Mike

Go ahead and copy/paste it. You think my opinion will change if we lose Saturday? If we lose Saturday, we'll have lost to a terrible football team and we'll need to improve on it going forward. PS - his record as a starter is 18-15, I know math isn't a strong suit over there but 15 is not "one hell of a lot more" than 18. It's actually less.

I think I've literally just about had it with internet Rider fans. There are quite a number of them (CalgaryRiderFan, Beacon.x, Bingo_Arms, Huff Daddy and several others whose names just elude me right now) that are tolerable, awesome guys to talk football with but man, the majority of people over at Riderfans.com are the biggest bunch of deluded dumb as a post mouth breathers I've ever encountered. It's a shame, because every year I go to Regina for every single away game we have there, the people that I meet are awesome. It's a great city to go watch a game and the fans that are invested in supporting the Riders are great to be around. But that website is a cesspool of stupidity. The stuff I've read on that site is some of the most ridiculous nonsense I've ever imagined. Very few people on there have any clue about football as it relates to anything outside their province and trying to use any kind of reasoning with them is like talking to a doorknob. Wake up and smell the coffee, Rider fans. Your team is the worst team in the CFL, your coach is the laughing stock of the entire league and your GM somehow manages to have no clue what your head coach and defensive coordinator and media recruiting coordinator are doing, despite them all being the same person. You're using the last wear on the tires of old broken down pieces like Kevin Glenn, Jovon Johnson and Peter Dyakowski. Your coach can't stop fetishizing about the kudos he'll get if FINALLY he manages to turn a fullback into a defensive back or a tackle into a receiver and it affects the quality of your roster from top to bottom. You scout and house somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 players, yet can't find a single guy to play defensive back and somehow have to settle for convincing yourselves that Ed Gainey is serviceable. Maybe AC Leonard will stop going offside. Maybe Brenden Labatte won't get hurt for the 47th time. Maybe Henoc Muamba will stop being too fat. Maybe Duron Carter will keep his trap shut for once. Maybe Linden Gaydosh is duct taped together well enough to hold up for 3 or 4 games. Maybe Jordan Reaves will stop dealing cocaine. And maybe if all of that happens, you might have enough of a football team to piece together 7 or 8 wins this year. Until then, know your place, shut up and enjoy the basement. I can't wait until we stomp these guys on Saturday.

The team that has Dan Clark as a starting Canadian is calling out the other team for horrible roster building? The team that has Jeff Hecht as a starting Canadian is calling out the other team for horrible roster building? The team that has Peter Dyakowski as a starting Canadian is calling out the other team for horrible roster building?

Francis at SAM would probably be the worst decision they could make. He's not a DB. They tried him at safety and it was a disaster. I don't know what they do, though. There really isn't a good answer. Horrible roster building.

I guess it's either Judge or Bartlett. I don't see a MLB type on their practice roster either. Muamba being hurt is probably the worst possible injury they could have right now.

Who do they even have in the middle if it's not going to be Muamba?

Jones said they're still planning to start a Canadian LB .. so either Francis the former WR or Judge the special teams guy who signed a week ago.

Henoc ruled out. Good. Can't stand Henoc.

what in the **** is that monstrosity

Did you wake up before the end of the first half or something?

One of them called Bond mediocre this morning.

I paid $500 to fly out of Fargo Thursday-Monday. Couldn't beat that at the time. $300 for the ticket is an easy sell in a box. I'd definitely consider that! Would you keep me in mind if you hear about this going forward? I'd have between 3-5 people.

Fit is a big thing these days. Teams in the CFL have to do what is best for the players a lot of the time, if a guy isn't being used effectively or in some cases, at all then it's no big deal for the agent to phone up the team and say "hey, I represent 10% of the entire league and if you don't give my guy a release so he can go find a team that actually uses him, you're going to miss out on a lot of other talent" It's certainly not that aggressive from what I understand, but teams and agents know it's in everyone's best interest to make sure the players are happy.

Just seems like an opportunity to create flexibility. Not sure if Shaq is interested, but I feel like we should be interested in exploring this. It's a natural fit to our roster and while I get that we have the attitude right now that we would start an American if Harris got hurt, that's probably because our only option otherwise would be Normand.

I'd be curious to know the costs of the box. I've already booked my flights, but I haven't paid for tickets yet.

Yeah, he would certainly take care of the need to even consider dressing a guy like Lankford.

Also, for no reason whatsoever ... here's a picture of SML being chased by JSK

I'm incredibly surprised he was let go, but I'd like to see him as soon as possible here. Thinking Saskatchewan might go after him too though.

I'm lost. Why does everyone think us being optimistic about this week is being optimistic about improvements? We were 11-7 last year. Our opponent was a dumpster fire.

@SPuDS Give me my like now, please.

There's a limit?

Chris Jones is definitely a major DB.

Jamie Roiddard.

He's not playing on the offensive line ..

Andrew Harris