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What should be concerning Vince the most is that the quality of play has been getting worse, not better. That does not bode well for this league. It is completely devoid of offensive talent and that is resulting in games being ultra boring. I was actually pleasantly surprised by the game in the first couple weeks, and now it seems that the offences are just ill equipped now that there is film on them. QBs that can't throw and OLs that can't block...it's like watching the 1995 Bombers. I'd love to see an XFL/CFL exhibition game before the new league tanks...it would be a blow out.

Four stripes shouldn't be defending a stadium their team can't win a playoff game in. Nice stadium...very visitor friendly.

This is pretty much a carbon copy of the trends from the first XFL and AAF. Americans are apathetic to spring football. These numbers will decrease as March Madness starts taking over.

Like I said, I think Vince is likely to ride it out beyond this year unless TV turns their back on him again. At the end of the day this league shows the apparent problems with the American game. It's a very boring style of football that must have excellent execution in order to keep fans engaged. There just isn't enough margin for error to make mistakes or take big risks in the NFL style game. Even a shortened game like the XFL can be exceedingly boring to watch.

Sorry but no matter how many times you are incorrect you will never beat Stronson's throwing crap at the wall and then calling it insider info prognosticating. That guy is NEVER right but is always right in his own mind...just moves the goal posts.

As someone who has extensive experience in purchasing and negotiation of advertising in TV and other media I can assure you that is exactly how it works.

Nationwide total viewing doesn't mean bupkus. Market saturation is what's important. % of people watching is what the networks care about. Canada may have similar TV numbers nationwide but has a 90% smaller TV viewership. Therefore, TSN can sell ad space at a much higher rate for it's CFL broadcasts then what the American channels can ask for a very small TV market share. I do agree that this league seems like it may survive past the one year mark. However, I am sure it is hemorrhaging money right now and will likely have to make some tough decisions after year one likely on player salaries.

This might be the epitome of Riderfan hypocrisy. For a team's fan base that just witnessed that a Collaros injury is indeed survivable you sure didn't bother to commit that to your long term memory. Just a stupid comment made stupider by the fact that this exact scenario rolled out for you guys last year.

The Riders media toes the line is all. The RIders are the only game in town and any sportscaster that doesn't blow sunshine up their arse gets blackballed by the club. There is literally one sport to report on in Saskatchewan, either you kiss Rider butt or you don't work. Ask Rod Pedersen...one slip up in 20 years and he gets to walk the unemployment line.

It's odd because it's not true. Desjardin is the GM.

That's just it exactly. Its hard to take his warnings and criticisms seriously when he has shown he has no balance to his outlook whatsoever. He is quite literally the boy who cried wolf. Nothing is ever good enough and doom lurks around every corner. For the most part some of his concerns are valid, however, an equal amount are unfounded and out to lunch and it has earned him a reputation as a contrarian and that is the type of post no one respects because it is devoid of merit as often as it is right.

Be careful, that's how Saskatchewanites lure you in. They start small talk about the CFL. In 2007, the Saskatchewan premier concerned with the skyrocketing cost of health care caused by the effects of an almost singular gene pool in his province, set up back room health policies designed to help eliminate inbred pregnancies amongst his constituents. He lowered the price of bung baloney and encouraged the men to use baloney skin contraceptive barriers when being intimate with their sister/wife/cousins He also held the Estevan summit in which public health nurses were brought in to discuss a system of "hole in the white sheet" breeding to diversify the gene pool and raise overall intelligence levels across the province as they were far below average. At any rate, the male head of the household was encouraged to seek out superior, non genetically linked, males to act as sperm donors to impregnate their wives through holes in a white sheet. Men from Manitoba were targeted, as their Bomber gear, made them easy to spot and a clear indication of superior intelligence. They usually try butter you up with potato whisky then take you out to the sheet behind the barn and show you pictures of women that aren't their wives claiming that this is the woman on the other side. Very sneaky....but I can't blame them for trying.

Whenever Farhan says a team is not out of the mix....they are out of the mix.

Lost in the absolutely brutal play of their OL was the fact their defence stunk too. I don't see any reason to believe that has gotten better.

I don't need to point out anything. It's you that has to prove otherwise.

Free Agents? We had the least number of pending FA's in the league.

Ok...Mullinder, Abou Mechrek, Taylor...just to name a few more delusional Rider media.

Same as you coming here and saying that many posters are delusional. Pot meet kettle. The only difference is that we're not doing it on your website and don't play silly bugger either, the concensus over there is that if it doesn't hit the cross bar it's a TD and that simply isn't true. There is maybe a 10% chance of our guy completely whiffing on the ball. Cross bar or no cross bar that pass was unlikely to be completed.

We were clearly the superior team to the Riders last year. Luck...no luck...whatever. If Rider fans think that's delusional then show me your Grey Cup.

You sir are right there are delusional people here. You are a big part of that problem.

So was the AAFs viewership for the first couple weeks and then it dropped precipitously once people realized it was bad football. XFL is not playing much better ball. Week one I fairly impressed by the football but last week it was terrible. Like watching CFL pre-season.

IF Sayles simply bats that ball OB it's game over. He went for the pick instead and the RIders got supremely lucky.

I agree. Upright or not that play was not going to be successful imo. Our DB had cut under that route.

I agree. Common sense dictates that we didn't sign a LBer that we really don't need unless the price was right.

The market is not going to improve before next year unless he waits for a team to clear some significant space via the 6 game.