Riders – the Lourdes of Professional Football?
R iders becoming the Lourdes of Professional Football: Give us your injured, your rehabbed, your draft picks yearning to go south!
In case no one catches the reference, Lourdes is a grotto in France that apparently is the scene of many miracles of people being physically healed.
So, as we await the opening of the 2016 Rider training camp and people are wondering if the Riders are actually holding a rookie camp, a secret that is more tightly held than the number of North Korean nuclear missiles, it may be time to review a few things before more people retire.
The off-season recruiting philosophy of Chris Jones and John Murphy seems to be holding as many tryout camps to identify players who might be able to contribute.