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Janarion was moving on. We needed cap room to keep Lawler/Schoen in the fold. The choice to bring back Schoen was the right one even though it didn't work out.

MOS is not now, nor will he be, on any sort of hot seat this offseason. I am sure some frank conversations will be had between the trinity this offseason about what they can all do better and what changes need to take place to make that happen. None of those changes will be MOS, nor will his name even come up.

Yea...the narrative that wholesale changes need to happen is a little over the top. We have a fantastic core of management, coaches, players. Needs some tweaking but not anything on the wholesale level. I think we are in a stronger position going into this next season, then we were going into this one.

Walters, Miller, and MOS will sit down this offseason go over what they did well and didn't do well. Make a plan to change what is necessary, and go forward. Just as they have done every year for the past 10 years. None of us will know what is said behind those doors, and they will all emerge out of there united and ready to build the team to go to the Cup next year. I am not betting against them doing so.

At the professional level, it is the players that must find their own motivation and preparedness. I am not going to defend Buck's game plan, but we could have won with it. We saw dropped balls, bad penalties, and poor execution in general. You will never convince me that execution is on the coaches...because I know better than that.

Nope...I leave that to you nut tugging the players completely off the hook. No room for me in the back of the room where you are running the train.

He could hold the ball just fine. One interception of the 3 was on a bad throw. The other 2 were god awful reads. You think we can do better than MOS do tell, WHO? It's a garbage take imo, that lets an abomination of poor play by our players off the hook. I have NEVER claimed MOS is perfect, or that he doesn't make mistakes. I just don't go the complete opposite direction that you do and claim every mistake is on him. You want a balanced take show a balanced take.

Ok not 100%. But certainly the vast majority of the stink rests right on the 5 turnovers, bad penalties, and dropped balls by receivers. That is not coaching.

Disagree with your post. A team that prepares can make a ton of mistakes. Has nothing to do with preparedness. has everything to do with execution and motivation. Going 4 straight passes with Wilson seems mystifying until you see the defensive formation. Any OC, and any QB ever will take what the defence is giving. BO, or not, running into the teeth of an Argonaut 8 man box is stupidity. Why do you go back to Collaros, because realistically he is your only chance at victory and has been since Streveler went down. Wilson has shown progress but he is not there yet. Our only hope was that Zac can fight through the injury and find a way. He couldn't and didn't. Doesn't make it the wrong decision though, just means that we had a roster issue that wasn't addressed when it needed to be addressed earlier in the season. You THINK you are right. I'm not defending the coaching, but you are letting the players off the hook here. This game was 95% on players stinking and 5% on coaching.

It would have mattered GREATLY if we executed our game plan flawlessly. This loss is 100% on the players. I know you are going to spin this into a MOS offseason of rants, but this is not on him at all. He didn't turn the ball over 5 times, he didn't take crucial bad penalties. If there was ever a case of players dropping the proverbial ball at the wrong time this was it. Roster management did not make an iota of difference in this one. The players need to all look at themselves, with the exception of Willie J, and ask themselves why they didn't show up.

Unless 7/11's in Saskatchewan have been putting racoon or possum in their meat pies I doubt that is what they were eating. Mr. Pib and toilet hooch....perhaps. By Don or Wally comparison's I assume you are talking about jettisoning off older players? If so, who and who is replacing them. I mean, Biggie is a given and probably Alexander...who else?

Imagine their Grey Cup parties yesterday. Nothing...just a bottle of Orange Fanta with some home made potato vodka and an empty pit in their stomach, from watching other teams play, all right there where the chicken wings and Chili should be. What a miserable existence that would be. It's hard to take either way.

I mean we are sitting here grousing about another blown Grey Cup appearance, but just imagine how it is to be a Rider fan.

He, like the rest of the offence, was not dialed in at all. Absolutely no question about that. Very disappointed in Wheatfall's effort, or lack thereof, on that play. On a different note, the officiating was god awful and definitely impacted this game.

Wheatfall did muff that for sure. Wilson's other 3 passes were god awful.