Alcohol is the only winner in this 2015 Rider Season
The return of Kevin Glenn was supposed to spark the Riders against the Ottawa Rouge et Noir Saturday night at Taylor Field, but Glenn plays quarterback and not cornerback and that is why the Riders lost 30-27.
In a season where the Riders have lost games in new and original ways, losing because the star linebacker mixed up when to call a time out with a minute left in the game shows the 2015 Riders are not the brightest of their mother’s children.
That play resulted the Riders only having seven seconds to try to go 75 yards for a touchdown or get into position for a field goal and not even Joe “747” Adams in the heights of white powder country in the 1980s could dream of getting a ball that far.
Let’s be fair to the defense. Even the offense, after probably their best first half of the season, looked like the 1-11 group they are as they failed to catch passes, take stupid penalties and capitalize when they needed to. While I admire Jerome Messam as a tank when he hits the line, his problem besides dropping catchable balls, is that unless the hole is open for him when he hits the line, he lacks the Kory Sheets ability to change direction suddenly and find a new way to attack the line. The result is Messam runs into a mass of people that sometimes even he can’t get through.