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Yet, you never bothered to read what an option year is in the CBA. HINT: It has it's own separate section in the CBA from what you keep highlighting ad nauseum.

You need to drop more than that. Mauldin is going to be way more money that Jeffcoat, and Oakman is likely to get a pretty hefty raise as well.

I gotta be honest, I'm OK with running it back for the most part. We may need to say goodbye to a veteran or two to shore up some areas of need like the DL (just not enough quality depth) but overall it's hard not to like a 15-3 team... even if they lost the big game...there are very few areas of need. We just need a couple small tweeks here and there. I have a feeling that Neufeld may hang them up, but Dobson is ready imo and if Drew comes back we are all set.

Yep on the 40. Would have needed 75 yards in the air to make sure it was through the end zone and not playable. FG was the right decision.

Let me just vent a little about how poor it looked that half the stadium was empty. Regina has no business ever hosting this game again. We have been told ad nauseum that Saskatchewan is the heart beat of the CFL. BALONEY. They couldn't even be bothered to show up to a game in their own back yard. Sad effort Rider fans! Terrible look on you and a black eye for the league. I get it that your team wasn't in it, and that selling your tickets to someone who might want to attend from out of town was tough because you don't have the accommodations and infrastructure to properly host the game but you guys should be cognizant of that. If your team is ever to host a Grey Cup again, get off your asses and attend the game and quit acting like a bunch of sucky babies.

There isn't a single coach in the CFL looking for a game plan from us. Yes, opposing staffs glance at forums looking for loose lips on unreported injuries or trick plays observed by practice attendees..but that is about it. Every coach in the CFL has much more knowledge of the game than any of us do.

I would tell them to sober up in time for the game. It's helpful.

I am unclear why he thinks a player cannot be released from a contract in the CFL? Does he think that if the Lions were to release him tomorrow that all CFL clubs could only pay him 80k? Lmao. He would be a FA, open to the highest bidder and that would include the Lions. This part of the CBA was only brought in to make sure rookie draft picks could not hold a gun to the head of the team that drafted them, and to allow a team to have 3 years of control of that draft pick should they so choose. There is absolutely nothing in the CBA that prohibits any team from releasing any player on their option and resigning them to a different deal. It is literally done all the time.

With Farhan stating the Lions will be offering him a big raise to stay, and Dunk all but confirming it, I am not sure how you can suggest YOUR interpretation of how the CBA applies can be viewed as anything but thoroughly debunked. Any future argument you try to make will simply be you peeing into the wind. You can try if you want but no one here believes what you are trying to sell.

Yep...as did Farhan earlier today on Sportscage in Regina....but didn't they read the mystery tweet with no time and author from a couple months ago? TBurg wanted a source that the Lions are looking to and can offer him a different contract. There are now 2 sources given but somehow we are the obnoxious posers? Smh. Thank you for debunking TBurg's insane Rourke arguments once and for all. He was not fully healed and was taking a big risk by his own admission. And my personal favorite...the Lions are trying to sign him to a new contract this off-season.

There has been a TON of mentions in the RIder media about the Riders extending him this offseason. Forgot about KSB, he is under the same type contract as Rourke. Regina media seems to believe he has big dollars coming his way THIS offseason....but we are all wrong...the Regina media is wrong...and Farhan is wrong...because none of us understand the CBA and someone, can't recall who, tweeted something a few months ago about this. Didn't read a single word of this, won't read it because my time is too valuable to me. You are wasting your time, my mind is made up. So is yours apparently. You are just hanging onto a tweet that you can't remember who tweeted it or when or basically what is said as your proof while ignoring the fact that a team can terminate any contract at any time and replace it with a new one.

They could play on Sunday.

Hey kumbaya and all that if it is your bag, a lot of us find hating the Argos this week to be very therapeutic and soothing to the soul. Next week I will go back to not caring one iota about them.

Think Brendan got it wrong then. EDIT: Hamilton had it at 210k also....seems I had it wrong. I will freely admit it when it happens unlike some CBA quoting members on here. No doubling down on inaccurate info here.

He signed here his first year for 165k. Didn't get his 200k until his 2nd year here. Either he came here for less money than the Riders offered or your numbers are off.

I really didn't want to continue this but over at Riderfans they are saying that Farhan was on the Sportscage this morning and he believes that Rourke will receive multiple offers and will almost definitely take one of them and go to the NFL. He stated the Lions are putting together a new contract offer for him but he thinks Rourke will go to the NFL no matter what kind of money he is offered by BC., ....but,,,but,,,,but,,,,the Lions aren't allowed to offer him more money....CBA says....lmao

They went with Wentz because they didn't feel Heinecke had the ceiling they wanted at QB. Wentz at one time was a very good QB, they tried to recapture some of it and the experiment failed. It's not because Heinecke was a UDFA or not....they just aren't that excited about him as their starter.

He doesn't understand that the option year only exists to put a gun to a player's head IF a team so chooses. He doesn't get that no team is obligated to pick up the option....that is why the option year exists, it allows flexibility for both team and player. Only the first two years of a draft pick contract are mandated under the CBA. The third is the option. Not sure how much clearer it could be. He keeps pointing to the CBA saying that the option year he can only be paid this much....totally true...but doesn't recognize that option years of contracts can be opted out of by the team...HENCE THE TERM OPTION YEAR.

There is zero proof of a single thing you have said. Not one iota....heard it on twitter...my god you are thick sometimes. If anyone is a poser around here it is you. Why don't you do everyone a favor and just shut the **** up. In case you haven't noticed everyone here has grown tired of your shtick. You went from a devil's advocate on here and have quickly ramped up to troll status in most people's eyes. You keep banging whatever damn drum you want about this, the rest of us will believe what we know to be true.

NFL teams love their draft picks over UDFA's at any position. That's the way they roll. That being said, if a guy is good enough he will play. Also, Heinecke is starting this week, you can't blame them for taking a shot at Wentz but it seems that experiment has ended.

I have zero issue with attending the LDC games in Regina. I've had a great time at any of them I've attended. However, the Grey Cup is beyond the scope, infrastructure, and ability of that city. It just is what it is, and they should not be hosting it for this reason. If this Grey Cup is in any other city I'm there. I would have even gone to Regina this year, even after my disastrous 2013 Grey Cup trip there, but there is absolutely no chance I am paying 600 bucks a night for a hotel room and 350 bucks a ticket and then have to lineup at restaurants for food, find liquor stores out of stock of anything remotely drinkable, get gouged for 10 bucks a beer no matter where I go, and have to call a cab 2 hours in advance and hope it shows up and no one steals it. None of that is fun.

If disproving you is obnoxious than I'm guilty I guess.

I would think the 3 Montreal Als voters, Herb Z being among them.

You are going to need more than a lucky bounce or Any Given Sunday to beat us. We are the best in the league because we are the best at overcoming adversity. If the Argos show up and play their best football, get all the bounces, and the refs in their pocket you guys might hang with us for a while. Not trying to be arrogant, or a ******, just spelling out the reality for you. Be happy you made it this far, 7 other teams didn't....but this is where you face the first real team you have played in the playoffs. We are just that much better than you that the Argo bounce won't matter if we show up to play. Also, **** Toronto!

Exactly. This is what TBurg is forgetting about the CFL. Contracts get torn up and new contracts filed all the time. All in the matter of a NY minute.