Blueandgold

Hes under contract next season, so they would've possibly lost him to Ottawa. But, as others have mentioned not to us. And that logic sucks anyways, now that Neufeld is gone, the Riders are going to lose ANOTHER Canadian to Ottawa(assuming Neufeld was going to be picked).

Hall was leaving at the end of this season anyways, I don't see why getting a Canadian for him can be seen as a bad thing.

Hall wasn't coming back here, but I don't like giving up a 2nd rounder. Would've been a much better trade if we gave up our third rounder instead IMO.

John Murphy has never been a GM, I'm not sure that qualifies as ''experienced''. The question is, would he be a better fit as GM than Walters? And would they be able to co-exist? I'm not so sure about that.

Hard to see stats as a measuring stick considering the situation were in. I would much take Etienne over Rob Bagg or any other Rider NI receiver not named Getzlaf.

Yeah, he even gives Cauchy Muamba a run for his money an as incompetent Canadian safety. It would be nice to have Mike Edem.

Players and coaches without a doubt. I cut Bellfool some slack only because he doesn't have the horses but Creehan is hands down the worst defensive co I have ever seen. The players he has are nowhere near as bad as he makes them seem. Our defense is ever so slightly better than in 2005 I think. But on the whole, this team is god awful. Probably even worse than 1996 or 1997 with Reinbold. The 2009 team with Bishop would destroy these guys, probably even the 2005 team Daley led team as well.

Well we only have to sit through them for another month before their fired after a horrid 3-15 season.

He better be careful, there isn't a huge market for import running backs approaching 30 with injury issues.

I'm surprised the fact that Kent Austin is a notorious flake himself, yet refusing to let a player go to the NFL which is in essence a gigantic promotion isn't more of a topic. These guys have short careers that can end in instant, I definitely don't agree with the way Williams went about his business but who can blame him? He could've played out his 50K contract, blew out his ACL and his career could be over. Would the Ticats support him? Not a chance in hell. I didn't particularly like when Taman held Kyries Hebert here instead of going to the Bengals, and I don't particularly like this. I'm definitely not wishing failure upon the guy like everyone here seems to be, its really petty IMO.

He didn't exactly win, he has to try to sign with an NFL team and Hamilton still has him for next season if he wants to play in the CFL(when he otherwise would've been a free agent).

Wasn't Williams due to be a free agent at the end of the year? The moron should've just played out the year.

McKnight is horrible thats why. I personally wish we still had Palardy and not Sandra. On another note, whats wrong with some of these Americans and giving their kids names like Jheranie. Seriously, is Jheranie even a real name?

Because we need a QB that can start MOST of the games next season and not one who's going to break after one game. Then you're just going to be bitching again "WHY DON'T WE HAVE A PROPER QB TO BACKUP TATE WHEN HE GETS HURT". Tate is a bandaid....we do NOT need a bandaid at QB. Especially one that tears as easily as he does. Tate should NOT be an option. Totally disagree with this statement. Insert Boltus (or for that matter all our current qb's), inset all the new oline guys we've brought in, insert sandro, insert Bo Smith and you're on to something. But Tate? He's shown enough in this league to warrant more than the label band aid. Saviour no, risk yes, payoff potential, but filler c'mon now. Are you someone who believes Buck Pierce isn't injury prone and shouldn't of been traded?

The logic is that Ottawa needs players NOW and isn't going to take the chance of these guys returning to their city in Feb without playing a single game for them.

I love the idea of Dickenson as head coach and Collaros at QB, but I would prefer Khari as a QB coach.

If Collaros keeps winning I don't see how they let him go.

Collaros, Marsh, Neiswander, Willy, Goltz, Hall, DeMarco, Glenn, Tate, Pierce, and now Crompton will all be available Quarterbacks for the Redblacks(and Bombers) that have gotten extended playing time this season(I guess one of Neiswander and Marsh will be protected by the Als but still...) Good year for an expansion draft.

Unfortunately, I would still have to put Goltz and Hall higher up on the list....

You still need to protect them if you want to keep their rights until February. Kyle Walters himself said when we traded for Foster that the thinking is you want as many expiring contracts as possible so you don't have to worry about protecting them. In a league with such obvious tampering having their rights until February doesn't mean much.

Andrew Harris.

He was the Eskimos starters to begin last season...

With Etienne, Foster, Kohlert and Muamba all due to free agents we really won't have many Canadians to protect. Honestly, Ottawa might be forced to take Cauchy Muamba, Kito Poblah or Steve Morely off our hands.

I'm kind of surprised that we didn't sign McPherson, Porter or Jyles. Then again, all of them have about the talent level of Alex Brink....

Goltz might honestly be our best Quarterback. Yikes.