Mike

I made the following comment to somebody at Riderfans ... and he replied ... Little early to be drinking, even for a Friday.

A DI offensive lineman is literally the least efficient use of a roster spot EVER

last picture, dark hair in the front row

Watch, now we'll hire Dave Dickenson and in the ultimate heel turn, he'll fire his brother.

GIF away. Don't put GIFs in here, or I'll start another thread...

Seriously? Good on you.

If Pencer goes to tackle and gets hurt half way through, then who backs him up? I don't know, just asking the question. I do agree that I'd like to see him at tackle. I think if Swiston hadn't gotten hurt we'd have seen at least one of them starting this week at tackle, something I've wanted to see all year. Would much rather see Knapp backing up and with a plan to juggle the ratio if Pencer got hurt... Okay Bart Andrus.

I swear I'll get to it this morning.

Burke has to be the least inspiring head coach I can ever remember. Every coach has their issues, but hey ... at least Mike Kelly had a clue. He was just insane. Paul Lapolice? Lost the locker room but he at least spoke intelligently. Burke honestly just seems to have no clue. I wouldn't trust him to run my fantasy lineup at this point.

In all honesty, I think his Mulumba pick will turn out to be the most scrutinized. -- Watson, no argument there. -- Muamba, actually made him look smart -- Pencer, now that he's actually playing, he's showing value -- Etienne, this one will still get knocked for a while, but really him and Parker (the #2 pick) are both progressing and turning into players

At least we got Polywhirl or whatever.

Yep. She'll pretty much write anything you want or just tell me your name and I'll get her to write something in it personalized. But don't get too creative.

If anyone is interested in buying one ($10 each) then it'd be much appreciated if you bought them from me. I will absolutely accept Paypal and am even willing to ship (for free) out of town via snail mail for all of you out of towners. Local pick up / drop off available also. I can post up some pictures for those who want to see what it looks like, but for anyone who wants to support, it'd be much appreciated. My girlfriend is missing a huge opportunity to sell them at the launch party this weekend because of work obligations and she has to move 100 of them in order to travel to the Grey Cup as part of the cheer team. And yes, I can get them personalized with a message if you'd like. Feel free to PM if you don't feel like posting info. Thanks.

Have to imagine it would be difficult to justify signing Cauchy Muamba, while drafting Edem. Now, imagine if we listened to Walters, drafted Edem, and threw our FA money at an O-Lineman... Which FA OL did you want last year?

I honestly just don't agree. I'd gladly take him over Sorensen at center, but not over Pencer at guard.

Then the jury is still out on Norman as well because he played an incredibly limited amount at guard.

I would say Norman played decently at guard. Nothing Pencer didn't replicate last week.

So you're just assuming that because they're both good centers, they can also play guard better than Pencer and Greaves? (and I'll use the term "good" loosely on Norman)

Depth maybe, there's no way both would be starting for us. why do you say that? They're both better then the starters we employ. where would you start them?

People had input .. whether or not it was listened to is another matter entirely. I questioned why we didn't draft any o-linemen this year. I was told there weren't any worth drafting. And whoever told you that was mostly right. The only "ready" OL in this class was Brett Jones and I remember plenty of people bringing up that he was a risk because of his interest in a non-football related career path.

Depth maybe, there's no way both would be starting for us.

The only ones on that list that I'd want are Bomben, Norman and Jones. And none of them do anything to alleviate our current mess. Jones is an improvement over Sorensen but really, that's not going to make a huge difference at this point. So basically, no deal breakers for me although hindsight does show some guys we could've taken. And before anyone asks me why I wouldn't want Neufeld ... he's looked terrible for Saskatchewan this year. Not quite Boatmanesque, but close. Still a project though, he could get better.

Shannon Boatman looking in great shape.