No Water Shortage as Riders Feed on Bitter Tears of Redblacks, Blue Bombers and Eskimo fans!
It was in retrospect a perfect football weekend!
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers started things off by doing what they do best: get beaten by a gong by the Calgary Stampeders. It seemed almost right away after the game, the Bombers announced Matt Nicholls would be the starting quarterback against Edmonton on Thursday, like that might help with Winnipeg’s lack of blocking.
Drew Willy, former Rider back-up, is exhibiting all the classic signs of a quarterback suffering from PTSD as his deer in the headlights look indicates a man haunted emotionally, psychologically and physically by an endless parade of defensive linemen unloading on him. Try being a human piñata one day a week for six months and then get back to me about your job effectiveness.
So while Winnipeg changes quarterbacks, of more interest to me is whether they will retain their GM or coach. If you have no one able to block, you look to the GM, unless you have a problem coaching, and with Bob Wylie coaching the offensive line, I don’t think coaching is that much of a problem.