Brandon

Taken out of the game from a head shot earlier.

This is the first game I've watched this season. Has the defence been this soft all season? Seriously I've never seen such a soft hitting and negative-intensity group of D before? Each run play it's almost like they freeze and watch the guy and then make a soft tackle 3 - 5 yards later. I've yet to see a "big hit" outside of the hit on Brown that took him out. Do we have a tackle for a loss or even for a minimal gain? Outside of Jefferson do we have anyone on D who is a play maker who can do anything? Kramdi also is completely useless. On O the o-line needs some help but everything else seems fine to me.

Slowly Zack is turning into Matt Nichols Thankfully the last time Strev came in for an injured shot QB he instantly spread the ball around and guys who were invisible beforehand started to get receptions and opportunities to make plays.

I honestly think a lot of fairweather Rider fans stopped following the team two seasons ago. The Riderfans forum is really quiet these days.

Zach looks like he is cooked, I'd give him three more starts this season and if things don't change then why not move on with Strev. It's very unlikely that a guy in his late 30's bounces back.

What a back breaking penalty they had that ended up with Dukes forcing a really bad throw into the hands of the Riders db. Dukes looks like a rookie QB going through the growing pains.

Nope not at all, I just want the club to use him as a normal QB and stop pigeon holing him into a running guy with gadget plays. He is starter material and just needs some play time to get back into a groove.

At some point a great veteran QB reaches a point where he just cant do it week in and week out anymore. It appears that he has reached this point and right now he is a great veteran back up QB. I'd give him 2 weeks more maximum and at that point you move forward with Strev and cut Zach in the off season because of the big contract.

Has the media or anyone on the radio asked O'Shea why Eli is not starting?

Tim Hortons uses flash frozen donuts that they re-heat/cook. Even fresh they still taste stale. Safeway I find has extremely good donuts.

I'm pretty sure the Hart family is far more angry about what happened to Owen and also how Vince screwed Stu out of a lot of money and his business from a loop hole in a contract more so then Bret losing his belt. AFAIK the Hart family does not hate Jim McMahon.

That has to be a front for a drug operation.

Is Lucky wanting top dollars or something?

Is the moral of the story that we need to cut some vets and put some young guys on the field in hopes that they can catch on quickly and perform better? Or is this a Younger issue?

He couldn't punt for crap last year also.... no idea why they kept him? Has anyone in the media asked O'Shea why?

Why didn't they bring in a new punter? Is it really that hard to find an average one?

A reminder to the gods.... I choose BC to win tonight. C'mon now!

FYI we will win tonight. I choose BC in the pickem thread so therefore this guarantees us a win.

Great move for the Kings, they dump that massive contract and can move on.

What is the latest news on it? Last I heard was the Chip and Pepper guys screwed over Upper Crust Bakery and also closed down some other bakery.

I was in the area and saw easily over a 100 people lined up outside and the drive thru line snaked all the way down to Sterling Lyon. I don't get why people would bother doing this when in a few weeks they won't have to wait hours to purchase a generic doughnut.

Apparently sticking with the NFL for a few years and even making it onto the highlights a few time somehow equates to diminishing in talent? Maybe people question if he's a "CFL" qb... you know how people always prefer the CFL having a mobile QB rather then a slow as molasses drop back passer that the NFL favours... oh wait.... I think some people are just looking for reasons to complain. Strev is fine, I would hope they would play him here as a normal QB and not the gadget crap that LaPo had him doing in his last year with us. In his first season he dropped back and ran a normal O and was clearly able to make passes and escape the rush for the big runs. The gadget option plays should only be utilized a few times, it's predictable and dumb.

I missed the game (again) , can anyone do a mini odds and sods of what went wrong?

Is Lucky Whitehead still a free agent and healthy?

I missed the game tonight, looks like the starters were rusty and not ready for the real season. I wonder if they had more time in pre season to play if they would of been more prepared.