Please Santa, Don’t Let the Riders Screw This One Up!
You may have noticed a Grey Cup was played last weekend, but if you were like me, you were watching the Edmonton Eskimo sideline and wondering about whether the rumors about Chris Jones being a head coach/GM of the Saskatchewan Roughriders were going to be true.
To no one’s surprise the Grey Cup proved to be rumor central and while Brock Sunderland and John Murphy emerged as GM candidates along with Jeremy O’Day, it also worked out that John Hufnagel took his name out of the running leaving Jones as the assumed rock star in the running.
Other interesting developments had Toronto Argonaut coach Scott Milanovich looking at the coaching job at his old alma mater at the University of Maryland, which makes the Jim Barker looking west to Regina rumors more credible. Paul La Police is apparently in the running for the offensive coordinator position in Winnipeg, which is interesting considering Winnipeg fired him as head coach, but Winnipeg is laying off because La Police is under consideration as a head coach here.
Now the odds of us landing Chris Jones strike me as perhaps a bit long because he is under contract to Edmonton and they would have to give permission for him to talk to the Riders. Usually teams give permission when the job is a promotion, like an assistant coach to head coach, or coach to general manager.