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He's a journeyman. Most journeymen don't amount to much, I'm afraid. Haven't we been pining for free agents and guys who have been in the CFL?

Every offence in pro football involves receivers and QB's making reads...most high school offences do too. If the corner takes a 10 yard drop into his zone, why would the #1 receiver run a 10 yard hook, even if that's the call? The whole game is about reading and adjusting.

Where should the receivers come back to? The defence is sitting is short zones and daring our QB's to hit a window, which they've done few times. If we had a QB who could make a read and a throw, you could put the receivers down. There is nowhere for receivers to come back to. We don't throw deep, our veteran QB can't handle a blitz and teams are just sitting in the middle of the field and short zones daring someone to beat them, which makes it almost impossible to run the ball without tossing in everyone to block. We're probably the easiest team to defend in recent CFL history. Word on the street (ok, heard it from Rick Ralph) is none of our receivers are running the correct routes, and TE is the only one actually performing on game day like he does in practice. Haven't watched many of the games (only listened) so can't judge. Is it really the vet QB can't handle a blitz or our OL is just that awful? The point of the blitz is that they are sending more guys than we can block. In that game on the weekend, Hamilton was routinely bringing 7 vs 5 or 6. It makes the OL look really bad because guys are coming through free, but that is by design. Any functional offence is going to beat this enough times to make it pointless for a defence to send a blitz (particularly a rush of more than 5) on a passing down more than about 1/3 of the time. The QB needs to read the blitz pre-snap (especially when it is not being disguised) and designate a receiver to replace the space where a blitzer(s) is coming from, a hot route. This is football 101, one of the first things young passers learn on either side of the border. Pierce is not reading anything until the ball is snapped, and by then it is too late. He needs to know where the ball is going before it is even snapped. If any other QB in the league faced that blitz he'd throw for 400 yards.

Where should the receivers come back to? The defence is sitting is short zones and daring our QB's to hit a window, which they've done few times. If we had a QB who could make a read and a throw, you could put the receivers down. There is nowhere for receivers to come back to. We don't throw deep, our veteran QB can't handle a blitz and teams are just sitting in the middle of the field and short zones daring someone to beat them, which makes it almost impossible to run the ball without tossing in everyone to block. We're probably the easiest team to defend in recent CFL history.

The only reason he should be happy is that the game ended.

You act like these are positive things. I'm not saying if they were positive or negative, I'm saying it is very clear that Burke was uncomfortable with Palardy as his kicker, back to the Banjo Bowl last season, and Goltz at QB. Pretty clear that he wasn't making those roster decisions and Mack was. Mack standing on the sideline isn't interfering with the coaching staff. Mack setting the game roster is.

I don't care if a GM is on the sidelines during a game. All you need to know about Mack interfering with Burke and the coaching staff's responsibilities is that the minute he was fired Sandro Deangelis was on his way to Winnipeg and Max Hall was the starting QB. Clearly Mack was doing more than procuring players and managing from the front office. The coach (and coaching staff) should decide who is on the game roster.

Based on what? How many passes has he thrown as a pro? Still a prospect, a weak-armed immobile one at that. If you bring a guy like that in you have to teach him how to be a passer at this level like he was in the spread in college, you won't get anything immediate.

If Buck was under the amount of pressure you're suggesting, nobody would be able to tell what his reads are because he'd be on his ass before his eyes are even downfield. Buck can't handle a blitz, it is why he gets blitzed and why our offence is useless when he's out there. He makes brutal decisions like stepping into the rush rather than getting rid of the ball or stepping up but not keeping his eyes downfield. Rookie mistakes from an 8 year vet.

When teams are blitzing 8 guys, someone is not going to be blocked. That's not going to change until we put in a QB who can make a throw.

Bellefeuille used Marcus Thigpen pretty well.

Higgins would be in the deep part of the shallow end we've been fishing in for coaching hires. My preference would be to pay what it takes and give title to someone who deserves it and is the best candidate available. Hard to know what the chances of that happening are, but you see the guys like Milanovich (the Dickenson of 2010) turn down interviews here because they know that they won't get paid a top CFL head coaching salary and that they won't have the conditions in place to do their job properly. Hopefully this doesn't happen to us this time around.

BC's offence had a half dozen chances to end the game in the 4th quarter and could hardly move the ball against a pretty vanilla blitz scheme. BRUTAL!

Chapdelaine is having a bad night.

Chapdelaine abandoned the run and screen game with Montreal blitzing like crazy. Why?

The point I was trying to make actually was that having a strong arm doesn't mean a guy will be a top QB. Yes Bishop and Jackson had more success that Dinwiddie but there are also QBs who weren't overly blessed with arm strength who have had a lot more success than Bishop and Jackson. Doug Flutie immediately comes to mind. Hell, Jeff Garcia didn't have a cannon for an arm either and still had a great career in both the CFL and NFL. Garcia was quick and accurate so he could thrive in West Coast offences. Also above average mobility. Just when you'd get comfortable with the Stamps pass game, he'd take a drop and then pull down a QB draw for a first down.

Glenn was benched for 3 games. His huge September brought his numbers way up, but he had some truly awful games in 2008.

Every CFL QB has a major deficiency, otherwise they wouldn't be here. That's just life. Most of Hall's flutter balls came when he was dancing in the pocket, if he settles down his feet those balls will be tighter. That said, he's a pure pocket guy with an average arm and a nothing special release. Tough to be a great QB in the CFL or even NFL now without being more mobile (or having a lightning release to run a West Coast) as coaches are designing plays with 3+ options including the QB taking the ball. I hope they really think Hall can win games, because if we are developing someone it should be Goltz.

Was he adopted by the Shaw family?

1 correlation does not imply causation. 2 these shares do nothing to influence the organization or create accountability. It's essentially a fan club. The shareholders elect the board in Regina and Green Bay. The Riders have had an unprecedented era of stability and success both on and off the field since adopting their current board structure. I guess you could stick your fingers in your ears and say "la la la la la" and say the two things are unrelated, but that would be pretty ridiculous.

Successful as in not finishing projects, getting paid off to get out of the picture and leaving the taxpayers on the hook? Name one successful Creswin (or more commonly 352833 MB Ltd.) development. There isn't one. It's a shell company.

I'd take O'Day before I even consider Forde, speaking of lack of experience. Just because he gets on TV and can talk about football doesn't give him any management potential. NFL teams aren't clamoring to hire Mel Kiper Jr.

Laugh all you want at the shares. Since the Riders adopted the Packer model in the early 2000s they have been among the most successful CFL franchises after being a laughingstock for decades prior. The Packers are clearly one of the most successful pro franchises in North America in the smallest market. The big problem here is that there is no accountability for the board. Private owner, Jets for example, their accountability comes from the fact that if they don't run a good business and team, they'll lose money. Riders and Packers, if those board members don't stay in the lines, they won't be board members for long. Here they just do whatever with only the board members keeping each other accountable, and they spend "community" money.

We could just call him Beautiful Sheet.

Howell couldn't figure out how to play receiver in a decade in the league. He should be helping with special teams and little else.