Fraser

can't **** on anyone in the secondary after that game.

oh I'm sure its spite too.

guess that means wally thinks pierce is better than Elliott

waa

13th man inflatable really looks like it's giving the finger

saw lots of fat rider fans walking on pembina. at least they'll get their exercise.

Elliott sucks. He would add no value to our team at all other than a very marginal improvement at QB. I do agree with you that I shake my head in disbelief at the complete double standard people are passing off between Goltz and Elliott though. Goltz and Elliott arrived at around the same time and are almost equal in experience level. For some reason people are suggesting that more time would make Goltz this great QB, yet when the subject of Elliott comes up they believe he had his chance and sucked. They are half right I suppose, but you can't have it both ways. If you are going to lobby for patience with Goltz then you shouldn't be knocking Elliott in the same breath....they are literally almost equal in experience level. Personally, I don't believe either of them will ever amount to anything in this league. agree wholeheartedly with your final point

they also probably wouldn't si munoz. he's pretty dominate

fake mug. a rider fan would never wear a tie.

I thought Buano was a QB expert and we were trusting his expert judgement about QB's as to the signing of Elliott and pretending that 3rd string was the same as 2nd string. What happened to that?

Hey I guess your theory about how they were using Elliott was pretty wrong eh?

I think this team is in such a huge mess that they need to spend money whether they have it or not in order to get this franchise back on track. Unless, for whatever reason, they want to role the dice again on another season in order to save money. But will they save money if people don't buy tickets? No. They will lose a ton of money cutting corners with the on field product in a fancy new stadium that will turn into a white elephant.

I've been practicing my sarcastic cheer all morning

hey losers. I'm at Labour day and we got a sampler pack at bushwackerw. all sorts of oatmeal and red and black and fruity **** in beer. you'd get all wet off this **** but I'm having an American style lager. hope everyone is having as good a time as I am.

3 picks minimum.

It's a bubble, it'll burst eventually.

Peach is American lol oh, ffs. Then consider me lukewarm to the idea. LMAO. He was born in Vancouver... Washington. people assume any white non QB must be CDN.

is that really a saying?

at least cauchy can do a safety blitz

he's a rookie AGM promoted to acting GM, I don't see making him the HC a good idea. Just fire Burke at the end of the year.

I normally agree with you but I've had it with the lack of accountability for Burke. No one seems to be taking him to task for the utter crap we've witnessed in his time as head coach. Hell there is no way he should have been hired based on last season let alone given the entire year this year yet hardly anyone is holding his feet over the fire for it. We went from a competitive team that played not to lose with Lapolice to a team that more often than not just rolled over and died with Burke. That's not all on the talent because a lot of it is the same talent. Now either Lapo was a great head coach or Burke is just that bad and I don't think Lapo is that great of a head coach. Isn't the best punishment making him play out this ****? Its not like firing him mid season will do anything but give him a paid vacation.

I agree that this is a worse situation than Mike Kelly but I know 17 really hates him so I'm surprised to hear him say that.

Do you really think so? Jim Daley in '05 had a much better QB (Glenn) than anything Burke has right now. That '05 team was abysmal. and what's this team? I honestly think Burke is the worst head coach I've ever seen on this team. Worse than Mike Kelly?

There's a lot of pretty traditional behavioral biases going on the site right now and since I've got a pretty wicked sunburn I've got little else to do but explore them. Enjoy (or not) Hindsight bias The nature of hindsight bias is causing people to look for reasons, or correlations as to why we are losing. This traditionally causes people to "data mine" or look for a sample of data that supports their conclusion. However, football fans don't traditionally apply a scientific method they just get down to brass tax and start spouting off all sorts of reasons or "obvious mistakes" that have been made by the franchise. These tend to have little explanatory power as to why the team is losing making them a sort of spurious correlation. ( A spurious correlation usually shows up in multiple data sets but in this case one one is mining data for different sets they are just applying it to the situation at hand) Spurious correlation We are seeing a ton of this right now. People like to blame stuff like: "the GM shouldn't be watching practices on the sidelines during games, he should let the HC do his job unabated" this was popular in sask when miller gave up the coaching duties to move upstairs and I've heard it about Mack to. Its simply not true. I've seen Buano on the sidelines after giving up HC duties and Popp and barker to and they have been very successful and won GC's. We don't even have a GM right now to be on the sidelines and the team sucks so it's not that that. "The HC is too involved in the offense" This was a very popular reason when we were losing under lapo but Trestman called the plays and has either the best or one of the best winning %'s of a HC ever and is now a HC in the NFL. Lapo was stripped of his play calling duties and the offense if anything got worse. Maybe Lapo was trying to do too much as a new HC but if that was really the problem it would have gotten better when he stopped and it didn't. "The HC isn't involved enough in the offense" people like to blame Burkes lack of offensive knowledge as to why we are losing and I agree that it is a problem. I also agree that its is better to have an offensive minded HC and that is why most HC's in the CFL are from an OC background. That being said its not the problem. Benevidas is a former DC. He's got a very capable and experienced OC working for him. I agree it's embarrassing how little Burke knows about the offense and how to pick the QB and stuff like that but if he was better at it the team would still suck. "The OC is in the booth or on the field" people like to blame both of these situations but Sask almost won the grey cup with Lapo in the box (see hat throwing scene for proof) and Dickinson is a great OC and is on the sideline. If anyone thinks moving Crowton from the box to the field would have made any lick of difference for this offense I have a bridge to sell you. So what is the problem? A lot of **** Players don't play for Burke. Remember when Miller took over for Marshal in Sask and they whooped us even though we had mirror records? Remember everyone saying how it's the easiest game for players to get motivated for ? Remember the giant Dump the players took on the field last Labour day after Burke took over? guess all the gassers didn't put the fear of Burke into them. Guess Joe Mack didn't get their attention. I don't think our defense is that bad I think they frankly don't give much of a ****. There are improvements to be made and stuff but the bigger problem as that they are playing like the season is lost and it is. Burke also was surrounded by a terrible OC and the Oline and QB talent (for him and Lapo( was subpar to say the least. Joe mack just didn't address either one well enough and that is why he is fired. We hung on to buck for too long but even if we hadn't good luck developing a QB with a **** Oline and OC. We are going to get a new GM and he will hopefully hire a competent HC and fix the Oline. Hopefully we can pry away a QB prospect due to the dispersal draft or Hall will look better with a real oline and real OC (MB is a real OC but can't do **** with this O line and this late into the season so that's a moot point) Burke will be gone and the New HC will select his own assistants and if Wade Miller gets the GM spot right then new GM will get the HC spot right and if the HC is right he'll keep whoever he wants around based on merit and not cronyism or ignorance (like how Crowton stuck around with Burke). Basically that starts another rebuild and hopefully they get it right his time. So yeah whether Burke is animated or not doesn't mean **** he's a dead man walking. I think everyone is smart enough to know that MB isn't responsible for any of this mess and if the new mgmt wants to keep him around it probably won't be because we run the table of the rest of the year it will be because he helped turn around a flailing Hamilton team and he can be an OC in the league. Nothing will save the season and if they fire anyone else it'll just hamper the ability to find the the right personnel for next year because no one showing up midway through 2013 is the guy we actually want running **** next year and if we fire anyone else we will literally have to just forfeit games for the rest of the year.

and that's based on a pretty large sample size too.