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I seem to recall some returners jumping into the lineup after one week of practice, especially if their only duty is as a return man but I could be wrong.

I'm not forgiving the coaching staff, even if the offense has seemed more imaginative than in years past but look at it this way, is Buck even effective when he's flushed out of the pocket anymore? He's been flushed out many times and has maybe made one play (the pass to Kohlert, which was a terrible throw to a wide open man). He's not as mobile as he once was and he's abhorrently inaccurate while stationary, let alone while on the run,

I thought the same thing reading this article and since she is new, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt but that being said, I really don't like when articles in the Free Press paint a very skewed picture of what's going on making casual fans think some pretty messed up crap.

Here's the issue though. I know for a fact that multiple people on this board and myself (before I joined) have been tired of Buck's play for a few years now. It's hardly a knee-jerk reaction. Was this even worse than usual? Yes it certainly was, but it doesn't mean that he's usually much better than this. The receivers may not have been open every play, but intermediate routes were open quite a bit and Buck was firing balls 5 feet over their heads! Secondly, when Buck has 6 seconds or so to throw the ball and gets sacked, it's inexcusable. Throw the damn ball away!

Give it up already.

And then there's Kavis Reed...

That was disturbing.

JJ is worth less than nothing to us at this point and Kito I suppose would sorta suck to lose but Kohlert and Etienne have already proven to be more reliable anyways and having two quality NI starters and one quality back-up is enough for me. Meanwhile, back-up QBs may be a dime a dozen but up until this year Reilly was essentially a back-up QB who looked good in pre-season and decent in game action. Collaros and Harris both looked real good in two pre-seasons and not out of place in minimal game experience. It's not like they are complete unknowns.

I'll give you Jovon Johnson and Kito Poblah.

I've thought about this a lot for a very long time. I've never seen a QB with a longer leash than Buck even when he struggled in years past. He's never been benched for poor play and rarely if ever been pulled when ineffective. It makes me believe that there is more to this than meets the eye. Burke has no problem calling people out for poor performance and even cut Hefney, who while not perfect was clearly better at his position than Buck is at his. Are we all missing something here, or is it an elaborate conspiracy?

Dunn has been great as well but the difference is, we at least have Sears to take his place.

In his first few games, Parker was more involved in the play and in my mind actually better than Bowman ever was. Which is pretty unbelievable to me.

Preach, brother.

It'll probably be Ian Wild but at this point, he's clearly no Parker and making his first career start. Bad news.

This is crap. The O-line wasn't incredible but they were giving Buck more than enough time to throw the ball. Any other QB gets 3 balls off in the amount of time Buck was taking before he got sacked. I can't think of more then one sack that wasn't entirely his fault.

And god help us if Terrell Parker is out for a long period.

The receivers didn't play well tonight but I am willing to give them a pass because a) they usually bail Pierce out more than he deserves and b ) how would you feel if almost every ball you got was either overthrown horribly, or put in a place where you would be killed if you held on?

This game made me physically sick, Last year, we sucked and we deserved to suck. Each facet of the team was brutal and Buck was still bad when he played but when he didn't, we were at least grooming QBs to replace him. Now, he's bogging down a team with a great, athletic D and to make matters worse, he is playing boring football. It's painful to watch and a waste of everyone's time.

It's true, but it's mostly because he can't make throws to the sideline. He either airmails them or puts 'em in the dirt. Also, he sucks.

I was saying the same thing in the game chat. Buck just simply can't make plays or reads anymore. On essentially every sack, he had plenty of time and just couldn't do anything. This was the worst I've ever seen him and that is saying a lot. It's completely disgraceful.

Wojt played some tackle last game when Ingersoll was sucking and he was better than him, but that's not saying much at all.

Chevon Walker sucks. Like really badly.

Yes. Mostly due to lack of other options, but that's hardly keeping a starting job based on your own merits. In games last year and the year before, if Joey Elliot were the starter and Buck Pierce were the green QB who came in in relief, Buck would have been the one released due to poor play and Elliot would be the maligned "below-average" starter.

Yes, but Pierce has only been a starter the last 3 years of his career due to having no other viable options combined with incredible stubbornness on the part of a few coaching staffs. He has hardly earned that right.

I sorta hate all the other CFL teams equally but by no fault of their own, I hate the Argos a little bit more. At this point, the Riders are a Western team and it will always be better for us when they beat Eastern teams so it's no contest anyway. I am under the impression that Black and Forde are back together this week for whatever reason and they are doing the game tonight which sucks since it probably means they also do our game. I was kinda hoping they'd keep it as Cuthbert's team staying east and Black staying West but I guess that was wishful thinking.