in training camp when coming back with a year of experience.