Rider Prophet

At long last, football is about to return. There has been no football at all since February, no CFL football since November and no meaningful Rider football since sometime last summer. It’s bee...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/05/monday-morning-sentimonies-rookie-camp.html

The 2024 CFL Draft went down Tuesday. Coming into the draft there was lots of curiosity about what approach the Riders would take with Corey Mace now at the helm. That approach was apparently ris...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/05/thursday-morning-sentimonies-assessing.html

With the draft going down tomorrow I am going to reserve my Sentimonies until Wednesday morning so I can opine on how we fared in the draft. Check back Wednesday for thoughts, reactions, analys...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/04/monday-morning-hold-your-horses.html

The CFL Daft goes down next week. That includes both the Canadian Draft (aka what we actually mean when we talk about “the draft”) and the Global Draft. I am a supporter of the global initiat...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/04/monday-morning-sentimonies-cfl-draft.html

Last week we bid farewell to an important figure in Rider history. Former president Jim Hopson passed away. Ever since his passing many wonderful things have been written and many wonderful memor...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/04/monday-morning-sentimonies-remembering.html

For the love of god, please check the date on the calendar before reading anything today. In the immortal words of George W Bush “There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, pr...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/04/monday-morning-sentimonies-you-cant-get.html

With the CFL Draft approaching, I thought it would be interesting (and only mildly depressing) to look back at the past 5 drafts for the Riders. Take a look at which picks we nailed, which one we...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/03/monday-morning-sentimonies-hits-and.html

Note: I will warn you in advance that today’s post is very light on actual news and serious analysis and very heavy on the ridiculous and whimsical. Obviously if you are a regular reader here y...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/03/monday-morning-sentimonies-make-it.html

Apologies for not writing a post last week. Rest assured the person responsible has been admonished and given a fine equal to 50% of their salary. When this blog cannot even live up to the extrem...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/03/monday-morning-sentimonies-delayed.html

We have officially reached the painful final stretch of the offseason. Free agency is over, the draft is two months away and the NFL is even over so there is no football whatsoever. If we can jus...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/02/monday-morning-sentimonies-football.html

For the most part the official opening of free agency was about as exciting as most all-star games. Not a lot of real excitement and a whole lot of going through the motions. We made official all...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/02/monday-morning-sentimonies-big-additions.html

I hate the term “won free agency”. Teams that “win” free agency generally are terrible (good teams don’t need to sign a bunch of FAs because they already have a talented roster) and ten...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/02/monday-morning-sentimoines-successful.html

In the week leading up to the negotiation window, the Riders had a huge week in terms of re-signing their own guys. We extended Milligan for an extra year (by far our best DB). We retained Lanier...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/02/monday-morning-sentimonies-waiting-game.html

February 4th will mark the opening of the negotiation window. Put another way, it will mark the end of illegal tampering and the start of league sanctioned tampering. This all leads up to the ope...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/01/monday-morning-sentimonies-start-your.html

Free agency is now a couple weeks away and the Riders continue to whittle down their list of pending FAs. This past week Frankie Hickson and Charbel Dabire were extended. I have damn near been a ...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/01/monday-morning-sentimonies-free-agency.html

My first post of 2024 arrives exactly on brand… late, of questionable quality and with a distinct smell of day old rye. The good news is that if you clicked on this post you are either a longti...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2024/01/monday-morning-sentimonies-welcome-to.html

Just a week until Christmas. Or if airing your grievances is more your thing (and as Rider fans it should be) its just 5 days until Festivus. I will leave you with a few random thoughts on the ...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2023/12/monday-morning-sentimonies-random-quasi.html

You might be asking yourself, why are your sentimonies only coming on Tuesday and not Monday as usual? I understand that my sentimonies bring a bright spot to your otherwise bleak Monday existenc...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2023/12/tuesday-morning-sentimonies-coordination.html

The Riders have settled on a new coach… and in a refreshing change from the past few years, it was an announcement that was actually good news and not just trying pass it off as good news when ...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2023/12/monday-morning-sentimonies-in-mace-we.html

Before we officially turn the page on the 2023 season, its time for the annual event where we honour the best and worst (mostly worst) of the CFL season with the Rider Prophet Awards. What they l...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2023/11/15th-annual-rider-prophet-awards.html

Apologies for the delay in posting my sentimonies. I’d like to say its because I partied too hard on Grey Cup Sunday but the truth is I’m just old and the desire to go to bed won out over the...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2023/11/tuesday-morning-sentimonies-alls-well.html

Of the 4 possible Grey Cup matches that could have resulted from Saturday’s Divisional Finals games, the one we got was the 4th worst. Obviously I prefer any Grey Cup matchup without Winnipeg (...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2023/11/monday-morning-senitmonies-random.html

For the second year in a row the CFL Playoffs are continuing on their merry without need of or care for the Riders. About the only aspect of the playoffs impacting the Riders is the more teams ge...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2023/11/monday-morning-sentimonies-playoff.html

 I won’t lie, its really weird to have the Riders season over and the firings already starting while other teams are still playing meaningless regular season games. To be fair, the Riders were...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2023/10/monday-morning-sentimonies-next-year.html

Well I made it back from Vegas and I am neither sorry to have missed the last game, nor surprised by everything that I happened over the past week. We lost, the season is over, O’Day was retain...

http://www.riderprophet.com/2023/10/thursday-thoughts.html