Mike

Kuale actually only has 10 penalties this year for 110 yards. But what is pathetic is that all but 1 of them (an offside call) have come since week 11

Great intentions, poorly laid out. Correction: the dates on his page don't seem to jive. I'm going to check something.

Jace Daniels @J_Daniels74 Off to Winnipeg, Canada to team up with my boys @ZachAnderson44 @AndersoNx71 again #WildcatFamily Former Tampa Bay Buc too.

Trying to be realistic ... I'd like to see Aaron Kelly, Romby Bryant, Greg Peach and EJ Kuale all replaced. I'd keep Greg Peach (and maybe AK if his contract is friendly enough) as backups but the other two can go immediately. I'd like to see us make a move to pick up a Canadian or two to shore up that talent pool. Walters has shown himself to be a willing participant in trades and I'd like to see what he can do when it comes time for other teams to start making tough roster choices. Solidify ourselves a couple names in the draft. Improve the haul of imports from the offseason recruiting. Shore up the depth. Come up with a way to stop the run. SOMEHOW manage to improve the OL.

Few Q = F*** you. My guess.

Do we have anyone we'd be willing to trade who could fetch us anything close to a first? I'd be more than willing to give up a guy like Watson, but he probably only gets us a third rounder or so. Maybe Watson and January for a first?? January has zero trade value

I like Holmes. He'd be a good add.

I'd take him over Desia Dunn in a second. But my guess is he probably goes to Saskatchewan. please explain why Sask Because I'm guessing.

I'd take him over Desia Dunn in a second. But my guess is he probably goes to Saskatchewan.

No details other than he personally requested it. Wow.

What a moran.

Dressler was on the Bombers neg list.

I see no point to get rid of Etch at this point.

So you want Volny as the starter. Okay next step. Please explain why.

If I wanted to imagine my own halftime show it wouldn't be dragons.

I'm not going to say that some of our personnel decisions are wrong at this point ... but they're leaving me very confused.

McGuffie isn't just a RB, he'll play receiver too.

Awesome, thanks for the updates.

What if he plays in week 18 and gets hurt on the first snap? What if he plays in week 18 and is clearly *not* back to normal as Migs suggests he will be? Just trying to clarify.

What is "as planned"?

Lawrence is 6'2 180 out of Northwestern, wearing 18 Wilson is 5'11 180 out of Delaware State, wearing 86 Both added to PR

I don't stick up for officials until the accusations being made against them starting bordering on the ridiculous. Are there times when I get really frustrated and angry with the officiating (in any sport I watch) - yeah, of course. The thing is officials get bashed for making the correct calls/non-calls more often than they are bashed when making a legitimate mistake. Before this season started, the officials were instructed to call certain infractions more closely and then they get bashed for doing it. It's the players themselves who should be taking a lot of blame for the increase, not the officials. Penalties are up but the ones that have seen the biggest increases are ones that the players can control. Objectionable conduct penalties are up 45% and procedural penalties (Offside, Procedure, Time count, Delay, Too many men, Illegal participation/substitution are grouped together) are up 44% - that's on the players, not the officials. Procedural penalties are up 15% not 44%, not sure where you got that from. Objectionable conduct penalties going up isn't a good thing in my mind either, the referees need to put their flags away on a lot of those. I find it very interesting that objectionable conduct calls are seeing such a huge increase while major fouls such as face masking, roughing the passer, horse collar tackling, etc are seeing a small increase if any. In fact, when you isolate just face masking calls, they're actually down nearly 20% this year. Don't you think that is because in many cases the players know they were victimized by a bad call or by a non call? Why so much this year? I just find it interesting that face masks, RTP, horse collars, etc saw a minimal increase (or in some cases a decrease) but penalties for objectionable conduct (i.e. things like unsportsmanlike conduct) are WAY up. You're right with what you thought I was implying - it doesn't seem like the players are getting heated with eachother on the field because of dirty play ... so if they are getting heated ... who is left?

Vanstone also saying they were after Burris.http://blogs.leaderpost.com/2014/09/29/riders-inquired-about-burris/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed Yup they had exploratory talks, just like they likely had with other teams about other QBs. They made an offer. You can rag on Madani all you want, but anyone who knows the history he has with Taman knows that he's likely getting this info straight from the front office. Offer =/= exploratory talks. You can call it what you want but it's already been pointed out to you that actions speak louder than words. They made an offer for Burris where they would have given up a first round pick and then some. That's a pretty loud action.

Okay ... but if they were that optimistic, why would they offer a 1st rounder for Burris? I get that it can happen and that it may happen. But it sure isn't "likely"

I don't stick up for officials until the accusations being made against them starting bordering on the ridiculous. Are there times when I get really frustrated and angry with the officiating (in any sport I watch) - yeah, of course. The thing is officials get bashed for making the correct calls/non-calls more often than they are bashed when making a legitimate mistake. Before this season started, the officials were instructed to call certain infractions more closely and then they get bashed for doing it. It's the players themselves who should be taking a lot of blame for the increase, not the officials. Penalties are up but the ones that have seen the biggest increases are ones that the players can control. Objectionable conduct penalties are up 45% and procedural penalties (Offside, Procedure, Time count, Delay, Too many men, Illegal participation/substitution are grouped together) are up 44% - that's on the players, not the officials. Procedural penalties are up 15% not 44%, not sure where you got that from. Objectionable conduct penalties going up isn't a good thing in my mind either, the referees need to put their flags away on a lot of those. I find it very interesting that objectionable conduct calls are seeing such a huge increase while major fouls such as face masking, roughing the passer, horse collar tackling, etc are seeing a small increase if any. In fact, when you isolate just face masking calls, they're actually down nearly 20% this year. Sorry I had the wrong column. It's Offensive holding, Illegal blocks that are up 44% which is actually rather funny when you consider how much people complain about holding not being called enough. I'll edit my original post with the correction. But in many cases, objectionable conduct is a penalty we can't judge whether a flag should be thrown or not. Players know what they can and can't say when they are on the field and if they are still running their mouths then they deserve the penalties. I find it interesting that you go on to say "they deserve the penalties" after initially saying we as fans cannot judge. Why do you automatically side with the referee instead of the player?