Riders find out some new and interesting things at mini-camp
This week has given football fans across Canada a bit of a taste for the upcoming 2017 football season.
Football mini camps were held down in Florida, with Toronto, Hamilton and Saskatchewan trying to get a handle on how their free agent camps paid off. While the Riders had 35 players in camp due to the CFL and CFLPA cracking down on rules, Toronto and Hamilton apparently had many more players, but apparently they were able to separate their signed and non-signed players.
After incurring fines last year for stretching the rules regarding roster size, it was nice to see the Riders adhere to the rules, but then the situation does point out an interesting flaw in the Rider organization. Every team can be said to stretch the rules in certain situations, the better teams know how to do it and how to make it work for them.
Whether that is because Toronto and Hamilton looked at the new rules and figured out how to adhere to the rules while also realizing their goals of looking at players in camp-like conditions, or maybe after the Circus Maximus that was the Riders football operations last year, they feel this year they do not have to evaluate as many players, is something that maybe can be posed at an Annual General Meeting of the Riders set for June.