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Hard to tell with so many actually discussing this as a possibility for some reason?

Great. STs have their own award tho. Milligan for MOP is absolutely ridiculous to even consider. Rider fans are just out to lunch. Milligan is playing really good ball..but MOP? Smh

Buck has come under fire the last 2 weeks for being pretty vanilla and not taking shots down the field. Sometimes your opponent dictates that as your best strategy though. The reason the Riders have won any games this year is because their defence has been creating a mountain of turnovers. Take the turnovers away that they are not a winning club. We went with a game plan the last 2 games to minimize turnovers. I am not seeing the problem with that.

The OL ain't exactly up to snuff either.

Buck is hamstrung right now by rookies throughout his lineup. Playing safe? Sure. Will he stay that way...not once guys get the amount of reps, recognition, and familiarity that will allow him to open things up a bit. Schoen being out, Bailey gone, and the OL being a patchwork crew have necessitated what he is doing right now. We may not like it...but that is the reality.

Likely an SMS thing. Kongbo for sure was looking for NAT starter money

Teasers is still around? Thought it closed years ago?

Darian has been openly, almost shamelessly, letting every team in the CFL know he would take a coaching job. Nobody will touch him with a 10 foot pole now because of how greasy he is. Didn't think that through enuff did ya Darian?

He may be telling the complete truth as to his reason for not coming but it will never change the fact that he stole 70k.

I would hope that Younger implements a game plan to expose the Riders inexperience and lack of talent on the OL. You got Ferland the matador who literally has no experience calling the shots on the OL, and Zerr who is an absolutely awful OG so far in his career. This should be like taking candy from a baby if we stop the 3 man rush on every play nonsense.

Like any of his possible reasons for not coming that year excuse the fact that he is an outright thief. SMH. DARIAN DURANT IS A THIEF!! Sorry but I am calling a spade a spade.

Our defence all season had surrendered less than 20 points a game. Against one of the bottom feeder offences in the CFL (Montreal's D was it's strength) we allow 28. If our D plays to it's usual standard in that game and doesn't surrender more than 20 our offence putting up 24 IS JUST FINE. 24 points should have easily beaten a crap Montreal offence if our D and STs don't **** the bed in that game. Yea....Zach and Co. weren't stellar but they were playing the 2nd best defence in the league and that was to be expected. They still put up enough points that we should have won against a CoFaj led team.

Coaching was probably the main reason we lost in GC last year. No doubt about it. Very poorly coached game all around.

I am fine with the Stamps letting their best offensive weapon sit on the PR.

Zach was 19/23 for 236 yards in the Grey Cup. Not incredible but not that bad either considering we had gone into the game with a run game first game plan. It wasn't our offence that let us down in last year's Grey Cup. Our defence folded like a cheap suit in the 4th Q. We were in complete control of that game up to that point. Full marks to Cody for driving when he had too, but up until the last few minutes of the Grey Cup the guy had done nothing. Our defence, and some incredible plays and a bit of flukiness franklly, turned his stat column around in the 4th. Hall completely botched the 4th Q, and it literally cost him his job. Find another playing from behind as often as he has. He came up big one game, but in all others he padded his stats in losing efforts. 2023 was lost on a worn out defence. Our offence was fine. Also Philpot destroyed us on STs all game and really was the reason they even had a shot, and Grant was bloody awful PRing.

Stamps would place him on active. He's on the PR for some humble pie but they aren't gonna let him walk.

Exactly right. Part of the reason that Grant was hired as coach is because the Bombers felt they massively underachieved the year before and that they had a contender on the field.

Sure,,,but at the end of the day we just got out physicalled in both our GC losses. QB production in November is always going to less than stellar.

Unlike Dickie walking on Dyce only leads you to the door out. Sucks in pass pro is generous, unwilling to participate in pass pro is much closer to the truth. He will wave his arms at guys but that's about it. He is clearly being punished. He left the team mid-season and that tends to get the ire of both coaches and team mates. They aren't letting him go. They let Carey walk to keep him.

Stats and a buck fifty won't buy you a cup of coffee. Just saying. You can trot out all the stats you want but when it comes to playoff football you can toss most of them out the window. Usually comes down to which team wants it more, and in November it's generally ugly football that wins.

Yep...season series don't mean bupkus, the 4 point swing is enormous though.

What we have seen more than anything this year from Buck, is that his offence experienced an overhaul this offseason/season through injuries and other player losses and he has not adjusted well to that. I think he's coming around now but was slow on the draw. He is not a developmental OC. Surround him with too many new faces in his offence room and it will be leaky boat that will be bailing out water too long before all the holes are plugged. I think it's coming around now though. As for his usage of Strev? The only explanation I see as realistic is that Strev is banged up.

I think that Lofton and Dobson have struggled at times this year. Neuf was very clearly not up to snuff and I was surprised by that, and I think it was pretty apparent something was ailing him. Either Neuf was banged up or he was trying to do too much to help Lofton who has gotten better, but is still not a great RT.

It's a matter of angle. Nothing to do with Strev. Your OTs have to lock down the edge and not allow an inch of penetration. No QB is gonna get the edge if they get strung out.

That's a few times this year they have run that exact play and no one has gone with Strev. I'm thinking they are not shielding the ball enuff or something on film is telling the D that it's going to BO