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Well with Chambers out for the rest of the year they likely needed someone.

At this point I just can't see any teams other than Ottawa trading away QB depth. On the other hand, if they offered a first rounder for Brohm... Well Montreal might be willing to part with Brink or Smith... but does that really count as depth at this point?

It's funny that you accuse Madani of being a franchises media mouthpiece and then quote Rob Vanstone of all people as your source for Durants health.Vanstone provided his source, Durant & the team.No bias there.Who would you rather have as a source for Durant's health?Not the point, the point here is spin, you know, what you are doing. They're putting a shiny happy face on things so the fans and team don't panic. "Don't worry Durant will be back soon and it'll all get better" any thing to take the minds off the shut out loss.That conspiracy theory makes no sense. Are you suggesting that the Riders medical staff are being dishonest so they can give Riders fans false hope? Sorry but that is tinfoil hat material as that is the last thing you want to do if Durant can't come back. You really are thick aren't you? They are saying the absolute 100% best case scenario. Kind of like the Lions were putting on the brave face in the offseason with the best case for Lulay coming back. Happens allllllllllllll the time in pro sports.

or you know, it's a perfectly fine explanation for it... why doubt it? You think that on that play they just decided they couldn't get a play called and the ball snapped on time for no reason? Not like we've never seen the speakers not work before.

It's funny that you accuse Madani of being a franchises media mouthpiece and then quote Rob Vanstone of all people as your source for Durants health.Vanstone provided his source, Durant & the team. No bias there. Who would you rather have as a source for Durant's health? Not the point, the point here is spin, you know, what you are doing. They're putting a shiny happy face on things so the fans and team don't panic. "Don't worry Durant will be back soon and it'll all get better" any thing to take the minds off the shut out loss.

Why would Taman leak info about the offer for a player that was supposedly rejected knowing that a large portion of the fanbase can't stand the player in question? Sorry not buying it, Taman has nothing to gain by that. There is a very good reason the media in Winnipeg absolutely loves Brendan Taman still, it's because he is very open with them, he always told them a lot. It's part of why they hated Kelly and Mack so much, both guys basically told the media to go **** themselves.

The esks management is in love with White.

which to me is simply an indicator that he's not good enough to be the main threat in an offense and without Dressler for most of the season to take pressure off him he's not as effective. It happens. We got our own guy like that In Denmark.

Chance... could... optimistic news after getting shut out? You don't say...

INJURIES ARE A VALID REASON!

This makes a lot more sense than Burris. I'm a big fan of Matt Nichols and I think he'll do quite well behind a strong Rider O-line. You would have to think it wouldn't happen until after the Riders and Esks play though right? Don't want to get burned giving a team you're close in the standings to a qb.

with the Riders being as desperate as they are Ottawa should be trying to bend them over as much as possible. Starting Canadian, Sunseri and that first round pick or GTFO.

I am sure there's an official Rider fan flowchart of blame out there somewhere.

you are wrong. Damon Allen was too inconsistent a passer to be considered the best in the CFL. Now a guy like Flutie, he could run very effectively and was a great passer as well, that's why he's pretty unanimously considered the best to ever play in the CFL.

If you've watched the trends for 20 years, you can see that offences always take longer to adjust. It's worth noting that more Canadians start on offense, so it may take longer to find new talent. So it seems that teams are still using absolute behemoths on the offensive line, whereas defensive linemen have been trending smaller for a while, could we be in a situation where they simply need to go with smaller OL who have better quickness to deal with the speedy players on defense? Or do you go in the other direction and just beef up the offenses to smash the puny DL and linebackers all over the league?

Only because I think this is a good topic to discuss, I will make it easy for you. imo the only significant injury that has cost us has been at long snapper. Zach Anderson, Nic Moore, and Jason Vega. and....how exactly do we know that? Have their replacements made mistakes that lead directly to losses. Well in the case of Nic Moore we can see that his replacement is falling way short of the numbers that Moore was putting up and I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Moore brings more than Bryant when he doesn't have the ball in his hands too. So that one is easy, and quite arguably the biggest injury we have. Denmark as a #2 guy is fine, as a #1 he's not really good enough to handle the load. The rest are hit and miss whether they'll be effective game to game. Anderson and Vega are quite obviously huge losses based purely on the lack of depth this team has on defensive line. Looking only at mistakes is the wrong way to look at things. How many plays have the replacements made? Cause we know those other guys are play makers and making plays wins football games, especially close football games.

It was a horrible episode and mostly because Aidy Bryant doing the oversexed fat girl is all she does and it wasn't funny the first time. Complete waste of space. The rest of the female cast is very talented why does most of the screen time go to the useless one?

It's a matter of perspective. You can't really compare the current roster to the one that started the season, mostly due to injuries. It's pretty hard to measure progression when so many guys who started the first game are not playing. It's the same standard for all teams in the league, injuries effect everyone. yes but the point here is that the bombers aren't a deep team and we knew that going into the year. I think what it shows more than anything is that when healthy this is a decent team, but when not healthy they don't have that extra gear to pick up the wins.

Wally Buono was talking about is on tsn when they had him in the booth, his assessment was the extra DI spots help the defenses a lot allowing them more different looks. Seems like it could be a valid assessment. Get more specialized players on D whereas the offense is pretty much static with the players on it.

He obviously should have called the plays that the Esks couldn't stop! what a moran. Cortez has been terrible lately. I would not be disappointed if he lost his job. Yeah fire arguably the best OC in the league because a backup qb in his first chances to start doesn't look good... the things some of you say. If you fired Cortez there would be a lineup of teams picking him up. And the answer to the QBs struggles isn't to do the same play calls every possession. The answer probably isn't to fire him, but he needs to pick up his socks. What plays are there when the qb can't hit his receivers and the OL is getting beaten and the run game can't be established? Football is a pretty simple game, it really does comes down to execution. Qb makes his throws and the OC is a genius, qb misses his targets the OC is a moron. No Cortez is the least of the Riders problems. Welcome to life with a wet behind the ears qb.

I wonder how worthwhile those helmet speakers are... seems there's always some kind of issue with qbs not being able to hear.

People are not looking around at how hard it is to play offence in the CFL this year. There are lots of teams that struggle to score and score TDs. Scores under 20 have been very common this year.

He obviously should have called the plays that the Esks couldn't stop! what a moran. Cortez has been terrible lately. I would not be disappointed if he lost his job. Yeah fire arguably the best OC in the league because a backup qb in his first chances to start doesn't look good... the things some of you say. If you fired Cortez there would be a lineup of teams picking him up.

No offense but how would you know? There's lots of us can remember exactly how it went down. Calgary wanted to make a big splash and sign a big name qb to wash the stink of the Feterik era off the team and they paid Burris a ton and gave him the starting job outright. Riders offered him nice money but they were keeping Greene around and wanted competition at the position. Burris doesn't like competition and he likes gettin' paid so he went to Calgary. Why should I be surprised that Calgary completely overpaid a player . They seem to be the Ottawa of the west. This coming from a fan of the team that over shoots the salary cap without fail since it was implemented

It's all about that complex they have where they just think players should be honoured to play in Regina. It's a level of arrogance that is unlike anything.