Riders Add Insult Onto Injury – Also Trade Kevin Glenn
The Saskatchewan Roughriders 2015 season is effectively over, although through some weird science, the Riders actually have three games left to play on the schedule.
The Riders choked in their latest and last “must win” game against Hamilton, allowing Hamilton QB Jeff Matthews to look like an all-star quarterback. I’ll say this for the 2015 Riders: they know how to make other young quarterbacks look really good.
I was on the treadmill for most of this game, watching in disbelief as the Riders looked like idiots on defense, blowing tackles and allowing a seven yard gain to go for 87 yards and a touchdown. I wondered if the Riders were told not to play pass defense on this day, so lacking were they in basic pass coverage skills.
One could blame the rule changes for the Riders defensive woes, but consider this: the NFL operates under the same set of rules and for spits and giggles I watch the NFL on Sundays and pay attention to how their defensive backs cover receivers. For the most part, they beat the crap out of them for the first five yards and then let them go. Considering how many pass patterns are based on timing, this makes sense.