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No excuse. As a paid professional you should expect a rough ride on the road from the fans. PERIOD.

He might have to. No ones paying him premium dollars anymore. Scratch that....the Riders will re-up him at 200k+.

AJO is fat and out of shape....there I said it.

AJO looks like he's been living at Dunkin Donuts and Armstead doesn't care about anything but himself and quit on them imo.

For sure. However, I'm not sure that was the Riders game plan. They just got way behind too fast and had to abandon the run before they could even get going. If TOs game plan is for Carey to beat us, their defence better be prepared to pitch a shut out.

For sure. I don't think roster is an issue at all this week no matter what. The only thing that beats us this week is ourselves.

Our secondary has been phenomenal this year but not too many teams win consistently with a run first approach.

Or he is waiting to see if there are consequences for the Lions epic fail this season. Good chance some people walk the plank.

Buck needs to come up with a master class game plan like he did this week. If he does that this game is over at half time. No weather factor to worry about this will all come down to game plan and execution. No way that Arbuckle puts up a ton of points on this defence. We can be methodical and just execute well for an easy win. Rider fans will say that's what we thought but the difference is our defence is the legit best in the league not overhyped like theirs.

Agreed. The key to us scoring will be our OL vs their DL..or scheme that makes up for the advantage they have in that match up. It's my one area of concern outside of execution.

We better have a better protection/play scheme than 2 weeks ago or this game will be a 12-11 affair.

Our last 3 games have been against very good teams. Yea, we had some games against bottom dwellers..so has every other team.

Loved our DL play yesterday. Master class in stopping the run for the most part.

The key to the Grey Cup won't be whether we dress 6 or 7 DL, or what kind of additions/deletions we make at the fringes of or roster. It won't even be about Fatty starting or not for the Argos. There is ONE match up that can make or break the game. It is our OL vs their DL. For the love of God can we talk about that this week instead of roster composition that is of little consequence unless we do something bizarre like sending Bighill out in a wheelchair. In that case..flame away.

Glad I was away the last couple days. If we lose its on MOS, if we win it's despite of him is the summary of the past couple pages. SmH...This topic really gets tedious. MOS is a first rate CFL coach that we would have to be off our rocker to fire.

Nothing communist about private sector funding. Need more of that across the board.

Knowledge mostly I would think. Guy says some dumb stuff. You will find the dislike of his content nearly unanimous around here. No one has issue with the guy personally and full marks to him for taking the time. Just needs to bone up his xs and os before revealing to the world he doesn't have any on a weekly basis If he stuck to the news stuff and qualified his opinions as being that of a layman fan..no issues would be had.

My only issue with blogs is when they are stupid, uninformed, Pollyanna or Kool aid. I see none of that in Zachs blog. Debate the merit of the content people, not the fact it was posted

A normal person wouldn't but we are talking about the Strev. Guy plays with injuries that would have most guys in traction...lol. Probably did show up today with a couple pieces of broken hockey sticks duct taped to brace each side of his knee trying to convince MOS that he is fine and dandy.

I would normally be big on letting Dobson progress and throwing Wallace into the fray and let him get the kinks out. However, in a Grey Cup hosting year we NEED a dominant OL. To me that means parting with Kola and or Dobson. We can't have an interior of Dobson/Kola/Wallace (if Neuf retires) and in my mind our best combination would be Wallace/New Centre/Neufeld. Gyetvai was an OG though wasn't he?

Yea, Dobson was the very definition of a throwback OL. Had the beer belly and everything like those guys in the 70s Dominic Picard was not very big at all and he was a dominant centre for many years. Picard played his entire career around 270 I believe. He was 235 coming out of college and then went up to like 260 for several years, was optimal around 270ish, the bulked up to 300 for his last couple years in Toronto BUT was a pylon at that weight.

Overall I love our defence. I don't like the deployment of the DL though. If we are in a situation where we gotta rotate guys like Schmek and Thomas through it should not be in a 30 front. I know it was completely unrealistic, but part of me really felt that Streveler would come to practice today kick of the walking boot or brace or whatever and be out there practicing up for the West final. I mean before you guys give me the old "yea right", answer me if this would have been a huge shock to you.

I agree 100. Ford is Streveler without the beef and the fur coat.

I will qualify my earlier comment by saying that I hope we lose Dobson but hit FA hard for OL upgrades a centre and OG. It's a GC hosting year. We need a beast of an OL back.

I just don't think he is a consistently CFL calibre starting QB in this league. Maybe, he gets better but I wouldn't throw anything but backup money at him right now. Just my opinion though. His path to being a starter is probably the strongest in Edmonton and Hamilton where he can spend another year apprenticing behind a couple of grey beards, however, Powell is better imo....and then there was one.