Mike

Thought I saw you there 😂

Either way the CFL looks like an absolute joke with this. This is a slap in the face to Ja’gared Davis, to Kenny Stafford, to Brendan Labatte, to any other players who have sacrificed because of these rules and to literally every other team in the CFL. The rules to begin with were stupid. There’s no disputing that. The idea that MBT can’t go to a Raptors game but Willie Jefferson can do promotional appearances at a car dealership is a bad one. But they’re still the rules. To change them now is embarrassing and honestly, as much as Arash gets annoying sometimes with his constantly negative stance towards Ambrosie, he’s not far off the mark. Ambrosie is an absolute joke of a commissioner, easily the worst professional sports commissioner of my lifetime and the league will be better off once he’s gone.

My preferable outcome would have been that you grow up

He was detained for breaching the peace. There’s a very important difference. Being detained for breaching the peace is legal speak for you’re being a pain in the ass and going to the drunk tank until you relax and we sort everything out. Never once said he was detained for “questioning” or whatever, he obviously did something but he was never arrested and never charged.

No he wasn’t. He was detained. You’re smart enough to know there’s a difference.

Was he drunk? I mean … OBVIOUSLY lol

Charleston Hughes lol

You say clearly he crossed a line, but really it’s not clear at all. The story as it’s being presented makes complete sense. Purifoy agitated in public, Purifoy suspected of potentially being involved in an assault, Purifoy detained while they sort out the details, Purifoy cleared of all wrongdoing, Purifoy released. This is not like AC Leonard claiming he’s got stage fright, the story makes a world of sense the way it was explained and I really have no reason to not believe it. Hate on the Riders all you want, their current management team handles this stuff properly - public support for the player, private accountability. If Purifoy did anything beyond what is claimed, there’s really no reason to believe he wouldn’t have been held accountable, especially given his prior run-ins with the law before coming to the CFL.

You guys are nuts lol Lawler got a DUI and the only thing most people wanted to talk about around here was “good on him for being forthcoming about it” Purifoy probably didn’t do a damn thing other than land himself in the drunk tank for a night. He wasn’t charged with a crime, he got put in timeout because he was probably amped up about the situation and needed the time to chill out. He was forthcoming to the Riders about it, they addressed it and everyone should move on. I know it’s in style to just automatically hate everything about the Riders no matter what but let’s be honest, this is way way WAY less significant than what Lawler did. Suspend Purifoy a total of 0 games and let’s just heckle him on Sunday instead.

CTE?

Nobody cares what Jeff Hamilton thinks, he sucks

Never change

I don’t. I want them healthy. No excuses.

Josh Ranek is one for sure.

The problem is it’s been heavily documented that Lapo has a lot to do with the talent level

I can’t, I just don’t know if our OL has or deserves the reputation to get 3-4 nominations out of 5 and Bryant/Desjarlais are the two names I hear talked about in the media most often. I feel like Calgary’s OL is going to get a few nods there too, they’re playing very well. Honestly wouldn’t be surprised to see a clean sweep of the divisional OL between us and Calgary because Edmonton, Sask and BC have absolute dog **** lines.

I’ll be very honest, I’m not entirely sure I see Bighill as a divisional all-star this year. It’s certainly possible and he’s playing incredibly well but he also is wildly overrated by Bomber fans. He’s playing a great leadership role and is an anchor on our D, but if you go by sheer numbers (which the voters usually do) then he’s not an all-star. Which is fine. As of today, I’d say our sure thing divisional all-stars are Collaros, Bryant, Desjarlais, Lawler, Jefferson, Jeffcoat, Alexander and Alford. Depending on how things finish off this year, I could also see/argue for Bighill, Nichols, Demski and potentially even Couture getting a nod as well.

I genuinely can’t see MOC or MOR going to us, nor should they really. I think it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that one of Jeffcoat or Jefferson will win MODP, Collaros will win MOP and O’Shea will be Coach of the Year but I don’t see an argument for any other awards unless Stanley Bryant takes home the lineman award. Alford has been a stud, but Sankey/Woodard/J. Williams all get the nod as rookie ahead of him and I think Williams has a great shot at taking home MOC as well.

All I know is we should enjoy Alford while he’s here. I’d be genuinely shocked if he was here next year. Legit Juran Bolden vibes.

That could mean anything

Dress warm next question

My favourite is that one blatant idiot Cereal_Killer This is the guy who has said every team we play is playing bad against us. But also that our secondary is our weakness. Oh and our schedule is favourable despite playing 8 of our 11 games against the tougher division so far and 0 games all year against the league’s dumpster fire. thank goodness everybody is playing so bad against us otherwise our weak ass secondary might be giving up more than a touchdown every 4 games.

Lol I love the mental gymnastics from some people over there. It’s certainly not all of them and don’t get me wrong, we have some of our own wackos as well but wow “everyone is just playing bad against them” lmao

No. he doesn’t own it.

Sheesh