Chris Jones is in over his head
The Saskatchewan Roughriders opened their new stadium to a full house in a 43-40 overtime loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Somehow I don’t think they will end the season with a full house.
Watching the Riders flounder in the third quarter of a game they led but then let Winnipeg take charge by not having any idea of how to cover receivers begs the question of whether Chris Jones is a good football coach, or if he was the lucky recipient of talent assembled by others.
Jones is maybe a good example of a guy who sees other people do their job and thinks he can do that, if not better, if he got the opportunity. So let’s say in Edmonton he got told no a few times by Ed Hervey and thinks he could do better so when the Rider deal came up, he took it thinking that after working all over the CFL, he was talented enough to wear many hats and rebuild the team how he saw fit.