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Our guys came into the game thinking and prepared for typical non-physical pansy BC Lions football and got smacked in the mouth for it. Does anyone think we are making that mistake again? Expect us to dominate both sides of the LOS this week. BC is about to discover how nasty we can be. Bet on that.

Yep..very good defence. Mediocre offence. Beatable.

Yea, we got completely manhandled that game. Kinda like the BC game earlier this year save all the outrage afterwards.

We have a thread for responses like that in the general discussion. Keep politics over there. This is football talk. I believe it was implemented under Ambrosie. Not a bad idea...just needs some changes so that franchises are able to change staff when necessary.

Just off the books entirely. Let them, and the new coach, hire the staff they want within the yearly ops cap but outgoing not count. An incoming coach shouldn't have to shorten his bench or hire the old coordinators just because of the cap. It cheapens our product. Look at Edmonton. It is a direct result of awful coaching partly due to Jones not being able to choose his guys and have a full coaching staff.

Yea...I support the football ops cap so that you don't have Saskatchewan spending 4 million a year more than the other teams per year, but I really think that teams should be able to turn over coaching and management whenever necessary without the new guys having to be hamstrung by it. I find it hilarious that the Riders are the biggest victims of the rule they forced to be created. HILARIOUS. Can't get rid of Dickie even though he is god awful, and it was their own freewheel spending that bit them in the ass. All boils down to them poaching Jones and Murphy and paying them both gobs of money. lmao.

I would suggest it's a bit of both. They gotta pay him anyway, and Jones is still feeling the football ops pinch and can't really afford to let staff go.

I know you dislike him but Lapo, or anyone else from outside the big rectangle, going there instantly raises the province's collective IQ by 6 points.

It really can't hurt. McAdoo's play calling has been abysmal.

Yea...for sure...getting that yard off the ball works for the DEs for sure. Interior guys not so much, they have to refine their technique a little more as bull rushing isn't as easy. Lots of distractions with the pre-snap for DEs though. Decisions on the fly based on motion.

Yea, for the interior guys that's a little strange to get used to, but for the DEs it should be easily overcome. Pre-snap motion is something to get used to as well.

I was giving them a bit of a free pass on Godber and Lanier, only because Godber's not ancient and still might be useful to them. However, Lanier is certainly not earning his cheque right now.

The DL, in general, does not require the same kind of learning curve that some other positions do. It translates pretty well between American and Canadian football.

That's too bad. I really hope they embrace the opportunity to do it right.

I clearly did. I just do not support the research provided. If Klein is not of Metis heritage, then it sure is a slimy move to claim he is. I am not willing, based on what I know about aboriginal/Metis research into geneology, to jump to that conclusion based primarily on Canada census reports. You need to understand that in neither of the censuses provided in your article was Metis/half breed even an option. The only censuses prior to 1981 that a Metis citizen could identify as one is the 1870, 1901, and 1941 censuses. In all other censuses you were identified either by your mother tongue or as Indian and the descrimination and possible repercussions that came with that designation in Canada's cruel colonial system. The journalism was lazy in that article. If you are going to paint someone as a liar...GET IT RIGHT. The census "proof" is garbage, and David Chartrand's comments are for sure completely out of context to the MMF's position on how Metis citizenship should be applied. It's unfortunate the writer didn't fact check his article before his hatchet job.

I hope he finds what he is looking for on his journey. Until then, he should be quiet about it. Many rightful Metis have lost their rights due to the definitions empowered under the Powell decision and INACs interference afterwards. I wonder if anyone asked David Chartrand about his thoughts on that, because I have spoken to him several times and the MMF vehemently disagrees with current government imposed restrictions on it's membership. Is Klein a slimeball? Maybe. Does this make him one? Not necessarily. A lot of people are currently fighting for their Metis rights against GOC census claims that misidentified hundreds/thousands of persons as French/English based on their mother tongue instead of their heritage. These censuses, particularly in the West, were absolutely atrocious. My wife's grandfather, who has a statue on his reserve outside the band office, for famously negotiating the creation of the registered trapline system in Manitoba. Because of the first 3 censuses of his life incorrectly identifying him as English, he is erroneously referred to in some Aboriginal history books as having the distinction of being the only known white chief of an "Indian" reserve. A complete farce.

Good idea. I just hope the curriculum is something that is better than what we currently see in post secondary institutions.

Definitely those are some of the core issues of crime rate. I think that enforcement requires and deserves all the dollars it gets, and is completely necessary as well. Systemic changes are slow, and take time to root. People deserve public safety in the meantime. No different than what the unions do on a regular basis in all elections. However, I would support a ban on all 3rd party advertising beginning 6 months from an election date. Just has to be fairly applied. Any group, union, etc violating would be subject to large fines. I'd love to see politics free of special interest groups at elections time.

Yes,,,you are right....sorry got sucked into the vortex again.

I agree. Most of our offensive struggles last game against them emanated from a very poor game plan imo. I am not sure what Buck saw that led him to believe we should attack them from deep drops in the pocket in a pretty vanilla scheme. Their DL was able to just tee off on that. More motion, more commitment early to different run looks and stretching the flats and we will widen them out. If we can keep their DEs from simply pinning their ears back and rushing every play it will give Stan and Yoshi the outside leverage they need to win the day. A couple good off tackle runs by Demski, McCrae, or Bailey or some dumps into the flats and we get the DEs widened out a bit.

Lapo was very good tonight. He will get better. Definitely his niche.

Jeffcoat is snake bitten for sure, hopefully he remains healthy. He has been outstanding since his return.

If you were talking receiver, or even FT DE/DT you could be right. However, it is not hard to get even a raw rookie up to snuff enough to be a successful rotational DL. He can definitely help us this year.

Yep..they stink

The Riders O is a tire fire and wasn't scoring points with Harris either. OL is still a disaster. I really don't understand their roster moves this off-season. Pinning their hopes on a FA spree of Harris, Blake, and Johnson was such a huge gamble given their ages. As anyone with a peanut for a brain should have known they were likely to be injured. Only Micah remains..but he is out of gas by the end of 1Q.