BeaverFever BeaverFever:
I don't think any team with Burris, Fantuz, Chris Williams and Chevon Walker can be taken too lightly, they were the core of the highest-ranked offence in the league last year. The fact that 2 of the above are injured list and the 3rd just returned probably has alot to do with their poor performance.
But yeah, they're a work in progress in 2013 for sure.
Trouble is that their defense was and still is non existent and it didn't help George Cortez having all those high priced players who were the highest ranked offense in the league.
Unfortunately, he got canned for the GM's player choices which is bull because apparently even Austin can't fix those problems and he's the GM/Head Coach.
So my guess is that any coach would have failed with that crowd and Bob Young didn't give Cortez a fair shake because Austin became available and was seen as the savior, because of what he did with Saskatchewan in 07.
But hey don't get me wrong. 99.999% of the Rider fans are glad the Ti Cats canned Cortez and the other guy is drunk. Our Offense just go alot better since he came on board while the Ti Cat offence is struggling as we saw last game.