Be careful what you wish for...you may just get it

Now I'll take you back, waaay back to the summer of 2007...can't recall? here i will even go back into my dusty old archives and show you....

Depth Chart Training Camp 2007

Quarterback position: vying for spots were none other than the ever popular but unproven Kerry Joseph. Joseph had in the past year guided an impatient Rider Nation to a mediocre 9-9 regular and West Division humiliation, he had come with great news, great potential great hopes, but fans had started to question if the QB they were touting the real deal was being given too much of a chance. Why not look to the proven former Grey Cup MVP breaathing down the neck of the supposed starter? That's in fact what happened, proving right once again the old adage that in Saskatchewan the most popular player is the backup QB....fans were saying Crandell had the credentials, the accurate arm, the poise, experience and leadership needed to guide the team to a 3rd Grey Cup. Snap for snap, pass for pass, the two play-callers were stride for stride.

Then came decision time...Eric Tillman went with the man they had committed to in the first place, the man they thought was the meal ticket to success. He picked Kerry Joseph. Question marks were raised, insults were directed the shrewd GM's way...but to the thousands of armchair quarterbacks' shagrin, the Roughriders would cap off an astoundingly successful 2007 season with a Grey Cup Championship.

1 offseason and 1 trade later , Tillman did the unthinkable, trading the cfl's MVP to Toronto, sparking an outrage. Fans were asking for the red coiffed masterminds head, they spat sputtered and stammered in disbelief as one of the most popular qb's in Rider history was traded away. But in retrospect in one offseason and one trade fans had finally got what they wanted.

Crandell is finally at the helm, yet their hasn't been this much contradiction since the O.J. Simpson trial

How will we get that home playoff game again? where are we going to get our rushing yards? how are we going to be able to thrive with a QB so old hes only a decade removed from being over the hill?

Yes. you guessed it....YOU the fans are now lobbying for that no-namer off the bench...the one you think has what it takes, the one you think will take you to the promise land....JYLES! JYLES! JYLES! you'll all chant at the season opener...because you know the man upstairs making the decisions will have to make one soon...

And when it comes right down to that final decision, I have a good feeling what it will be. Tillman will choose who the fans thought was the answer, who they thought had what it takes. He'll choose only who the fans wanted...


12 months earlier.